@awaisaftab 4) (continued) Graduated interventions & minimizing drugs is a medicine best practice inimicable to #psychiatry. In fact, its expansion depends on the opposite. 5) Non-diagnostic formulations of what? Again, what is psychiatry's domain? All of human behavior? Rarified cases?
@awaisaftab When it comes to human emotions, yes, I think non-diagnostic formulations are more helpful than calling them diseases. Emotions are changeable. People can learn to manage them. #Psychiatric diagnosis pins individuals to a board like specimens.
@awaisaftab Most #psychiatry practices are filled with normal people with good jobs and health insurance, not rarefied cases or the wretched of the earth. Yes, it's a disgrace to medicine that #psychiatry gives those normal people diagnoses and takes their money for "treatment".
@awaisaftab The distribution of drugs in Brave New World or 1984 to keep workers calm and on the job -- is that a valid role for #psychiatry?
Cosmetic dentistry & cosmetic surgery are at least honest about what they do. Should #psychiatry have a subspecialty of cosmetic psychiatry?
Cosmetic dentistry & cosmetic surgery are at least honest about what they do. Should #psychiatry have a subspecialty of cosmetic psychiatry?
@awaisaftab About the grief diagnosis with a #psychiatrist friend (who is a maverick): They still miss their cats -- who died 16 years ago.
Grief is a normal emotion. It can lasts longer than a couple of weeks. It does not naturally transition into a rarefied case of major depression.
Grief is a normal emotion. It can lasts longer than a couple of weeks. It does not naturally transition into a rarefied case of major depression.
