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Originally posted by slugger9787
Look Ms. Confused.
Live and breathe by the DSM IV RT= revised text.
Me I will continue to engage patients with empathy.
Even if it means helping them deal with very intense real emotions.
I do not medicate as a first or second or third choice.
Medication puts patients in a chemical straight jacket, oh so much more humane than the canvas ones of yesteryear.
Medication gives patients a chemical frontal lobotomy, and secondary there develops tardive dyskinesia.
But you explain that is better than the real frontal lobotomy.
You will live and learn.
I practice Reality Therapy.
William Glasser.
Originally posted by Xiamara
reply to post by slugger9787
Well I have to say that is a VERY old world view on those with mental disabilities... I don't think anyone should be executed unless proven they are a huge threat to society. Murders and rapists should be killed and I think all convicted child killers or molesters should be thrown in jail with a giant sign saying how many children they hurt.. Death is too good for them.
People with mental disabilities should be given the chance to be rehabilitated and I really think the public needs to be properly educated about mental illness. Not all people with a mental illness are dangerous, and should be locked up its not black and white, In a facility or not. People with schizophrenia are a great example. They may have periods of time lucidity and are able to be 100% fully functioning. But other times they go into full blow schizophrenia attacks and can become violent. With medication they are able to be lucid all the time and control their actions. Just because you have a mental illness doesn't mean you need to constantly be locked away from society.
Originally posted by unityemissions
Okay, I feel the need to point out the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath, just in case some people aren't aware.
A sociopath can be rehabilitated. It's a mixture of genetic abnormalities and environmental factors. I can entirely understand building empathy, and compassion for a sociopath. A sociopath has a partial conscience, that gets turned on and off constantly.
A psychopath is incapable of having a conscience. It's beyond their comprehension! They will never be "rehabilitated" because they were never with conscience!
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by ofhumandescent
While I agree that psychopaths are the most selfish of our species, homo sapiens are the most selfish creatures of this planet.
I tend to think that we're all collectively to blame for the state of the world. .. this is my latest conclusion.