Why do mental health experts insist on hiding a patients illness behind meds?

Question

on drugs dot com some of the side effects are often the same as the stuff being treated

Answer 1

They don't, they treat them with medication, when appropriate.

Answer 2

Mental disorders are chemical imbalances in the brain.  Depending on the medication prescribed, it helps to levels out the chemicals that brain would normally produced on it's own.  Experts don't hide the illness.  They treat the illness with the necessary formulas of medications over a period of time and therapy is usually also recommended with the use of mental health medications.  The eye doctor insists on contacts or glasses with bad eyesight and the physician insists on antibiotics for infections.  Mental health is no different and in many cases it is inherited.

Answer 3

to help the person with the illness have easier coping with the outside world instead of being treated any different from anyone else

Answer 4

Actually, alot of the time the medication is in the person's head. Only think it's working because it's what a doctor gave them. They've been doing this for so long now and truthfully, it works.

Answer 5

Because its unsafe to the patient and others to not be medicated with mental disorders.

Answer 6

You are right.  Psychiatric drugs are very dangerous, and "chemical imbalance" is a fraud.

Psychiatrists claim that a person “needs” a drug to combat their “chemical imbalance” in the brain which is causing a person's “mental disorder”. However, the concept that a brain-based, chemical imbalance underlies mental illness is false. While popularized by heavy public marketing, it is simply psychiatric wishful thinking. As with all of psychiatry's disease models, it has been thoroughly discredited by researchers.

Diabetes is a biochemical imbalance. However, as Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen states, “the definitive test and biochemical imbalance is a high blood sugar balance level. Treatment in severe cases is insulin injections, which restore sugar balance. The symptoms clear and retest shows the blood sugar is normal. Nothing like a sodium imbalance or blood sugar imbalance exists for depression or any other psychiatric syndrome.”

In 1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser said, “...modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness...Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”

Answer 7

It's not hiding an illness, it is treating it. Many mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain and are  best dealt with with medication. Therapy is also a recommended treatment for mental illness, it really helps having an unbiased individual to talk to.

Answer 8

not all people have side effects from drugs. ANd most mental health experts recommend other forms of treatment besides drugs or in combination of drugs.

Answer 9

To recover faster!

Answer 10

While some doctors may not fully understand a persons symptoms and quickly recommend a medication for treatment, they are not trying to hide anything. In fact, by treating a mental illness with a medication they are clearly indicating the presence of an illness and the need for psychotropic medication. Often times, a persons chemical imbalance prevents them from being able to see clearly and any other treatment would be useless. Once the medication has returned the brain to it's chemical balance, other treatment options can be considered.  

Answer 11

Modern Western psychiatry is quite young compared to ancient wisdom healing traditions and ignores the spiritual and energetic aspects of the human journey. There is always some spiritual element to issues that psychiatry generally labels as 'psychopathology'. 'Transpersonal counselling' and 'energy work' are just two areas of therapy where an holistic perspective combines with new understandings from quantum physics.