Published on 12, July, 2020
There is still almost no science behind it and the majority of pscyhiatrists and nurses, GPs too, routinely misdiagnose people.
A lot of people who are considered mentally ill actually have progressive diseases.
Where are the scientific tests? People visit a psychiatrist and they do not have their brain scanned.
Surely we should be developing psychiatry into a more robust, technically precise science in the same way we progressed physical healthcare from prescribing herbs to the array of devices used today.
The problem is that the only evidence they usually have is our self-reported experience which is often misleading or inaccurate and certainly won’t provide a complete picture (if I said I had a sore tummy that would be my experience, but there are probably dozens of possible causes).
I really hope that machine learning applied to brain scans might be able to turn psychology into a hard science instead of whatever the heck it is now.