Psychiatry - the crazy people who treat our craziness

[AnOminous]

What's your opinion about this field? Do you have experience in it? Or are you experienced by having these mind vandals fuck with you themselves?

Is psychiatry a good thing, or just a weird thing?

Remember, you have to have an M.D. degree before you can even become a psychiatrist. It's like you're a super doctor. A doctor of the mind. A super crazy doctor of the super crazy mind.

Have you ever had a Rorschach test? Have you ever seen the results? Have you ever broken into your own psychiatrist's desk just to read the notes on yourself? Okay, let's cut this OP short.

 

[Autopsy]

They're not Psychologists, a plus, and they're our last line of defense. Imagine for a moment what it would be like if all of the Schizophrenics and Maniacs society manages to pop out every year were handled by garden-variety psychoanalysis-loving shrinks, rather than qualified doctors with excessive training and the ability to dole out medication.
Scary, isn't it?

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I think they can be good when they are getting to the root of a problem to help their patient overcome it but these days it’s like they just dole out drugs and patients are happy to use mental illness as a crutch.

(This is in regards to the likes of depression/anxiety and not conditions such as schizophrenia.)

 

[fortunecookie]

I like your question but I think the personal questions you ask go against the rule of powerleveling.

I have a lot of experience with psychiatry.

I've seen people improving drastically due to medication and other interventions.

A lot of people bash psychiatry. And they sometimes have a point. The thing is mental illness exists and something needs to be done. Instead of bashing it try to help out improving it. As it is a young field with a lot to still be improved and developed.

 

[wagglyplacebo]

Nice trap, Anom.

 

[Polish Hot Dog (spicie)]

Now now, anon, we can't just give you a free diagnosis, you know that

 

[Sissy]

I personally like them, they are a significantly better alternative to being on psychoactive medications like anti-depressants or benzos. They have helped me learn how to deal with a lot of the bad things that have happened in the past and have also helped me learn how to function better day to day in society.

:powerlevel:

Edit: Oh wait, these are the ones who just give you pills and don't give you therapy. Yeah these guys suck ass.

 

[PT 404]

As a devoted Scientologist, we all know how I feel about that genocide factory labelled as medicine.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Should be a Community Watch thread.

dole out drugs and patients are happy to use mental illness as a crutch.

(This is in regards to the likes of depression/anxiety and not conditions such as schizophrenia.)

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[Jaded Optimist]

Inspired by Anna Johnson's thread?

I've never met someone interested in the field who didn't then assume they could "read you".

 

[It's HK-47]

I've never met someone interested in the field who didn't then assume they could "read you".

A.K.A. Every first-year college student who takes a single Psychology 101 class as an elective, and suddenly believes that they know all their is to know about the human mind purely because they've read tiny snippets of Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. Did you ever want to hang out with an insufferable bunch of know-it-all college prats but not have to waste time and money on a gender studies elective? Take Psych 101, it's the exact same experience, barring that you actually learn something worth knowing, instead of something that's only useful for virtue-signalling to Communists at the local Starbucks.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Should be a Community Watch thread.

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It’s like everyone and their dog are on depression pills these days.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Psychiatrists don't want their patients cured, so they'll do everything in their power to drag out the problem for as long as possible. They do this because the more patients they cure, the less money they make in the long term. Psychiatry is a case of cutting gasoline with sugar after putting on newish brake pads. The only time they'll make a concerted effort to actually "cure" a patient, as in make them think they're cured so they'll go away, is when the patient is so repulsive that they personally can't stand hearing about it anymore, and this "cure" will more often then not entail just letting the patient indulge in their dysfunction wholeheartedly.

This is not my opinion, a psychiatrist told this to me once.

 

[Y2K Baby]

It’s like everyone and their dog are on depression pills these days.

Probably because everyone is killing themselves, my dude. Schizophrenia is not fundamentally worse than depression- at the end of the day, they're both built upon delusions.

The problem isn't over-prescription. Depression needs medication, schizophrenia needs medication, everything needs medication. The problem is prescribing the wrong shit and bad shit. Therapy is largely just fucking gay and is for bitches too crazy to gossip at the barber shop anymore.


Good meds >>>>>>> whatever the Hell a therapist is supposed to do with anyone not completely up their own ass.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

It's become saturated with pill pushing frauds who would rather get their patients hooked to ensure a sure supply of income instead of dealing with a person's real problem.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

I have no opinion on them, but that's probably because I've never experienced ones who shove as many pills down your throat as possible firsthand.

 

[Hui]

I have no opinion on them, but that's probably because I've never experienced ones who shove as many pills down your throat as possible firsthand.

That is how you adult.

 

[RG 448]

My psychiatrist is the reason I’m still alive, along with countless co-eds.

 

[multiverse]

Psychiatrists don't have a lot of interest in diagnosing you, or helping you with your problems. That's the job of a regular therapist / analyst ("analrapist!") If you go to a psychiatrist looking for supportive help, you will be disappointed, because their job is to do a quick once-over and refill your meds.

You need a team for effective work, both a weekly therapist who works through your shit, and then the script-writing psychiatrist for whatever needs chemical fixing. But having both is expensive, so not a lot of people can afford that level of care.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Probably because everyone is killing themselves, my dude. Schizophrenia is not fundamentally worse than depression- at the end of the day, they're both built upon delusions.

The problem isn't over-prescription. Depression needs medication, schizophrenia needs medication, everything needs medication. The problem is prescribing the wrong shit and bad shit. Therapy is largely just fucking gay and is for bitches too crazy to gossip at the barber shop anymore.


Good meds >>>>>>> whatever the Hell a therapist is supposed to do with anyone not completely up their own ass.

Shit bait.