The reality, however Blu, is that since all doctors are taught in med school – including the psychiatrists – that the antidepressants and antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, your adverse reactions to the psych drugs was not likely “paradoxical.” Not the mention the antipsychotics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Let’s be realistic. “Therapy-Speak,” should be properly called, debunked DSM ‘bible’ stigmatization / defamation.
Because continued use of the debunked DSM results in “a privatization of distress, where suffering is interpreted as a signal of individual dysfunction.” Well, in my personal case, my distress was caused by the societal dysfunction, that resulted in my – and the entire world’s – legitimate distress at the distressing 9/11/2001 event.
I guess that’s called political abuse of psychology and psychiatry, in America, huh?
If, “Their goal is not to reject therapy altogether, but to propose a form of practice that breaks with the individualizing and depoliticizing tendencies of the therapeutic turn,” then the psychologists need to break from use of their “invalid” psychiatric DSM “bible” … and stop functioning as nothing more than funnels into the “BS” psychiatric forced drugging, iatrogenic illness creating, system.
“More than simply naming problems, therapy-speak [DSM stigmatization-speak] provides tools to manage contradictions without confronting them.” Especially, when it comes to covering up child abuse, which has become, by DSM design, the number one actual function of both the DSM “bible” billing psych industries.
Therapy does “carry unacknowledged harms, especially for those experiencing mild to moderate distress” or none, thus the psych industries should learn to live, and let live, and leave innocent others alone. (It was less than a year ago that I finally got a criminal computer hacking psychologist, who I refused to hire, hopefully forever, out of my computer and phone.)
The psych “professions” do like to silence their clients. I had to leave my former psychiatrist once I realized he had very literally declared my entire life to be “a credible fictional story” in his medical records, as if I would believe his delusions.
Decades after I left that nut job psychiatrist, I was attacked by a psychologist, in a church, who tried to gaslight me into signing a thievery contract. Of course I didn’t sign it. But apparently my art work was “too truthful” for him, at least according to recovered emails I found, after learning this “creepy” psychologist, had been hacking into my computer for years.
And, yes, covering up child abuse is the number one actual societal function of the psych industries, and it’s all by design, according to their debunked DSM.
“behavioral health professionals now lead the response via mobile crisis teams, not law enforcement, such as the officers who handcuffed Isbell.”
Yet the “mental health professions'” goal is taking people to hospitals, for profit, just like the police, government, and paternalistic religions, who own the hospitals.
And I’m not generalizing, I’m speaking from personal experience, as one with medical evidence of eleven anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders, by the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, and his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, Dr. Humaira Saiyed, who deserves to be arrested, too.
I dealt with, if I recall correctly, just over $30,000 of fraud based “treatment,” paid for by my insurance company, for Kuchipidi and Saiyed’s anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders. But Kuchipudi and Saiyed were hoping to make their fraud from my medical insurance carrier over $120,000, with an unneeded tracheotomy … since I was fraudulently admitted to that hospital, with a non-existent “chronic airway obstruction.”
As one who had a dream about being “moved by the Holy Spirit,” and medical evidence of easily recognized and complex medical iatrogenesis, misdiagnosed as “psychosis,” due to my legitimate distress caused by 9/11/2001.
I largely agree with most of what you say, if the latter part of your post stands for pro-dream analysis, and against the current Western “biologically reductionist” DSM deluded “mental health” industries’ claims all dreams, and me, are “irrelevant to reality,” and brain zaps are “psychosis,” within one or two appointments – which is the antithesis of treating one’s client, as they would like to be treated.
“Healing begins when we listen deeply—not just to symptoms, but to the whole story behind them.” I agree, but sadly that’s not what is happening in today’s “mental health” industries, any where in Western civilization. So I couldn’t agree more, the whole world needs a paradigm “shift” away from psychiatry’s “biologically reductive” DSM “BS.”
It would be wonderful if you could share some insights into what helps “mental health” symptoms in Korean medicine, here on MiA.
Just an FYI, my parents met at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thank you for sharing, and helping people get off of psychiatry’s neurotoxins, Daehyun.
If I’m not incorrect, I recall from my research somewhere, learning that the entire way “Family Court” is structured is bad, for example, there are no juries. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
But, then again, the entire maritime legal system (as opposed to common law, which we are supposed to have in the US, but don’t) is convoluted. This guy does a good job of explaining this in his “foundational knowledge” section.
Yes, the psych professions do target middle aged women. I went into a hospital due to a pulled muscle over my heart, it was caused by exercising with weights that were too heavy – which had nothing to do with depression.
I wasn’t allowed to leave that ER without some doctor coming up to me and asking, “Are you depressed?” I told him, “No, and I’m allergic to the anticholinergic drugs.” I sat there and watched him trying to comprehend what I had just said, it took him a minute. Then he just walked away, and I was allowed to leave.
I did a portrait of the last psychologist who medically unnecessarily approached me, in a church, not a medical setting. I call the painting, “Portrait of a Doctorate in Gaslighting.” He spent two years harassing (trying to gaslight) me into signing a thievery contract. You can see it in the art section of this website.
I’m glad some psychologists are finally starting to wake up, and starting to clean up the deplorable mess, the psych professions created.
I pray to God our society returns to a semblance of sanity, and stops the mass psychiatric drugging of children, seemingly due to the greed of the psych industries specifically, but also because of the greed of the entire medical community, who has seemingly bought into the psychiatric industry’s “BS.”
Don’t forget about those “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness” lies that the psych – professions spew.
And the fact that the psych professions don’t even know how to safely wean people off their neurotoxins, so even finding a psych professional to agree to wean you off, is hard.
I agree, the DSM “bible” billing industries function as a “cult.” A “cult,” seemingly hell bent, on functioning to “maintain the status quo,” which is a “status quo” that is based upon bad systems, thus it is dysfunctional, and unjust.
I mean, in the US, we’re all supposed to believe “we are all created as equal,” yet the psych industries want to create and maintain a greed only inspired caste system, which protects the “professionals” while putting everyone else through a literal iatrogenic living hell, and steal more than everything from them … at least according to my medical, financial, and legal records, and research.
More ways to point out how the psych industries are un-American, thank you, Cat.
I agree, No-one, it is nice that MiA allows philosophical commentary.
I haven’t yet looked into all your links, Tom, but thanks for the thought provoking commentary and links.
But I will agree, “depression does not cause a lack of hope,” unless it’s “clinical depression,” which too many within the psych professions claim is “a life long, incurable, genetic illness,” caused by a “chemical imbalance,” “just like diabetes” … all of which is blatant lies.
Meaning these psych professions are telling blatant lies to their clients, in order to steal people’s hope, for profit.
And I agree, “It IS a lack of hope [that can cause depression], and its cure, therefore, is obviously the restoration of hope.”
Which largely means, get away from the psych professions that are spewing hope destroying lies at you, and stop believing these systemic liars.
I agree, “what many people need is not more diagnoses, but more dignity, resources, and economic security.” But I’m not certain I agree with your conclusion that cash transfers are a good idea.
As an ethical banker’s daughter, I’d say the real solution is to turn over the unethical globalist bankers'” table” / bad banking system … again … and, hopefully, forever.
But in the story of my dreams, God’s ultimate goal is a free society, like with no money whatsoever. Albeit with the understanding by all, that God (our Creator) owns this planet, as well as all the planets in our ever expanding universe, and that there is both wisdom and folly within all religions … except, the DSM “bible” billers’ ‘religion’ / book of stigmatizations – there is no wisdom in a book of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations – albeit I do admit the psychiatrists’ drugs can and do create the symptoms of their DSM disorders.
I was listening to this as I was reading your blog, and found a lot of wisdom within it, despite not actually being a believer in communism, since communism denies God’s existence.
But forgive my lack of full knowledge, since I’m still on my spiritual journey, working my way towards wisdom … yet I do now understand neither I, nor any one else, will ever be able to understand everything about all things, in our waking hours … nor do I even want to.
Not to change the subject, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which today’s “mental health” industries are innately un-American.
Like, for example, since the “mental health” industries are “partnered with” both the religions and the governments, that has destroyed our Bill of Rights claim that in the US, there should be a “separation of church and state.” The “mental health” industries have destroyed that right of American citizens.
And, for example, since most of the antipsychotics are dopamine antagonists, meaning they block dopamine. But since everyone basically knows dopamine is a “feel good hormone,” as is also serotonin, which the antidepressants block.
Isn’t that actually evidence that the force and coerce drugging psychiatrists, et al have been intentionally taking away American’s right to “life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness,” for profit?
That’s just two examples I came up with for why psychiatry is un-American, but I’m sure there are many more examples. Please give me more examples of how forced psychiatric drugging is un-American, ladies and gentlemen of MiA.
I, too, had the common symptoms of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome misdiagnosed (according to the DSM-IV-TR at the time). And, I agree, the brain zaps were bizarre, and a physical symptom that made you think it wise to go to a “head doctor.” What a mistake!
I’m sorry you were not able to wean off your antidepressant, Laura, but I’m glad you are stabilized on a low dose, at least that’s a harm reduction approach.
However, it is sad to me that so many of the nurses and non-medically trained “mental health professionals” are so ignorant, and uncurious, about the staggering iatrogenic harm that the psychiatrists have been perpetrating on humanity, for decades … especially the elderly and children.
What is it they say, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member,” so what does the current psychiatric debacle say about the leaders of Western civilization today?
But I’m glad you’ve chosen to start actually helping the people harmed by the psychiatrists instead, Laura.
At least there are some good British psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against the fraud and harm of psychiatry. In the States, I think it’s likely much worse than in the UK, perhaps in part because we have too many “mental health professionals?”
For goodness sake, I had one psychiatrist – who was the psychiatric “snowing” partner of the now FBI convicted V.R. Kuchipudi – who spent years fraudulently listing me as her “out patient,” despite the fact I was never her “out patient.”
And a decade plus later I was also medically unnecessarily approached by a psychologist, who tried to gaslight me into signing a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with a conservatorship contract, that was disingenuously claimed to be an “art manager” contract – of course I refused to sign his appalling thievery contract. But I did find out a few years after my family left the church where we met this psychologist, that this psychologist had been illegally hacking into my computer for years.
So I agree with you the hate, of the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals” towards those of us mothers who stand against child abuse in my case, is most definitely blatantly obvious – to the point of being downright criminal behavior. And it was my love, in part for my young children who needed me, that helped save me, too.
What the “psych” industries in the US have done is not nearly as “complex” as they like to proclaim. The “bipolar” diagnosis is a good example of this.
If one goes to a “psych professional,” (due, for example, for questioning “brain zaps,” which are a common symptom of withdrawal from the non-“safe smoking cessation meds” / antidepressants) and claims to not be depressed. Then the DSM “bible” billers just automatically “diagnoses” the person as “manic,” thus “bipolar” … as if there are only two states of being, which is ridiculous. The “bipolar diagnosis” itself is a “Catch 22.”
And how ironic, the “bad fix” on my broken bone doctor, did call himself “Dr. 22,” in my medical records.
Thank you for your research, ladies and gentlemen of Japan. Please don’t buy into, and work against, the “BS” and fraud of the Western “mental health” industries and big Pharma.
By the way, the evil ‘voices’ i got, were due to psychiatric anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings. And my ‘salvage one’ ‘voices’ were caused by my ‘drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.’
Wake up, non-medically trained, DSM deluded psychologists, et al.
But just because I can medically explain my “voices,” doesn’t negate my spiritual journey, it’s just DSM defamation of character.
“clinicians who wish to respect individual meaning-making for voice-hearers might learn to hold multiple explanatory models that differ from their own [DSM] ideas and frameworks without applying an illness, deficit, or risk lens.”
Oh, but then the DSM deluded “psych professionals” can’t bill.
Sadly, my former DSM deluded, “holist, Christian, talk therapist,” who railroad me off to psychiatrists within two appointments, was 100% the opposite of “holistic” and a “talk therapist.” Since she turned herself into a neurotoxic poisoner, who ended up having her – not listened to – client’s entire life declared a “credible fictional story” instead. And no DSM “bible” believer may claim to be Christian, since one may not believe in the scientifically “invalid” DSM stigmatization “bible,” and the Holy Bible.
A person should be able to discuss a spiritual question/journey with a “holistic, Christian talk therapist.” But one may not, with a scientifically “invalid” DSM “bio, bio, bio” “bible” believer.
Thank God for the internet, I’m listening to this as I read and type this. And I did have a bizarre “seventh heaven” aspect to my mysterious, mystical, musical, drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania.
For those of you who, like me, had a spiritual inquiry, misdiagnosed by a “bio, bio, bio” only believing DSM “bible” thumper … you might find that video creator interesting.
Back to the blog at hand, I agree, hearing voices groups should be encouraged and studied, even though I’ve never been to one, since there isn’t one close to me.
Being innately shy, and being uncomfortable speaking in public (feeling such is apparently called by psychiatry “awkward”) are not actually “mental illnesses,” to anyone other than the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” billers … and perhaps, also, the teachers in charge of public speaking classes.
Thank you for sharing that blog. Forgive my ignorance, but I didn’t see a comment section on Mad in Norway … and I’m not even certain what language is spoken in Norway, Norwegian? but of course.
The word for mad and the word for food must be similar in Norwegian? Or the translator is goofy, since many of the “Mad in …” websites are translated into English as “Food in.” This may be something that MiA wants to look into? I did report a couple of them as bad translations.
Nonetheless, in as much as I agree with much of what the author said. If anyone knows how to remind the Norwegian psychiatrists that, I think all doctors, were taught in med school that the neuroleptics/antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
But knowing this means, I agree with his conclusion that renaming the neuroleptic drugs, “antipsychotics,” was quite morally reprehensible, on the part of psychiatry and/or big Pharma.
“When socially powerful professional institutions do not acknowledge their manifest limitations and seek to remedy their evident failures—thereby violating the fundamental spirit of scientific methodology [and justice within society]—we contribute to the erosion of public confidence in expert opinion.”
Just a reminder, in the US, separation of church and state is supposed to be the rule of law … but the psych industries (I’m pretty certain, illegally – in addition to many of the 501c3 organizations they’ve “partnered with”) bridged that gap.
Not to defame the truth tellers of MiA, which is a 501c-3 organization, that I do donate to. But the unrepentant Holy Spirit blasphemers of my ex-religion, are not innocent.
Thank you for the brief history of psychiatry, Randy. It helps explain why the DSM “bible” is actually being taught in the seminaries today, and part of why the younger generations are not going to the churches.
For goodness sakes, one cannot believe in a DSM “bible” of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations, while also believing in the Holy Bible, which is a book of wisdom, that’s message is largely about the need for love and mutual respect.
But I will point out that all this is unethical and unwise, on the part of the seminaries that actually believe in God, and want to bring the young people into their churches.
For goodness sakes, now I understand why none of the young “mental health professionals” – who are “partnered” with my ex-religion – ever bother to show up for church services. And now I understand why my mom’s former church is a dying, greying, church.
No offense, Sandra, but I think MiA’s film festival was in 2014. Sorry to always be pointing out psychiatrists’ flaws.
But, hey, my young son pointed out that Jesus’ theology had a “trick” to it, when he was only 7. That “trick,” of course, is I do have a right to treat others, as they have treated me (of course, with respect for God’s laws). And, my personal experience is that all psych workers “conspire” against their clients, especially mothers of child abuse survivors and child abuse survivors. And every “mental health” worker I’ve ever personally met, and mentioned that I have medical evidence of child abuse in my child’s medical records, has told me they want to neurotoxic poison my well behaved, intelligent, multiple award winning child.
All DSM “bible” deluded psych workers should get out of the schools and churches, especially until they may bill to help child abuse survivors, which they still may NOT do today.
But I will say, my loved one’s “psychosis” etiologies – and he is doing well now – had nothing to do with the psychiatric industry’s “invalid” “lifelong, incurable, genetic” DSM “bible” disorders.
Since his issues were related to his nurse practitioner’s inappropriately given bad drug interactions (although I didn’t catch those potentially deadly bad drug interactions initially either, and I did check), sleep deprivation, the death of his 21 year old beloved dog, and likely alcohol encephalitis.
So I still do stand in support of getting rid of the scientifically “invalid” DSM.
Well, and being given the undeserved “right” to force drug, control, and play “judge, jury, and executioner,” to innocent others, seems to have allowed psychiatry and psychology to lose their own minds, with their undeserved and unchecked power.
Maybe we should get rid of the evil systems of control, that are attacking the innocent people (which are what the psych industries, et al, greed only inspired industries chose to become)?
And we should try to return to a just and free society instead?
As one whose introduction to the psych drugs was by a, dangerously paranoid of a non-existent malpractice suit PCP, who wanted to cover up her husband’s “bad fix” on a broken bone of mine – which I’d call criminal abuse of psychiatry. And since my second opinion doctor was a psychologist who, according to her, and all my family’s medical records (and my later psych research), misdiagnosed me based upon her pastor’s and a pedophile’s wife’s lies. Well, since covering up child abuse is illegal, that was also criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And as one who had one of my force drugging hospital doctors eventually convicted by the FBI for having lots of patients medically unnecessarily shipped long distances to himself, then his “snowing” psychiatric partner massively neurotoxic poisoned people in the hope they would stop breathing, so they could do unneeded tracheotomies on people, for profit – a third form of criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And I was also attacked by another psychologist, decades after my escape, who tried to gaslight me into signing a contract that was a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with an appalling conservative contract, all disingenuously dressed up as an “art manager” contract – and use of those conservatorship contracts is one more form of criminal abuse of psychiatry/psychology as well, IMHO. Of course I didn’t sign the contract. Oh, but I did learn a couple years after that, that psychologist had been hacking into my computer, for years, which is also illegal.
Well, obviously I know the “right” to force drug people is being systemically abused by criminal doctors (and pastors, et al). But I did also have much more mutually respectful interactions with psychiatrists, after I’d researched into the psych industries for a couple decades.
I had a loved one who was more “psychotic” than anyone I’d ever seen, who did eventually need to be held against his will in a psych facility briefly. The psychiatrists I dealt with at that hospital were embarrassed that I’d dealt with the “bad fix” covered up with complex iatrogenesis. But they were kind enough to avoid the anticholinergic drugs, and got my loved one calmed down, and no longer psychotic, on a low dose of lithium, within about a week and a half. And my loved one was weaned off that lithium pretty quickly.
So, in as much as I know there is way too much forced psych drugging for nefarious reasons, I also know it’s not easy to deal with a large psychotic person oneself. So the legality and/or need for forced treatment is a complex subject, but the systemic corruption of the psych industries should be addressed, too.
“The idea that human flourishing is intimately tied to the natural world is gaining traction across disciplines, offering a powerful counterpoint to dominant psychiatric models that isolate mental health from social, political, and ecological conditions.”
Yes, let’s hope the DSM deluded some day gain insight into common sense. As one who dealt with a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania, I will say, being in nature was helpful for me. And locking a manic person into a windowless environment is about the worst thing you can do.
