Yeah if you don't want to call it a mental illness it's at least mental health related. I wouldn't necessarily call the moderate anxiety I occasionally take some benzos for a mental illness either, but it's certainly a mental health related issue. Same thing with ADD maybe it's not really a clear mental *illness* the way schizophrenia is but it's certainly related to mental health.
Yeah if you don't want to call it a mental illness it's at least mental health related. I wouldn't necessarily call the moderate anxiety I occasionally take some benzos for a mental illness either, but it's certainly a mental health related issue. Same thing with ADD maybe it's not really a clear mental *illness* the way schizophrenia is but it's certainly related to mental health.
I experience more anxiety than the average person in certain situations and there's a extremely effective solution for that in benzos as long as you're capable of only taking them occasionally. My psychiatrist agrees that as long as a patient can take a medication responsibly it's not necessary that they be suffering life destroying consequences to be treated for it. Some other psychiatrists see it differently and will only write benzos in cases of extreme acute panic attacks or Generalized Anxiety Disorder so bad you're not leaving the house. Of course these same docs have zero issue throwing SSRIs at every single person who walks through the door so it's not really principled about meeting the conditions of the mental illness it's just being stingy with benzos, which I agree they should be careful with, but if you write someone a script for 10 Ativan and they don't ask for a refill until 4 months later I think it's pretty safe so say they're not abusing the meds.
Yeah if you don't want to call it a mental illness it's at least mental health related. I wouldn't necessarily call the moderate anxiety I occasionally take some benzos for a mental illness either, but it's certainly a mental health related issue. Same thing with ADD maybe it's not really a clear mental *illness* the way schizophrenia is but it's certainly related to mental health.
I experience more anxiety than the average person in certain situations and there's a extremely effective solution for that in benzos as long as you're capable of only taking them occasionally. My psychiatrist agrees that as long as a patient can take a medication responsibly it's not necessary that they be suffering life destroying consequences to be treated for it. Some other psychiatrists see it differently and will only write benzos in cases of extreme acute panic attacks or Generalized Anxiety Disorder so bad you're not leaving the house. Of course these same docs have zero issue throwing SSRIs at every single person who walks through the door so it's not really principled about meeting the conditions of the mental illness it's just being stingy with benzos, which I agree they should be careful with, but if you write someone a script for 10 Ativan and they don't ask for a refill until 4 months later I think it's pretty safe so say they're not abusing the meds.