Medicine's big new battleground: does mental illness really exist?

[Sivafae]

117. Can we talk? No, seriously.

This is the very thing I have been researching on for a while. I have been having life altering extreme anxiety for years that has been increasing with each passing year. It is debilitating.

I have been asking questions about the fact that perhaps, just perhaps, some of what I am experiencing could be symptom of something physically wrong with me. My MD wouldn't hear it. She said the body always follows the brain/emotions. Except there is this condition known as Cushing's syndrome and if the body followed the brain/emotions, then what the hell is that syndrome for?

A psychiatrist told me that if I went back to the traumatic experience I would be able to get over it. But what about traumatic events that occurred before your memory started?

To me (and in keeping with the topic) it is like the doctors, all of them--psych and MD's, are too ready to believe that all of it is in our heads and psych meds will fix it. But there are problems even with that, because there are environmental factors that we didn't have some 50 to 100 years ago. Yes, there are advances in our understanding about what affects people. And that is a great relief, because too often people are told that they are lazy, when in reality they have a debilitating mental condition. But what if, and this is what I am investigating, all of those insecticides that mimic estrogen are behaving in such a way as to mimic mental conditions?


Professionals are the cause of A LOT of bullshit theories that are more harmful than helpful. Harmful because it closes the doctor's minds to what the actual problem, cause and solution may be for each individual. Aren't they suppose to be scientists?

But seriously, TM99, pm me if you feel up to talking about your experience with me. I would love to know more.