So I definitely agree, “pro-environmental and sustainable behavior, aimed at preserving the environment, can be understood as benefiting both the environment and the individual.” Being in nature also helps when one finds oneself “manic.”
Huh, that all sounds like false advertising, which I was told was illegal, back when I was getting my marketing degree.
And you’ll pardon me for pointing out the irony of you confessing this on a website filled with people who were harmed by your “misleading claims.”
Better late than never, I suppose. I’m glad you finally “got off the fence,” and ended your illegal false advertising. Someone should sue big Pharma for false advertising.
“The findings suggest that a more trauma-informed, flexible approach to therapeutic goal-setting is urgently needed in school-based counseling.”
It breaks my heart that the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers are even in the schools, since the DSM doesn’t even allow them to bill for child abuse.
“These findings resonate with previous research on young people’s perceptions of goal-setting, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach may not be suitable.”
Well, of course “a one-size-fits-all approach” is inappropriate.
“For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
Especially when the children are being defamed with the “invalid” DSM stigmatizations in “therapy,” which is what all of today’s DSM “bible” billers / psychiatrists / psychologists / social workers / CPS workers, et al do. And the insane social workers, who make up lies about the best and brightest, award winning, children of America, since the school districts are not actually “equipped to deal with the smartest American children,” are actually the DSM deluded / insane people. This is a societal problem.
“Additionally, clinicians must consider how their approach to goal-setting may inadvertently pathologize natural and contextually appropriate responses to life challenges.”
Well, since my personal experience with the reductionist, DSM deluded “bible” billers – many of whom I had to ask, in my “mean mom voice,” Does anyone here speak English? – is that they do not know how to treat innocent others in a manner, that they’d like to be treated.
“Ensuring young people feel heard, supported, and respected throughout their therapeutic journey is essential.”
Yet this is the opposite of what today’s DSM “bible” billers do. So we should get the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” deluded “mental health professionals” out of the schools.
“This study adds to mounting concerns that some evidence-based tools, while well-intentioned, may undermine the core principles of healing, especially when they are applied without sensitivity to context, culture, trauma, and identity. For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
I agree, let’s end the mass psychological and psychiatric drugging of children in schools, and the scientific fraud based psychologic defamation, with the “invalid” psychiatric DSM disorders, of children in our schools.
“In line with trauma-informed and harm-reduction frameworks, the authors call for a more collaborative, consent-based approach to goal-setting.”
Yes, the ending of all forced and coerced psychological and psychiatric drugging of innocent children should end … as should all such communications with our children.
“This study joins a growing body of research questioning dominant paradigms in school mental health.”
“the need for trauma-informed, context-sensitive approaches—ones that center lived experience, resist over-standardization (as the DSM deluded do), and take seriously the structural and cultural factors that shape young people’s emotional lives in and out of schools,” is needed.
I agree, the psychiatric nurses should “establish and lead psychotropic drug deprescribing and discontinuation services.” One of my good friends is a retired nurse, who is now highly embarrassed by today’s medical community.
And it was, largely ethical nurses, who worked to save me, many thanks to them.
And the systemic betrayal of today’s psychiatric industry, of their “clients,” is appalling (see my last comment on this website, for the medical evidence of this comment).
Stand tall, and take control, nurses … the doctors have lost their way, due to their seemingly insatiable greed, and the insatiable greed of big Pharma and the insurance industries.
Maybe we should move back to a time where the doctors are actually working for their patients, instead of working for big Pharma, their hospital managers, and/or the insurance companies?
But we do need the nurses to stand up, and stop the systemic iatrogenic harm the psychiatrists are perpetuating. And I am grateful for the ethical nurses who helped me.
And, sadly, I do agree, “‘Psychiatric Drugs’ are ‘A Crude Form of Chemical Restraint.'” For goodness, sakes, the psychological and psychiatric industries have turned themselves into a bunch of systemic child abuse covering up satanists (again, see prior comments on this website for medical evidence of my legitimate concerns), of which I, of course, have both medical and legal proof.
“Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical (remember, psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors, and must go through the same core training).”
And since we know “psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors,” and we can research and learn that all MDs are taught in medical school, about anticholinergic toxidrome.
We can garner insight into the fact that the psychiatric industry is an unethical aspect of the medical industry, that took the medical knowledge of how to make a person “psychotic” … which does harm their patients … and turned systemically harming their patients, into their “gold standard of care.”
What the psychiatric industry has done is so unethical, it’s hard to actually believe … but, sadly, it is the truth.
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Indeed, incorrectly assuming (and trying to brainwash) all their “clients” that they are “stupid, weak and timid” is a systemic problem for the DSM deluded “mental health professions.”
A systemic problem that makes an “a-s” out their “clients,” but also sometimes makes an “a-s,” out of the scientifically “invalid,” incorrectly assuming “mental health professionals” … and hopefully soon their entire, unGodly disrespectful, industry.
As one who has met Laura in real life, I will say Deleno is a kind and generous person, and agree “her haters would really look stupid if Delano found herself in a debate with one of them.”
But that may be because, I too, am a truth telling psychopharmacology researcher … who found the medical evidence that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
But I do understand the big Pharma funded mainstream media is now starting to behave, seemingly, as bad as the scientific fraud based, big Pharma deluded, “mental health professions.”
“One secondary problem is that when psychiatry is used as a form of intervention by the government it violates the principle of separation of church and state because psychiatry operates as a satanic religion willing to sacrifice anybody and anything on the bloody altar of cold, hard cash.”
Sadly, I have to agree that’s what psychiatry has turned themselves into today. But it’s even worse, since numerous or all of our mainstream paternalistic religions have also “partnered” with the state, psychology, and psychiatry’s DSM “bible’s” “satanic religion.”
And, yes I agree, “we need a revolution,” albeit hopefully a peaceful one … and I do think the Triune God likely inspires the artists … and in their subconscience, all people.
Thus, the psychological industry dismissing the subconscious self, the Id, or whatever the psych industries choose to change the name of one’s dreams and subconscious self to be, was and is morally wrong.
“If we come to view symptoms as representative of underlying psychopathology in need of our attention—as depth psychology does—then drowning out the voice of the psyche is contrary to the nature of the psyche itself.”
That’s exactly what my former DSM deluded psychologist did, by railroading me off to a psychiatrist within only two appointments, so the psychiatrist could also deny my dreams might have validity, and anticholinergic toxidrome poison me.
IMHO, the non-medically trained psychological industry really should go back to valuing their client’s psyches, including their dreams (like, for example, not claiming all dreams are “psychosis”). And they should divorce themselves from the scientifically “invalid,” systemic, neurotoxic poisoners of psychiatry.
I mean in reality right now, the psych industries are very literally “conspiring” against everyone in our society who is not considered to be a so called “professional;” so they may maintain a Ponzi scheme of a bad banking system, so they may maintain a failed pharmaceutical based “Rockefeller medical system,” so they maintain the appalling crimes of the maritime based legal system, so they may maintain “the status quo.”
When, in reality, it is the bad systems that need to be gotten rid of, and a lot of undeserved forgiveness is going to need to be given to those working within those bad systems. But God did point out in the real Bible that repentance, and especially changing from one’s evil ways, is needed … to fix society’s real problems.
“authors Santiago Delboy and Linda Michaels (co-founders of PsiAN) surveyed over 1,500 adults across the United States. Their results suggest that people still want the kind of therapy that takes time, fosters deep understanding, and treats the whole person.”
Yet the “scientific fraud” based DSM “bible” based psychiatric / psychological, et al, deluded industries, went in the opposite direction.
But, since the scientific fraud based DSM deluded have already had their DSM be declared to be “invalid,” let’s hope someday soon those who work within those industries, may soon overcome their delusions of grandeur, that they are the judges of all of humanity, as opposed to that being God’s job. It’s “complex,” yet not that “complex” to those of us who know what is actually going on.
Let’s hope and pray, some day, that those of the “mental health professions,” who were unwisely given the role of playing “judge, jury, and executioner” to the masses … by our seemingly deluded governments and religions of Western civilization … someday understand the fact that God’s the ultimate judge, not the DSM “bible” billers … nor any government, nor religion.
“In a way, evidence-based medicine has degraded clinical practice.” And “evidence based medicine” is largely a euphemism for “Rockefeller medicine.”
“What I mean is that with this idea that you have guidelines that apply to everyone, whereas it is the clinical judgment of the clinician who has to interpret those guidelines. But clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines, and it’s very dangerous.”
This is a very important confession by a medical professional … and seemingly, the possible failure of all of Rockefeller medicine, in the long run (we here at MiA may be the “canaries in the coal mine” of all of Rockefeller medicine).
And I found that psychiatry / psychology are so DSM deluded / clinically controlled / avarice controlled, that all they seem to do is incorrectly assume everyone who comes to them has a “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness,” with zero actual proof, while declaring all of a person’s real life to be “a credible fictional story.”
But I couldn’t agree more, “clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines,” in other words it means actually behaving like a person’s caring doctor. But this is particularly an issue in the “mental health” arena, since the current mainstream psychiatric DSM guidelines recommend anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning almost all their clients.
I highly recommend reading Rockefeller’s belief system and goals, since after doing such, one does start questioning the entirety of how the medical / pharmaceutical / insurance industrial complex is structured … like, for example, is it wise for any doctor to put an insurance company’s interests above their clients’ interests? No, but that’s how Rockefeller medicine is structured.
Oh, how convenient, Jimmy Dore and James Corbett touched on this subject in Jimmy’s interview with James today. (BTW, I highly recommend Corbett’s research and reporting, and Jimmy is at least sometimes funny, when reporting on the inconvenient truths.”)
Yet it is very sad that too many of today’s psychiatrists and mainstream doctors consider “not following orders, not following guidelines … very dangerous.” It has resulted in a disastrous and deadly “mental health care” system.
Thank you for this interview, Mr. Whitaker and Dr. Fava.
“Two included studies found that indoor ALAN exposure was linked to manic symptoms in people with bipolar disorder.”
Well, since the “mental health professions” believe “all distress is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain” (despite their “chemical imbalance” theory being debunked decades ago), and “genetics” (despite having zero evidence of this), wouldn’t mania caused by light issues be considered a misdiagnosis?
“The authors note that past research has linked exposure to light pollution at early ages to younger ages of bipolar disorder onset.”
I’m pretty certain the appalling “childhood bipolar epidemic” was caused by the fact that our society didn’t used to psych drug children, and the iatrogenic issues pointed out in Robert Whitacker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic.” Although, I have zero doubt “artificial light at night (ALAN)” may be a part of the problem.
I agree, “Research into mood disorders in the post-modern era should not underestimate the effects of urbanization and should thus be aware of the detrimental effects of various sources of pollutants on the development and exacerbation of these conditions.” And that “the results of this review suggest how building more livable cities that protect public health should include eco-friendly lighting, alongside other factors, according to the principles of sustainability.”
But I will politely point out, as a 14 year member of the planning commission of my former village, that we did have light pollution issues written into our laws, decades ago. So, IMHO, this is, once again, having to point out the lack of common sense of our scientific fraud based “mental health professions,” to themselves.
“No one in their right mind would think powerful substances would NOT affect developing fetuses.”
…except those who profit off of forcing and coercing them on to innocent others?
My question is, why weren’t these rat studies done, prior to the last several decades of forced and coerced drugging of humans? Shouldn’t the drug testing be done on the rats, prior to the human population?
Oh, that’s right, read Rockefeller’s writings, and goals ….
Thank you, Robert and Giovanni, for acting as conduits of mutually respectful communication opportunities between critical psychiatry / psychology people and/or psych survivors, and the publisher and CEO of a possibly no longer truth telling medical journal.
from our local libraries. They sound like an intriguing couple books, and such is a benign thing anyone who feels like a dejected psych survivor could do, as too many of us here, were made to feel we were.
But please do buy the books, too, if you can afford them.
“Russian roulette is not the same without a gun,” my subconscious self has been singing that for seemingly over a decade.. And it is a song about psychiatry’s iatrogenic harm, IMHO. But, of course, one can’t prove such. However, I do NOT believe God is ignorant of what is going on.
Well Birdsong, thank Boans, since he’s actually the one who came up with the suggestion, which I’m just repeating, because I thought it was a good suggestion too.
I guess my addition of “Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books,” was my creative marketing of what I thought was a good idea of Boans, but my first college degree was a marketing degree.
Nonetheless, we should both say thanks to Boans. And hopefully critical psychiatry, et al, people will go start requesting critical psychiatry and survivor books, at their local libraries.
Thanks for sharing, since I’ve yet to read Laura’s book, but I do thank Laura for her courage, strength, and ability, to get her book published by a mainstream publisher.
“I’ve come to believe those who want to shut down conversations critical of psychiatry and standard mental health treatment have their own agenda.” And I do agree, “it’s all about the Benjamins.”
In general, the monied “powers that shouldn’t be” lost control of the narrative, with the onset of the internet. So they are now trying to take back their undeserved, under researched, and/or fraud based researched, power.
RIP, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. But an end to the supposed open dialogue on the realities of the psych industries, does also represent an end to any kind of true science within the psych industries. Especially given the fact that having an open dialogue is largely a necessity, upon which any real science is based.
” … there’s no silencing the bell Laura has rung.” Let’s hope and pray.
As one who has met Laura in real life, and learned from meeting her that she’s a wonderful, empathetic, kind, truth seeking, and generous person … albeit I have yet to ask my local library to purchase her book so I may read it, and learn more about her journey.
Not to say people shouldn’t buy her book themselves, I may myself, but my bookshelves are getting pretty overfilled. But please do think about going and requesting her book at your local library, since that too could help her book sales (and our truth telling cause).
Although, at this late date, I’d say requesting Robert Whitaker’s, Moncrieff’s, Breggin’s, Gøtzsche’s, et al’s critical psychiatry books from your local libraries would be a good thing to do also, if they don’t already have them. Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books.
” … Those who object must be ‘anti-bloodletters!’ Or flat earthers. Or Scientologists. Or anti-psychiatrists. There is no need to listen to them. We, the mainstream media, will not let psychiatry die in transparency.”
And us independent psychopharmacology researchers here say, let’s not let psychiatry die in transparency, let’s expose the psychiatric industries’ DSM lies … which are really big lies. And why the historically holocaust causing, continuingly harmful, scientifically fraud based psychiatric industry should likely die.
“A section on antipsychotics, for instance, cites studies that purport to show that people who take them fare worse than people who never take them or stop them. (This is misleading; people do not take them unless they have severe symptoms.)”
Is [this] a blatant lie as people are for sure put on antipsychotics without a single exhibition of psychosis.
Indeed it is a lie, since I was put on antipsychotics because a non-medically trained, child abuse covering up, psychologist thought all dreams are “psychosis.”
But when all who dream are “psychotic,” according to the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” believers, they’ve rendered their term “psychotic,” to be “irrelevant to reality” … just like the “mental health” industries’ DSM “bible” was claimed to be … way back in 2013.
Yes, I too, was misdiagnosed by a “holistic, Christian talk therapist” – who quickly railroaded me off to a neurotoxic poisoning psychiatrist – a child abuse covering up psychologist, whose medical records also prove she was a Holy Spirit blasphemer.
It’s hard today to be able to trust any doctor, including the ones who claim to be “holistic.”
I have found younger psychiatrists – who are intelligent enough to know that their DSM “bible” was debunked as “BS” and “invalid” over a decade ago – who do agree they, too, are a critical psychiatry person. At least when politely approached by an independent psychopharmacology researcher.
So “you may be right,” but you “may be crazy”/wrong. Thus, despite the fact that most older psychiatrists did not give their clients the common courtesy of treating them in a manner in which they’d like to be treated. We here at MiA need to be respectful of the younger psychiatrists, who hopefully will clean up the mess that the elder psychiatrists created.
Oh, and as one who was defamed as “crazy,” in part, for noticing I could tell my life’s story in music lyrics, that reminds me of these music lyrics.
“You may be right
“I may be crazy
“Oh, but it just may be a lunatic
“You’re looking for”
But I do believe it is time to stop teaching psychiatry in the universities, and stop psych drugging the children. Psychiatry is a “scientifically invalid” industry, which just creates holocaust after holocaust.
“Antidepressants in” ALL “Patients Increase Risk of Death.” So let’s hope and pray the “professionals,” who are handing these neurotoxins out like candy, some day learn this.
And a little reminder, “the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.” So neurotoxic poisoning the children is morally reprehensible, as is neurotoxic poisoning the elderly … but so is neurotoxic poisoning anyone. Wake up, doctors!
“what I realized was that I was carefully groomed to disbelieve the people whose health I was trying to take care of.”
Isn’t that a truly shameful aspect of Rockefeller medicine? As a banker’s daughter, I’ll say the doctors should do some research into Rockefeller’s belief system.
“This is one of the most insidious things about the medical profession. We are subtly (or not-so-subtly) taught that we (doctors) know best, no matter what.”
Yet, now, most doctors are claiming ignorance of the common adverse and withdrawal symptoms of the drugs they prescribe.
“I’ve never listened more to my patients than I do now. I’ve never learned more from my patients than I do now. I am constantly learning, growing, and questioning every single day in discerning what step for someone to take next.”
And isn’t that a much more fulfilling way to “practice medicine?” At least as a fellow fan of perpetual learning, who also wants to help the majority, I would think so.
“It is a partnership, not a dictatorship, built on a solid foundation of mutual trust and respect.”
And that’s what all “medical care” should be, but you do point out why forced psychiatric drugging should be ended – although I do understand why such is a controversial subject.
Bottom line is, Jennifer, thank you for questioning, researching, actually respecting your patients, and choosing to be a psychiatrist who actively works to help people get off the psychiatric neurotoxins. We need more (if not all) psychiatrists doing such.
“Freedom is explosive for a repressed person in the beginning, and may even be dangerous, but this is the energy of the organism bursting back through and it is these energies that are the energies of living – AND healing.” Very insightful and true, No-one.
That’s how I felt, once I’d been weaned off the psychiatric neurotoxins. That extra healing energy was probably, in part, due to a drug withdrawal induced “super sensitivity mania.” But it most definitely also had to do with being once again:
“Free at last, free at last
I thank God I’m free at last.”
Gotta love a great public speaker and pastor, with whom I share a birthday. But it is sad that a religion named after Martin Luther is now “partnered with” the systemic child abuse covering up, control freaks, and scientifically “invalid” neurotoxic poisoners of the “mental health professions.”
And it’s also sad that our mainstream medical community deluded themselves into believing opioids were “safe pain meds,” and went off believing all the “BS” lies of the psychiatrists.
Pardon my continued disgust at the continuing modern day “psychiatric holocaust.” An old friend asked me to come to a celebration of life for her parents, so I had to return to my ex-religion. And in as much as it was nice to see some of my old youth group friends, none of whom attend that church now. It was very uncomfortable being around the systemic child abuse covering up, attempted thieving, old people who are running that beautiful old church into the ground.
But I agree,
“Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
and I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
and I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he.”
