Posted by Defective on July 14, 2011, at 13:08:04
In reply to I consider people on Psych Meds to be drug addicts, posted by Huxley on July 6, 2011, at 22:13:03
What you are doing in your headline is called generalizing. In your narcissistic world, your experience may be the experience of everyone else, but in reality it's not. Making statements like you have is irresponsible and has resulted in hundreds thousands of unnecessary suicides. Psychiatry is a well-founded science that has saved an infinite amount of lives. It's not a perfect science, but neither is any other science. What we know now may evolve as it has for centuries. That's no reason to poke holes in it or say "see this guy got addicted to sleeping pills. Psychiatry is bad." Surgeries are botched all the time because biological understanding is also imperfect. That doesn't mean a person with a huge cancerous mass should avoid surgery. What have you done with your life besides spread misleading propoganda? Are you the arbiter of scientific validity? Are you a scientist? Have you even stepped foot in a University that exists offline? I'm not being antagonistic, but you need to realize that spreading propaganda like this will actually result in people killing themselves or others. Go to any major university in your area and do your research on psychiatry before claiming to know everything about it from a negative personal experience. As an alumnus of my university, I have access to any psychiatric literature within our electronic scholarly database that you might want to see and I would be happy to send it to you and even pay for shipping as long as you read them with an open mind. I'm very sorry you had a bad experience, but choose a more accurate headline next time. Have a good day and please don't consider this anything other than offer to enlighten you.
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