Posted by bleauberry on November 12, 2009, at 16:15:56
In reply to Re: Peter Breggin » bleauberry, posted by SLS on November 12, 2009, at 7:35:06
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> Maybe I was not direct enough in the questions I posed you. Perhaps you could answer a few now? Regardless of how many different pathologies there are that might present with psychiatric symptoms:
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> 1. Do you believe that there exists a brain disease known as major depressive disorder?Yes.
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> 2. Do you believe that there exists a brain disease known as bipolar disorder?Yes.
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> 3. Do you believe that there exists a brain disease known as schizophrenia?Yes.
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> - ScottMy frustration is that for the most part, it is always blindly assumed that every single patient that presents with symptoms has a brain disease. Efforts are never made, pre-meds, during meds, or post-meds, to do some basic detective work to rule things in or rule things. If we were to rule out 70% of the most common underdiagnosed causes of depression...the ones I harp about frequently...then we would have much more certainty in saying this particular patient has a brain disease.
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