That is exactly what one does when they escape the satanic psychiatric system. And let’s pray us truth tellers “lead them all in the dance” that leads to common sense, and hopefully someday wisdom. I pray to God, for an end to our modern day psychological and psychiatric industries’ holocaust of millions of innocent humans.
“I’ll be requesting my local library to obtain a copy.” That’s a good idea, Boans. I’ve requested my local library get me research papers that are hidden behind paywalls. Librarians are very nice, and they’ve been really accommodating.
But if a bunch of us critical psychiatry people all go to our local libraries and ask for Moncrieff’s, Levine’s, Whitaker’s, Breggin’s, and other critical psychiatry/psychology doctors’ books … and psychiatry/psychology survivors’ books … I think that’d be a great idea. Thanks, Boans.
And well said, regarding the rest of your comment. If it makes you feel any better, as one who is supposed to be an “architect” or “judge” according to 40 hours of unbiased psychological career testing, I’ve had God seemingly sending people to the “lake of fire” in my dreams, since 2015 (according to my brother, who was listening to me sleep talk).
Not that I personally think God should need a “lake of fire,” since He created the entire universe, so there are likely other less “advanced” worlds, that the evil souls of this planet can go to, to pay for their sins, in a eye for an eye manner. Which I believe is infinitely more just, than “sins of the father” justice.
Thus why would God ever bother empowering satan with some sort of eternal “lake of fire?” Instead, I prefer to think the “fire” may represent light, or an unveiling of the truth.
… And we are all going through an unveiling of the ugly truth, or a “great awakening,” via the internet. But who really knows all the answers … probably only God? Yet the bottom line is, I do believe God is actively preparing for whatever He plans to do, so maintain the hope, and I do believe He’s listening, and acting on your prayers, Boans.
Back to your initial comment, maybe MiA could come up with a list of books for us critical psychiatry people to start requesting our local libraries purchase? I know I’d like to read Laura Delano’s new book, too.
Those of us who have been long time “wack a mole” commenters on MiA noticed decades ago, the need to point out psychiatry’s and psychology’s “wack a mole” problem.
You were given an antidepressant, which supposedly made you manic, thus you’re now “bipolar.” This type of misdiagnosis (according to the DSM-IV-TR at the time), thus malpractice, has happened to lots of us here at MiA.
“Wack a mole”
You’re supposedly “bipolar,” so you must be given huge amounts of antipsychotics, the “schizophrenia” treatments. Why the psych “professionals” believe this is appropriate, I still don’t understand, aside from their need to try to control and create iatrogenic illnesses, for profit, in innocent others.
Despite the fact that it’s already medically known – by all but the non-medically trained psychologists, and the rest of the non-medical researchers of the world – that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“Whack a mole.”
Oh, the entirety of the “mental health industry” is a “whack a mole,” iatrogenic illness creating system, with the goal of controlling and stealing from the rest in society (which I do have both medical and legal proof of) … thus it is the opposite of a system that actually helps their “clients.”
Thank you for sharing your story, Phillipp. My personal experience with visiting Austria, is that the Austrian people are wonderfully kind and accepting. I hope your Mad Camp Europe goes well, and that there is a Mad Camp near me some time soon.
If you or Will Hall wants to have a partner in setting one up in the northeast of the US, I hope MiA will allow you and/or Will to have my email (albeit give me a heads up, since I’m better reached by text, and not always good about checking my massive number of emails). But I do have amazing national parks in my area, and so my area would be a great place to have one.
Mutual respect and love are the true root to healing. Sadly today’s DSM deluded “mental health” industries do 100% the opposite of treating others in a mutually respectful and loving manner. And that is not good for either the patients, nor the force drugging “mental health professionals.”
I’m sorry you have been subjected to so much appalling psychiatric abuse and “torture,” Andrew. And I do pray God helps you escape, and thrive.
I will tell you, I’ve personally had some success in dealing with psychiatrists and mainstream medical doctors by politely mentioning that I have become an independent psychopharmacology researcher. And mentioning that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
But on a different note, I will say kudos to you, for not gaining huge amounts of weight on the olanzapine … that alone shows something about your inner strength.
And thank you for sharing your important story about systemic psychiatric abuses.
My PCP requested I do a two hour teaching physical with him and one of his students. I was going through the residual common adverse effects of my prior neurotoxic poisonings, one symptom of which was dyskinesia in my ankle. The student wanted to prescribe a restless legs drug, but couldn’t, because I medically explained the etiology of my wiggly ankle.
The student then wanted to prescribe a “smoking cessation med,” since I smoke. Thankfully, my doctor already knew my “mental health” issues were caused by a misdiagnosis of brain zaps, a common withdrawal symptom of the non-“safe smoking cessation meds” (antidepressants). So I was able to leave that physical with no prescriptions for drugs.
What do you think my ethical doctor was trying to teach his student(s)? Now that we all have the internet, patients can do their own research? Sometimes it’s better not to prescribe, than prescribe? No doubt, my doctor wanted to get to know me a little better, which is understandable, since it was only my second physical with him. And he and I did have a lot of laughs, while “teaching” his student.
But maybe the doctors should start using English, instead of Latin, as their primary language, to avoid miscommunication problems that could result in inappropriate and dangerous prescriptions?
Based upon my experience, the “Global North[‘s] psy industries’ goal seems to be to “disconnect…” everyone and everything “from their historically communal and relational contexts.” Since the American paternalistic DSM deluded industries have a faustian, albeit multi-billion dollar, systemic child abuse and rape covering up system, in cahoots with the mainstream paternalistic religions (at least my ex-religion and former doctors, et al, do).
And I do have written medical and legal evidence that “the Western [psy industries’] model of integration” does 100% the opposite of prioritizing “self-discipline, personal insight, and the idea of an individual ‘hero’s journey.'”
Quite to the contrary, today’s Western psychological industry defames people with scientifically “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisons innocent others. (Please see my other prior comments on MiA for corroborating evidence of this.)
The “invalid” DSM deluded “Western” psychological and psychiatric industries also systemically deny the personal insight of innocent others, do not repent and pay for their obvious malpractice, and then try to steal more than everything from innocent others with appalling conservatorship contracts, to prevent us from writing our own ‘hero’s journey” stories.
Thus I do agree, “psychedelic therapy [should] break from the patterns of traditional psychiatry and offer genuinely transformative possibilities.”
However, this would require a conscious effort to prevent the replication of existing power imbalances, “particularly between the Global North[‘s]” psychological and psychiatric industries ‘patients,’ and themselves, “but also with the Global South[‘s],” hopefully more insightful … and less systemically corrupted …and hopefully more common sense based, non-DSM deluded, “mental health professionals.”
God help us, South America, since the DSM deluded of the US (which is a lot of people), are destroying the US, and their goal – with their “global mental health” initiatives does seem to want to take the DSM deluded “mental health professionals'” desire to neurotoxic poison all people, within all countries – worldwide.
Artwork and writing one’s story – aside from love, heathy eating, and regular moderate exercise – are the best medicines. If that’s what Madzines are meant to incorporate into the “mental health” or “social worker” industries, I’m sure they’re a good idea.
“Voices,” “voices,” “voices” … oh my former child abuse covering up psychologist was obsessed with “voices.” I had no idea what she was talking about, but due to her obsession, I finally confessed there may have been an unknown “voice” I’d heard in Nordstrom’s parking lot.
And such a confession of not knowing who was yelling in a parking lot is what the psychological industry apparently believes is “psychosis” … that, and / or one’s dreams. My former psychologist was crazy, and /or a mentally abusive gaslighter.
Let’s hope and pray AI some day garners insight into the reality that schizophrenia is an iatrogenic illness, created with the schizophrenia “treatments.” The antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, via anticholinergic toxidrome. And the neuroleptics can also create the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
As a female, I must say I am embarrassed this was written by a female psychologist. Especially since, no psychologists should be trying to increase their business, until they have something more than gaslighting and force drugging their clients with neurotoxins, to offer their clients.
Learn to live and let live, scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries.
“The first step is acknowledging that deprivation of liberty is a punishment and cannot be a treatment or support for the person[‘]s well being.” Excellent point, Tina.
And since defamation with any of the “invalid” DSM disorders results in a “deprivation of liberty,” neurotoxic poisonings, and/or other “punishment.”
Which means forced, or coerced, “treatment” for any of the “invalid” DSM disorders is medically and morally wrong … and a paradigm change is definitely needed.
Good work, brother Bob! Gotta love those brother Bobs. And definitely, we do need to end the anosognosia / agnosia delusions of the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers.
Indeed. As one who had a psychologist hand over a – take a percentage of gross thievery contract – combined with an appalling conservative contract, all dressed up disingenuously as an “art manager” contract … all to cover up prior psychological and psychiatric child abuse covering up, and easily recognized medical iatrogenesis, crimes.
Definitely, I have both medical and legal evidence that the only thing that the scientifically “invalid,” “BS” based, Western “mental health professions” actually believe in is greed … staggering avarice.
“’Western depression is not a universal condition,’ and treating it as such risks misallocating precious resources.” Which is what’s been happening in Western civilization for decades.
“Another study found that research in low and middle income countries tends to focus on treating depression rather than preventing it through addressing systematic issues of inequality and injustice” … which is exactly what the Western “mental health” industries systemically do in Western civilization.
The Western “mental health system” is an iatrogenic illness creation system.
“what truly motivates psychiatry (and its assorted minions):” aside from money, “an unconscious fear of” what they can’t bill for, which I guess gets us back to the avarice issues of the so called “mental health professions.”
Tear jerking interview, thanks to both of you. And from the bottom of my heart, my sincerest condolences to Richard’s family and friends. Truly the magnitude of harm that psychiatry is doing, especially to children, is heart breaking.
Thank you for sharing your story, and for all you are doing to help others, including working to make your deceased son’s goal come true. When given lemons, it’s good to remember, sweet lemonade goes well with baseball.
And you are right, covering up child abuse is also a problem for the religious leaders, I had to leave my ex-religion because of their systemic child abuse covering up “partnership” with the “mental health” workers.
Ethical pastors of a different religion confessed this systemic criminal behavior is known as “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions.”
The “psych meds work” … if the goal of the “psych meds” is to create iatrogenic illnesses with the “psych meds,” for the profit of the “psych” and mainstream medical industries.
Please take Steve’s advice, and read critical psychiatry advocates’ work, specifically Whitaker’s, Moncrief’s, Kirsch’s, Breggin’s, et al.
And, if you also still believe the “antipsychotics” are beneficial, you may even do me the common curtesy of reading my medical research findings. Since the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
Thank you for sharing your story, Jackie. I’m glad you are “now medicine-free and feeling better than ever.” Especially since I’ve seen just horrendous videos of people suffering from benzo withdrawal.
But I could write a blog entitled the same to my former psychiatrists, since they both prescribed egregious anticholinergic toxidrome inducing drug cocktails, despite having been taught in med school, about anticholinergic toxidrome.
“Oh, we’re ‘professionals,” who all now claim to be ignorant of the common adverse and withdrawal effects of the drugs we force and coerce onto innocent others. Pardon my disappointment … and, honestly, my disgust at the scientific fraud based “mental health professions.”
Try politely telling your psychiatrist that you mean no disrespect, but you’ve become an independent psychopharmacology researcher, thus critical psychiatry person. When I was trying to help a loved one in extreme distress, this did result in a young hospital psychiatrist agreeing that he, too, was a critical psychiatry person.
Then politely request to avoid altogether, the anticholinergic drugs (a drug class which includes the antipsychotics) – or be safely weaned off of them – whatever your particular case might involve. Since, if you’re dealing with the “positive symptoms of schizophrenia,” those symptoms can be created with the antipsychotics and/or antidepressants, via anticholinergic toxidrome.
And if you’re dealing with the “negative symptoms of schizophrenia,” those symptoms can be created with the antipsychotics / neuroleptics, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome, as well.
I’m not familiar with your exact situation, Claus. However I hope my decades of research, and experience helping myself and a loved one, may help you too.
But do be forewarned about the fact that withdrawal from the anticholinergic drugs can also cause a drug withdrawal induced “super sensitivity manic psychosis.” So a personalized, slow, hyperbolic, taper is likely best.
“Taking psychiatric medications long-term is like playing Russian roulette.” I was singing “Russian roulette is not the same without a gun,” in relation to psychiatry’s neurotoxins, almost two decade ago.
Great blog, Dr. Witt-Doerring. Thank you for your truth telling, and working to get innocent people off of the psychiatric neurotoxins.
Be careful, No-one, you’re NOT allowed to believe in God or the Holy Spirit, according to the American psych industries. And I do have medical proof of this, written right in my medical records.
And even worse, a non-medically trained American hospital social worker once told me, “I declare so many people to be Jesus, I don’t even remember meeting you.” I didn’t remember meeting her either, which is why I called her.
But that social worker incorrectly declared me to be Jesus, just prior to medically unnecessarily shipping me off to the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, who tried to kill me, so he could do an unneeded tracheotomy on me, for profit. So obviously it’s unwise to ever even mention belief in Jesus to any US “mental health professional” today, too.
Thank you for all your truth telling, Rob. Definitely, change is needed. Especially since the primary actual function of today’s US “mental health professions,” is covering up child abuse and rape, which is illegal behavior, for profit.
“For me, the most critical point raised by Adele Framer, Will Hall, Karen Hoffmann, Angie Peacock, and Dina Tyler is that promoting the belief that severe withdrawal is inevitable for everyone discontinuing psychotropic prescription drugs is both unhelpful and factually incorrect.”
I don’t think that is what “Adele Framer, Will Hall, et al” are promoting. My reading of their article left me feeling that their belief system’s goal is stopping the mainstream psychological and psychiatric industries’ from continuing their systemic “belief that severe withdrawal is inevitable for everyone discontinuing psychotropic prescription drugs” … and that the mainstream psychological and psychiatric industries’ DSM deluded belief system is both unhelpful and factually incorrect,” thus unhelpful for all their clients.
But I will agree, the psychological and psychiatric industries’ systemic crimes against their own countrymen/women are likely much worse in the US, than what is going on in other countries.
Psychology and “Psychiatry [drive] you insane and then [call] you insane.” Indeed.
The ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the “bipolar” symptoms. And the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, and the negative symptoms, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“‘I’m a person.’ I think she must have stopped taking [the neurotoxins], because that phrase is unmistakably what almost anyone feels on escaping the drugs.”
Yes, I escaped by going through all the untruths about my real life, written into my psychiatrist’s medical records, while my former psychiatrist was describing my entire real life to be “a credible fictional story” in his medical records. Too crazy for me, highly delusional, former psychiatrist. Bye!
Thank you for sharing your story and experiences, RW.
“At that moment, I saw no purpose in telling them the truth. As they chose to believe that I was a ‘mentally ill criminal’, it was safest to say and do nothing. Three individuals had condemned me without evidence. I was outnumbered and began to doubt my own memories and reality.”
That is the goal of gaslighters. I’ve lived it, and learned to avoid it, too. Gaslighting, force, and other lies, seem to be the MO of today’s scientific fraud based “mental health” industries. Despite the fact that it is well known that gaslighting is “mental abuse,” not “mental health care.”
The “mental health” system needs systemic change. Thank you for sharing your story, Cat. God bless and empower you, I pray.
“Foucault reveals how mental phenomena are affected by unstable variables, such as cultural ideas, social contexts, and individual experiences.” And I do agree at least somewhat with Foucault, I think (I did read his works in college), since all the distress and problems I personally dealt with, had to do with cultural, social, and individual experiences … which psychologists incorrectly assumed were personal “genetic” scientifically “invalid” DSM disorders … which they were not.
Although, I must say, in as much as I am now a believer that “God is dead,” and that might be a good thing, since it may mean God has omnipotent power again. I was not a believer in that belief system until 2013, or later, personally.
Foucault’s “early writings examined how psychology, despite its claims to scientific objectivity, remained entangled in social and cultural forces that shaped what was considered normal or pathological.”
Well, and we do have that systemic child abuse covering up “partnership” that the psychological industries do have with the mainstream religions. “The dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” is still a paternalistic societal problem.
But I do agree, “Unlike physical illness, mental phenomena do not have clearly identifiable lesions or organ damage that can be measured and treated.” So both the scientific fraud based psychological and psychiatric communities have gone in the wrong direction.
“Psychology can never fully distinguish between normal and pathological functions.” I sadly agree, since seemingly all of the psychologists are non-medically trained doctors, who are too ignorant to know the ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the symptoms of “bipolar.” And what’s sad is too many psychologists are also not smart enough to read the rules in their DSM, and they’re also too ignorant or unethical to also confess, that their psych drugs can also create the symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder.
I could go on, quoting the improprieties that today’s scientific fraud based psychological industry is still participating in, but I’ll leave it for that right now.
Aside to say, I agree with you, Dan, that in as much as we need to rid Western civilization of the scientific fraud based psychological and psychiatric industries, we must also free humanity from the globalist banking system.
In other words, psychology and psychiatry are all about kicking someone when they’re down, under the false guise of “help”? … shocker, that was my experience, too.
And yes, given the fact that all MDs are taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school, and all psychiatrists are MDs, the psychiatrists are “knowingly” and intentionally “causing ‘brain damage’ in people,” for profit. Sad, but true.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing your research, Robert. I, too, had a spiritual dream misdiagnosed. I am glad, however, that you know God loves you. I believe the same is true for me.
My theory is that a lot of “schizophrenia” is a result of iatrogenesis, since the “schizophrenia” treatments can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome. And they can also create the negative symptoms, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Thank you as always, Dr. Peter, for your truth telling.
“When asked what they prefer, six times as many people prefer psychotherapy for pills,38 but they get the exact opposite.” Yes, but it is shameful that there are so many unethical psychologists, social workers, et al … who merely function as a funnel into psychiatry.
“In short. Involuntary psychiatric treatments chemically damage the brains of people with healthy brains. And possibly cause related permanent mental illnesses.”
I agree, Dan, “MIA’s existence could be viewed as a reaction to a mad status quo.” I have a 2005 painting of the American flag painted upside down and backwards, so sadly it’s not a new societal problem. Although, sadly, an older, male, psychologist told me his goal was to “maintain the status quo,” and he also tried to steal more than everything from me, with the most appalling thievery contract you’ve ever read, just a few years ago.
But I agree with most of the rest of what you say, too. I found marijuana, or its relatives, to be quite effective in helping a manic loved one, get the much needed sleep he needed.
Personally, I think it would likely be a better first line of treatment for manic and psychotic people, than the antipsychotics, which are already medically known to create psychosis, both when on them, via anticholinergic toxidrome, and when taken off them, via a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.
“There is substantial evidence indicating that psychiatric hospitalizations increase the risk of suicide both during and after psychiatric hospitalization.”
Isn’t the point of psychiatry and psychology supposed to be about preventing suicides?
“Their study echoes research showing how psychiatric diagnosis itself often functions as a site of epistemic injustice, where individuals labeled as ‘mentally ill’ find their knowledge and agency systematically undermined.”
