Posted on 07/19/2015 6:00:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is no need for psychotherapy or psychiatrists, the left as declared all former mental problems now as a “normal special interest victim group” to be loved, cherished and demand that they are accepted by society no matter how (previously) insane they would have been and should be now evaluated as.
I would not be surprised to find a movement by the left to outlaw psychology and psychiatry as occupations.
Apologies in advance to any Freeper MDs out there, but I don’t trust most medical doctors. I trust psychologists and psychiatrists even less. This is based on personal experience with various MDs, dentists and one family psychologist over the years.
Regardless of what oath they take, they are people in the end interested in making $$. Sick people generate more revenue than healthy ones. I am in my mid-50s. When doctors find out I am taking NO prescription meds, they are always surprised. Even though I am healthy, they still try to recommend some. I kid you not. Its an industry like any other.
It seems that I know more people that were not helped or their situation worsened as a result of a psychologist.
So I guess there is no need for research on Alzheimer’s. We can just bring them to your house and you can cure them?
Your comment is akin to the folks who pray over a broken leg and hope it gets cured.
” folks who pray over a broken leg and hope it gets cured.”
If you pray over it for 4-6 weeks, it will get cured.
My guess is that you can do research and make informed decisions. That’s a great.
Most medical treatment, aside from accidents, can be affected by eating right, moving around, and not taking poisons into your system. A trip to the ER at any hospital will confirm that.
However, when your condition is a little more complicated—including things like PTSD, Alzheimer’s, and other acute brain issues these doctors are key to research and treatment.
Just as most folks can do a brake job or change their oil...a valve job or transmission work requires different tools.
Yes, it will heal. If you are happy with walking like a gimp from the Middle Ages, you will be fine.
I was being sarcastic and thought it was obvious.
However, Alzheimer’s, which my late aunt and a best friend’s mother has, are in the medical realm, rather than Freudian psychology/psychiatry area; as it has been explained to me.
There was a time when most of what I knew about psychiatrists came from my psychiatry training.
Psychiatry as an active, clinical specialty has been destroyed by the government. The greatest opportunities for an MD psychiatrist today are a) private practice in Manhattan or San Francisco, or b) working for a public agency signing thousands of prescriptions a week for patients you've never seen, because psych social workers can't prescribe (yet).
Not going to happen because the left so dominates both of them. What we are seeing instead are these three phenomenon:
“Yes, it will heal. If you are happy with walking like a gimp from the Middle Ages, you will be fine.”
Hey, man, don’t mock my God!
Freedom of religion and all that stuff. Go for it.
Me? I take my kids to a barber for a good bloodletting a couple of times a year. So, we can agree to disagree, agreeably!
Bloodletting? Leeches, boy, leeches are the latest in bad blood removal.
Not too long ago there was a clear division in psychiatry over two distinct forms of mental illness: organic and induced.
A good way to compare the two is with psychopathy and sociopathy.
Psychopathy is a “spectrum state of mind” in which a person does not empathize with others. A little bit of it is essential for people to function, more than that is useful in providing objectivity to emotional situations, more than average makes for good leadership. Beyond that it starts to become pathological and dehumanizing to others. In the extreme, other people are nothing more than objects to be used or abused with indifference. Only a small number of “psychopaths” are unable to adjust their behavior so as not to criminally offend.
And all of psychopathy is a natural state of mind, how your brain is wired.
Sociopathy achieves a similar result, but it is trained behavior. If addressed before adulthood, sociopaths can be retrained so as not to be abusive. After adulthood, it is usually set for life.
In any event, if a person suffers from any number of organic problems, including brain damage and trauma, they need medical care before psychiatric therapy. And granted there can be some overlap between organic and induced mental problems, such as PTSD subsequent to a concussion.
That wasn't GreyFriar's personal stance on these professions.
When the SHTF who’s going to supply all of those meds?
I just jump on one of my motorcycles to deal with depression. If I come home in one piece it makes my day.
As Michael Savage says, liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Not by it self.
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