Is psychiatry scientific and dangerous?

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This is something I received in my email this morning. It's long, but well

worth reading.

 

I think it's time for Mother's to unite on this issue...look at how much power

MADD gained (Mother's Against Drunk Driving). If enough parents band together,

there will be movement.

 

Melissa

 

 

IS PSYCHIATRY SCIENTIFIC AND DANGEROUS?

By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.

May 1, 2007

 

When you look below the surface at the specialty of psychiatry what you

uncover is so ludicrous it is difficult to believe that it is really true.

Prominent psychiatrists from all over the world gather annually for a meeting at

which new diseases are invented. There are no objective findings that establish

the diagnosis of these diseases. These new diseases are included in the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases. Potential new diseases are

discussed at these meetings and new diseases are voted in or out by a show of

hands

..[1] Among the new diseases are social anxiety disorder (everyone who is

uncomfortable in a social setting has this disease) and mathematics disease

(anyone

who has struggled over a math problem has this disease). Gender identity

disorder, passive-aggressive disorder, disorder of written expression and sexual

disorder are other examples of invented diseases that will follow the

individuals tagged with these ridiculous diagnoses the remainder of their lives.

Naturally all these phony diseases have a psychoactive drug which supposedly

ameliorates this disease.

 

This is laughable but it has serious consequences. When a child is diagnosed

with depression the child is often placed on a potent SSRI drug. The

manufacturer of one of the leading SSRI drug knew for many years that the drug

caused

loss of the ability to control violent behavior thus increasing violence toward

self (suicide) and others (mass murders). This information was covered up

because it would have hurt sales of the drug. Nearly every teen involved in the

Columbine and Red Lake mass murders was taking an SSRI drug. There is a

fundamental flaw in a nation more concerned about sales of drugs than the

welfare of

it’s children.

 

An annoyed teacher is allowed to make a diagnosis of Hyperactive Disease.

Hyperactive children are routinely given the very addictive drug Ritalin. More

than 1.5000,000 children are taking Ritalin which is known to cause zombie like

behavior, suppressed appetite, weight loss, serious addiction problems,

retarded growth, paranoid symptoms, auditory and visual hallucinations and

insomnia.

Public schools get financial rewards from the government for increasing the

number of students taking Ritalin and the number of children completing vaccine

programs. Following a nutritious diet restricted in sugar content and

colorants but replete with vitamins and minerals goes a long way toward

eliminating

most cases of hyperactivity.

 

What is Teen Screen?

 

Big Pharma has formulated a program that will eventually enable all citizens

to be placed on psychoactive drugs. (Does this sound like Orwell’s 1984?) Just

as the indications for dangerous statin drugs get liberalized annually so

that more persons qualify to be placed on statin drugs there are other programs

steadily being used to increase the number of children and adults taking unsafe

psychoactive drugs for bogus psychiatric diagnosis. One such program is Teen

Screen.[2] Without parental knowledge children are given questionnaires to

fill out. The goal of Teen Screen is to do a “suicide survey†on every teen

in

the USA. This has to be a marketing tool by the pharmaceutical industry to

increase the number of persons using their products. The actual number of teen

suicides is quite low (less than 50 yearly out of 4,000,000 students in the

state

of Florida), about equal to the number of persons struck by lightning. These

children will often be placed on SSRI type drugs which actually do increase

the risk of suicide. Among questions asked to 9 year olds and older are these:

 

Have you ever felt very nervous when you have to do things in front of

people?

 

Have you ever worried before you were going to play a sport or game or do

some other activity?

 

In the last 3 months have you thought of killing yourself?

 

Are you still thinking about killing yourself?

 

Have you ever tried to kill yourself?

 

Because there are no valid objective tests to establish a psychiatric

diagnosis the evaluating psychiatrist has to decide which disorder label does an

individual patient best fit into. Psychiatrists have been forced to admit that

drug therapies do not cure any of their disorders. Therefore when one drug fails

to help a bogus disease the dose must be increased and then a second dangerous

drug may need to be added. This dangerous process is all often in the pursuit

of a bogus disease.

 

Infectious Diseases Frequently Cause Psychiatric Symptoms

 

This lack of any scientific method in diagnosing and treating patients often

makes psychiatrists a danger to patients visiting them. Very few psychiatrists

are aware that infectious diseases often cause psychiatric symptoms.

