How is it legal for Psychiatrist to prescribe medicine? It seems everyone I have ever known that went to one just was worse off how can this be helpful?
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Psychiatrists must train as medical doctors, that is why they can prescribe medication. Not everyone is always worse off for going to one. But, sometimes, one must try different meds before finding the right combination.
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There are certain conditions of the brain that can be negated or lessened by medication. However, most common emotional problems have to do with problems within a healthy brain, problems that cannot be fixed with medication. These issues are better worked out through therapy.
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People look at their degrees and diplomas and stuff and more or less think that they can do no wrong. If people without degrees in medicine or psychiatry claim that the medicine someone is taking isn't doing them any good, their opinion is just brushed off as nonsense from the unenlightened. People who seek out psychiatric help rarely do so from two psychatrists at once, so a psychiatrist's opinion on medication is rarely challenged by anyone (s)he considders worth listening to (i.e. someone else with a psychiatry degree who is examining the same patient). Therefore, the medicine a shrink prescribes IS the best thing for their patient, because THEY say so. It's legal because the people who make the laws also have degrees and diplomas plastered all over their office walls, and likewise abide by the attitude that those with the degrees can do no wrong. And they won't listen to the voices of the unenlightent masses, either.
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Psychiatrists have studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry. they are qualified medical doctors able to prescribe. Medication has its place in mental health. major mental illness, schizophrenia, bi polar disorder, all can be helped by medication IN CONJUNCTION with support and help to live with the illness. depression, anxiety, can be helped but not with medication alone, Medication should only ever be PART of the answer. sometimes it is not necessary at all. just therapy is needed.
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