Well the psychiatric field itself is suspect to me, simply because it has never practiced evidence based medicine , which is the requirement for every other specialty in medicine, the entire DSM is composed by wealthy fat cat psychiatrists voting weather something is or is not a mental illness, in between getting drunk on a big vacation junket, now this is the definition of "crazy" in my book, look how long Homesexuality stayed on the list of mental disorders, it makes no sense, and it is not your everyday in the trenches psychiatrists that see patients all day everyday, it's alot of university research types, who have not in most cases seen a patient in years if ever, Doctors like turtle who see patients don't have the time or funds available to go on junkets and decide what's "normal", if they even had a clue what "normal" is , we are a diverse species sure our bones are pretty much the same but everything else is different, from cradle to grave we are different even identical twins are unique, cancers are similar but no two respond the same way, I lost my Mom to breast cancer just as many people have because radical mastectomy and radiation does not always work, promising things coming from places like children's Hospital killing Glioblastoma with a re-engineered polio virus , small pox or even HIV hold great promise( Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive cancers known to man, most people once diagnosed usually survive about 11 months) they have people that are now multi year survivors cancer free , and many people are not familiar with the work of the late John Kanzius who was a broadcast engineer and ham radio operator who has two very promising discoveries one is a method of killing cancer with radio waves , it does not harm normal healthy tissue but gets the cancer dead , so far they have killed like 33 different cancers in the lab and it will hopefully be moving to human trials in the next 5 years, in the best tradition of ham radio we agree that anything we discover when enjoying our hobby belongs to all man , owned by and for the public good, John himself died of cancer but made sure his work could not be purchased by any company for any amount of money ever, so that if it shows in human trials to work as effectively as it has in the lab, it will be an affordable cure for those that need it not something owned by a big bloated for profit company who only let those with money have access, John was from PA and raised alot of money locally to fund research in the lab and the beginning of human trials. He also discovered a method of renewable energy that is fascinating to see imagine a test tube filled with salt water when the radio is turned on at the right frequency you can "burn" the salt from the water using an ordinary paper towel as a wick, the cool thing is it makes energy and clean water at the same time and all though the paper towel "burns" well the radio is on , when it's turned off the paper towel is alive and well and just wet with no damage to it, and again this is owned by every person like you and me ,not a government or company. This is a fine example of what turtle was talking about people helping people not for money or glory but because it needs done , if we all looked out for our brothers and sisters in this way we would not need organized support groups because it would all ready be being done the good old fashioned way.
People think money is wealth, being rich is everyone's goal when in fact the greatest wealth and the richest people are those that remove themselves from money as much as possible , I have the privlege of knowing many people who society looks down on because they are borderline homeless,or who eat at a soup kitchen, but they have the purest of hearts and a vast knowledge of many things, things that only the school of life has taught them, And if you honestly look at what money is (other than the root of evil) it all boils down to the oldest monetary system known to man, bartering , and for all who answered prostitution get your mind out of the gutter and thanks for playing, trying again. Peace

Misterpain

True healing and recovery starts within each person and involves getting each one of us back to our highest level of function , that's "normal", doing our best what ever that may be.
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