Infections that are well known to cause psychiatric symptoms include pneumonia,

urinary tract infection, sepsis, malaria, Legionaires Disease, syphilis,

Chlamydia,

typhoid fever, diphtheria, HIV, rheumatic fever and herpes.

 

Lyme Disease caused by the Borrelia burgdorfi spirochete can mimic every

disease in the Diagnostic Manual of Psychiatric Diseases. The ordinary

psychiatrist is very unlikely to consider the possibility of bacterial,

parasitic, fungi,

yeast, mycoplasma infection when a patient has weakness, fatigue and

depression. Yet these symptoms may appear when the infectious organisms release

neurotoxins that interfere with hypothalamic function resulting in

hypothyroidism

and adrenal insufficiency. Mothers who have infection with Herpes Simplex Type 2

virus are 6 times more likely to have a child who later becomes

schizophrenic, than mothers without Herpes 2 infections. Acute infection with

Toxoplasma

Gondi can produce personality changes and psychosis including delusions and

auditory hallucinations.

 

Johns Hopkins virologist Robert Yolken and Psychiatry Professor Dr. E. Fuller

Torrey believe that toxoplasmosis is one of several infectious agents that

cause most cases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Mental patients were

found to have a 53.8% incidence of parasitic infections in a 2 year study

conducted in the University of Ancona, Italy involving 238 inpatient residents

in 4

Italian psychiatric institutions.

 

In addition to the infections mimicking schizophrenia or maternal infections

during pregnancy that predispose children to become schizophrenic there are

many other patients with symptoms compatible with schizophrenia. What are the

factors producing these symptoms?

 

Schizophrenia

 

The generally accepted conventional medical concept about schizophrenia is

that the disease is caused by excessive levels of dopamine and that decreasing

the levels of dopamine improves patients with schizophrenia. The evidence for

high levels of dopamine is poor[3] and Parkinson’s Disease like symptoms

appear

when patients are treated for dopamine excess. Since Parkinson’s Disease is

known to stem from a dopamine deficiency, it is probable that drugs provoking

these symptoms are creating a lack of dopamine, not correcting an excess of

dopamine.

 

Genetics must play a role in schizophrenia because 50% of patients have a

family member with the illness. There are four genetic disorders seen with

greater than normal frequency in schizophrenic patients. All four of these

genetic

defects cause a higher than normal exposure to adrenochrome (an adrenaline

metabolite) or an abnormal sensitivity to the adverse effects of adrenochrome.

One

of the genetic advantages of schizophrenia is an unusual resistance to

developing cancer particularly lung cancer.

 

There has been a striking rise in the frequency of schizophrenia since the

industrial revolution. The prevalence of insanity has risen sevenfold between

mid 18th century and mid 20th century. Genetic disease cannot occur in epidemics

.. Therefore, industrial societies must have factors that increase the body’s

production of adrenochrome or provoke the body to create adrenochrome. Three

such factors are stress, excess sugar consumption and increased exposure to

allergic substances.

 

Adrenochrome has hallucinogenic properties and is a potent neurotoxin that

damages the thyroid gland by antagonizing the hormone triiodothyronine. Chronic

schizophrenics have permanent thyroid gland damage. Adrenochrome creates many

free radicals, which produce oxidative stress. This eventually wears out the

antioxidant defense system producing deficiencies of glutathione peroxidase,

superoxide desmutase, and catalase.

 

Assuming that adrenochrome produces schizophrenia, eight valuable therapies

are suggested. Allergic reactions to the environment cause over-oxidation of

adrenaline. Therefore, measures to decrease allergic reactions from

environmental stressors will be beneficial.

 

Genetic and environmental screening can improve selection of therapies that

are likely to be helpful. Allergy testing to correct allergies decreases

adrenochrome production. A low sugar diet blocks the insulin spikes caused by

excess

sugar. Absence of these spikes prevents the subsequent adrenaline release

caused by low blood sugar values. Schizophrenics oxidize the released adrenaline

from hypoglycemia and have worse symptoms.

 

Medical therapies using medication that quickly reduce the damaging impact of

adrenochrome are valuable. High dosage of niacin or niacinamide, vitamin B1,

riboflavin B2, and ubiquinone (CoQ 10) all lower excessive adrenochrome levels

with niacin seeming to be the most effective.

