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The tradesmen likely know more about the logistical structure of a functioning society than most STEM employees, who too often live in ivory towers.

The restaurant staff often know more about human nature and behavior than the Psychiatrist who’s been trained to see all our flaws as chemical imbalances to be fixed.

Comments like yours are increasing the divide in this country, and are deeply problematic.

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I agree with your point, but disagree with your point about psychiatrists. The ones I know are the first to tell you that the field of psychiatry is young, what we know about psychiatry is miniscule compared to what we don't know, and that reduction of behavior or disease to "chemical imbalances" is the result of simplistic marketing campaigns by drug manufacturers.

The issue is that people come to psychiatrists seeking help and, at the moment, the majority of tools in their toolbox to help their patients are the drugs derived from our study of the role of neurotransmitters in the brain. Giving medication that changes the levels of those chemicals to patients who are suffering is all that modern medicine can offer them outside of therapy and electromagnetic stimulation of the brain or nerves.

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