Posted by Quintal on December 3, 2006, at 16:22:49
In reply to Re: Illness increases vulnerability to the irratio » blueberry, posted by Squiggles on December 3, 2006, at 15:38:21
>The treatment of mental illness is
>demanding and chronic. If I had my
>way I would apply Dr. Fuller Torrey's
>ideas of insitutions. However, we now
>have so many people and so many with
>depression, that it may end up being
>worse.>I suppose he believes in democracy. But I don't -- not in medicine.
> In cases of crisis people may need more. And
> when I mention Torrey, I do not do so to
> provoke but to point out that psychiatric
> care is deteriorating in proportion to the
> growing number of people with depression,
> the lack of an adequate number of physicians,
> the complexity of drug care, and the fall out
> of all that-- mentally ill people on the
> streets, in jails, in abandoned shelters,
> and without recourse to internet help.
>
> SquigglesSo, for those of us who are not actively psychotic and do have access to inetrent resources, may I again ask what freedoms we would have (if any) to request specific medicines or experiment with approaches outside psychiatry under your/Dr. Torrey's proposed dictatorship? Do you have a manifesto or anything we could examine?
I share your concerns for the vulnerable people who slip through the net of our current mental health services entirely, but my concern is for the majority of people posting here who do not fall in to that category and who's basic freedom would *seem* to be severely restricted by the ideas you have proposed.
Q
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