I agree I don't think antidepressants are the answer we need more social clubs where people with mental health problems can meet up. I’m anti psychiatry and think that most of the illnesses in the DSM are pseudoscience. To be a real disease there has to be a biological test or pathology. If someone has schizophrenia, ADHD, conduct disorder, depression etc there is no biological test so it would be insane to treat them with neuro-pharmacology. A real disease like AIDS, Cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Leukaemia, Diabetes etc all have a medical test or are confirmed at autopsy. Most of the so called illnesses in the DSM are voted into existence by the American Psychiatric Association, none are discovered in the laboratory. In fact most mental illnesses are diagnosed through an interview. Can you imagine a normal doctor giving someone insulin, chemotherapy, drugs to treat cancer etc on the basis of an interview? If I'm going to have chemotherapy or be put on a life long drug treatment plan then I want a test to prove it especially when neuro-pharmacology for mental illness causes liver, kidney damage and other problems. We think psychiatry is a form of social control to funnel everybody into the constraints of the economic system. In other words they don't want to change your social environment so they force you to accept it change yourself via medication and treatment. Any thoughts?
I agree I don't think antidepressants are the answer we need more social clubs where people with mental health problems can meet up.
I’m anti psychiatry and think that most of the illnesses in the DSM are pseudoscience. To be a real disease there has to be a biological test or pathology. If someone has schizophrenia, ADHD, conduct disorder, depression etc there is no biological test so it would be insane to treat them with neuro-pharmacology. A real disease like AIDS, Cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Leukaemia, Diabetes etc all have a medical test or are confirmed at autopsy.
Most of the so called illnesses in the DSM are voted into existence by the American Psychiatric Association, none are discovered in the laboratory. In fact most mental illnesses are diagnosed through an interview. Can you imagine a normal doctor giving someone insulin, chemotherapy, drugs to treat cancer etc on the basis of an interview? If I'm going to have chemotherapy or be put on a life long drug treatment plan then I want a test to prove it especially when neuro-pharmacology for mental illness causes liver, kidney damage and other problems.
We think psychiatry is a form of social control to funnel everybody into the constraints of the economic system. In other words they don't want to change your social environment so they force you to accept it change yourself via medication and treatment. Any thoughts?