As one who – fifteen years after being weaned off my last psych drug, and a decade after getting a non-medically trained psychologist’s misdiagnosis off my medical records, by a well respected medically trained doctor – is still dealing with “epistemic injustice,” defamation, by the head of my former religion, a religion which has a Faustian “partnership” with the psych industries.
And as one – who was initially misdiagnosed to cover up a “bad fix” on a broken bone, and medical evidence of the abuse of my small child – two illegal motives, for the provable misdiagnosis.
As one whose main experience with psychological therapy was having a psychologist function as a funnel, into the psychiatric industry.
But, decades later, I did also have the misfortune of dealing with a computer hacking psychologist, who tried to steal everything, and more, from me … according to the appalling take a percentage of gross contract, combined with the conservatorship contract, he wanted me to sign.
I most definitely believe both psychology and psychiatry have lost their way.
I would be included in the “66% of service users experiencing antidepressant withdrawal [who] were misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder.” That’s an unacceptably high misdiagnosis rate, IMHO.
And brain zaps are not cured, with more anticholinergic drugs. I’m now on 23 years and counting, with brain zaps.
My doctor was kind of funny, however, when I told him about how I could now largely control the brain zaps in my waking hours, and brain zap away a headache in a NY second. He called them “neuro-protective.” I smiled, but thought glorifying iatrogenic harm (that he’d confessed he couldn’t fix) was not really appropriate.
But I do also thank Joanna Moncrieff and John Read for all their truthful reporting.
“First, they call on counselors to support clients by fostering self-care and empowerment through advocacy, psychoeducation [is “chemical imbalance lies”], and interprofessional consultation, particularly in addressing the role of trauma and its intersection with various forms of oppression” … except the trauma that is caused by the torturous, forced psychiatric and psychologically “invalid” misdiagnosing DSM deluded lies / oppression.
“Second, the authors emphasize the importance of fostering social support networks and highlighting the role of community.
As one who had to leave my ex-religion twice, due to their systemic “partnership” with the systemic child abuse covering up psychological and psychiatric industries. I know the scientific fraud based, DSM deluded psychologists and psychiatrists are committing egregious crimes, against child abuse survivors, and their legitimately concerned mothers.
It’s sad, illegal, and so ungodly disrespectful, psychology and psychiatry. I have no doubt, God is ashamed of you, and the mainstream religions you bought out, so you could cover up the child abusing pastor’s crimes. It’s just shameful, and so sad to live in a world where “those we hail, are the worst of all.”
Yeah for the internet, it’s a great research tool, that has helped shed light onto the systemic crimes, in private, of the scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries.
But I will say, a knowledge of all their scientific fraud, iatrogenic illness creation, and corruption in general, does make me sad some days. It’s just so darn evil.
I can understand why it might be traumatic to be basically forced to learn a language, other than one’s own. But maybe God’s trying to end the Babylon problem, by giving people the gift of tongues? Maybe, the ungodly disrespect of people, for having a spiritual journey, by the psychological and psychiatric industries, should end? Just a theory, but maybe Patricia should be respected and listen to, when she is speaking in tongues, instead? Some Christian religions believe in that.
Please leave the people of South Africa alone, psychologic and psychiatric industries, since your DSM “bible” deluded religion has already been debunked as scientifically “invalid” and “BS.”
I largely agree, birdsong, but somedays the complete corruption of it all, leaves me sad. But today is my dead brother’s birthday, and a family friend died today, too … so I have legitimate reasons for having a sad day.
I had a “spiritual” journey, similar to yours, Tim, except I was misdiagnosed for asking a psychologist what the meaning of a dream that I was moved by the Holy Spirit meant, and that Holy Spirit blaspheming psychologist thought all dreams are “psychosis.” Thank you for sharing your experience and research, Tim.
“I’d give anything to be able to find out if there’s any legal action being contemplated to stop this. However, I’m unable to do so,” as are the rest of us. Since the lawyers will not take cases, even by those of us who have dealt with now FBI convicted criminal doctors, if the innocent person has been defamed with an “invalid” DSM disorder.
Psychiatry and psychology’s “invalid” DSM deluded system prevents the US from being a country of law and order … which means the scientifically “invalid” psychologic and psychiatric industries are the opposite of what they claim to be.
The “cause” of the most “serious” DSM disorders, is likely iatrogenesis. As Whittaker pointed out in his 2010 book, ‘Anatomy of an Epidemic,’ “bipolar” is “caused” by the iatrogenic “illnesses,” created by the psychological and psychiatric industries’ antidepressants and ADHD drugs.
And the “antipsychotics” can also create both the negative and positive “symptoms” of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome, and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
So it’s highly likely that the most common “cause” of all the DSM disorders, is iatrogenesis, not “genetics.”
But I do know from personal family experience, that things like sleep deprivation and alcohol encephalitis, can also cause “psychosis.” Yet they are not “genetic causes,” thus are not listed in the DSM, as possible causes of “psychosis,” in the “invalid” DSM.
It is shameful, since the primary actual function of today’s scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries is, covering up child abuse and rape for the mainstream religions … but also covering up easily recognized iatrogenesis, for the mainstream doctors … all of which is illegal.
Shame on psychology and psychiatry today, for your “invalid” DSM industries’ systemic neurotoxic poisoning crimes.
Thank God for friends, since me and my family used to believe in the scientific validity of the medical community. But thanks to the “BS” and greed of the psychological and psychiatric communities, we no longer do.
But I did need my friends, and am grateful to them, since I was attacked by scientifically fraud based “mental health professionals,” so they could cover up the abuse of my innocent child, by DSM design.
Since the “mental health professionals” can not actually charge for helping children who’ve been abused, nor can they bill for helping their legitimately concerned mothers, they misdiagnose us with their “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poison us.
Thank God, for both friends, and family … but sadly not my ex-religion, which is “partnered” with the scientifically “invalid,” systemic child abuse covering up, “mental health professionals.”
“Don’t Include Involuntary Commitment as a Treatment Tool in Seattle” … nor any where else.
Since today’s “mental health” industry is a scientifically “invalid,” iatrogenic illness creating system, not a system that promotes health. See my previous comments for links to the medical evidence of this sad reality.
And today’s “mental health” system is being used for criminal purposes … like covering up easily recognized malpractice for incompetent doctors, and medical evidence of child abuse, for unethical pastors … both of which happened to me.
In a free market economy, no one should ever be forced to pay for unwanted “treatment.”
“Service users often felt that they were viewed as disorders to be managed rather than as people deserving of care.”
Well, I have written proof this is how my ungodly disrespectful psychiatrist thought of me, written right in his medical records.
“2. Disregard for Lived Experiences
“Many service users reported that their input was dismissed or ignored during treatment planning and care discussions.”
My psychiatrist very literally denied the common adverse effects of his anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings, as the symptoms of my psychologist’s misdiagnosis. And, in the end, he declared the entirety of my life to be a “credible fictional story,” since he’d gotten all his misinformation about me from a child abuse covering up psychologist.
“3. Conveying Hopelessness
“Service users often described feeling as though they were given no sense of purpose or hope for recovery.”
I was defamed to my husband by my child abuse covering up psychologist, as having a “life long, incurable, genetic illness,” none of which was true. But that “conveying hopelessness,” and stigmatization / defamation, by a child abuse covering up psychologist, did destroy my marriage.
So I do most definitely agree, all these forms of psychiatric and psychological “microaggressions” are common behaviors by today’s scientific fraud based psychological and psychiatric professions.
“Emotional and Psychological Impact,” or how to heal oneself, from psychological and psychiatric abuse:
“Plot 1: Seeking Safety and Recognition: Service users expressed a longing for relationships where they felt seen and valued.” Isn’t that what everyone needs? In as much as I had less than zero safety and recognition from “mental health professionals,” “peer support groups and recovery colleges.” I do agree, “My friends, our conversations, our work — they were my salvation.”
“Plot 2: Taking Back Control:” I do agree, the only way to heal from the systemic sins and crimes of today’s “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries is to escape and take back control of one’s life – today’s psychological and psychiatric industries are unworthy of trust.
“Plot 3: Proving Them Wrong: Some participants described defying the expectations placed on them by mental health professionals.” Well, we here have found the medical evidence of the iatrogenic etiologies of the two “most serious” DSM “disorders,” their billing code “bible” was debunked in 2013, so I think we have scientifically proven the “mental health professionals” are “wrong,” but they’ve yet to repent and change from their iatrogenic illness creating ways.
“… psychiatric institutions, despite their mission to provide care, can erode dignity and perpetuate stigma.” Indeed, since their DSM “bible” of “disorders” is “invalid,” all psych diagnoses are merely used to stigmatize people … and declaring the entirety of a person’s real life to be “a credible fictional story” is very wrong, absurd, and insulting.
“The findings suggest that recovery often occurs outside traditional mental health settings due to the relational deficits within them.” Or since the psych drugs can create iatrogenic illnesses that mimic the DSM disorders, escape from the psychiatric system, is likely the only way to heal … albeit, withdrawal from the psych drugs can also create the symptoms of the “invalid” DSM disorders.
“These behaviors are deliberate and they are intended to inflict pain and suffering on people who are supposedly being helped.” I agree, HadEnough. I’ve had too much disrespect, too.
“It would be much more effective and certainly more compassionate if his psychiatrist recommended his visiting his closest gay bar, but I have never heard of this occurring.”
I introduced my gay son to the only gay bar owner in his city, by having him watch him in a play, and we happened to be friends with him. So I can agree with your recommendation for how to help a gay child feel comfortable in his own skin … but I will say I left my former psychiatrist, because I’d been handed over the medical proof of the abuse of my beloved child at a deplorably young age, and my former psychiatrist, and a former misdiagnosing psychologist and subsequent non-clinical psychologist, all thought my now multiple award winning child, should have been, and now should be, psych neurotoxic poisoned forever.
Obviously, I don’t stand in support of the psychological and psychiatric industries’ neurotoxic poisoners, their by DSM design systemic child abuse covering up system.
Maybe the medical community should get out of the business of declaring legal activities, to be “mental illnesses?” Oh, or have they? Since when I dealt with a loved one dealing with a bad drug interaction, in connection with a likely case of alcohol encephalitis, I was told there was nothing the doctors could do … nothing … but most importantly, they could not write a script to allow my loved one to spend a week or so at a seeming Soteria-like healing home.
Especially since, decades ago, what a doctor told me, that a “safe smoking cessation med” (Wellbutrin, which is not even approved as a “safe smoking cessation med”) doubles the amount you smoke, not decreases it, and it certainly doesn’t help you stop smoking.
And when you’re inappropriately abruptly taken off of the non “safe smoking cessation med,” and suffer the common symptoms of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome in late 2001 … Oh, now all the so called “mental health professionals” claim ignorance that “brain zaps” are a common adverse withdrawal symptom of the antidepressants, until 2005 … then, in a very hubris filled manner, finally admit to their ignorance, thus to their complete and total lack of “professionalism.”
And there is also medical evidence that the psych drugs increase alcohol consumption, whereas I still hear some good things about AA, a non-medical approach to alcohol discontinuation support – from both Catholics and Baptists.
Perhaps, the medical community’s greed (and especially the psychiatric community’s) problem, is usurping more control over society, than they can handle?
“A world where children go hungry is not one in which more prescriptions or diagnoses will suffice. It is a world in desperate need of equity, compassion, and systemic change.”
But sadly, too many within the “we want to maintain the status quo” psy-“professions” stand against changing the “status quo” … since changing the “BS,” of the mainstream DSM deluded “status quo,” is truly imperative, IMHO.
“The idea of epistemic injustice encourages clinicians to think in more nuanced ways and ask themselves if reluctance to support and supervise people during tapering could be based on unjustified negative stereotypes such as dangerousness, preconceptions about what a good life is like, or bias about chronicity.”
Absolutely, epistemic injustice, and avarice, does encourage clinicians to NOT withdrawal people from the antipsychotics. But thankfully for me, my psychiatrist finally realized – once he finally stopped believing my psychologist’s lies – I was not a “dangerous person” and had a “good life.” So, according to my my medical records, he blamed my psychologist’s “invalid” DSM misdiagnosis on that non-medically trained psychologist.
And my psychiatrist finally weaned me off his anticholinergic toxidrome inducing neurotoxic drug cocktails. But I will say, medically unnecessarily anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning people forever, for profit, is highly profitable for the psychiatrists. But it is also highly unethical.
I saw three different doctors, within about three days, and had three different psych labels, according to my medical records. So you are absolutely right, Topher, about the scientific fraud of the DSM “diagnoses” / “disorders.”
The DSM is “unscientific, invalid nonsense.” But it’s used by the incompetent and unethical doctors to cover up their easily recognizable malpractice, and psychological misdiagnosis with the DSM disorders is how the unethical pastors cover up their, and others’, child abuse crimes … at least according to the totality of my family’s medical records.
By the way, I do have a business degree, and access to a a small stipend of annual funds allocated towards 501c corporations, in a local family community fund.
I don’t know where you live, Kelli, but as one who helped heal herself from the deplorable harm psychiatry does, with a lot of gardening, biking, journaling, art creation, rehabbing, et al. I’d like to help set up actual healing spaces for non-violent, non-criminal “manic” and/or “psychotic” people, too.
Oh, and psychiatry should stop defaming all “manic” and “psychotic” people as “violent,” since I know from personal experience, that they are NOT.
Honestly, the worst place for a “manic” person to be, is in a locked hospital … being in nature is a much, much more healing place for a “manic” person to be.
I had, apparently incorrectly, thought the ODD diagnosis was created in about 2013, as an alternative diagnosis for all the children who had the common adverse effects of the ADHD drugs and antidepressants misdiagnosed as “bipolar,” as Whitaker pointed out in his 2010 “Anatomy of an Epidemic?”
There should be a call for an end to the “invalid” DSM stigmatization of all children, and humans. Your DSM “bible” was debunked over a decade ago, “mental health” industries, please wake up to reality … and flush your billing code “bible” of scientifically “invalid” (albeit iatrogenically created) stigmatizations.
As one who hopes the US will some day use common sense, and take direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising off the mainstream media (we’re one of only two nations on the planet who unwisely allow it). I have to agree with Whitaker, on his belief the mainstream media is a part of the problem.
Since all of big Pharma’s illegal (false advertising is illegal) advertising has resulted in ”the public” being “betrayed” – and even deluded by psychiatry’s “BS” DSM – and “millions” have been “harmed.”
Thank you, Robert, as always, for your truth telling.
“But if the whole structure of psychiatry is diseased then having a rights based approach in treatment by a psychiatrist is a contradiction in terms, isn’t it”?
Do you mean, like, if the psychiatric system is, in reality, a gigantic Ponzi scheme of an iatrogenic illness creation system? As those of us here know is the truth.
I largely agree, but not with absolutely everything you said.
“Across these critiques, a common theme emerges: the need for a radical transformation of psychology—one that moves beyond individual adaptation to challenge systemic injustices and foster collective empowerment.”
But I absolutely believe the psychologic industry must end both their faustian “partnerships” with the psychiatric and religious industries, if ever they are able to make the needed systemic change. Since those faustian, systemic, industry wide, “partnerships” are what cause the “systemic injustices” of today’s psychological industry.
For goodness sake, I had to leave my childhood religion forever, due to psychology’s systemic child abuse covering up “partnership” with the iatrogenic illness creating psychiatrists, and my ex-religion.
“What lessons are here? Hawthorne deserves to be remembered for how mental health leaders must ensure that people are respected for their dignity as human beings.”
Sadly, this is the opposite of what today’s debunked DSM “bible” believers do. Thus, “The moral treatment model, nearly 250 years old, is almost unknown now in Oregon and elsewhere.”
Indeed, today’s “mental health” industry is all about stigmatizing people with “invalid” “life long, incurable” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisoning people forever. Where’s the healing? And how can the “mental health” industry even call yourself a “healing profession,” when you don’t believe your patients can heal?
“But this history shows that in less than 25 years this state moved from 12 men deciding who was ‘insane’ and seeing them auctioned off for their ‘care’ to the lowest bidder to creating a safe place focused on recovery.”
Well, let’s hope and pray we can end today’s appalling “life long, incurable” stigmatizing and neurotoxic poisoning “mental health” system, and turn it into a “moral treatment model,” within the next 15-25 years, or less.
“The goal of the Hawthorne asylum was getting the people’s lives back as soon as possible.” But, sadly, the seeming goal of today’s DSM “bible” believers is to gaslight people into believing they have a “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness,” that needs never ending neurotoxic poisoning.
“As in the recovery of Archibald Pelton and John Day, no medications were available, so it was not drugs that were responsible for recovery.” And we here all know that it is the psych drugs that create the “life long,” curable, iatrogenic DSM disorders. So we know it is today’s psych drugs that are the problem, thus they will most definitely NOT be “responsible for recovery.”
“It takes creative and courageous leaders … to make this kind of success a reality.” Let’s hope and pray, we are, and can encourage, those creative and courageous advocates and leaders, that can bring about swift change.
Thank you for sharing this history, hope, and possible goal of bringing back “moral care,” Robert.
I largely agree, Naomi, “therapeutic hate speech” … and the psy “professions” have the gall to call a book of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations, a “bible.”
That is a very hopeful, and from my personal experience, truthful blog.
And it’s nice that they state, “When it comes to curing mental illness and shifting the paradigm, the sufferers who have managed to cure are indeed the real experts.”
Hey, maybe I can be declared NOT “w/o work, content, and talent,” “irrelevant to reality,” and “fictional” some day? Thank you for your acknowledgement of the work of the independent psychopharmacology researchers … and all those who had to heal ourselves.
And let’s hope and pray that psychiatry, et al, soon stop forcing drugs – that can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia” – on innocent others, for profit.
I, too, understand today’s psychologic industry tends to have a “gossip” problem – I have medical evidence of such a psychological “gossip” problem within my medical records.
I largely agree, Dan. And I will admit, I found psychologists to be worse (more morally corrupt) than psychiatrists, albeit I’m not standing in support of either industry.
And I agree, “Some [within the psy industries] don’t recognize their complicity; others secretly revel in it while still others aren’t secret at all.”
I shouldn’t say that, since I’m sure there are lots of “mental health professionals” and doctors who actually went into the so called “healing professions,” to actually help people heal.
And I do also know from personal experience, it’s not easy dealing with a “psychotic” loved one.
However, I also do know those DSM deluded “mental health professionals” need to garner insight into the fact that your DSM “bible” was debunked, as scientifically “invalid,” 14 years ago.
Largely since it was pointed out in Robert Whitaker’s 2010 “Anatomy of an Epidemic,” and further since, that the ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the symptoms of your theorized DSM “bipolar” disorder.
And how sad it is to point out that the so called “cure” – the antipsychotics / neuroleptics – for the “sacred symbol of psychiatry” can create both the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, and the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“Former professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was an atheist, (“When you talk to god, it’s called prayer. When god talks to you, it’s called schizophrenia”). He claimed that psychiatrists acted more like priests than Doctors or scientists.”
