How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices

Re:How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices by h_tbob on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:27PM (#41441000)

I always say that psychiatrists of today are the equivalent of doctors in the 1500s. They can give you basic advice, but because we don’t yet have a scientific understanding of consciousness, we can’t effectively treat problems therein.

Therefore wisdom indicates we should all have an open mind when discussing these matters. As we figured out germs and bacteria, I hope we will figure out these issues as well.

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Re:How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices by curryberto on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:24AM (#41442474)

You can be experiencing full blown mania, and the psychiatrist can give you an anti-psychotic which will bring back to earth in a few hours. Then they can put you on a medication regimen where you stop having manic episodes. I would say it's much further along than doctors in the 1500s.

The mechanisms are not clear, which is not unusual in medicine, but the treatments are very effective.

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Re:How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices by loa_in_ on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @09:18AM (#41445420)

Often the reasoning goes the other way though. We have no idea what's going on but If a patient responded well to antidepressants of all things, that means we diagnose him with depression.

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