Posted by ron1953 on March 27, 2012, at 15:42:16
In reply to Re: new pdoc says there 'are no answers', posted by ron1953 on March 27, 2012, at 15:08:25
I believe that science is defined more by what it DOESN'T know than what it does. The pdoc cited in this thread appears to reflect this, and has the balls and compassion to tell it straight to a patient. Along with Santa Claus and The Easter Bunny, myths about science's all-knowing status pervade, and the pompous (and wealthy) medical/psychaitric industry continues to convince people that all of their discomforts can be fixed, especially with medication. Do I blame the industry? Not really. I ultimately blame the fools who don't have the temerity to question the status quo. There are certainly people who need and benefit from psychiatric treatment, but there are also certainly those for whom such treatment is unnecessary, or worse, actually damaging. I wonder about the folks who have undergone treatment for several years to no avail, yet never seem to ask, "What's wrong with this picture?". They continue to beat the same dead horse. I admire and respect a realistic practitioner who discourages knee-jerk treatment to every poor soul who shows up at his office.
Most of us have been conditioned (or at least encouraged) to blindly obey "experts" with long lists of credentials, and to ignore our own inner voices. And that has has sad effects all over the place.
Perhaps practitioners such as the one this thread is about do many a great service in discouraging an endless regimen of medically chasing one's own tail.
Scientology and other anti-psychiatry philosophies may not have it all correct, but they ask some rather pertinent questions, as does Lou Pilder.
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