In Merica we could have just as easily ended up with a mental health system that used the Homeopathic Constitutional Types to diagnose mental problems, if not for the oil-money backed Pharmeceutical industry largely killing the practice of Homeopathy here (or at the very least killing the respect it still held in the early 1900s as an equally valid school of medicine).
Hardly. Homeopathy is complete nonsense. You don't need the pharmaceutical industry to tell you that, a class in high-school chemistry will do.
Homeopaths actually go into a lot more detail about the patient as a whole to diagnose their “type” than Psychiatry generally does to diagnose your “disorder”.
It doesn't matter how much effort the homeopaths put into "diagnosis", if the treatment does nothing. Quacks have to spend more time on the sideshow, to distract from the fact that they're selling placebo as a cure-all.
Neurology really is the future of mental treatment.
Funny that antidepressants serve the function of modifying brain chemistry. I'm not going to claim that the pharmaceutical industry is exactly a model of virtue, but things have improved since the days of trepanning and electroshock.
What do you think a neurology-based treatment for mental illness would look like?
I don’t know, was more trying to say that hopefully in the future medications will work better, be less harmful, and psychiatric issues will be diagnosed in a less pseudo-scientific way, maybe using actual brain scans instead of just depending on the Doctor’s subjective observations within a usually very short visit, and the patients subjective reports. Because right now, a lot of psychiatric treatment in regards to diagnosis and medicating disorders (because it goes beyond just SSRI’s) is hilariously similar to the same bullshit that Homeopathy does, just with actual psychoactive drugs as the prescribed medicine and not sugar pills.
ETA: that other guy’s idea about nanobots sounds cool though.
I think you misread me in my wordiness and sarcasm and took away that I was defending Homeopathy. I was dissing the way psychiatrists still diagnose by comparing it to the way Homeopaths diagnose, not trying to say “Homeopathy good”.
Although, yeah, in the early 1900s it was in most of The U.S still considered just as valid, but the pharma companies had the financial backing from the Rockefellers. That doesn’t mean that Homeopathy isn’t bullshit, either, it’s just what I’ve been lead to think was historically true. People in the early 1900s didn't know what people do now. America tends to lend the most credence to the system that makes the most money or has more money backing it. Back then, killing that school had little if anything to do with enlightened intellectuals realizing Homeopathy was B.S. like we do now and trying to save people from bullshit treatments. It was about money. Again, that doesn’t mean I think Homeopathy IS equally valid, just that money is a huge motivator and people care more about money than keeping people “safe” from pseudoscientists.
You can still go pay a homeopath and see one if you want, they’re still around, even today nobody really cares about protecting anyone from Bullshit. Also, if someone goes to one for a minor ailment and feels better due to the Placebo Effect, I don’t see why we give a shit as long as nobody is getting harmed. The Placebo Effect can be amazing. It may be a tad dishonest on the doctor’s part, but ultimately the patient got what they wanted which was to feel and function better. I could care less if people want to use faith healing or any of that shit to feel better, despite the fact that I don’t believe in the validity of it. It triggers the mind’s ability to heal itself in some people. If we could harness that without using B.S. catalysts, that would be great, but most people can’t do that (yet?).
The doctor my husband’s family sees is both an M.D. and a certified homeopath, and certified in Nutritional Medicine, Peptide Therapy, Stem Cell Therapy, and “Anti-Aging” treatments. He’ll take everybody’s money. He gives no fucks or qualms. He’ll give you whatever whacked out treatment you want as long you put money in his pocket, and got all the professional pieces of paper necessary to do it legally. More power to him. Is he open minded and just a huge advocate for patients being able to have a lot of options, or just a really smart medical con man? I lean towards the latter mostly, but I don’t know. Maybe both. He is, to the dude’s merit, apparently very honest to his patients about what should be treated only with modern medicinal practices, and what could potentially be healed by homeopathic Placebo or more experimental treatments.
Why is it so easy to see the B.S. in regards to Homeopathy but not that currently respected practices of medicine may eventually be come to seen as archaic B.S. ? That was more my point.
