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In other words, neither of us is qualified to say whether psychiatry works or not, since neither of us is expert in the field. So I'll shut up now :D

I anticipated this ad hominen objection, which is why I asked you to provide evidence from medical or scientific journals, rather than from Psychiatry journals ;)

Can you provide any evidence of...

There are two different ways it happens to me.

1) If I've been feeling anxious for a long time and nothing has happened to alleviate the anxiety, it can escalate to panic. For example, if I...

I think Freud has been pretty much discredited, as this article suggests:

http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/wais/cgi-bin/?p=1496

I agree with Virgil that mental illness is a disease of the brain,...

In the UK, it is free in the sense that you are still entitled to it even if you don't currently pay, or have never paid, tax; children, retired people and those unwilling or unable to work have...

I don't see why. It's seems perfectly possible to me that we could ban abortion for one reason, but allow it for others. In fact, that's actually the case in some countries right now, i.e.,...

I think it should be legalised because it seems preferable to the unregulated alternative. As Poetic says, it seems to work well in The Netherlands.

However, prostitution views sex as an economic...

Abortion and birth control aren't forms of eugenics. "Eugenics" means controlling reproduction with the aim of improving the quality of the human species. Abortion and birth control are methods of...

D'oh!

Five meals you ate this week

Now that's clever skiving! :D

£10,000 in the early 19th century must have been the equivalent of several hundred thousand today.

Some comparisons can be found here:

http://www.likesbooks.com/money.html

I think the...

Nope, I never listen to music. It annoys me.

Do you listen to audiobooks?

Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote

Starry night is a good example. I would add rainbow, sunset, mountains, seashore and the cuddly toys I had as a kid.

Yes, I've been in that situation more than once. I've been in love with someone I never even met in person.

Would you call in sick to work if you weren't really sick?

Dear Dad,

I don't really know how to tell you this, Our socks don't match. I think I realized it When I threw up in your sock drawer At the mental hospital and I saw you Sit on My boyfriend. I'm...

Dear Dad,

I don't really know how to tell you this, Our socks don't match. I think I realized it When I threw up in your sock drawer At the mental hospital and I saw you Sit on My boyfriend. I'm...

I don't think so. Charles Bovary continued to love Emma, to treat her well, and to do things that made him unhappy because he thought they would make her happy, even when she was treating him like...

Not very often, as I always try to back them up with evidence.

What do you see from your window?

Beautifully put I think. It seems we are really dealing with two definitions of "happy" here. There is happy in the sense of content or able to enjoy life; happy in a broad sense. And then there...

I agree that life and death are interdependent, but I wouldn't characterise it in a mystical way like that. However, I have learnt to derive some comfort from the idea of "non-being" after death.
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I don't believe in any form of life after death, except in the sense that the atoms of which our bodies consist continue to exist after death.

I think Dr Zhivago is a good choice. I didn't find it at all heavy going. Imagine reading about the train stuck in the snow drift at the height of summer. That's my idea of escapism :D

How...

I would like to go back to 3rd November 2006 and ignore that PM.

This definition worries me a bit. Do you mean to imply the converse, that anyone who's emotionally unstable can't be happy? If so, that would seem to imply that the mentally ill can't be happy.
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