Charles Barber
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 The war, of course, also produced an unprecedented stream of new patients for psychiatry: an endless supply of, to use the euphemism of the day, "battle fatigued" soldiers suffering from guilt, anxiety, and terrifying flashbacks. There were a remarkable 1.1 million admissions for psychiatric disorders in military hospitals over the course of the war.42 (How deeply hidden this part of the war experience has been kept is a profound reflection of the stigma attached to mental suffering at that time. |
| In the last two decades, there has been a tremendous bias in academic psychiatry against psychological and social forms of inquiry. The psychosocial realm is tolerated but often barely so—viewed as well-intentioned and sort of cute, but ultimately and soundly relegated to the margins, literally and figuratively. The programs at which I have worked at the Yale and Columbia medical schools that were engaged in such social approaches were typically way off-campus, sometimes near derelict settings. |
| While the residents of Feliciana, victims of a conspiracy, had no choice in being medicated (though I think Percy would argue that most Americans, bombarded as they have been by Zoloft ads in the last decade, have had little choice themselves), Percy presciently identified the first of the dual tragedies of biological psychiatry: its indiscriminate use by anyone who even thinks they have a problem. And although Percy predicted the problems with the overuse of antidepressants, it has played out, over the last fifteen years, in an even darker way than he described. |
| But the biggest sign of the newfound acceptance of and fascination with the new biological psychiatry lay within our own bloodstreams. Each year more and more Americans were taking psychiatric medications, particularly the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressants like Zoloft, Paxil, and Prozac.
What started as a drip developed into a stream, a river, and then a torrent. |
| Many of the greatest advances in psychiatry in the last two decades have actually occurred outside the realm of psychotropic medications: in particular, a series of extraordinarily elegant and subtle refinements in social and therapeutic techniques, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), that have produced outcomes that would be the envy of many if not most drug trials. For example, CBT has been shown to be as effective or possibly more effective than antidepressants in treating mild and moderate depression, and with a significantly lower recurrence rate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To anyone who can think with even a little clarity, the con is obvious: Drug companies bankroll psychiatry, and in return, psychiatrists invent new diseases to enrich drug companies.
It's a classic conspiracy, right here in front of us. And for the moment, they're actually getting away with it!
You can help stop the insanity and save yourself (and your children, perhaps) from being diagnosed with yet another fictitious mental disorder. Take this article and post it on your website (with author credit and a link back, please), or forward to friends. Also, visit www.StopDrugAds. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Further, it is this lie/perversion of science and medicine, invented and exported by US psychiatry in collusion with the pharmaceutical industry, that is the linchpin of the still-burgeoning, world-wide epidemic of psychiatric drugging/poisoning, Nor is this a matter of belief, consensus, or opinion, rather it has to do with the fact that nowhere in the scientific/medical literature of the world does replicated proof exist that ADHD or any psychiatric disorder is a physical abnormality/disease. |
| When used to treat the epilepsies (seizure disorders), we have a disease and a diseased, abnormal child on the risk side of the risk/benefit equation, and a scientific rationale and medical justification to treat—something that is never the case in psychiatry.
The (6) antipsychotics (Thorazine, Mellaril, Risperdal, Se-roquel, Abilify, Clozapine, Geodon, Clozaril, Haldol, etc.) are such an especially brain- and body-toxic group of drugs, that it should be criminal to give to any normal child. |
| Big pharma and psychiatry have no such plan. Conveniently all of their diseases, chemical imbalances last for life and can only be controlled by chemical balancers which will be needed for life and, of course there is no talk of your learning to adapt and prevailing, emerging victorious in life.
Chapter Nine
IMMUNIZE YOUR CHILD AGAINST ADHD
If I could not manage a child, I thought it my ignorance or my lack of ability as a teacher.
- Susan B. |
| With the advent of psychiatric drugs in the 1950s psychiatry's reach began to expand dramatically, eventually achieving its current state where territory is claimed within almost all areas of life. As more drugs became available and accepted for use outside of the limited population of the severely disturbed, the number of possible psychiatric diagnoses grew. In 1953 the DSM listed 112 disorders, then 163 in 1968, 224 in 1980, and 374 in 1994. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's called Psychiatry: An Industry of Death.