I agree they do. But what happens when a person has lots of medical evidence that it is pastors, doctors, social workers, et al who handed over medical evidence that it is the pastors, doctors, social workers, et al who believe an innocent other is “the second coming of Jesus Christ,” has “Jesus, a man speaking through her,” and has “voices of God who speak through her to other people”?
Maybe psychiatry should stop “partnering” with the mainstream religions, to systemically cover up child abuse, and stop drugging people up for belief in the Holy Spirit and God?
Thank you for speaking your truth, Nick. Sadly, I must agree with you “that society itself is sick, that spiritual meaning has been replaced with materialism, hedonism, and the pursuit of profit above the well-being of the environment and of the individual.”
But I am a math person, too … and I will say, gotta love “sacred geometry,” don’t you, Nick? Keep the faith, please.
Personally, I think psychiatry’s greatest failure is its “Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes” problems – which are so bad that my former psychiatrist literally declared my entire life to be a “credible fictional story” in his medical records.
But I do agree, both psychiatry and psychology have a “failure … to recognize [their] own limitations” issue. Yet if our societies took away their “right” to defame innocent others with the “invalid” DSM stigmatizations, and force neurotoxic poison people they do not know … this might help reduce that staggering, systemic, psychological and psychiatric hubris?
A possible slice of wisdom? … the “mental health” industries only care about profits, whereas the “experts by experience,” and research, actually care about their own health, and the health of their loved ones.
“As an example of the worsening outcomes, a recent study found that 50% of the population could be considered ‘mentally ill’ by the time they are 18; over the course of a lifetime almost 90% of people will become ‘mentally ill.'”
And according to my former “mental health professionals,” all dreams are “psychosis.” Thus, since we all dream, this means 100% of people should be defamed as “mentally ill” … but in reality, this is greed inspired insanity on the part of the DSM deluded “mental health industry,” not reality.
How long will it take for us, as a society, to actually admit to the “bullshit” nature of the DSM? Oh, that’s right, Allen Frances and Thomas Insel both admitted to the “bullshit” and “invalid” nature of the DSM “disorders” in 2013 – 11 years ago.
So it’s long past time for the “mental health professionals” to flush their “bullshit” DSM “bible.” But instead, they want to “maintain the status quo,” according to an attempted thieving, computer hacking psychologist, who I adamantly and repeatedly refused to hire.
I, too, had to move in order to heal from a bunch of anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings (which look a lot like “schizophrenia,” to the “mental health” industries, but is actually created with the antidepressants and/or antipsychotics).
But that’s because a now FBI convicted, foreign born, doctor’s psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, also a foreign born doctor, was illegally listing me to insurance companies as her “out patient” for years. Her lackeys even called – after I’d moved out of state – to ask me why I didn’t show up to an appointment, that I never made. I had to tell them that if the psychiatrist didn’t stop fraudulently claiming I was her “out patient,” then they’d all be seen as the criminals they are … since, of course, I wasn’t making appointments with doctors, in a state in which I did not live.
“Exile” is sadly a necessary option, when it comes to the “invalid” DSM defamations of the psychiatric and psychological industries, et al. Including “exile” from my ex-religion, which is “partnered” with the systemic child abuse, and easily recognized malpractice, covering up psychological and psychiatric industries.
I’m sorry about what psychiatry did to you, Robert, and thank you for sharing your story.
I agree, especially since the “antipsychotics” and “antidepressants” can and “DO cause” the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
“Is Virtual Psychotherapy of Lesser Quality Than In-Person?” The common sense answer would, of course, be yes.
… not that I’m a big fan of our current DSM deluded psychological industries’ systemic crimes, nor methods … quite the opposite.
But I do hope, we may confess to the reality that industries that believe it is their right to psych op innocent others, or the entire world, have chosen to use their knowledge for evil … and to be merely trying to protect themselves and their scientifically “invalid” industries, for profit.
“Is There Transformative Meaning in Madness?” Well, if you’re someone like me, who was neurotoxic (anticholinergic toxidrome) poisoned, for questioning what the meaning of a dream about being moved by the Holy Spirit means, I will say yes.
But it’s pretty much the antithesis of what the Holy Spirit blaspheming, all dreams are “psychosis” believing, DSM deluded, psychologists and psychiatrists believe. Their psychiatric neurotoxins weaken a person, so that satanic souls / people can create “psychosis,” via the anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings.
But when one is weaned off the psychiatric neurotoxins, one will often suffer from a “drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.” However, this type of “psychosis,” at least in my case, functioned as an awakening to my dreams, and an equating of my subconscious self with my waking hour self – and that can be quite enlightening, thus good.
By the way, my dream that was misdiagnosed as “psychosis,” merely means I’m a moved by the Holy Spirit person, according to ethical pastors of a different religion.
But the answer to your question, I believe, is yes … but just not how the DSM deluded psychologists and psychiatrists believe. Being put on the psych drugs can make one ungodly sick, but being slowly weaned off them can help one awaken to the story of their dreams.
Albeit, I’m still trying to be patient (but not a psych patient, for over 15 years). And I am still hoping God will let us go from the living nightmare – that is profitable for big Pharma and the psych “professions” – and we may all return to living the American dream … in a mutually respectful world.
God forewarned us about the evils of “Pharmakia” in the Holy Bible … please wake up Phamakia forcing, “scientifically invalid,” ungodly disrespectful, non-free market believing, force drugging, Holy Spirit blaspheming, systemic child abuse, rape, and easily recognized malpractice covering up, DSM deluded psych “professions.”
All doctors are taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school, which I think is evidence that the mass murders by the psychiatric industry, are indeed intentional murders for profit, by the psychiatric industry.
Violet, I’m sorry you were subjected to abuse. I’m the mother of a child abuse survivor, who actually scared a school who had a child abuser on their school board, into closing down that school, after the medical abuse of my child was handed over.
But I agree, it’s absolutely disgusting that too many within both the psychological and psychiatric industries are systemic child abuse cover uppers.
“I believe we need to move away from the dominant biological model of psychiatric treatment.” I agree, as do some of my retired nurse friends, who are largely embarrassed by mainstream medicine at this point in time.
“The person is told they have a broken brain which would result in most people feeling very hopeless.” Yes, when a non-medically trained psychologist lies to a client and her husband, fraudulently claiming the wife has a “lifelong, incurable, genetic mental illness,” with zero genetic proof of this, it is intended to take away hope, and does destroy marriages.
“In a lot of cases a person suffering from life stress may benefit from a psychological model of ‘treatment’, with compassion, understanding and simple validation that what they are feeling is indeed normal.” If only the psychological industry hadn’t been largely corrupted by the lies of the DSM creators, but sadly most psychologists are DSM “bible” billers and believers today.
“Parents need to be told when their children are prescribed psychiatric drugs, so they know what to look out for and when to get help.” And the adults shouldn’t be lied to either. The “antidepressants” are not actually “safe smoking cessation meds.”
“I believe one of the biggest problems and wrongs is the medicalisation of normal human emotion. I also believe that we are now living in an increasingly sick society, one in which we were not evolved to live and cope in.” I agree, we have bad systems.
” … I am a strong believer in neuroplasticity and therefore believe in the brain’s innate ability to adapt to its previous state over time.” Me, too. Reminding a loved one who had been made terribly sick, via malpractice and bad personal behavior, about neuroplasticity, was what helped my loved one maintain hope and heal.
God bless in your drug withdrawal journey, Laura. I can’t claim it will be easy, but I do believe withdrawing from the antidepressants will be easier, and more successful, now that people know to hyperbolically wean off the anticholinergic drugs. And I will say, keep the faith … it is possible to heal from the iatrogenic illnesses created with the psychiatric neurotoxins.
But, Steve, you can’t convince a healthy person they are “insane,” if you don’t first start spewing complete insanity at the person, like belief in the “invalid” DSM “BS,” then denying you spewed insanity at the person.
Oh, but that’s called “gaslighting,” and gaslighting is already known to be “mental abuse,” not “mental health care.”
There is a big problem with the psych “professionals” misdiagnosing spiritual queries as “psychotic.” I had a dream about being moved by the Holy Spirit misdiagnosed as “psychosis.” No, it was just a dream that means one is moved by the Holy Spirit. But if all dreams are “psychosis,” since we all dream … well, that rather means everyone is “psychotic,” which renders the term “psychosis” to be “irrelevant to reality.”
And, yes, you are right that lots of drugs, both legal and illegal, can cause “psychosis,” but so too can sleep deprivation, etc. But included among the drugs that can create “psychosis” are the so called “antidepressants” and “antipsychotics” / neuroleptics, themselves.
The antidepressants and “antipsychotics” can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
And what’s sad is every doctor is taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school, including the psychiatrists … so I cannot say “they know not what they do.” A more truthful statement is what a family friend said, just after graduating from med school – “I know enough to be dangerous.”
“The behavior, thoughts, and feelings of distressed people are always reactions to something. Always. The only place where it makes any sense to label reactions as ‘symptoms’ is in a system that contrary to all science and reason insists on calling patterns of reactions-to-distress diseases that need treatment.”
Indeed, today’s scientifically “invalid,” DSM based psychiatric system itself, is insane.
I agree, personally I found psychologists to be some of the least ethical people on the planet. One psychologist I dealt with charged me for her services, fraudulently implying she was working for me, but then she ran off like a manic lunatic to get lies and gossip about me from a child abusing pastor and a pedophile’s wife (neither of whom knew me), according to her own medical records.
Decades later I was attacked by a second psychologist, who hacked into my computer, and handed me the most appalling take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with an appalling conservatorship contract, all disingenuously dressed up as an “art manager” contract. I refused to sign his appalling contract … many, many times. And finally I had to report him to the police.
Definitely some psychologists have less than zero ethics. I’m sorry about what happened to you, Cornelia.
And since we know the psychiatric treatment for “voices” / “psychosis” – the antipsychotics – can create “voices” / “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, and a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis, and also possibly neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
I think the most important way to deal with “voices” / “psychosis” is to prevent the psychiatrists, psychologists, and mainstream doctors from actually putting innocent people on the psych drugs in the first place.
It is interesting to point out that equine therapy, which may likely have helped you, and art therapy, which did help me … but neither of which financially benefits the medical / pharmaceutical industrial complex … may be the best healing modalities, for the legitimately distressed human beings?
Although, I am a big believer in other arts (like music and writing) and nature based (like mere gardening) natural healing methods / non-“therapies,” too. Some day, the reality that bad things sometimes happen to good people, needs to be admitted to.
I hope both psychology and psychiatry will some day stop denying this common sense reality of life, and stop coerce and force drugging all legitimately distressed humans.
I’m glad you “not only survived, but” are “also thriving,” Martha. I agree, the scientifically “invalid” psychiatric and psychological industries have majorly betrayed their clients.
But you do bring up a point that I think is very important, “Thirty years ago … my husband (now ex) did believe you — and he wasn’t there for any of this. He left me and our children when he heard this from you.”
A non-medically trained, DSM deluded, psychologist’s misdiagnosis destroyed my marriage decades ago too. There should be a price to pay for such a psychological non-“holistic, Christian” “marriage therapist’s” / psychologist’s blatant malpractice … since she seemingly wanted to cover up the abuse of my innocent child, for her pastor (and this seemingly is a systemic problem called “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” according to ethical pastors of a different religion) … and according to my child’s medical records.
Both the DSM deluded psychological and psychiatric industries are literally systemic child abuse cover uppers, according to the actual medical evidence, and they nose themselves into the lives of innocent families, and sometimes perhaps ignorantly, but sometimes definitely intentionally, try to rip families to shreds.
I have both medical and legal evidence of these systemic crimes … not to mention also evidence of the systemic child abuse covering up crimes of my ex-religion.
i’m one of the likely many “widows” mentioned in the Preface to that book, which was written right after I’d handed over a medical synopsis of the malpractice I’d dealt with to my former religion.
But I’ll ask, how is ripping marriages and families to shreds, considered “medical care,” psychology and psychiatry?
David, I too was neurotoxic poisoned for belief in God. It’s disgusting that the psychologic and psychiatric “professions” claim to NOT do that, yet they do … seemingly systemically.
” … a more core error of establishment psychiatry, one shared by many other mental health professionals, is a certainty that societal and cultural ‘consensus realities’ are in fact natural realities. This certainty is quite sad given that many prominent thinkers have questioned the sanity of societal and cultural consensus realities.”
Yes, those of us who had all distress caused by the distressing 9/11/01 event, blamed upon a “chemical imbalance” in my brain alone … one who knows that was insane … but I also know we do have bad systems / corporations in control of our society … and have for too many decades, if not centuries, or millennium.
“Part of what makes life worth living is having curiosity to discover truths that are ignored or denied by consensus reality. Such curiosity energizes a joyful and empowering expansion of one’s being ….” I agree, being an open minded, never ending researcher and learner, is a wonderful way to live one’s life … and work oneself (and hopefully all others) towards wisdom.
Thank you, as always, for your truthful reporting, Bruce.
Sadly, you’re right, John. The corruption is not just within the medical and big Pharma industries … best I can tell, from my many decades of research into many of the systemic problems within industries is … it’s pretty much systemic, avarice inspired corruption, within all the so called “professions.”
Thank you, Peter, for your continued honest reporting of the systemic crimes of the psy industries and big Pharma.
I’m glad you found a psychologist, who utilized not just the analytic side of their brain, but also the creative side of their brain, Nancy.
My many decades of experience and research has left me believing way too many “mental health professionals” are only able to utilize the analytical side of their brains … which is why (aside from pure greed) they still want to continue utilizing their debunked DSM, and marginal psychological theories … not to mention, it’s also part of why so many bloggers here are artists / creatives.
Creative thinking is a much undervalued talent in Western civilization. And it’s also a much under taught talent in Western education systems.
Oh, there’s no money in researching into the need for societal change. For goodness sake, the psychiatric and psychological powers that shouldn’t be, want to “maintain the status quo” … so does big Pharma.
But there are some of us who have researched into such anyway, and hope and pray we will all some day work to clean up the messes, that our predecessors have left us, and bring about God’s will on this planet instead.
Thank you, as always, for speaking the truth, Dr. Peter.
“psychotic symptoms may be withdrawal effects from reduction of antipsychotics and may not necessarily represent unmasking of the underlying disorder.”
Most definitely. As one who was inappropriately put on antipsychotics, to supposedly “cure” the common symptom of “brain zaps,” which were due to an inappropriate abrupt withdrawal from a non-“safe smoking cessation med,” an actual dangerous antidepressant.
I will say, as one who dealt with blatant psychological / psychiatric malpractice, according to the DSM-IV-TR, at the time. Trying to treat the common adverse and withdrawal effects of the antidepressants (anticholinergic drugs) with multiple more anticholinergic drugs (the even worse, antipsychotic drugs) does NOT work.
Twenty plus years later, I still have the brain zaps, which I’ve thankfully learned to control in my waking hours, so they aren’t that bothersome to me any longer, at least in my waking hours.
But I will say, I do now have insight, by experience, and much subsequent psychopharmacology research, into what “psychosis” actually is. And I do so hope to help give the psychiatrists and psychologists insight into what “psychosis” actually is, how it relates to their dangerous anticholinergic drugs, and safe withdrawal from them.
All dreams are NOT “psychosis,” as my former Holy Spirit blaspheming “holistic, Christian talk therapist” psychologist incorrectly believed. And brain zaps are NOT “psychosis” either.
When an essentially healthy person is inappropriately put on an antipsychotic, however, it can make a person “psychotic,” via anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning. An anticholinergic toxidrome induced “psychosis” is a very nasty and evil form of “psychosis.”
A slowly tapered withdrawal off of antipsychotics, as my psychiatrist did, after he stopped listening to the lies of my misdiagnosing, non-medically trained, psychologist. That did result in a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis – but it wasn’t an evil “psychosis,” it functioned as an awakening to my dreams … where lots of my soul mates, within the collective unconscious, were trying to save me.
“Horowitz and Moncrieff suggest that long-term treatment with antipsychotics may cause brain adaptations as the brain works to process and reach homeostasis.”
I agree, since like many of us here, I also have done my homework. And I do have my drug history all written up in a one page synopsis spread sheet, if either of you are interested in getting a copy, Horowitz or Moncrieff? I’ll update it a little, since I first wrote it up in 2005, and Whitaker’s, et al, and my subsequent reporting and research did provide further insight into the actual etiology of the malpractice I dealt with.
“Given the evidence presented above highlighting the convergence in relapse rates between the maintenance and discontinuation arms in antipsychotic discontinuation trials at three years, this suggests that tapering patients over approximately three years (although with substantial individual variability) …”
My tapering period was a little longer, 3 – 7 years, depending upon whether to want to respect the psychological malpractice covering up crimes of the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, not to mention the similar crimes by my ex-religion. Albeit, my ex-religion’s psychological malpractice covering up crimes are still on-going … decades later.
Thank you for speaking so much common sense, Ethan.
“But Americans’ faith in their ruling institutions is declining, and for good reason. The spell of the literal and figurative priesthood has been broken. Just as it has become increasingly common for individuals to declare that they are ‘spiritual not religious,'” which is also for good reason.
“I hope and believe that it is only a matter of time before people turn against the psychiatric priesthood and find that the answers are within themselves and within their own communities.” Let’s all hope and pray for the day.
“To put it another way, is the person truly helping the subject accomplish his/her goals or simply helping themselves at the subject’s [or religion’s, or corporation’s, or government’s] expense?”
“In the latter case, I’d call it murder.” Me, too, or at least it was attempted anticholinergic toxidrome murders, that I personally call attempted murders, by my ex-religion and criminal doctors … since I had no desire to die, when I was a young mom, hoping to properly raise my children.
Sadly, we are dealing with a repeating of the worst of history, a new psychiatric holocaust … seemingly for the worst religions, corporations, and governments on the planet.
“Essentially, SAMHSA is invoking what we have called level 1 causality, cognizant that we do not know the precise pathophysiological processes that explain bipolar disorder or schizophrenia (level 2 causality).”
Well, us critical psychopharmacology researchers have pointed these out. Psychiatry’s antidepressants and ADHD drugs can create the symptoms of “bipolar.” (read “Anatomy of an Epidemic”)
And we’ve also pointed out that the anticholinergic drugs (which includes the antidepressants and antipsychotics) can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome. And the antipsychotics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“…it is logically circular to say that depression caused the person’s depressed mood, [but] it is not circular to say that depression caused the person to not attend an event.”
But in my case, I had to leave my ex-religion because a non-clinical psychologist chose to behave as an attempted thief, since he was apparently ignorant of psychiatry’s systemic iatrogenic illness creation crimes. But we did not stop attending church services of that religion because either my mother or I claim to be “depressed,” or “mentally ill” in any way.
“But this is precisely where the circularity charge falls apart. For if the depression itself can cause a person to ‘not attend an event,’ then, ipso facto, depression itself necessarily has causal efficacy; ie, it can itself act on individuals to produce clinical or behavioral effects.”
