Becoming a Doctor: Psychiatry with Dr. Emil Coccaro

[winstono75]

It sounds like psychiatry has made progress, but that is not so. They are overemphasizing biology, thus rendering people helpless to do anything except to take their medicines as prescribed. Psychiatry is feeding off of people's unhappiness without offering anything genuinely helpful.

[Nu13th]

I think a huge factor is the absence of well prepared meals like those which were served when the nuclear family was in tact. 'Just finished dealing with someone who was doing restrictive eating. About 500 cals a day combined with major distance running. Family had no official eating times. Kids ate what they chose and that was not enough. Mental slowness occurred but is now slowly recovering with refeeding. Looked so much like a psychiatric illness but it was just a starved brain.

[MrToothgrinder]

Also, with the inevitable destruction of the family unit, lack of empathy that results from not having adequate parenting, lack of meaningful friendships thanks to self advertising sites like MySpace or Facebook, and a steady decrease in social skills thanks to a new wave of anti-social activities, we can safely say there is a problem here, but it has nothing to do with our minds. Look around you.

[MrToothgrinder]

Look closely at our lives now-a-days..from birth you are injected with "vaccines" that contain Mercury, you probably begin drink tap water which contains fluoride, chloride, and other harmful toxins that slowly kill you, eat hormone injected, msg filled filth, then have to grow up in a society where you are what you drive, and have to conform to society in hopes that you will be accepted by the very people who are hoping for your acceptance.. Still wonder where mental illnesses come from?

[Nu13th]

@MrToothgrinder And mercury amalgams they call "silver amalgams." 

[MrToothgrinder]

@Nu13th Yeah your right!

The root of mental illness comes from our environment and from the poison that seems to be intentionally feed to us. Try asking a dentist why they use mercury amalgams, and what the benefit is? lol.

[Nu13th]

So at :50 is Pooh saying that neuroleptics were used after we began seeing that there were genetic and biologic aspects to behavior? Genetics? Wasn't psychiatry still blood-scrambling and electro-frying frontal lobes when neuroleptics were first forced on human beings?

3:05 "...One is that we don't know enough about the brain and how it works and how we can make people better..." Ah, in some convoluted way that makes Pooh an expert? Oh gee Pooh, when will you ever know enough?

[Nu13th]

Mental illness is real. But is psychiatry, as practiced today, the solution to mental illness? I say no. Neuroleptics cause damage and most often do not help enough to justify the damage. We've tried psychiatry without success at mega-big-cost to the taxpayers and at cost to the patient's overall health. It's almost criminal except that the lawyers who legislate our laws say its a good thing. $

[IAmbivalanceI]

Coccaro keeps saying "Making people better"? Better than what? A legalized drug dealer? Depressurization can't be cured with a pill. We all know that. Pilots in depressurization chambers are not given pills to deal with the problem. They simply pressurize the area. You people are the worst sort of vulchers feeding off the innocense of an uneducated public.

[Nu13th]

@IAmbivalanceI "Making people better" is a meaningless statement. Most people I talk to do not trust psychiatrists. They are, in my experience, generally disrespected except, naturally, in their own unique fashion circles. They talk, dress, and groom alike kind of like how pioneers defensively circled their wagons. So my message to med. students is, if you want to be distrusted and defensive the rest of your career grow a short beard and become a shrink. You don't even have to cure anyone

[MrToothgrinder]

@Nu13th People have good reason to distrust these people. I was training to become a Psychiatrist until I realized what Psychiatry has become. The pharmaceutical business is just that...a business, and their goal, just like any other business, is to make a ton of money.

[Nu13th]

@MrToothgrinder If the argument were applied to oil corporations or tobacco corporations etc, most would agree that the bottom line is making the most money possible and screw anyone who stands in the way. But somehow folks believe the pharmaceutical corporations are well intended. That reasoning escapes me. Why should these pharma-corporations be concerned with anything but the bottom line? Being nice is just not how a corporation survives. So sad for the mentally ill. 

[AnagramISP]

How to Become a Psychiatrist?

Firstly, make sure that you are totally incompetent as a physician lmao

[misao1414]

i'm thinking of getting psychiatry as a medical specialty someday

[Khang112]

The background music is too distracting (so calming)

[misao1414]

is it possible to combine another specialty with psychiatry? like neurology?

[bigdocpmd]

@misao1414 yes

[DeViLiN888]

Is it possible to combine psychiatry and neurosurgery together?

