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by niemal_dev 1275 days ago
It is truly unfortunate to see how ignorant and misinformed most of these answers are. First, to understand what is a mental illness we have to deduce strong neuro-biological evidence of the problem and after-so we can proceed with an effective measure, a treatment, that is actually a treatment.

Currently, any kind of psychiatric label is equivalent to archaic prophecies. There's no credible scientific evidence to back up any kind of mental illness diagnostic. It is a facade.

Each and every medication supplied by psychiatrists is not a treatment. It is an inhumane process of complete eradication. Dopamine is a product of hormones among others and it is the core fuel of the brain. Dopamine is the resource with which you anticipate time. Dopamine is the resource with which you can memorize and have a cognitive function as a human being. Dopamine is the reason you have an imagination. Dopamine is the resource that transforms into energy for you to move your body. Shutting it down is nothing but a legal modern euthanasia.

You justify pills for an effective measure, when science itself tends to look towards the gut-microbiome and the inflammation reaching all the way up to the brain. Exact causes are still unknown, but: there are other things one should be treated with, and they are not pills. The ketogenic diet has completely cured people who have been diagnosed as schizo-affective (schizophrenia that is actually worse). People who have been diagnosed as bipolar have also seen tremendous benefits from the ketogenic diet and have been cured. There are many supplements one can use to optimize the overall neuro-biology along with daily routines that reinforce it.

But guess what? No psychiatrist actually pursues those choices, the biggest majority of them are "Here's your pills, next. You don't want them? Let me call the police.". Seeing people treating family members like that is also disheartening. Ignorance got us blind, blind to the madness we as society reinforce and blind to the actual truth.

Calling that a human process is completely ignorant, there's no way for you to know how it is like unless you have studied neuro-biology or you have been under the influence of a dopamine antagonist (commonly known as anti-psychotics).

And let me tell you something, there's nothing worse from seeing your lifetime go by and you being completely unable to live because you got no brain fuel. The worst possible prison is in our brains. Sometimes we build it ourselves, and sometimes other people do. Anti-psychotics is other people. That's how the real trauma occurs. That's how many innocents get "treated" from the society and the psychiatric community.