Posted by Christ_empowered on September 14, 2013, at 7:50:30
In reply to Irritability Anger Indication Of Complex Severe De, posted by Phillipa on September 13, 2013, at 20:55:52
This is what bothers me about psychiatry, especially as it deals with poor(er) people. They push and push and push, refuse to put people into bio-psycho-social context, then diagnose and prescribe.
For instance, before my upper-middle class parents were solidly behind me, I was in a mental hospital. I had a head injury (concussion) from a botched mugging. The EMT had administered a sedative before admitting me. The staff pushed and pushed me, yelling at me, etc., and I became violent. Their diagnosis? Violent schizophrenia. The solution? Involuntary ECT.
Now, my upper-middle class parents *are* behind me. Shrinks are a lot nicer than before. I get that magical thing that proves so elusive for most mental patients..."compassion." The big "C" factor. That and I have a shrink committed to treating people with severe mental problems (now the diagnosis is Bipolar I of some sort) with compassion.
I dunno...psychiatry is dominated by the upper classes, mostly white men. Women, the poor, and minorities suffer. In the US, even the middle and lower-middle classes get poor treatment. Only when you are upper middle class or, in my case, have upper middle (or wealthy) people behind you do you seem to get empathy and compassion.
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