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My experience over the last

Elusive Trope — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:12:46 +0000

In reply to I suspect that the bulk of

My experience over the last decade is that one goes to a psychiatrist to get the pharmaceuticals, and to someone else to receive psychotherapy. The last psychiatrist I met the other day kind of threw me for a moment when he actually inquired about what I wanted to get out of therapy with someone else. Usually it is just about what are the symptoms as related to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (or DSM, currently in its 5th edition, it was DSM-R III when I worked in the field, the R standing for revised) and then write the prescriptions according to what the diagnostic tree indicates.

Something to look into

Elusive Trope — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:34:45 +0000

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Something to look into because I wouldn't be surprised. Of course, places like Walmart, Target and Olive Garden would like to know where you are at, too, so maybe it is the big multinational corporations funding this, too. Probably in some collaboration with the government. I always make sure my gps system is turned off on my phone, that's for sure.

Maybe they're messing with

Elusive Trope — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:31:49 +0000

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Maybe they're messing with your computer, having given up on your particular thoughts. :)

I suspect that the bulk of

rmrd0000 — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 03:57:50 +0000

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I suspect that the bulk of psychiatrists in training are psychopharmacologists rather than psychoanalysts. Training people to pick a drug for a symptom is easier than analyzing and dealing with the underlying cause of a symptom.

For a few years I was poor

ocean-kat — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:06:42 +0000

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For a few years I was poor and took my dog to a free clinic. They offered to put a GPS chip in her, in fact they really tried hard to convince me to do it. I considered the possibility that some funding for this free service that most free animal clinics offer came from government spy organizations. What better way to test a program to track humans than to use pets, especially when the stated purpose is to protect them and find them if they run away or get lost.

I just can't convince myself that its not a possibility.

Paranoid?

My computer is on the

Richard Day — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:34:53 +0000

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My computer is on the fritz.

I am told to add new software and then Chrome blocks it. hahahah

No one can read 7 billion people's thoughts.

I sure have terrible thoughts about Rush and beckerhead and all sorts of repubs, but all I have on me is some hylex and a steak knife that barely works. hahahah

And no one would give a damn about my stupid thoughts.

I do not even give my thoughts any credence these days.

I would give you more but my damn PC won't let me.

hahahahah

some form of psychotherapy is

Elusive Trope — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:19:40 +0000

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some form of psychotherapy is something I think most, if not all, people could benefit from - that is, to qualified, of course, with a therapist that knows what he or she is doing. Sometimes the pharmaceuticals help minimize some of the symptoms so that the person receiving the therapy can gain the maximum benefit of the therapy. As one of my past therapists told me, it's pretty hard to have a good meditation session if you're experiencing a panic attack or in my case, my mania was at such a heightened state, my mind was racing with "a thousand thoughts a minute."

Depression I think is a particular special issue in this country/culture where it has become almost an obsession to be "happy," to the point where suffering and emotional and spiritual pain is eliminated altogether. But suffering is part of the equation of what it means to be human, as is the working through it. It is that working through it, rather than finding the quick fix, the easy answer, the five simple steps to happier more fulfilling life.

I suppose they would say that

Lurker — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 21:27:42 +0000

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I suppose they would say that not everyone who suffers trauma gets PTSD, so they would be looking for what decides that.

If you live long enough, you stop believing in the latest miracle cure for depression, whether it's insulin therapy, or electro-convulsive shock, or prefrontal lobotomy, or drugs, or (now) electrodes. They all seem to work to some extent on some patients, but so does psychotherapy, which is so much gentler and more humane.