I just remembered a study from when I was in college in 09 that in a double blind the people on certain antidepressants averaged 2 points out of 42 or 46 points higher than the control group which was incredibly negligible and in the same margin of error for placebo effects basically saying even back then it did nothing. I am married to someone who struggled with some of these things and man if you don't take them after you ate on them watch out cause that will make you go looney tunes. The idea you have to ween yourself off them is terrifying.
Anti-depressants are well known for having a whiplash effect, and one in particular is known for essentially making you feel explosive shocks in your brain (which is inherently weird as we don't have the ability to feel pain there; headaches are deferred pain often coming from tension, neck pain, etc.) if you miss a dose or are late, which makes coming off that very hard. Some people experience this for weeks or months after being weaned off.
That's why psychology is better than psychiatry.
Talking about your problems in a safe environment and being reinforced where needed is an important science; the notion that people need to be medicated instead of being guided from their anxiety and fears and having their good thoughts reinforced is insane.
As someone who was medicated as a child, no thank you. That stuff slows your metabolism and makes you gain weight, and makes you hungrier to boot and doesn't resolve your core issues.
I can't agree. Psychology is in a turf war with medicine and most of the social sciences for the dubious honor of being seen as the new secular priestly caste.
It resembles nothing more than the medieval church with different sects and schools fighting each other to promote their version of "the truth"
Not very many of psychology's findings are reproducible and not very many pass Poppers falsification test. Psychology doesn't seem to be medical or scientific, psychologists themselves cannot be struck off a medical register as psychiatrists can, all that will happen is that they will get thrown out of their various seats of learning.
All they have to do then is to rebrand themselves as "counsellors" or "life coaches" and carry on regardless. Anyone can call themselves councellors and start practicing as one, even if they are straight out of prison.
I just remembered a study from when I was in college in 09 that in a double blind the people on certain antidepressants averaged 2 points out of 42 or 46 points higher than the control group which was incredibly negligible and in the same margin of error for placebo effects basically saying even back then it did nothing. I am married to someone who struggled with some of these things and man if you don't take them after you ate on them watch out cause that will make you go looney tunes. The idea you have to ween yourself off them is terrifying.
Anti-depressants are well known for having a whiplash effect, and one in particular is known for essentially making you feel explosive shocks in your brain (which is inherently weird as we don't have the ability to feel pain there; headaches are deferred pain often coming from tension, neck pain, etc.) if you miss a dose or are late, which makes coming off that very hard. Some people experience this for weeks or months after being weaned off.
That's why psychology is better than psychiatry.
Talking about your problems in a safe environment and being reinforced where needed is an important science; the notion that people need to be medicated instead of being guided from their anxiety and fears and having their good thoughts reinforced is insane.
As someone who was medicated as a child, no thank you. That stuff slows your metabolism and makes you gain weight, and makes you hungrier to boot and doesn't resolve your core issues.
I can't agree. Psychology is in a turf war with medicine and most of the social sciences for the dubious honor of being seen as the new secular priestly caste.
It resembles nothing more than the medieval church with different sects and schools fighting each other to promote their version of "the truth"
Not very many of psychology's findings are reproducible and not very many pass Poppers falsification test. Psychology doesn't seem to be medical or scientific, psychologists themselves cannot be struck off a medical register as psychiatrists can, all that will happen is that they will get thrown out of their various seats of learning.
All they have to do then is to rebrand themselves as "counsellors" or "life coaches" and carry on regardless. Anyone can call themselves councellors and start practicing as one, even if they are straight out of prison.