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When herbalists dismiss mental health medication as toxic

My herbalist says my depression is just liver qi stagnation and that antidepressants are poison but I've been suicidal before and I'm scared to trust my life to dandelion root and milk thistle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The ideological rejection of pharmaceutical intervention by alternative practitioners can endanger vulnerable people seeking validation for their suffering.

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