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There is an organization called citizens commission on human rights which its sole aim is to eradicate these atrocities.
http://www.cchr.org
People don't just go insane -- the drugs push them over the limit. Although the drug companies and media will tell you differently because of the tie ins with their own pay check having to do with pharmaceutical kick backs.
Dr. Thomas Dorman, an internist and member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, wrote, “In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.”
Professors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, authors of Making Us Crazy, conclude: “The public at large may gain false comfort from a diagnostic psychiatric manual that encourages belief in the illusion that the harshness, brutality and pain in their lives and in their communities can be explained by a psychiatric label and eradicated by a pill. Certainly, there are plenty of problems that we all have and a myriad of peculiar ways that we struggle...to cope with them. But could life be any different? Far too often, the psychiatric bible has been making us crazy—when we are just human.”
While psychiatrists have managed for years to make it look, feel, and sound convincingly scientific, their diagnoses are being seen for the dangerous frauds that they really are. Far more than just “marketing tools” or harmless “billing codes” for treatment, in the hands of psychiatrists these manuals can literally be used to decide the fate of any individual.
And you quoted an internist...next can you quote a dermatologist about heart disease please? And while we're at it why don't we unlock the ward and tell the man that is actively hallucinating and in a living hell that we're not going to give him medications or the woman so depressed that she can't get out of bed and has tried to kill herself three times that we don't prescribe medications. And why are you assuming that we don't approach patient treatment from a biopsychosocial treatment model that involves therapy, education on coping strategies, evaluation of the elements of the patient's environment? We're not talking about f-kin ADHD or social anxiety disorder or anxiety here- I'm talking about shattered lives and grossly psychotic people who kill people and cut them up because their play station told them to do it. I work on an inpatient ward- not in some suburban high school telling kids life is going to be ok. There's a big difference between a child that can't sit still in a classroom and a man who has a car accident and his personality changes and now he has become uncontrollably violent and barely recognizes his family. Reread my post- I didn't make a single statement about giving someone a drug and here comes the damn anti-drug brigade! For a split second I thought we were actually engaging in a productive discussion.
Please spare me the bullshit!! I'm done here.
Check out http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/6946 for some eye opening statistics.
This is a productive discussion, but the truth must be known about the profession.
Psychiatrists claim that a person “needs” a drug to combat their “chemical imbalance” in the brain which is causing a person’s “mental disorder.” However, the concept that a brain-based, chemical imbalance underlies mental illness is false. While popularized by heavy public marketing, it is simply psychiatric wishful thinking. As with all of psychiatry’s disease models, it has been thoroughly discredited by researchers.
Diabetes is a biochemical imbalance. However, as Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen states, “the definitive test and biochemical imbalance is a high blood sugar balance level. Treatment in severe cases is insulin injections, which restore sugar balance. The symptoms clear and retest shows the blood sugar is normal. Nothing like a sodium imbalance or blood sugar imbalance exists for depression or any other psychiatric syndrome.”
In 1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser said, “...modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness...Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”
Today’s brain imagery photos, said to prove mental illnesses are physical diseases, are deeply flawed. Indeed, prescribed psychotropic drugs most likely cause the changes seen in the brain. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, admits that indiscriminate use of such brain scans produce “pretty but inconsequential pictures of the brain.”
Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author of Blaming the Brain, is unequivocal: “[T]here are no tests available for assessing the chemical status of a living person’s brain.” No “biochemical, anatomical, or functional signs have been found that reliably distinguish the brains of mental patients.”
According to Valenstein, “The theories are held on to not only because there is nothing else to take their place, but also because they are useful in promoting drug treatment.”
And I'll never have my brain scanned, thank you from the deep of my heart!
i had NEVER ever ever ever taken any type of psychiatric drug in my life.....
when one day i had an episode of MANIA (including delusions of grandeur, extreme religiosity, hyperactivity, goal-directed behavior.. followed by the most intense anxiety imaginable).
I was given LITHIUM, a psychiatric drug (also found on your handy periodic table).
I got BETTER.
By the way, have you EVER ever ever ever...
heard of a case of BIPOLAR, SCHIZOPHRENIA, BORDERLINE, ETC...
CURED by ... what was it you were saying could help these people?
i forget.
talk therapy? diet? less television? TRUE these things help...
but you're making all of us who have ACTUAL EXPERIENCE of
mental illness LAUGH.....
because, frankly, you don't know what the f*ck you're talking about.
:)
and this WACKY idea you have that mental illness is not real, that it's
some type of cultural construction promulgated by i suppose
capitalist devils (or ?) oh yes profiteering doctors and drug companies...
why don't you go back to area 51 and make people believe the u.s.
army is hiding the truth about aliens...
i am an artist, a liberal, very much college educated, and all that...
and i'm still gonna tell ya, "AK," your hippie nonsense is really starting to piss people off.
ONE MORE THING THAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND:
your typical MEDICAL CONDITION....
is OBSERVABLE by a third party.
mental illness really isn't.
this is one thing that makes the SCIENCE of the mind VERY DIFFICULT.
my psychiatrist, also a professor in his field, who both prescribes
my lithium and does talk therapy with me said when i met him:
"the science of the mind is in its INFANCY."
lastly, AK, i do realize that you have good intentions.
my psychiatrist, also a professor in his field, who both prescribes
my lithium and does talk therapy with me said when i met him:
the science of the mind is in its INFANCY.
So if the science of the mind is in its infancy then why the hell are you accepting drugs from people who haven't a clue abotu what they're doing? That statement is an oxy moron - if they dont know what they're doing because the science of the mind is not known about then why are you trusting their judgement?
Do you really think he wants to help you or make money off you? Why dont you ask yourself why most school shootings have had people on some kind of mix of anti-psychotic drugs?
Check it out:
1. The patient is injected with an anesthetic to block out pain and a muscle relaxant to shut down muscular activity and prevent spinal fractures.
2. Electrodes are placed on the temples bilaterally (from one side of the brain to the other) or unilaterally (front to back on one side of the brain).
3. A rubber gag is placed in the mouth to keep teeth from breaking or patients from biting their tongues.
4. Between 180 and 480 volts of electricity are sent searing through the brain.
5. To meet the brains demand for oxygen, blood flow to the brain can increase as much as 400%. Blood pressure can increase 200%. Under normal conditions, the brain uses a blood-brain barrier to keep itself healthy against harmful toxins and foreign substances. With electroshock, harmful substances leak from blood vessels into the brain tissue, causing swelling. Nerve cells die. Cellular activity is altered. The physiology of the brain is altered.
6. The results are memory loss, confusion, loss of space and time orientation and even death.
7. Most patients are given a total of 6 to 12 shocks, one a day, three times a week.
Ask the foremost psychiatrists and they have no explanation to justify why or how their treatment works. It is literally as scientific as sticking ones head in a light socket. Do it often enough and you will become disoriented, confused, lose your memory or even die. Same result as ECTbut it will cost you a lot less.