CLARIFICATION: …seeing an MD should be the LAST THING on anyone’s list when feeling EMOTIONALLY DISTRESSED —

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Saying that half the people suffering from depression need “medical intervention” is an unreasonably high number. But I bet it’s one that’ll keep the folks in Big Pharma happy!

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Question: So why are half the people with “depression” getting medical intervention THEY DON’T NEED???

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“It’s the other half that don’t get better who need the medical intervention.”

That’s a disturbingly even-handed statement.

A word to the wise: Politics has no place in medicine.

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But since (most) emotional problems aren’t caused by physiological problems, why seek help from a physician???

Wrong context leads to wrong care.

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This doesn’t surprise me. In my experience, the higher the degree, the less likely it is for someone to be able to relate to people having a hard time, and (strangely enough) this applies more often in my personal experience to people with degrees in ‘mental health’!

Common sense says: Seek out people who’ve not only been there, but people whose egos aren’t too big to admit it.

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CLARIFICATION: It was easy to see the guy was fixated on CONVENTIONAL forms of accomplishment, that he viewed conventional forms of accomplishment (a college degree, a full-time job, a serious relationship) as ‘signs’ of someone’s ‘mental health’. He seemed to have almost no imagination or psychological flexibility, that he had trouble understanding a creative personality.

And get this: one day the asshole went so far as to say my “track record wasn’t that good” which proved to me he was an even bigger son of a bitch than I’d suspected from the beginning.

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Using words like ‘recalcitrant’ sounds like a veiled reference to the thorny subject of FORCED TREATMENT.

But whitewashing doesn’t change the nature of an inherently abusive practice with a long and continuing history of racism, sexism, and the usually unspoken REALITY of classism.

“These patients require sophistication in the use of medications, psychotherapies, etc.”

Psychiatric prescribing is guesswork; there’s nothing ‘sophisticated’ about it; no one should be forced to ingest ‘medication’ of any kind.

The same goes for ‘psychotherapy’; no one should be forced to interact with anyone stupid enough to think they have all the answers.

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Which I consider not merely his personal failing, but also an indictment of the ‘mental health’ system as a whole.

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By far one of the most awful experiences of my life was seeing a psychiatrist who right off the bat judged me negatively because I hadn’t yet achieved certain ‘milestones’ like marriage and full-time career at the advanced age of 24! He paid no attention to the fact that I had recently survived a devastating auto accident. He had no curiosity of the life I’d led so far nor the things I had achieved up to that point which would have informed him of the things I valued.

It was easy to see the guy was fixated on outward forms of achievement, which was very disappointing, but I chalked it up to his own impatience and insecurities at finding himself few years older than most doctors fresh out of residency. I also sensed he secretly resented me for not living a life he could understand. I sensed he was unaware of his own immaturity.

Dynamics like this are impossible to eliminate, no matter the care or context.

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CLARIFICATION: Psychiatry REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE that THEY ALONE write their crap-happy DSM, which is the FOUNDATION their crap-happy ‘profession’ —-

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8. Psychiatry playing on people’s fears and insecurities through direct-to-consumer advertising for so-called ‘medications’.

Care and context have been thrown out the window.

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50%? I don’t agree with that at all. I don’t think it’s anywhere near 50%.

There’s no way to determine the best thing to do when it comes to relieving psychic distress. But caution is rarely used when it comes to ‘medicating’ people, which is problematic since psychiatric ‘medications’ ARE KNOWN to significantly aggravate problems in the long run—which is something most medical professionals REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE as this makes them question what they’ve been taught, which in turn makes them question themselves, which is the opposite of what they’re trained to do! So their flawed reasoning usually goes like this: “Well, if someone ends up in my office, that must mean my services are necessary because in the end medicine knows all the answers!”

But that’s turning out not to be the case, as many people are finding out ON THEIR OWN.

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It seems anthropologically inappropriate to not have discussed following:

1. Psychiatry’s stigma-enhancing DSM

2. Psychiatry’s lax attitude regarding informed consent

3. Psychiatry’s ‘medications’ causing debilitating iatrogenic harm/protracted withdrawal

4. Psychiatry’s continual use of coercive practices such as involuntary hospitalization and/or drugging

5. Psychiatry’s excessive use of ‘drug treatments’ causing the exponential increase in ‘mental health’ disability claims

6. Psychiatry’s role in guardianship abuse

Softball interviews like this one are the reason psychiatry KEEPS GETTING AWAY with peddling its garbage.

I expect better from MIA.

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Looks pretty contextual to me.

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There you have it, folks, psychiatry’s typical cop out answer! They continually blame everyone BUT themselves for the situation they find themselves in while REFUSING TO ADMIT that THEY ALONE write the crap-happy DSM, THE VERY THING health insurers rely on to keep the money rolling in for psychiatry and its offshoots!

It seems odd that a medical anthropologist neglects to directly mention the DSM, the symbol of modern psychiatry. Nor does he mention forced treatment! Were these deliberate oversights? Perhaps. But evading issues comes naturally to people continually seeking to dodge the bullet.

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NO SHIT. This is the reason why medical doctors should GET THE FUCK OUT of the ‘mental health’ business.

Any idiot intuitively knows that emotional problems are different from physical ones, even though emotional problems sometimes manifest physically (and sometimes vice versa) which makes seeing an M.D. the LAST thing ANYONE should do —

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