[bigdocpmd]

@DeViLiN888 it is possible but unlikely due to the rigors of the fields, also you would be looking at somewhere around 9 years of residency to do both

[DeViLiN888]

@bigdocpmd Thanks. I guess I will have to concentrate only on one.

[Haystackz123]

Cant wait till I am a psychtrist!

[dellgpx]

Can someone please tell me the classical piece in the background? I remember the melody from way back, just seeing if I could get a good response on this thanks in advance :D

[delco714]

pachabel's canon in d

[dellgpx]

thank you I've waited over 10 years to find out what this magical piece is :*( ( yes this is a tear lol)

[sco40]

Its just Psychology (very subjective subject) with a medical degree.

[isophist]

let me put it another way, there are thousands of researchers and hundreds of journals and methods that make psychology not "very subjective".

[faris2k6]

hahaha psychiary is a "science" anyone commenting please give some real evidence about a "chemical imbalance" oh wait a minute....... you cant! i feel sorry for all your insecurities.

[Sc0rpXLR]

Um, you measure the average amount of a chemical in the average human. Whoever deviates from said average amount by a significant amount that is operationally defined has a chemical imbalance. Rather straightforward and evident lol.

[isophist]

the evidence is everywhere, you'd just rather not look for it. You can consult the Archives of General Psychiatry, or....i could go on. You're likely unable to comprehend content however.

[andresblazeit420]

@isophist What test can you do to determine whether or not someone has a behavior disorder?

Experimentation is an integral part of the scientific method. If something is not falsifiable then it is bullshit.

[aksallaj]

@andresblazeit420 What test do you need to determine pain disorders, narcolepsy, partial seizures, alzheimers, or schizophrenia? There aren't 'blood tests' for these. It would be dumb to assume that because we don't have the tests to cleary define a disorder via a "test" before we treat it, that the disorder doesn't exist. Even before we had powerful microscopes, we couldn't determine a 'blood test' for Down's Syndrome, even though it is clear to a second grader that something is wrong.

[DrHarryDickman]

Skirts365 needs a psychiatric evaluation.

[skirts365]

You forget about The Law, don't you? No wonder so many psychs are being sued by attorneys. This is only mudslinging on your part. Someone expresses disagreement, you whine "mental illness," you should have been witch pricker for Matthew Hopkins. But explain this---how is it that having psych degree IMMUNIZES them from "disorders?" Are any cardiologists claiming their degree gives them immunity from cardiological and vascular diseases? SEE?? What a Clinically Normative name you use FOOL!!

[skirts365]

People giving thumbs down to negative comments are feeding off this "specialty" as livlihood. Chinese animal parts dealers don't mind if a species goes extinct, they will keep dealing. See? People will do anything for money & POWER. The POWER to hang defamatory label on others is tremendous & VERY DANGEROUS TO CIVIL LIBERTIES. U. of Chicago was endowed by Rockefellers 1 of the super rich families of The Pilgrims Society ("Hic Et Ubique") The World Money Power 666. OUTLAW PSYCHIATRY.

[ekorre33]

Big pharma makes big money, yes but add up how much America spends on psychologists, psychotherapists and councelors every week for years and years and years.......and well, that's big bucks too! And with very little to show for it!

One can always choose not to medicate, by the way. Cases of forced medication do occur but they are a rarity.

[iydsysstole101]

sophia do we care who the fuck you are, down with psychiatry, thats called education.

[photo986]

In the late 50's the CIA had a secret brainwash project code named MKUltra. They paid a psychiatrist Dr Ewan Cameron in Montreal to carry it out. He injected LSD mixed with other drugs, Massive electric shock and weeks of sleep as a brainwash tape played. It was horrific. I am telling my story on you tube under youkilledyourmother also you can look at all MKUltra videos

[alleyghost]

They don't want to cure you, they want to treat you.

[heylookitssophia]

Why are so many people eager to dismiss psychiatry as "pseudo science"... because Tom Cruise says so? Just because you're fortunate enough not to experience this doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And whose opinions are you going to trust-- that of uneducated, prejudiced protesters or of highly qualified medical doctors? They don't go through 8 years of college and 4+ years of residency just to be "pill pushers." Thanks to psychiatry, millions of people are able to live normal, healthy lives.

[exbronco1980]

@heylookitssophia psychiatry is pseudo science. they make claims and offer no proof to back those claims up. there is no test to prove what kind of "chemical imbalance" someone has, or prove there is a chemical imbalance at all. psychiatry is just speculation and subjectivity.

[andresblazeit420]

@exbronco1980 Agreed

[terratagONE]

@heylookitssophia

An millions are dead experimenting on people just sick.

