Posted by MM on December 2, 2006, at 3:43:07
In reply to Re: I think shrinks lie, posted by notfred on December 1, 2006, at 15:41:50
> > to clarify, a little...I think biopsychiatry, this idea that "mentall illnesss" is a chemical/physical phenomenom with chemically-based "cures" is a lie.
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> No one has ever said they have a cure.
Actually, I've been told I would be all better because this or that med would correct my "imbalance" or whatever (I assume this to mean the same thing as cure) so many times that I think it's a common thing to say/believe. I've gone into a psychiatrist's office feeling 1,000x worse than my first appointment and been told I'm doing better. I guess it would be hard to think it was futile and still do the job (not that I think meds are completely futile, just that there's a lot of misinformation/glorification and too much of a financial stake which is dangerous, etc.) but getting my hopes up made it harder when things didn't work.I wish that they would apologize when they make mistakes though. When they get your hopes up or make you fat when they said they wouldn't...I wish they would just suck it up and be human about it. I'm pretty forgiving. If someone screws up your order at a restaurant they usually apologizem, maybe you get it free; when someone screws up your brain/body.....seems rather odd to me to brush it off.
I also wish they would try the meds so they could learn to have more empathy for their patients and see them as people and take us more seriously....Anyway, sorry, lots of wishful thinking. I guess my point was that I do think it's a commonly held belief in and out of psychiatry that they have a cure (happy pill commercials???). I don't mean to be stirring anything up though so I hope it doesn't come off that way. It's frustration with "the system", not the comment.
-MM
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