• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    And even when studies determine a therapy doesn’t work, there is often a percentage it did work for. When they don’t really understand the cause, nor why a treatment helps in some cases, the treatment shouldn’t be ruled out, just lower on the priority list. A lot of current medicine is just trial and error without detailed understanding.

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      18 hours ago

      “Trial and error” is the main name of the game in mental health treatments. Human variability in our reactions to drugs/biologics is never uniform and sometimes quite divergent. Then, we try to do brains.

      I’m still considering getting diagnosed (or not) despite having a now early 20s son on the spectrum and seeing all the flashing red light parallels. If I did this, the trick would be to find a therapist who knows what to do with people on the spectrum. And if i research that too much, it won’t work. PubMed is a blessing for research …just not for research on oneself!