Why do people trust psychiatrists?

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The ones who aren't complete scamming psychopaths will readily admit they don't know what they're doing and psychiatry is basically voodoo witchcraft no one understands. Why do people, liberals especially, turn to psychiatry for everything and trust them implicitly?

Psychiatrists zapped people's brains until they went mad, they lobotomized people, and now they're chemically castrating people with experimental hormones that probably fuck up your head. How the hell have they earned people's trust to the extent that people willingly hand over the health of their brains, AKA their entire consciousness, to them?
 
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Well, "turn to psychiatry for everything" is the real issue here. The normies don't need psychiatrists. Hell, I'd argue a lot of people who are on drugs don't really need them, and a lot could be improved in other ways. In reality, taking drugs is just easier for most... AND there is this status of being ill and having something to get sympathy for.

But you know, I also had to deal with agonizing psychosomatic pain for years, every damn day. Then my psychiatrist gave me meds, and the pain faded away, helping me be a functioning human being and not feel like I'm disabled.

Summary: the shrinks are definitely overused, but not entirely evil.
 
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Because the people who sign up for psych appointments, though they're aware that an issue exists, are overwhelmingly not willing to challenge the underlying attitudes -- they want to be told that their problems are not problems. The system has to cater to these people or else they'll stop feeding it money.

If you are mentally healthy and able to self-examine, it doesn't make any sense. But then you'd never decide to see a shrink in the first place.
 
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They are told to trust them. Seriously, psychology and therapy to normalfags are trusted institutions, even if just for extreme cases like suicidal thoguhts. Education and educators especially hammer in trust in at a young age. Most of western media portray them as cure alls for any sort of personal issue. They can be open about being dumbasses, because only the fridges of society are whiling to point out they are frauds.

There is also a factor of demoralization that gets people to believe in them. In the modern age it isn't easy to tackle depression yourself. There are major hurdles we have to deal with now that people in the past never had to endure. Example: Changing a field of work now requires 2-8 years of specific experience with a minimum 2-4 years of full time education. People turn to a psychiatrist since they think they have no other options left. If psychiatry is all BS, then they would have literally nothing to fall back on. This factor is likely worse with people who suffered through a psychiatrist during their childhood/teenage years. Not only did they have zero control over their situation, but were raised to believe that all the pills/BS was actually good for them. If the field is all snake oil, then why the hell did they suffer during their youth?
 
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The baby boomer generation grew up in a time of incredible advancements in science and medicine such that their conception of all physical ailments is that they could be cured with a magic pill. Got knee problems? Don't do any exercise or be less sedentary, surely there's a pill for it. This included problems of the mind. Ted kazynski also has good things to say about this phenomenon.

Anyway, this idea still persists, though diluted, in American culture. People do not want to perform any kind of introspection or change their behaviors. Nor are they comfortable examining the institutions that surround them and interrogating the relationship between them and their problems. They want a magic pill to take the symptoms away so they can have their cake and eat it too.
 
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Psychatrists are the biggest "trust me bro" healthcare in the world. You can do a CAT scan of your lungs to show tumors, an x ray to show a broken bone, a brain scan of serial killer will look the same as your sweet grandma.

It's all intuition, and asking questions about how you feel, and depending on how the psychiatrist interprets it.

They are no better than a pyschic, they will tell you what you want to hear, and get kickbacks on giving you mind altering drugs.
 
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Because Americans are too retarded to understand the differences and utilities of psyquiatry and psychology.
 
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The senior doctor in a local grippy sock jail is a troon, I think fully transitioned, and that's a good reason I wouldn't trust him.
I knew that those who study these fields, tend to be cracked in the head themselves and want to understand own problems better, but that obviously...?
 
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I think movies and media popularized it. I also think from the millennial generation onward there's a sense that if there's a problem, no matter how slight, you need a "professional" to handle it, whether it's calling a mechanic to refit a tyre or getting pills from a psychiatrist because you're going through a period where you feel sad.
 
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