I know scientists mean well, but there is something rotten at the core of conventional psychiatric practice. Sometimes people are helped, but there's a lot of "

I know scientists mean well, but there is something rotten at the core of conventional psychiatric practice. Sometimes people are helped, but there's a lot of "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again," where the psychiatrists try pill after pill on their patients, trying to find something that works, or helps a little. W.C. Fields' advice was "... try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." [1] [1] http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2014/04/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed.html http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2014/04/if-at-first-you-don... What my girlfriend needed was sobriety, but none of her psychiatrists has been willing to give her time. They're just being 'damned fools'. "The Case Against Antipsychotics" (linked in my earlier comment) tells of an approach called "Open Dialogue Therapy", which was developed in Finland in the 1990's (pg 33). They avoid jumping straight to medications. Most "psychotic" patients do just fine when given a supportive environment and adequate time. I'm going back to the courts soon to ask them to protect my friend from her court-ordered medical practitioners. One of my points is that they never gave her a chance to demonstrate that the drugs were unnecessary. She escaped from her court-ordered sedation, briefly, and started to do better... She couldn't handle the stress of her new job, did NOT take a good lunch on her second day, and resumed drinking. There are some good drugs that would have been helpful for keeping her off alcohol (naltrexone, etc), but at her next appointment all she got was the SSRI she asked for. She thought this "anti-depressant" had helped years before, but really it just helped her relapse (then). This time the SSRI and the benzodiazepine caused her to 'fall apart', relapse, get arrested...