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[2jeremyable]

magen david cancer

[Englishteapot]

I suffer from bipolar and post traumatic and anxiety disorder and I'm so upset that someone says to me "Stop using your bipolar as an excuse! and I told this person that they are very ignorant and they turn around and call me that or they also stay "You need to stop being so negative! I don't need this person he doesn't have a clue what it's like to be in my shoes

[ronaldarjune]

I am a schizophrenic and without drugs I probably would be dead by doing something psychotic. Apparently the drug is interacting with the spirit or psyche to calm it for the patient.

[laserofjustice]

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[Ragnarok187]

@laserofjustice They prescribe drugs for almost everything these days. The drug industries pull in HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars a year. They drug everything, not just people 'seeing devils'. Shyness, sadness, anger, PMS, puberty. They label and drug practically everything.

And yes I do believe I could cure a so called 'schizophrenic' with therapy. There are people that have done it. Unless you think giving a person a chemical lobotomy is more effective and more helpful.

[Ragnarok187]

@laserofjustice I do not overlook that psychiatrists have a medical degree. But do you think that means none of them will ever harm a person? Or that they can not be influenced by ghost written fabricated studies?

I personally do not agree with psychiatric drugs. That you know. If I were to agree to drugging it would be a VERY minor few, and only those who were severely catatonic or violent or 'seeing devils', so you could start therapy. That's not the case now. How many millions are drugged?

[laserofjustice]

You seem to also overlook that the brain IS a physical organ consisting of tissue, nerves, synaps, chemical messengers and like any organ can suffer illness.

Obviously, there is connection between thought (software if you like) and the brain (hardware) and one affects the other to a degree.

I'm pleased to report that the person I know recently went into psychiatric hospital is is now much better after being given antipsychotics. He now can form sentences (unlike before).

[laserofjustice]

@Ragnarok187 Psychiatrists are qualified doctors before they specialise- something you seem to overlook. Some mental illnesses do involve chemical imbalances- which is why highly targeted enzyme blocker or neurotranmitter stabilisers work.

Therapy is certainly helpful- a modern, evidence-based one such as CBT but you cannot give therapy to someone who thinks you're the devil or who is hearing ten voices. If you think you can cure someone with schizophrenia by talking- you're quite delusional.

[Ragnarok187]

@laserofjustice When I speak of my dislike for psychiatrists, I refer to biopsychiatrists who claim these are 'real diseases' caused by a 'chemical imbalance'. Both of which are false. There are some psychiatrists I have great respect for, such as Jung, Szasz and Breggin.

So tell me, giving someone a chemical lobotomy is 'helping' them? That's what you call treatment? People taking antipsychotics don't lose their symptoms. They lose INTEREST in them.

As for an alternative, how about therapy?