 

The adrenochrome antagonist, triidothyronine, is quite effective in treating

schizophrenia particularly when used in the first six months of illness. All

80 schizophrenics with less than six months of symptoms who were given 120 to

1200 mg of desiccated thyroid for 100 days recovered[4] unless they stopped the

thyroid therapy. Schizophrenics are very resistant to thyroid medication and

must be treated with high dosages.

 

Eating foods that contain tryptophane, which is converted into serotonin, is

worthwhile because serotonin antagonizes adrenochrome. Such foods include

beans, cod, pork, soybeans, and cheese. Be certain these foods do not cause

allergy.

 

All possible efforts to repair the antioxidant defense system are worthy.

Glutathione can be given intravenously and n-acetyl cysteine raises glutathione

levels.

 

Schizophrenics with MTHFR C677TT genetic dysfunction have excessive levels of

homocysteine and lack of methionine. These defects can be repaired with folic

acid, vitamin B12, pyridoxine, zinc, and trimethylglycine. Homocysteine

accelerates brain aging and plays an important role in causing arteriosclerosis.

 

Brain atrophy may develop in chronic schizophrenia. These patients have low

levels of glutathione peroxidase. Supplementation with the four substances

needed by the body to create glutathione peroxidase (selenium, cysteine,

glutamine, and tryptophane along with intravenous glutathione) can be of great

value.

The fish oil (eicosapentaenoic acid) also is able to reverse brain atrophy and

should be given.

 

The eighth vital step to help schizophrenics is restoration of their self

worth by helping them gain employment, respect and compassion.

 

All this material about schizophrenia is from University of British Columbia

History Professor Harold Foster’s valuable book, What Really Causes

Schizophrenia? A free copy of this book can be downloaded from www.hdfoster.

com.

 

Causes And Therapy Of Depression.

 

Ten percent of persons visiting physicians in the USA suffer from depression.

Many persons with depression have either undiagnosed hypothyroidism, are

lacking omega 3 fatty acids in their diet, or are deficient in vitamin D. The

RDA

for vitamin D, at 400 IU daily, is set far below needed levels. Everyone

probably needs more than 800 IU daily, and persons with depression or living far

from the equator may benefit from 1200 IU or more daily. Correction of any of

these three common conditions may eliminate the depression.

 

Countries with the highest intake of fish have the lowest incidence of

depression. Less than 1% of Japanese, who average 140 pounds of fish annually,

have

depression whereas 6% of persons in New Zealand are depressed where they eat

only forty pounds of fish annually. Fish contain abundant omega 3 fatty acids.

Countries with higher average fish consumption also have lower rates of

homicide, bipolar disorder, depression, and suicide.

 

What Is Avea?

 

Turmeric (curcumin) has long been used in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine as

an anti-inflammatory, to treat digestive disorders and liver problems and for

the treatment of skin diseases and wound healing. Curcumin stimulates the

production of bile and facilitates emptying of the gall bladder. In animals

curcumin protects the liver, has anti-tumor action, reduces inflammation and

fights

some infections.

 

Avea is an extract from the root of Curcuma longa, commonly know as turmeric.

Nutramedix has a proprietary formulation of curcumin that is more effective

than conventional curcumin because of special extraction and enhancement

techniques.

 

The German Commission E reports that curcumin has no known contraindications,

no known side effects and no known interactions with other drugs. In May

2005, toxicology studies were completed on Avea at the University of Guayaquil,

Ecuador. No toxic effects were seen even when the animals were given doses

160,000 times the equivalent human dose.

 

Patients suffering from depression often report relief from depression within

a few hours to a few days after starting Avea. A 38 year old woman had been

seriously depressed for more than ten years despite therapy with several

different pharmaceutical drugs. When started on her first dose of Avea she felt

less

depressed after thirty minutes. The depression was gone in 24 hours but the

therapy was continued.

 

The dosage of Avea is ten to twelve drops three or four times daily. Patients

who respond rapidly to Avea should remain on this therapy for one to two

months to allow the body to reset neurochemical balances in the brain. Patients

who have been taking SSRI drugs should slowly taper off SSRI therapy over many

weeks if they wish to terminate SSRI therapy.