Not if a family leaves a religion – thus does “not attend an event,” like going to church – due to an attempted thieving (disingenuous conservatorship contract handing over), ignorant, psychiatric deluded non-medically trained, non-clinical psychologist is just trying to steal from us.
We left my ex-religion because of a DSM deluded attempted thief, not because of any claims of any “disability” on our part.
“Consequently, there is no reason in principle why depression could not also cause the person to sleep poorly, eat poorly, feel guilty or suicidal, or experience psychomotor slowing.”
I never had any complaints of sleeping or eating poorly (but I did lose weight, via regular moderate exercise, upon the recommendation of an orthopedic surgeon, due to a “bad fix” on a broken bone). Nor did I ever have of feelings of guilt or suicidality. And the only “experience psychomotor slowing” I ever personally dealt with, was “brain zaps.” Which is a common adverse effect of being abruptly taken off of an ineffective supposed (but not approved for that purpose) “safe smoking cessation med,” an actual dangerous antidepressant.
“And importantly: none of these facts requires us to have a complete or even a partial understanding of the pathophysiology or etiopathology of depression itself.”
I disagree. Etiology actually matters, especially when it comes to societal greed only inspired medical crimes.
“when James Parkinson described a well-defined constellation of signs and symptoms he called ‘the shaking palsy,’ he had in fact identified a disease state that caused the patient’s signs and symptoms—and what would later become known as Parkinson disease.”
Well, this might be true, if the psychiatric industry had been honest about the fact their neuroleptics can create dyskinesia, which looks like Parkinson disease to the doctors … but the psychiatrists haven’t been honest about this, to a large extent, until recently.
“It would be absurd, on that basis, to say that Parkinson disease did not exist—or was not the cause of parkinsonian symptoms—until its etiopathology was discovered in the 1950s and 60s.”
What exactly do you claim to be the known “etiopathology” (etiologic) cause of Parkinson’s disease, since this article, which seems to have been published in 2018, says “The cause of PD is not known ….”
“This fact flatly contradicts the position that only conditions with known and identified pathophysiology count as bona fide diseases.”
Your claimed “fact,” to my knowledge, is not a “fact.” And I know from personal family history that a grandmother had to be quickly taken off of an inappropriately given neuroleptic, because it caused Parkinson like, dyskinesia.
Thankfully, appropriately taking my grandmother off an inappropriately given neuroleptic worked, and my psychic (not “psychotic”) grandmother, never again dealt with “Parkinson” symptoms, and lived a healthy life, to the ripe old age of 94.
“Finally, to be clear: in asserting that some psychiatric diagnoses can legitimately be said to be causative of symptoms, we are not claiming that psychiatric disorders arise solely from constitutional-biological factors.”
Well, that’s wrong, since that’s exactly what the non-medically trained psychologists, and psychiatrists who deny the common adverse and withdrawal effects of the psych drugs, have been doing for decades.
“Of course, we all wish that psychiatry were at the point of invoking level 2 causality in our diagnoses,” but that, too, is also untrue. Since that’s not in the iatrogenic illness creating psychiatrist’s financial best interest.
I think it is downright stupid, and evil, to force amphetamines on children. I pray for the day our society ends its forced drugging of children, with any of the psych drugs.
I know its profitable, but I think it is morally repugnant for grown adults to neurotoxic poison children.
Thanks for helping to point out the absurdity and insanity of today’s iatrogenic illness creating, DSM “BS” based, psychiatric system, Nick.
Thank you for sharing your story, Cameron. If it matters, as a loving mother, I will say I think this is a rather evil thing for your adoptive parents to have said to you, “Your mother didn’t want you, so we took you.” Where’s the love?
Although, as one whose nemesis was an adoptive mother, who was allowed to adopt a child – after she and her husband were so negligent, that their first born toddler ran into a street, was hit by a truck, and died.
I will say, we do need to have potential adoptive parents better researched into, prior to letting them adopt a child … not that that means you should have killed your adoptive parents … but I’m quite certain those murders were likely due to the psychiatric neurotoxins.
And, of course, the psych drugging that you experienced was horrendous. I’m so sorry you, and all who’ve dealt with psychiatric iatrogenesis, have had to deal with that living hell.
Thank you for sharing your story, Cameron. And I’m glad you survived the horrendous psych drugging, and drug withdrawal, and are doing better now. God bless.
“Third, with our American-style capitalism (think neoliberalism),” MiA is big on standing against “neoliberalism.” I must say, I wasn’t quite certain exactly what “neoliberalism” is, so I looked it up.
My computer says it is, “a political movement that favors free market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.”
Well, in as much as I agree with the potential of free market capitalism and a reduction in government spending. I do believe a government’s only real job is to regulate large industries, to protect the people living within their society, from the potential criminality and greed of big industries.
And the US government seems to have done the opposite of its actual, and only legitimate job – which is to regulate industries to protect their people from the run amok greed only inspired industries.
And protecting the American citizens from the staggering greed of big Pharma, and the financial ponzi scheme of the globalist banking system, is what the US government has neglected to do, for a long time.
Instead, the US government seems to be totally controlled by the greed of the globalist banking ponzi scheme, and the avarice and scientific fraud of big Pharma.
So I’m having trouble in seeing the value of a government, that has done the opposite, due to its own greed, of its only real job … which is to regulate big business, so its citizens can be protected from the systemic crimes of big industries.
In our current society, “it is the individual that is seen as ‘ill’ and needs to be fixed. Society gets a free pass. This too is a barrier to good ‘mental health’ care, for it prevents us from thinking about what changes we might make to our society that would be more nurturing for us all.”
I agree, this is morally wrong. Sometimes we need to look at the seeming greed only inspired flaws of our government and our society.
“The pervasive lies in psychiatry are just overwhelming,” yes they are. As a former marketing major I was taught false advertising is illegal. If we lived in a world where the rule of law was abided by, I think pretty much all big Pharma advertisers of psych drugs and psychiatrists spewing their “chemical imbalance” lies, and other lies, should be arrested for false advertising.
Although, in reality, any “medical professional” who prescribes the antidepressants and/or antipsychotics should probably be arrested for worse crimes against humanity, given how dangerous and deadly the psych drugs actually are … and since all doctors were all taught in med school about anticholinergic toxidrome.
It’s interesting you speak so much about the importance of faith communities, but I agree, they can be important. However, since my experience with a not hired by me psychologist, was one of him handing over a take-a-percentage-of-gross thievery contract, combined with a conservatorship contract – which, of course will get the intelligent widows out of their church. Since who in their right mind would want to worship in a church, where there is a psychologist who wants to steal everything and more from you? Not me, nor my widowed mother.
I agree, Birdsong. According to my medical records, my psychologist and psychiatrists were Holy Spirit blasphemers and God deniers.
But what’s good about that is this means the psychological and psychiatric industries have committed “the only unforgivable sin in the Holy Bible” … so maybe us independent psychopharmacology researchers will win some day? Let’s hope and pray.
“Antidepressants examined in our review may have a very small positive effect in older people with knee OA. This benefit may be outweighed by their potential risks.”
And since those of us who were young adults that were given the SNRIs, under the lie that the SNRIs are “safe smoking cessation meds” know the potential “risks” of the SNRIs is having the common adverse withdrawal effects of the SNRIs misdiagnosed as “bipolar,” which results in an iatrogenic living hell.
I agree, the systemic denial of truthful psychological and psychiatric “reporting of associated adverse events further challenges the use of antidepressants in older adults.”
But I am grateful a few American psychologists are waking up to the satanic iatrogenic illness creation system of the big Pharma deluded psychiatric system, Peter. Thank you for your truthful reporting.
Psychology and psychiatry have entered into faustian deals with both the paternalistic mainstream religions and our government. But I do believe God knows this, and those Pharmakia forcing industries will be judged fairly by God. Let’s hope and pray for the fair judgement by God, of all those within the Holy Spirit blaspheming, psychological and psychiatric industries.
I don’t mean to say, it’s absurd that Jesus would try to protect me, I think it was absurd that a pastor and a social worker would proclaim me to be Him.
But since I do now have medical evidence He did seemingly protect me from 14 different anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders of me, I will say, Jesus did seemingly protect me. And say, thank you, Jesus, for dying for my sins.
” … when free spirit operates in you and becomes you, it can only work for your freedom.” I agree.
But I do have a question for those who dealt with Spiritual matters that were misdiagnosed as a “mental illness,” and most importantly any ethical doctors and/or “mental health professionals” who read this.
I have in my medical records evidence that a former pastor, “Don thought she is the second coming of Jesus.”
My medical records also state – I presume also from that ex-pastor – since it wasn’t from me, “voices of God talk through her to other people.”
But I also have evidence that a social worker, who I didn’t know, and she didn’t know me, who medically unnecessarily had me sent to a now FBI convicted doctor.
She claimed in my medical records that “a man, Jesus, spoke through her [me],” and Jesus supposedly warned that social worker, that she was participating in the attempted murder of me, which is technically what she did.
After I picked up my medical records, I called this unknown to me social worker, and asked her about this absurdity. She told me, “I declare so many people to be Jesus, I don’t even remember meeting you.”
So I’m wondering if any ethical doctors, pastors, “mental health professionals” or social workers that read this can tell me, is fraudulently declaring people to be Jesus medical / pastoral code for crucify this person?
Is that “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions?”
“I believe that in our darkest moments or in our greatest highs we have an opening to find the courage to seek clarity within our hearts.” I agree.
“I wish for one principle to be accessible to all: A Never Give Up attitude that makes you available to the always possible mysterious miracle that hovers in all of our lives.”
Hope is imperative, I agree, but spewing lies about “lifelong, incurable, genetic mental illnesses,” caused by “chemical imbalances,” is the opposite of giving a person hope. Those lies destroy families.
Let’s all pray for that “mysterious miracle that hovers in all of our lives.” God bless you in your endeavors, and on your journey, Ron.
Most of this blog came across as psychobabble to me, initially, until I went to the cited definitions of “direct interventions” / “suicide-focused” vs. “indirect interventions” / “other (indirect) psychotherapies on suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.”
First of all, I will say the psychological and psychiatric industries are obsessed with suicide, from my experience. I wasn’t remotely suicidal when I went to my former psychologist, I just wanted to know the etiology of my antidepressant withdrawal induced brain zaps.
But the psychologists are not medically trained doctors, so they should never be recommended as a doctor, to someone who has a real life physical symptom of antidepressant withdrawal. But that was way back in 2001, and none of the psychiatrists or psychologists even knew antidepressant discontinuation syndrome caused brain zaps, until 2005.
Isn’t the ignorance based arrogance and hubris appalling?
Maybe we shouldn’t give any industries the right to play judge, jury, and executioner, to innocent others, for any ethical or unethical reasons they please? Maybe that’s the opposite of living in a just and law based society?
But I’m curious when you say, “Psychotherapy Reduces Suicide Attempts.” Is that compared to compassionate, actual care … or is psychotherapy only better than psychology’s partner, psychiatry’s “care,” which is one of forced chemical gang rapes, and neurotoxic poisonings?
The psychological and psychiatric industries do like to neurotoxic poison people going through a spiritual experience. I’m not quite certain why they think that is legal in the US, since our country is supposed to have freedom of religion, thus neurotoxic poisoning people for questioning a dream about being moved by the Holy Spirit or merely for belief in God (both of which happened to me) should be illegal in the US.
Thank you for sharing your story, Ashley. I feel it’s really important for people to share the true evil of force drugging people, and you accomplished that task … it reminded me of the horror I was subjected to, by a now FBI convicted doctor and his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime. (It is chemical gang rape.)
Glad you escaped, enjoy your beautiful children, they grow up fast … and raising one’s children is a true gift, a labor of love. But I do find it hypocritical that the psychological and psychiatric industries (supposed “care” givers) apparently think that trying to properly raise one’s own children, which involves actual care giving, equates to being “w/o work, content, and talent” and “irrelevant to reality,” at least according to my medical records.
Personally, I think it is the scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries that are “w/o work, content, and talent” and “irrelevant to reality” … albeit they do have a systemic projection problem.
I agree, we need to get rid of basically all of the greed only inspired, “Rockefeller medicine” / big Pharma iatrogenic illnesses creating medical system.
Well, that is exactly what makes psychiatric drug withdrawal so confusing to most, including also the mainstream doctors … if they were NOT taught about anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning in med school … which they all were.
Thank you so much, Tomasz, I’m so grateful for you sharing your story about healing from psychiatric harm. As a US psychopharmacology researcher, who stands adamantly against big Pharma’s, psychiatry’s, and psychology’s systemic abuse of American children, I’m very grateful for your truth telling.
That seems like an insult, registerforthissite. Did I read your comment incorrectly? If I read your comment incorrectly, please clarify.
But please keeping in mind, I have a right to be appalled at psychology and psychiatry, since I actually did deal with criminal abuse of both psychology and psychiatry … and these are systemic crimes against many … not just me.
Nor, too often, do they even “know what they do,” or so they say.
Albeit, we now all live in the internet age, so the truth is becoming clearer. And given the fact all MDs are taught in medical school about anticholinergic toxidrome.
None of the MDs, including the psychiatrists, have any moral right to say they were not educated in medical school “how to be dangerous,” with the antidepressants and antipsychotics (and other anticholinergic drugs).
Thank you for sharing your healing journey, Christine. I agree with Birdsong, the unconscious self is wiser than the conscious self … and me, like you, and likely almost all humans … are all still working our way towards wisdom.
But this is all the more reason I agree, Christine, that “The individual [should have] agency and responsibility … [And this means that] before [the psychological and psychiatric industries] find fault in the individual, we need to look at what is a choice and what is simply how the mind functions.”
And sadly today, neither psychology nor psychiatry seems to have this wisdom, thus they should stop judging and misjudging innocent others … since the psychologists and psychiatrists aren’t God, thus they shouldn’t be trying to function as the judges of all of humanity.
… Just my humble opinion, as one who dealt with a lot of psychological and psychiatric malpractice, and other psychological and psychiatric crimes.
“Having the risk of developing PSSD as an outcome is a breach of research ethics, so using randomized controlled trials to study the condition is not possible.”
Does this mean you may not do testing on people with antidepressants for PSSD, since it is – of course – morally reprehensible to create PSSD with the antidepressants?
Or did I misunderstand this comment? … and the antidepressants have already been passed out like candy to everyone the mainstream doctors and psychiatrists can possibly get to take them …. so haven’t all those doctors who’ve already been pushing and forcing the antidepressants on people, for decades, already behaved in a morally reprehensible manner?
“When service users recognize PSSD and bring it to the attention of healthcare professionals, they are often treated poorly.” Based upon my experience, anyone who has ever dealt with any kind of malpractice, gets put on an antidepressant, then all the common adverse and withdrawal symptoms of the antidepressants get “… incorrectly attributed to some mental health issue.”
As to “prevention,” it’s not complex, but it’s also not profitable for the doctors … get the doctors to stop covering up their easily recognized iatrogenesis, with the complex iatrogenesis of the psychiatric drugs. And eventually make prescribing the antidepressants illegal.
But, of course that would take time, since everyone dealing with today’s psychiatric industries’ “complex iatrogenesis” would need to be properly weaned off the psychiatric neurotoxins, if they so desire. And, in as much as that’s what should happen, it’d be very hard for the psychiatric industry and mainstream medical industry, to even clean up the iatrogenic living nightmare they’ve created … albeit, due to their avarice.
Aren’t we all a bunch of psychopharmacology researcher geeks here, No-one?
“The solution, of course, is to treat these actions as the crimes that they are. That means sending people to prison and holding individuals personally accountable (that includes physicians).”
I agree.
“Other crimes in our society are treated seriously.” Well, I don’t know that I agree with that.
“Why do medical crimes get a pass?” It’s the same reason the child abuse crimes of the religions, by way of their “partnership” with the “mental health” industries, get systemically covered up … for profit.
Thank you so much (sarcasm), paternalistic DSM deluded psychiatry and psychology, for “partnering” with the mainstream paternalistic religions, in a multi-billion dollar, systemic child abuse and easily recognized malpractice covering up DSM deluded “religion.” And forcing us all into a satanic “pedophile empire” – one you (and all other doctors) profiteer off of, psychological and psychiatric industries.
As one who seems to be, “that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion.” The problem seems to me to be one of belief in the “invalid” DSM “bible” vs. the Holy Bible.
But that’s just my humble opinion. However, it is an opinion from one who has medical, legal, and written proof by others, and psychopharmacology research of my own, of my legitimate concerns.
I agree, I was given one based upon the lie that it was a “safe smoking cessation med.” Wellbutrin is NOT even approved for smoking cessation.
Oh, but my PCP had a projection problem, and she was dangerously paranoid of a non-existent malpractice suit, because it turned out her husband was the “attending physician” at a “bad fix” on a broken ankle of mine. Gee, is that a motive to defame a person with an “invalid” DSM disorder and try to murder the person, via a whole lot of medically known toxidrome poisonings? Obviously it was.
And what’s really rather sad is my ex-PCP’s husband did end up killing at least one other person with some sort of an ankle problem. Maybe it’d be better for all, if the incompetent doctors got out of the medical business instead?
So corruption, systemically, by big Pharma and the FDA, exists? (sarcasm) Goodness, and they’re trying to systemically call all of those of us ethical older people pointing out this insane criminality by “Fierce Pharma” as insane? Same old, same old defamation, that’s been going on within the psychiatric faction of the Big Pharma deluded medical system for decades.
Thank you, as always, for your truthful reporting, young Peter.
“any unpleasant symptoms experienced on discontinuing antidepressants have resolved within two weeks of stopping treatment.”
Well, I know my experience is only “antidotal,” but as one who went to a doctor due to “brain zaps” – a common symptom of antidepressant withdrawal, that all doctors were claiming complete ignorance of, until 2005 – in late 2001.
I will say none of psychiatry’s neurotoxins cure the common antidepressant adverse withdrawal effect of “brain zaps.” And I still have “brain zaps” 23 years later. But I used to
“trust my doctors.”
But this means it is a blatant lie that “any unpleasant symptoms experienced on discontinuing antidepressants [will] resolve within two weeks of stopping treatment.”
And I agree, “‘For those of us who were ignorant of the possibility of antidepressant withdrawal and whose lives were shockingly altered by the severity of it, reading the inevitable academic splitting of hairs of the potential numbers of us is highly frustrating. It is now fully accepted that withdrawal exists, so please may we have appropriate support services put in place to help people who need it.’”
And the truth is, the solution to psychiatric drug caused iatrogenic problems is NOT more psychiatric iatrogenesis (like massive anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings).
Thank you, as always, for your truth telling, Dr. John Read.
What about us independents, which I think is about 40% of all Americans? I agree with others here who point out the simplistic beliefs of those who believe everyone needs to be divided between right and left.
It’s kind of like the psychiatric reductionism of the scientific fraud based psychiatric and psychological industries. No, there’s more than just two choices, at least there most certainly should be such.
Thank you for sharing your “in-depth exploration of the PBD phenomenon,” I’ve only just read the first 29 pages, but I think it is likely a very important document. As a psychopharmacology researcher, out of necessity and experience, who does not agree with the DSM5, which took this disclaimer out of the DSM5.