 Also be sure to check out the shocking book by Kelly Patricia O'Meara called Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill. This book explains exactly why kids like Robert Hawkins who have been treated with psychiatric drugs end up shooting innocents.
What could have healed Robert Hawkins and saved lives
So what's the solution to all this? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Just consider the recent finding that one hundred percent of those psychiatrists who wrote the behavior disorders guidelines in the DSM-IV manual (the psychiatry "bible") have undisclosed financial ties to drug companies. Not ninety percent, not ninety-five percent, but one hundred percent.
And, unbelievably, they insist there's no conflict of interest even though they're taking money from the very companies who financially benefit from their disease mongering. How's that for classic self delusion?
What real brain medicine looks like
You want real brain medicine? |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| Since 1970, parents have been flooded by misinformation from their schools, psychiatry, ADHD support groups, and the pharmaceutical companies, all telling them that even small deviations from narrow standards of behavior are evidence of a disease within the child, when none are—not a single one. Parents are also told these drugs are mild, safe, and effective. Of the two, the "disease" lie is absolute, in and of itself, abrogating the patient's right to informed consent. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I tell you, there is no greater con in the history of the world than this con being perpetrated by Big Pharma and all the major players in conventional medicine: The FDA, medical journals, psychiatry, med schools and even the mainstream media (which, remember, accepts hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising from drug companies, thanks to the fact that direct-to-consumer drug advertising is still absurdly legal in this country).
You want the blunt truth on all this? Here it is: Healthy people take no drugs, period. |
| Desperate to scrounge up new diseases that can be treated with high-profit prescription drugs, Big Pharma and its disease-pushing sidekick, psychiatry, is now pulling diseases out of thin air, making them up as it goes along, and hoping enough impressionable consumers (and journalists) can be hoodwinked into thinking every fictitious disease is actually real.
Road Rage Disorder is merely the latest disease quackery drummed up by the pharmaceutical industry. Many people don't know this, but Big Pharma actually hires psychiatrists to invent, then publicize new "diseases. |
| Critics of my criticism of psychiatry will no doubt say I'm not qualified to talk about mental health. In fact, I am unique qualified to talk about this subject because I possess genuine objectivity (I take no money from drug companies, unlike virtually 100% of psychiatrists) and clear-headed thinking (because I take no drugs whatsoever).
How many psychiatrists are there who can say they have never taken money or gifts from any drug company, and that they take absolutely no drugs themselves? (No prescription drugs, no caffeine, no sugar, no alcohol, nicotine, etc. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| And, although there were no individual case files available for review, it is difficult to know what the then-experts in psychiatry believed was excessive masturbation, the level of poverty or the duration of prison life that led to and qualified patients as having the alleged mental "disease." The same questions can be asked about today's psychiatric diagnosing. |
| One only need review the APA's reversal on homosexuality, a declassified mental disorder, to fully appreciate the speed and ease in which mental illness comes and goes in the world of psychiatry. It is important to point out that in considering the rise and fall of homosexuality in the APA's mental disorder repertoire, the reader should keep in mind that science was not part of the consideration, insomuch as there is not now nor has there ever been an objective, confirmable abnormality in the brain (or anywhere else in the body) to establish homosexuality as a bona fide disease. |
| In fact, one doctor explained the legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosing this way: "Psychiatry is to neurology what astrology is to astronomy."
Alleged psychiatric mental disorders are not based in science, and the APA has been good enough to make this point in the Introduction to the DSM-IV. "...a diagnosis does not carry any necessary implications regarding the cause of the individual's mental disorder or associated impairments. |
Charles Barber
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| Over the course of the 1950s the terms psychiatrist and psychoanalyst became synonymous in the American popular imagination. In fact, there was only a tiny cadre of psychoanalysts—there were no more than 1,400 practicing analysts in the world in 195751—at the core of this movement, but their numbers were enhanced by the addition of a throng of psychologists and social workers, who, while technically not analysts, brought psychoanalytic approaches to their work. The newly fashionable image of the analyst was reflected in the popular cinema. The kindly and wise doctor prevailed. |
Jay Joseph
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 This is particularly evident in psychiatry, where psychological, interpersonal, social, and cultural understandings of human suffering have taken a back seat to biological and genetic theories.
