A reader sent in the below story.
It was found in the middle of a long article titled, “The Compassion Theory of Healing and Health,” which has some interesting points about the correlation between love and health.
A DOCTOR’S STORY
I am reminded of a story I heard a doctor tell.
He ran into an old friend who looked very sick. He asked her how she was and she said she had so many things wrong with her and was taking so many different medicines she did not know if she were coming and going.
A few months later he saw her and she looked wonderful so he asked her how she recovered.
She told him she got so depressed she decided to take her own life by stopping all medication. Soon after that she realized she was better and knew it was the toxins in all the meds that were the cause of her lack of health.
She smiled and said she swore off all meds and has never felt better.
It is so important that people are aware of this – I could site many situations in my own family’s history that confirm how meds can cause more harm than good – in fact, my mother came into Christian Science because of reactions to medicines and was told by a doctor that she needed to learn to live without medicine and that there were people who did – I feel so fortunate that she found a way to do so and how it has blessed my family. Vicki
This really resounded with me as I have a friend who had a long list of illnesses that involved her taking many meds. Indeed, she had been forced into claiming disability as the result of her ill health. This brought on a dire economic situation which included a lack of the continuation of her health insurance. She called me one day to tell me her story about her vastly improved health due to the fact, she said, that she no longer could afford to buy her meds. Her health has improved and she’s beginning to work again. She says she expects her progress to continue and that she is “living for the day” that she is able to get off disability and resume a normal life.
This is such a hot topic with me now. I just lost my husband (not a student of Science) to the frenzied applications of too much medicine and what appeared to be little or no oversight. The medical world simply does not know what it is doing and I feel is spurred on by pharmaceutical companies checking the bottom line and not the individuals’ lives. You would be shocked at how many folks have lost loved ones in a similar manner to what I experienced. I think Christian Science has a very important part to play at this moment.