And she was saying that when psychotherapy overtook turning to your religion for comfort during despair and then when psychopharmacology took over from psychotherapy something good was lost for human beings.
I very much agree with this statement. Why?
Because when I was a counselor for Juvenile offenders (males) 12 to 17 I saw these problems play out when I saw that all the juvenile offenders had PTSD like soldiers. They swore at me and called me an MF and I and every other counselor had to deal with this too to try to save their young lives from a life of crime. The groups I dealt with had committed 7 felonies without a gun. If you use a gun you wind up in CYA (California Youth Authority) and once that happens a life of crime is almost fully assured because of how the system works but I had about 25% chance of turning these boys around, especially between the ages of 12 and 15 but by age 17 often it was too late for me and only a girl that someone got pregnant might turn them around for the sake of their children then.
Then later I counseled Emotionally disturbed teenagers (both male and female) and this was even worse I found to deal with. Because the juvenile offenders might try to kill me. At least they were striking out at others because of their problems which likely was healthier than the emotionally disturbed teenagers which were more likely to go hide somewhere and just kill themselves without telling anyone about it.
But, the point is despair is a normal part of being a human being and many people don't survive despair in their lives.
The point being that when people gave up religion and turned their despair to psychotherapists and then to psychopharmacology this in some ways wasn't as useful as people needed it to be.
The reason it wasn't as useful is that people have been one thing for thousands of years and then they took God out of the equation. When you do that often people have no reason left to be alive or to not become criminals, (depending upon the basic psychology of the person).
So, trying to change the world with psychotherapy might have been somewhat helpful but when you went to psychopharmacology often what eventually wind up with is suicide because there is nothing real or even imagined real to hold onto for most people taking any kind of medicine.
So, I see psychopharmacology as more leading to suicide in people's lives than anything else. This is my experience witnessing what it did to juvenile offenders and emotionally disturbed teenagers.
There are basically three kinds of people in the world (psychologically).
One type of person is going to survive no matter what happens. It's just the way that they are.
One type of person might survive and succeed given the right conditions.
and One type of person isn't going to succeed no matter what they do or anyone else does either. And often you are going to watch this last type of person go insane or die and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop this.
So, if you divide all mankind into these three groups you get what happens to all young adults eventually. Either they succeed or they don't and 2/3 of the people tend to succeed enough to stay alive and stay sane and survive and the rest don't by 30 or later.
Understanding this about people is important. This is important so people don't blame themselves when friends and relatives don't make it. Because 1/3 of the people you know are not going to make it no matter what you do. And if you blame yourself it is counterproductive to your own survival and the survival of your own family and friends.
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