ANTI Depressants

Don’t go on about the pills
White and yellow and pink
If you tell me, I will swallow it too
But can you promise
I will not have that nightmare
As if I am about to sink?

I don’t want your Fluoxytine
Or an alprazolam,
I can also do without the comfort
of having it with my health drink
Glad it’s now available
Also in the liquid form
But I don’t want it anyway
Doesn’t matter,
for what you offer a milligram!

Please spare me your idea of a good lifestyle
And stop harping on ‘anxiety’ and ‘stress’
I already know your niche -
Your ability to underline problems in red.

Don’t go on about your Fluoxytine
And I will calmly stand in
As you look at my ‘modern disease’
With traditional horror!
I will bear your axe on my ‘modern lifestyle’
And take away your long prescription of ‘modern medicines’.

Please spare me the theories and experiments
I want only peace and truthful lies
I can’t take the burden of facts and figures.
I just want to hear - it’ll all be fine!
Insomniac scientists found the great sedative
All I care for are dreamy lullabies.

You don’t tell me about the merits of counselling
And I will save you the embarrassment of seeing me cry
I will not tell you how badly I want to hold on
You don’t tell me about wonder drugs
And I will forget to tell you,
How just a tight hug can make me smile!
I will not whisper how much I want to talk
I have so much to share…
Yet, I have not much to tell,
I know not any reason to blame.

These 200 interviews staring blank
Makes us lay our work plans
Running in shifts of days and nights
Things are born in black and white
Are these words or sand dunes?
Remind me,
Why we salute the pen for it’s might?

Is it a sin to be tired so soon?
To want to rest for a while?
I really only need pillow for now
And the lights out
- just for a while!

mysterious body, mysterious pills

Well, the mysteries of the body has worked wonders on our minds for a long long time but its the pills this time what had me thinking. Hard enough to fall sick all over again!
The most important thing one might expect from a medicine is its efficacy, and from a doctor, is to know if any given medicine falls under that category or not.But this 'market' is full of medicines which are nothing more than edible - and at times, not so edible substances. And YET, doctors prescribe it. Mostly because the doctor are not aware! If it sounds ridiculous, then let me stand by you in solidarity.

I am not sure of their (the doctor's) obsession to be demi-gods that make them prescribe medicines without even knowing about their use. Let's ask some not-so-intelligent questions, which might change our perspective - How many prescriptions 'really' have a proper diagnosis? Why do doctors have illegible handwriting? (I am sure that cannot be a prerequisite to enter med school)

Is it not unethical to pretend? To pretend that you know more than the person on the diagnostic table; pretend that it's under control, when you have no clue whatsoever of what it is! Is is not unethical to crush the trust of fellow humans? Is it not unethical to be dishonest to your own profession? Is it not unethical to NOT update yourself with all the latest findings and information related to your profession, specially when it deals with human life? Is it not unethical to be so ignorant about the latest medicines before prescribing it? At least know about the effects and (here is the scary part) the ill-effects medicines. Too much to ask for as a patient?

And the last question, is it not unethical and criminal to excuse 'lack of medical knowledge' of such doctors ??

Why don't we get a class in our schools on some basic bio-chemistry? Why are WE a mystery to OURSELVES? Do we deserve to depend on someone else as much ..