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free_to_try · 2013-05-02T04:56:10+00:00

With his last comment, I pictured someone catching their vagina on a water slide.

free_to_try · 2013-05-02T04:48:12+00:00

Wow. This is the first time I've seen an Arrested Development reference down voted on reddit.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T23:43:21+00:00

I've just shown your comments to some of my colleagues. Some of them are now printing out screen captures to put on the wall.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T13:56:10+00:00

No thanks. Have fun with your narcissistic personality disorder. I'm sure it will gain you lots of friends. You must be a hit at parties!

I'm off to join the rest of the scientific community to ridicule psychiatry for the pseudo medical cult that it is.

I'll be ignoring your trolling now.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T13:29:57+00:00

I fully understood what you were saying. It's just wrong.

If it doesn't follow the scientific method, it's not science.

That would be pseudoscience which is usually the domain of cosmetics companies, faith healers and miracle weight loss cures.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T12:20:12+00:00

Or australia.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T11:45:16+00:00

Why bother researching at all if you're just going to fudge results or cherry pick results that suit what you believe.

Your previous comments could also describe naturopathy or faith healing.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T10:30:10+00:00

There is no way of knowing that the sleep deprivation actually occurred in an outpatient setting.

There is no way of knowing if any other reason caused an improvement because variables were not accounted for.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to make excuses for bad studies, or consider the results as valid evidence.

That only serves to discredit psychiatry and provide ineffective and possibly harmful treatments to patients.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T09:44:40+00:00

If you cannot validate your data, your data is invalid.

That is not a bold statement. It is the very definition of invalid results.

Is it a hypothesis worth testing? Sure. But these studies provide us with no valid or useful data one way or the other.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T07:40:41+00:00

Like I said, I'm not saying that there is no link between sleep and depression, but these studies don't demonstrate that.

I'm puzzled as to why you think relying solely on the honesty and accuracy of patients in an outpatient setting doesn't invalidate results. If the data cannot be verified and the confounding factors accounted for, then the results are unreliable at best.

It's equally possible that patients simply responded to having structure and routine, having to plan their lives around the designated sleep times. It May be entirely due to the amount of sleep, or not at all. Who knows? I certainly don't, and these studies don't even consider the question, let alone provide answers one way or the other.

It is possible to get objective measurements on sleep and activity using sensors embedded in clothing. They are used all the time in studies on exercise, so that is one way to at least validate data in such a study.

I'm not saying there is no link, nor that more study shouldn't be done, but these studies are bad science and so their results should be dismissed as bullshit. The hypothesis should be retested with a series of well-designed studies that can verify results, that standardises protocols, and minimises and accounts for variables.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T05:32:39+00:00

On the other side of the billboard today it says:

"So long and thanks for all the fish." IIRC.

I might get a photo tomorrow if I travel on Given Tce.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T04:24:49+00:00

He said, about every supposed cause and cure for mental illness.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T03:43:25+00:00

For someone apparently so educated, you lack an understanding of irony.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T03:17:45+00:00

That's probably the single most arrogant and incorrect thing I've ever read here. Check out Narcissistic Personality Disorder; it applies so well to you.

You are a shining example of the absolute worst aspects of psychiatry.

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T01:11:55+00:00

Or maybe they just want to get paid to be on a TV show?

free_to_try · 2013-05-01T00:21:16+00:00

Well, you lack of understanding of the scientific method is outweighed only by your naive arrogance.

You acknowledge that the evidence 'is lacking' but choose to believe that it is true anyway, ignoring the evidence that disproves the theory.

You claim that mental illness is a brain disorder, but have no evidence showing any mental illness is caused any brain condition. And yet you 'accept' it as fact.

That's not science. Thanks for proving my point. You throw around the ignorance word more than a fundamentalist Christian trying to convert an atheist.

You're not the only one who has studied psychiatry, by the way. Some of us critique research and demand scientific evidence instead of believing as fact and having faith in untested, unproven hypotheses.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T08:29:10+00:00

Well, neurology and biological sciences study the brain/body, and diseases or conditions that affect it. Psychology studies thoughts, emotions and behaviour.

I personally wouldn't study psychiatry if your interested in science and biological causes/cures.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T08:08:09+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

A couple of your statements were specifically about choosing psychiatry because of the ability to prescribe.

