WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

Pianotm, it's very sad what happened to your wife and you, and to be honest it's no surprise that after those experiences you have such a negative attitude towards psychiatry. Still, your emotions and pains are preventing you from taking a fair and rational perspective on the subject and make you make generalized, undifferentiated judgements. That's something you shouldn't do to yourself, and especially shouldn't encourage others to do.

Like LockeZ said, it's undoubtedly true that much too often, psychiatrists (or any kind of doctors, really) misdiagnose or make hasty decisions. There's no excuse for the fact that this happens. But on the other hand, psychiatrists are also the ones who help and save many humans every day. One of my close family members works together with psychiatrists on a professional basis every day. And if they are incompetent, badly informed or under sever pressure and stress, these people can make grave mistakes, which should never happen. But the competent ones among them (which is not just a small amount either) know how our minds work better than anyone else and can apply this knowledge to treat the mind when it's been injured. Among other things, these people prevent suicides, help people deal with mental illnesses, and help mentally "lost" and potentially dangerous people who became completely disfunctional integrate back into society.

It's just like it is with teachers, or any person whose job has a severe impact on other people's personal development. If they don't do their job well, they can cause a lot of damage. And if they do know what they're doing, their help can be immeasurably valuable. So I'm not saying that one should trust every psychiatrist blindly right away. But while you saying that all psychiatrists are evil and dangerous is understandable from an emotional point of view, it is actually very unfair - and most definitely not true.

author=Craze
maybe have the "suicide and psychosis" welp welp topic and the "bear cartoons" welp welp topic because idk i want to talk about the goofy stuff people are thinking about after work, not all the stuff that i deal with at work

Speaking of Goofy, I heard he's being treated for clinical depression and alcoholism ever since Goof Troop went off the air.

lockez i'd joke like that with a kid who had like, a bruise or zit and didn't realize it or something... but this kid was actually psychotic, sooooo. he was also 100% convinced that the social worker was going to kill him, to the point where she's not allowed to work with him anymore until some legal stuff gets figured out.

meds are FUCKING CRAZY

SU and GF have a bit more of a storytelling edge on AT but I love all three of those shows and would much rather my students watch them than family guy or south park (especially because they don't realize how liberal those shows are which amuses but saddens me)

also mabel is just the greatest

that's not what i meant, sorry i didn't clarify that very well. a lot of my kids look at something like colbert or south park and say "this fits my racist, conservative views" without... realizing.... yeah.

i don't think family guy is a good show and agree with what you said a lot re: paint job

unrelated, but



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I actually hated most of the kid's cartoons when I was a kid. The only show that I remember fondly from that era was The Tick. I do sort of ironically appreciate the over-the-top 90's 'tude shit, though--I'm thinking Extreme Dinosaurs and Street Sharks. The Simpsons was great, too, of course, but that's not a kid's cartoon, haha. Also, I watched the ending to David the Gnome on youtube and cried like a baby, so that show was probably pretty good; I missed out on it as a kid, though.

I think Regular Show and Adventure Time are both pretty excellent (especially Regular Show), and I've heard good things about Avatar/Legend of Korra (I can't think of a single non-anime action cartoon that I enjoyed as a kid), so kid's cartoons today seem to be in good shape. I've only seen one episode of Steven Universe and didn't particularly like it, but it could have just been an early episode where the characters were still being developed. I found most of the cast a bit annoying, though.

South Park's great. It's one of the two comedies I actually look forward to now (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia being the other one).

Family Guy's a real piece of shit, though, so feel free to hate it for whatever reason you want.

HOW DID YOU KNOW?!

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author=LockeZ
You didn't like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Samurai Pizza Cats, Earthworm Jim, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Transformers, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Spider-Man, or X-Men? I mean not liking some of those is perfectly fine, not everyone has the same taste. But not liking any of them? Geez. I think you just hate JUSTICE and WINNING and HEROISM and BRINGING PEACE TO PLANET EARTH, and should be exiled through a portal into Dimension X.

Oh man, you're talking about some of the best memories of my childhood.

@NeverSilent and LockeZ, You're right about me being overly critical of psychiatry, and I know it, but sometimes I get into these moods and I can't help but remember that most of her problems started when she went to the psychiatrist.

And the first one had misdiagnosed her. Her mother had just died. Of course she was having mood swings. The second psychiatrist, the one that put her on Xanax to deal with the disorders caused by her adverse reaction, accused the first one of ignoring existing circumstances when diagnosing her. He said depression was only to be expected and a diagnose of bi-polar disorder was jumping the gun.

When a healthy woman walks into a doctor's office and walks out sick specifically because of the doctor, that sticks with you.

@Mawk. Thank you, it's okay. It was awhile back, and I was just trying to explain to Corf why I feel the way I do.

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