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alexfilonov.bsky.social @alexfilonov.bsky.social

Such ideas are running around for dozens of years. The question is, who is going to do the screening?

jul 21, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0

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Bill Sheehan @marsisblu.bsky.social

Always a problem since the ones that hold power either don’t want to be screened or can get sycophants like Dr Feel-good (Ronnie Jackson) to say whatever they want.

jul 21, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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alexfilonov.bsky.social @alexfilonov.bsky.social

Don't forget that psychiatrists are rarely completely sane people themselves. Too much time spent with insane people.

jul 21, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bill Sheehan @marsisblu.bsky.social

I think ridding the country of the bane of religion would do more good than loading the entire population up with Prozac and Thorazine. It is, as Freud said, a mass delusion, and makes people susceptible to all sorts of other crap like Trumpism which is itself a kind of deformed degraded religion

jul 21, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bill Sheehan @marsisblu.bsky.social

Maybe; but as a retired psychiatrist I’d like to think I’ve learned a bit about what constitutes sanity and mental well-being too Also—your saying sort of rings true but then are most internists sick and most oncologists rife with tunors?

jul 21, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view