Tamiflu warning

[kahljorn]

"Should it come as a surprise that this is also the viewpoint expressed by the psychiatric community at large?"

lol. I happen to know from experience this isn't true at all. Do you know how the "psychiatric community" actually functions, especially as far as medicine goes? "Hmm, this and this sound like this, so we'll give them this pill and see if it helps.. if not we'll give them another!". Situations like that occur often.
I happen to know for a fact that they prescribe medicine without knowing exactly what kind of a condition you have. I was prescribed three medicines: mood stablizer, anti-psychotic and an anti-depressant the first day I walked into a mental institution. Same thing has happened at others. Without having analyzed me for an extensive period how could they have possibly known? I'm sure they did it for "Everyone's safety" or something like that, but all the same it completely voids everything you just said.

For the most part, psychiatry is a very loose science in the first place... how can you ever really know what's going on in a person's mind except externally? That right there is enough to support what I'm saying.

I could walk to any mental health facility and get medicine right now without showing i have any real conditions. Just like I could goto a doctor and pretend I have extreme shoulder pains and get pain medication. I could also goto a grocery store and buy pain medication that has just as many side-effects as prescribed medicine.

You're stupid.

"Or are you saying that "safe" alternatives should be tried regardless of efficacy?"

How do you know the efficacy, did you read the part where i said medicines are good in the right circumstances, and did you know that an improper diet can cause certain mental illnesses? Shit, not excercising or getting sun is known to cause depression. Those are alot safer than prescribing suicidal anti-suicide pills just because someone's lazy.

I don't know why idiots like you always think everything I say is going to be true in every possible situation in a million universes, but it's annoying and trite. What are you, children? Learn to read, then maybe develop some kind of common sense to figure things out on your own, you mindless fuck.

I don't hold any support to this claim, however:

"Some have considered many of the more elaborate forms of mental illness to be iatrogenic, recently including dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, and recovered memory syndrome. According to this belief, patients in therapy, who may initially have depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, respond to suggestion by the therapist by filling in the other expected symptoms of these disorders. This is why critics of dissociative identity disorder claim that the vast number of such case are found by just a few psychiatrists and psychologists."

What exactly is your idea of a "Safe" alternative? Because my idea of it is to actually try to get a person healthy. Once a person's body is actually functioning properly they can usually manage to heal themselves.