Posted by trouble on February 24, 2002, at 15:53:13
In reply to Re: Psychiatrists are Lazy .... again!, posted by OldSchool on February 24, 2002, at 14:44:58
Hey Old School,
Are you looking for answers here?
> If its a medical problem, then WHY are we being diagnosed with psychology?
If you've had it w/ discussion and just want to bark that's one thing. But if you're still open to argument for the sake of discovery, then hey, there's a lot of material to cover in the above question.
> Words like "psychiatric," "psychological," "emotional," and most of all "behavioral" should all be dropped totally by the mental health community.
I'm against these words myself, how their usage is contrived to make the consumer stand up and salute whatever's behind their invocation. They're so amorphous and empty, no one knows what these words mean, which, uh, I take it that was your point.I also go ballistic when the word behavioral is used to promote indivudual well-being; my initial reflex being F*CK YOU!, the word behavioral being way too close to the directive BEHAVE for my tastes.
I will also raise heck when they start "improving" my negative cognition, negative having shown itself the more accurate point of view in studies done on reality testing. I think it's significant that I have NEVER characterized my cognition as negative, (or positive), I wish the psychologists would "own" this one, but that would mean admitting their problematization of something in me they don't like, and them having the one true solution of course.
Nice work if you can get it.That's not to say I'm inflexible on these views, just very forbidding when the best-selling authors come to call.
Sorry if I failed to give you something to rail against, I'll try to do better next time.
love, trouble
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> We all have "behavioral" problems because we cant sleep good, lose weight without trying, lose our sex drives and become stupid as shit from cognitive deterioration! LOL HAHAHAHAH!!!
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