PSYCHIATRY GOES INSANE
by Peter Papaherakles
On May 2013, the American Psychiatric Assosiation (APA) is scheduled to release its fifth Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) superceding the DSM-IV published in 1994 and revised in 2000.
The new “psychiatry bible” has been criticized by many as a testament to the insanity of the industry itself. Virtually every emotion
experienced by a human being — sadness, grief, anxiety, frustration, impatience, excitement — is now being classified as a “mental
disorder” demanding chemical treatment with toxic psychiatric drugs.
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Ironically, one of its harshest critics is Allen Frances MD, professor emeritus from the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University who was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force. “DSM-5 opens up the possibility that millions and millions of people currently considered normal will be diagnosed as having a mental disorder and will receive medication and stigma that they don’t need,” said Dr. Frances. “This is the saddest moment in my 45-year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. [The] approval makes it likely that DSM-5 will start a…dozen or more new fads which will be detrimental to the misdiagnosed individuals and costly to our society.”
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The DSM is now larger than ever, and it includes Orwellian disorders such as “Obedience Defiance Disorder” (ODD), defined as
refusing to follow authority. Rapists who feel sexual arousal during their raping activities are given the excuse that they have “Paraphilic coercive disorder” (PCD) and therefore are not responsible for their actions. You can also get diagnosed with “Hoarding Disorder” if you happen to stockpile food, water and ammunition, among other things. Being prepared for possible natural disasters now makes you a mental patient in the eyes of modern psychiatry.
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Another Catch-22 style disorder is “General Anxiety Disorder” or GAD for short. GAD can be diagnosed in a person who feels a little
anxious doing something. If for instance you are anxious about being diagnosed by a psychiatrist, the mere act of engaging in the a
diagnosis causes the “symptoms” of that diagnosis to magically appear.
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The entire industry of psychiatry has become such a laughing stock among scientific circles that even the science skeptics are starting to turn their backs in disgust. Psychiatry is no more “scientific” than astrology or palm reading, yet its practitioners call themselves “doctors” of psychiatry in order to sound credible.
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The authenticity of already established “disorders” such as Attention Deficit Hyper-active Disorder (ADHD) and Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) has been highly dubious. Dr. Frances admits that even DSM-IV was a huge mistake that has resulted in the mass over-diagnosis of people who are actually quite normal. The DSM-IV “…inadvertently contributed to three false epidemics — attention deficit disorder,
autism and childhood bipolar disorder,” writes Dr. Frances in an LA Times opinion piece.
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He goes on to say: “The first draft of the next edition of the DSM … is filled with suggestions that would multiply our mistakes and extend the reach of psychiatry dramatically deeper into the ever-shrinking domain of the normal. This wholesale medical imperialization of normality could potentially create tens of millions of innocent bystanders who would be mislabeled as having a mental disorder. The pharmaceutical industry would have a field day — despite the lack of solid evidence of any effective treatments for these newly proposed diagnoses.
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The pharmaceutical industry is in fact having a “field day” with sales of billions of dollars of psychotropic drugs such as Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil and others. Since the introduction of Prozac in 1987 there has been an explosion in the number of people using psychiatric drugs. One in five Americans, or 65 million people, is now taking at least one psychiatric drug such as antidepressants, antipsychotics and anti-anxiety medications, according to an analysis of pharmacy claims data released on Nov. 2011. In 2010, Americans spent $16.1 billion on antipsychotics to treat depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, $11.6 billion on antidepressants and $7.2 billion on treatment for ADHD, according to IMS Health, which tracks prescription drug sales. The report showed that just since 2010, a year earlier, the use of psychiatric drugs had increased a staggering 21 percent.
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The adverse affects from these drugs are devastating. Over 200,000 people a year in the U.S. enter a hospital with antidepressant-associated mania and/or psychosis.
There have been 66 school shootings and over 1,300 murders and suicides by psych drug users since 2000.
The Columbine, Virginia Tech, Red Lake Reservation and Northern Illinois University shootings were all committed by psych drug users as were many other mass shootings. At least 5,000 other news stories, including school shootings, link psychiatric drugs to violent crime on the web site SSRI Stories.
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At least fourteen recent school shootings were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs resulting in 109 wounded and 58 killed (in other school shootings, information about their drug use was never made public—neither confirming or refuting if they were under the influence of prescribed drugs.)
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According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, (CCHR) a nonprofit mental health watchdog, between 2004 and 2011, there have been over 11,000 reports to the U.S. FDA’s MedWatch system of psychiatric drug side effects related to violence. These include 300
cases of homicide, nearly 3,000 cases of mania and over 7,000 cases of aggression. Note: By the FDA’s own admission, only 1-10% of side
effects are ever reported to the FDA, so the actual number of side effects occurring are most certainly higher.
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The underlying premise for the use of psych drugs is that normalcy is achieved through medication. Life necessarily involves emotions, experiences and behaviors which, from time to time, step outside the bounds of the mundane. This does not mean people have a “mental disorder.” It only means they are human.
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Nearly everyone who has been diagnosed with a mental disorder is actually suffering from nothing more than nutritional imbalances. Blood sugar imbalances cause brain malfunctions because the brain runs on blood sugar as its primary energy source. Deficiencies in zinc,
selenium, chromium, magnesium and other elements cause blood sugar imbalances that result in seemingly “wild” emotions or behaviors.
The reason nutrition is never highlighted as the solution to mental disorders and illness is because the pharmaceutical industry only makes money selling chemical “treatments” for conditions that are given complicated, technical-sounding names to make them seem more
real. And of course there are the darker motives of bringing about total chaos in the world.
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