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[I posted this on another forum; interested to know what others think?]
This is a question I was asked by a researcher; at the end of an hour & a half interview about my "illness" & the ways I coped with it, as part of a research project into different ways people recover.
Question - "If a perfect drug was developed which had no side effects & totally removed all the "symptoms" of mental illness. That when you took it you were as "normal" as anyone else - would you take it?"
I would add - If science & medicine advanced to such a stage - that it could be known that you had the potential to be "ill" & such a drug administered, so that you would experience nothing of what you would have otherwise; there would be no effects of "mental illness" - then would you take it? Would that be a good thing?
This is a question I was asked by a researcher; at the end of an hour & a half interview about my "illness" & the ways I coped with it, as part of a research project into different ways people recover.
Question - "If a perfect drug was developed which had no side effects & totally removed all the "symptoms" of mental illness. That when you took it you were as "normal" as anyone else - would you take it?"
I would add - If science & medicine advanced to such a stage - that it could be known that you had the potential to be "ill" & such a drug administered, so that you would experience nothing of what you would have otherwise; there would be no effects of "mental illness" - then would you take it? Would that be a good thing?