If you believe that Psychology is a pseudoscience, then you either don’t know what modern Psychologists actually do, or you don’t know what science actually is. You also seem to be confusing Psychology and Psychiatry, which, while related, are separate disciplines with very different educations.
Research in clinical methods nowadays is done with rigorous statistical methods and careful controls. We have methods that have been proven to help people learn how to pull themselves out of things like major depression, anxiety, PTSD, and even severe OCD. Psychologists with Ph.D.'s and Psy.D.'s are highly trained professionals with empirically-proven tools to help people.
Now, I can understand where you are coming from in terms of psychopharmacology. Most drugs do not actually fix the problem. The good ones will reduce your symptoms enough, with minimal enough side-effects, to help the patient respond well to therapy. After recovery with good therapy, the drugs are no longer needed.
I can also understand the outrage you have over Psychiatry’s history, as I too am absolutely disgusted with how they have treated people. Putting people into isolated, soul-crushing asylums against their will, forcing them to take drugs, drilling holes in their heads and getting Nobel fucking prizes for it.
I shouldn’t say much on this topic, but in my opinion, most schizophrenics don’t need a cocktail of drugs and to be told that they are insane. They need a supportive community, an outlet and direction for their fantasies, and something to ground them. A temple or monastery, not a hospital that more resembles a prison than a place of care.
I want to reiterate here that if anyone is in severe need of mental health care, there are highly trained professionals whose job it is to help people like you. We’ve come a long way in the past few decades. Hell, your Psychologist will probably encourage you to meditate, something which I think people here can respect.
