Reply #10: PS-My son LITERALLY would die without his medications.

[DebJ]

Psychiatry is NOT crap; it is medicine. My son has a neurobiological brain disorder, seizures in the brain in the region of emotional control, chemical imbalances there. He can not talk nor think himself out of his condition. I also have a completely normal daughter, who excelled in all areas of her life: personal relationships, her dual college degree, and her job in the government (Promoted 2-3 times a year in her first three years). It's not the child rearing, it is the child's brain. Funny how so many people refuse to accept that the brain can have medical/chemical/neurological dysfunctions just like a pancreas can function in a diabetic mode, or the heart or kidneys fail. But for some reason, people think it is impossible for the brain, an organ, to have MEDICAL issues. Somehow the brain is believed by them to be immune from disease in the emotional control areas. They can accept the concept of being paralyzed, or blind, or have other problems because of brain damage. And they 'believe in' mental retardation.
But this one area of the brain, they say, can NEVER have medical issues...it's all b.s. and lack of self control or whatever.
If you are not one of these people, then I apologize for the rant.
But if not, please provide me medical evidence that this one area of our bodies, and only this one area, can not suffer from chemical and neurological disorders requiring medical intervention.
This is what psychiatrists do: MEDICAL intervention. The talking stuff is psychology, not psychiatry.