Bobkgin
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Joined: 7/28/2007 From: Kawarthas, Ontario, Canada Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Bobkgin I have what I consider a healthy disrespect for psychiatry, mostly because of all the times they got it wrong: frontal lobotomies, electro-shock therapy, sadism, masochism, homosexuality, tranquilizers for house-wives, etc. I challenge the 'science' because it can only work with statistical averages, not with objectivity (such as exists in math and physics). Humans are the most adaptable creatures on the planet. How do you define "normal" for such a species? Do you have a healthy disrespect for doctors because they used leeches at one time? Velvet, I think the differences between Medicine and Psychiatry suitably obvious that intelligent people can distinguish between the two. Even so, doctors still make mistakes in diagnosis and in surgery. quote:
If not for psycotropic meds, mental wards would be overflowing. Medications like clozapine, lithium, depakote etc make it possible for people to live their lives outside of mental institutions. All very true. But I have experience with a woman whom the shrinks sent for electro-shock therapy because she couldn't tell them she'd been raped by an uncle because she was afraid her father would kill her uncle if he knew. Mis-diagnosis of her problem. A 'science' that depends upon everyone using english the same way, that depends upon the patient self-reporting events, that has no objective way for determining an illness, but must rely on a statistical analysis of symptoms to find a 'best-fit' diagnosis, is not a 'science' I'll be relying upon any time soon. That's not to say it doesn't work for some people, only that it is not reliable enough for me to respect.
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When all is said and done, what will you regret? That you never really lived? Or there was so much living left to do? For those interested: pics and poetry have been added to my profile.
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