Posted by Christ_empowered on August 8, 2014, at 20:00:38
In reply to Re: psychiatry...friend or foe? » Christ_empowered, posted by Twinleaf on August 8, 2014, at 1:12:14
..as I mellow out with age and experience (3-0 recently, lol), I realize that mental illness is real, and can be quite devastating.
That said, Mental Health, Inc. seems to be part of the problem. Maybe its because I'm a progressive Born Again Christian, but I don't feel that their values are my values.
Mental health people routinely diagnose and treat social problems--poverty, racism, sexism-=-as diseases. They drug kids up on a fairly regular basis, especially poor kids and those in foster care.
I'm just wondering...
OK. THe meds are helpful, or can be. Right med(s)+Right person=good results. But the potential is obviously there for abuse, and I feel that mental health industry is taking something very real, and potentially very tragic--severe mental illness--and turning this into a money and power making scheme.
I'm also concerned by how the therapeutic jargon has permeated all levels of society. We all have "issues." Everybody has a diagnosis.
Ugh! I'm over Szasz, I promise, but I wonder...
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