Title: 10 Biggest Problems with Psychiatry - Mental Health Daily
Headings: 10 Biggest Problems with Psychiatry
10 Biggest Problems with Psychiatry
10 Biggest Problems with Psychiatry
1. Inaccurate diagnoses
2. “Chemical imbalance” theories
3. Prescribing temporary “patches”
4. Poor understanding of pharmaceutical drugs
5. Failure to look at the brain
6. Overprescription of dangerous drugs
7. Lack of empathy
8. Perverse incentives
9. Failure to consider individualized neurophysiology
10. Outdated practices & misinformation
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Content: The job of a psychiatrist is to accurately assess the individual, properly diagnosing them with a mental illness or neurological condition. Following diagnosis, the psychiatrist will generally write up a prescription for a drug that is most likely to address the diagnosed condition. The prescription pill is believed to help an individual get “back on track” with his or her life. Unfortunately, many patients visit a psychiatrist thinking that the psychiatrist is some omniscient “cure” god and that the prescribed medications will “cure” their mental illness. 10 Biggest Problems with Psychiatry
While psychiatry can be beneficial as a last-resort option, it should never be considered a first-resort. The field of psychiatry is riddled with problems including: misdiagnoses, incentivized prescriptions, and theorized prescribing of drugs. Turning to a psychiatrist to correct your neurochemistry is like turning to a mechanic to fix your car – except the mechanic cannot look under the hood to determine the specific problem. 1. Inaccurate diagnoses
The biggest problem with psychiatry is when individuals are misdiagnosed and/or wrongfully diagnosed with conditions they don’t actually have.