"Oh bother," said Pooh as he slapped a fresh clip into his Uzi

[uberreiniger]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1068391.stm

"There's a rumbly in my tumbly" said Pooh as he savagely mauled the sleeping camper...

Comments

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

Look at that. Proof that psychology is intellectually bankrupt. That's great.

The field of psychology hasn't had anything useful to say for about a generation. And yet they are still a recognized part of the medical profession.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That's not fair. A lot of useful things have come out of psychology and it's not all bunk. It's like religion: a great idea regularly ruined by high-profile idiots.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

I can't point to a single thing the psychology community has done to improve mental health in the last generation. Now, I'm biased in that I honestly believe that at least HALF of the mental "illnesses" out there are merely crutches that the psychologists allow people to use. How many people do you know who claim to be clinically depressed or manic depressive? Ask your grandparents how many people they knew who claimed the same, or who even evidenced symptoms of these disabilities.

The truth is that if you TELL people that their depression is a medical condition, they don't feel a need to fix it. They just throw up their hands and start looking for a way to medicate. The reason I hate and distrust physchologists/psychiatrists is that they really ought to be spending their time teaching people how to cope with stress, emotions, etc. instead of diagnosing them with a mental illness they don't have.

Yes, there are people with chemical imbalances that cause them to have mental illnesses like depression. However, they should be a VAST minority, not half the population like it seems these days. And I blame psychology for that.