Mad In America - The Alternative To Psychiatry

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https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/05/alternative-psychiatry-discovered/

 

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"Where does psychiatric drug treatment fit this model? As psychotropic agents, it is difficult to see drugs as anything but another emotional control strategy. It is self-evident that drugs may work if they can introduce some sense of controllability and numb the emotional pain that is experienced as both incomprehensible and overwhelming. The problem is obvious: While reducing distress (or ‘symptoms’) and improving mood, the drugs risk confirming and reinforcing the underlying problematic beliefs of uncontrollability, durability, and incomprehensibility.

 

Put simply, it is impossible to genuinely experience that one’s emotions need not escalate and overwhelm, but can be tolerated and controlled (which is the aim of psychotherapy), if the emotional episode is medically terminated or numbed. Furthermore, as emotions are usually meaningful reactions to current contexts or past events replaying in the mind, which psychotherapy is about figuring out, the emotionally numbing drugs may even interrupt the therapeutic process—even when the drugs ‘improve mood’. Symptom reduction is not necessarily good. It depends on how the symptoms are reduced."