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When alternative practitioners push you away from psychiatric medication

My naturopath wants me to stop all my psychiatric medications and switch to St. John's wort and I know this could be dangerous but part of me desperately wants to believe there's a natural way out of this darkness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The yearning for healing that feels pure and untainted by pharmaceutical intervention can override rational assessment of genuine medical needs.

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