Trained and licensed mental health

Recidiva said:
I'd think the lengthening life expectancy and blooming population would have made that clear.

Due in 90% or greater to pharmaceutical technology.

Yet so many shovel dirt on the industry.
 
hurricane64 said:
Due in 90% or greater to pharmaceutical technology.

Yet so many shovel dirt on the industry.

Well, it's not perfect, but compared to bloodletting and treating diseases with toxic metals with alchemy, I'll take it.
 
Recidiva said:
Well, it's not perfect, but compared to bloodletting and treating diseases with toxic metals with alchemy, I'll take it.

Jeez you are hard to win over.
 
Recidiva said:
I'd think the lengthening life expectancy and blooming population would have made that clear.

The mentally ill were either stored in grandma's attic or sent to mental hospitals for warehousing.

Those who couldn't cope with the difficulties of life, cracked and were stored with the mentally ill.

Quite the system we had back then...

It's only been addressable in my medical lifetime. I work with some of those early pharmaceutical people. The permanent side effects from their meds are astounding. I admire them for the way they have found to survive - most with a little help, but they are making it.

Now, we have options. The medications allow many of those people to cope right along with everyone else. The opportunities for them now are so much greater and they can be productive members in our society with a little bit of help and compassion.

Store that word. It's an important one and needs to be internalized. Compassion.
 
Recidiva said:
Well, it's not perfect, but compared to bloodletting and treating diseases with toxic metals with alchemy, I'll take it.


leeches.

don't forget the leeches.
 
ksmybuttons said:
The mentally ill were either stored in grandma's attic or sent to mental hospitals for warehousing.

Those who couldn't cope with the difficulties of life, cracked and were stored with the mentally ill.

Quite the system we had back then...

It's only been addressable in my medical lifetime. I work with some of those early pharmaceutical people. The permanent side effects from their meds are astounding. I admire them for the way they have found to survive - most with a little help, but they are making it.

Now, we have options. The medications allow many of those people to cope right along with everyone else. The opportunities for them now are so much greater and they can be productive members in our society with a little bit of help and compassion.

Store that word. It's an important one and needs to be internalized. Compassion.

I know enough about people with my particular illness that most of them died young, had their skulls opened (fun with trephining!) or were chained to asylum walls for their short brutal lives.

Go Imitrex!
 
Hester said:
don't forget the leeches.
And maggot therapy too. I know it works but that would be hard to sit still for and not be grossed out.
 
rosco rathbone said:
Exactly. Things weren't hunky dory back in the bad old days. There was a lot of repression of feelings.
Once again Assmeal's he-man rhetoric gets he bitch man slapped down and lo and behold he's nowhere to be seen, no doubt hoping this thread gets forgotten.

Of course it will be. He's taken far more spectacularly humiliating beatings than this. :)
 
hurricane64 said:
Due in 90% or greater to pharmaceutical technology.

Yet so many shovel dirt on the industry.
90% sounds high. I'd say closer to 50%. Don't forget antiseptics and technology that allows doctors to diagnose illness.

And probably 30% or more is just better diets and less dangerous manual labor.
 
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