Do psychiatrists tend to regard anything & anyone spiritual with mistrust?

Question

Is, for them, confidence & strong faith 'a sin'?

A sign of 'ignorance'?

Is it merely education that 'maketh a man', or are there other qualities of heart & mind required?

Does a medical degree make you a good 'judge'?

Does modern medicine have all the answers?

Is there anything more to us than electrical impulses crossing synapses, having evolved randomly from soup?

The main question is the one at the top. :-)

Compassionate Angel: I think you may be right.

Terrible G: Excellent response. I think though, that the side effects of psyche medication can be more terrible than sadness itself, which does change, and can often be exaggerated or midiagnosed.

Mindfulness based cognitive therapy, for example seems a good / better way forward, in many cases - though it does seem in fairly experimental stages in the West, it's been practised for two millenia in South East Asia, Tibet & China, with tangible results.

cosmic drifter, sir: I think you've hit the nail right on the head. :-)

Answer 1

Does modern medicine have all the answers. Are doctors good judges, NO.

Is depression real, Yes. Is Anxiety real, Yes. Is there proof. Yes.

MRI imaging showing how depression ruins the brain. We have pictures of anti-depressants working over time.

Read the Essential Guide to Pysch Pharmacology. Stephan Staal. He answers all of the questions if you have any doubt.

For many years people have do suffer from mental illness. Today we can do something about it. Are we perfect. No.

But it sure does beat the old days. Having faith is good. It will help you through many things.

Depression is a lot more than just neurons. There are outside factors, genetics, family life, memories and your own mindset just to name a few.

We as humans are much more complicated than you are giving credit for.

Are we derived from Soup. Who the hell knows.
Only God can really answers that question.
Or maybe science will someday.

To be honest, go outside and enjoy life. The clock is ticking.

Answer 2

faith and inteligence are in no way connected. you can be as spiritual as one can be and still be a moron.

and conversely you can know everything there is to know about evolution and quantum physisics and still have an unshakeble faith that it is all the divine work of one creator.

the more you learn, the more you realize how much we still have left to learn. the role of faith is to help us believe in God in the absence of facts, not to deny the facts we know in favor of superstition.

Answer 3

I once heard that when a psychoanalyst was asked what can they do for people the reply was "the most we can do is to make an abnormally unhappy person into an normally unhappy one". ~*~ EDIT: Thanks cosmicfella. I didn't see your question in r/s until I answered this one. ~*~

Answer 4

They do, unless you seek out a religious type..and they won't defy you