Without going in depth, and I apologise if I repeat some things that have already been stated, as I haven't read the entire thread and, frankly, these are just my opinions.
I honestly think the modern medical industry is often too quick to throw drugs and anti-biotics at people.
"You have an illness - take some anti-biotics!"
"You're feeling down? Take some anti depressants."
Now, don't get me wrong, for many people these medications are necessary, whether they be suffering physical illness or mental health issues.
But I have personally encountered doctors who hand out anti-biotics like candy. And we can see the overuse of it in the growing number of anti-biotic resistant bacteria - more proof of evolution for you, alexw(whatever the hell the rest of your name is).
And no, psychoslice, that's not me admitting to your conspiracy nonsense regarding big pharma - none of those doctors have received payments or bribes from big pharma that I'm aware of - and my father's a GP.
I'm not all that knowledgable on the psychiatric industry, it's not my field. I've done a basic psychology class but that's about it.
But, from what I've seen many psychologists are too quick to prescribe drugs instead of spending plenty of time talking to their patients - especially when it comes to giving drugs to children. Fortunately, there are also plenty of shrinks who still just talk to their patients without resorting to drugs - I've seen one myself since I suffer from depression occasionally.
I honestly think the modern medical industry is often too quick to throw drugs and anti-biotics at people.
"You have an illness - take some anti-biotics!"
"You're feeling down? Take some anti depressants."
Now, don't get me wrong, for many people these medications are necessary, whether they be suffering physical illness or mental health issues.
But I have personally encountered doctors who hand out anti-biotics like candy. And we can see the overuse of it in the growing number of anti-biotic resistant bacteria - more proof of evolution for you, alexw(whatever the hell the rest of your name is).
And no, psychoslice, that's not me admitting to your conspiracy nonsense regarding big pharma - none of those doctors have received payments or bribes from big pharma that I'm aware of - and my father's a GP.
I'm not all that knowledgable on the psychiatric industry, it's not my field. I've done a basic psychology class but that's about it.
But, from what I've seen many psychologists are too quick to prescribe drugs instead of spending plenty of time talking to their patients - especially when it comes to giving drugs to children. Fortunately, there are also plenty of shrinks who still just talk to their patients without resorting to drugs - I've seen one myself since I suffer from depression occasionally.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"