[gunterra1]

@heylookitssophia - psychiatry a medical speciality? Well, objectively weighing up the pros and cons of the evidence presented so far, "Psychiatry a disgrace to the field of medicine", would be a more fitting description in my view.

[Nu13th]

@heylookitssophia Many of us are experiencing this and we have not seen a healthy normal outcome. Many of us wonder why doctors would go through 8 years of medical school and then turn to practice the dark art of psychiatry.

[scottyb453]

@heylookitssophia I hate psychiatry not based on the views of Tom Cruise but because it has ruined my life. It has also fundamentally altered in a negative way the lives of my friends. One has brain damage from anti-psychotics and the other cannot withdraw from his SSRI. And psychiatry is a pseudo science because it has never been substantiated that there is a chemical imbalance in the brain. Psychiatry is in denial that it has and continues to cause massive amounts of brain damage.

[detaflyer111]

I am a final year med. student who has bipolar illness. To people who say psychiatry is a "pseudoscience" I say that you are basing your views upon ignorance, stigma and prejudice. Your denial of mental illness undermines the very noble and meaningful struggle that so many people deal with on a daily basis. If you don't believe in mental illness, go and talk to someone with schizophrenia and see their world; you may realise that they are actually more in touch with reality than you are.

[psyduck1456]

@detaflyer111 I have bipolar too and i am in school to get a AA and a BA in Psychology then on to med school to become a Psychiatrist. I know it is real. Good luck bud

[jbearden]

@detaflyer111 Too bad the sickest thing in this world is the PRICE of medicine...eh, doc?

[terratagONE]

@detaflyer111

I've been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia its not a illness its a experience.So called treatment just make thing worse that dsm is full of crap.

[IAmbivalanceI]

@detaflyer111 It is a shame that you have gone all the way through medical school and didn't get told that Psychiatry and Nihilism is the same thing. Psychiatry says it has its foundations in the Office of the Inquisition. Do you believe in that twisted philosophy? Also, Psychiatry was what inspired and promoted the Nazis regime. Are you a Nazi? If so I apologize for you have found your calling. Illness is a direct result of biological factors such as diabetes, arthritis, poor diet, etc.

[JLXOutlaw]

@IAmbivalanceI Ignorance is bliss I suppose.

Do you believe in schizophrenia? Multiple Personality disorders? Anxiety disorders? Phobias? Obsessive compulsive disorder?

What kind of consolence can we offer those who suffer from such tremendous emotional pain?

If you honestly believe that everyone feels and thinks the way you do, then go ahead, live the rest of your worthless life, and good riddence when you're rotting in the ground.

You don't represent me as a human being.

[apocalist420]

@detaflyer111 As a scientist you should learn to be objective and critical.

[gunterra1]

@detaflyer111 - Are being objective? You say you have bipolar illness? And you intend to practice psychiatry? Well, well. I would not be comfortable (to say the least) with being a patient of yours. That's for sure. Ask around how others feel about that. I think you are going to have problem there. I'll leave it at that. In a few years time you may - perhaps - have a relization that all is not sweetness and light in the world of psychiatry!

[Nu13th]

@detaflyer111 It's important to discern between those who deny the reality of mental illness and those who say psychiatry is a pseudoscience. Mental illness is real but psychiatry is not. Anyone can tranquilize. That's not science or medicine. But cure these poor souls and you'll have my respect. I hope during your medical career you will somehow find at least one cure for one type of mental illness and maybe more. Good wishes to you

[JLXOutlaw]

@Nu13th NU13th let me ask you this, if you discredit psychiatry because you don't believe it is medicine or science, how do you justify that treating a patient that has cancer with near lethal dosages of radiation to be anymore scientific or medicinal then what a psychiatrist does? A psychiatrist's job is NOT to prescribe medication to every patient that walks through the door, but it is to help resolve illnesses of the mind, just as any other doctor would treat a patient, with discretion.

[Nu13th]

@JLXOutlaw I think this question leads away from the issue but I'll answer anyway. Both psychiatry and cancer treatment can do great harm including death. I don't personally know but I'd trust that cancer treatment saves enough lives to justify. I haven't personally seen success in psychiatry. In fact I've seen reckless prescribing of neuroleptics and rash dismissal of medical, nutritional, or environmental causes.

Now there are too many of us who have similar stories to continue denial.

[JLXOutlaw]

@Nu13th Well, blame the institutions who hand out degrees. Psychiatry is still needed, it needs some reforming, away from huge pharmaceutical pressure.

I can't comprehend the complete negligence shown by some of these doctors, it makes me sick that they throw out mind-altering medication like candy.

