Psychiatrists secretly don't want their patients to be healthy - otherwise they'll be out of business?

Answer 1

Psychiatrists want their patients to be healed so that their reputation and wealth would grow.

They have no worries about having a lack of customers. Society today is a factory that creates stress and depression to the less strong hearted.

Answer 2

Sometimes I believe that and then other times I believe the patients really don't want to be cured. Nothing harder than trying to convince a patient they are not quite right unless you're a patient trying to convince a psychiatrist that you don't actually enjoy your manic up swings. Unfortunately... I think the patients have a higher average of convincing then the Dr.'s do. It is a condition of the disease to believe what you are saying and to feel it is a way that a patient convinces themselves that they do not need the medication or the treatment so that they can keep enjoying the up swing of a manic episode. The unfortunate thing is there is always a down swing and it is those moments where the suicidal thoughts creep in and you run back to the Dr. You claim doesn't want you to get better.

I have also seen patients being over prescribed under the pretense that Psychiatry is an uncertain science and you have to try out many medications before you find one that works... It is a frustration I have seen many many times and it often leads to thoughts like this. Basically, mental illness it a difficult thing to determine because it is often so personal and since the Dr's and the patients don't spent extended periods of time with one another they have to rely upon the word of the patient or the actions and deeds which are not always as obvious.

So yes, I can see why someone would feel that way and Im certain there are unscrupulous moron Dr's in all forms of medicine but for the most part I believe it is the nature of the beast and its unfortunate difficulty as a rule that leads to thoughts like this. No, I don't think that is the case most of the time.

Answer 3

They depend on repeat business. If they gave all the answers in the first session, the patient would have no reason to come back. Then they'd have to drum up more business! It's a dirty little secret and it's the same with medical doctors. They give you drugs to quiet down your symptoms, but have no interest in actually curing you. Because if they cured everyone, they, and the drug companies, and millions of other people would be unemployed. It's worth a lot of money to a lot of people if you are sick, mentally or physically.

Answer 4

My cousin is a psychiatrist and she'd love it if her patients would get well and leave - she works with patients who are criminally insane in the Virginia penal system. There's never a shortage of need for psych services, whether inside a prison or not. Part of the professional training they receive is to know when to let go of a patient after helping them to be independent and whole.

Answer 5

There will always be people who need psychiatry. They don't have to resort to something mean like that. There are enough people who need help with certain aspects of their lives. All the psychiatrists I know have almost more patients than they can handle. And that's here in NYC where an hour costs $300!!

Answer 6

First of all this is a controversial question. Psychiatrists are physicians just like your family physician is who takes care flu et al . The difference between a Psychiatrist and your GP is that the Psychiatrist has gone through specialized training. To say that they do not want their patients to be healthy is a fallacy and something of a paranoid delusion.

Classical Psychiatry as propounded by Freud is a fraudulent science---a nice way to say that it is alot of quakery. It was not intended this way but occured because early Psychiatry did not truly know the origins of human behavior let alone that of animals and was still trying to find itself. Early Psychiatry was developing as Modern Medicine began developing in the 1830s and with it many mistakes were made later corrected.. More Doctors before 1860 killed their patients trying to cure them than not. People died because their Physician bled them to get rid of bad humors (that was the cause of George Washington's death), gave them doses of mercury, poisonous herbs such as fox glove as a primitive form of digitalis which was not standardized as it is today , did surgery with dirty knives and the list goes on and on.

All behavior and life is of electo-bio-chemical origins. For whatever reasons---this electro-biochemistry gets disturbed at times so that the brain and endocrine system does not make the chemicals it needs in balance to make to make the brain function correctly. Perhaps it makes too much Serotonin or not enough and the same with other chemicals that are also made by the Brain. This can occur as the result of physical illness as well as other causes of an external nature. Using the computer as a model and an analogy; we can see this happen in computers which get viruses. At any rate when this happens; we see the symptoms of what many people call "mental Illness". Modern Psychiatry attempts to correct the brain chemistry of the brain , does so effectively and since 1950 the growth of drugs such as Stelazine, Mellaril , Thorazine has made this possible and with it the closure of many mental hospitals.

Before the foregoing medications were developed; Psychiatric Wards were dangerous places to work, patients were restrained and placed in straight jackets when they became violent. If that was not bad enough; Psychiatry gained a bad reputation for making zombies out of violent people through electro-shock, insulin shock and worse of all frontal lobotomy. (people who suffered this proceedure was Rosemary Kennedy who was the hidden away sister of President Kennedy, Rose Williams, Sister of Tennessee Williams, just to name a few.)

The Movie and Play : "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" depicts this. Pyschiatry was abused by the legal system by having Psychiatrists help determine the death sentences of socio-paths or saying that certain people were inferior because of their race and the list or prejustices grown out of Social Darwinism and religion goes on and on .

One only finds people in mental hospitals today when the medicines prescribed do not work or the person refuses to take their medications as proscribed and the days of a patient lying on someone's Freudian couch while they sat in a chair listening and basically prostituting themselves aka psychoanalysis is long over.

Psychiatrist do want to see their patients healthy or why should they bother to treat in the first place?

Answer 7

That's like saying doctors don't want their patients to stop having cancer so they can continue to sell them chemo treatments. I guess if you were a really bad psychiatrist you would want your patients to perpetually be coming to you but more than likely there is a steady stream of people who need help even if you are able to "cure" one or two of them from time to time.

Answer 8

Thats like saying that doctors try to keep their patients ill in order to make money. Its just not true. People go into the medical proffession to help take care of others. The unfortunate reality of it is, there will always be more sick people.

Answer 9

This is true for some of them. What is even worse is that they don't want the patient to get better because they would have nobody to depend on them. They woud loose their demigod status. Them and D Phil. I hate that guy.

Answer 10

There is good & bad in all professions . I don't agree with your statement , because no one goes to school for years to obtain a degree , to be the worst doctor on the block .