Psychiatry is not rooted in science (not the sound kind, anyway). Psychiatry is not rooted in science (not the sound kind, anyway). There is a common misconception that psychiatry is a rigorous, evidence-based branch of medicine. But look closer, and you'll find something troubling. Psychiatry does not, as a rule, run biological tests. There are no brain scans, no blood work, no conclusive metrics used to confirm diagnoses. Instead, patients are diagnosed based on what can be observed by the treating psychiatrist. That’s right—your entire identity can be pathologized through someone else's eyes. And those eyes are subject to human bias, fatigue, prejudice, and error. Worse still, treatment decisions are often made based on a person’s past behaviour. But science— real science —is not just about what has already been observed. It’s about experimentation, current conditions, hypothesis testing, and present data. Sh...
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