I was sort of joking. I think it was really a rabid raccoon, but its fur was really patchy.
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trysts wrote:
It's my fault, sometimes I don't think too well and start insensitive threads. Sorry
That damn movie thread takes forever to read!
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ProfessorProfesesen wrote:
I don't think you understand him, or Rand; and why they are different. F..k this or that, is not an argument.
Helluvan assumption there.
Nowhere did I read f this or that.
Whip_Kitten wrote:
Aww, looks like it needs a milk bone
It's not so cute when it's pissed off and attacking your dog!
Apr 11, 2015
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Whip_Kitten wrote:
I'm getting too worked up about this. I'll just say I disagree and move on.
Can I ask you to stop talking about Szasz. I find it triggering. Thanks.
Sorry. I should have tried harder to explain things.
Before the psychologist Marsha Linehan made her breakthrough in the treatment of BPD, it was accepted that BPD was untreateable. And not long before that, they used to just lock people up in padded rooms.
The care of people was atrocious. It was only through criticism from within psychiatry, and outside of it that patients are now treated with respect and dignity.
Yes, I agree with you that without the current care, people could end up homeless.
The intention of the author in my previous post was to return the humanity and dignity to the patient. His writings were directed towards other psychiatrists.
The old model of viewing patients was that something was broken inside them. The model that was being proposed was that patients were working something out. Something that was deep, difficult, personal and painful; and the psychiatrist job was to help them to reach a healthy resoulution. Even if it took a long time, the psychiatrist cannot force a 'cure'.
Psychiatry has come a long way, especially with the works of people like Linehan and S, where the well being, and dignity of the patient is put first.
For the triggers the defusion techniques they use in Acceptance and Comittment Therapy has been found to be effective.
Apr 11, 2015
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#68
AlCzervik wrote:
ProfessorProfesesen wrote:
I don't think you understand him, or Rand; and why they are different. F..k this or that, is not an argument.
Helluvan assumption there.
Nowhere did I read f this or that.
I think the comment got deleted. You must have not read it then; and assumed that I assumed. It happens.
Apr 11, 2015
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I don't think psychologists and psychiatrists are going to learn anything about 'care', if they keep using those who are most in need and weak, to make money off them. I don't know how anyone can take money from a depressed patient. I understand that the psych needs to eat, but still...it is such a deceit.
1 in 4 of the population - big business.
It's not just the psych industry that's to blame. There are many parents that are seeking/hoping for a diagnosis for their kid so they have an excuse for the child's behavior.
No time wasting!? What's the penalty for trespassing in a closed forum? I need to know so I can decide if I should go do something productive or risk staying here.
why?
Apr 12, 2015
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#79
Pdela just can't close threads when he feels like it. We'll call that a yellow offence:
Apr 14, 2015
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/diary-of-a-high-function/
Elyn Saks is a law professor at the University of Southern California, a Marshall scholar, and a graduate of Yale Law School. She also suffers from schizophrenia -- an illness that many would assume makes her impressive resume an impossibility. In 2007, she published an acclaimed memoir of her struggle with the disease, “The Center Cannot Hold.” Her book is a frank and moving portrait of the experience of schizophrenia, but also a call for higher expectations -- a plea that we allow people with schizophrenia to find their own limits.
So basically we're judging how insane people are to us based upon the pool of people we've known. I imagine that there are people who cheat. That they act insane to get a higher rating. But they're perfectly capable of rational thought, and it's probably their confidence in being rational at will which enables them to delve into insanity for some kind of self-pleasure.
I turned off my insanity function (set my drink down), and I'm thinking that rational thought is like common sense-not so common.
(now, where's that drink!)