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Mutt · 12-16-2012, 07:02 PM

Don't blame the health care system, it is naive to do that if you know anything about the the personality disorders/behaviours we call for lack of anything better 'mental illness'. This mother is a working journalist with healthcare insurance. The system isn't failing her or her son. Medical science is - read the different disorders she mentions, those aren't diseases the same way diabetes or cancer are diseases. They are a group of symptoms/behaviours that the medical profession assigns a name to. Medical science has barely scratched the surface in its understanding of the brain/mind. According to this mother her son's behaviour could fit in with any number of these made up disorders/diseases. Doctors are arrogant people, they won't admit to the parent or to the public at large 'the kid's disturbed, something isn't right but the hell if I know what's really wrong with him'. At this point in time all they have is behavioral therapy and drug therapy, with the big pharmaceutical companies pushing their latest psychiatric wonder drugs on doctors and parents - even though most of them don't work, and in some cases make things worse. People want to believe that there is a treatment that works for kids like this, but it just isn't so. We accept sadly that many cancers are untreatable, in the end they kill our loved ones and us ourselves. We refuse to accept it with mental illness, especially with young people, we must blame everything else, their parents, society and culture, our enviroment, our foods and none of them may really be to blame in many if not most of these cases.

What to do with people like this? Exactly what is being done for this mother's son, you try - the drugs, the talk/behavioral therapy, the hospitalizations, the special programs at schools. And it's not working. Because most likely it can't work. If you really don't know what the problem is the chances of solving the problem aren't very great. We read about 'chemical imbalances', psychiatrists really don't know shit at this point about those, it's a vague term they throw around that makes us and them feel better about the situation and the drug companies love. This mother's son could be the next Adam Lanza and we can do nothing about it. We can't lock him away in a hospital for the rest of his life. For every Adam Lanza who goes on a killing spree there are 100,000 others like him who won't, they'll just spend their lives in and out of treatment that doesn't work, terrifying their families.

A mother's cry for help, what if there really is no help?

12-16-2012, 07:02 PM
Mutt Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34,431	Don't blame the health care system, it is naive to do that if you know anything about the the personality disorders/behaviours we call for lack of anything better 'mental illness'. This mother is a working journalist with healthcare insurance. The system isn't failing her or her son. Medical science is - read the different disorders she mentions, those aren't diseases the same way diabetes or cancer are diseases. They are a group of symptoms/behaviours that the medical profession assigns a name to. Medical science has barely scratched the surface in its understanding of the brain/mind. According to this mother her son's behaviour could fit in with any number of these made up disorders/diseases. Doctors are arrogant people, they won't admit to the parent or to the public at large 'the kid's disturbed, something isn't right but the hell if I know what's really wrong with him'. At this point in time all they have is behavioral therapy and drug therapy, with the big pharmaceutical companies pushing their latest psychiatric wonder drugs on doctors and parents - even though most of them don't work, and in some cases make things worse. People want to believe that there is a treatment that works for kids like this, but it just isn't so. We accept sadly that many cancers are untreatable, in the end they kill our loved ones and us ourselves. We refuse to accept it with mental illness, especially with young people, we must blame everything else, their parents, society and culture, our enviroment, our foods and none of them may really be to blame in many if not most of these cases. What to do with people like this? Exactly what is being done for this mother's son, you try - the drugs, the talk/behavioral therapy, the hospitalizations, the special programs at schools. And it's not working. Because most likely it can't work. If you really don't know what the problem is the chances of solving the problem aren't very great. We read about 'chemical imbalances', psychiatrists really don't know shit at this point about those, it's a vague term they throw around that makes us and them feel better about the situation and the drug companies love. This mother's son could be the next Adam Lanza and we can do nothing about it. We can't lock him away in a hospital for the rest of his life. For every Adam Lanza who goes on a killing spree there are 100,000 others like him who won't, they'll just spend their lives in and out of treatment that doesn't work, terrifying their families. A mother's cry for help, what if there really is no help? __________________ I moved my sites to Vacares Hosting. I've saved money, my hair is thicker, lost some weight too! Thanks Sly!