I actually have 2 blogs, one of which I was going to post yesterday but didn’t. So, I’ll post it now.
I am disgusted with these shootings. They are awful. Innocent people dying because one or two individuals just go bonkers and decide that it’s ok to shoot up a bunch of people. Is it for revenge? Is it for show? Is it to leave a legacy? Or is it just because they are too stupid and heartless to care?
I don’t think there has ever been a time in history where shootings have been as rampant as they are now. The list grows everyday and I think I’ve figured out a few things.
First, with the most recent (and with several past), the gunman stopped taking his medication. I really don’t think it has to do with the stopping of medication as it does that we are medicating people anyway. Since the discovery of anti-depressants we, as a society, munch more of those then M&M’s. Why? We are looking for the easy fix.
I start to think back to years gone by and wonder how our society ever lived without anti-depressants. I just can’t figure it out unless they just dealt with their emotions and problems. I think about the early settlers and the hardships they went through. They just trudged on. I think about the great depression. While there were quite a few suicides, I don’t think there were random school shootings. (I could be wrong.)
We need to STOP proscribing pills to every one who walks into a doctor’s office feeling a little blue. When you start proscribing drugs that alter the mind and emotions of people and they stop taking them, there are withdrawals. Some people can’t handle it and you never know which it is.
I’m sure they have helped a few people but we think of it as a “fix-all” for everything. I could walk into my doctor’s office right now, say I feel a little depressed and they would write me a prescription for mind-altering, emotion-altering drugs. We weren’t wired for that kind of abuse to our systems. They affect more than we know.
Fen-phen should have shown us how little we know about drugs and their full interaction with our bodies. Prescribed as a weight-loss medication, it was the miracle drug on the market. Every obese person wanted it. It worked to reduce weight but it also destroyed heart valves. It could be the same with these drugs. Change your mood for the better but rewire your dream and reality functions in your brain. Remove the conscious that tells you that shooting a bunch of people is wrong.
I can’t stand medications because you do not know the full extent of their interactions. Doctors, in the 40’s and 50’s used to prescribe smoking as a way to relax. Now, they tell you that you shouldn’t smoke because it causes cancer, emphysema, and could contribute to heart attacks. It can affect the people around you by causing asthma. It could possibly harm a fetus growing inside if a woman smokes while pregnant.
When will we learn? Drugs are not the answer.
