Concerns:The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act


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2015-06-17 22:57

Our mental health care system has a number of serious flaws, a major one is the fact psychiatrists use the DSM5 with what they refer to as a "Chinese Menu" approach.

My concern is especially for individuals who suffer a psychotic episode. The British Medical Journal has published guidelines for Best Practice Assessment of psychosis to help rule out underlying causes of symptoms that are clinically indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia.

A unified advocacy agenda must include a Functional Medicine approach, so that patients will receive individualized treatment and not a one-size-fits-all medication management regime that attempts to treat symptoms and not the underlying cause.