Tom Cruise Is Right – Psychiatric Diagnoses Are Worthless

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Tom Cruise Is Right – Psychiatric Diagnoses Are Worthless

May 19, 2006

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Pam Killeen Interviews Dr. Julian Whitaker About His Public Support

For Tom Cruise Who Spoke Out Against Psychiatric Diagnoses and

Psychotropic Medications

 

In the summer of 2005, Tom Cruise publicly criticized the field of

psychiatry, causing an uproar in the media and in the medical

establishment. For days, there was a feeding frenzy to blackball

Cruise by declaring him unqualified to make such remarks. In the

height of the controversy Dr. Julian Whitaker, a prominent medical

doctor and long time advocate of natural medicine, came forward and

said Cruise was accurate in his assessment.

 

Pharmaceutical companies have gone into high gear in the last few

years with their propaganda campaign to promote and sell

psychotropic drugs. Masses of the population are now being screened

for mental disorders, many against their wishes. If people do not

wake up to this insane agenda, billions of people face the risk of

being diagnosed with a disorder and prescribed toxic psychotropic

drugs. The sad truth is the field of Psychiatry is no longer based

on science or truth. It's been turned into a drug pushing business

and it's an area where pharmaceutical companies are concentrating

their efforts because they believe it has the potential to bring

them their greatest financial rewards. The problem is psychotropic

medications are far more dangerous and damaging to the body on a

long term basis than virtually any medication you can put in your

body.

 

To help shed further light on this topic, CRUSADOR's Investigative

Reporter, Pam Killeen, is privileged to interview Dr. Julian

Whitaker. Although formally educated in medicine, Dr. Julian

Whitaker has been on the forefront of alternative medicine for

several decades now. He is Director of the Whitaker Wellness

Institute and Editor of " Health and Healing " newsletter that

provides important health advice for more than 500,000 people

nationwide. Dr. Whitaker graduated from Dartmouth College in 1966

and received his M.D. degree in 1970 from Emory University Medical

School. He completed his surgical internship at Grady Memorial

Hospital in 1971, and continued at the University of California in

San Francisco in orthopedic surgery. In 1974, Dr. Whitaker founded

the California Orthomolecular Medical Society, along with four other

physicians and the Nobel prize-winning scientist Dr. Linus Pauling.

In 1979, to share his knowledge with patients who had been failed by

conventional medicine and had nowhere else to turn, he launched the

Whitaker Wellness Institute Medical Clinic. Dr. Whitaker is the

author of several books including the best-selling " Shed 10 Years in

10 Weeks " .

 

Pam: Could you begin by telling us how you were first invited on CNN

to give feedback to Tom Cruise's statements against psychiatry?

 

Dr. Whitaker: I'm not sure exactly why they contacted me but they

knew that I'm a supporter of non-psychiatric drug treatment of

mental disorders. I'm also very outspoken about the issues

surrounding the fact that none of the psychiatric diagnoses have any

scientific basis. I was a good proponent of what Tom Cruise had

implied. Tom Cruise is a celebrity and celebrities can say anything

they wish. Cruise knew what he was talking about when he said that

the psychiatric evaluations aren't based on science – period!

They're just made up and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is

growing with more and more fabricated " mental illnesses " . Pretty

soon, we're not going to find a normal person anywhere in the

country…unless they're drugged.

 

Pam: Now, President Bush is pushing for Teen Screen to try and get

children dependent upon psychiatric drugs from a very young age.

 

Dr. Whitaker: I think the " pharmaceutical industry is looking at our

children the way the logging industry would look at a redwood

forest " (quote from an article in the LA Times recently). In

reality, this is likely the most evil thing that we're facing as a

civilized world. They want to force children to answer intimate and

embarrassing questions on a questionnaire which is designed to get

them on pharmaceutical drugs. For instance, I took the Prozac survey

on the internet. I didn't answer the survey truthfully; I answered

every question as " Sometimes " and I definitely fell into a category

where I needed a drug. They recommended that I see a doctor and that

I could be helped by a drug, simply because " Sometimes " I may feel

bad.