“Note: Manic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant
treatment (e.g., medication, electroconvulsive therapy, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder.”
I agree with Whitaker’s concern that both the ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the symptoms of “bipolar.” Since I’d had the common symptom of antidepressant withdrawal, “brain zaps,” misdiagnosed as “bipolar” in 2001.
And I found medical evidence that the “antipsychotics” can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Gee, if the adverse effects / symptoms of the “schizophrenia treatments” can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “the sacred symbol of psychiatry,” doesn’t that just make the whole of the psychiatric industry … an iatrogenic illness creation system?
“Is Pediatric Bipolar an Epidemic in the U.S. or a Result of Pharma Influence?” I think it’s both, and due to medical avarice and psychiatric and psychological hubris.
I’ll go back to reading your article, Peter. Thank you for your so far, seeming, truthful research and reporting. We need to stop psych drugging the children, and adults, of America. It’s appalling.
“An evidence-based approach clearly shows that the reliance on detention, force and coercion over the past two decades has not led to better outcomes.”
including the forced and coerced drugging of all, during the Covid debacle.
Let’s be realistic, big Pharma / psychiatry / psychology freaked out, and acted like three year olds, because their cash cow, psychiatry, had been scientifically debunked as scientific fraud. So “fierce Pharma” needed to look for a new “cash cow.”
So they created the forced and coerced drugging of all, via Covid, which resulted in a societal disaster.
The right of any doctor to force drug anyone, should be made illegal, worldwide.
“I was surprised as I had been told that I would be on an antipsychotic for the rest of my life.” Isn’t it downright evil that the “mental health professionals” are telling us this?
As one who ran a S.T.E.A.M. program for disadvantaged youth in a town near me, until Covid hit. Where I saw amazing progress in the mostly disadvantaged black youth I worked with, albeit I also saw some of the abuse of underprivileged black youth … which no one properly addressed.
I will say, I’ve been trying to help all the youth of my own country become both left and right brain thinkers, my entire adult life. I hope America can overcome the divisive behaviors of our globalist want-to-be -“masters.” And realize we Americans are all one … black, white, it doesn’t matter our skin color … Humanity will hopefully all be “one in the Spirit,” pray to God, some day soon.
But I’m glad you escaped the oppression, Olúṣèyí. Thank you for sharing your story, and I agree, “Go Where You Are Watered.”
“The exclusion of disabled and feminist perspectives, Hunt concludes, damages everyone—discrimination against anyone creates room for the discrimination of everyone.”
I agree, and that’s where we are. Good God, the Covid measures were abuse of all.
Let’s hope and pray that some day the paternalistic corporations and industries will change from their evil and scientifically “invalid” ways, and learn all people (including the women) need to be treated in a mutually respectful manner.
Thanks for sharing your story, Robert. I like your title, it’s rather a good FU to those who, very literally, create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” with their antipsychotic / neuroleptic “treatments.”
“All that psychiatrists can tell you is negative and pessimistic.” I’ve found the same to be true of the incorrectly assuming, DSM “bible” billing, attempted anticholinergic toxidrome murdering, and appalling conservatorship contract handing out, computer hacking, attempted thieving, psychologists, too.
“I believe that every case of child abuse should be exposed, denounced and punished, even if the child is a homosexual and even if the abuser is a psychiatrist” … or even a local “cocaine dealer” or pastor.
I agree, and both the psychological and psychiatric fields have a proven history of systemically covering up child abuse, which of course is illegal.
And in as much as I had to leave my ex-religion, because they are “partnered with” the DSM “bible” billers, resulting in the leaders of my ex-religion becoming a bunch of systemic child abuse cover uppers and thieves, too.
I do agree, maintaining a loving relationship with God is important. But I don’t agree with you when you say,
“I consider my schizophrenia to be incurable simply because I refuse to give up my religious convictions and commitments.”
Instead, I think the psychologic and psychiatric industries should stop systemically defaming Spirit moved people, and believers in God … especially in the US, since that is also illegal behavior, on the part of the psychologic and psychiatric industries, in this country.
I do agree, however, “Without the sacred, life becomes meaningless,” so I, too, won’t stop believing in the Triune God.
And I also agree, “it is we crazy people [or us sane people living within insane societies and times] who change the world and that the world needs real changes now more than ever.” We are the “canaries in the coal mine,” and we do need major systemic change.
God help us. And God bless, Robert, I’m glad you escaped the insanity of today’s insane and “invalid” DSM deluded psychiatric, psychological, et al system. Thank you, again, for sharing your story.
“… the researchers’ takeaway was to try your best to avoid high doses of amphetamines.”
“… try your best …”??? Trying your best would be ending the unnecessary, unneeded, and harmful psych drugging of children altogether. As a mother, and one who ran art programs for children, much of my life. I do know children – and their seeming never ending energy and inquisitiveness – can be challenging.
But I’ve known in my gut, for decades, that anyone who thinks force drugging children with amphetamines – drugs more or less chemically identical to cocaine – are insane … or evil … or maybe just incredibly ignorant and lazy. A slap on the hand of a mischievous child (even with a ruler) is no where close to as evil, as psych drugging a child for life.
And I never had to do, nor did, either. But I will admit I did have to give one of my own children a quick hand slap on the butt once … because I was remiss in teaching my three year old about how delicate a newborn’s neck is, and in the moment, I was terrified he might accidentally hurt or kill his newborn sibling.
“Beyond the question of high doses, the diagnosis of ADHD itself—and the prescription of stimulants at any dose—has received significant criticism from prominent figures in psychiatry.”
And us critical psychiatry people, who did our homework over the past decades, want to see the ending of the psych drugging of all children … and all adults. All the psych drugs are dangerous, iatrogenic illness creating neurotoxins.
Thank you, as always, Peter, for your truth telling.
“Historically, Indian approaches to mental illness were deeply connected to spiritual and emotional well-being, with treatments often focusing on holistic methods.”
I think the same is true in most cultures, and Spiritual traditions.
“… Behaviors that were traditionally seen as part of an ascetic lifestyle—such as wandering [or in today’s US culture, merely choosing to be a stay at home mom and active volunteer, in a new neighborhood]—were reinterpreted as symptoms of mental illness.”
I agree, Britain’s “colonial practices” are, and have always been, deplorable. Trying to escape Britain’s deplorable “colonial practices” and bad systems, is largely why the US exists. Sadly, we’ve brought Britain’s bad systems over here with us.
But the “… Western psychiatric models continue to dominate the field in India.” And this is the problem.
And, I know, from personal experience. As one who had the misfortune of dealing with the India trained, now FBI convicted, V.R.Kuchipudi.
And his DSM deluded India psychiatric “snowing” partner in crime. I’d politely ask India to get your not yet arrested, but criminal, greed only inspired, DSM deluded doctors out of my country.
I mean it’s insane a mother can not move from her local city, to a suburb to try to properly raise her children, without being defamed as “mentally ill,” by some DSM deluded, greed only inspired, criminal doctors from India, or other parts of the world.
“It did not make sense. Despite the alleged ‘dangers,’ why were people fleeing modern psychiatric care for faith healing?”
As an American who was inappropriately psych drugged for belief in the Holy Spirit and God largely by foreign doctors, to cover up the medical evidence of a ‘bad fix’ on a broken bone for a foreign doctor. And the medical evidence of the abuse of my innocent child for a criminal American. It makes perfect sense to me.
But that’s because I now understand the psychiatric drugs actually can create the symptoms of the “invalid” DSM disorders.
The ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the “bipolar” symptoms. And the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Both the people of India, and the people of America, instead, need to work together to end the evil “colonial practices” and bad systems of the British empire, like their psychiatric and psychologic systems.
Since the iatrogenic illness creating psychiatric and psychological systems, are likely only actually needed for the unwisely inbreeding, Western civilization controlling families … not the masses of civilization, who don’t inbreed, due to greed.
God bless you on your drug withdrawal journey, Pamala. Keep the faith, some of us have extracted ourselves from the even worse, iatrogenic “bipolar epidemic” (of course, created with the “antidepressants.”)
And kudos to you, on all you are doing to help bring about safe psych drug withdrawal practices, in your nation. Please keep in close contact with MiA, and Americans, in general. Since some American psychologists will go to extreme illegal measures, to “maintain the status quo.” I do have legal proof of this.
But how disgusting can the psychologic industry of America get? Oh, after the American psychological industry’s DSM was debunked as scientific fraud, they seemingly brought us all the Covid, coerced and forced drugging, debacle?
Pardon my legitimate disgust at some American psychologists. But I recognize a societal gas lighting, and a psy-op, when I live through it.
Oh, but I truly wish you well on your healing journey, and do hope you keep speaking the truth, Pamala … many thanks.
Absolutely, you are correct. And such misdiagnoses were actually considered malpractice in the DSM-IV-TR. From that psychiatric “bible”:
“Note: Manic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant treatment (e.g., medication, electroconvulsive therapy, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder.”
But since that slice of wisdom was taken out of the DSM5 … likely due to Whitaker’s “Anatomy….”
To me, psychology, psychiatry, big medicine, and big Pharma have been behaving in a juvenile manner … albeit also seemingly in an insane manner.
“Oh, it’s too profitable” to stop neurotoxic poisoning the children, one pediatrician told me. After the Covid situation, one big Pharma rep told an undercover reporter from Project Veritas, “we’re looking for a new cash cow.” WTF???
Maybe those of us pointing out the iatrogenic etiologies of the DSM disorders, have started a wave, larger than we thought ?
Gee, No-One, it seems you can somewhat comprehend how my bizarre dream nicknames, might have allowed me to get “Everyone Else,” with “love and the word of God”? Who knows? But my bizarre dreams make logical sense to me. However, I can also understand why most people’s dreams seem bizarre, and illogical, to them.
Thank you for working to point out the problems of antidepressant withdrawal, Dr. Fava and Samantha. Especially since “Antidepressant Withdrawal [is] Commonly Misdiagnosed as ‘Mental Illness.'”
As one who dealt with the living nightmare of such misdiagnoses, I agree, “antidepressants should only be used for the most severe cases of depression [if at all] and for the shortest duration possible.”
And they sure as heck should NOT be fraudulently marketed as “safe smoking cessation meds.” As a marketing major, I will say that is false marketing, doctors and big Pharma, and false marketing IS technically illegal.
“… if you take serequel, the grave diggers move in.” Lol, I abstractly painted myself with my head blown open, after being given Seroquel. That, plus Risperdal, gives you a staggeringly evil case of anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning. “Ouch” is what my former photographer called that painting. It was a living hell, and the entire psychiatric system, was like living my worst nightmare.
And what’s kind of sad is, it seems like we are all still somewhat living the nightmare. Let’s hope and pray America, and the world, may start living our dreams again, instead of perpetuating the societal nightmare of bad systems, in which we all find ourselves living.
I’ll date myself.
“When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange
“Who you are into what you’re gonna be.
“Sha na na na na na na na na
“Sha na na na na
“Sha na na na na na na na na
“Sha na na na na”
As to the article, I largely agree, “We need a radical new vision for health care that goes beyond the hospital and pharmacies to include ….” Except wouldn’t it be better to value the knowledge of the medical anthropologists of all countries? I think that’d be the best way to wean society off of the largely failed, for profit only focused, “Rockefeller medicine” societal problem.
“the DSM-5 does not include SSRI/SNRI in the list of drugs responsible for drug-induced disorders”
Although all DSMs prior to the DSM5 did warn, “Manic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant treatment (e.g., medication, electroconvulsive therapy, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder.”
But “People are commonly misdiagnosed when withdrawing from antidepressants. Some symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal—like panic, anxiety, depression, and hallucinations—overlap with psychiatric diagnoses. However, many symptoms, such as brain zaps and nausea, are not shared with psychiatric disorders.”
Yet doctors have been misdiagnosing “brain zaps” as “bipolar,” out of ignorance, for decades. Doctors apparently didn’t even know “brain zaps” are a common symptom of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome until 2005.
Can someone please tell me what is “professional” about arrogantly claiming ignorance, about the products one sells? … and in psychiatry’s and psychology’s case, forces and coerces onto innocent others.
And how is giving scientifically “invalid” aspects of the “medical” industry the right to unjustly play judge, jury, and executioner to anyone they want, for any reason – which is what the psychological and psychiatric industries have been given – acceptable in an actual free market society? It’s not.
All forced and coerced psychiatric and psychologic drugging, and any other forced or coerced drugging, should be illegal … at least in a supposedly free society.
Thank you, Bruce, as always, for an insightful piece. I consider you to be one of the “others who can energize us to keep looking.”
But I hope you are wrong that “dismantling the megamachine any time soon is unrealistic.”
Since I see us all now living in a critical time … the ponzi scheme of the monetary systems of Western civilization are imploding, the entire “mental health” industry is based upon scientific fraud, the medical system as a whole has lost credibility, the legal and judicial systems are convoluted and unjust, we’re on the edge of WWIII, ….
“When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am”
Gee, let’s just admit, Western civilization has bad systems … and actively work to change those bad systems (of course that will take those working within those bad systems, cleaning up the mess that their industry’s collective greed, created) … instead of letting the oligarchy that shouldn’t be (at least lawfully, I think, in the US) continue to dehumanize all of us.
I know I can’t do it alone, but I do believe all of us decent folks, can improve society together. Let’s hope and pray, God helps us do so, in a timely manner. Since I don’t want to hand over to my children, the societal mess that I was handed over, by the elder generations of Western civilization. Nor do I want WWIII.
But, of course, I was declared “mentally ill” / insane, for questioning those who were behind 9.11.2001. Resulting in all distress caused by 9.11.2001 being blamed upon a “chemical imbalance” in my brain alone, by an insane non-medically trained psychologist … rather than the chaos and distress caused by the distressing events of 9.11.2001 being blamed on the real masterminds behind 9.11.2001.
Gosh, my dad used to be Donald Rumsfeld’s campaign finance manager. What did Rumsfeld admit to the day before 9.11.2001? … Oh, we’re back to the monetary system is a fraud based Ponzi scheme societal problem.
Thank you for sharing your story, Cat. And, yes, psychiatry / psychology are largely child abuse covering up industries, and it’s all by DSM design. I was neurotoxic poisoned, to cover up the abuse of my child, according to my family’s medical records, that were finally handed over.
If they can’t bill for it, it gets misdiagnosed as one of the disorders they can get paid for. Then they neurotoxic poison you … which does also function to aid and abet the abusers, and has left those of us in the US all living in a “pedophile empire.”
I think you mean, there’s nothing “lawful” about this. The systemic crimes of the maritime lawyers (America is supposed to have common law – the law of the land) are downright convoluted.
This guy does a good job of breaking the complexity of it down in his “foundational knowledge” section. Although, I’ll forewarn you, you may need to listen to it several times, to wrap your head around how staggeringly convoluted the maritime legal system is.
Thank you for pointing out these horrendous legal crimes, Jaimee. I was handed over one of those contracts, combined with a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, all disingenuously disguised as an “art manager” contract, by a creepy psychologist.
Wow! It was a truly appalling contract! What a sick, control freak nut job that psychologist was! No way, Jose! Get away, and stay away, crazy, criminal computer hacking, and attempted thieving, psychologist!
It strikes me as odd that the psychologists are doing research on how to best “help” child abuse survivors, yet the psychologists can NOT even bill to “help” child abuse survivors.
And all the psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers – with whom I had the misfortune of dealing – were child abuse deniers and cover uppers.
And once the medical evidence of the abuse of my child was finally handed over, and I could no longer live in denial. I asked my psychiatrist how to best help a child abuse survivor. He thought a child, who had been healing from the abuse for four years, should be neurotoxic poisoned. That was my second to last appointment with my highly deluded psychiatrist.
Maybe we should have someone – other than the very industries that have been misdiagnosing and neurotoxic poisoning, en mass, innocent child abuse survivors and their mothers, for decades – helping child abuse survivors instead?
“the prevalence of childhood trauma exposure within borderline personality disorder patients has been evidenced to be as high as 92% (Yen et al., 2002). Within individuals diagnosed with psychotic or affective disorders, it reaches 82% (Larsson et al., 2012).”
Not in my humble opinion, but they do create the symptoms of “bipolar,” (even when one was fraudulently given a SNRI, under the false claim, it is a “safe smoking cessation med.”) But such a “bipolar” misdiagnosis does result in one being inappropriately put on the “antipsychotics.”
But since the psychological and psychiatric industries have been arrogantly lying and denying knowledge of the adverse and common withdrawal symptoms of the psych neurotoxins, for decades. For example (wow! the censorship is staggering, this is seemingly now the best link I can give):
And the, mostly non-medically trained, scientific fraud based, DSM deluded, “mental health” industries are still denying the reality that the antidepressants / antipsychotics / neuroleptics / anticholinergic drugs can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia, via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder”:
I truly believe we have a societal problem, in regards to the entirety, of the so called “mental health industries.” Who apparently can’t comprehend, that those who’ve been unjustly given the power to FUBAR innocent others, for profit, will also likely be judged fairly by God, like all others.
“Student mental health has historically been a big concern on college campuses.” No, us older adults know that psych drugging children used to be taboo, and should still be, so this is a relatively new psychiatry/psychology/”mental health” industry caused problem … given the iatrogenic etiology of all the psychiatric DSM disorders. (See my prior comments on this website, if you want medical links to the proof.)
And, realistically, our society needs to deal with our real societal problems, like the Ponzi scheme of our Federal Reserve monetary system, which is unconstitutional, thus illegal. And is destroying American society, thus legitimately upsetting both us elders, and the younger generations of America.
But, of course, it is this fraud based monetary system that has been funding the fraud based “mental health” industries, to massively and inappropriately mass neurotoxic poison American children, for decades.
As an older woman, I’ve found that when asked unnecessarily by some random doctor in a hospital, “Are you depressed,” for no reason (aside from medical / psychiatric averice). I was at the hospital because of a pulled muscle above my heart, which had to do with regular moderate exercise, but nothing to do with “depression.”
It’s best to tell that random hospital doctor, “No,” and then say, “and I’m allergic to the anticholinergic drugs.” This does have a tendency to embarrass the unnecessarily intrusive – and off point – doctor, and cause him to just leave you alone.
According to my medical records, some doctors do intentionally utilize psychiatric iatrogenesis, to cover up their partner’s easily recognized iatrogenesis.
And a similar thing happened to a loved one, so covering up medical errors with psychiatric iatrogenesis is not likely uncommon.
And let’s be realistic, all doctors are taught in med school about anticholinergic toxidrome … so they all know the antidepressants and antipsychotics, which are both anticholinergic drugs, are dangerous neurotoxins.
Good for you, for keeping the faith. And you are so right, we need to end the systemic destruction of our children, via the vast number of ways, that are going on in today’s society … not a pretty story.
You might like a Chagall inspired piece I did, or am trying to finish up. I painted myself and my children, escaping the insanity of the DSM deluded industries, in a chariot pulled by Jesus on a white horse. Chagall’s piece it was inspired by, was called “War.”
