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1 posted on 11/15/2012 11:59:42 AM PST by Academiadotorg
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Even medical students are avoiding it

That's because you're all F'ing crazy!

2 posted on 11/15/2012 12:07:17 PM PST by grobdriver
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One of the surest signs of decay of a society can be judged by simply counting the number of psychiatrists/psychologists in active practice. The numbers and decadence are directly proportional to each other.


3 posted on 11/15/2012 12:10:05 PM PST by Cyman
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“Every day in the United States, 850 adults and 250 children are added to the federal government’s disability benefit rolls because of mental illness,” McGovern reports. “That means about 400,000 people are incapacitated each year, to say nothing of hundreds of thousands more diagnosed with less-crippling psychiatric illnesses.”

A few years back, I was talking to a psychiatrist at a party. He was complaining that if a school sent a kid to him for evaluation, and they indicated they wanted the kid on Ritalin, his choices were to put the kid on Ritalin, or stop getting referrals from the school.

"Mental disability" diagnosis is now a big business.

4 posted on 11/15/2012 12:11:34 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
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Becoming?!


5 posted on 11/15/2012 12:12:10 PM PST by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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Anytime you go to a shrink, you’re guaranteed that there’s at least one crazy person in the room.


6 posted on 11/15/2012 12:13:19 PM PST by Salamander (I must be dreaming....please stop screaming.)
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Also the most likely medical professional to become sexually involved with a patient.

Therapist. “The-rapist”


7 posted on 11/15/2012 12:14:04 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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Major “Problem” Nidal Hasan is psychiatrist!
8 posted on 11/15/2012 12:20:22 PM PST by hamboy (Psalm 109:8: Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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I know two “ shrinks “ ....both are batshit crazy


10 posted on 11/15/2012 12:26:01 PM PST by Popman
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Every psych instructor I had in college was a foaming idiot!


12 posted on 11/15/2012 12:29:02 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Psychiatry is the religion established by the Judiciary Branch.


13 posted on 11/15/2012 12:31:27 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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The $500 million to $24 billion number is misleading.

1. We now have a large number of people who have been using recreational drugs for decades, so that could account for an increased number of people who need anti-psychotics to deal with the long term effects of such usage.

2. There are a lot of drugs, when used properly, can provide real help for those who have the real ailment (not counting the teacher who just doesn’t like normal boys in the classroom.) These useful drugs just didn’t exist 20 years ago.


14 posted on 11/15/2012 12:35:03 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Maybe they would be more legitimate if they didn’t bow to political pressure in their medical advice...aka homosexuality.


16 posted on 11/15/2012 12:39:36 PM PST by Vision (Obama is king of the "Takers." Don't be a "Taker.")
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One in four women now take pills for their mental health.

Throughout history have 25% of women been exhibiting mental disability such that pharmacological intervention is warranted - or is it that such drugs are over prescribed?

Once depression was something you experienced and then got over - now it is apparently a condition that requires lifelong pharmacological and psychiatric intervention. LIFELONG.

Add to this the fact that placebo is just about as effective as most antidepressants and we see what this is about.

“Dr. Feel Good has a pill for that honey, all you need to do is have a monthly evaluation ($) and I will write you a prescription to make those blues go away!”

18 posted on 11/15/2012 12:43:50 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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Some in that field are very good.

I went to a psychiatrist once. It was a few decades ago, the year I had graduated from college. I had run out of money, moved back home with my parents, was very depressed, and doing terribly in job interviews. The psychiatrist basically told me the following:

1. “With your qualifications, you should have a professional job right now. You’re just not trying hard enough.”

2. “Stop blaming your parents for your problems. Be thankful they were willing to let you move back home and are providing for you.”

3. “You say you’re sending out resumes, but you’re not. By our next session, I want you to have applied for one job. I will be asking.” (I said “I could apply for 20 jobs in a week” but the psychiatrist just wanted me to apply for one job. He knew I would say 20 and do none, and it was better to say one and do one. The next session, he said “apply for two jobs by the next session” and soon, I was off and running on my own.)

Within two months, I had a professional job, moved out of my parent’s home, and never went back. No drugs—just honest assessment and direction.


22 posted on 11/15/2012 1:00:16 PM PST by Our man in washington
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Some in that field are very good.

I went to a psychiatrist once. It was a few decades ago, the year I had graduated from college. I had run out of money, moved back home with my parents, was very depressed, and doing terribly in job interviews. The psychiatrist basically told me the following:

1. “With your qualifications, you should have a professional job right now. You’re just not trying hard enough.”

2. “Stop blaming your parents for your problems. Be thankful they were willing to let you move back home and are providing for you.”

3. “You say you’re sending out resumes, but you’re not. By our next session, I want you to have applied for one job. I will be asking.” (I said “I could apply for 20 jobs in a week” but the psychiatrist just wanted me to apply for one job. He knew I would say 20 and do none, and it was better to say one and do one. The next session, he said “apply for two jobs by the next session” and soon, I was off and running on my own.)

Within two months, I had a professional job, moved out of my parent’s home, and never went back. No drugs—just honest assessment and direction.


23 posted on 11/15/2012 1:00:57 PM PST by Our man in washington
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“Every day in the United States, 850 adults and 250 children are added to the federal government’s disability benefit rolls because of mental illness,” McGovern reports. “That means about 400,000 people are incapacitated each year, to say nothing of hundreds of thousands more diagnosed with less-crippling psychiatric illnesses.”

Or we have 400,000 people gaming the system because mental illness disabilities are the hardest to objectively disprove. If someone claims a disability because he's missing a leg and you can count both of his legs still attached you can catch him for fraud. How do you disprove "voices in the head"?

24 posted on 11/15/2012 1:01:29 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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Here's a little factual information for the troglodytes to consider. I know facts are increasingly unpopular on FR anymore, but they are stubborn things that will not go away.

Until the mid-1950's there were no effective psychiatric drugs.

What passed for meds back then was mostly barbiturates, for anxiety and behavior agitation, and amphetamines for depression and lethargy.

Half of all hospital beds in the United States in the mid-fifties were occupied by mental patients, most of them going nowhere fast, receiving no treatment to speak of, and living in custodial institutions in rural areas, away from the sensitive eyes of the public, and which came to be known as "funny farms."

Discharged and left to their own devices, they died.

Compare that to today, when many hospitals have only a few, if any, psych beds at all, and lengths of stay are measured usually in days, not years.

Meds used today generally are not addictive and destructive like the barbiturates and amphetamines were. Some have side effects, to be sure--any effective medicine of any sort will have side effects in some percentage of the population.

But for most people, the price is a small one to pay for being able to function reasonably well in the community.

End of message from Reality-- we now return to the previously scheduled rantings and ravings of the juvenile ignorati.

25 posted on 11/15/2012 1:05:19 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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People who go into Psychiatry/Psychology do so to try to figure out what's wrong with themselves. Admittedly, I have quite a few PSYs on my transcript.
26 posted on 11/15/2012 1:06:09 PM PST by real saxophonist (Stay In The Fight)
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"I've never met a psychiatrist who didn't need one"--George Putnam
27 posted on 11/15/2012 1:11:05 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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Western philosphy and culture produced certain results among professionals and the public in the West.

Liberalism’s humanist philosphy and it’s amoral and corrupt culture - produces the results we see today in all professions and at all levels of society.


28 posted on 11/15/2012 1:12:01 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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