Are some medical fields based on faulty practice?

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To be honest, everybody could be given some diagnosis or another, but there are some people who are legitimately sick. And, I mean, you could ask who's really able to be deemed sick, or not, but I think what it really comes down to is "are you a potential threat to yourself or another person?" A man who's talking to himself might be diagnosed with schizophrenia, but is he really ill? He might be. A psychiatrist could say he is, but unless he's harming enough person or causing some disturbance, then it's whatever. I mean, I think we all have a little bit of sickness inside our heads. The only difference is when you're unable to live in society. So, it it real? Maybe. I mean, how can mental illness be proven? It really can't. I mean, there's criteria you have to meet. But, I've met the criteria for about 20 different illnesses. Even ones that contradict each other. So, I guess the thing is, who knows. If psychiatry helps you, that's cool. If you don't need psychiatric help, or can do better without it, that's whatever, too. Like, I said before, it all comes down to whether or not you're able to function in society. (Sorry, about the rambling :/)

[523206720]

They classified me as mentally ill because I had obscure religious beliefs and now the psychiatrist knows he made a mistake but is too ashamed to admit it. He just tries to dodge my dad whenever my father bugs him to give him an appointment with me. I'm trying to figure out what to do because I can't afford a liar to undo this.

[Anonymous]

You're mentally ill when your behavior doesn't allow you to relate to other people normally nor be productive to society. You're mentally ill and dangerous when that behavior puts you or other people in danger.

A CEO might be, to some point, a psychopath, but his behavior gives more money to shareholders and make the company more competitive, and that's considered good for society. This is one of the problems of letting money rule the world and measure everything in money value. Alas, at least in the USA, if you speak against those practices you'll be labeled and accused of communism by those same poor wretch employees. A lot of hypocrisy and self-destructive behavior, but nothing we didn't ask for.

[ladsin]

not always I mean psychiatry is actually an interesting field of medicine... and there are some serious mental illnesses, ie schizophrenia etc. but I think some are kinda made up ie bipolar disorder which basically means people can just fly off the handle and say well it's because I have bipolar. I knew a kid that if his parents just disciplined him he wouldn't have acted the way he did...

[Anonymous]

No, I don't think psychiatry, as a whole, seeks to control people.

I do think some people take things too far, constantly proclaiming some sort of mental illness, as a way to get attention, but honestly, there really are a lot of mentally ill people in the world.

I've seen it and worked with it... it's real. They aren't always making it up, neither are the specialists.

[Ultima]

I think Chiropractic is like that.

many think its just a big scam to make you keep going back over and over: link

[Anonymous]

QA: I just read this question and your comments throughout. Yikes! You need to get over your aversion to psychiatry because you some. You're a freakin' nutter!

[Anonymous]

"Isn't it a fact that psychiatry seeks to control people and arbitrarily deem who is ill or not?"

No, that is false. Wherever did you get such a backward idea?