But I CAN blog about the encounter that I had in this nice tea shop in Quaint Small Town where an atheist psychiatrist confirmed my long held hypothesis about problems with over-prescribing medicine to deal with mental health issues. It all started as I was perusing tea in this nice tea shop. As I'm realizing is common in Quaint Small Town, EVERYONE talks to you! Finally I am not a freak for talking to strangers! Literally EVERYONE you meet talks to you! Even if you don't want them to talk to you, people talk to you! I feel like I've been transported to some magical place where people are friendly and the only 'traffic' is when I had to legitimately honk at this handicapped driver for pulling out in front of me in the parking lot of Walmart. And the waitresses call you "hon." Like "Ok hon, I'll bring you your check. Have a great day hon." Awesome.
Anyway, so I am browsing teas when I mention something about St. John's Wort. The man explains to me how St. John's Wort is useless. He gets into how the stuff is found by using sheep. He explains the process of how people send sheep off to go find the stuff and apparently the sheep find it and get pollen all over their faces and the people go look where the sheep were eating. I found this fascinating, but if you really want to know if it's true, you'll have to research it on your own. I take Psychiatrist's word.
So I am the personality type that prefers to use people to learn about life and new things so I took that opportunity to ask him about my societal concerns of what I view as a current trend of just prescribing medicine rather than getting to the source of people's problems through real therapy. He informed me that psychiatrists actually really do only prescribe medicine rather than actually spending the time to talk to people. The cause of this is the insurance industry. He said insurance companies only reimburse psychiatrists for prescribing medicine and not for taking the time to talk to patients. I told him that I don't think people today actually want to take responsibility for their issues and just want some diagnosis and he totally agreed!
I have a lot of ideas about why all these kids are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD and how growth hormones and all this other crap in our food is affecting our kids and allergies, and also about the over-prescribing of medicine to deal with mental health issues. But I never thought I was totally right about any of it! That was nice to hear.
Thank you for letting me share my tea store account of my personal mental health treatment theory confirmation so I can at least have an outlet for being right in one area!
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