the medical diagonistic manuals are all silly and doctors dont know anything about what mental uillness is really like....unless they have a disorder themselves...the entire psych drug industry is a scam, just created to create another market for consumption.
misdiagnosis is so common its not even funny.....anyone can now go into a docotor and manufacture some disorder and the doc will give them medication and thats how you do business ninn this market....its just a market..
which gives people with actual illnes and disorder a bad name...
AlphaStarred
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Originally posted by Chimney
Out of curiosity, in the US are all physicians allowed to prescribe antipsychotic medication or only psychiatrists?
Only psychiatrists.
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Originally posted by soulstar606
...doctors dont know anything about what mental uillness is really like....unless they have a disorder themselves...
misdiagnosis is so common its not even funny.....
There is definitely truth to that.
Alex
I sort of agree with soulstar.
Psychiatrists in Canada are obligated to monitor you for 6 months to a year before making a formal diagnosis. Which to me means they are pretty cautious about diagnosing.
But ya, they don't know EVERYTHING about mental illness because like soulstar said if you've never experienced it yourself you don't understand to the same extent.
planetaryplayer
futurama is the greatest if disagree you agree you are mentally ill
Chimney
Althought hopefully by this time next year I'll be a resident in it, I agree with the criticism psychiatry gets. Medicine is based on em empirical knowledge. Got a cardiac insufficiency and don't trust your doctor? They'll show you the ventricular ejection rate its dilation/hypertrophy. Got hyperthyroidism and don't believe it? Doctor will show you the TSH/T3 values. Got a psychiatric disease? Just take his word for it. Totally flawed.
Reason why I always said it's necessary to go up the biology field and work towards proving these disorder and providing better treatment than pumping people full of neurotransmitting drugs for decades on end.
pkcRAISTLIN
......but then a bird of prey dropped me some meat, and i felt much better about life.
Jon_Snow
Maybe this could work to his advantage. Aren't women attracted to guys who are a little dangerous?
Vector A
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Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Maybe this could work to his advantage. Aren't women attracted to guys who are a little dangerous?
What I don't understand is how a psychiatrist can tell one they have psychotic symptoms but also have a personality disorder. Surely if the psychotic symptoms weren't present, then the personality may appear more "in order." Ridiculase!!
But yeah, in the US, they often make a diagnosis in the very first visit. I heard this is a very convenient way for the psychiatrist to bill the insurance companies. Sometimes they don't make a diagnosis at all.
Dykes_on_Jay
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Originally posted by AlphaStarred
What I don't understand
Most of life.
Jon_Snow
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Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
Can't believe nobady said IBOGA.
It's the 800lbs elephant in the room we're doing our best to pretend isn't there. And no I'm not talking about Juan.
