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[svinfylking]

Note to mods: if this is out of line, please give me the word and I'll pull it, but I thought this would be an appropriate place to post it. I'm on the Heathen Thing list and I've seen the thread regarding disabled Heathens. As someone living with a disability myself, and who writes extensively, I finally sat down and wrote this over the weekend

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[cartoonmayhem]

Showing the therapists that you know what you are talking about through research and education would certainly make a credible therapist think twice before dismissing you outright as a nutbar. My feeling about psychiatry is that it is about 200 years behind the times of internal medicine. That's because we spent 90 years in the Freud mode, much of the theories now discredited and messing with some really dangerous fads such as Transactional Analysis, and prescribing valium for 50 years too long. It took until the late 1990s to find out that it's brain chemistry. Not a moral failing. Why do I know that? In 1999 I was diagnosed with PTSD for reasons I just won't go into right now. But it's related to seritonin levels.
It's not a moral failing. Just as in 2007, scientists have just unlocked the key to addictive personality. More brain chemistry. If they can now prescribe a pill to stop nicotine addiction, it will just be a matter of time before they'll take care of the rest of addictions. 2007. This year. What'll they come up with next in psychiatric treatment. I would present that letter to a dismissive staff, not as a pre-emptive. That's all I'd do. And watch out for the doctors who think they are gods themselves. There is no shortage of those types.