Are musicians more suceptable to mental issues?

[bassinplace]

Interesting.....I know more non-musicians with major mental issues than "stable" musicians. I hate to say it but I have two good friends who work in a mental hospital and they pretty much said there is no hope for their patients. They just keep them drugged up to keep them calm.

If you haven't noticed (at least here in the US), there's a CVS/Walgreens on every corner with a 24 hr. prescription clinic. Why are we getting drugged up rather than dealing with our real issues.

In the words of Jello Biafra, "Give me convenience or give me death!". Sad but true.

 

[Muaguana]

Interesting.....I know more non-musicians with major mental issues than "stable" musicians. I hate to say it but I have two good friends who work in a mental hospital and they pretty much said there is no hope for their patients. They just keep them drugged up to keep them calm.

If you haven't noticed (at least here in the US), there's a CVS/Walgreens on every corner with a 24 hr. prescription clinic. Why are we getting drugged up rather than dealing with our real issues.

Because sometimes, "drugging someone up" is dealing with their issues. I spent a little over a month in a mental hospital when I was a teenager, and I saw a lot of kids with a lot of issues. Many issues were beyond the willpower of the patient to "deal with" and overcome, so psychiatric drugs are used to correct chemical imbalances in the patient's brain. And with some people, they weren't "drugged up" to be kept calm, they were "drugged up" to stop themselves from breaking a mirror and slashing their throat open.

It seems like you're suggesting that taking prescribed drugs is somehow running away from one's problems, which I don't think is the case. Again, with some people, taking medication is a part of "dealing with" their problem, not unlike a diabetic patient taking daily doses of insulin.

 

[bassinplace]

Because sometimes, "drugging someone up" is dealing with their issues. I spent a little over a month in a mental hospital when I was a teenager, and I saw a lot of kids with a lot of issues. Many issues were beyond the willpower of the patient to "deal with" and overcome, so psychiatric drugs are used to correct chemical imbalances in the patient's brain. And with some people, they weren't "drugged up" to be kept calm, they were "drugged up" to stop themselves from breaking a mirror and slashing their throat open.

It seems like you're suggesting that taking prescribed drugs is somehow running away from one's problems, which I don't think is the case. Again, with some people, taking medication is a part of "dealing with" their problem, not unlike a diabetic patient taking daily doses of insulin.

Sometimes that's true, sometimes it isn't. There's some people who the drugs were designed for who benefit from them, both the prescription and recreational variety. I personally believe-either incorrectly or correctly-based on what I've seen that there's more that abuse them than don't.