Posted by SLS on June 6, 2005, at 9:46:04
In reply to Re: MEDICINE IS WRONG!, posted by prozacpuppet on June 6, 2005, at 7:31:19
> > Why is medicine wrong?
> It's wrong because people need...
People don't need to anything except to live and die.
> ...people need to live with their NEGATIVE and POSITIVE feelings, emotions, and thoughts
This is true of any biologically healthy or unhealthy person. Of course, living with unhealthy thoughts and feelings does not mean that one must passively accept them as being unchangeable. Change requires work. Growth requires work.
Unfortunately, a sizeable percentage of people here have a neurological disorder that remains intractable unless there is a biological intervention to correct or compensate for the abnormal physiology. This includes drug therapy. The biological nature of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder is now evident; the overwhelming evidence being the result of much hard work in the field of neuroscience. If you are interested, there is plenty of medical literature available to demonstrate this. For those people who would argue otherwise, very little is ever offered as proof except opinion and supposition. Use Google. You'll see.
> and to medicate a person because of their beliefs and thoughts is not solving anything
It solves a great deal when disease is present.
If one's belief is that they have conversations with their dog in English, and that the dog has ordered them to shoot young lovers with a 44 caliber pistol, some psychiatric intervention is indicated. Schizophrenia is a biological disorder of the brain. Numerous studies of the morphology and function of the brain demonstrate this. One of its symptoms is audatory hallucinations. Antipsychotics do a good job at managing them. It is the job of medicine to be able to recognize and diagnose properly those illnesses that affect the processing of information and the belief system that results. It does require judgment.
When disease is not present, medicating a person because of their beliefs could be either an honest medical mistake or a malignant fascism. Right?
> just desensitising masses of people..
That's not how these drugs work. When one is severely depressed and vegetative, they actually help them experience the world with greater sensory acuity.
> people should learn to love, not fear,
What does this have to do with treating a biological disease with a biological treatment?
> and realise your part of a whole that everything is part of, your beliefs make your reality.
You've got that wrong. Your reality makes your beliefs.
- Scott
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