hotfire wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Symmetry wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:That was exactly my initial point. If you are going to government-support psychiatrists, one might as well government-support exorcists.
DY- have you ever known someone who has suffered from mental illness? PTSD, for example, or depression, or schizophrenia?
I don't believe in mental illness. People don't have a mind that can become broken. They might have a brain that can become broken, but that isn't a mental thing, it's either a chemical or a physical thing.
And psychiatrists prescribe physical chemicals...
Are you thinking of psychologists?
Yeah, but they are crackpots I wouldn't trust messing with my brain. I'll stick with the exorcists.
waauw wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Symmetry wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:That was exactly my initial point. If you are going to government-support psychiatrists, one might as well government-support exorcists.
DY- have you ever known someone who has suffered from mental illness? PTSD, for example, or depression, or schizophrenia?
I don't believe in mental illness. People don't have a mind that can become broken. They might have a brain that can become broken, but that isn't a mental thing, it's either a chemical or a physical thing.
Maybe you should give us your definition of 'mind' or 'mental'.
You can use any definition you want. Human consciousness, the part of you that thinks, the "self-aware". Either is equally invalid. By that I mean that until you prove there is such a thing as the mind, one can't base public policy on it. I haven't seen any evidence of thought, rational or otherwise in human beings. Have you?