Written by: NicNak
April 1st, 2009
I have wanted to write this for a while, in regards to the anti-psychology and anti-psychiatry "movement."
The biggest issue I see is that, through all those types of websites, not one has any working alternatives to offer the millions of us who suffer daily with mental illness. This is what angers me the most about the doctors and other people who create these "fear sites" against psychology and psychiatry: not one of them has came up with any ideas to improve treatments!
If they are so concerned about the side effects of benzos and psychiatric medicines, why not focus this energy they are using for the Anti-movement into helping the millions of people who suffer with mental illness cope and possibly heal.
I am not talking about strategies to help with the withdrawals of medications. I am talking about some treatments for the actual illness itself. Be it therapies or medications.
Top that off with the many others who don't even believe it exists at all. The theory is that mental illness is a fallacy created to "diagnose" those of us who do not measure up to society's standards. I take much exception to someone saying that my chronic panic attacks are a fallacy! The shear terror is very real to me!
For the ones who don't believe, I dare you to spend just one day in our shoes. Then try to tell me it is a fallacy!
As a layman, who has been coping with chronic mental illness for 13 years, I have searched both sides of the story. I was afraid to take my meds. I had to be coaxed majorly to start medications, but my experience has been that they serve the purpose they are prescribed for.
I have heard such simplistic hypothesis for mental illness as it being vitamin deficiencies to overpopulation of yeast in the body. All these things could be tested for, if in fact they were true reasons for mental illness. I cannot possibly see that the millions of doctors worldwide are "holding back" cures. Someone would blow the whistle.
All these accusations of malicious intent from the pharmaceutical companies, psychiatrists, and psychologists fuels the denial in mentally ill patients and results in delay of treatment. It increases the stigma attached to a mental illness diagnosis.
Mental illness is not something that should be let slide. It is very serious and requires proper and prompt treatment, and it is real. Just ask the millions who cope and suffer with it daily.
April 1st, 2009
I have wanted to write this for a while, in regards to the anti-psychology and anti-psychiatry "movement."
The biggest issue I see is that, through all those types of websites, not one has any working alternatives to offer the millions of us who suffer daily with mental illness. This is what angers me the most about the doctors and other people who create these "fear sites" against psychology and psychiatry: not one of them has came up with any ideas to improve treatments!
If they are so concerned about the side effects of benzos and psychiatric medicines, why not focus this energy they are using for the Anti-movement into helping the millions of people who suffer with mental illness cope and possibly heal.
I am not talking about strategies to help with the withdrawals of medications. I am talking about some treatments for the actual illness itself. Be it therapies or medications.
Top that off with the many others who don't even believe it exists at all. The theory is that mental illness is a fallacy created to "diagnose" those of us who do not measure up to society's standards. I take much exception to someone saying that my chronic panic attacks are a fallacy! The shear terror is very real to me!
For the ones who don't believe, I dare you to spend just one day in our shoes. Then try to tell me it is a fallacy!
As a layman, who has been coping with chronic mental illness for 13 years, I have searched both sides of the story. I was afraid to take my meds. I had to be coaxed majorly to start medications, but my experience has been that they serve the purpose they are prescribed for.
I have heard such simplistic hypothesis for mental illness as it being vitamin deficiencies to overpopulation of yeast in the body. All these things could be tested for, if in fact they were true reasons for mental illness. I cannot possibly see that the millions of doctors worldwide are "holding back" cures. Someone would blow the whistle.
All these accusations of malicious intent from the pharmaceutical companies, psychiatrists, and psychologists fuels the denial in mentally ill patients and results in delay of treatment. It increases the stigma attached to a mental illness diagnosis.
Mental illness is not something that should be let slide. It is very serious and requires proper and prompt treatment, and it is real. Just ask the millions who cope and suffer with it daily.
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