Will the seemingly unending progress of psychiatry, which started out to identify and treat some serious mental disorders, come to a halt in the face adverse public opinion? It seems like it. But rather, I see that it is coming into its limbo stage, nothing will happen for awhile. While drugs company are barred from knocking on many doctor's doors, the doctors are searching for answers. What will drug giants do to inform and or influence??We run out of patience over the field's dragging observational and theoretical feet when the reality of behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities come down hard on countless lives. They are in the millions. Facts numb our senses.
It got worst since the psychology merged with the biological approach to mental health care. Proclaim advocates at all fronts have gone wild speaking out about the $84 billion dollar-a-year psychiatric drug industry. Some of the time though, they don't know what they are talking about. They are all right yet they are all wrong because they are often painfully one-sided. While psychiatrists place bets on their prescriptions, the rest of the society rest on personal opinions.
Let's cry for a moment, to the fact that sychiatric conditions are real. They can be severe. This severity forces people to continue risking their lives through a trial-and-error approach to antidepressants. We work against our case when we couple one ineffective drug with another ineffective drug, just to try it out.
It is too bad that because there are still no medical or scientific tests to prove any mental disorder. The usual medical indicators and imaging are no use to a psychiatric diagnosis. For now, psychogists will just hang on to their checklists.
Perhaps it is the wrong time to have a mental health problem. Perhaps one must wait till a better time when there are tests, scans and genetic readings that clearly show what problems he really have.
Still, if you are diagnosed with a mental health condition, give it depression, or what else, think hard and use great care in your treatment. While psychiatry is only a few hundred years young and need some time to grow up, you are not the patient, you are your primary care provider. Own your decisions because this is your life.
