Searching for Psychiatrists in Limpopo?

If you want to use the psychiatric services of a psychiatrist in Limpopo you may want to think again; here's why. In South Africa today, our society has impressively progressed in many fields. But at the same time there are many ways in which South Africa, and more locally Limpopo, has not progressed at all well. Education has and still is declining rapidly. Crime is still on the increase. Drug addict treatments of drug addiction have failed completely, creating more addiction to more dangerous drugs. The news headlines in local towns and cities across Limpopo Province and around the world continue to report greater numbers of irrational and psychotic acts of violence which is not understood as to motive. Yet in our educated and progressive time, treatment of the problems of the mind remains an area of ignorance. WHY?

It is necessary to understand that the psychiatric field and psychiatry as a whole consists, not of methods of healing, but of harmful treatments that no moral medical professional would ever call a treatment. As author Edward Shorter stated in A History of Psychiatry, psychiatrists have had "a rather poor reputation among their medical colleagues as the dull and the second rate." Despite massive increases in funding, Limpopo psychiatrists have failed to define, let alone cure, the causes of mental problems.

A study published by university public health researchers in April 2006, revealed that every psychiatric expert connected to the development of the mood disorders listed in the DSM-IV - before or after the book was published - had financial ties to pharmaceutical drug companies. This report was the first to officially document the wide-ranging financial conflict of interest between the pharmaceutical companies, psychiatrists, and other mental health personnel responsible for the development of the manual. In other words, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is just a bundle of items the mental health industry can bill for.

Questions used by Limpopo psychiatric doctors, for a patient's mental health evaluation, are not reliable to diagnose any psychiatric condition. If you visit a local psychiatrist in the Limpopo area you will usually get a brief consultation without making any physical examination, with an outcome where you are told what is wrong with you. A psychiatric report by a psychologist or psychiatrist advising a course of psychiatric treatment is not based on any valid scientific diagnosis. Before taking any medication or agreeing to any psychiatric therapy by a psychiatrist in Limpopo, ask them what physical checks they are going to perform to diagnose you. The chances are they won't perform any physical check, simply because they don't know what causes mental illness.