Posted by SLS on May 18, 2005, at 11:22:15
In reply to Not that it matters...Just my opinion, posted by Mr.Scott on May 18, 2005, at 2:47:19
Dear Scott,
I am very surprised by your post.
As was suggested by someone else, you are perhaps very angry about something. Since you seem to be in the mood to offer conjecture as fact, I suggest that you are angry because you are not getting anywhere in your treatment.
> Maybe 15% of the people posting here actually have a real psychiatric problem.
How did you come to this conclusion? How did you arrive at the 15% value?
> Of that group maybe half will get relief.
My guess is that most of the people posting here have been refractory to previous treatments. A success rate of 50% is remarkably high for such a population, and might be a demonstration of how well this board functions.
> Everyone else is simply neurotic
How do you define the word "neurotic".
> except that these days flatulence can be somehow interpreted as bipolar disorder or ADHD.
Are you frustrated with modern diagnostics?
Actually, GI disturbances are not an uncommon symptom of mood disorders.
Your point is acknowledged, though. There are often trends in clinical diagnoses by practicioners that seem almost like fads. Both bipolar disorder and ADHD have seemed to be popular diagnoses over the last 5 years or so. Are they over-diagnosed? I'm not sure, but it does seem that way sometimes.
> The rest are either
> a) prescription drug addicts who posibly don't even recognize it, or
What is a drug addict?
> b)simply bored
LOL Thanks for making me smile.
> unhappy, or otherwise normally upset with their lives
Obviously, these are people in pain who are looking for answers.
> and overmedicated by pompous uncaring *sshole doctors in a pharmaceutically driven society.
There is plenty of truth to this statement. However, I would be curious to know what percentage value you would place on those doctors who are *ssholes.
> The end result of which is a worsening of their sense of helplessness.
Yup. It does happen with. Thus, good doctors are invaluable, although not necessarily rare. I believe that there are plenty of good doctors out there to justify the existence of the field of psychiatry. In many ways, it is still in its infancy. I think we must take this into account before condemning it as being useless or worse.
> My advice (to myself especially)
I'm glad you addressed your suggestions to yourself instead of generalizing your plight to the masses.
> ...find a hobby instead of obsessing about ineffectual drugs.
What you call obsessing could easily be percieved as vigilence by others.
> You've tried it all!
I haven't.
> Stop wasting your time & money.
It is and investment for a better future.
> Go rob a bank or something...at least you'll make the evening news...
Is that what this post was all about - making news?
- Scott
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