 

The questions are designed to create the illusion that the children

are sick. They are then geared to drugging the children. This has

two problems. 1) Because when a child is labeled as being defective,

what is that going to do to the child? 2) These labels follow the

child the rest of his or her life. That, in and of itself, is evil.

 

When you combine that with the fact that these children are given

powerful psychoactive drugs that prevent their normal development,

you're playing with fire. Giving kids these drugs is like putting

kids in straight jackets. One of the fastest growing areas of drugs

right now is for children who are 6 years old and under. There is

only one word to describe that and that is " EVIL " .

 

Pam: Many children today are diagnosed with ADD and, subsequently

being prescribed drugs that have serious side effects.

 

Dr. Whitaker: ADD is a fabricated diagnosis. It's just normal human

behavior that people don't like.

 

Pam: Margot Kidder has come forward describing how she was able to

overcome her " mental illness " by using natural methods. With the

Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation, she made a documentary

called " Masks of Madness " describing how she was able to recover

from her " mental illness " by using the advice of Dr. Abram Hoffer.

When you were on CNN, you acknowledged Dr. Hoffer for his

outstanding work treating mental illness. I put Margot Kidder on a

pedestal for coming forward disclosing her success story and giving

hope to others who suffer from mental illness. If a patient

suffering with a mental comes to see you, what type of improvements

could they experience?

 

Dr. Whitaker: In my practice, we see a lot of people who see their

energy levels increase, or their happiness ratio increase, when they

get healthier. Just increasing and improving health will do wonders

for the majority of people who have been labeled as being mentally

ill. This goes for people who are experiencing fatigue, who may be

depressed. Very often, we find that they have hormonal imbalances,

nutritional deficiencies or lack exercise. We help them solve these

areas of depletion in their lives. We help them increase the quality

of their lives and they feel better. We see it all the time. I have

had 35,000 people come through my clinic and I have never started

anyone on an antidepressant medication.

 

I have been successful at helping people enhance their mood and

their quality of life. This is what you should be after. I'm not

saying I'm successful with everyone. But if I can have this type of

an experience with 35,000 people, even though I don't prescribe what

psychiatrists use everyday, then something is wrong with what

psychiatrists are doing.

 

Pam: Going back to your appearance on CNN, you mentioned that

psychiatry is " not pseudoscience " , and that it's simply " not

science " .

 

Dr. Whitaker: Psychiatry is not science; it's observations of human

behavior, without any scientific backup. For example, diagnosing

someone with a " chemical imbalance " is a fabricated diagnosis. They

have no evidence whatsoever of any chemical imbalance. They can't

measure it, they can't find it. So, there's no chemical imbalance

that's measurable. That's like saying there's heart disease when you

can't measure anything other than symptoms. It's contrary to all of

medicine where you fabricate a behavior as a disease and then you

say there's a chemical imbalance. Then, they try and justify their

results with a PET scan. Well, a PET scan can't detect a chemical

imbalance. Secondly, you can alter PET scans with natural substances

such as arginine, vitamin E, etc….

 

Pam: They showed PET scan results on CNN saying that these tests

show differences in brain function of people who are depressed. It

seems to me that if you happen to be having a bad day, your PET scan

could show diminished flow in certain areas of your brain. In that

case, you could be diagnosed with depression and be prescribed a

drug.

 

Dr. Whitaker: PET scans do not show a chemical imbalance. It can

measure blood flows in the brain, for example. And, that's not

chemical. Some of the PET scan results may be consistent with some

behaviors. You can improve PET scans scores using natural substances

better than pharmaceutical drugs.

 

Pam: People who are living with mental illness can be extremely

debilitated. They can be tortured individuals. It's tragic.

According to Dr. Hoffer, schizophrenia is the most expensive

treatment program available today. It costs a great deal of money to

institutionalize these patients. And, worse, they're given very

little hope.

