by Leo Volont » Wed Dec 26, 2018 12:18 am
Hi Gino,
Everyone is diagnosed with something and everyone is on Meds today. You know, of course ,Gino, that's its all a scam, right? These Doctors are not working for charity, or out of Love of God and Humanity. They want to fill their Appointment Books, and the Pharmaceutical Companies give the Doctors 'kick backs' and bonus rewards for getting people hooked on their very expensive drugs, which they hope you to take for the rest of your life. You know of course, if you could save that money, after 40 years it would amount to a years salary. Oh, and how can the Doctors just diagnose you so severely? Well, check out their Diagnostic Table. Everything is on it except "normal". Really, Evolution has not screwed up things so terribly. Mentally Ill People should be statistical outliers. But if you are not physically sick and you are eating well, then the odds of you being Mentally Ill should be minuscule. But its not, that is not according to a Profession that makes proportionately more money as the proportion of people that can be diagnosed as Mentally Ill increases. EVERYBODY who walks through those doors and has any kind of a complaint at all, such as "I was raised by over indulgent parents who never enforced the Social Norms and so I grew up being habitually self-indulgent and obnoxious and now people hate me. Doctor is there something wrong with me?" "Of course! You have anxiety, depression and you are bi-polar. I have just the right thing for you: pills that will shut down your sex drive, make you fat and lazy and destroy any creative abilities you may have, but they will shut you up and calm you down, and people won't hate you so much."
And you are fine with it all. You express gratitude that the Pills Work so well, that is, once they kick in, and now you want to know what to do in the mean while. Well, Gino, you can try Re-Conditioning your Thought and Behavior Patterns. You know, your first mistake was to go to a Pill Pushing Psychiatrist, instead of a Psychologist who would have diagnosed all of your problems as Behavioral. You simply have never learned how to behave. Also, you have never learned how to think. Your thoughts were permitted to be totally self-indulgent. To learn how to think properly, there must be Rewards for Good Thinking, and Punishments, or Bad Returns and Negative Results, for Bad Thinking. You never received any negative feedback for Bad Thinking, or maybe you were even REWARDED for Bad Thinking (as when you can be a Brat and your parents reward you by giving you what your tantrum demanded.
Gino, you should read up on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I've been away from this site for awhile. I've gone back to School for a second Degree and have been rather busy. But I used to post a lot here, and so many of my Posts are still in history. I had a lot of good advice for people with irritability and impulsive anger, and some of those tips may be applicable to you. But, honestly, I can't get really enthusiastic about trying to help the Dopers like yourself. With all those Pills you're just a glorified Zombie, aren't you? Do you even have a Soul anymore? Why should I bother, right?