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RE: dTube: How Do You Improve the Mental Health System of the US?

in #health7 years ago

Your cohost brings up an excellent point. Mental health treatment has a stigma associated with it and the threat of the government getting involved in your life and taking away certain rights or putting you on some sort of list because of a particular diagnosis only deters people from seeking treatment.

I think another problem which gives the mental health industry bad rapport is the overuse of pharmaceuticals. So many children are prescribed medications to alter their brain - just for being rambunctious! This only reflects on mental health treatment in general as lazy and with the agenda to enrich drug companies. People like to attack gun rights whenever there's a mass shooting - but a commonality in all of these cases is that the assailant was using psychotropic medications. What does that tell you about the potential dangers of these mind-altering drugs?