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by charter » Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:01 pm
Copy_Cat wrote:"Anti-psychiatry is not the "war on drugs."
Its many things, like fighting for basic inalienable human rights in the field of mental health, including full informed consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis all the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives, and the right to refuse any treatment the patient considers harmful.
What does "all available medical alternatives" mean?
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by Copy_Cat » Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:17 am
charter wrote:What does "all available medical alternatives" mean?
Why is that backwards ?
I guess alternatives to medication such as but not limited to cognitive behavioral therapy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapyNice long entry on wiki here.
Maybe herbs, vitamins, exercize and stuff like that too.
I survived psychiatry.
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by charter » Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:18 am
I agree, CBT is interesting. It will be interesting to see if they ever succeed in making CBT for bipolar work. I hope they do, but there's a long way to go.
Re: herbs and vitamins, what sort of practitioner should prescribe them, in your view?
I agree about exercise.
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by katana » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:29 am
People should be in charge of their own treatment?
If you break a bone and go to a hospital, the doctor might ask you if you want a general anaesthetic or a local anaesthetic while they set the bones. They might give you a list of options you can have about ways they can fix it, and the risks and advantages of each one. They will not treat you without your consent...
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by Cheze2 » Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:17 am
katana wrote:They will not treat you without your consent...
except in the case of involuntary psychiatric medication orders.
Bipolar I with Psychotic features; Borderline Personality disorder; GAD
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by minotauros » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:44 pm
Copy_Cat wrote:If you have ever drank lots of alcohol your "mentally ill" basically, but do you totally lack insight ?
Technically, effectively yeah. That's why you do it at home, go to sleep, and wake up with that hang over when your insight returns.
Live life by the horns, or die wishing you had.
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