My mother was a psychiatrist. I remember as a kid she told me that she thought many of the mental diseases that other doctors diagnosed were complete nonsense. "Dealing with personal issues isn't a disease," she would assert. She also bemoaned seeing how many doctors provided drugs to patients who didn't need them. As I later learned through my own, significant research, so much of what psychologists and psychiatrists put out there as mental disorders is based on "junk science" (e.g., faulty, fraudulent, or biased data, questionable/inappropriate methods, deformed logic explaining cause and effect). (Short version.) If a non-doctor like me could see this just through a few hundred hours of research, there isn't any way the "experts" couldn't know this was happening.
Psychiatrists want to call being angry a mental illness. How utterly mad! [alternate link]
This might make you laugh, but it makes me cry. Manufacturing more crises to what end?
DISCUSS!
Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Feb 28, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=125
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