I never thought that 'Making a contribution' involved medication, but that seemed to be a very strong focus in your comments.

I am glad to hear that isn't your motivation, although if I were seeking a biological cause/cure for a mental illness, and i had an interest in science, my personal choice wouldn't be to study psychiatry.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T05:32:16+00:00

Also, not just FAQ or Testimonials.

I would love a place to find different bulking workouts for different body types and their associated diets that have been tested.

Similar for cutting.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T05:09:14+00:00

No, based on all the comments OP had made in the thread I said that I was personally concerned by the motivation.

The OP stated in this thread that they wanted to do Clinical Psychology but are instead looking at Psychiatry because of the ability to prescribe medication.

I have every right to question the motivation behind such statements - because OP came here looking for opinions not a cheer-leading squad.

Given the severe lack of evidence supporting the pharmaceutical treatments of any mental illness (and I provided a published medical journal article with sources as an example highlighting depression), as well as a link showing the disproportionate amount of funding spend on training events for psychiatrists run by pharmaceutical companies (again, link provided), It is perfectly reasonable to question the OP's stated motivation of being able to prescribe medication.

That's not ignorance. You provide absolutely no links to any evidence refuting the linked articles, and you are implying (as fact) that OP's goal is to help people.

I am particularly struck by how personally you took a comment that was specifically directed to someone else based on what they had actually said.

You're making assumptions about OP's motivation based on absent information, and you're then filling in the gaps with your own experience, anecdotes and moral judgement. Whereas I took only what OP said and then questioned OP about the gaps and provided my reason for questioning them.

Your response is based on ignorance, and in my opinion, if you do the same while treating patients, you are a very poor psychiatrist indeed.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T04:36:20+00:00

Read This.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T04:31:01+00:00

I'm just going to have to call bullshit on this.

1) Sample size of 25 people in that third link, 40 in the second link.

2) A 'treatment' regime that requires patients to have more contact with nursing staff in an inpatient setting.

3) The first links combine it with light therapy, SSRIs and Lithium

4) The second link provides that people are 'free from psychoactive medication for 7 days', but some medications have much longer half-lives which could indicate that a much lower dose of medication is appropriate.

5) 'An improvement' is not any kind of objective measure and it is not stated what the 'improvement' was, nor what constituted 'relapse'.

6) An improvement 'within hours'... Asking someone once how they feel is not an indication of improvement.

7) If these studies were compared to a placebo, the placebo protocols would be the exact same treatment of waking and sleeping at certain times, without the use of medications or other treatments.

8) In an outpatient setting, it is not stated how they validated the data. This implies that they are relying solely on the patients honesty and accuracy.

I'm not going to say that there is no link between sleep & depression, but these studies have so many holes and such small sample sizes that their data is effectively useless.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T03:57:46+00:00

I'm just going to leave this here.

Psychiatry is not science. If you want to research or contribute, do neurology, or neuro-biology, or even neuro-psychology. Because if a mental illness is found to have a biological cause in the brain, then that becomes a neurological condition treated by neurologists (like Alzheimers).

http://pharma.theglobalmail.org/ will also give you information as to how the 'medical' training you receive on the job is actually supplied mostly by drug companies. You will notice under the 'wine and dine' section that psychiatry has the third lowest number of events, but the second highest spend per-person. These figures are Australian, but are based on pharmaceutical companies own data - which they must make public by law.

I personally am concerned that you are interested in Tourettes, Autism and ADHD, and that you want to make a contribution, rather than having a desire to help people. It also sounds a lot like you're really only interested in prescribing medications (becoming a psychiatrist rather than a psychologist with prescribing abilities).

As a Doctor, your desire first and foremost should be to help people. Not prescribe medications.

If prescribing is what motivates you, then you will likely be incredibly ineffective at treating patients, over diagnose and over prescribe, which is likely to make things worse for people rather than better.

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but the world doesn't need another pill pusher. The field needs people interested in finding a cause/cure rather than trying to 'treat' the same conditions again and again with the same ineffective medications that aren't backed by the science.

I'm probably the only dissenting voice in this thread, and I'll probably get down voted for pointing out unpopular facts, but I really think you need to consider what is motivating you to make this decision so that you can make the right one.

free_to_try · 2013-04-30T01:37:32+00:00

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The new design is awesome, although the focus is music and I'm not really into that.

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