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Question by Kev: Do you believe psychiatry/psychology provide people with effective solutions?
Now let me start out by saying I began going to a therapist and psychiatrist about 6 months ago. I was just out of college and didn’t have a job. The situation made me feel depressed and anxious. Not surprisingly, they said I have depression/anxiety. However, talking to my therapist and the medications prescribed by the psychiatrist never made me feel noticably better. I do feel better now because I was offered a great job. But I’m having serious doubts about the effectiveness of the psychs at least for me.

Here are some interesting facts: There is no objective medical test to determine if someone has a mental illness, no blood test, no x-ray test, just talking. It’s highly subjective. Next, psychiatric diagnoses are taken from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses (DSM) whose criteria are vague. They are in fact arrived to by consensus so coming up with mental illnesses is a virtual parlor game of naming “symptoms” and voting them “diseases.”
Check out these sites if you’re interested in the critical view of psychiatry
http://www.szasz.com
http://www.cchr.org
http://www.mindfreedom.org

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