Posted by Christ_empowered on January 1, 2015, at 11:08:24
In reply to Re: psychiatry is an ougrowth of society, posted by linkadge on January 1, 2015, at 10:10:19
I think I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder. My treatment providers right now are compassionate and professional. I get easy breezy low key counseling...nothing too intense. 3 daily meds, only see the doc every 3 months or so. Disability....makes my life and my parents' lives easier.Its just...it wasn't always this way. When I was poor and my people were "rinky dink middle class" (other peoples' words, not mine), I was punished mightily for my very existence. Labels upon lables upon labels. Confidentiality violations. Publicly ridiculed by an ex-shrink. At one point, I filed a medical board complaint...
...so, yeah. I guess I should say the psychiatry that many *poor* people get is punitive and harsh, and always has been. What's frighening in that the all bio, all the time model that was en vogue for a while there (in the US) is exactly what poor people have always received. Now I've read that the tide is turning and there's more skepticism about drugs, especially complicated cocktails, and there's more openness to talk and reflection and looking at psychosocial issues.OK. At the same time...
...docs have used pills to punish me. Pills to shut me up. This was when I was younger. Wasn't the best person ever back then, mind you, but...
...punitive. sadistic. harsh. That's been my experience of psychiatry until fairly recently.
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