Hooking Your World On Psychiatric Drugs

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[sSRI-Research] Hooking Your World On Psychiatric Drugs

 

 

 

Hooking Your World On Psychiatric Drugs

 

While billions in tax dollars are paid each year to fight the " War on

Drugs, " we have a different kind of drug war affecting the world

today, one that is perpetuated by psychiatrists dreaming up new

" mental illnesses " to fund a multibillion-dollar legal drug industry.

The direct result continues to escalate, worldwide consumption of

their addictive, mind-altering drugs.

 

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Psychiatry's " Diagnostic " System

 

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical

Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is psychiatry's " billing bible " of

so-called mental disorders. With the DSM, psychiatry has taken

countless aspects of human behavior and reclassified them as a " mental

illness " simply by adding the term " disorder " onto them. While even

key DSM contributors admit that there is no scientific/medical

validity to the " disorders, " the DSM nonetheless serves as a

diagnostic tool, not only for individual treatment, but also for

child custody battles, discrimination cases, court testimony,

education and more. As the diagnoses completely lack scientific

criteria, anyone can be labeled mentally ill, and subjected to

dangerous and life threatening " treatments " based solely on opinion.

 

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 medicine's scientific credentials are undisputed, psychiatry's

lack of any systematic approach to mental health has contributed

greatly to its poor reputation, both among professionals and the

population as a whole.

 

 

 

 

 

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