Psychiatrists Becoming Doctor Joke

Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 14, 2012 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

People use to self-medicate. Opium and alcohol were the most popular ways to make your problems go away. And since beer was considered a perfectly respectable drink from morning to night it was possible to be at least mildly potted most of your waking life.

Back then you were not depressed, you were melancholy. You were not expected to get better and no one was surprised when you died in a strange accident involving a rope and chair or cleaning your gun or possibly ate something that disagreed with you.

Later on they reached for "mother's little helper".

Now people are expected to be sober and functional most of the time.

Sometimes the pills help. Sometimes other things help. But the odd idea that depression and other mental conditions is somehow something that has just appeared is to ignore history.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Psychology is worse. It's almost entirely a pseudo-science. Unfortunately, all teacher colleges are steeped in it.

[1010RD]

The Communists love psychiatry.