Posted by OldSchool on February 23, 2002, at 12:03:00
In reply to Re: I dont relate well to the mental health commun, posted by Anna Laura on February 22, 2002, at 23:05:42
I dont relate well to the usual mental health community because I think they have the wrong ideas about what we all are suffering from. Let me give you the Webster's dictionary definition of Psychiatry.
Psychiatry: "The branch of medicine concerned with the study, treatment and prevention of disorders of the mind, including psychosis and neurosis, emotional maladjustments, etc."
Now Ive got to ask you something. Just what exactly is a "disorder of the mind?" Why are we all being told depression is a medical problem? And that our "brain changes when we develop mental illnes?" But the focus with psychiatry is on the outward behaviors dealing with the "mind." I just dont get it. Seems stupid to me. When the problem isnt the "mind" its your brain and nervous system. All thoughts, feelings, moods and emotions originate from your brain, which is a tangible, physical, bodily organ. The brain is nerve tissue.
Now let me give you the Webster's dictionary definition of Neurology.
Neurology: "The branch of medicine dealing with the nervous system, its structure, and its diseases."
LOL Now if all thoughts, moods, feelings, etc. originate with the brain, which is a major part of the nervous system, and depression is a disease of the brain to be treated with medication, WHY is it that mental illness is not treated by Neurology? Instead of psychiatry. Seems to me that Psychiatry is kind of stupid...focused more on the outward behaviors of people, when the real problem is diseased brains and nervous systems. This would be like a microbiologist trying to study AIDS without a microscope and only being allowed to study AIDS by going with what they can see with the naked eyeball, looking and talking to the AIDS victim.
I have a problem with the usual mental health community because I feel that they are way off in left field, on a wild tangent studying psychology things, when the real problem is Neurological disease.
Maybe this is the reason why I do not relate to the typical, usual mental health spiel. Because I can see thru it all and realize what BS it is.
Old School
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