lolwut said:

Having recently spent a month in a youth "health center" (a place where 16-25 year old's go when they are "unwell") I have seen the inadequacy of modern psychiatry first hand.

I was forcibly taken from my family and friends, and told I would be in there until I "got better" and diagnosed on the first day of entry, after a very traumatic experience and after being put on a cocktail of drugs that screwed my head. I was also coming down from my first experience with heroin+meth, hadn't slept much in 3 weeks, was stoned, and was shaken from the brutality of having my door kicked in and being beaten up while I'm practically naked on my bed by 6 cops.

Anyway, they diagnosed me on that day, with mania. I tried telling them I'm shaman and I just needed some sleep, but of course, that just contributed to their diagnoses.

Inside, I found a lot of people in similar situations to me, but without the 8 years spent reading stuff online, so they weren't able to heal themselves in the way I was. I noticed a mix of kundalini psychosis, shaman initiation being misunderstood, various soul loss or splitting, as well as a couple of people with messiah syndrome (crossed wires). Out of about 20 patients I was able to meet, I would estimate only 4 or 5 had true chemical imbalances, but every single patient was treated with the same disrespect, like a rat in a cage being experimented on, with doctors and psychiatrists on their high horses, asking trick/backwards questions so they could tick their boxes, get a vague diagnoses, get the patient into the system, and prescribe them drugs so they can continue to get their bonuses and kickbacks.

I told the doctors I knew they were just box tickers and that I knew about their kickbacks, they both had a massive smug smile that they did nothing to hide.

I was planning on changing my course to psychiatry just so I could help people out, but upon seeing this, have decided to stick to my original plan. I am forced to conclude that modern western psychology is way off the mark, they do more harm than help (how can the doctors help when they have problems of their own?) and that the tribesman shamans in the amazon or wherever have more healing powers than these shit pharmaceutical drugs. I'm guessing this is a result of modern medicine being a purely "physical" study - they don't interact with spirits or the spirit world, they just assume there must be something wrong upstairs so try to alter the brain chemistry, rather than taking a spiritual view.

Thoughts/experiences?

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pyrate999 said:

Very interesting.

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cbub said:

It's really hard not to get the impression it does more harm than good. The illnesses are not very well understood and the whole approach is to give you something to make you calm and submissive, while you're stuck between the white walls for unreasonably long periods of time, with a bunch of people who don't meet the standards of sanity. What makes you think this is a good method to deal with a mentally unstable patient?
The system is definitely a problem yes.

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That's but a small fragment of what we are talking about. And I can't think of a better method right now.

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Out of about 20 patients I was able to meet, I would estimate only 4 or 5 had true chemical imbalances,

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