Dr Thomas Szasz on Psychiatry

brain scan technologies (fmri) show activity levels, maybe some heat resonance - but the activity changes that show are those that have been put there as a RESULT of REACTION to EXPERIENCES. The natural reaction to high levels of stress over time raises cortisol levels. Survivors of trauma have permanently raised levels. To suggest they were born that way has yet to be seen.

About 3 days ago I said " I have an IQ of a 148 and I believe it's due to the high dopamine level in my brain." Well, one I believe IQ tests are overrated personally, and two, the chemical theories are still uncertain. O well. Regardless I would like someone to have their dopamine level depressed and see if they support psychiatric medicine. To me it's like people who get tortured- You have to go through it to truly understand why it's wrong.

Brain scan technologies such as fMRI have discredited pretty much everything this guy says. LOL@ using drapetomania to argue that psychiatry is categorically wrong. That's like using the leech cure to argue that the enterprise of medicine is categorically wrong. Still, Szasz said a lot of important things that make him required reading in practically every psychiatry and clinical psyc program to this day.

easy...dementia is near of him...early will know that psychiatry is true!
Fabrício-Brasil

"Mentally ill: The name you give someone if you don't think they deserve Constitutional Rights"- Matthew Collum

I don't think that GwydionMapDon understands what he is saying. A lot of people have been diagnosed as "schizophrenic" including myself just for challenging the accepted system. I have an IQ of a 148 and I believe it's due to the high dopamine level in my brain, and that explains how others who are schizophrenic are so intelligent (even though IQ drops over time due to psychiatric medicine). I never felt better about myself when they put me in, and the medication took that all away.

I'm also talking about chemical imbalances and other brain dysfunctions that cause a wide range of disorders which are not degenerative. ADHD is problem with the functioning of the frontal lobes such that cognitive functioning is significantly hampered.

OHHHH RIGHT, so a 2-year-old being a 2-year-old is suffering from ADHD? Who the fuck told you its a malfunction of the frontal lobes? People with ADHD are crazy n smart mofos and are likely way more ahead than you. How do you prove it's a chemical imbalance? Which chemical? Where?

Some people can only think abstractly with difficulty and not at all unless they are constantly moving. Medication allows some people to overcome such obstacles. I won't say that it's always treated properly or even that it can be treated in all cases. Obviously, the science has a long way to come, but it remains there are people that have a problem. I never mentioned two year olds; that's a complete straw man. And do you really expect me to fully explain ADHD in 500 characters? Try reading...

Congrats, you passively acknowledge the pseudoscience. That's the first step for enlightenment. Now tell me, why is ADHD-behavior only prevalent now and not 100 years ago? Is it possible shitty parenting plays a role, and a diagnosis frees them from responsibility for being an incompetent fuckwit? Is it possible ADHD mofos don't fit in your program because they are far superior to you, and your jacked up shit bores them? Tell me.