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RE: Psychiatry: Moving From Ice Pick Lobotomies and Chains Into a Brighter Future

in #science6 years ago

It’s really a bad situation when doctors have strong financial incentives to use certain medications. Unfortunately what’s best for the patient doesn’t always come first.
I hadn’t heard of Paul McHugh before, but it sounds like his reforms are something that psychiatry really needs. I remember in university learning about some treatments for mental health, and the lecturer told us that we really have no idea why these drugs work, but it seemed like depressed patients got a little better if you gave them lithium, so we just kept doing it! We are starting to understand the brain better, but there is still a long long way to go.

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Such a long way. I think it might help if doctors were more honest with patients about how little they actually do know. As it is, many patients feel the failure to "get better" is theirs. That only compounds distress.
We all have to support the movement toward more research and less guessing, I think. Thanks for the feedback.

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