They started down the slippery slope of letting politics into their “science”when they were coerced into reclassifiying homosexuality. Coprophagia and bestiality will not be too far along now from being dropped as a mental illness as well.
BFLR
Thomas Szasz was right.
CC
Psychiatry was born progressive and crazy.
Issues of brain chemistry are legitimate but beyond that its all guesswork.
Until they return homosexuality to their list of mental disorders, the book is worthless and the profession is a lie.
Placemark.
This travesty goes beyond politics.
Millions of Americans are caught in the psychiatric diagnoses to drugs system.
Very few patients have been told to change their diets to include healthy fats (from clean healthy animals, and coconut’, olive, and a couple other oils) for their brains, plenty of clean veggies, fruits, animals, raw dairy. And exclude seed oils, corn, artificial flavors, colors, MSG, fake sugars, etc. That alone would improve many conditions. Same with fresh air and moderate exercise.
We need psychiatry but we need to follow Hippocrates and only treat if treatment doesn’t harm the patient more than letting him be.
Psychology, literally translated from Greek, means the study of the soul. In its very definition, it is an impossible, subjective venture, and can never remotely be in the same room as the mathematics based sciences.
Being a study devoid of concrete foundations, it is subject to the winds that blow. And right now, things are blowing Politically Correct. That will change in time.
The bottom line is that the biochemistry of human thought is a function of lipid metabolism. The brain is ninety percent phospholipids. How those lipids churn in the cranium to create the higher senses is unknown. Psychiatry is the least scientific of all medical specialties and the most politically correct.Its subjective authoritative pronouncements will one day be as ludicrous as the earnest earth centered theories of the ancients are viewed today. Psychophamacology is empiricism.
The left has irrevocably corrupted science. Global warming (caused only by American corporations), Marxist economics, all gun violence is attributable to the NRA, only racism causes disparate racial representation in the professions, women can do anything men can do, (so long as the standards are different), affirmative action isn’t racist, stone age cultures are superior to all other cultures, Islamic terrorism is an oxymoron, etc., etc. Marx wrote that only Marxist thought is pure, and reality can only be understood by Marxist reasoning. It’s where we are now.
As long as a person can run his/her own life, there is no reason to go to a professional counselor, or psychologist, or psychiatrist.
If a person cannot run his/her own life, counseling from one of the professionals will usually help.
Note, I didn't stick “medicine” in there. The only mental health professional who can prescribe medicine, is a psychiatrist. They normally don't counsel with the patient themselves. If there is counseling, the psychiatrist may have a professional counselor on his staff. That patient would likely get medicine plus counseling.
If your problem or problems prevent you from running your life, such as you can't go to work, you stay in bed all day, you can't think, you can't concentrate to get anything done, etc., search out a professional counselor or a psychologist - don't go to a psychiatrist if you don't want pills.
I evaluated private patients, patients referred to me by government entities, patients a psychiatrist put in a mental health hospital and needed an evaluation of that patient while they were in that hospital. Usually, the ones in the mental health hospital needed to be there.
I evaluated an ex-military man and gave a diagnosis of PTSD and I knew it was severe. A psychiatrist sent him to my office and immediately after the man left, I found out he had been discharged from the hospital - I thought he had come from the hospital and was going back there. I immediately tried to find the psychiatrist and found a psychologist friend in the same building had taken over that man's care due to the psychiatrist leaving town.
I told him it was a serious mistake to let the man leave the hospital because he was going to attack someone and that would probably be his mother. Sure enough, the next day, the man barricaded himself in the house and was holding off the police and his mother had gotten out of the house before he got to her.
I say that to show there are mentally ill people. This man could not run his life.
I evaluated a woman in a mental hospital and she needed to be there as she was a danger to herself and her children at that time. She was convinced the Mafia was after her and she had taken her small children into the woods to hide and wouldn't come out. I gave her a proper diagnosis based on her behavior and mental condition at that time.
This lady could not run her life.
Diagnosing a mental condition takes knowledge and the ability to know what psychological tests are indicating, and what an extended interview with the patient is indicating. A diagnosis doesn't happen when a patient sits down in your office. It takes extensive evaluation in all those areas to make a proper diagnosis.
I know most of you people will dump on mental health workers but one reason you do that is because you haven't been there to know the process.
I was well into my 50’s before I began to realize that Psychiatry and ‘psycho-analysis’ was a made-up science based on purely secular fear and hysteria. To me, those who espouse it and swear by its conclusions are nothing more than medieval clerics arguing over how many angels will fit on the head of a pin.
I get the impression that psychologists and psychiatrists are in need of severe reality checks. Their creation of the “I’m a victim and it’s always someone else’s fault” syndrome (yes, I blame them) has created a nation of neurotic....neurotics!!
I have a relative in Psychiatry who tells me the distance between Psychiatry and a decent counselor is very slim. You DON’T get what you pay for. As often as not, a well-recommended counselor is better than a shrink. And cheaper.
He summed up the issue perfectly:
“There are only two kinds of verifiable mental illness.
“Clinical depression and schizophrenia.
“Everything else is caused by personal inadequacy or unrealistic expectations.”