Dear the mental health establishment:
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substituteWe are not fooled at all. You may drop the pretense that mental health care is scientific.
We understand that most of you are in good faith trying to be helpful. But we’re still in the medieval stage with this stuff and it’s time to admit it.
The drugs you prescribe are sometimes helpful but have outrageous side effects, and often cause the opposite primary effect from the intended one. While we applaud your research efforts, the current products are often ineffective or dangerous. And let’s not even get into the surgical ideas here.
Psychotherapy in its myriad forms is mainly religious and not practical. Great theories of the human mind and soul are invented out of thin air and applied to patients with an assumption of authority that is entirely undeserved. We know what’s going on. You’re kicking the TV and congratulating yourselves when the picture looks better. The sheer number of psychotherapeutic methods and their incredible variation suggests that any egotist with a Ph.D. and a charismatic argumentative style can invent a new school of therapy and get away with it. There are no standards.
This isn’t science. It isn’t medicine. In fact, the intellectual standards of this field would not be accepted at a good hair salon.
Please, please get real with us and just admit you’re making shit up out of desperation. It’s not like we can’t tell already.
Hugs,
The “patients”
We understand that most of you are in good faith trying to be helpful. But we’re still in the medieval stage with this stuff and it’s time to admit it.
The drugs you prescribe are sometimes helpful but have outrageous side effects, and often cause the opposite primary effect from the intended one. While we applaud your research efforts, the current products are often ineffective or dangerous. And let’s not even get into the surgical ideas here.
Psychotherapy in its myriad forms is mainly religious and not practical. Great theories of the human mind and soul are invented out of thin air and applied to patients with an assumption of authority that is entirely undeserved. We know what’s going on. You’re kicking the TV and congratulating yourselves when the picture looks better. The sheer number of psychotherapeutic methods and their incredible variation suggests that any egotist with a Ph.D. and a charismatic argumentative style can invent a new school of therapy and get away with it. There are no standards.
This isn’t science. It isn’t medicine. In fact, the intellectual standards of this field would not be accepted at a good hair salon.
Please, please get real with us and just admit you’re making shit up out of desperation. It’s not like we can’t tell already.
Hugs,
The “patients”
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Date: 2005-03-03 02:03 pm (UTC)The sketch consisted of him playing a psychiatrist. Patients would would describe a problem to him (afraid of being in crowds, getting in pointless fights with parents, whatever). And he would try to cure the patient better by gruffly shouting "STOP IT! Just... just STOP IT!".
It was a true moment of artistic arrest.