On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: >> > Ian Kelly writes: >> > >> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote: >> > > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I >> > > > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had >> > > > learned away from him and turn him back into what he was before. >> > > >> > > "All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses? >> > >> > Indeed. If a revelation is unconnected to reality, it's misleading to >> > say that one has "learned" it. >> >> And who is the last arbiter on that 'reality'? > > A nice academic question. Not appropriate when we're discussing a real > person's psychotic episodes. Neither you nor I are experts in whether an > experience is psychosis, and the person already has an expert diagnosis. > > So please don't de-rail into the weeds of second-guessing an expert in > mental health. Unless you know the person's mental health better than > their doctor (and you do not), don't second-guess the diagnosis they > received.
I think for the most part, the mental health industry is most interested in pushing drugs and forcing people into some status quo. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list