Posted by violette on September 17, 2010, at 11:33:51
In reply to Have our brains been permanently damaged?, posted by Huxley on September 16, 2010, at 18:34:23
I can definitely relate to what you said. Long term studies are needed.
Also think the best way to reduce mental illness is prevention, social programs/safety nets, parenting skills, and relational (time-consuming) psychotherapy, holistic medicine, integration of nutrition into primary care, public education. People will still get MI regardless, but medications, while can increase functioning or enable people to live, put a band-aid on the problems.
With psychotherapy, mental illness would be less likely to be passed down to the next generation. Children with insecure attachments are much more likely to be offspring of parents who lacked secure childhood attachments themselves. If one goes through relational psychotherapy, it provides greater opportunity to stop the cycle of mental illness in your family. The opportunities are enhanced as people are having children later in life now.
The alternative might be personality bio- engineering...but i tend to think there's an evolutionary purpose for people to be different, more sensitive, less sensitive, extroverted, introverted. I guess i don't like the thought of medications sought or developed to numb people from their emotions, or 'erase' emotional pain, to alter the human psyche, if people can feel better by working through the therapeutic relationship.
But there's too many financial incentives to do the bio engineering.
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