Careful with this! I’ve had a friend who ended up in the psychiatry, he committed suicide later. The doctors didn’t help him they made things worse by giving him lots of medications with terrible side effects.
Beware selection bias, lots of people who have had psychological treatment later commit suicide, but thats because they are more likely to seek it in the first place. The same can be said about medical doctors, taken in isolation, they are involved in giving people horrible side effects, and a lot of their patients die anyway.
There’s a bunch of peer reviewed studies on the effectiveness of medication and counselling, that doesn’t mean it will always work, and that every practitioner is equally good, but its better than nothing.
(Sorry if I sound insensitive, I know its very traumatic to lose someone close to you, but there’s third party harm to spreading the idea people shouldn’t seek help in situations like this.)
Careful with this! I’ve had a friend who ended up in the psychiatry, he committed suicide later. The doctors didn’t help him they made things worse by giving him lots of medications with terrible side effects.
The track record for psychiatry is not very good.
Beware selection bias, lots of people who have had psychological treatment later commit suicide, but thats because they are more likely to seek it in the first place. The same can be said about medical doctors, taken in isolation, they are involved in giving people horrible side effects, and a lot of their patients die anyway.
There’s a bunch of peer reviewed studies on the effectiveness of medication and counselling, that doesn’t mean it will always work, and that every practitioner is equally good, but its better than nothing.
(Sorry if I sound insensitive, I know its very traumatic to lose someone close to you, but there’s third party harm to spreading the idea people shouldn’t seek help in situations like this.)
http://www.amazon.com/Mad-America-Medicine-Enduring-Mistreatment/dp/0465020143