Posted by psychobot5000 on February 23, 2007, at 19:25:55
In reply to Re: Help with my treatment/Pbot, posted by stargazer on February 23, 2007, at 8:08:00
"Do they want us to suffer forever or just don't care or just don't know what they're doing. It causes me much distress to think there is really no scientific basis to what they are doing"
___I think psychiatrists ultimately don't know what they're doing--a lot of psychiatric theory seems too poorly substantiated and poorly understood. Remember that for thousands of years, doctors were basically all quacks--not because they were bad people, but because they simply didn't have enough knowledge about the human body. Seems we're still there, concerning the mind.
Some doctors I've met tell me that, while many advances have been made in mainstream medicine, psychiatry is not entirely out of the dark ages. ...It seemse easy to see--for twenty years much of the psychiatry profession had their panties all in a bunch over serotonin, because SSRIs were somewhat effective for depression. Then, Lamictal seems effective, and a Ketamine test allegedly shows an instant antidepressant response, and suddenly everyone's looking at an almost entirely different system in the brain. Not terribly scientific...and drug companies' meddling doesn't seem to help...
I'm not certain where you live, but have you tried the McKlean hospital outside Boston? They specialize in this stuff--expensive, I believe, but it might help...
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