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Originally Posted by Rose76
What has happened, I believe, is that the purveyors of psychiatric services and the consumers of the same are complicit in the perpetuation of a grand delusion: Being "mentally ill" means one is innocent. Our modern, guilt-averse mindset means we lust for justification. People "believe" in modern psychiatry because it tells them that they are suffering from "what was done to them, or what happened to them," rather than from who they are. In exchange, psych-professionals get to earn their livelihoods peddling a lot of pseudo-scientific interventions that don't really help people. It's mutual delusion.
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Wow, yup.
Of course, not all, but I fear far far too much. I also feel that this "lack of blame" also assists with other professions. Thus the criminal justice system can avoid blame if a psych-professional tells them what to do. And the psych-professional bears no responsibility if they are wrong. So we have locked ourselves in a blameless situation if someone innocent gets hurt.