Maybe someday when I get my own priorities straightened out, I will be able to help those who don't have the strength to help themselves. We will see.

[Nu13th]

@JLXOutlaw Well said.  I know that some people are so whacked out that there's little choice but to sedate them. So there is a place for psychiatry but it really needs to get away from neuroleptics and find out what's really going wrong with folks. Restricted eating disorder causes symptoms that appear to be the hallmarks of schizophrenia. Like slow speech and response to questions and the visual of being fat when the reality is imaciated. The problem slowly gets better during refeeding.

[JLXOutlaw]

@detaflyer111 Thank you Delta.

[Alf90100]

@detaflyer111 The fallacy in this is that you assume that none of those opposed to psychiatry actually exhibit symptoms that others would describe as being indicative of mental illness. For years I've strongly, consistently shown almost every symptom of body dysmorphic disorder there is. I could easily be diagnosed with it. But I don't believe in mental illness. I don't know why I feel this way and I don't know why I can't get past it, but I still see no reason to believe in "mental illness."

[scottyb453]

@detaflyer111 Pscyhiatry has given me brain damage when i was put on an SSRi at 17. Have you read Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker. There is so much literature out there that shows psychiatry has just become an arm of the pharmaceutical companies. All of your conferences, journals, CME, and studies have pharmaceutical influence. Psychiatry has gotten out of control and is medicating itself off a cliff. Unfortunately in the process a lot of people are going to be hurt. 

[aahatch]

@scottyb453 so you believe psychiatry, an institution dedicated in helping the people who are ignored by society is pointless...psychological disorders are just as bad as phsiological disorders, and an insitution which dedicates itself to helping these people shouldnt be scrutinized by ignorance, i think if you went to med school and did a degree in neurobiology you will see how important it is

[scottyb453]

@aahatch Trying to figure out the cause and origin of psychological disorders is a noble endeavor and i am not debating that. Nevertheless American psychiatry has severely lost its way and has become an arm of big pharma. Just the other day the Harvard doctors so instrumental in changing the diagnosing criteria for childhood bipolar were all receiving around 1 mil from pharma. On top of the fact that your history is a nightmare: Ect, lobotmoy, insulin coma therapy. Your profession has hurt me.

[aahatch]

@scottyb453 im just a 17yr old, who just have had an intrest in possibly becoming a psychiatrist, and just learning psychology and biology. from what i have learnt i do believe psychology has still much to learn, and in any learning phase faults are to be made to learn from, people who do medical school and become psychiatrists want to help people, it is very easy to critizise without looking at the amount of people it has saved.

[scottyb453]

@aahatch Psychiatry is easy to criticize because it has done a lot of harm. And yes, it is in its infancy as is understanding mental illness. That is why it should not oversell its credentials. There are no tests like taking blood but just the DSM. Under their current framework in America they are doing immensely more harm than good. They hand out pills like candy. The serotonin theory for depression is a gross over simplification. This is def a dark point in psychiatry. Do some research.

[IgorSlukvinJr]

@detaflyer111 So were you able to get licensed to practice medicine with your diagnosis of bipolar? 

[AlirezaBehzadnia]

@detaflyer111 i thought one of the pre-requirmens for all the med students is to not have any mental disorders ? how come you're bipolar and a med student ? : S

[AlirezaBehzadnia]

@AlirezaBehzadnia no offense though : ) it might be different in where you live :)

[edward1159]

it has been my experience with psychiatrist mostly with the veterans administration that they are simply drug dealers for the drug companys they dish out medications like theres no tomorrow.reguardless of the end result . i was taking nine medications at one period i could hardly function the side effects were intollerable with the experience that i have with psychchiatrist i would tell anyone interested in the feild don't peddle drugs for the drug companys. i have no confidence in psychaiatry

[LinuxKid27]

This Pseudo doctor, Emil F Caccaro, should win an Emmy award for pulling this kind of crap. Do you think we were born yesterday? Way to go. Here's your plaque that has your name on it with text underneath "the biggest pseudoscience douche"

[LinuxKid27]

Psychiatry are nothing more then Pseudo Science and a fraud. If you truly want to be a physician, go into another field, not psychiatry.

[yukaigrrl921]

i like how you have pachelbel in the background haha

[Howgooditcanbe]

Oh this is truly my field of affection!

[Deadlyhazard]

I one day, wish to become a psychiatrist, too. Friend.

[Gtrplyr1]

thanx im planning on becoming a psychiatrist one day.. this was pretty interesting.. thanx for posting!