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Post-mortem doesn't do much for your current debilitating panic disorder that makes it impossible to leave your home, now does it? Please. Give us your plan fo

Post-mortem doesn't do much for your current debilitating panic disorder that makes it impossible to leave your home, now does it? Please. Give us your plan for relief of suffering while we sit around twiddling our thumbs waiting because "the science isn't there." The history of the entire field of medicine (including psychiatry, which is as much science and medicine as any other medical specialty) is a march from partial understanding based on classification of symptoms to other measures. The brain, hidden away behind bone and blood-brain barrier, has been called the most complex object in the known universe. That machine and it's foibles is a little more complicated than finding a buffer overrun or swabbing your throat for strep.

wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Please. Give us your plan for relief of suffering "First, do no harm". Stop the dehumanization and torture that goes on in many mental institutions: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/29gr27/redditors_who_were_involuntarily_admitted_to/?sort=top https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/29gr27/redditors... >The brain... the most complex object in the known universe This is the honesty I'm looking for. It is disingenuous for psychiatry to claim to be "just as scientific" as medical pathology, because medical pathology has far fewer variables to control for, whereas the mind has virtually infinite variables to control for.