Why shouldn't psychiatry be banned?

Copy_Cat wrote:

minotauros wrote:Alot of people are in it because they care and that they genuinely do want to help patients.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions...

minotauros wrote:Also, I think that its something that should be improved upon. It's not a perfect science. Though it should be better acknowledged that its a young science still.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry


There is no scientific evidence that any of the millions of people labeled with "mental disorders" have any physical abnormality that justifies the diagnosis, and because of this, psychiatrists cannot agree on who is sick and who is well. Yet, despite this inept psychiatric diagnostic system, worldwide sales of psychotropic drugs prescribed to treat "mental disorders," including stimulants, antipsychotics and antidepressants, now exceed $80 billion annually.

$80,000,000,000.00

Yes, you're right. However, alot of mental health treatments have helped patients. Those can be used to help people, especially things like DBT, which have been shown even in my own life to have helped. It doesn't mean that whatever diagnosis I was subjectively given by my therapist (I think she's full of it on all 3 diagnoses, I call it emotional immaturity they call it BPD, PTSD and Bipolar) is true for me, or that these diseases are what they say they are.

But sometimes its clear that someone has an issue, and sometimes its clear that something solves an issue or at least helps with it. In those cases, shouldn't I continue to help myself with what's working? Sure, get rid of what doesn't. Also, if there be any diagnosis, there should be laboratory tests of real neurological conditions, not something made in an interview. Especially since I can't always talk about what's going on let alone remember, perhaps its the same for everyone.

I think banning psychiatry might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.