flacaltenn
Diamond Member
Most people who are diagnosedas mentally ill aren't. All medicine in this country is treated as a business now. Nothing more. And as a whole our medical profession is incompetent.
Well -- you got that partly right. The medical profession as a whole is still a science based practice. Psychology however hasn't improved it's toolset or fact based diagnostic abilities much beyond chemical lobotomies and ink blot tests.
Once any of these mental issues have a known biological basis and standardized testing and appraisal, then they are ripped from the hands of the Psych docs and turned over to the REAL doctors..
"Doctors" who visit with patients for 10 minutes and prescribe a different drug without the benefit of images or numbers or any metrics CAN'T be accurate in their diagnosis.
You are no better then the deniers.
REally? What tools have the pros used to measure and diagnosis your situation? Got any numbers quantifying how your condition compares to "average" cases or "normal" people? Ever been given any metrics to track the progression of your "disease"??
Any pictures/charts of blood, tissue, chemical abnormalities that the drugs are supposed to block/interact with?
What elements of SCIENCE have you observed in ANY of your encounters with "the profession"???
With due respect RGSarge -- I BELIEVE in counseling and treatment for mental health. I don't accept that MOST of what's provided is effective, accurate or scientific in the way that physical/biological problems are approached. That's why too many folks get sucked into a system and abused by being diagnosed and treated under those primitive rules.
What we have here is a system that's TRYING. But lacks the humility to stand down when they don't have definitive measurements or proof for NEED to treat or the ability to really QUANTIFY any progress..