The field of psychiatric genetics was founded by Ernst Riidin and his German colleagues in the early part of the 20th century.3 German psychiatric geneticists used family and twin studies in an attempt to establish the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Archives of General psychiatry (a medical journal that takes loads of money from drug companies) printed the survey results that hype this fictitious disease.
Apparently, surveys now provide all the evidence needed by conventional medicine to scare half the population into believing they suffer from some new, mysterious disease. Promoters of drugs and surgery are proud to proclaim Western medicine is "evidence-based medicine," but they never admit what that so-called evidence is really based on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill" align="left" hspace="12">Also be sure to check out the shocking book by Kelly Patricia O'Meara called Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill. This book explains exactly why kids like Robert Hawkins who have been treated with psychiatric drugs end up shooting innocents.
What could have healed Robert Hawkins and saved lives
So what's the solution to all this? Robert Hawkins could have been healed with a radical change in diet that supports healthy brain chemistry. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| ADHD is a bona fide disease.
AMPHETAMINES AND THE HEART
The FDA advisory on Adderall continues: "... the FDA has not decided to take any further regulatory action at this time. However, because it appeared that patients with underlying heart defects might be at increased risk for sudden death, the labeling for Adderall XR was changed in August, 2004 to include a warning that these patients might be at particular risk, and that these patients should ordinarily not be treated with Adderall products. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Why, then, should we devote a chapter to psychiatry and mental illness?
The answer is twofold. First, however defined and with whatever issues of validity, mental illness is a very large problem in the United States; and second, there are, in the United States, 16.5 psychiatrists per 100,000 population, the most of any country in the world.7 At the new millennium, psychiatry was the fourth largest medical specialty in the United States.8 The best estimate of the number of active clinically trained practicing psychiatrists in the private sector is 45. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill" align="left" hspace="12">Also be sure to check out the shocking book by Kelly Patricia O'Meara called Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill. This book explains exactly why kids like Robert Hawkins who have been treated with psychiatric drugs end up shooting innocents.
What could have healed Robert Hawkins and saved lives
So what's the solution to all this? Robert Hawkins could have been healed with a radical change in diet that supports healthy brain chemistry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As part of MKULTRA, the CIA pays McGill University Department of psychiatry founder Dr. D. Ewen Cameron $69,000 to perform LSD studies and potentially lethal experiments on Canadians being treated for minor disorders like post-partum depression and anxiety at the Allan Memorial Institute, which houses the psychiatry Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. The CIA encourages Dr. Cameron to fully explore his "psychic driving" concept of correcting madness through completely erasing one's memory and rewriting the psyche. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| Harvard Medical School and author of several books, including Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives, explains some of the failed science into the "chemical imbalance." "One cannot measure serotonin levels in the brain of any patient. Nor can one measure serotonin at specific synapses. Synapses are the spark plugs between nerve cells, junctions where they exchange chemical messages and where drugs are said to work. Blood levels of serotonin are of little use. |
| University of Vermont School of Medicine and a trustee of the APA made it clear which group was responsible for the language change when, during an interview with Jim Rosack of Clinical and Research News, the APA spokesman said "the change in wording brings the FDA warning closer to the actual science. I'm glad they responded to the extensive and detailed input from both practicing psychiatrists and the research community. Hopefully, the FDA will consider further revisions in the future, as more long-term and follow-up data become available. |
| Talking Back to Prozac and Your Drug May Be Your Problem, understands the tricks of the clinical trial trade and further raises questions about the FDA's commitment to the public's safety.
"The most serious cases of depression," explains Breggin, "almost always are excluded from the clinical trials and, for example, the clinical trials for antidepressants almost always occur as outpatient trials, where they exclude in-patients. They always exclude patients who have a significant suicide risk and those who have a diagnosis of manic depressive disorder. |
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