Can Psychiatry Turn Itself Around?
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Can Psychiatry Turn Itself Around?
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#2The last Psychiatrist I went to prescribed me 4mg of Klonopin a day for anxiety. The one before that prescribed me 40-50mg of Adderall a day for ADHD and about 600mg of Seroquel a night for sleeping problems. Both times I decided to quit going and tapered myself off.
There never really asked how I felt or seemed to care about me in any way shape or form. Just, "Here's your drugs, see you next month."
I have a horrible opinion about the entire profession of Psychiatry and at this point do not trust any of them in the slightest. I have not seen one in years. These days if I have a degenerated mental health in some form (whether that be inability to focus, sleep, or bouts of anxiety), marijuana is my go to solution.
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#3We're all aware that most of the drugs that are common in the profession have serious side effects.
I'm glad the author called for his colleagues to focus more on the whole body, since realistically lifestyle and nutritional changes can have as profound effects as drugs, with no side effects.
I tend to think subclinical deficiencies in various nutrients can play a big role. Most people are already aware of the imporant brain benefits of Vitamin D and Omega 3, but there's others.
Tryptophan:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405680/#RSTB201...
Lithium:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-a...
Uridine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080753/
Magnesium:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry...
NAC:
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#4Most drugs on the market today have side effects that are serious to most people. Also the fact is that now a days it seems that almost all kid have "ADHD" or "ADD" and are getting put on stimulants for it. I don't get it at all. I was put on antidepressants when I was young and it really could have fucked me up if my parents kept listening to my doctor.
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#5Interesting that the author does not cite anything describing the resounding success of psychiatry...
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#6The last Psychiatrist I went to prescribed me 4mg of Klonopin a day for anxiety. The one before that prescribed me 40-50mg of Adderall a day for ADHD and about 600mg of Seroquel a night for sleeping problems. Both times I decided to quit going and tapered myself off. There never really asked how I felt or seemed to care about me in any way shape or form. Just, "Here's your drugs, see you next month." I have a horribl…
Psychiatrists are a bit like chiropractors. They want to be seen as "doctors", but none of what they do has any scientific basis. Ever notice how psychiatrists just prescribe you random medications without knowing how, or even if, they work? The most damning fact is that I've never met anyone on psych meds who is doing really great.
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#7Interesting that the author does not cite anything describing the resounding success of psychiatry...
Still it was more honest than the forensic odontologists' assessment of their profession.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/25/in-las-vegas-embattled-f...
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#8Interesting that the author does not cite anything describing the resounding success of psychiatry...
The resounding success being "still depressed but at least not suicidal?" I guess it's all relative.
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#9We're all aware that most of the drugs that are common in the profession have serious side effects. I'm glad the author called for his colleagues to focus more on the whole body, since realistically lifestyle and nutritional changes can have as profound effects as drugs, with no side effects. I tend to think subclinical deficiencies in various nutrients can play a big role. Most people are already aware of the impora…
Zinc and Copper belong on that list too.
Zinc: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3868572
Copper: http://www.naturalnews.com/047834_copper_toxicity_depression...
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#10The last Psychiatrist I went to prescribed me 4mg of Klonopin a day for anxiety. The one before that prescribed me 40-50mg of Adderall a day for ADHD and about 600mg of Seroquel a night for sleeping problems. Both times I decided to quit going and tapered myself off. There never really asked how I felt or seemed to care about me in any way shape or form. Just, "Here's your drugs, see you next month." I have a horribl…
Psychiatrists are a bit like chiropractors. They want to be seen as "doctors", but none of what they do has any scientific basis. Ever notice how psychiatrists just prescribe you random medications without knowing how, or even if, they work? The most damning fact is that I've never met anyone on psych meds who is doing really great.
I have noticed. Multiple times I've gone to a Psychiatrist and they have decided to try something because it's new and supposed to work, when the reality is they've only ever put 2 or 3 clients on it and it has been working for a few weeks, and the medication itself has only been out a year.
In addition, the worst times in my life were the times when I was taking psychiatric medications.