 

We think that persons trying Avea for depression will be pleased with this

safe rapidly acting therapy. Avea can be obtained from naturalhealthteam. com

phone 1-800-416-2806 and from nutramedix.com phone 1-561-745-2917.

 

What Is The Future For Psychiatry?

 

My hope is that many persons will be able to avoid the use of the dangerous,

poorly researched drugs provided by the pharmaceutical industry for use in

psychiatric conditions. Safe effective natural therapies .are available to treat

schizophrenia and depression. Natural therapies will never become widely used

because of the pharmaceutical industry’s control over the media and their full

support by U.S. government agencies(FDA, NIH,).

 

Psychiatry is a complete fraud and the problems caused by the drugs

used(gastrointestin al bleeding, tardive dyskinesia, etc.) by these

practitioners have,

as usual, been covered up or ignored. Making money for drug companies has

taken precedence over careful scientific research searching for truth in the

interests of piling up bigger profits for an enormously wealthy industry.

 

At this time psychiatry is a very valuable asset for the pharmaceutical

industry. Psychiatrists are busy writing prescriptions for drugs all day long.

The

prospects for the future are even brighter, as more and more Americans of all

age brackets are recruited by programs aimed at having every living man, woman

and child taking a psychoactive drug daily.

 

Why do the insurance companies pay for worthless pharmaceutical prescriptions

while refusing to pay for curative natural therapies? Why should Big Pharma

bother to waste money doing careful scientific research when flawed dangerous

drugs are not exposed by a watch dog media and there is no government agency

the least bit concerned about the health of the American people. Remember 90% of

us are useless eaters that are targeted for removal by the elitists running

the world.

 

The list of unexposed health scams is mind boggling (GMO foods, mercury

amalgams, dangerous root canals millions done annually, chemotherapy drugs and

radiation to treat malignancies, widespread use of transfats in cooking,

worthless

soil thanks to government mandated nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus fertilizer

which omits sulfur a key nutrient, chlorine and fluoride in drinking water,

mandated dangerous vaccines for children, statin drugs to lower cholesterol,

bypass surgery, aspartame, suppression of heparin burn therapy, ignoring Dr.

Abram Hoffer’s safe effective therapies for schizophrenia, etc.). These

problems

are typical of those occuring when a totalitarian government has taken

complete control over a country. Truth has become irrelevant.

 

Last fall I took a vacation to visit intelligent relatives and friends. In my

luggage were many copies of an article carefully documenting the irrefutable

scientific facts proving that 9/11 was an inside job. Not a single one of

these relatives and friends believed this article. The U.S. media has done its

usual superb job of selling 9/11. Joseph Goebbels has to be green with envy if

he

is receiving this type of information. The world is currently locked in a

titanic struggle between good and evil. The Bible warns us that the end times

would be marked by deception and apostasy. We must all do as good a job as

possible trying to avoid fraudulent operations. Staying out of the dangerous

drug

pushing psychiatrist’s office is a good place to start.

 

Dr. James Howenstine is in need of proof reading assistance for the second

edition of his book A Physician’s Guide To Natural Health Products That Work

Vol. 2 707 pg. If you are qualified in this area please contact him at

dr.jimhow (AT) gmail (DOT) com or by writing Dr. James Howenstine, C/O Remarsa USA SB 37,

P.O. Box

25292, Miami. Fl. 33102-5292

 

Footnotes:

 

1, Whitaker, Julian Fraudulent Medicine Health & Healing September 2006 Vol

16, No.9 pg 3-6

2, Kramer , Ken Crazy Makers Big Pharma Involved In Stealth Agenda With

School Districts To Screen Teenagers For Mental Illnesses Without Parental

Approval

Crusader Dec/Jan 2005/2006 pg 5-6

3, Issa, F., et al A multidimensional approach to analysis of cerebro spinal

fluid biogenic amines in schizophrenia: 1. Comparisons with healthy control

subjects and neuroleptic- treated/untreate d pairs analysis. Psychiatry

Research,

52(3), 237-249

4, Danziger, cited by Hoffer, A. (2001). Thyroid and schizophrenia. Journal

of Orthomolecular Medicine, 16(4), 205-212

2007 Dr. James Howenstine -

 

 

 

 

 

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