"PSYCHIATRY SHOOTS ITSELF IN THE FOOT?"

[dank]

rpautrey2 wrote...

"PSYCHIATRY SHOOTS ITSELF IN THE FOOT?"
by Peter Morrell
"Psychiatry shoots itself in the foot?"
[March 2001]
...
It seems only fair to ask whether madness really is an illness or even
if it exists as a separate state...

My brother went mad from too much crystal meth and everyone from his
family to his friends could tell he was insane and we actually went
to court to file involuntary commitment papers, and he was finally
taken to the mental hospital after attacking the neighbor's car with
a vacuum cleaner in the middle of the night. The psychiatrists at
the mental hospital couldn't find anything wrong with the babbling
puddle of Jell-O in front of them and testified under oath that he
was fine and the judge was almost willing to believe them until my
brother announced he could talk to dead people. The psychiatrists
didn't think that was a particularly unusual statement for a sane
person to make, but the judge thought otherwise and ordered him held
for observation.

I guess my point is what kind of science is psychology/psychiatry
if it can't even recognize a truly insane person? I notice the
profession has no problem defining almost every personality trait
as some sort of mental disorder in need of expensive treatment, but
real mental disorders like stark raving lunacy don't exist.

[lostfrogg]

i think it's because he uses crystal meth. you can't easily say that someone
is mad when they are abusing a substance, because the erratic behaviour will
most likely be down to effects/aftereffects of the substance in question.

Post by dank
rpautrey2 wrote...

"PSYCHIATRY SHOOTS ITSELF IN THE FOOT?"
by Peter Morrell
"Psychiatry shoots itself in the foot?"
[March 2001]
...
It seems only fair to ask whether madness really is an illness or even
if it exists as a separate state...

My brother went mad from too much crystal meth and everyone from his
family to his friends could tell he was insane and we actually went
to court to file involuntary commitment papers, and he was finally
taken to the mental hospital after attacking the neighbor's car with
a vacuum cleaner in the middle of the night. The psychiatrists at
the mental hospital couldn't find anything wrong with the babbling
puddle of Jell-O in front of them and testified under oath that he
was fine and the judge was almost willing to believe them until my
brother announced he could talk to dead people. The psychiatrists
didn't think that was a particularly unusual statement for a sane
person to make, but the judge thought otherwise and ordered him held
for observation.
I guess my point is what kind of science is psychology/psychiatry
if it can't even recognize a truly insane person? I notice the
profession has no problem defining almost every personality trait
as some sort of mental disorder in need of expensive treatment, but
real mental disorders like stark raving lunacy don't exist.