How would we manage without psychiatrists?
Introspection.
The same thing philosophers have relied on before us?
Intuition?
Is introspection truly ‘introspective’ as it relies on a problematic vision of subjectivity?
Well, if you’re asking what would we do without a pdoc then you have to question that the problem is the same: all answers that are given could only be subjective anyway and overrides your own subjective relation to your own problems.
God. That seems like a hard one to put on paper. LOL
But essentially, our own internal guidance must be jacked up if our only means of feeling sane or gaining clarity comes from an outside source. Could it ever not be that way?
That’s the point of internal dialogues is to try and resolve the problem of subjective reasoning and find peace. Otherwise we will always only be at the mercy of requiring outside opinions and potentially be hooked like a drug addict.
Horrible as it is to say that it is true as far as I’ve introspectively realized…
I would collapse and lose everything. He is part of my group of supports I can’t do without. I believe he is a mentalist he knows what my brain operates like without me explaining. No I’m not ill i have always felt this way
Just give me my meds and I’m good.
Back to self-medication then.
I’m more optimistic, but also having second thoughts as I write this.
I’d be much more concerned with this rapture-like event than the sudden dearth of psychiatrists.
It would be hilarious. I wish my psychiatrist would get raptures into another dimension.
What do you mean.
I find it challenging to respond without resorting to religious categories.
I only meant that we’d be somewhat more responsible for our own healing.
Psychiatrists are, if patients are to be believed, interdimensional beings anyway.
I’d be okay, I imagine.
I’m on the cusp of just stopping my antipsychotics completely. I’m on a minimal dose at the moment. The supplement regimen I’m on is very effective.
But if rapture happened and I were left behind, I’m pretty sure things would go to ■■■■ fairly quickly.
Well as long as all of the research and book knowledge didn’t disappear, it wouldn’t be too terribly hard to train the next generation of psychiatrists. Would every physician disappear? They already have a fantastic foundation for medicine, they would just have to learn psychiatry. There are also psychiatric pharmacists who know a metric crap ton about medicine.
I’m not trying to say that psychiatrists aren’t valuable, they absolutely are, but we could manage to get by for a couple of years while training a new batch of psychiatrists. It wouldn’t be ideal, but the world wouldn’t stop spinning.
Honestly, as long as I could find my old GP Joy in SD, I’d be ok. She’s the one who handled most of my meds anyway. The GP I see now doesn’t like being alone with a person in the exam room if they are or should be on AP. Seeing as I’m not currently, he’s in and out of the room as quick as he can. He only write my tramadol, migraine med, and tizanadine.
A good GP keeps themselves updated on ■■■■, that’s why Joy and I got along so well. And I was “her favorite batshit crazy person.”
I miss her, I didn’t get an Xmas card this year but they completely closed the entire clinic/hospital she worked at in SD. So I wonder if she was forced to give up her gigantic ranch or went to ranch full time and stopped medicine.
We would be in a really shitty situation: no pdoc, no medications, relapse of psychosis. Maybe if drugs would be still avaiable we could have some chance of survive, but without, It would be a really hell.
I would probably just become like old school psychotics, strapped in a room where I can’t hurt myself and withering away. Maybe abused.