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Re:Philosophy of Psychiatry (2015) by wu-ikkyu on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:05PM (#14737728)
>I'd love to be drill a hole in your well-protected cranium and stick a needle in your brain to obtain a sample to diagnose major depression, schizophrenia, or PTSD. Just a small sample, ok?. Let me know if you're ok with that

Sure it's okay, post mortem. Many scientists have tried this. Unfortuntely, you would not be able to make a conclusive diagnosis, because the science isn't there.

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Re:Philosophy of Psychiatry (2015) by refill_request on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:11PM (#14737775)
Post-mortem doesn't do much for your current debilitating panic disorder that makes it impossible to leave your home, now does it?

Please. Give us your plan for relief of suffering while we sit around twiddling our thumbs waiting because "the science isn't there."

The history of the entire field of medicine (including psychiatry, which is as much science and medicine as any other medical specialty) is a march from partial understanding based on classification of symptoms to other measures. The brain, hidden away behind bone and blood-brain barrier, has been called the most complex object in the known universe.

That machine and it's foibles is a little more complicated than finding a buffer overrun or swabbing your throat for strep.

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Re:Philosophy of Psychiatry (2015) by wu-ikkyu on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:37PM (#14738041)
>Please. Give us your plan for relief of suffering

"First, do no harm". Stop the dehumanization and torture that goes on in many mental institutions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/29gr27/redditors...

>The brain... the most complex object in the known universe

This is the honesty I'm looking for. It is disingenuous for psychiatry to claim to be "just as scientific" as medical pathology, because medical pathology has far fewer variables to control for, whereas the mind has virtually infinite variables to control for.

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