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Digest this: Since February 2007, Britney Spears’ spending have been to the tune of a whooping, hold your breath, $61 million. Now before you start admonishing Britney thinking that she spent that money on clothes, make-up, shoes, or whatever, let me tell you that the $61 million spent on her psychiatric care, multiple trips to expensive rehab facilities and legal tussles like her divorce with K-Fed.
Now, the first thought – a selfish one – that comes to mind is what I would have done with an amount like that. But I move on to larger issues and realize that $61 million can probably feed an entire country in Africa for a long time. But instead it was spent on one person who keeps going down the same ditch again and again. OK, I know what you’re thinking, she earned the money and she can spend it any way she wants. You’re right, but the question that needs to be answered is this: Is all the money spent really helping Britney Spears? The answer to that question is an obvious no.
The money is only helping the brilliant psychiatrists and rehab centers get richer by the hour. Britney has sought psychiatric help a lot of times and yet, ended up as the same broken person. She has been to rehab centers a number of times as well, only to come out drinking again. And she’s not alone. The same is the case of quite a few Hollywood celebrities. The psychiatrists and rehab centres are hardly doing anything for them. The poor celebs end up the same within days, drunk, drugged and wasted.
Rehab facility sure seems like a very sound business venture. I haven’t been to one so I can’t really say if they do try to heal their patients or not, but one thing’s for sure, stinking rich celebs like Spears are better off home.
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Good Luck Britney!
This is because many patients are incapable of facing the old truamas that have made them mentally sick. When a psychiatrist has ’sessions’ with the patient, he tries to bring back the roots of the mental sickness.
The very reason the patient needs help is that he is not capable to follow the doctor’s instructions. It is easy to lecture some one that such and such thing is bad for an individual. Even he/she knows that. The patient needs help and encouragement to do what is good for him/her.
That is where counselling often fails. What is needed is real compassion and empathy, not bookish knowledge of what Carl Jung said.
Of course I do agree that there are very few psychologists or psychotherapists who actually follow this.
The second objection I have against modern psychiatry is that the patient’s mind is treated as a ’part’ of a human being. What is lacking is a holistic approach. That is where the little publicised homeopathic psychological treatment scores heavily.
Coming to the next point, as you must be already aware of our thought processes are basically neurochemical transmissions. The reasons for which we get disturbed may be uniquely different for different people but our interpretations and thought processes boil down to a set of neurochemical transmissions and hence it might happen that a psychiatristic reduces the human mind to a mere part of the body. But psychologists give a holistic approach to the individual. As I said earlier they treat each and every individual as a unique entity with positive regard.
As for homeopahty you might be having some point but any treatment requires counselling support.
The complexity of the human mind enables the so-called psychiatrists to fill unfortunate patients with heavy does of trnaquilizers and claim it is cure. And they earn astronomical amounts for doing that, as is evident from Britney’s saga.
The problem with psychiatry as it is practised now is that the mind is considered as just another part of a human being. A more holistic approach would give superior results.
Perhaps britney needs a good homeopath.