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   Twice Broken to it was a description of the way you   
   Re: Wellbutrin commercial   
   27 Jul 05 16:11:54   
   
   XPost: alt.religion.scientology, alt.suicide.holiday   
   From: twicebroken@hotmail.com   
      
   "Barbara Schwarz"  wrote in message   
   news:1122496773.833869.108290@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > Twice Broken wrote:   
   >> "Barbara Schwarz"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1122491666.021068.280150@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >> > You saw the Wellbutrin anti-depressant commercial on TV. The woman with   
   >> > the horse is so weird.   
   >> > She says: "It is nice that there is a low risk of sexual side effects."   
   >> >   
   >> > What is nice about any sexual side effects?   
   >>   
   >> Yes, those commercials are lame. No one takes them seriously.   
   >   
   > Perhaps not you, but I am sure that people go to the doc and ask for   
   > the garbage.   
   >   
   >> However,   
   >> you've missed the point completely. The woman wasn't saying that there's   
   >> anything nice about sexual side effects, she was saying that it's nice   
   >> that   
   >> Wellbutrin has a _low risk_ of sexual side effects. Isn't low risk   
   >> better?   
   >> This was mentioned because antidepressants are notorious for their sexual   
   >> side effects.   
   >   
   > Duh! I got that one. It nevertheless sounds stupid what she says.   
      
   What you initially said indicates that you either didn't get it or were   
   purposely distorting it.   
      
   >> > Did it ever occur to anybody that the pharma industry makes drugs with   
   >> > "dual" or even more purposes?   
   >> >   
   >> > Just as Siemens made switches for kidney machines that can be used to   
   >> > detonate nuclear bombs, I came to the conclusion that the pharma   
   >> > industry produces deliberately drugs with side effects to sell more   
   >> > other drugs.   
   >>   
   >> This statement is a perfect example of your delusional, distorted   
   >> thinking,   
   >> Barbara.   
   >   
   > Thanks for the insult, jerk.   
      
   That was not an insult, it was a description of the way you think. It says   
   nothing about you as a person.   
      
   >>It's impossible to make drugs without side effects.   
   >   
   > And what makes you to an expert?   
      
   I'm not an expert, but I'm willing to bet that I have more of an education   
   in biology than you do. And that it's impossible to make a drug without side   
   effects is common knowledge. No expertise required.   
      
   > Just because the pharma industry lies   
   > that to us, doesn't mean it is true.   
      
   Ask a biochemist who doesn't work in the pharmaceutical industry if it's   
   possible to make a drug without side effects and tell me what he or she   
   tells you.   
      
   >>I'm very   
   >> critical of psychiatry and of the pharmaceutical industry (at least the   
   >> people involved in making and selling psychiatric drugs), but to think   
   >> they   
   >> purposely make people worse with side effects is just baseless, absurd   
   >> speculation. Do you have any evidence to back up this accusation?   
   >   
   > Evidence is everywhere. These culprits don't come forward and admit   
   > that they do it. Just look at the papers in the prescriptions and what   
   > else you get, including death, while popping these drugs.   
      
   It's unlikely that a psychiatric drug will kill you, even in overdose.   
   They're legally required to give written warnings about potential adverse   
   effects. Patients can't claim to be ignorant. They should know what they're   
   getting themselves into. "But my doctor didn't tell me!" isn't a very good   
   excuse. The doctor probably assumes you can read and aren't stupid enough to   
   put something in your body if you don't know what it could potentially do to   
   you.   
      
   As for the evidence, I can see once again that you've not provided any.   
      
   >> > What would go along with Wellbutrin and the sexual side effects? Viagra   
   >> > of course.   
   >>   
   >> Viagra is made by Pfizer, and Wellbutrin is made by GlaxoSmithKline--two   
   >> entirely different companies.   
   >   
   > It doesn't matter. There are connections between these guys who are not   
   > mentioned in the press and how they "help each other",   
      
   Evidence?   
      
   > moreover, Viagra is not the only brand somebody could use to get over the   
   > sexual side   
   > effects.   
      
   Never said it was. And Viagra is for men. Men aren't the only ones who   
   experience sexual side effects. The point I was trying to make is that   
   Viagra and Wellbutrin are made by two different companies, so your implying   
   that they make Wellbutrin have sexual side effects so that they could sell   
   more Viagra is absurd, as is the idea that any company does this.   
      
   >> > And people poison themselves more and more with these drugs and the   
   >> > pharma industry is getting richer.   
   >>   
   >> Are you against only psychiatric drugs or _all_ drugs? Psychiatric drugs   
   >> aren't the only ones that are potentially dangerous.   
   >   
   > I just take drugs when there is no other way around, e.g. needed some   
   > anti-botics in the past, but it's a long time ago and I use natural   
   > remedies to get over what's bugging me or I wait till it is gone and   
   > cope with the pain.   
      
   So what would you tell a cancer patient? Or an AIDS patient? The treatments   
   for those two diseases cannot be cured with natural remedies and   
   antibiotics. The only effective treatment is not at all pleasant.   
      
   > I agree that all drugs are potentially dangerous, not just the   
   > psychiatric stuff.   
   >   
   > Barbara Schwarz   
      
      
      
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