Thanks for a great article. I've worked in the mental health industry and it is first and foremost an outlet for the pharmaceutical industry. Like all commodified American "medicine" it is focused on treating symptoms rather than causes and mostly ignores the larger realities that shape our psychological states. It is all about the indiviual, separate from the social realities that shape us and about "coping" or at least chemical restraints. The drugs prescribled; SSRIs, diazapines and anti-psychotics are often worse than the conditions being misdiagnosed and treated.
I have found success on my own in treating (with good effect) anxiety disorders which are a product of adrenal and HPA axis imbalance complicated by the terror imposed by money-grubbing capitalists using natural herbs and amino acids that do no harm. The best therapy for those not too disabled remains Radical Therapy. That is getting involved to work on issues and finding empowerment and a degree of control over ones life. This is stress reducing and community building which is essential to our human nature as herd animals. There is no separation between physical and mental and social. As soon as we pretend that there is, we fail. The best social workers and therapists realize this and do great work but psychiatrists, burned out social workers and poverty pimp agencies do more harm than good. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#564): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/564 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76240682/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
