Posted by spike4848 on February 23, 2002, at 18:50:28
In reply to I dont relate well to the mental health community, posted by OldSchool on February 22, 2002, at 21:22:41
Hey Old School,
Yeah, we have talked about this before. The field of Psychiatry is wasting away, while Neurology is taking its place. The only way Psychiatrist can drum up business is convince patients that "medicines are bad and only covering up the problem" ..... basically making the public feel guilty about taking medications that are necessary for a *medical* disease-depression.
While I am going through my med trials to try and find something that doesn't have all the side effects of nardil, I have been seeing a social worker from the clinic I work at. After seeing and talking to me, he is convinced depression is a medical disease. He has asked me to speak, as a physician, to his group therapy patients about the *benefits* of meds. Can you believe that, a therapist is asking me to trash psychotherapy and plug meds. He has seen the light.
Spike
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