I used to prefer neurology to psychiatry

When a neurologist speaks about neurological diseases everyone is upset and afraid of the future. When it is the psychiatrist who speaks about psychiatric diseases everyone is quite and thinks about the heavy punishment to come, which is social exclusion. The reason for both above phenomena is hidden in our vocabulary. Indeed, we all tend to accept or tolerate Alzheimer’s sufferers rather than psychotic sufferers. In the first case we hear light wording like Parkinson’s disease and its motor, behavior, or skin problems, while in the second case we hear tough words like schizophrenia or psychosis followed by words like hallucinations, delusions and so on. Moreover, another difference between neurology and psychiatry is that neurological problems tend to get worse over the long run when in psychiatry problems do improve or even disappear thanks to an appropriate alternative therapy, drug, or friend. Nevertheless, at the end of every moment of our life, we usually believe that a little miracle will happen and that life will stop to look like hell.

Finally, neurology use to look to people that theoretically speaking are too busy to always do the right thing, a tendency that later on induces much pressure on the brain’s soft tissues and so the impossibility to function normally and in the present context. The individual is then pushed to earlier stages of her life when everything was less sophisticated. Psychiatry on the other hand look to people who theoretically speaking are alone and their only company is to listen to their own thoughts. Globally, neurology patients are famous for their old age and state of high pollution by environmental toxins, while psychiatric patients are famous about their genius.