Quote Originally Posted by O'nus View Post
However, I would also argue that people in general exacerbate the issue by claiming that they need help and perpetuate the requirement for these rehabilitation institutions (ie. how many celebrities do you think actually needed to go to rehab compared to those that staged it for publicity?).

Furthermore, I would like to remind you that psychologists are not tyrants; the reason the price is so high is because the demand is so high. When the demand gets to be overwhelming, you must set the price higher in order to simply facilitate the amount of deman.

psychologists and psychiatrists need money in order to pay for an institution to retain medical records, hydro, electricity, staffing, equipment for possible research, computers, etc. ~
These parts of what you said kinda go together. If they didn't treat people who don't need them, there would be less demand.

Except I disagree that the demand creates higher prices, of course I just realised you are talking about the mental hospitals, where that means it costs more to have people there. But I was talking about like single psychiatrists, that don't need any money for hospitality.

They definitely get more than they need. But as for the mental hospital ones, or ones that work in large groups, research etc. They also create new medicines etc for the sole purpose of getting money, of course not all of them do this, but a lot do. I have read up a lot about this and I won't explain it all here unless you want me to if you don't agree, but new medication with practically no difference to the old ones are created all the time by all areas of medicine.

So yes, they do good work. Some people exploit this. However, that happens everywhere.

Quote Originally Posted by O'nus View Post
I put faith in psychiatrists because, first of all, I am trying to be one and have worked with many. They do help people and do not offer dogmatic beliefs.

Are you suggesting that you would rather get help from an evangelist Jesus healer than a psychologist..?
It's good to hear! I can see you obviously care. I wanted to be one for a while back but I realise I will probably do better work as a graphic designer or artist, and reading about psychology made me realise the shaky grounds it stands on. Not belittling what you want to do, just how I feel about it. I still want to do something for mentally ill people just not through psychiatry.

And in no way would I have anything to do with religious healers of any sort unless I was in the process of bring their business down lol

Oh and by the way in your first thread you said you weren't diagnosed with schizophrenia? Was this to stop dogma etc? or did you just forget about that thread?