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What is psychiatry?
Components intersecting at cross-point where stands Psychiatry:
- The practice of medicine
- The practice of business
- The practice of one’s personal life
- The doctor-patient relationship
- The pursuit of Quality of Life
Who should go into psychiatry?
- Consider temperament
- There are areas of medicine that are more procedural based versus more weighted toward patient-doctor exchange.
- The medical system is incentivized by codes and governed by layers of administration.
- But the question begins with Me; what am I incentivized by? Again, consider temperament. Temperament encompasses perceived moral values, and where pleasure comes from.
What is brain illness?
- It is not just one thing. It involves the biopsychosocial components.
- Biological
- psychological
- sociological
We are not in this to cure anything. We enter psychiatry to improve quality of life – through approach of the biopsychosocial model.
Questions for you:
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What is psychiatry?
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Who should go into psychiatry?
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What is brain illness?
Self-Care Tip: Approach brain illness w/o expecting a cure, but rather a process.
Related articles
- “DSM-5: Caught between Mental Illness Stigma and Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice” (madinamerica.com)
- DSM-5: Caught Between Mental Illness Stigma and Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Allen Frances: Is Criticism of DSM-5 ‘Anti-psychiatry’? (huffingtonpost.com)
Without revealing too much, let me say that I experienced psychiatry on a personal level for 31/2 yrs. They were the hardest yet most rewarding years of my life.
blessings ~ maxi
Thank you Maxi! I’m so so grateful u share your story and voice w us. we need to hear u and knowing this improves our shared experience.
“hardest yet most rewarding” – wow. any way u r able/willing to tell more about it? i hear u saying w/o revealing too much :)…
keep on, friend.