Posted by Nezirov on July 1, 2005, at 17:55:27 [reposted on July 2, 2005, at 0:55:29 | original URL]
In reply to Re: personally i hope people listen to him... » Nezirov, posted by linkadge on July 1, 2005, at 16:48:30
> I agree with *some* of what you say, but aren't you throwing the baby out with the bath water?
No.
> Aren't you thinking a little too black and white ?
No.
> How can you say that you fully understand what psychiatry has to offer when you've only taken one drug ?
I don't think psychiatry has anything to offer any more. Most psychiatrists don't even *listen* to there patients. So how can they help them? Listening is absolutely critical to any helping profession.
> People can get stuck in the habbit of projecting depression's bitterness on something intangable.Speak for yourself...
> For me, my life sucks, my job sucks, I have no money, no future, etc. Sure, I like to project my unhappiness on something else like psychiatry, but that doesn't do me any good.
I have a good job, I have money, I have a future. I also used to have a very good sex drive, which was taken away by a so called "antidepressant". I may recover at some point, but in the meantime I'm learning as much as I can about psychiatry, neurology, neurobiology etc. and my current conlusion is indedd that psychiatry is a pseudoscience. I'm a top-level scientist myself, Ph.D. in cell/molecular biology so I think I'm qualified to make that decision.,
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> *Some* psychiatrists think they have all the answers, but not all. Not all of them are arrogent. Many of them know the limitations of the medications they have. Many of them are real people.Well, I have not met one psychiatrist so far who was not arrogant *and* ignorant. True, sample size only about 10, but that's enough to make an assesment for me.
Some, people are helped, but most just get caught on the drug merry-go-round, and end up getting diagnosed as "bipolar III" or some other such nonsense.>
> Invent a better drug youself, in your basement.Huh? Actually I have the scientific exertise to do that, but why would I, when I don't think drugs are the answer?
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