At what age do we start to experience life at its rawest? We are really never sheltered at any age from experiencing sadness, fear, shyness, grieving for the loss of a loved one, terminal disease, or abuse to name off a few of life’s true hard emotions.
Some individuals are able to live their life for many years without experiencing what it feels like to watch their father or mother grow sick over the years, never knowing from one day to the next if that will be their last day wi

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th them. Some never experience a horrible phone call that a loved one has been killed in an accident. Some of us can live for years without knowing primal fear. Fear from not knowing where the next dollar is going to come from, fear from abuse, fear from another individual wanting to cause harm, etc. Some may live many years without watching a loved one die a long, painful death from disease. Are you terrified of needing to speak in a public setting? Are you uncomfortable in larger groups? Does
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your heart race and your breaths shorten?
Being human, we all experience these emotions. From an infancy state to an adult state we are put in extremely challenging situations. How do you feel about your options available in dealing with these emotional situations? Do you feel that although situations we experience are devastating, everyone at one time or another deal with one or more of them? Do you feel that from the beginning of time these are emotions that all human kind has experienc
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Title › What is Natural to You? | Mental Health
ed? What options or methods were available even 50 years ago?
Within our day and age it doesn’t seem to matter how young or old someone may be every human behavior is becoming labeled. Innocent children who do not even have the mental capacity to speak in such terms are now being diagnosed with depression, anxiety, ADHD, ADD, and bipolar to name a few. Teenagers who are changing into adults are being labeled for all types of behavior. Adults who experience the brunt of life, society, and financially making it in this world are also being labeled for every emotion they may experience.
Today there is a pill for everything. We are being lead to believe that if we are sad, depressed, have a hard time sleeping, are having marital issues or going through a divorce, upset over our teenagers, frustrated financially; whatever the cause, we really need to get into our doctor and get on something to help us be able to deal with it. Any type of emotion that can now be diagnosed is done so by a psychiatrist or even a general practitioner. Once the situation is explained the doctor at that time will decide what would be the best treatment. There is no blood work done, no serious tests that are run to bring the doctor to the conclusion that an anti-psychotic drug should be taken.
Anti-psychotic drugs are being used for emotions that at one time where considered a normal emotion or reaction to an unpleasant series of events. Instead of taking the emotion in and learning from it, learning how we can grow stronger as an individual from a negative thing, how we can become a pillar to those around us; we are listening to a doctor give a best guess what would help get us through. Once given an anti-psychotic drug an individual is then “hooked” on them. They are instructed that they need to continue taking the medication. They will have adverse affects if they discontinue use without a doctor’s supervision. If one doesn’t work there is always another one to try.
Instead of being taught how to deal with emotions in a natural way people are being given drugs to numb themselves and the amazing brain we were all given. People have become so reliant on a doctor telling them what to do that they have missed accepting all different types of emotions as a part of our life and listening to their inner voice. People have been conditioned to put their faith in the FDA investigating all the different types of pharmaceuticals on the market. With this faith in place, the drugs that are prescribed are safe and side effects minimal.
Just as a child cannot express that they are depressed or anxious, a child would also not be able to tell if they were having adverse emotional reactions to the anti-psychotic drugs. In a sense children become the easiest pry for such drugs. With children, teens, and adults while taking one, side effects will happen. Another medication is then prescribed to off set the side effects but in return different side effec