I have formed a distrust of Psychiatry..

[Entropy82]

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[dysert]

I guess it depends on how you define pseudoscience. It's true that they don't know specifically the mechanism of action of some drugs for some conditions. Otoh, there are *numerous* studies and peer-reviewed papers that show a correlation between, say, taking a certain dose of Lithium and a reduction of bipolar disorder's symptoms (for many people).

I personally know a psychiatrist, and I see a psychiatrist every 6 months for a med check. They're good guys who practice what they've learned. And the doc I see every 6 months essentially saved my life with the cocktail he put together.

So no, it's not pseudoscience. It's more like science/art.

 

[Entropy82]

Then why is psychiatry argued as the least science based of the medical specialties. Pseudoscience is often defined by the use of vague, exaggerated or unprovable claims. I used to trust and believe psychiatrists but am starting to distrust them because it was fabricated about me being psychotic this year to get me to resume antipsychotics. I’m not on them now and haven’t really been for around two years. Obviously, I can’t prove that on a forum, but I believe and know psychiatry gets things wrong with my own experiences with them.

 

[dysert]

Then why is psychiatry argued as the least science based of the medical specialties. Pseudoscience is often defined by the use of vague, exaggerated or unprovable claims. I used to trust and believe psychiatrists but am starting to distrust them because it was fabricated about me being psychotic this year to get me to resume antipsychotics. I’m not on them now and haven’t really been for around two years. Obviously, I can’t prove that on a forum, but I believe and know psychiatry gets things wrong with my own experiences with them.

Psychiatry does get things wrong, but so do the more "hard" science medical specialties. A good psychiatrist will be up front about it being trial and error and that they aren't sure how the meds work. I have to wonder, in whose interest would it be for someone to try to get you to resume antipsychotics? Write it off to a bad experience, but don't paint all psychiatrists with the same brush.

 

[Entropy82]

Yeah true I shouldn’t paint all psychiatrists with the same brush. I think some private psychiatrists are trying to help people. I don’t think it was in my interest they were trying to help me by trying to put me back on antipsychotics. On their report to the turbinal their case to put me on antipsychotics was not that I’m threat to myself but a threat to others. Although I’ve suffered suicidal ideation I found it extremely hurtful and outright offensive they written I’m a threat to others as a case to put me on AP’S. Because of the diagnosis of schizophrenia I was given in 2010. I have no criminal record never even contemplated violence.

The symptoms I had in 2010 disappeared once I stopped my interest and obsession in the occult. My case was an unusual one as a couple of the hospital intake nurses did believe I was being oppressed and they were Christian. It was my ex-wife and her parents that presented me to the emergency ward where she worked anyway. I refused to say what was happening to me to the doctors as I knew they would label me “insane”. So, her and her parents did the talking and they made the diagnosis. I did observe a couple of things back then that even now I can’t come up with a rational explanation. i.e. physical movement of objects. Maybe I’m being delusional and I wouldn’t I wouldn’t tell them this but I think in (some cases) mental illness can be misdiagnosed where something spiritual might be meddling. I mean it is written Jesus did remove demons out of people. What’s to say this isn’t true? He was either who said he was or he was or mentally ill himself. But he turned the world upside down...I find it hard to accept it was done by an insane person.

 

[jesusandrainbows]

People lie, crazy stuff happens.
I was illegally arrested once, directly after mentioning to God that my life lacked excitement and I would like a ride in the back of a cop car, but not to go to jail.
Why were you hospitalized this last time? What was going on? I can tell you if it was Psychosis or not, probably.

 

[jesusandrainbows]

Also, sometimes what seems spiritual is in fact psychosis (aka schizophrenia). It took awhile for me to figure this out; I generally stick to the rule that: real things are God, and not-real things are schizophrenia. Hopefully my schizophrenia never gets so bad that the not-real things look real... I believe that can happen. :c If you smoke weed, stop.

 

[jesusandrainbows]

God could totally levitate stuff. I mean, He's God.
But I've seen a stuffed owl move it's head. It looked real. Looking back, I think this was schizophrenia (especially because of all the psychosis going on during that particular day).

 

[jesusandrainbows]

God has gotten through to me via hallucination, however. I mean, this might just be something you need to figure out on your own and pray to God about.
Remember:
If something is telling you to kill others, it is not God. If something is telling you to kill yourself, it is not God. If something is telling you to lie, it is not God. God has communicated to me to change my thinking, which is different. Stick to these. If something is telling you to harm yourself or others, you might want to go to the hospital for safety reasons. Nothing wrong with that. Better than prison or hell.

 

[jesusandrainbows]

Stay out of the occult and follow God.