and its unwilling but good-intentioned abettors. Example. Can anyone have a bad day anymore without being labeled? It seems not. I was working yesterday and 3 sanding belts broke on me in a row. I got pissed and audibly pounded the dust exhaust hood on the top of the machine. At the end of the day, i get this PUSHY fucknut who insists that i have the same problems he does - loosely termed and very vague "anxiety and depression". I said "Excuse me, youre a bowyer, not a shrink, stick to your field." He kept on pushing and insisting and giving advice, while good-intentioned, pissed me off. Which he then said was evidence that i had a problem! WTF??? Over? Im not happy and angry because you keep on pushing your problems and your life down my throat, and thats an incurable mental problem? Apparently one cant have a single bad day anymore without having a mental disease that requires one to be pumped fulla chemicals like factory farmed chicken by big pharma. What the fuck has society come to? Are we all supposed to be machines, not reacting to a single thing when things go wrong? Are we all supposed to be spending and spending on shrinks and pills? These expectations of perfectionism must stop now before those who cant blow megabucks on therapists and mind-numbing pills get lost in the shuffle.
These days everyone requires medication and counseling. For hundreds of thousands of years mankind has only thought they where well adjusted and happy. We finally know we're all miserable and only the pharmacutical industry can save us.
I'm sure that there's an herb that could fix ya too. Oh wait, that's illegal too. Just like being smart, well adjusted, thinking, feeling people instead of mindless drooling drones who give their lives to a corporate machine, and then come home to be forcefed prechewed pabulum through an idiot box designed to excite us into a state of consumer frenzy every 15 minutes or so.
True, CC, but the psychological industry (as a moneymaking entity) tends to misdiagnose and overmedicate rather than find the root of the problem. Does this mean there aren't people with legitimate problems? absolutely not. Does this mean that there aren't psychiatrists that have the patient's best interest at heart? again- absolutely not. However, there are just as many that are dragging the patient along because they have a few more payments left on the SS Valium. Even less reassuring, is that experts aren't perfect. Being in a position of greater responsibility, due to their knowledge, their mistakes tend to be more...monumental in scope. Caveat Emptor, especially on those you trust with your sanity, and for those in the psychoanalytical field, the same, as you rely on the patient to be honest and straightforward with you, and too many of your fellow doctors play guessing games.
i'm not saying you all are ignorant people because i'm sure you don't reject the possibility of a mental disease, but just think it's often focused on too much. for those who think there is no such thing as a 'chemical imbalance' and that people got who have issues choose that mindest or have fried their brains with drugs- you are grossly ignorant and misinformed. my cousin's father was a schizo and at 23 he has also started having pyschotic episodes. they happen because something is telling the front part of his brain to think to much leading to paranoia and 'voices'. when he's on meds he's alright, but unfortunately the side effects are increased hunger causing massive weight gain. they are so effective he thinks he is cured and goes off of them causing another pyschotic episode. he is not a danger to others, though he has been suicidal. there is only a 20% chance he will make it 12 months without being admitted in a mental institution. And it will NEVER go away. This shit is real. Focus on mental problems makes it normal and makes people like my cuosin less ashamed. It helps to talk about it and for treatable mental disorders it helps people seek help earlier. it is always good to see a counsellor (i have several times and have had positive experiences) regardless of having mental disorders or not. how could it hurt to seek counselling?
hey, don't forget, the guy is bipolar.... He's disabled mentally. That means he doesn't HAVE to act right... Actually that's something bipolar folks tend to do is accuse others of doing what THEY are doing. It's one of the symptoms...
Of course there are real chemical imbalances. And of course some do need medication. BUT so many people are on medication when they don't need to be - they might have problems, but they could be problems they could work through other ways. For example, giving teens anti-depressants: everyone is depressed in high school, seriously, think about it. I was depressed and not on medication, I worked through it by painting and writing and I got through it and over it. The problem with this kind of over-medicating is that teens on anti-depressants increases depression and suicidal thoughts, causing a very high suicide rate. Is that really solving any problems!?! I understand some people need medication but I believe many, many people don't. I myself have high anxiety and I think I may be bipolar (I dunno) but I like to work through these things on my own. And there is also natural things that can help. I think its disgusting that people and companies that are supposed to help people are just turning them into zombies just cuz they want their evil money.
I don't have a beef with the psychiatric industry, per say, as I have been seeing them since I was 5 (And I found out 12 years later that I had High Functioning Autism) But I do have a problem with doctors who are sexual offenders as the doctor I had for the last 15 years was convicted of having a sexual relationship with his underage patient. I also don't like that I had to wait until I was 18 to find out what was wrong with me because people didn't want to upset my mother by saying the "a" word or suggesting that I even had it.
