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i feel the same way about therapists too..

• jermaustin1 7y ago
  Licensed therapists have to conform to a recognized standard in ethics and methods around psychotherapy. There are then different types of specialties/theories that build atop that base framework. Psychology (like medicine and computer-science) is an ever evolving science. Just 50 years ago, we would try to shock the depression out of you - and it worked for a short period of time. We haven't reached the final say in how the mind works, or who we are, and we probably never will, but every year we get closer.
  • jalk 7y ago
    Electroconvulsive therapy is still in use on patients that do not react to other treatments. Patients are anesthetized and the doses have been lowered today though. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/about/pac-20393894 https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsiv...
    • jermaustin1 7y ago
      It's always be a very effective method for some mental health issues. It's just dangerous (it affects more than what you are targeting), and should always be a last resort (which it is now). In the past it was the first or second answer to a LOT of illnesses from the made up (hysteria - read: horny wife and inexplicable weight gain) to the legitimate (depression, hyperactivity, bipolar disorders).
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