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Incal
That's a tough one... I'd try to avoid the anglosphere as much as possible... but if I didn't have any other option... dunno, I'd assume canucks are not as mentally sick as yanks but it seems they are starting to catch up and I'm not a fan of freezing weather... OTOH I got many relatives in FL, and there are many middle class latin american areas which make them into some sort of "bubbles" where the chances to find weirdos decrease drastically. Also, no fucking dems. So maybe FL, USA.
'mental sickness' is a pathetic middle class euphemism that does correspond to objective scientific reality. The wall of the mind is intangible and the mind is metaphysical so it can't literally be 'sick' that is why psychiatrists use weasel words such as 'disorder'.
physicians view psychiatrists as somewhat feral animals. We suspect—with some justification—that many of their ideas are hot air. Unlike any other specialty, psychiatrists take care of people with normal labs and radiologic tests. They keep only patients with purely subjective problems. Psychiatrists pass patients who have “organic” issues such as thyroid disease to others. These are the ones with identifiable physical signs, symptoms, and tests. Likewise, psychiatrists base treatment outcomes solely on their theories and observing patient behavior rather than on measurable, objective results
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No other specialty has a sizable group of protesters who oppose their legitimacy. These include not only Scientologists, but psychologists, scientists, journalists, and a few renegade psychiatrists. These “psychiatry deniers” believe that most psychiatric drugs used today are harmful, ineffective, and vastly overprescribed. They question the specialty’s power to lock people up and force them to take damaging medications based only on their opinions.--Doctor Robert Yoho, Butchered by Healthcare
Psychiatry is the drug industry's paradise, as definitions of psychiatric disorders are vague and easy to manipulate. Leading psychiatrists are... at high risk of corruption and, indeed, psychiatrists collect more money from drug makers than doctors in any other specialty. Those who take the most money tend to prescribe antipsychotics to children most often. Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry's hospitality more often than any other specialty. This has dire consequences for the patients.
Peter Gøtzsche, Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime (2013)
The DSM is a kind of chaotic bible used to promote mental diseases. With its code numbers used for insurance, some call it the billing bible. Created primarily by psychiatrists on industry payroll, it mutates and metastasizes every few years through a vote of the APA members. In 2017, after many editions, it was 947 pages long.--Doctor Robert Yoho, Butchered by Healthcare
Regarding the psychiatric bible the DSM :
There was very little systematic research, and much of the research that existed was really a hodgepodge—scattered, inconsistent, and ambiguous. I think the majority of us recognized that the amount of good, solid science upon which we were making our decisions was pretty modest.
Christopher Lane in Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (2007),
quoting one of the DSM's contributors.
I pictured all these normal-enough people being captured in DSM-5’s excessively wide diagnostic net, and I worried that many would be exposed to unnecessary medicine with possibly dangerous side effects. The drug companies would be licking their chops figuring out how best to exploit the inviting new targets for their well-practiced disease mongering. I was keenly alive to the risks because of painful firsthand experience—despite our efforts to tame excessive diagnostic exuberance, DSM-IV had since been misused to blow up the diagnostic bubble.
Allen Frances, lead psychiatrist, DSM IV, author, Saving Normal (2013)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2013 finally tossed the DSM—psychiatry’s diagnostic system—into the wastebasket.
Bruce E. Levine, psychologist and journalist.
Of the 170 contributors to the most recent edition of the ... DSM... ninety-five had financial ties to drug companies, including all of the contributors to the sections on mood disorders and schizophrenia… Not only did the DSM become the bible of psychiatry, but like the real Bible, it depended a lot on something akin to revelation. There are no citations of scientific studies to support its decisions. That is an astonishing omission.
Marcia Angell (2011), former editor-in-chief of NEJM.
The DSM’s diagnostic categories lack validity, and the NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories.
Former NIMH Director Thomas Insel
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