According to the psychology and psychiatry books, every single one of us can be diagnosed as having some sort of mental illness. Just read the symptoms they give and before long you'll be diagnosed too. My friend couldn't afford professional help at first but her regular doctor diagnosed her with it and gave her a script for Prozac. Eventually she ended going to a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with just depression got a script, then it was depression and mania so she got a new script, then she was diagnosed as bipolar got a script then got another script to go with that. During all her visits to these "doctors" none ever addressed her weight problem, the amount of time she spends on tv and internet, her sedentary lifestyle, her eating habits or even her staying up all night and sleeping all day- not one single doctor! As a friend I tried talking to her about her bad habits because I thought if she just tried to be healthier her mind would be healthier too. Instead I was called insensitive and people like me were the reason mental illness was stigmatized so much. I just wanted to help her and address what those doctors didn't. No, I'm not a doctor but any doctor knows if you have bad habits and a terrible lifestyle that it's going to mess with your brain in some way. My friend told her psychiatrist about me and my friend informed me that the psychiatrist said it would be best not to talk to me anymore about her mental health. I've known my friend nearly 30 years and know her better than all those doctors put together. From what I've seen I guess she would rather listen to a complete stranger that doesn't know her habits or nature, won't address the number one priority for good mental health which is healthy food, exercise and good sleep habits and would instead take a pill and hope that works so she can keep living the way she does. There is no personal responsibility or self discipline for anybody anymore, people do what they want and don't worry about the consequences. Sometimes I think a persons conscience comes back to haunt them in the form of mental illnesses. Some mental illnesses can be helped or fixed completely by nutrition but they don't teach that in psychiatry school, they don't even ask the patients or test them for nutritional deficiencies. There are mental illnesses that have no cause but most are of our own doing whether we knew it at the time we were doing it or not. I'd like to see psychology and psychiatry go in a new direction besides pushing pills and that's exactly what they are doing if they aren't addressing your habits and lifestyles. A prescription should always be a last resort but sadly it's ALWAYS the first. Something has to change, bipolar has gone up 40% since 1990 and if that's not alarming, I don't know what is. Thanks for bringing attention to this issue and best wishes for good health to you all.
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According to the psychology and psychiatry books, every single one of us can be diagnosed as having some sort of mental illness. Just read the symptoms they give and before long you'll be diagnosed too. My friend couldn't afford professional help at first but her regular doctor diagnosed her with it and gave her a script for Prozac. Eventually she ended going to a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with just depression got a script, then it was depression and mania so she got a new script, then she was diagnosed as bipolar got a script then got another script to go with that. During all her visits to these "doctors" none ever addressed her weight problem, the amount of time she spends on tv and internet, her sedentary lifestyle, her eating habits or even her staying up all night and sleeping all day- not one single doctor! As a friend I tried talking to her about her bad habits because I thought if she just tried to be healthier her mind would be healthier too. Instead I was called insensitive and people like me were the reason mental illness was stigmatized so much. I just wanted to help her and address what those doctors didn't. No, I'm not a doctor but any doctor knows if you have bad habits and a terrible lifestyle that it's going to mess with your brain in some way. My friend told her psychiatrist about me and my friend informed me that the psychiatrist said it would be best not to talk to me anymore about her mental health. I've known my friend nearly 30 years and know her better than all those doctors put together. From what I've seen I guess she would rather listen to a complete stranger that doesn't know her habits or nature, won't address the number one priority for good mental health which is healthy food, exercise and good sleep habits and would instead take a pill and hope that works so she can keep living the way she does. There is no personal responsibility or self discipline for anybody anymore, people do what they want and don't worry about the consequences. Sometimes I think a persons conscience comes back to haunt them in the form of mental illnesses. Some mental illnesses can be helped or fixed completely by nutrition but they don't teach that in psychiatry school, they don't even ask the patients or test them for nutritional deficiencies. There are mental illnesses that have no cause but most are of our own doing whether we knew it at the time we were doing it or not. I'd like to see psychology and psychiatry go in a new direction besides pushing pills and that's exactly what they are doing if they aren't addressing your habits and lifestyles. A prescription should always be a last resort but sadly it's ALWAYS the first. Something has to change, bipolar has gone up 40% since 1990 and if that's not alarming, I don't know what is. Thanks for bringing attention to this issue and best wishes for good health to you all.
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