Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on March 15, 2014, at 9:23:26
In reply to NIMH funding - a new paradigm., posted by SLS on March 14, 2014, at 19:31:15
One of the commentors at the bottom, "Kevin Owen," he sounds like a fruitcake. He posts, "What they don't realise is that many of the symptoms maybe biological but have a Psychosomatic Cause. You can't treat Psychosomatic Illness with Physical Treatments, Current trends have shown that having no cure for any illness."
WTF? I never heard that Axis 1 level, major psychiatric illnesses were/are caused by "psychosomatic" causes. LOL This is the thinking of a fruitcake, this Owens poster.Axis 1 level, psychiatric disorders ARE physical illnesses of the brain. PERIOD. Ive been saying it for years. Once you become clinically depressed that first time, once you experience that very first major depressive breakdown, serotonin levels tend to stay down for the rest of your life. The trick, the key, is to find drugs/treatments that will reverse by pharmacological force this sort of chronic nervous system deterioration.
We also need to get rid of these "is mostly the environment" versus the genes and the nervous system crowd in psychiatry and psychology. Those people need to take a hike...they hold us all back with their refusal to let go of their "its the environment, stupid" attitude. Most of them are left wingers who dont like genetics studies to begin with.
Ive been saying it for years and years and I know I am right. Until this sh*t starts getting taken seriously as a real brain illness, we will all just be spinning our gears so to speak, taking prescription drugs with a shot in the dark approach. Sometimes the drugs work great, sometimes the drugs barely work at all and probably most, the drugs work fairly decently but nowhere near as well as the drug companies would lead us all to believe with their marketing.
Id also like to see MORE research linking sleep disorders to mental health. Ive read so much research that says that untreated sleep apnea leads to decreased serotinin levels, increased adrenaline and cortisol during sleep...psychiatry ignores an entire 1/3 of the day of whats going on in our bodies by ignoring aggressive research of sleep disorders, instead leaving it totally to pulmonary specialist sleep medicine physicians and to Neurologists...whose main interests are cardiopulmonary diseases and not "mood and thinking."
It is FUBAR, IMO. Its also obvious NIMH has no real leadership, psychiatry has poor leadership as an institution. Just shoddy, low quality.
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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