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Originally Posted by Naynay99
I get being stuck on the diagnosis. The label shouldn't matter bc these are all just brain disorders that the AMA decided to name different things based upon rather subjective criteria printed in a manual that keeps changing. But. It still does matter for some reason.
At least it does for me so I can sympathize.
...TBH I think a lot of modern psychiatry is complete bullshat and the whole labeling and over medicalization of emotions is out of control..
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This is also how I feel about psychiatry. It is not up to the standard of the rest of medicine. (I'm not antipsychiatry btw just disappointed...)
There are no objective tests yet, it is people's opinions based on a long list of criteria. I also totally am against medicating children.
I'd also feel better about it if more people actually got better but that is not what has been my experience or what I see around. I don't see that many people get better.
I mean if you have cancer, doctors can do surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and have objective measures of increase in life expectancy and so on. There is nothing like that as far as I know in psychiatry and also almost all the studies that are done on medications effectiveness are short term and don't consider the long term side effects and whether or not they actually help long term.
Then you get big disagreements because there are no objective tests. I mean, for instance, the mass killer in Norway was first evaluated to be paranoid schizophrenic but after a public outcry another evaluation was done and it was decided he had NPD and AsPD. So his final diagnosis was a result of popular opinion that he should be held criminally responsible. bTW These are as different conditions as can possibly exist since schizophrenia can be medicated whilst those personality disorders can't.