while I'm pretty despondent with the replication crisis in psychology, medicine isn't much better.
but to dismiss it outright is pretty ignorant. curious how you explain the state of America if your assertion is psychology and mental health are "relatively useless" fields
We have done science here, made hypothesis and tested them. "Western medicine", including therapy and anti-depressants, have been shown to have real, significant, reproducible positive impacts.
It's also difficult to compare to "eastern techniques" since that's a fairly vague term. Perhaps drinking tea, meditating, and getting acupuncture has a more positive impact on one person than taking an anti-depressant, but for another person, anti-depressants may be wildly more effective. Perhaps arranging ones house and diet to maximize "positive chi energy" will help one person, but have no impact on another.
What eastern techniques are you specifically claiming are practical and useful, and for what scenarios? Are the studies that show anti-depressants to have effect wrong, or are they useless because they're inferior in your opinion?
Western methods are very inferior. They work - in the same way that roller blades work for transportation but you'd really rather have a car.
I've studied and used both.
while I'm pretty despondent with the replication crisis in psychology, medicine isn't much better.
but to dismiss it outright is pretty ignorant. curious how you explain the state of America if your assertion is psychology and mental health are "relatively useless" fields