Friends;
After awakening from a little adrenaline shock mini-coma, I find the thread on fire! I’ve read to the end of the thread so far and have some comments.
First: The defences put forth by some look suspiciously like ‘tribal exclusivity arguements.’ For instance, “You can’t comment about this practice because you are not one of us ‘fellow sufferers.” Such an arguement fails on simple logical grounds.
Second: There is sufficient data demonstrating the biases ans unscientific designs of ‘clinical trials’ by Big Pharma to bring most ‘evidence’ arising from Big Pharma sources into question, if not outright rejection.
Third: As another commentator has stated lucidly; “Usually doing nothing is the preferred option.” The Hippocratic Oath is quite clear on this one: “First, do no harm.” Too many people, both in and out of the medical profession, rush forward into unknown territory in search of the next “Miracle Cure.” Experimentation is fine and good. On it are our progresses based. Confusing experimentation with treatment is criminal.
Fourth: Again, as someone else remarked earlier, money is a continuously corrupting influence. For profit medicine seems to have embraced the profit motive and forgotten the medicine part. Just look around your doctors office the next time you have to visit it and look for all the ‘freebies’ the Big Pharma rep has given the doctor and staff. If you know your basic physical complaint, these signposts will give you a very good clue as to what the doctor is going to prescribe you. Even when it is not explicit, the effect does work.
Fifth: Individuals are being propagandized all the time in Mainstream Media to ‘buy into’ the latest Big Pharma Thing. As I remarked earlier; “Ask your Doctor if drugs are right for you!” Also, there is a very good reason why the warnings and contraindications are hidden at the back of a flimsy, teenintsy printed ‘information insert.’
Sixth: For various reasons, private individuals are actively discouraged from persuing their own research into most maladies. The one exception I can think of offhand is, cognitive therapy. To shift to this course is for the therapist to assume an ability on them part of the patient to learn and grow. Such therapuists require stable personalities and strong self images. Physician heal thyself, before you try to heal me.
Seventh: Psychiatry and psychology are still more art than science. I believe it was the late Joseph Campbell that considered modern psychologists as “glorified Witch Doctors.”
Primus: Modern psych starts out with a verbal set of questions. “How do you feel? Do you ever want to do this or that? Tell me about your dreams. Etc..” All of this is subjective, and relies on the medico having a very extensive experience with human behaviour. Freuds’ insistance on Psychologists going through Analysis themselves before treating patients is an admission of the necessity for that skill. ‘Straight’ medicine doesn’t require doctors to try every drug and medicine before prescribing. Hence, most of the diagnosis rely on extremelly subjective observations. An imperfect patient produces imperfect data.
Secundus: No psychs that I have ever encountered make a habit of requiring a ‘panel’ of physical measurements before embarking on a course of treatment. If I go to a doctors office, the first thing that happens is that the nurse takes a battery of physical measurements: height, weight, blood pressure, and so on. Then, when I bring forth my complaint, he or she reacts with tests and questions specific to the complaint. This often takes the form of blood chemistry tests. As an earlier commentor stated, Hyperthyroidism will present with symptoms very similar to Depression. How many Psychs even know to suggest a thyroid function test, much less the physical signs pointing in that general direction?
Finally: The entire field of Psychiatry is at a crossroads of sorts. Plenty of data is coming in suggesting relationships between mind and body undreamed of scant years ago. Given the personal and institutional inertia that all disciplines are hostage to, “Just trust us, we know what’s best for you,” is risible in the extreme. Drugging the public up is just plain lazyness and bad public policy to boot. Fight for your right to make your own choices. All too often, your life will depend on it.
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