Posted by LostBoyinNC1 on June 25, 2002, at 23:28:10
In reply to thoughts on this, posted by tabitha on June 23, 2002, at 3:34:36
> I agree, it's pointless to make this issue an either/or. Doing so just shows that old cognitive distortion, black & white thinking.
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> I suspect people on the extreme pro-neurology side are profoundly uncomfortable with the murky, personal, subjective, "soft" science of psychology. Or they've had bad personal experiences with therapists.
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>Or they have been misdiagnosed by some social worker and subsequently placed on the wrong class of psychiatry meds which made their life a living hell. Do you realize how subjective mental illness diagnosing is? Do you realize how important it is to get a correct and individualized dx? So you can be placed on the correct kind of medication?
People are misdiagnosed all the time in psychiatry and placed on the wrong drugs, overmedicated, etc. They are misdiagnosed unipolar when they are really bipolar...or vice versa. The reason for this is too much reliance on psychology in diagnosing. Its too subjective.
People with severe forms of mental illness would be better off if Neurology was diagnosing and treating them, rather than the "mental health" field of psychiatry, social work and psychology. We'd be better off if our severely mentally ill were thought of exactly the same as epileptics, people with parkinsons, people with alzheimers disease, etc.
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