5 ms·
Psychiatry Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change?
- joesmo 13y ago"[The lie supporting the chemical imbalance theory] is an astonishing betrayal of the trust that the public puts in a medical discipline; we don’t expect to be misled in such a basic way." It's more than just being misled. These lies and misinformation by the psychiatric industry have destroyed millions of lives and killed countless people. And still they are being perpetrated. It's fucking outrageous!
- fit2rule 13y agoThe problem is that we have cultures which perpetuate the myths being used to sell them expensive drugs, precisely because these cultures are using these drugs - and like using them. So, in spite of the lies, the Pharmaceutical industry continues to rake in record profits; because it has created a product that people want. Never mind that a pharmaceutical subscription is a chain in the contemporary slavery link.
- patmcguire 13y agoI always wondered how medicine as a whole figured out things that don't lend themselves to clinical trials - how are you going to measure the success of different approaches to psychological counseling?