Another terrific article that hits home. Years ago, I met a psychologist who worked for the VA with the tough PTSD patients. I was struggling with some things and started seeing him as a private patient. We talked (actually I did the talking) and without any drugs. W ith a commitment of several years, I was like brand new. Drugs are a band-aid. It's amazing what you don't even know you are thinking, until you have someone sitting across from you and just looking at you. The silence makes you talk. Facing your own reality by talking is the cure.
I always appreciate rebel Psychiatrists, and add you to my growing list. As for alt treatment models, I follow Dr James Greenblatt who attends to all underlying nutritional imbalances and gut health, in conjunction with traditional BigPharma meds. I have believed for decades that all our clients should be treated for their nutritional deficiences at commencement.
Hans Eysenck found in the 1950s that 67% of people who suffered from mental/emotional disorders recovered spontaneously within two years without any interventions. When people went through psychoanalysis the recovery rate dropped to 42%. Psychiatry has been a failure ever since Freud, who never cured anyone of anything and was a complete scientific fraud.
When some discipline has failed so completely for so long, the cause must be a false paradigm as Thomas Kuhn explained in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Copernicus started the scientific revolution by changing the basic paradigm people used in their efforts to understand the heavens. The 'Sun orbits the Earth' was changed to the' Earth orbits the Sun'. That was all it took to end 2000 years of failure and begin the Age of Enlightenment.
Psychiatry has failed because just like ancient astronomy it too is based on a false paradigm. Worse yet, it is doubtful that anyone who studies human behavior can even state what the paradigm is that they are working from.
Okay, here it is. In their attempts to overcome negative emotional states like chronic depression, psychiatrists and psychologists are working from this failed paradigm:
negative comes from negative and positive comes from positive
So when a person suffers from some negative emotional state, therapists try to find and overcome the' negative causes'. Makes total sense, but it has been a total failure.
If we do to this paradigm what Copernicus did to the ancient astronomy paradigm, it will open up the study of human behavior to a new age of enlightenment that will overcome and, better yet, prevent so much suffering and waste of lives. Here's a hint, there's only one way to meaningfully switch around the terms in the psychological paradigm. Once you do that, look up the case of Michael Phelps the great Olympic swimmer and apply the new paradigm in order to understand the terrible depression he felt after each Olympics he competed in. The new paradigm works.
I work in a public elementary school. Have for 20 years. Around here a lot of kids get diagnosed for "anxiety disorders" (even when their functioning appears unaffected at school, where most of the academic and social pressures are). Some take meds for it, usually SSRIs.
I've long noticed that our most impaired kids became "the worst" after going on meds.
Recently I started asking teachers and counselors if they can think of ANY kids they know who clearly improved after taking an anxiety med. Most responses amount to "uh, there must be some...uh..." but no names emerge.
Can someone point to any research specific to antianxiety meds? For some reason Google searches just yields pharma ads.
Another terrific article that hits home. Years ago, I met a psychologist who worked for the VA with the tough PTSD patients. I was struggling with some things and started seeing him as a private patient. We talked (actually I did the talking) and without any drugs. W ith a commitment of several years, I was like brand new. Drugs are a band-aid. It's amazing what you don't even know you are thinking, until you have someone sitting across from you and just looking at you. The silence makes you talk. Facing your own reality by talking is the cure.
I always appreciate rebel Psychiatrists, and add you to my growing list. As for alt treatment models, I follow Dr James Greenblatt who attends to all underlying nutritional imbalances and gut health, in conjunction with traditional BigPharma meds. I have believed for decades that all our clients should be treated for their nutritional deficiences at commencement.
Hans Eysenck found in the 1950s that 67% of people who suffered from mental/emotional disorders recovered spontaneously within two years without any interventions. When people went through psychoanalysis the recovery rate dropped to 42%. Psychiatry has been a failure ever since Freud, who never cured anyone of anything and was a complete scientific fraud.
When some discipline has failed so completely for so long, the cause must be a false paradigm as Thomas Kuhn explained in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Copernicus started the scientific revolution by changing the basic paradigm people used in their efforts to understand the heavens. The 'Sun orbits the Earth' was changed to the' Earth orbits the Sun'. That was all it took to end 2000 years of failure and begin the Age of Enlightenment.
Psychiatry has failed because just like ancient astronomy it too is based on a false paradigm. Worse yet, it is doubtful that anyone who studies human behavior can even state what the paradigm is that they are working from.
Okay, here it is. In their attempts to overcome negative emotional states like chronic depression, psychiatrists and psychologists are working from this failed paradigm:
negative comes from negative and positive comes from positive
So when a person suffers from some negative emotional state, therapists try to find and overcome the' negative causes'. Makes total sense, but it has been a total failure.
If we do to this paradigm what Copernicus did to the ancient astronomy paradigm, it will open up the study of human behavior to a new age of enlightenment that will overcome and, better yet, prevent so much suffering and waste of lives. Here's a hint, there's only one way to meaningfully switch around the terms in the psychological paradigm. Once you do that, look up the case of Michael Phelps the great Olympic swimmer and apply the new paradigm in order to understand the terrible depression he felt after each Olympics he competed in. The new paradigm works.
In short, it seems to me that selling drugs is more important than the health and wellbeing of the patient.
Seems that is the case with most of the other drugs that are being prescribed.
My conclusion. It’s all about the money ?
Great article. Don't SSRI's also cause suicidal/homicidal ideation/thoughts?
They can, plus many other problems, though I chose to focus only on their efficacy.
I work in a public elementary school. Have for 20 years. Around here a lot of kids get diagnosed for "anxiety disorders" (even when their functioning appears unaffected at school, where most of the academic and social pressures are). Some take meds for it, usually SSRIs.
I've long noticed that our most impaired kids became "the worst" after going on meds.
Recently I started asking teachers and counselors if they can think of ANY kids they know who clearly improved after taking an anxiety med. Most responses amount to "uh, there must be some...uh..." but no names emerge.
Can someone point to any research specific to antianxiety meds? For some reason Google searches just yields pharma ads.