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To: Wayners who wrote (692642)	1/13/2013 2:31:05 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587803

>> The psychiatrists get it wrong enough to make it very scary for the rest of us. I do think it is a very difficult illness to diagnose. I'm just not convinced the drugs are the problem. I think it is far more likely the illness is the problem, but our society has desensitized people to violence so much that people who have some of these mental illnesses are more likely to act on impulses that years ago would have been contained. When you have people walking around killing each other all over the place I would imagine it is far easier for an irrational person with mental illness to rationalize killing 20 kids. But I don't purport to have any expertise about this. I do know from experience in dealing with mental health professionals that the services delivered by today's psychiatrists are lousy overall. They are just far too engrossed in medication management to offer real, meaningful treatment to patients -- so they farm it out to "counselors" who often are inadequately trained. (That's not to put down these counselors at all; some are quite competent -- but a person who needs frequent examination and treatment by a psychiatrist probably isn't going to get it today).