cloudmonkeys (August 15, 2008 at 4:05 pm)

...way of change they want status and they want money and they care about that more than the general wellbeing of people. Its true that they help but typically it is themselves that they help.

cloudmonkeys (August 15, 2008 at 4:05 pm)

Come the revolution revolution mental health workers will be first against the wall. The 'community mental health system' is far more damaging than psychiatry. Psychological disorders do exist but the treatment of patients/clients is often barbaric and medieval. Health(including mental health)is better in countries such as Greece relative to much richer countries such as the U.S because their societies are healthier. Social, economic and cultural change is needed. The MH system stands in the...

trader0108 (August 15, 2008 at 9:58 am)

A major magic trick of psychiatry is that the addictive drugs causes patients to loose mental abilities, such as memory that the patient felt better and had better memory, before the drug therapy began. The miracle healing medical doctor then tells the patient that they are very sick and getting sicker, and hope is only in taking more miracle healing psychiatric drugs, which only causes the problem to get worse and worse ( until the patient wakes up, and goes cold turkey to get off the drugs ).

bipolarbeth (August 15, 2008 at 9:39 am)

thanks for this!

truthisaliar2 (July 30, 2008 at 4:53 pm)

oh excuse me it's pavlov, a person needs to know who the original dog trainers were.

truthisaliar2 (July 26, 2008 at 5:10 pm)

Shrinks are all the SAME , they all think the same , they all talk the same lingo. They all gather and share INFORMATION. They are all trained to be the same . Just like a dog. They are just like pavlo's dog. They play fetch, fetch information . Trained garbage fetching dogs

ScientologyWisdom (July 22, 2008 at 8:59 pm)

Thanks for this.

makaldasa (July 12, 2008 at 10:02 pm)

there are in fact tests and cures for mental disorders. But it is true that many disorders are only now beginning to be understood. It wasn't until ingestible cameras that small bowel bleeding had a test (a few years ago). That test is still not very good, but just because you don't have a test doesn't mean that the disease doesn't exist.

LayDaWood (July 12, 2008 at 3:24 am)

the reason there is no tests currently for mental illnesses like schizophrenia is because the science of psychiatry is evolving into biology-based "neuropsychiatry"--the mystery of the brain is being biologically mapped out as we speak; you must remember that all sciences started out as pseudoscience, like alchemy evolved into chemistry. it just takes longer for psychiatry because the mystery of the brain is the most complex and last frontier of humanity.

LayDaWood (July 12, 2008 at 3:24 am)

i apologize if i come off as patronizing, but you must realize there is strong evidence to support my argument. for instance, schizophrenia is known to have biological cause. there is strong evidence of heritability of the disorder, meaning genetic predisposition. secondly, there is strong evidence of dopamine hyperactivity and neurological deficits in specific areas of the brains of schizophrenic patients.