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| Topic | Is Depression a state of mind/weakness or legitimate mental disorder? |
| BlameAnesthesia 06/05/18 4:15:14 AM #140: | But if you're still not a believer TC, go ahead and put your money where your mouth is. Go and try and shadow a psychiatrist at your local county hospital. Get some exposure to truly sick patients. Even better if you go more than once and get the opportunity to follow a patient's course in an inpatient environment. You'll see a change in affect from an outsider's perspective from not being on treatment vs being on treatment. It's a pretty astonishing difference. You'll also observe the sicker patients tend to have very poor insight into their own illness. They will claim nothing is wrong and that they don't need the medication. But watch and see how far off the rail a truly manic bipolar patient can go versus how much more capable they are of controlling their life while on a mood stabilizer, for example. It's one of those things you just have to see for yourself, but unfortunately a lot of people remain ignorant about mental health as a whole. So many myths. Either way, most likely you're just trolling so this massive rant is more for the benefit of a genuine reader who may stumble across. Psychiatry is way more advanced than random people on the internet give it credit for. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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