My experience shows there is still a huge stigma related to people with clinical depression and other forms of depression. It is a hush hush topic, wheras people with heart disease or diebetes, are given slaps on the back and good ol boy treatment. Have depression, people aviod you like the plague.
The history of psychatric medicine was dark and still is. I never had a history of Mental Illness, then got put on them for stress, was divorced very soon after, the family does not talk to me, lost my job, my church and all my friends. Years later I have been off the stuff for 5 years and trying to put my life back together. Worse yet, the more you protest the more people think the shrinks were right. You can't win.
I'm hopeful that as genetic research improves and we are better able to identify those genes responsible for aberrant behaviors and mental illnesses we can systematically cull these misfits in vitro. I know that must sound harsh but who's to say there aren't some redeemable lessons to be learned from history?
 @Iast boyscout And you win...NAZI of the year award! With your psychopathic attitude, please be the first to stand in line to be culled, if this is how you wanna roll..
@str1ngb3nd3r Yeah, gotta love the CCA... corrections for profit. Just as effective and moral as corporations that try to provide education for profit.
 @Iast boyscout Some of the genes "responsible for aberrant behaviors" are also responsible for genius and greatness in some people. Genetics is such a new science, and such a complex field, that I doubt that we will ever be able to pinpoint with scientific accuracy, which people will become violent. And yes, what you write does sound harsh because it IS "harsh". You are actually calling anyone with a mental illness, a "misfit" -- even someone with an anxiety order or depression, or even bipolar disease. And you are as well, calling such people as Hemingway, Lincoln, and Churchill "misfits". I think that there are some lessons which can perhaps be learned from history, but I doubt that you have learned any of them.
Interesting report. I just can't help wondering though, whether or not institutionalization was better for the patient and society. Somehow, I would really lke to know if society was better off without having people with known violent tendencies loose in the general population. Expecting that patients requiring constant medication would actually take them requires a belief that the patients were actually going to go along with the program without any kind of supervision. It just seems a bit far-fetched to expect someone who denies having a problem will conscientiously take medication for a condition that he/she denies having in the first place. Just my opinion.Â
The dark history of psychiatric medicine has been
replaced by the new dark age of inadequate mental health care.
My experience shows there is still a huge stigma related to people with clinical depression and other forms of depression. It is a hush hush topic, wheras people with heart disease or diebetes, are given slaps on the back and good ol boy treatment. Have depression, people aviod you like the plague.
Shudder. Psychiatrists have no feelings.
The history of psychatric medicine was dark and still is. I never had a history of Mental Illness, then got put on them for stress, was divorced very soon after, the family does not talk to me, lost my job, my church and all my friends. Years later I have been off the stuff for 5 years and trying to put my life back together. Worse yet, the more you protest the more people think the shrinks were right. You can't win.
I'm hopeful that as genetic research improves and we are better able to identify those genes responsible for aberrant behaviors and mental illnesses we can systematically cull these misfits in vitro. I know that must sound harsh but who's to say there aren't some redeemable lessons to be learned from history?
 @Iast boyscout And you win...NAZI of the year award! With your psychopathic attitude, please be the first to stand in line to be culled, if this is how you wanna roll..
@ iast boyscout "...we can systematically cull these misfits in vitro."
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lol...not without the Corrections Corporation of America putting up a fight.
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@str1ngb3nd3r Yeah, gotta love the CCA... corrections for profit. Just as effective and moral as corporations that try to provide education for profit.
 @Iast boyscout Some of the genes "responsible for aberrant behaviors" are also responsible for genius and greatness in some people. Genetics is such a new science, and such a complex field, that I doubt that we will ever be able to pinpoint with scientific accuracy, which people will become violent. And yes, what you write does sound harsh because it IS "harsh". You are actually calling anyone with a mental illness, a "misfit" -- even someone with an anxiety order or depression, or even bipolar disease. And you are as well, calling such people as Hemingway, Lincoln, and Churchill "misfits". I think that there are some lessons which can perhaps be learned from history, but I doubt that you have learned any of them.
Interesting report. I just can't help wondering though, whether or not institutionalization was better for the patient and society. Somehow, I would really lke to know if society was better off without having people with known violent tendencies loose in the general population. Expecting that patients requiring constant medication would actually take them requires a belief that the patients were actually going to go along with the program without any kind of supervision. It just seems a bit far-fetched to expect someone who denies having a problem will conscientiously take medication for a condition that he/she denies having in the first place. Just my opinion.Â