Psychiatry: Difference between revisions

Psychotropic drugs are based on a pseudoscientific, "monoamine hypothesis", which isn't even considered reputable in top universities anymore.  The brain is like a computer, but electrical patterns in your brain's circuitry determine mood. And neurotransmitter pathways are only a very small part of that story, and do not even begin to explain the complexity of our brain circuitry.  Synapses are merely the spaces between the circuitry.  Trying to figure out how to alter complex electrical activity in the brain (feelings) in a productive matter with neurotransmitter pathways is like trying to figure out the patterns of pipes in your city by yelling into your sink.  Metastudies have mostly proven psychiatric drugs to not be clinically significant beyond placebo<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20051569</ref></ef>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889788/</ref>, but their actual effects have been proven to be quite harmful in the long and sometimes short-term.  Often like trying to put a fire out with a flamethrower, or trying to fix your car by dousing the entire front of your car with oil and hoping it leaks into the right places, daily.