Psychiatry Pseudoscience?

[l0st]

That happens with other non-measurable areas, like pain.

Just because we can't measure it doesn't mean it's pseudo-science.

I believe pain can be measured by nerve conduction and MRI.

A core tenet of science is producing a measurable result. I've heard fields of study such as Political Science, Sociology, and Psychiatry called soft sciences because they mostly lack tangible results. The exercises are mostly theoretical. For example, they have never been sure serotonin is the cause of depression, it was only ever theorized that SSRIs may help. The drugs may well be placebo as their effects still aren't fully understood, and treatment outcomes are wildly inconsistent. The latest study data is even indicating that they may not work at all in the way we've theorized.

[Karl12]

For example, they have never been sure serotonin is the cause of depression, it was only ever theorized that SSRIs may help.

Yes mate turns out that was a marketing strategy by big pharma (or, in common parlance, 'complete bollocks').

There's some relevant info at the beginning of this doco.





• The Marketing of Madness - Full Documentary

This is a Documentary and will provide the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry.

You would think when private companies (via drug peddlers AKA psychiatrists) are dosing up hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren on extremely powerful psychotropic drugs there would exist any sort of objective evidence to justify them doing so.

Apparently not.

[ArMaP]

I believe pain can be measured by nerve conduction and MRI.

As far as I know, the pain level someone feels cannot be measured, although it's possible to know the source of pain and to estimate the pain level.

[Karl12]

There's some good historical background in that documentary posted above ArMap - hope you manage to watch it.

[ArMaP]

There's some good historical background in that documentary posted above ArMap - hope you manage to watch it.

Sorry, I only watch videos longer than 1 minute or 2 if I have a very good reason for doing it, and I don't have the time to watch an almost 3 hours video.

[Hypntick]

The thing that used to relieve me of any anxiety instantly was Cannabis. One puff is all it would take and I could literally feel the stress and anxiety flowing downwards and away from me. Incredible.

Not for everyone I know but thought I'd add that for those who may think Cannabis couldn't have such strong healing effects beyond the wierd stuff.

It's not what we do to a head but the head we do it to.

Doctors need to often pay a heck of a lot more attention to the individual person and not try so hard to fit them into a box to feel a sense of satisfaction for themselves or kudos from their peers for getting another statistic back out the door and another box ticked.

Be Well Hypntick. I hope you never feel afraid when you are here with us.

I've tried that; it's one of the things that kicks my anxiety into overdrive. It was actually the source of my first real panic attack if you can believe that. I enjoyed myself a little too much, and that was that. I'm not knocking it at all, it works for my wife's lower back pain, just not for me.

[Karl12]

Do you have the attention to watch this video (granted it is a long one)

To my mind, along with all the other content posted, it explains a lot.

Especially when it comes to the use of the corporate induced terms 'anxiety' and 'panic attack'.