tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post8387402778535457062..comments2023-07-13T05:01:01.343-07:00Comments on Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: Death to the diseased brain model is a-comin'Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-33174357582632211042010-01-27T23:26:51.921-08:002010-01-27T23:26:51.921-08:00You make some very good points. I would argue that...You make some very good points. I would argue that rather than perform their own research (which I take it that you mean pharmaceutical research) other countries should define for themselves what it means to be mentally ill. It's absolutely true that there is no excuse for other countries to buy into the pharma model and then complain about it. Mind you, it isn't unheard of that companies based outside the United States produce their own brand of meds. Serdolect (Danish), Clozapine (Novartis) and Abilify (Japan) come to mind. Corporations are entities unto themselves.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-60978463625604816372010-01-27T16:11:59.479-08:002010-01-27T16:11:59.479-08:00Americans are incorrectly defining mental illness ...Americans are incorrectly defining mental illness for other countries? There is an obvious solution: other countries perform their own research. America performs most of the (quality) medical research done across the globe. [aside: That's a big reason why our healthcare is portrayed as having such a poor bang-for-the-buck (pharmaceuticals are expensive because pharmaceutical research is expensive - did you know it costs $250,000 to apply to the FDA with a New Drug Application?).] So the 'problem' is that American researchers research Americans (say that ten times fast) and other countries, rather than performing their own research, use the American research which may or may not apply to them? And this is somehow America's fault, for not being so considerate as to perform all studies on a global scale?<br /><br />There is absolutely nothing stopping these countries from performing their own research and coming to their own medical conclusions. Now you many of you will likely say, "But they can't afford it!" Well of course! That's why they're using our research in the first place! We spend more money annually on pharmaceutical research than some small European countries' GNP. There's an old saying: Beggars can't be choosers. America isn't changing mental illness for other countries - America is defining mental illness for America. Other countries are /choosing/ to incorrectly define their own mental illnesses by knowingly using American data which doesn't apply to them. It may be trendy in the 'certain leftward-leaning, college educated' crowd to blame America for messing up smaller or poorer countries, but trendy doesn't equal accurate.Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17260044140161891802noreply@blogger.com