Posted by SLS on November 10, 2012, at 12:44:58
In reply to Re: Depression is Infectious Inflammation » SLS, posted by Phil on November 10, 2012, at 9:00:10
> I do hope that psychiatrists at least consider the possibility especially in the NE where Lyme is most widespread.
> In 2006, Texas reported 29 cases..in 2008, 150. Whole continents appear to not have Lyme disease.
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> Thanks, but I'll keep my meds and I assume antipsychiatry warriors will keep their anger. All of the 'psychiatry sucks' spewing forth from them due to a tick bite they got. Maybe I should let them know. Nah.....It's like democracy. Democracy is the worst form of government... except for all the others.
I don't dispute that modern psychiatry as practiced in the West is largely primitive compared to most other fields of medicine. However, the brain is the most complex organ of the body, and it is not well explored. In my mind, I see psychiatry as doing the best it can with the limited amount of understanding it must work with. I don't see conspiracy and collusion on the part of all of psychiatry as it progresses in the discovery process. I believe that there are a lot of impassioned people with good hearts involved in the advancement of psychiatry, both as researchers and clinicians. There is actually an accumulating wealth of data arising from research that represent pieces of the puzzle, but very little understanding as to how it all fits together.
For the most part, the psychotropic drugs currently available are rather blunt instruments. Perhaps there is a place for gene therapy or the manipulation of gene activity in psychiatry. I would not exclude neuromodulatory pharmacotherapy as a treatment. However, there is much to be learned about the physiology of mental illness and what biological targets to aim at.
- 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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