Reply #239: Your "clinical studies" [View All]

are part of the problem. Human behavior may be too complex to study in an artificial environment. As for animal studies, I put little faith in those.

Look at the actual proposal. Is there anything in it that would mandate that people accept care and take drugs? So far, I have not heard any evidence on this board that there is. I haven't read the proposal yet (I plan to) and when I do, I'll draw my own conclusions. My original point was, and has been all along, that people on this board have been attacking more than just the proposal itself.

Psychaitric drugs are not without their problems, but you can't deny that they have made a significant difference for a lot of people. Progress is being made all the time in studying treatment methods. Nobody claims to have all the answers. But to say we should "throw out the baby with the bathwater" (so to speak) is just ridiculous. Instead of dismissing mental health care providers as "witch doctors" maybe you should look into researching and developing new assessment and treatment methods.