Posted by linkadge on March 2, 2006, at 19:26:52
In reply to Re: Yes » linkadge, posted by Chairman_MAO on March 2, 2006, at 15:45:56
Thats the thing. Psychiatry will try to frame the diagnosis around whatever drugs are acceptable to be using at the time.
Even the idea that anxiety disorders could never happen independantly of depressive disorders was based on the fact that the antidepressants helped both for *some* people.
There is quite a difference between what psychiatrists *wanted* an antidepressant to be and what they actually are.
For instance, doctors wanted/claim that AD's are nonaddictive. On the contrary, they produce strong dependance, and they sometimes require ever inreasing doses to achieve a similar effect. So if we can be lied to in that sence, why must we accept claims of their efficacy without question?
There is an attitude in psychiary that because psychiatrists see the "broader picture" that they feel justified in telling the patients white lies. But time has revealed over and over again, that psychiatry often doesn't see the "broader picture"
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