A 50% approval rating is not very encouraging, if that is what you mean, when considering treatment options.
I don't look at stats because, if I did, I would never have come upon homeopathy, which has like a less than 1 percent rating. It is tedious and must be used when you are in good physical health (it is integrative after all).
People don't realize this then try it and it fails. Or, they don't realize that measures of health have to be according to natural meds standard not conventional.
So, I have to say that I can't use stats a t all. I usually end up doing that opposite of what stats say. The only stats I would look at would be of a study of the people who tried a treatment under proper conditions. This is easiest to find if you ask a practitioner that uses it, whether it be energy healing, homeopathy, herbology.... I also look at the stats of success for a doctor that usus the treatment that I choose beforehand.

im confused

I am a person who uses medication and alternatives in my life. To date, I've not found statistics on people like me. But I agree with you Arfie, that the personal is much more telling than the statistical. You can prove anything with statistics. Hell, if I bought into statistics, I would actually believe that I will have a shorter life span by 25 years simply because I have a mental illness. On the other hand, as a medicated person, with psychiatry and psychotropic medications in their infancy, with no longitudinal studies on what they do to the human body, who knows, maybe I am giving up 25 years of my life. It's just a number and life is what I put into it rather than how long it lasts.

I will also agree with both Arfie and Cammie of this. Having grown up the son of a Sociopath, statistics say may, many things about me.

I have either beaten the odds or just straight out prove the Statistic wrong 90% of the time. I won't get into what some of those were cause they could be triggering to others.

Let's take an example you will relate too, Satistics say Bipolars must stay on medication, I was stable off them over 2 years and had it not been for a medical illness I would still be med free.

What I'm trying to say here is go with what works for you, you know your body better than anyone else.

Personal knowledge over Statistical Data.

Take care my friend

The Wolf

oh i get it now....thanks ....the answer for me is.... i just dont know...any information is good i guess ...to kind of get a feel of things...