Posted by juniper on March 3, 2000, at 2:00:00
In reply to in a fools paradise, posted by William on March 3, 2000, at 1:03:26
william, you don't sleep much either, do you?
----i do not think that you can lump the entire psychiatric community as a whole---many psychiatrists i have met and articles i've read openly admit that the mind, and thus causes of mental disorders, is an extremely complex and intricate organ affected (and affecting) all parts of the body whether in reaction to external or internal stimuli. any psychiatrist, or anyone for this matter, who claims to Know (with a capitol K) what this is all about is delusional. mood disorders are poorly treated not because psychiatrists have the tools to treat them but do not know how to use them (at least i do not believe this to be the usual case), but because the medications available now have their limitations, as i believe all medications affecting mood, no matter how refined and sophisticated they may be,
will inevitably have as mood is so intricate and fragile and subjective...
i know that there are thousands of studies and millions of dollars spent on
researching mental disorders...they really are getting an enormous amount of attention precisely because they are misunderstood. take a look in a university library...hundreds of research studies are published each month.what good does getting mad as hell do? and what would we do to "not take this shit"? ----i feel that the brain and other systems involved in mental disorders are finally getting the attention they deserve...these drugs and theories are still relatively new and evolving as the equiptment to study such becomes more advanced. the processes underlying mental disorders are misunderstood, but i am suprised they are understood as much as they are. psychology/psychiatry have come a long way since the oedipal complex...i can no more blaim the psychiatric community for the rate of progress than i could blame the government and the universities and Freud for theorizing that neurosis is not controlled by neurons but by stagnation at the anal stages.....
overall, it is going to be a long, involved process to the heart of the causes regardless of whether we are bitter and buck the system or not. i'm spending my meantime with a doctor who is on the same page as i and who is willing to work with me and amass his and my knowledge toward the goal of managing the symptoms that control my life at times. it's not ideal, but it is the best way i can come up with for the here and now.
(again, this is MY best way, and YOUR and others best ways may be different. nothing wrong with that.)juniper
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