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.
I dont claim to know a lot about the subject, but, i am begining to think that many diagnosed with a nental health condition, have a neurodevelopmental condition. Misdiagnosis is keeping the mental health practitioners in jobs. Prescriptions are handed out to easily. My feelings are very mixed, from anger to liberation. At 59 finding out that i am autistic. Repeatedly prescribed antidepressants, switched from one to anither every time i had a melt down. I didnt know. My brother was diagnosed with ADHD last week. He was diagnosed as autistic last year, aged 60! Repeatedly told he has a typical personality disorder! I know velieve i also have ADHD. OMG. What will i do now? Seek a diagnosis and get the correct treatment, i have nothing to loose now. I am dismayed. Years ago, like my mother, and many others we would have been placed in a mental institution, drugged. People are still being wrongly drugged. I think you can tell how i feel about this. My respect for mental health practitioners has gone.
I agree with you. Years ago many of us would have been put in big insane asylums. Now I think many people are just ignored and excluded from society and as you say given random drugs.