Modern psychiatry.

I know this is going to piss someone off.

but is institutionalized drugging of our population as a means by which to cope with depression, manic behavior, any abnormality at all, a way to keep the workforce more efficient?

we have more "free time" than ever according to many studies, but much of that free time is structured, and, in this almost crystalline "perfection" are we allowed to be humans anymore?

or are we machines, who take pills because we don't have time to actually fix things, are psychiatric drugs jimmy rigs?

This is not about psychology, just medical psychiatry.

 

Agreed.

 

yep, that's pretty much psychiatry for you. of course, they're also more likely to prescribe drugs because it keeps you coming back to them and giving them more money. but yeah, it's easier to treat the symptoms and get people back out there to try and live their lives than it is to actually try to find and fix whatever is truly wrong.

 

Yawn-

There is only one way social engineering comes to fruition, Dave. Grow a pair and call it by it's real name. Fortunately, the world doesn't conform to the neat arrangements of your little mind.

Remember, there's always lsd.

 

but if I do that more people will guess, and that's no fun.

 

I have a Napoleonic complex- myself. And I've been having a lot more fun since I took ownership of it. :cheers2:

 

we might be playing different games.

I am trying to point out the ways in which america is a much more refined nazi germany, in a very subtle way.

I think you're suggesting I might be a fascist.

 

Are overprescribed, but in the end are taken by choice rather than force (most of the time).

 

i agree about the psych meds. don't get me started on medical establishment. i'll sound like a regular old conspiracy theorist crazy. and then you'll shove me in a corner with hhb, and my life will be over.

 

Oh- I see. So your last three threads are satirical?

These nutsos take the Malthusian junk seriously, you know?

 

I am unfamiliar with the term malthusian.

I shall google it...

really, though there needs to be something done, it needs to be from the ground up, we need grassroots solutions (although corporations need to feel some smackdown)

and, I felt like tonight was an appropriate time for scary threads.

 

but is the choice really a choice when society tells us there must be something wrong with us if we're not perfect, and that this med and that med will "fix" our "problem"? i think people in this society, especially in the US, are not able to make appropriate choices because society doesn't give us all the possibilities and options. makes alternative health, etc. seem "bad" or "wrong."

 

I am very neroutic and crazy. I take them to make other people's lives easier and not always fear my next melt down.

 

FUCK (modern-use of) PSYCHIATRY.

 

now, if you had time, and the people around you had the time and resources, to help you deal with this, wouldn't that be better, yes, more time consuming, and, yes, a greater expenditure of resources, but, wouldn't it, in the long run, help you more?

<not to say I have any problem with what you are doing, often, just making it to tomorrow is all we can do>

 

Yeah, I start to feel funny when I hear 80% of the US population is prescribed some sort of mental-disorder medications...

And now with the new meds ingredients, everyone is walking around as mind-numbed zombies, or they are off on some wild never-ending tangent to do things and buy things....creepy...

I especially laughed at the warning on the new anti-depressant meds; "May cause suicidal thinking". Why on earth would you give a depressed person medication to induce suicidal thinking?!?!

Not to mention how WEIRD it is to take a PILL to make you become HAPPY..wtf is this world coming to, honestly...

And I am willing to bet there is also some type of brain washing chemicals in there also, just to keep us going like slaves.

Not to mention fluoride in those same medications....why fluoride? The same reason it's in all our tap water, numb us out, prevent us from being too human and having feelings.

Makes sad sense to me, though.

 

where did you get that figure? i know it's high, but i have trouble believing that it's 80%

 

if you count ambien, all of the anticonvulsants, and all of the erectile dysfunction drugs, as well as the birth control drugs with psychiatric off label uses you might be up around 80, but it takes a liberal definition.

 

Maybe. But to admit that takes more powers out of my own hands than I am really willing to consider.

An analogy would be this: "society" doesn't make it easy to eat well: most food is complete shit, even things advertised as healthy. But I still choose to eat in a healthful matter.

The same applies to most "societal" problems. Skinny models aren't a good thing, but I find it a leap of faith to say that they make girls make themselves vomit.

So yeah, I think pharmaceutical companies aren't looking out for my best interest. But I also make a conscious choice to abstain as much as possible. This issue is more complicated because there are legitimate needs for some drugs.

 

Subtract Hitler's Third Reich from the historical equation and fascism would carry far less stigma.