One of my friends has been trying a lot of alternative remedies for his depression, which is fine. Aromatherapy and things like that never hurt anyone. But now he's fallen in with a doctor who has half shady credentials and does - get this - urine tests for levels of neurotransmitters.
Based on the test results of this pricey little test panel, the doc then "prescribes" him a series of pricey supplements, which she happens to sell. He buys them all right up, and starts popping pills.
He called me today, acting bizarre, all head achy and full of free-floating dread. Sort of like how I was when I was taking 5-htp, or SSRIs that didn't agree with me. He's got stomach upset too. He confessed his supplement popping, which I had no idea about before, and wanted my opinion. When I told him he'd be HAD by a quack, he suddenly became defensive as fuck and talked about how highly recommended the doc was, etc, how I didn't know what I was talking about since I'm not a doctor.
Well, I'm a pharmacy tech, and a former neuroscience major. Also, I've been through the mental health system for over a decade now. If there was a urine test to figure out all my problems, and an over the counter supplement that would fix it, I would have been offered it by now. Especially when I was on the state's dime, institutionalized. I know it's bunk! I just know it!
He won't buy it. What should I do? I'm afraid he's hurting himself with those pills. Not to mention, he can't really afford all these stupid $300 tests and $100 tabs at the doc's vitamin store.



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