Today, 09:29 PM
Well of course they are diseases of the brain. That is axiomatic, and even allopaths admit this tacitly.
If they aren't diseases of the brain then the drugs they prescribe to treat them stand no chance of working. They could be (and IMO definitely are) as wrong in their approach to treating mental illness as they are in their identical approach to treating everything else from psoriasis to planar fasciitis. The fact that they're using the same low-brow witchcraft of throwing pills at the wall and seeing if anything sticks is proof that they are diseases like any other.
To be honest, I think the group that I credit for blurring that disease line more than any other is Alcoholics Anonymous. My recollection is that they were really the ones to champion the idea that alcoholism is a disease. Well as soon as you throw a condition in the disease category where we have thousands of examples of people who simply willed themselves out of having the disease anymore, or they simply grew out of it, it destroys the definition.
My uninformed opinion is that even though both professions are largely staffed by mountebanks, there is still an important distinction between psychiatry and psychology. I suppose the former is the study of objectively abnormal function of the brain while the latter is the study of destructive results produced by normal function. Psychoses would be in the same category as alcoholism in my opinion. Lots of people are going to get mentally scarred. Some are going to allow those scars to drive them to drink. Others are going to allow their scars to drive them to drink poisoned Flavor Aid.
I think the distinction between those disciplines is apt. I think the distinction between archaeology and anthropology is equally apt and those two are equally staffed by sheisters, too. I think the tragedy of living in the 21st century is that scientific disciplines have voluntarily fractured to the point where cross discipline communication isn't just impossible, but actively attacked. 500 years ago mankind started making its greatest leaps forward and all through the efforts of cross-disciplinarians. That all stopped 100 years ago. And I think I know why - it's because if you include all the disciplines together, you have to let theology back at the table. And they're not going to do that. They'd rather just let alcoholics and schizophrenics die.
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