Actually, I get a security alert when I attempted to view dawenchina.com/

I did not look at the site.

Ive been to DaWen. It's fine for standard counseling. They do have some other types of self improvement or training courses i think but as far as talking therapy goes they are fine.

POISONOUS AND ADDICTIVE KILLER MEDZ
Assuming this wasn't a troll bait question, a list of various anti-depressants, to include ketamine is a quick internet search away. Ketamine, derivatives and similarly structured drugs are known cores for hallucinogenics, which is why they're controlled substances.

Even simple anti-pain meds such as vicodin become addictive, with a variety of side effects that may manifest themselves differently as people have different physiologies, different body chemistries, different lifestyles, diets, etc ad infinitum.

Generally - drug therapy can be a useful aid in helping combat mental illness, under professional supervision - but when it becomes an addiction - that's when drug therapy becomes abusive. Hollywood is rife with stories of drug abuse, fueled by irresponsible physicians and pharmacists.

ALL drugs come with immediate and temporal side effects and long-term use risks. They're listed exhaustively in the USA. In addition, most major drugs also have exhaustive drug interaction records - also listed exhaustively in the USA and other countries. Tylenol was a great med for hammering fevers, both in adults and in babies and children - but it's known list of POTENTIAL side effects include asthma and respiratory related illnesses...discovered and clinically verified as a risk, after DECADES of over the shelf sales.

All meds are computerized and updated regularly, along with emergency database updates when critical information is released.

While my comments are clearly defined as maximum risks, but are also within the realm of reality - to NOT be aware and to cavalierly trivialize the use of mind-altering drugs is irresponsible and reprehensible.

The mere fact that drug therapy for mental illness IS mind-altering should be alarming and trivializing the use of these powerful mind-altering substances is a dangerous behavior to manifest around someone with a mental illness.

The illness is serious. The treatment will be serious. I know you'll be serious. Physicians frequently attempt to trivialize drug therapy in an attempt to allay your fears. There is NOTHING trivial about drug therapy involving mind-altering drugs. It's dangerous and not an exact science.

To trivialize drug therapy associated with mental illness treatments to something akin to popping aspirin or vitamins is precisely one of the major dangers of drug-based therapy. We just add it to our lifestyle and that's just plain wrong.

So, to re-state - know the risks associated with the drug cocktails your physician may prescribe, understand the side effects AND the issues with drug interactions and their side effects.

Be aware of addictive issues.

As with the Hippocratic Oath - don't compound an illness with drug abuse and addiction.

Be aware, be careful, and be responsible, if you lead your partner down this path. As she's suffered from this illness for years - popping a few pills for a few months probably will NOT be a cure-all.

Microphone: I'm sorry that I do not know who you might want to contact about yout friend - I''d help if I could. However, although much or all of the advice here may be well-meaning, does it surprise you, as it does me, that there is so much of it for a situation invovling particular people, context etc. that the givers of the advice do not know very much about?

the words pot and kettle spring to mind