Those American ads about those private drug treatments seem to emphasise potentially deadly side effects more than what the drug will aid you of, all against a cheerful marketing background.

No, they don't. I have A.D.H.D. and Asperger's syndrome and none of the so-called drugs that are supposed to "help" has an even remotely positive effect. I know a good number of other people who have one or both "disorders" as well, and their experience is the same as mine: nothing good. Yet our experiences (verified by those around us) are discounted because we are the ones with "disorders" and, as such, are "not qualified to comment" on the effectiveness of our "treatment".

The pharmaceutical industry desperately wants everyone to believe that all of their problems can be solved by medications, when that simply isn't the case.

One of the most frightening drug ads I've ever seen was for Advair. Advair is marketed to those who have COPD and Asthma. One of the mentioned side effects is "Advair may increase the risk of Asthma-related death."

Really? An Asthma "remedy" that can increase your risk of Asthma-related death? What's next, a cancer treatment that increases the chance of spreading cancer throughout your body? A flu remedy that causes cholera-like symptoms? Oh, I know! How about a broad spectrum anti-viral medication that turns out to be deadlier than ebola? <--- That may seem a bit hysterical to some, but my father and sister have asthma, so It's a real issue for me.

Dunno why anyone would be bothered by anti aging cream ads. Besides, if you could remove your wrinkles, why wouldn't you remove them?

They are the commendations earned on the battlefield of life.


you wanna take mah medals away?! :toughninja:

brave lil' booger, aintcha?

:teehee:

I'm a pro-natural look woman. My boyfriend never woke up next to me with a heart attack every morning from the last 10 years. I'm 33 and look ten years younger because it runs in the family, what can I say? I proudly tell everyone I now have 3 or 4 silver hair, and got small wrinkles near my eyes. I am proud of my life experience and want it to show, damn it! Maybe it's the amazon warrior-type in me, but I earned my scars in life and wear them with dignity! So, no, I don't feel particularly targetted by adds that promote eternal purity... like I was some sort of virgin immortal lady!

Confidence in one's charm doesn't come in bottles of cream, it comes with time. I now think of myself as a beautiful woman, being seen through the eyes of my long time love helps a lot, of course, but that wouldn't be sufficient if I didn't say to myself at some point, damn the standard of beauty I will never fit in! I am my own standard and know my strength and weaknesses. I'm not at my best every day, but I don't care those days I'm not, because I know I can be stunning when I want to. So, young girls out there, give it time, your female model will never be you, and you might be a model for someone else, so, yeah, give it time.

Your scars, yes, but I'm an accountant. I have no scars or wrinkles.

There are always those of the soul, you know, those you can only see in the eyes of someone...

True that. I have no soul left to be scarred though. Just a hollow shell here.

Accountant, hey? Right, I forgot there were exceptions.

Sadly, this.
Walk down the girls aisle of any big box store or toy store, you will see clothing, makeup, beauty aids, and toys geared towards domestic and parental duties. IT's driven into little girls heads that beautiful princesses always get the handsome prince. That ugly women are witches.
Open a woman's magazine, you will see ads that inform you that you are too fat, too short, too wrinkled, unattractive, too old, too young, hopelessly unfashionable.
Women are asked to wear underwear that compresses us, clothing that squeezes and smashes, shoes designed to make our legs look longer, and undergo surgery to make ourselves more presentable. Women are worthless unless you purchase these items, or undergo procedures to adress your insufficiencies. A freind of mine's eleven year old daughter made her junior high cheerleading squad, is slim and healthy, and was told to purchase Spanks. REALLY???
I hate wearing makeup, I hate how it feels, I hate how it's made of unhealthy things. I hate how there is a double standard.. So I refuse, and rebel. Our insurance will not cover certain medications to help me with my hirstutism, so we pay for them out of pocket. Because they consider it VANITY, So I am considered worth less in that manner. NIce, isn't it?
My husbands magazines have ads for cars, alchohol, tobacco, and technology. He does not agonize over wrinkles, his grey beard hairs, his newly expanding waistline, or his cholesterol. He eats what he wants. Because his worth is not judged publicly by how he looks. He's constanty asked by the doctor if he needs anything for his "performance".
It's perfectly acceptable to tell a woman with an endocrine disorder that causes her facial hair and feeling of low self esteem, that she's vain in an attempt to remove it, but god forbid a man of advancing years suffer any sort of " romantic dysfucntion" that would cause him a self esteem issue.

That said, I really do like Burt's Bees lotions, I get itchy dry skin and it works wonders.

They want to make people buy that ''Bollshiite'', if they don't use the product anymore their skin will begin to look strange, (Because of the chemicals the have in those things) then they will try another skin cream and then it wont work because ( the chemicals from the previous one keeps the new one away from the skin ), forcing the person to buy another one of the first creams.

I think it's a bit of a leap to say that they don't work based on anecdotal evidence, even if it includes personal experience. There's plenty of additional evidence that ADHD treatments do work, though in many cases not as effectively as is often claimed. I'm not sure that Asperger's has a treatment, though, since it seems to be more a descriptive term than an illness.

True story: after watching Fight Club i started muting the TV during commercials. Some of them are pretty hilarious without sound :lmao:

Getting older makes people think they are closer to death, that's why they try to avoid it.

I hate them too. Load of rubbish. Worst one I saw was some cream made from venom from a spider or something that is supposed to be as good as botox. Its the same with those ads for those sticks with LED lights in them that they advertise to balding men to cure their baldness.

Those lotions serve to keep one's skin from becoming so dry and flaky that they scratch their face off. Folks my age don't believe there is a fountain of youth packed in a jar, but they also know they don't have the natural oils to keep their face from drying up like a prune and flaking off on their pillow at night. It doesn't cover anything up, merely adds some moisture. If us old ladies want to cover something up we use make up and even then know we will still look old because we are. That's ok though because we've earned every single wrinkle and each one is full of love and experience.

But give us a break, allow us to put some moisturizer on our faces so it doesn't leave a trail of dead skin behind us everywhere we go.

Where I live I see ads for plastic surgery everywhere , nasty.

I hate ads period.

I saw a commercial for some cosmetic thing that said "not actual users" in small print at the bottom, while women were talking about how effective it was.

well, actually i didn't mean all of it as i typed that, but yeah. what i did mean was only things like if a girl or a woman is not 6 feet tall and or not 100 pound, or if she is not wearing Versace or or if she is not using Revlon or if is not wearing Gucci or something, then she's told by media, peers, etc that she is unacceptable.

Spanks? what's that? and why is school allowing 11 year old into cheerleading squad? get them while they are young? objectify them even before they get to puberty? sounds like objectify them while they are young and like pedophilia propagating. (http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/evil-attendees-at-prominent-pro-pedophilia-conference-horrified-by-sessions/, there will be more and more of that in coming years, brace yourselves folks, it is a matter of time until we see pedophiles go demand their ticket for the civil rights bus. watch out America, http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=pedo+bear is coming for you, looking for it's "civil rights" and your children.)

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and for those girls that have fallen victim to this degrading and were rejected for not being good enough... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guaG981MLoQ . (found this song today, great CD, too.)

Clearasil and any other cream/wipe that is supposed to reduce spots etc in hours or days is BS!!! I tried them once, did nothing for months and then I gave up, saved some money and never looked back and the spots reduced themselves after a few months, still got some but their days are numbered :stare:.