If there is to be a science or medical specialty of mind and behavior how should it be run? - There are many types of Psychology and Psychiatry

[Haim Arlosoroff]

There are many problems with modern medicine and study of our brain and behavior today where we treat the symptoms and not the cause. Where we suggest normal parts of human experience such as loneliness, grief, disappointment and sadness are reclassified as mental disordered if they affect someone too deeply or for too long. Where once we locked up patients for years and subjected them to testing rigorously, now we proscribe medication and give them a category to define themselves or their illness by with a hands-off approach to underlying causes. Where one in four women report being 'on psych meds' In other words, we poorly attempted to find causes before so now expertly give labels and categories of symptoms without looking and contextualizing the conditions in which the disorder developed.

Is this quick system helping or harming greater society and the individuals looking for a cure? Is there a simple catch-all to try first, a method of sorting easy answers and suggesting correctly of which to look deeper on? Do we simply have no answer to this issue but to either lock them all up or medicate them all?

 

[The Real SVP]

Rubber mallets. If everybody carried a little hammer to hit annoying people over the head with, the world would quickly run out of annoying people.

 

[Haim Arlosoroff]

Rubber mallets. If everybody carried a little hammer to hit annoying people over the head with, the world would quickly run out of annoying people.

It would get the right people to pay attention.

 

[Lone MacReady]

It's called propaganda and it has been around for centuries.

 

[Just A Butt]

Is this the part where you light something on fire to raise awareness?

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Rubber mallets. If everybody carried a little hammer to hit annoying people over the head with, the world would quickly run out of annoying people.

2nd Amendment. An armed society is a polite society.

 

[Pimpleking55]

Dissect them and poke their brains with electrodes,

 

[Lemmingwise]

Is this quick system helping or harming greater society and the individuals looking for a cure? Is there a simple catch-all to try first, a method of sorting easy answers and suggesting correctly of which to look deeper on? Do we simply have no answer to this issue but to either lock them all up or medicate them all?

I think Huxley said it best when talking about the coming revolution of antidepressants back in the 70s:

(Paraphrasing slightly)

"People that take antidepressants might be happy, but it also means they'll be happy in situations where perhaps they ought not be"

If you eliminate people's natural responses, of course things are easier to take off the rails. You might even see widespread lockdowns and curfews with only minimal resistance.

 

[NoSpiceLife]

It should be completely separate from science.

The mind as an organism should be the realm of technological science. If there is a disorder to be had, there should be (there is now starting to be) the technology to diagnose those physical changes.

Psychology itself needs to be delegated back into the 'counselling' realms. Dealing with the coping mechanisms, the relationships, anything that is emotional. They should not be diagnosing anything, they should only be the possible gateway (not gatekeeping), along with GPs, to further testing, to scientifically diagnose the actual disorder.