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   XPost: misc.health.alternative, alt.psychology, sci.psychology   
   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   rpautrey2 wrote...   
   > "PSYCHIATRY SHOOTS ITSELF IN THE FOOT?"   
   > by Peter Morrell   
   >   
   > "Psychiatry shoots itself in the foot?"   
   >   
   > [March 2001]   
   > ...   
   > It seems only fair to ask whether madness really is an illness or even   
   > if it exists as a separate state...   
      
   My brother went mad from too much crystal meth and everyone from his   
   family to his friends could tell he was insane and we actually went   
   to court to file involuntary commitment papers, and he was finally   
   taken to the mental hospital after attacking the neighbor's car with   
   a vacuum cleaner in the middle of the night.  The psychiatrists at   
   the mental hospital couldn't find anything wrong with the babbling   
   puddle of Jell-O in front of them and testified under oath that he   
   was fine and the judge was almost willing to believe them until my   
   brother announced he could talk to dead people.  The psychiatrists   
   didn't think that was a particularly unusual statement for a sane   
   person to make, but the judge thought otherwise and ordered him held   
   for observation.   
      
   I guess my point is what kind of science is psychology/psychiatry   
   if it can't even recognize a truly insane person?  I notice the   
   profession has no problem defining almost every personality trait   
   as some sort of mental disorder in need of expensive treatment, but   
   real mental disorders like stark raving lunacy don't exist.   
      
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