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I always say that psychiatrists of today are the equivalent of doctors in the 1500s. They can give you basic advice, but because we don’t yet have a scientific
by h_tbob 2y ago
I always say that psychiatrists of today are the equivalent of doctors in the 1500s. They can give you basic advice, but because we don’t yet have a scientific understanding of consciousness, we can’t effectively treat problems therein.
Therefore wisdom indicates we should all have an open mind when discussing these matters. As we figured out germs and bacteria, I hope we will figure out these issues as well.
- curryberto 2y agoYou can be experiencing full blown mania, and the psychiatrist can give you an anti-psychotic which will bring back to earth in a few hours. Then they can put you on a medication regimen where you stop having manic episodes. I would say it's much further along than doctors in the 1500s. The mechanisms are not clear, which is not unusual in medicine, but the treatments are very effective.
- loa_in_ 2y agoOften the reasoning goes the other way though. We have no idea what's going on but If a patient responded well to antidepressants of all things, that means we diagnose him with depression.