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What a farce to reduce any criticism of psychiatry to being anti-science. OP didn't even mention ADHD. Depression is pretty wide and not fully understood. You
by ramblerman 5y ago
What a farce to reduce any criticism of psychiatry to being anti-science. OP didn't even mention ADHD.
Depression is pretty wide and not fully understood. You can't just take the meaning of life and reduce it to a scientific problem. Yet that's what most of these kids are struggling with.
It's hopeful that the field of psychiatry is also experimenting with psycobylin as that at least will allow for people to come to some meaning on their own, in a journey rather than being numbed out.
Also what does anti-scientific even mean in this context? You can run a well set up experiment that turns people into vegetables and drastically sees a drop in suicide. Is it therefore correct? Don't forget this field is only 40 years away from lobotomies.
- texasbigdata 5y agoOk let's back up and simplify. If there's a 25% chance you're going to kill yourself in 90 days, medication helps. If you have a milder case and/or a very long time horizon, completely agree doing "root cause" work throughout your preferred method makes sense. But it's not fair to the people suffering to say "I know you're bed bound but how about some cardio? Nah you don't need medicine that just numbs it". Why can't they get a little help when they're in a desperate place? Starting medicine doesn't imply a death sentence where it's force fed down your throat every day for the rest of your life. Take it for 6 months and stop when everything is going better and you have some reps of [your preferred recovery technique] under your belt.