Posted by SLS on May 23, 2014, at 21:48:22
In reply to Re: Why not make Mental Health Care more simple?, posted by poser938 on May 23, 2014, at 19:47:05
> Heh. didnt intend to write that much. just kinda got on a roll.
Nice roll!
Psychiatry sucks right now. It is steeped in a rich history of guessing. What else could doctors do? I'm not sure how psychiatry could be made much better with the current lack of data and understanding. In the absence of evidence, I think that the approach a doctor takes towards these limitations is important. Recognizing and acknowledging ignorance is enlightenment. Scientists are only now beginning to find biomarkers that will, hopefully, be able to determine diagnosis and treatment.
I am a bit surprised by your current choice of treatment. I thought you would find ECT primitive and barbaric. I neither endorse nor repudiate it. I had a course of 15 treatments 23 years ago, including bilateral placement. I did not benefit from it. However, they use different placements and pulse settings now. In a correspondence with Max Fink, he told me that these differences are important, and that I could not exclude modern ECT from consideration. I hope you respond well to it.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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