Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2022 12:35:14 GMT
Admin says he doesnt disagree with the clinical model and treatment for the 5% with severe mental illness.
Do you mean according to initial diagnosis - in which case 'manic depressive psychosis' and catatonia are severe. If, however, we are referring to the characteristics enduring over a long time then some of us may find our 'symptoms' become less severe. And one reason for thismight be addressing our them differently, not relying on medication and other psychiatric interventions BUT NOT NECESSARILY JETTISONING THEM ALTOGETHER.
I took that route. It has been very tough and slow. Whatever factors we may understand as contributing to mental illness /devasting emotional and mental distress and altered states for some of us the effect is still PHYSICAL as seen in symptoms eg re motivation, apprehension, fear so our our neurophysicology and emotional development is clearly implicated. Dealing with these by, for example reframing our experiences is neither straightforward nor immediate. Some people will call on psychological therapy for support over many years.
But there are techniqies and strategies that overtime can bring about at least a lessening of these physical aspects.
If psychiatric treatments remains in many ways a blunt instrument with pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers still searching for an 'effective' medication without disturbing unwanted effects and problems of addiction and habituation I see no reason why we shouldn't take some kind of medication to help. But neither psychiatry nor pharma are there yet.
And I am adamant that psychiatric medications should not dominate and be relied upon by the psychiatric profession and authorities as the way that what is seen as severe illness MUST be treated, leaving many people maybe trying, with much difficulty, to withdraw at a later date.
But millions of pounds/dollars are put into pharmaceutical research and treatments and pennies into pioneering and resourcing other approaches (except where our UK government thinks money can be saved eg 6-12 sessions of CBT or joining a walking group instead of being prescribed an antidepressant or 'sleep hygiene' instead of a pill, NICE's latest recommendations - if only that was all that was needed.
Pioneering and resourcing other approaches is left to a handful of people, with minimal resources (constantly searching for funds) and much of their work unpaid.
Still no idea as to what you & others want as an alternative to the current society / system / treatment of the mentally ill?
Other than a near total negation of the current mental health system / psychiatry & near total negation of any & all proposed alternatives.