Hey Stempede!
Well, you may find that this doesn't meet the standard of ''science'' (all that falsifiable stuff)
This 3-part post as will become apparent is more of an opinion piece about the legitimacy of the psychiatric profession (and well really by extension the entire medical profession) than a scientific study.
I'm actually kind of on the fence on this one.
I don't think mental illness works in the way it is presented to us (at least in pop psychology, let alone psychiatric medicine). I tend to look at it from an angle of neuroscience and what we know about how the brain wiring between the various regions of the brain can get fucked up.
Pathologies seem to be the result of bad wiring.
Also, I could provide references but that is a whole other level of work.
I'm much more of an armchair scientist than a let me grab my scalpel and labcoat scientist
I feel I'm theorizing out of my own creative intelligence (some may call that my ass IDK) but I'm also not really willing to try and prove it to a scientific community. Call it intellectual laziness or just not caring enough about what other people think?
I guess this definitely falls more under the category of philosophy than ''science'' although science means knowledge and philosophy means love of wisdom so really I don't see why the two would be mutually exclusive.
I'd rather let other people debate these ideas and try to prove/disprove them to each other, as I'm not really trying to convince anybody.
I have no problem advancing them without using references is what I'm trying to say
I just tagged it in SteemSTEM to cause a bit of a ruckus I guess :3
I appeciate this, but it's not all about being scientific, it's for further reading too; many of your definitions and so on may be glossed over. It does help us confirm the legitimacy of a poster in general, but for sure that's not the only concern - depends on the context of the post.
Good luck!
Hmmm!
Didn't think of it that way
I just posted my second piece (clickable link at the top of the post now)
There's definitely a couple really good references in that one!
Think you'll really enjoy it, especially when it gets into the nittier and gritter parts about Freud and Jung and how that ties into how we treat mental illness today in the field of psychiatry!
Thanks for your blessing!
Peace!
Xx
I read this after i made my comment. Id like to add that id rather follow your research trail than try to figure out where you got this info so i can decide what i think about it and potentially post different or additional opinions and research.