Psychiatry: Difference between revisions

The description of the cause of abnormal brain states in psychiatry are based on a pseudoscientific, "monoamine hypothesis", which isn't even considered reputable in top universities anymore.  The brain is like a computer, and electrical patterns in your brain's circuitry determine mood. But 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 manner with neurotransmitter pathways is like trying to figure out the patterns of pipes in your city by yelling into your sink.

==Meeting a psychiatrist==

Not all psychiatrists are horrible people.  However, if you ever hint that you have suicidal or homicidal ideation, they have legal authority to lock you up temporarily, or, "temporarily" (and you don't want that, trust us).  In fact, they also need no real evidence.  Courts in psychiatric in cases are heavily biased towards parents and doctors.  It is therefore helpful to record your psychiatric sessions (legally) if you must attend them.  And better yet, not attend them at all.