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So psychiatrists should use marijuana as a means to exacerbate mental illness, so these illnesses can be more quickly identified, and people can receive the cor
by stephengillie 14y ago
So psychiatrists should use marijuana as a means to exacerbate mental illness, so these illnesses can be more quickly identified, and people can receive the correct treatment more quickly?
I don't believe mental illness in the general population to be underdiagnosed, rather the opposite. I believe most people are narcissistic enough that treatment has an effect somewhere between the Hawthorne Effect and Munchhausen Syndrome. Attention and approval are highly addictive, more than caffeine, sometimes more than even heroin -- look at how well interventions work. I believe most psychology and psychiatry academics studied those fields to understand their personal problems, which leads people in those fields to hold a perception bias about the rest of the people on the planet.
- MDS100 14y agoNo. You can live your whole life without having an episode if you don't cause one. Weed seems to be a facilitator. On the psychiatric ward (specialized on schizophrenia) most people were smoking weed (some probably to alleviate symptoms). Some illnesses are overdiagnosed some are severely underdiagnosed.