Posted by Chris O on April 10, 2016, at 2:03:33
In reply to Mad in America, posted by Christ_empowered on April 9, 2016, at 17:09:42
I don't mean this in a judgmental way, but "bored" is kind of a vague, unclear term to me. Do you mean you feel unconvinced, irritated, or some other emotion by "anti-psychiatry?" Do you feel that people like Robert Whitaker "make some valid points," but his/their case is overstated, and that psychiatry is not all bad, and can be helpful in some (many) cases? If you mean the later, I concur, on my better (less anxious + depressed) days. On my more anxious and depressed days, I often lash out at psychiatry, because in many ways, it seems to re-wound me with the same sense of co-dependance I suffered from my family of origin. I view it as a co-conspirator to keep my true self weak and ashamed, even if this is not its admitted goal. I don't know. I go back and forth with this. In the end, I know that like all of us, psychiatry is limited by its/our time and place, and that psychiatrists and psychiatry are not the grand definition of normalcy any more than they were 50 or 100 years ago, anymore than any authority figure has been in the history of the human race. That's my two cents for the minute.
Chris
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