If Psychiatry wants to "turn itself around", it needs to do some house cleaning. In a recent "skeptic" magazine [1], Harriet Hall, M.D. had this to say about t

If Psychiatry wants to "turn itself around", it needs to do some house cleaning. In a recent "skeptic" magazine [1], Harriet Hall, M.D. had this to say about the situation: "Psychotropic drugs are far from ideal. They don’t work well for everyone, and they can sometimes cause devastating side effects. But they do save lives, and they do allow some patients to lead a more-or-less normal life. They are the best we have at the moment. " (emphasis added) [1] http://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/21.1/ http://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/21.1/ This is an apology for the status quo, and distracts from the main issue. My girlfriend is one of the ones for whom "psychotropic drugs" don't work at all - in fact, I believe that the psychotropic drugs that she's been prescribed have a lot to do with her present predicament. Haldol - sold as an anti-psychotic - is well known to cause the condition it supposedly treats. Dr. Hall states that these drugs "save lives", but I wonder what the ratio of "lives ruined" to "lives saved" is. There are non-psychotropic drugs that have been very helpful for my girlfriend, but her psychiatrists don't know to use them. I've spent a few hours today revising my latest petition to the courts asking them protect my girlfriend from the palliative treatments that she has been ordered to endure. The main thrust of my argument is that the medications aren't working because they do not address the causes of her condition. The causes are perfectly obvious to me, but the doctors have all been "shooting in the dark", hoping that the next pill will work better than the last one. I suspect that "exhaustion" is related to most psychiatric problems. New research linking psychosis to an inability to produce cortisol is a good clue: https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2016/june/stress-hormone-link-with-psychosis https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2016/june/stress-hormon...