Comments on: Do You Believe Psychiatry Is A Joke/scam?

By: Janette

Janette — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:10:10 +0000

It’s time tested, approved and scientifically designed discipline and is no joke/scam.Try it.

By: God of Dreams

God of Dreams — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:16:33 +0000

NOT AT ALL I HAVE SEEN ALOT OF PSYCHIATRIST AND IT HELPED ME, BUT IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THEM THEY SUCK.ALL THEY TRY TO DO IS GIVE YOU A BUNCH OF MEDS AND WON’T LET YOU DO THE TALKING WHICH IS WHY YOU ARE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:29:36 +0000

No, it is there for those who legitimately need help, but the clientele is full of teenagers who are going through perfectly normal changes. So it may seem like BS to someone without a mental imbalance.
It is extremely useful and life changing, not everyone has a friend to talk to,
Not every problem can be solved with talking, medication is necessary in few, but i disagree with the widespread medications to numb our youth.

By: Derrick L

Derrick L — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:43:58 +0000

No it’s not a scam but that also doesn’t mean that it will work for everyone.
It depends on 2 things; The psychiatrist and The person…
Some psychiatrists SUCK and some are great and if you talk to the great one’s patients, youll see that some will say that psychiatry litearlly saved their lives while others will say that it didn’t help at ALL.
The same concept goes for psychology. It’s impossible for psychiatry to be a scam because it makes completely logical sense;
There are many people out there with mental issues and out of those people, there are a lot of them that the cause of it is due to a chemical imbalance in their brain (the most common being low levels of serotonin). A psychiatrist can prescribe medications that attempt to balance the chemicals out back to normal (the most common being SSRIs which increase the level of serotinin by blocking the reuptake of it). So for the people that DO have something chemically wrong, it makes complete sense. For those who don’t, they are out of luck and get sent to a psychologist so they can “talk” about issues instead in attempt to work them out (which doesn’t work for everyone).
So no, it’s definitely NOT a joke or scam… but it definitely doesn’t work for everyone either~

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:14:32 +0000

No, I do not believe psychiatry is a joke. Psychiatry can be very important when used in the correct way. Psychiatrists often get a bad rep because their main job is prescribing medications. This is not as bad as most people believe it to be. I will admit that some things may be a bit over prescribed. But in the long run psychiatry is a good thing. Now the prescribing of the medications will not work if the patient does not take or take it as prescribed. The other side to this is most will not prescribe without the patient going to see a psychologists for therapy as well. Medications prescribed will not work 100 % alone. It usually always works the best when used in combination of therapy with a psychologist.