Yes Perna, I agree, In a nutshell we are still a distance away from truely understanding the malodies of the Human Brain. And the field of psychiatry and antipsychiatry are debating on mostly speculations in many areas of the various psychological struggles of the brains of humans.

The truth is, we just have not gotten to the point where we can truely see and understand all the functions of the human brain yet. We are gaining ground, especailly recently, but we are just simply not able to truely analyze all the pathology of the brain yet.

I have talked about a challenge that I took on about 9 or 10 years ago with a dog that was presented to me in a stooper like state with no real explaination of why according to her overall bodily functions, otherwise, no disease present. My dog could do nothing more than wimper and wag her tail.

Through constant and diligent efforts to stimulate my dog over several months I achieved a result of a dog that presented almost all of normal functions again. But I do say almost because she still had occassional seisures. The cause of the seisures could not be determined and was only treated by anti seisure medication that did not completely irradicate all the seisure activities that took place.

The dog got old and had a seisure that resulted in a fractured limb where she tried to eat away the pain. The limb could not be restored and I had to put her to sleep. My reasoning was that considering her age and the fact that I could not completely restore her to having all her abilities 100% of the time, along with the fact the limb would have to be removed, it was the humain thing to do. Had my dog been younger I may have opted to see if I could help her continue to gain function even with the missing limb as dogs can function with three limbs. But she was simply too old.

I had offered her remains to the neuologist for study as he was so surprized to see how much I had acheived to restore brain function. But to my surprize he told me that there was no real way to determine all the pathology of her brain as the cells are bearly visible and it would be impossible to determine where the malfuction was taking place.

So the truth is that scientifically we are still not truly at the level of understanding the brain and all the various functions and capacities within it. We have gained in many areas, but there are still many areas that we simply do not understand yet.

And until we do know, the debate about mental health and how to address it will continue.

Open Eyes