09-28-2024, 03:32 PM
I can't comfortably accept that the science has "explained" schizophrenia. At best, it only explains the effects it presents.
The treatments offered have some results that many, including patients, feel improve the oppressive symptoms it imposes on the world.
I can only hope that the constant pressure of commerce overlaid on it doesn't nullify the help many sincerely intend to bring to the situation.
I just wish that medicine in reporting wasn't mostly a "compromise" weighed against the suffering of others. Compromises should never be imposed by those who don't suffer, as in the 'clinically detached.' It's too easy for those to make them... too 'expedient' to discount things like "side effects" and the "quality of a patients' life."
These commercial pressures bring us abuse disguised as virtue... drugs that only make money, and too little else. They bring us "options" that may only be an illusion at best, and exploitation at worst.
I pray I'm wrong, and this new (novel) drug is actually an effective relief... but experience tells me I can't simply 'trust' them anymore... because they truly seem to care about little beyond profitability. The reporting of "press release" material is a cue... all reporting, no investigation. True journalism usurped... again... we should be used to it by now... but that doesn't mean we should just 'consume' what they report without thought or inquiry.
The treatments offered have some results that many, including patients, feel improve the oppressive symptoms it imposes on the world.
I can only hope that the constant pressure of commerce overlaid on it doesn't nullify the help many sincerely intend to bring to the situation.
I just wish that medicine in reporting wasn't mostly a "compromise" weighed against the suffering of others. Compromises should never be imposed by those who don't suffer, as in the 'clinically detached.' It's too easy for those to make them... too 'expedient' to discount things like "side effects" and the "quality of a patients' life."
These commercial pressures bring us abuse disguised as virtue... drugs that only make money, and too little else. They bring us "options" that may only be an illusion at best, and exploitation at worst.
I pray I'm wrong, and this new (novel) drug is actually an effective relief... but experience tells me I can't simply 'trust' them anymore... because they truly seem to care about little beyond profitability. The reporting of "press release" material is a cue... all reporting, no investigation. True journalism usurped... again... we should be used to it by now... but that doesn't mean we should just 'consume' what they report without thought or inquiry.
