See, all things are relative.
I wouldn't say I agree with all things 'Hubbard', but I believe in the science and psychology of the mind and it's direct relation to the human body.
A psychiatrists job is to
prescribe medicine.
Anyone can walk into a session- tell them where you're at emotionally and where you'd like to be- and a psychiatrist will prescribe you something to take you there, without any x-ray, or even checking your blood pressure.
The usual session of Q & Fucking A goes like this:
Q. How are you with money? Do you spend it radically, or do you save it?
Q. Do you sleep well at night, or do you toss and turn?
Q. Loss of appetite? Over eating?
Q. Drink, smoke, use drugs?
Q How close are you to your family?
Total, there's 25 possible answers- 24 of them will get you a prescription. There's a statistic flying around that some 90-95% of all psychiatric patients walk out the door with a prescription.
But you know, for the most part, they (phsychaitrists) probably believe in their method of treatment. But it really doesn't work- they just get high and fugeddaboudit. They'll be taking medication their whole life and never see a cure. Any you know, any kind of drug you put into your body is just going to add to your dopamine levels...
Here's a simple
psychiatric rating scale. Basically, if you don't rank a 3 in every question, you need medication.
Media doesn't have much ground, so people aren't going to give Tom or Southpark the serious reaction they wants. After all, he was a Vampire in that one movie and Southpark is a cartoon.
All and all, I'm suck and tired of people talking about fields they are not educated in
AS IF they actually knew something about it.
So fucking prescribe your children Ritalin. They don't play well with others.