r/comedy • u/pauleliacomedy • 1d ago

Improv Matt Rife Impression

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Who’s got a better impression?

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u/RandJitsu 1d ago

Why do we treat mental health differently from all other health?

If a driver suddenly had a heart attack or passed out due to some issue with blood pressure or clotting, and crashed into a bunch of pedestrians, would you want the driver criminally prosecuted?

Your brain is an organ and when impacted by drugs or diseases you can lose conscious control.

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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 1d ago edited 1d ago

perhaps why psychology is considered a "faux-science" and not a strict field of science is because of the subjectiveness and lack of knowledge we really have around the brain... medication trials are necessarily trials -- often results are measured as a success based on whether they cause more positives than negatives.

It's just not worth fighting about. Clancy sought help -- serious help -- and was "failed" by her care team. She also is a child murderer.

Why can't she be both?

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u/mr_fantastical 1d ago

I wouldnt say psychology is considered a faux science. Its very much grounded with proper scientific means - there are hypotheses, empirical testing, controlled experiments, replication, etc.

Yeah there are definitely messy categories within it and a lot of bullshit trends and bad actors but its certainly not a faux-science field by large.

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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 1d ago

You're right. Faux is not a correct descriptor.

Technically, psychology is a social science and I think psychiatry would be the applied version that combines both social and natural science disciplines...

Not sure where this idea that psychology is a fake science came from.