Posted by SLS on November 10, 2012, at 6:41:52
In reply to Re: playing chess with psychiatry » ShawnThomas, posted by sleepygirl2 on November 10, 2012, at 0:49:28
> I didn't really think you had a paternalistic view, but you did raise some interesting points. I was inserting a little sarcasm, perhaps aimed at my experience with mental health care (not just my own). Maybe I like a good debate.
> I think it takes a tremendous amount of faith (in something so imperfect) to take psych meds. I like my Pdoc, everything is ultimately my decision, and I trust that he's applying his knowledge toward increasing my quality of life.
> The idea, that I can lack some insight, seems so strange to me, but I have to think it is true, even though I'm pretty grounded in reality.
I guess one can make the argument that anyone who is mentally ill experiences an alteration in cognition that affects their perception, insight, and judgment. How, then, would one go about making treatment decisions for himself?
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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