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Ten years ago it was ADD, now it's autism. Psychiatry is bullshit, and the pharmaceutical industry it drives is dangerous.
by iliiilliili 13y ago
Ten years ago it was ADD, now it's autism. Psychiatry is bullshit, and the pharmaceutical industry it drives is dangerous.
- skylan_q 13y agoI have aspergers. Give me money.
- pstack 13y agoThat's not how it works. We are the medical industry and have codified the diagnosis of aspergers to be far encompassing and include people who have absolutely no real impact on their lives, but we've convinced them it is a problem and now we're going to provide them with a pharmaceutical and psychiatric therapy to help them "cope" with it -- GIVE US MONEY.
- astrange 13y agoWhat are these pharmaceutical and psychiatric therapies given to people with Asperger's syndrome?
- nknighthb 13y agoAspies are not systematically medicated. Few are ever medicated. Sometimes, medications not specifically indicated for Asperger's, such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, are used to treat extreme symptoms. These would be given whether the symptom came with a diagnosis of Asperger's or not, and usually are not consistently maintained at a high dosage long-term. There is no "Asperger's pill". I only wish someone could come up with one.
- gohrt 13y agoPlease delete your incorrect statements that there exists a pharmaceutical treatment for autism.
- melange 13y agoWhy was this being downvoted?
- psbp 13y agoBecause people assume it's an insubstantial conspiracy. I have plenty of friends and family who work in medicine and they'll readily admit that there are fad disorders closely preceded or followed by a pharmaceutical to treat them.
- iliiilliili 13y agoI dunno, or care, but it's funny, there was an article posted here recently that was titled almost exactly `psychiatry is bullshit' and that got to the front page. It's not a conspiracy, it's incompetent doctors readily prescribing dangerous drugs to children for make believe illnesses. This has happened since the birth of medicine and will continue to do so.
- jasonlotito 13y agoAutism is not bullshit.
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- jasonlotito 13y agoThe GP says in another comment that trying to treat autism is bullshit. > I think there is good reason to be skeptical of psychiatry. I think there is good reason to be skeptical when not presented with proof. I'm sorry, but the GP is asserting things purely based on his uninformed opinion.
- iliiilliili 13y agoThe fact that it's considered an illness and needs a cure or special treatment is, though. I was actually diagnosed with Aspergers as a child (whether it was accurately done so or not, I don't care), and the thing that has had the most negative impact on my life wasn't the Autism, but the diagnosis itself. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, getting told something is wrong with you. And with things like ADD the `treatment' was almost always much worse than the condition itself.
- auctiontheory 13y agoI am not aware of any pharmaceutical treatments for autism. (Nor is Google.) If autism is indeed being over-diagnosed, this is not due to pressure from Big Pharma. Careful of your generalizations.