Death By Depression

Author: Sue Page

I am so cross with the medical profession, Colin's Dr was saying he was trying to get Colin's blood pressure under control, surely it would have been better to help him with his anxiety which was causing his blood pressure to go up in the first place along with anxiety the side effect from the medication he was taking for his blood pressure, had the medical profession had got any common sense at all they would realise that if Colin was anxious this should have been the first thing to address because once his anxiety had been sorted out his blood pressure would have come down.
My argument with the medical profession has always been that they are too quick to give out tablets which they do not know the long term effects are going to be. They do not really want to learn that some one is suffering from the side effects quite severely, and is anxious about the side effects. The tablets ruined our marriage, we had not had a proper intimate relationship from the time he started taking the tablets. Is it not about time for the medical profession to wake up and smell the coffee,
if people are suffering from depression as a result of the tablets then they should take a long hard look at the pharmaceuticals. I for one am very anti drugs of any kind. To watch your spouse become a wreck within two years of starting on medication and ending his life don't you think there is a connection. I certainly do. Colin was a great person to be with before he started taking the tablets. Just a few short weeks into taking them he started to loose his personality and became distant and depressed, and then it continued to grow and grow until it became for him insurmountable. He was so distressed that he even handed in his notice at work and regretted it. Because his mind was so distracted and off course. Sometimes I think that the medical profession as just happy to give people pills to keep them quiet and hope that they will go away. Well I am not one of them. I have not been happy with the medical profession ever since I was a little girl.
Now with death of my mother and my husband due to their lack of understanding I think it is amazing that these so called professionals are so blind. In the case of my mother, she suffered all her life with one thing or another and was constantly being given this pill or that, that in the end her kidney was not able to function, I believe the combination of drugs and lack of putting two and two together my mother developed kidney cancer, what about investing some time and energy into finding out the connections between drugs and cancer. This would be a really good idea. Afteral if you look at the amount of people who are on one or two prescription drugs that end up with cancer - I would think there could be a connection. I think that they should look more closely at the links of anxiety and fear in people lives as the root cause of their high blood pressure, whatever the fear or potential fear or their perception it would be better for people to listen to that before they start doling out tablets.
Depression - my poor beloved husband, before he started taking the drugs he was a happy chappy, in spite of his constant looking for trouble and trying to prevent health problems in the end his obession killed him. Had he not been taking the drugs he would not have gone down that road. NOW I have lost my best friend.
When I look back across our life together and see how much we had shared in the way of travelling about places and see that at the last year of my husbands life we did not go away at all. It is tragic to think that tablets can have such a devestating effect on a persons life.
As I have said before the medical profession really do need to look more closely when a person comes and visits them, especially if they have brought their spouse in to speak too. When my husbands Dr said the he would sort the blood pressure first then look at the ways of managing Colin's anxiety I was horrified. As when we went into see another Dr who prescribed Diazepan knowing that the side effects were dangerous, I even questioned her logic in prescribing the drug to my husband, especially after i had just said that he was feeling suicidal about the tablets already. One of the side effects of this drug is known to be suicide - so please people check what you are taking, do you really need it. You can find alternatives. Dont just take the Medical Professions word for it because in the cases I have mentioned they clearly did not know what they were talking about.
I would never allow them to be any where near me with anything, I recently went to see the Dr myself about some issues I was having with my breasts however, as I had already discovered before I went into see the Drs it was stress related, when it was confirmed I knew then that no matter what you may think you have a right to a second opinion and seek advise from various sources, check out whether your symptoms are real or imaginary.
On the postmortem which was carried out on my husband all that was wrong with him was what we already knew about, he had a defective heart valve which he had been born with, at the potential for arterial stenosis. That was not giving him any trouble at all, he was able to out walk me, swim 60 lengths of a pool without getting tired, he could run. This did not look like a man who was about to die, but unfortunately due to his mental state brought on by his drugs which increased his anxiety to such a degree that he took his own life.
Please forgive me for being so blunt. Do watch what you are taking. Look carefully at your loved ones. I lost my husband due to medical neglect I believe because they were unable to percieve the real cause of my husbands problem even though I was right there saying he needed help I could not give him. He needed to see someone who could encourage him to see a more positive side of life. He would not listen to me and hence he ended up going round in circles in his mind about how ill he was. When in fact there was nothing the matter. He lost his sense of taste and smell - but there was no evidence in his head of anything that could have caused it.
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About the Author

Sue Page, Wife of Colin Page
I am a believer in the Living God who created the universe and believe that Colin's Spirit has returned back to the Father. I believe that when you give your fears and anxieties to God he is well able to care for you. Unfortunately my husband did not share the same belief. He found it really difficult to let go and just relax and enjoy the life we shared together.