That's because you're all F'ing crazy!
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.
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.
Becoming?!
Anytime you go to a shrink, you’re guaranteed that there’s at least one crazy person in the room.
Also the most likely medical professional to become sexually involved with a patient.
Therapist. “The-rapist”
I know two “ shrinks “ ....both are batshit crazy
Every psych instructor I had in college was a foaming idiot!
Psychiatry is the religion established by the Judiciary Branch.
The $500 million to $24 billion number is misleading.
1. We now have a large number of people who have been using recreational drugs for decades, so that could account for an increased number of people who need anti-psychotics to deal with the long term effects of such usage.
2. There are a lot of drugs, when used properly, can provide real help for those who have the real ailment (not counting the teacher who just doesn’t like normal boys in the classroom.) These useful drugs just didn’t exist 20 years ago.
Maybe they would be more legitimate if they didn’t bow to political pressure in their medical advice...aka homosexuality.
Throughout history have 25% of women been exhibiting mental disability such that pharmacological intervention is warranted - or is it that such drugs are over prescribed?
Once depression was something you experienced and then got over - now it is apparently a condition that requires lifelong pharmacological and psychiatric intervention. LIFELONG.
Add to this the fact that placebo is just about as effective as most antidepressants and we see what this is about.
“Dr. Feel Good has a pill for that honey, all you need to do is have a monthly evaluation ($) and I will write you a prescription to make those blues go away!”
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.
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.
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"?
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.
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.