Is it normal i think medicating people for psychological reasons is stupid.

Actually, there are medications for schizophrenia and many of them have been proven to work. The part that makes it difficult to treat schizophrenics is that when they are under medication, they experience feelings of emotional numbness that seem disturbing to them and they would rather be "crazy" in many cases, then feel like an "emotionless zombie" as many of them report feeling.

We haven't quite reached a level at which we are able to detect the exact neurological causes of behavioral and mood defects. What goes wrong with us can often be attributed to physical defects in our brains and most Psychiatrists are REQUIRED to have an understanding of which medication does what, physically, to our brains. Granted, the system of trial and error with medications is horrendously flawed, but it is the best we have and many patients of mental health professionals do meet their goals with the medications being taken.

However, the field of Psychiatry is still relatively new and emerging, not being much more than a try-and-fail "science" for many, many years. It is recently been transitioning into stages in which it is becoming actual science and relying on actual scientific principles rather than the theories of Freud (lol).

They are currently studying brain chemistry of the mentally ill but what we know is still underdeveloped however, many diseases that humans can get, LEGITIMATE DISEASES, are not detectable through blood screenings alone. If they were, we would all have a much easier (and cheaper) endeavor to face when trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with some of us (some people go through MONTHS of testing before they are able to find a conclusive answer).

The point of giving people these pills is to alleviate their suffering, same as the purpose to give a person most other medications. To treat a condition or alleviate their suffering. Is it perfect? Find me a science that is. Do all doctors care? Unfortunately, no, but that is not to say that most doctors don't.

Is Psychiatry worth all of the faith that Americans blindly put into it as a means of solving their mental problems? Yes and No. Psychiatry is still a very subjective science, which makes it all the more important that patients pull their share of the weight and instead of relying 100% of their doctor to do all of the work for them, take an active role in their treatment and do their research. There are so many variables that go into whether or not a medication will work, even when we go gain a fuller understanding of the brain, we will still have to do SOME trial and error runs with medications.

Many mental disorders DO need meds, and many work. It's certainly better than none.

Seriously half of you people only seem to question the most logical of things with illogical personal belief.

It leads me to believe that the majority of people on here must be teenagers, adults are usually not so deluded as to the workings of the world.

well they are no good for me and I will never take another fuckin pill. Ever!!!! Ever. Ever. Ever....ever. true words of wisdom right there.

You can't "cure" the disorder in the literal sense of the word "cure", but you can control the symptoms.

Everything Neuro and drugsrbadmkay said.

I have obsessive-compulsive disorder. Before the drugs and treatment, I couldn't function. With drugs and treatment, I can. If I dropped the drugs, I know a little more now, and I don't think I'd fall as far as I have before, but I wouldn't want to find out.

I would be dead without psychiatric medications, so there's that.

Yeah I think it is stupid to medicate people for medical reasons too. They can't find brain cancer on a blood test so I guess it doesn't really exist. And there's no cure for Type I diabetes so it must be a plot by the drug companies to sell insulin. I'm tempted to start in with the name calling but I can't blame you personally, the general level of ignorance about mental health in this country is shocking.

Agree with you 100%

I know who you are!

Psychedelics in controlled situations is the answer to helping these people.

Considering all the drugs the TV throws at us nowadays, it feels like they are treating the public at large like ginnypigs.
Then a few years later it will comeback up about giving compensation to all the people that got fucked up from it.

Western medicinal doctors and psychologists probably cause the most harm in the field of medicine. Pharmaceuticals are dangerous. They cause so much harm to the body. There is a link between neurological/mental illnesses to diet. There was a doctor who wrote a book proving this. The pharmaceutical/healthcare industry is corrupt. It's all about money and they'll stop at nothing to trash alternative medicine which actually does help and can cure.

We don't have reliable cures for cancer either, so why bother trying, right?

And OP- if you think pedophila is a mental disability, what about Nazis? Did they make a choice to do those things or do they have mental disability?

I think most meds only suppress or control certain aspects of a condition. There is hardly a long term cure. They do work for some purpose. Some people are just too far gone

I had ADHD. The doctor gave me pills and it really calmed me down. But now i'm less social and shit It's really gay :(

Give them that fine natural herb and hope for the best XD

OP is a stupid moron. Bet he is a one of those idiot retarded Scientologists also since he expressed their exact beliefs on this issue.

What some people dont understand is that it is a mixture of the medication (as you may have a hormonal/ chemical imbalance in the brain), AND the will to cure your mental disorder that is required. You really need both. I'm surprised I even wasted the energy replying to someone who thinks that paedophila is a mental disease requiring medication as the cure. Please right yourself, or stay in school.

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