tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7499005653158357511..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Did Psychiatry Kill Richard Fee?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-891325237435175562013-02-05T10:41:56.414-08:002013-02-05T10:41:56.414-08:00It's helpful to try to think clearly. To think...It's helpful to try to think clearly. To think clearly one must draw a few relevant distinctions.<br /><br />First, the problem with people like Lanza and Holmes and Loughner is psychiatric. They were all dangerous schizophrenics and needed to be locked up.<br /><br />Second, the problem with gun violence in this country is certainly not limited to these few cases. The problem involves gang and drug violence through many of America's inner cities. I have not offered solutions to that problem, though it looks like Rahm Emanuel's approach has not been very successful.<br /><br />Third, the emphasis on these few psychotics has drawn attention from the real causes of inner city gun violence.<br /><br />Fourth, Richard Fee was not a psychotic. His worst problems were drug induced. Such is not the case with schizophrenics. He would certainly have done better if he had been allowed a longer stay in a psychiatric institution. <br /><br />Fifth, there is a radical difference between treating a relatively small number of schizophrenics in an in-patient facility and handing out amphetamines fairly indiscriminately to tens of millions of people.<br /><br />Is that clear enough?Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9472461002487804202013-02-05T09:46:22.140-08:002013-02-05T09:46:22.140-08:00"But, as you read through the Times story, yo..."But, as you read through the Times story, you see that the only people who really understood what was happening to Richard Fee were his parents."<br /><br />I find it fascinating that you have such issues with therapy AND drug treatment, yet when it comes to gun control, you want the psychiatric establishment to come riding in like the calvary to save the day. <br /><br />Lanza's mother should have turned her son over to the Marine psycho dctors. "Maybe they could have found out what was wrong with him." <br /><br />Your solution to gun violence (the same as Hannity, Fox, the NRA), is to just lock up all the crazies, which presupposes a psychistric establishment you believe in and have faith in, one supposes. Unless maybe you think the solution is to just lock them up in chains like the 19th century and throw aqqway the key.<br /><br />After all, if you really and truly think "committing" all possibly dangerous people is the solution, you are going to have an influx of millions of people into the psychiatric system. That's putting a lot of responsibilty on psychiatry (ironic, coming from a blog named Had Enough Therapy...er...except when it comes to guns).<br /><br />Maybe once all the crazies get into these institution, you basically tell them "get over it" and send them on their way. Or put them all in Skinner Boxes?<br /><br />I hope you figure out a solution, because it's the only one you've offered for the problem of guns and violence. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10289385157947156692013-02-04T22:00:18.308-08:002013-02-04T22:00:18.308-08:00My youngest son was diagnosed with ADHD. Thank God...My youngest son was diagnosed with ADHD. Thank God we had a brilliant child psychiatrist. For 2 years we worked with him and our boy without using drugs. trying behavior modifications. It was a very limited success. As he approached grade 8, we finally made the decision to use Ritilan. Our Psychiatrist had a strict regime, 1 dose only, in the morning before school, no doses on weekends, and no doses during holidays. The drug was only to help him at school. <br /><br />At the start of grade nine, I was driving my son to his first early morning band class, when I asked him if he had taken his Ritilian. He said no, that he did not want too anymore, that it made him feel weird. We came to an agreement, if he could keep his marks up, stay social, cause no disruptions and do his home work, no Ritilian. <br /><br />He is now in second year music at university, has a great girlfriend and is very focused (of course! LOL). We still have that bottle of left over Ritilian,and I thank God for Dr.Rhaman, a very gentle and loving man! DeNihilistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41022026627794194352013-02-04T07:25:39.976-08:002013-02-04T07:25:39.976-08:00Exactly... classical Americana!Exactly... classical Americana!Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-76575341269509775712013-02-04T07:22:07.379-08:002013-02-04T07:22:07.379-08:00This is classic Americana.
Standard-issue stimula...This is classic Americana.<br /><br />Standard-issue stimulant craze, which eventually ends when the culture waks up and says..."hey, abusing these addictive stimulants is a really bad idea!"<br /><br />I suspect this is one of the first steps down that road.<br />JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.com