So what's the deal with psychiatry? Is it evidence-based?

>>8121319
I've seen several psychiatrists and none of them was able to cure my depression.

>>8121319
It is but the evidence is only able to show that it works on average but not how it actually works.

>>8121529
This.
It's like astrology, basically.

>>8121543
Astrology works and produces results? This is news to me.

>>8121605
Yeah its like a placebo. If you believe, it does something. Basically all of these things are rooted in the divine power of God.

>>8121605
The predictions are vague enough that on average it works.

>>8121319
It's real science, but our understanding of the brain is not advanced enough to have sound treatments for mental illnesses.

Most of todays psychiatric treatments are like trying to fix a bug in your web browser by upping the voltage on the CPU.

Psychiatry in a nutshell is the purple glasses. What psychiatry do is trying to break your brain function to distort the perception of reality.
Real world problems, Shit life, poor, wageslave, no future? No problem, take pill.

>>8121659
Precisely this. When the desired outcome is defined vaguely enough, it is simple to claim success. While neuroscience might actually be a science, psychiatry is voodoo and magic pills.

>>8121659
>>8121927
"It seems to work on average because of positive bias" and "it works on average" are completely different things.

>>8121682
Ha thats kind of true...it seems like psychiatrists got tired of doing their job...

Considering that all a modern psychiatrist does is push downer pills, I'd say it's bullshit

>>8122326
Except when they give you uppers.

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>tell psychiatrist about my suicide
>he literally doesn't know how to help me
>only forces me to promise I won't do it or else he is obliged to commit me to a hospital

Just tell me that depression is uncurable cancer of the soul. Don't pretend you can treat it.

>>8122380
what do you expect your psychiatrist to do when you already committed suicide? he can't bring you back to life.

>>8122380

Why are you depressed anon?

Why do you see suicide as the only viable alternative to anything else to fix your problems?

>>8121682

>Most of todays psychiatric treatments are like trying to fix a bug in your web browser by upping the voltage on the CPU

what is this shit even supposed to mean?

>>8122397

His analogy is retarded, but I think he means what was said above about them only giving you either uppers or downers to treat every problem.

ADHD is treated by giving the kid a huge dose of uppers, which helps them focus.

Nothing in psychiatry or psychology is curable or even really treatable. You just chemically castrate the person until it's not a problem anymore.

>>8122394
My life only consists of contempt, hatred and disgust. This is what I receive from the enemies around me, and it is what I feel for them.

>>8122380
do it faggot, one less shitposter

>>8122416
>rom the enemies around me,

What enemies?

I can tell you're young, so what kind of "enemies do you even have?

>>8122458
Almost everyone is my enemy. But I guess women are the worst.