Is Psych Forums Unfairly biased?

I'm fairly new to this sight, but I think it provides a wonderful the universe, learning about oneself, and learning to distance oneself from evil often takes the perspective of others. This is an excellent place to hear about the perspective of others. Biased opinions will always be there because we are all human. At this place I feel I can just take what I want and give what I can. Thanks for this place!

Some of my post above got lost in space. I'll try again. I am fairly new to this place and have so far found that it is a wonderful place to hear about perspectives from others. There will always be biases since we are all human. There are many reasons, it seems, for people to be here. Some are in crisis. Some have chronic pain. Some are perplexed by those around them. Some are distressed by those around them. Some are just curious about those around them. I feel there will always be good pitted against evil forces in this universe, and sometimes we need the perspective of others to help resist evil. I feel that at this site I can just take what I want and give what I can with the goal of becoming a balanced person. Thanks for this place!

Sean--

I'm so sorry for all the hell you've been through.
There are no words to describe it.
Thanks for trying to help us through our individual agonies.
You've been there; you know what it is like. Big time.
Your horrors....

It was good for me to read your background, to give me compassion toward you.
But reading it threw me into flashback myself involving rape, cannibalism, plus.
Picking myself up off the floor, and gasping between sobs to write this.

Thank you for making this site possible. It is awesome in how it is helping the destitute such as myself.
And I even tend to be generally against the use of head drugs, having had very serious reactions with quite a number of antipsychotics, antidepressants, and anti-seizure meds (example: anti-seizure meds give me seizures.).

It will take a while, maybe days, for me to get through this flashback. They do not let go easily, though there are sometimes short reprieves, as now.

But thanks.
Anna

Shrink resistant wrote:I certainly threw the cat amongst the pigeons with the "no chemical imbalances" thread. Wow, what a reaction!

The culture of psych forums is pro psych, pro drugs and I don't expect any support from anyone here regarding my views.

Well, I'm off to fight psychopharmacology in the real world now. Thank you all for your comments over the past 12 months or so, I now know what sort of debates (ha ha) to expect in the future. Its given me great deal of confidence to know the advocates of psychopharmacology haven't got a leg to stand on.

Please note, I wont come back here, I have no need to. BYE

I bet you go home at night and cry yourself to sleep because your psychiatrist took you off your pills because he found out you were abusing them.

philosophers need a cold shower.

You know sigmund freud was a coke addict? yea, drugs really helped him there right...
I believe strongly in the ability of psychedelics to open the soul to the beauty of nature, life and all that is human emotion.
But stimulants, depressants, anti-depressants and all the other ones...the feel-good drugs...are just a temporary escape.
I'd have to say if I had never taken acid, I never wouldve approved of it, but from someone whose been there and done that, Im sure it could have a beneficial impact to those in suffering.
Why are people these days so brainwashed?? So close-minded??
Just like in the matrix, where neo takes a pill to get himself out of the system. Obviously the matrix is jsut a movie, but the underlying metaphor is the same. When you free your mind, its a fight to stay free, because those who arent free dont want you to be free. Those who are free are less predictable, hence a danger to those who arent.
Even if this post gets me banned...so what...i wont be able to talk to a whole website full of downers...i dont know why i even come here lol...its like a cesspool of misery...Free yourself!!! take psychedelics!!!

We do have a drug addiction forum for that. So we are not biased, we do not promote illegal drugs. Nor do we allow our members to. I have told you this before.

so...promoting the use of anti-depressants is any better?
And youve generalised my statement. I have precisly said NOT to take certain illicit drugs. It was sarcasm when i said coke helped freud. I did say not to use the bad drugs...the addictive ones.
If people want to steer clear of all drugs, then they have character enough to live without them.
Anti-depressant meds are just as bad. People need to learn to be happy without the use of meds. People need to find their innermost strength of will to break free of their depression, not simply pop a few pills.
People can react differently to any drugs, since everyone is unique. So say that prozac will cure depression, but instead it may only cure some peoples depression.
Exercise however is good for everyone. Regular exercise increases oxygen supplies to the brain, which must be beneficial to happiness. When depressed it is hard to find the will to even bother with these activites, but once youve started and into a regular routine I think it could be very beneficial. mental health and physical health are connected.

This is easy.

Anyone has a problem with sean on a personal level, do it in a PM.

Anyone doesn't like the ad's.....cough up some dough.

You don't like the mod's? tough. Look how you act.

And mods........for god's sake don't swear at the members. You guys came off erm......well you'll fig. it out.

AND ANYONE WHO SAYS SEAN IS LESS THAN SOMEONE WHO DOES THIS BECAUSE HE GIVES A DAMN ABOUT ALL OF US SIMPLY HASN'T PAID ATTENTION. IF YOU HAD ANY IDEA THE LENGTHS HE GOES TO HELP PEOPLE YOU WOULD BE APOLOGISING RIGHT HERE AND NOW. THE MAN IS NOT DOING THIS FOR LOOT......HE'S PAYING OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET TO KEEP US AFLOAT AND YOU GUYS ARE THROWING STONES IN A GLASS HOUSE HERE.


SEAN BENNICK IS A FAIR, CARING, AND UP FRONT GUY......YOU NEED PROOF YOUR'E LOOKING AT IT.

jeez.......sean, you know you got MY vote man......this thread was put out there in thspirit of a fair, open discussion and was turned into let's mess with the guy who busts his butt so i can run my mouth fest. [/b]

FYI FriedPiper, Freud took cocaine near the end of his career and slowly went crazy from it. That is far from getting inspiration from drugs. Hopefully people will read / watch the biography and get all the details.

On topic, the truth is, this person is against the in-progress nature of the medical and social sciences, which are all officially at the developmental level. The mind is fairly complex, and people have been putting off studying it in much detail because it was a taboo. Every developmental science has been either ridiculed or scorned, and this is the price of incomplete progress. The human is the only test subject we have, so lets get it over with quickly, ruin as few peoples lives as we can, and benefit from all that has been learned.

Of course, non-drug psychotherapy is an ancient practice, however, drugs in their purest form can be dangerous and it's completely understandable why there would be all of this angst toward it. Everyone has a mind, so it is not surprising that the mind would trick even the most brilliant psychiatrists into believing there is a disease where there isn't one. It is also obvious how so many mental problems can be hidden, by the same rule.

EDIT:
Oops, I didn't read all the way through this topic, so everyone decided to stop posting and agree to disagree?
Well I can blame it on a social disorder