Post by Derpina on Mar 27, 2017 21:43:42 GMT
Yes, drug induced psychosis is a concern that is seemingly largely ignored (like most negative consequences of psychiatric treatments) by psychiatry and pharma companies, i would argue though that the "lifelong" duration of mental distress is an artificial construct, as is the biological basis to mental ILLNESS. Without a biological basis, which, regardless of all the new technology and scans available, remains elusive for three reasons:
1. It doesn't exist,
2. even if 1 isn't true, all psychiatric studies only result in correlations, partly because it's considered unethical to deliberately damage, say the serotonin producing part of the brain and partly because these so-called experts of the mind, or rather brain don't know nearly enough to actually know if that part of the brain has multiple functions. The heart is a simple pump but the brain has always proven to be more than the sum of its parts and therefore infinitely more complex. Without a biological basis, mental distress simply cannot be called mental illness, since it's not biological and without a proper causal relationship (such as untreated heart failure = death), the biological basis cannot (or rather should not) be used in medicine, even as a theoretical construct, and certainly not in a practical manner. And
3. The causal directional link will never be proven (to use the heart example again, it's proven that if the heart is stopped, the body will die, whereas with mental distress, the correlation between serotonin and depression will never be replaced with causal proof, ie a lack of serotonin leads to depression. Besides, who can prove that SSRI drugs increase serotonin alone and that's what causes those drugs to act as "band-aids"
Because the biology of mental distress cannot be proven, not only is the harmful lifelong duration (due to a biological problem such as an "imbalance in serotonin levels") belief dangerous, it's also an unfounded belief (or rather a lie). I do wonder how many people have been told they'll never recover and therefore never do... And yes, like all psychiatric theories, this will also never be conclusively causally proven because it's impossible to predict how the other alternatives would have turned out if a different decision was made
1. It doesn't exist,
2. even if 1 isn't true, all psychiatric studies only result in correlations, partly because it's considered unethical to deliberately damage, say the serotonin producing part of the brain and partly because these so-called experts of the mind, or rather brain don't know nearly enough to actually know if that part of the brain has multiple functions. The heart is a simple pump but the brain has always proven to be more than the sum of its parts and therefore infinitely more complex. Without a biological basis, mental distress simply cannot be called mental illness, since it's not biological and without a proper causal relationship (such as untreated heart failure = death), the biological basis cannot (or rather should not) be used in medicine, even as a theoretical construct, and certainly not in a practical manner. And
3. The causal directional link will never be proven (to use the heart example again, it's proven that if the heart is stopped, the body will die, whereas with mental distress, the correlation between serotonin and depression will never be replaced with causal proof, ie a lack of serotonin leads to depression. Besides, who can prove that SSRI drugs increase serotonin alone and that's what causes those drugs to act as "band-aids"
Because the biology of mental distress cannot be proven, not only is the harmful lifelong duration (due to a biological problem such as an "imbalance in serotonin levels") belief dangerous, it's also an unfounded belief (or rather a lie). I do wonder how many people have been told they'll never recover and therefore never do... And yes, like all psychiatric theories, this will also never be conclusively causally proven because it's impossible to predict how the other alternatives would have turned out if a different decision was made