27 November 2005 UTC But in this instance it s the insistence that psychiatry is a legitimate branch of medicine and that all mental illness can be boiled down to brain chemicals gone awry that allows us to even have mental hygiene laws You know what I wish psychiatrists would work on Practical short term solutions to alleviate suffering I wish psychiatrists could make people comfortable when they re in an emotional crisis and need to figure out what s going wrong in their lives There s certainly a need for that kind of assistance But lying to patients coercing them forcing them incarcerating them and setting them up for a lifetime of disability is definitely not the right way to go 19 41