Psychology... Ah, yes... That NON-scientific masterpiece of our times, based on anything but rock-solid scientific facts...
Meaning no disrespect at all to our counterparts of this specific department, this will be a version of
a rant I have had a decade ago in another discussions board about
my personal opinion on Psychology.
But, before that, please watch the documentary called 'Psychiatry: An industry of death':
Psychiatry: An industry of death (2006).
Beware, though, because this documentary has its fare share of bits and pieces of the usual propaganda; as it always happens with the vast majority of any release for public consumption...
Well, let's take apart the fancy term, 'chemical imbalance.' Should not it be mandatory for anyone that 'diagnosed' us with some kind of 'chemical imbalance' to inform us what a 'chemical balance' really is? With documented factual numbers, if possible? No one can do that! Because this is yet another buzz-word for the well-meaning but gullible also masses. Just consider that this specific 'scientific department' considers even the healthy laughter as a disease that needs to be addressed with
psychotropic poisons that will most probably cause a permanent brain damage to their recipients... You can still find in Youtube televised advertisements of the fifties about
Lobotomy (yes, that good old psychiatric practice with an ice-pick...), in the context of:
Is your wife getting tiresome when you return home from work and she does not let you watch your favourite TV programme? Make her a gift you will both appreciate: A Lobotomy! Yes, this actually was a TV commercial message of that era, before that medical practice of lobotomy that left
Rosemary Kennedy permanently disabled for life; thus the invention of the
Special Olympics in 1962 in her memory...
So, we have our therapists (sic) to confess our personal dramas (and facts) to, since people are not so pious today to be confessing to the priesthood anymore, while a formal inquisition is not such an appealing procedure for either party to brag about. As for the therapists themselves, they will be happy to be filled in with the latest gossip and to be payed for that, along with the prescription of useless and dangerous drugs that will allow them to earn their percentage from the
Big Pharma. In my humble experience as an observer, people taking psychotropics will never overcome their problems because their self-healing ability will actually be reduced by the medication: only the pharmaceutical industry, the "therapists" and whoever gathers personal information or spies on the victims will benefit from this charade...
What about the so-called 'mental disorders'? Are they for real? There are a few hundred distinctive names for mental disorders that have been made up; but if you would go to several different 'professionals' and tell them the same exactly story, you would probably end up getting several different kinds of
'chemical- or
'electrical-imbalance' diagnoses and several different drugs for their
'cure': This is NOT science; there is another pejorative term for those practices. Until recently, there still was
the Four Humors myth alive, since the days of
Hippocrates, 2500 years ago... As for the inconsistency of the 'diagnoses,' if you are on insurance and they pay, you are going to be labeled indefinitely. Insurance has certainly perverted the system by forcing the therapist to make a diagnosis in order to get payment.
Trying to take a look in depth, why are the religious people (who believe in things like angels and demons) considered to be healthy, but if someone dares to believe in elves and goblins is considered to be mentally disordered and schizophrenic? Neither of them has, or can ever positively prove the existence of the angel/deamon or the elf/goblin entities they believe in; both of them are equally invalid. Not to mention that in some special cases, where people in high places have to explain their beliefs in elves and fairies are no more considered to be mentally disordered: they are just been called Pagans, and that is alright... Point taken, or should I continue?
As a result, I would like to point out that most people are too scared to look at the whole truth because in their vast majority they think with their feelings instead of their reason. No need to be rational if it already feels good... This is the exact mental (dys)function that is being taken advantage of by every kind of human manipulators; everywhere; ever...
-George