Psychiatric Medication And Mass Shootings

I’ve been critical of psychiatry’s current state for some time now, despite the connections I have to people in the field.

That being said, there IS a legitimate segment of society that believes Psychiatry is “pseudoscience”, typically far-left and far-right types who rather push bizarre theories that mental illness is caused by “structural problems in society”, or that it’s simply evil/ demonic influences.

De-institutionalization was really popular among the leftists who saw asylums as repressive instruments of the state, a form of “psychological imperialism”.

I believe drugs are rampantly over-prescribed by incompetent doctors and cowardly patients who don’t want to have to work out their issues with psychotherapy, behavioral modification and the like. They rather just take a pill and expect everything goes away. I’m with you on that.

However, once people start using people who say that pharmacology is a complete scam, and that things like schizophrenia are “made up”, I will justifiably denounce them for their false statements and throwing the baby out with the water.

Psychiatric Medication or is the link crazy people?
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I say both ,, we turned out most psych patients onto the streets in the 1980’s at the lib activists insistance... in the early 1990’s we started putting every little boy that exhibited boyish behaviour on speed... What happens to a immature brain that is forced into accepting highly addictive drugs?

Yes, you’re right there is a segment that is like that, be they Scientologists, or other fringe types. Still, I don’t think this is one of those fringe issues, questioning whether the psychies are overprescribing drugs without proper attention to their very dangerous side effects. That seems like a pretty common sense issue to me.

Why skip the meds? What if the meds can cause the psychosis, and this is a known, documented side effect of those meds? Skipping over that would seem to be quite foolish.

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Speed Kills!

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