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shared by Garrett Eastman on 15 Jan 10 - Cached

shared by Sarah Eeee on 04 May 11 - No Cached

The point of bringing this discussion up is that I said when the etiology and treatment of a particular condition became clear, it would no longer be "psychiatric" and gave as examples Syphilis and Epilepsy. I was arguing that psychiatry was the medical specialty that dealt with the things that didn’t fit, the ambiguous.
- Sarah Eeee on 04 May 11
  
  Interesting take on the role of psychiatry
  
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If many depressions are in the life/mind ball park, then those patients need someone who thinks like me. Doctors didn’t give up on diabetics because they hadn’t yet discovered insulin. The notion that psychiatry is only clinical neuroscience as Dr. Insel says just seems strange to me. Sick people don’t much care about "future help." They’re more in a "right now" frame of mind.
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We’re still hacking at mental illnesses, doing what we can.
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Thus far, "souped up" antidepressant  therapy doesn’t seem to have added very much, but hope springs eternal for some. The problem for me is that the STAR*D and CO-MED studies have been so oddly done and reported that I can’t even tell if they answer their own stated questions either way…
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