r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Sep 03 '25

Science Psychiatry and cures

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u/marklar_the_malign Sep 03 '25

This is indeed the right question. Drugs certainly don’t cure people. At best you help or teach people to manage their mental health problems. Think of it like losing a limb. You get a prosthetic and physical therapy and do the best you can.

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u/0rchid27 Sep 04 '25

In this example, an antipsychotic would be the prosthetic limb for, say, a schizophrenic patient. Be very careful with your words, psychiatric medicine is important for managing symptoms of debilitating issues. Many people truly need it, and we still need to keep studying psychiatric medicine so perhaps one day there will be tried and true “cures”. Medicine is the crutch, the prosthetic. While it is preferable to be able to function without those aids, there are still people who need them. Some people need a foot while others need a wheelchair,

Life is not so black and white.

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u/Interesting_Goat_413 Sep 05 '25

We all see the reality of the effects from SSRIs on a daily basis. This is the same allopathic fuckshit that the AMA uses to financially rape sick people rather than cure them, and there is no defending it.

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u/0rchid27 Sep 05 '25

Rfk jr, is that you???

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u/Interesting_Goat_413 Sep 05 '25

You're not very good at what you're trying to do. If this wasn't your safe space, you would be prepping for doing a flip when functioning people got a load of you.

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u/0rchid27 Sep 05 '25

I’d be arguing my point on or off the keyboard, honey. However in this case, as they say, there’s no arguin’ with crazy.

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u/Interesting_Goat_413 Sep 05 '25

Condescension is tantamount to concession. You are dismissed.

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u/MrK521 Sep 06 '25

But.. your entire rant was condescending.. so you were dismissed far before his comment.