Should Mental Disorders Have Names?
I&#x27;m skeptical as hell of the entire field of psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry, and cog sci. I think we&#x27;re doing better than before, sure, but it&#x27;s all such a shit show from my perspective as a participant.<p>Rambles:<p>Back in highschool we had a massively depressed friend. They tried it all with her: cognitive behavioral therapy, drugs (ALL OF THEM), weed, religion. Tough love. Exercise. Diet. Nothing cured her and her depression killed her via suicide. What&#x27;s the psych tell me after? Sometimes there&#x27;s nothing we can do? That sucks. Human genome, done. Prevent HIV from killing someone. Can&#x27;t do shit about depression sometimes.<p>And if you get depression - do you take the ssris? Fuck knows? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthtalk.org&#x2F;peoples-experiences&#x2F;mental-health&#x2F;experiences-antidepressants&#x2F;deciding-take-antidepressant" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthtalk.org&#x2F;peoples-experiences&#x2F;mental-health&#x2F;...</a> and the &quot;next page.&quot; Sometimes they make you numb to the world or feel like you&#x27;re being controlled. Sometimes they make you have suicidal thoughts. Sometimes they take a weight off your shoulders. Sometimes they make you feel like you actually have a chance. None of my psychs were able to describe any of this. I had to research it on my own.<p>And Lord forbid you&#x27;ve got multiple. Is it ADHD still? Newest psych has the idea that it&#x27;s all ADD now - so, my memories of wildcat behavior that I&#x27;d be ashamed of in seconds as a kid, what was that? When shit bubbles up out of my mouth without me thinking, is that not the H anymore but just something else? And why did nobody tell me in 2 decades that a common symptom of ADD is shit memory? I had to find out on Reddit. Is it actually? Who knows!<p>Does Adderall help? Well, I suppose! Hard to say. Technically, I <i>could</i> work without it. I am more productive with. But, also more robotic. And, it&#x27;s nearly impossible to track the subtle personality changes that come with medicating via Adderall, no matter how hard I journal. Ask the psychs and they shrug and say &quot;keep a journal.&quot; Ask what dosage and they say &quot;higher until the side effects are unbearable, then one dosage down,&quot; instead of &quot;lower until the medicine is ineffective, then one dose up.&quot; And as for those personality changes - perhaps that&#x27;s a &quot;better&quot; me anyway? It&#x27;s certainly a smarter one.<p>Don&#x27;t get me started on what fresh hell you find yourself in if the State discovers someone is suicidal and locks them in a psych ward. Came damn close to ruining my life by performing a full on jail break to get my friend out of that psuedo science nightmare.<p>I welcome all thoughts on my rambles and I apologize if no helpful meaning was able to be extracted, on this subject I can think of no other way to get my thoughts on paper.