 

Dr. Whitaker: Schizophrenia is a psychotic behavior where there is a

lack of affect and a disassociation without any feedback. That is a

serious problem. The drugs that are helpful for schizophrenia simply

dampen everything. I've heard that a lot of schizophrenic patients

don't want to take the drugs primarily because they don't feel

anything. They would rather feel their craziness than feel nothing.

The drugs appear to be helpful because they virtually shut off their

response. In many cases, this may be characterized as an

improvement. I don't know the answer to the delusions and psychoses

that people experience. I do know that they can't find why they have

these symptoms yet. If you find out why, then you find the success

using nutrition such as niacin and other supplements.

 

For several decades now, Dr. Hoffer has been recommending a lot of B-

complex, particularly niacin, in treating schizophrenia. His

protocol also includes a variety of other nutrients and dietary

changes. I've been familiar with him for almost 50 years. In the

early 1970's, I met with Linus Pauling with about 4 or 5 other

doctors. We founded the California Orthomolecular Society which is

today the Orthomolecular Medical Society. Abram Hoffer was the first

to use the term Orthomolecular, meaning the use of substances that

are common and essential to the body to maintain your health and/or

prevent and heal disease.

 

The understanding of how to use these substances (Vitamin C, folic

acid, niacin, arginine, CoQ10, carnitine) all of these elements that

we have discovered over the last 60 or 70 years – as therapy -

that's the most significant breakthrough in medicine in the last

century. All of this drug business is nonsense. Of all of the drugs

on the market today, not one of them will be on the market 150 years

from now. Not one. Yet, virtually all orthomolecular substances that

are here today will be around forever. So, when we find these

orthomolecular substances that have healing properties, they will

have healing properties indefinitely. The only reason that they are

not being used in medicine is because you cannot patent them. If

could patent them like you could Vioxx or Prozac or Zoloft, they

would be the " darlings " of the pharmaceutical industry. Since you

can't patent them…since God didn't patent his work – he just gave it

to us to use – nobody can make big money on it. Consequently, the

effort to eliminate natural substances from the health market places

is fierce.

 

Pam: Margot Kidder speaks about her experiences while she was ill.

She explains that one day a given psychiatrist would tell her she

was bipolar. Another day, another psychiatrist would tell her she

was manic depressive. Another day, she would be told she was

schizophrenic. It would all depend on what they were reading in

their A-Z manual. Do psychiatrists really know what they are doing?

 

Dr. Whitaker: In reality, they don't know what they are doing. Their

road map, or the references that they use, are not based on science;

rather, they are based on their opinion of what the behavior is.

There is no measurement of anything. Consequently, it's not a

science. It's observation of human behavior. Observation of human

behavior could be considered a science if you're correctly

identifying behaviors. But, to attribute that to a chemical disorder

when you cannot measure it or find it or demonstrate it, here in the

year 2005 is not reasonable.

 

Pam: Do you have anything else you'd like to add before we finish?

 

Dr. Whitaker: There are 2 things I'd like to finish with. Be very

careful about choosing medical care, because they involve high drug

and high technique. These are the obvious choices because there is

so much money involved in using drugs and surgery as primary tools

in treatment. The only defense people have in the inappropriate use

in drugs and surgery is getting information about alternative

sources. Conventional medical doctors dislike alternative sources,

but if they were open-minded and investigated alternative sources,

they would have more success at helping their patients.

 

Pam: And your second comment?

 

Dr. Whitaker: Understand that the major scientific discovery of the

20th Century was man's ability to isolate active natural

ingredients. We're finding active, natural ingredients almost at the

same rate as the drug companies are making new, non-biologic drugs.

CoQ10 is only 30 or 40 years old. We now know how to generate nitric

oxide using arginine. These are very new and promising discoveries.

The areas where you will have the biggest bang for your buck is

going to be in finding out how you can use these natural substances

to create health.

 

Pam: Thank you for sharing your time with us, Dr. Whitaker. I hope

that your words will give hope to those who are feeling trapped in

the " solution-less " viscous cycle of psychiatric medicine and/or

conventional medicine as a whole.

 

For more information about Dr. Whitaker, go to

www.whitakerwellness.com or www.drwhitaker.com.

 

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