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Originally Posted by peter12
On topic though - I think things like mental illness do exist, but we tend to over-diagnose them, which waters down the overall concept. Also, I don't really think that pharmacological treatments really work, and probably even have really adverse effects.
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Okay, Peter, and from which institution did you receive your degrees in pharmacology and psychology again? Do you realize how awful this post is? One of the biggest problems facing mentally ill people is the fear that people don't believe they're actually mentally ill, and one of the most common things they'll hear from others is "Oh you're not mentally ill, you've misdiagnosed. You just need to do x."
Your comments about pharmacology treatments are particularly ignorant and actually downright dangerous. Do you have any concept of what can happen to someone with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, severe depression, etc. if they stop taking their medications? At minimum their symptoms can return, at maximum it can be fatal (suicide). What you're doing is basically the equivalent of the clowns who loudly try to convince those with cancer to try alternative medicine instead of chemotherapy, or my idiot friend, who told me that I should stop taking my Crohn's medication and just drink Kombucha.
In other words, you're talking out of your ass.