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.
IIN I think medicating people for psychological reasons is stupid.
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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.