You’re against psychiatry being abused. Psychiatry is simply the process of providing (broadly) medical help to people with mental problems. People doing it wrong does not mean it as a concept needs to be abandoned.
Eeeeh … okay, but one has to pick apart ‘Psychiatry’ so much that not much will be left of it in the end. Look at its history, look at the science. The useful part you end up with is more often than not therapy, which again ends up more often than not being common sense advice you would give your best friend. And what most psychiatric diagnosis really boils down to is that when you subject people to stressful living conditions like poverty, war, displacement, authoritarianism etc. they develop mental problems.
And medication? Yes, some of it somewhat sometimes works, but in its current state it’s such a crude game of trial and error that I’d rather stay away, I feel actually safer self-medicating with plants and mushrooms.
you are far too generous to describe the big-pharma frenzy of overmedicalisation as simple ‘trial and error’. Maybe a clinician trying to use their tools to hit a moving target requires using trial and error, but the manufacturing of physically addictive drugs which only work to mask symptoms is anything but an accident
Your faith in “common sense” is commendable but I wouldn’t want to subject anyone but a trained professional to the stress of having to listen to me whine about my issues and then also having to dissect them to help me find the underlying issues.
If you give your common sense a little credit and learn to trust your gut your might find it all quite competent - if not even wise. I’d say it took a few years of adjustment to get from being authority-oriented to self-stable, but I wouldn’t want to change back.
You’re against psychiatry being abused. Psychiatry is simply the process of providing (broadly) medical help to people with mental problems. People doing it wrong does not mean it as a concept needs to be abandoned.
Eeeeh … okay, but one has to pick apart ‘Psychiatry’ so much that not much will be left of it in the end. Look at its history, look at the science. The useful part you end up with is more often than not therapy, which again ends up more often than not being common sense advice you would give your best friend. And what most psychiatric diagnosis really boils down to is that when you subject people to stressful living conditions like poverty, war, displacement, authoritarianism etc. they develop mental problems.
And medication? Yes, some of it somewhat sometimes works, but in its current state it’s such a crude game of trial and error that I’d rather stay away, I feel actually safer self-medicating with plants and mushrooms.
you are far too generous to describe the big-pharma frenzy of overmedicalisation as simple ‘trial and error’. Maybe a clinician trying to use their tools to hit a moving target requires using trial and error, but the manufacturing of physically addictive drugs which only work to mask symptoms is anything but an accident
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Your faith in “common sense” is commendable but I wouldn’t want to subject anyone but a trained professional to the stress of having to listen to me whine about my issues and then also having to dissect them to help me find the underlying issues.
Common sense is ignorant AF. Don’t self-medicate.
If you give your common sense a little credit and learn to trust your gut your might find it all quite competent - if not even wise. I’d say it took a few years of adjustment to get from being authority-oriented to self-stable, but I wouldn’t want to change back.
The POTUS goes by gut.
A very sound argument to make. Hitler liked puppies. Well done, okay I’ll get back on the prescription meds right now
That’s quite a leap from what was said, but any excuse will do.