Gotta love Chagall, his work paints my life, as if I were one of his muses. But, of course he and I would be great friends, if there is a “collective unconscious.”
Permission granted, Google finally figured out who I am, and took my right to use that pseudonym away on YouTube. Gosh, does a lady who found the medical proof of the iatrogenic etiologies of the “sacred symbol of psychiatry” / the “cash cow” of big Pharma/psychiatry, deserve to have a right to use a pseudonym? One would think so … for safety reasons … but not according to the God complexed Google.
Well, I don’t know much about my dreams, but the internet of my dreams supposedly started when I was very young, and my family moved from Chicago to NY. I was sad to have to move away from my friends, so I supposedly created Annie, Eric, and Lisa websites in my dreams, so that I could stay friends with my IL friends in my dreams.
I started kindergarten in NY, and just started adding more websites in my dreams … each friend having their own website.
My family moved to OH when I was in junior high, and our church had a mission statement to “go get everyone with love and the word of God.” My subconscious self decided to accept this challenge. I kept adding more websites of new friends, I supposedly befriended the actors via the TV, and the musicians via the radio.
I also supposedly adopted a bunch of nicknames for myself, like Someone Else, Something Else, No One Else, etc. and Everyone Else … since getting everyone else was the goal in my dreams. I also had other websites, like a P.I.G. (standing for pretty, intelligent girl) website, where a lot of the male chauvinist pigs got put.
The internet of my dreams is basically a way to classify all those I’d met, or supposedly befriended, in my life and dreams. My subconscious self supposedly became somewhat of a “Dream Weaver.”
It’s a long and interesting story that goes on, and I can tell it largely in the lyrics of music, as if “he’s killing me softly with his song, singing my life with his words.” It’s largely a love story, except the psychology/psychiatry crap … “all dreams are psychosis” ??? No, all dream, and that’s normal … even for us “beautiful dreamers.”
Hopefully that’s enough for you to get the gist of how the internet of my dreams works … “the rest is still unwritten.”
But like many around me, I am “living the dream” (and formerly was living the nightmare of psychology/psychiatry).
But mine is a dream about how we are all going to save ourselves from the societal mess, in which we find ourselves. So it is a hope and love filled dream. Keep the faith, pray to God.
Interesting, and thought provoking blog, Alex. Thank you, I may go pull out that old Foucault book on my bookshelf, that I likely read long ago for some philosophy or religion class.
But wow, No One, there is so much more research for me, and no doubt all of us, to do. Thank goodness for the real internet, although we must hope and pray these days, that the truth is not erased from it.
It is bizarre that my dreams are set up like the internet, with lots of websites. But isn’t it even more bizarre that two of my supposed nicknames – within the internet of my dreams – are a ‘No One,’ and a ‘No One Else,’ websites? It’s good to be a perpetual learner and researcher … in one’s waking hours … and when one is dreaming “the impossible dream.”
We likely are good friends within our dreams, No One.
“Therapy” fails white women in the US, too. “Psychiatry has a long history of oppressing women and minorities.” But that is exactly why I’ve been trying to educate minority children to learn to use the creative side of their brains, as well as trying to educate black adults about the truth of psychiatry … much to the dismay of a paternalistic, likely computer hacking, white psychologist’s wishes.
Beatrice, Inner Fire sounds wonderful, I’m so glad you are forming an LLC and starting to educate ‘psychiatrists and other prescribing practitioners’ about your healing process, and how to wean people off the psych neurotoxins.
I completely agree, anger is a justifiable emotion involved in psychiatric drug withdrawal, since we were systemically lied to by doctors, who’d promised to ‘first and foremost, do no harm’ – but did nothing, except defame and harm.
I agree, art is a wonderfully healing activity – albeit my artwork is “too truthful” for those “mental health” workers who want to “maintain the status quo.” I also found biking and gardening in nature, to be very helpful during my healing journey.
Dancing, too, was helpful when I was dealing with my drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis – since one’s gotta get that extra energy (‘Godspeed,’ as it felt to me) out, somehow … How insane it is for the psychiatrists to believe locking up a person who is manic in a windowless room, denying them water, and “snowing” them, is the best way to deal with a drug withdrawal induced mania. That’s the opposite of what’s helpful.
And getting one’s legitimate anger, at the betrayal, out is also helped by journaling and sharing our healing journeys here on MiA. Please forgive my legitimate anger over the past years, MiA, but thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
God bless in your endeavors, Beatrice, and I’d love to check Inner Fire out sometime. Do you ever look for like minded artists, with psych drug withdrawal experience, to help in your program? Perhaps having a visiting artist program might be an idea, given the high percentage of people, who are artists, that share their stories here on MiA?
“we identified several concerning examples of causal language being paired with biologically reductionist statements that are unsupported by scientific evidence. For example, ‘[Depression] is a chemical imbalance in your brain that needs to be treated’ (Johns Hopkins University), or, ‘It is believed that chemical changes in the brain are responsible’ (MedlinePlus). It is worrying that such unsupported statements are presented as objective fact by medical authorities.”
I agree, the systemic psychologic / psychiatric “chemical imbalance” LIE is problematic.
“to reimagine psychological science as a justice-making endeavor,” the psychologic industry would both need to stop functioning as a funnel into the scientific fraud based psychiatric industry … as well as end their “dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” faustian systemic child abuse and rape covering up deal with the mainstream religions.
Thank you for speaking out against pilots taking the dangerous antidepressants, Gretchen, Kim, David, Charles, and MiA. The antidepressants make you stupid, or can make one crazy, “psychotic,” etc., when on them.
And they can create decades long bizarre adverse withdrawal effects, when taken off them.
For those, within the so called “mental health professions,” and mainstream medicine, who still don’t know … “brain zaps,” caused by improper discontinuation of a fraudulently claimed “safe smoking cessation med,” can cause decades of “brain zaps.” And none of the psych neurotoxins cure “brain zaps.”
Please wake up, scientific fraud based DSM “bible” billers.
The psych drugging of children is deplorable, and needs to end. But the pediatricians, at least some when confronted with the truth about the psych drugs, don’t want to stop psych drugging the children, “because it’s too profitable.”
This is the first time I’ve ever read the word mishiguene. It’s a hard word to look up online, to find a pronunciation.
Once I heard it pronounced properly, I knew the word … and had rather fond memories of the word. My Jewish childhood friends’ parents must have jokingly called all of us wild children running through the woods mishiguene, when I was growing up … not surprising.
Glad you escaped the insanity of today’s “mental health” system, Alan. And thank you for sharing your story.
And the so called “bipolar” treatments can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Glad you escaped the insanity of today’s psychiatric “system,” Krista. And I will say, upon my second reading of Bruce’s blog, he really did nail the nefarious nature of the DSM “bible” billing “system.”
And I will say, when trying to help a loved one who was very “psychotic,” I did run into a young hospital psychiatrist – who actually confessed that he too, was a critical psychiatrist. I personally found the trick to getting respect from doctors, to be pointing out the medically known issue of anticholinergic toxidrome.
Since both the antidepressants and antipsychotics are anticholinergic drugs … medically known to create “psychosis.” And all doctors are taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school.
So keep the faith, maintain your hope, since I think more of the younger psychiatrists are wising up … if nothing else, out of being confronted with the medical reality of the iatrogenic harm, mainstream psychiatry as a whole, is systemically committing.
Thank you, Leigh, for sharing Mel’s story. I think it’s really important to hear the background stories of those stigmatized / defamed and neurotoxic poisoned by psychiatry and mainstream medicine … especially given the magnitude of defamation of all those claimed to be “mentally ill” in the mainstream media, and by the psychologic and psychiatric industries – those industries which systemically defame their clients with “invalid” DSM disorders, instead of confessing that their drugs themselves, can cause violence and suicides. Pardon my continuing appall.
Nonetheless, your daughter sounds like she was a wonderful young lady, I’m so sorry she had the misfortune of getting caught in the psychological/psychiatric/mainstream medicine’s web of neurotoxic poisoning and blasphemy of patients. But it is hard to escape “the system” … so I empathize with your beloved daughter.
And from one loving mother to another, my condolences to you on the loss of your beloved and wonderful daughter. Oh, by the way, you too, could be defamed and neurotoxic poisoned by the psychological and psychiatric industries, for grieving too long
… so I’d stay away from the DSM “bible” billers. How absurd and insane it is for some people in society to believe it is their “job” to nose themselves into innocent others’ lives, and defame and drug them, for the human right of grieving a loved one?
The DSM is “invalid,” and in ways, downright absurd and insane. Thus, it’s way past time to stop using that “bible” of blasphemies. Again, please pardon my disgust at the DSM “bible” biller’s procrastination on the inevitable … “the truth shall make you free.” Wake up. Come to grips with the reality that your billing code “bible” is bogus, except that the psych drugs can create the symptoms of your “invalid” DSM disorders.
But blessings to you on your healing journey, Leigh. And forgive my well deserved harsh, albeit scientifically well backed (see my prior comment links), constructive criticism of the “mental health” industries.
Thank you for this, Ann, and thank you for the links. Thankfully, I’m not trying to wean anyone off the opioids. But my mom has been in a lot of pain lately (due largely to advanced age), so I gave her some recommended alternatives, which she’s not currently trying. Who knows? Maybe mixing things up a little will help?
I do agree with you, “Just like I think psychiatrists should know how to help their patients taper. I still believe that, and with so much research available, it shouldn’t be up to patients to find their own path out of pain and drug use.”
Given the fact that ACEs are the number one actual cause of most psychological distress, and the psychologic and psychiatric industries want to “treat” all distressed people. Perhaps it’s past time for those industries to be able to honestly bill for “helping” child abuse survivors? Right now, they can’t.
But this would mean that the psychologic and psychiatric industries would need to stop denying and covering up child abuse, especially for their pastor “partners.” It’s past time to end “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions.” Since, of course, profiteering off of covering up child abuse is actually illegal.
Thank you for sharing your story, Carmen. It’s a really important reality which needs public awareness, especially given the huge number of children who are being force drugged with the psych drugs. Thank you.
“One study found that symptoms persisted after children were reunited with their families. Some children who were reunited with their parents exhibited behaviors such as crying, loss of appetite, nightmares, difficulty sleeping, and recurring feelings of fear.”
As a mother whose psychological medical records state that my former psychologist wanted to steal my children from me, on like my second appointment with her. This ‘Don’t remove … kids from their families” message needs to be conveyed to the entirety of the “mental health” industries … and it shouldn’t be a message only about immigrant children.
But my former psychologist’s entire goal was actually covering up child abuse for her pastor, I eventually learned, from all my family’s medical records. And this is a systemic problem known as “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” according to ethical pastors of another religion.
I, and my entire family, had to leave our ex-religion due to this systemic faustian deal / “partnership” between the pastors and psychologists. One may not speak out again any kind of child abuse in the ELCA churches today, without being attacked by a child abuse covering up psychologist.
How shocking, loving mothers speak out against the abuse of children, including the psychological and psychiatric industries’ systemic abuse of millions of children.
“It’s troubling that the potential link between antidepressants and violence continues to be ignored by many psychiatrists,” and others, like law enforcement.
I was attending a church in a community which had a very high, high school suicide rate. And these suicides were violent suicides, like jumping in front of trains and lighting oneself on fire. There were something like 8 violent high school suicides during the time my children were in middle and high school. I later spoke with a police officer about the issue, and he pretended he knew nothing about the problem.
I knew those violent suicides were a result of so many children being put on the psych drugs, from personal experience, and as a psychopharmacological researcher. The whole situation was heartbreaking, for the children, and for us legitimately concerned mothers.
I agree, “Patients deserve full transparency about the side effects of their treatments,” instead of denial, which is the norm now. Thank you, as always, for speaking the truth, Dr. Gøtzsche.
It is really difficult to deal with the mainstream medical community, who seems to be totally in bed with psychiatry’s iatrogenesis for profit, and nefarious reasons (at least in my case, and seemingly systemically) … once one’s already dealt with psychiatric iatrogenesis.
What’s so difficult about garnering insight into the “causative relationships between medications and outcomes,” when you were likely taught about what drug classes cause anticholinergic toxidrome (and its insideous symptoms) in med school?
Thank you, as always, Bruce, for your insightful articles. Please stop neurotoxic poisoning the children, et al, doctors.
“SAMHSA officials said they saw the increase as a positive development, citing efforts to normalize and destigmatize seeking out mental health treatment.”
How incredibly sad, SAMSA has sunk so low. Given the fact their DSM “bible” was debunked by the former head of the NIMH and the primary editor of the DSM-VI, in 2013 and 2010.
Thank you for sharing your story of protracted drug withdrawal, Tomasz. Mine was quite similar, although in one way, sort of the opposite odd issue. I haven’t even been able to read through my journals from back then, because it was so tough to read for me – one of these days I’ll try again. God bless, and thank you for working to help get others off of psychiatry’s neurotoxins.
They didn’t “promise us a rose garden,” but they did promise to “first and foremost do no harm” … yet psychiatry did the opposite. It’s shameful.
“He basically argues that we unconsciously normalize childhood experiences of mistreatment, neglect, disappointment, and invalidation because we have to adapt to the limitations of parents and caregivers inasmuch as that’s all we know.”
Not to mention, the DSM deluded psy industries can NOT even bill to help child abuse survivors.
… so Freud was part of a systemic, and continuing, paternalistic system of covering up child abuse, thus they are people who perpetuate generational family disfunction.
“… that’s all we know,” so what makes you “professionals”? Certainly, I know the psy “professions” are now claiming ignorance of the common adverse and withdrawal effect of the drugs they force on innocent others.
Finally admitting that the antidepressants are dangerous for young women of child bearing age … Combined with the knowledge of the common symptoms of ‘antidepressant discontinuation syndrome’ (withdrawal) … This really does call for a rethinking of the bad, but relatively new habit, based upon their avarice (according to one pediatrician I spoke with, “it’s too profitable to stop psych drugging the children”) … Of the medical community in their continuing to psych drug, for profit, little children and young adults.
Thank you for helping to point out that this greed (and other nefarious reasons) inspired psych drugging of our children, by our medical community, is both immoral and unwise, Peter.
Thank you, Micah, lots of insightful information you point out about the … “lack of insight” by today’s seeming “witch hunters” and Pharmkia forcing DSM deluded “mental health” workers of today.
So much of your drug withdrawal experience resonates with mine – “All was connected. Synchronicities were off the charts.” A cover up of child abuse. Sadly, we do have a huge societal problem with many children being abused and trafficked – all sorts of horrible stuff. And the psy industries can not even bill to help child abuse survivors, according to the DSM. Thank you for sharing your story, Nicola, and I’m glad you’re finally happy to be alive.
Both can be created with the antidepressants and antipsychotics, and other psych drugs. We here at MiA have destroyed the “sacred symbol” of psychiatry, medically, at least.
But since too many American psychologists want to “maintain the status quo,” largely since they’re not actually medically trained doctors, nor psychopharmacology researchers.
But this means, the psychologists should never be psychologically misdiagnosing anyone with anything considered to be claimed to be a “life long incurable [DSM] disorder.” The psychologists need to stop functioning as a funnel into the psychiatric iatrogenic illness creators.
“Hyperbolic tapering, including stabilisation on the dose if symptoms occur” does seem to be the internet censuses approach to withdrawal from the psych drugs.
My psychiatrist weaned me off his neurotoxins over three years, after he stopped listening to the lies of my former psychologist, and blamed her for the misdiagnosis of “brain zaps” as “bipolar.” But none of the doctors apparently even knew that withdrawal from the “safe smoking cessation meds” could cause “brain zaps” until 2005.
But what is “professional” about claiming one is ignorant of the systemic sins of one’s industry? And what is ethical about all doctors claiming to be ignorant about anticholinergic toxidrome, when they were all taught about it in med school?
I’m not surprised, it’s not too far from my experience either. One of my former doctors was actually arrested and convicted by the FBI in 2016. He was having lots of well insured people medically unnecessarily shipped long distances to himself, admitting them with – according to my medical records – a non-existent “chronic airway obstruction.”
Then he had his psychiatric partner “snow” the patients, so they could profiteer off of doing unneeded tracheotomies on people for profit … thankfully I avoided the unneeded tracheotomy. But that psycho psychiatrist illegally harassed me for years, by fraudulently claiming I was her “out-patient,” according to health insurance companies, and harassing phone calls from her lackeys, even after I’d moved out of state.
But I agree, most lawyers are neglecting to do their jobs … when it comes to the suing the psychiatrists. I couldn’t find a lawyer either.
“They also found that, across diagnoses, women were more likely to improve in the placebo group than men. This was true even after accounting for gender differences in diagnosis (since more women were found in the depression and anxiety groups). They were unable to explain this finding.”
It could be due to the fact that women tend to be targeted more than men by the paternalistic psychiatric and psychological industries. Plus, since the psy industries tend to target woman and men that were survivors of abuse or trauma. Whereas, they tend to target men who they consider “dangerous,” which a state of “psychosis” appears to be. It’s likely targeting women, in my case, for merely knowing innately that the wrong people were in charge, just after 9/11/2001, is unwise? Thankfully, I’m no longer the only one who sees this.
I initially had trouble too, Marie. I had to change my password, but since I’ve had to change all my passwords recently – due to one or more people hacking into my phone and computer – I’d forgotten it. So I had some trouble initially, but eventually I got in.
The magnitude of the never ending psychiatric / big Pharma propaganda really is shameful. Add one more to your list of people who was harmed by an antidepressant / non-“safe smoking cessation med.”
“Reframing PDP as a unique condition is a typical example of condition branding.” Yes, and despite such being typical for big Pharma and psychiatry, it is shameful they’re both still behaving in this manner … but too many have yet to be arrested for their systemic crimes, so of course the systemic corporate and industry crimes continue.
“Other drugs used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease have also been associated with psychosis, such as dopamine agonists and anticholinergics.” Yes, the anticholinergics (including both the antidepressants and antipsychotics) can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
Not to mention the anticholinergic drugs can also create akathisia and dyskinesia (a movement disorder – which looks like Parkinson’s to doctors).
I know because I’m reasonably aware of my grandmother’s medical history. She was, according to my family, “psychic,” and briefly mistreated with Stelazine about 60-70 years ago. And then she was quickly taken off that neurotoxic poison because she’d supposedly developed “Parkinson” symptoms (which was likely dyskinesia).
And there’s a really big difference between being “psychic” and “psychotic.”
It’s sad today’s “mental health professionals” are defaming people’s dead grandmothers, who they’ve never met, merely to rationalize their beliefs in their “invalid” “life long incurable genetic” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisonings of innocent humans.
But I do know that was “unethical” defamation of my beloved grandmother, that all my “mental health professionals” did. Not to mention even a subsequent “mental health” doctoral thesis interviewer, who defamed my beloved grandmother, in her doctoral thesis paper.
Please give up your beliefs in your “invalid” “life long incurable genetic” DSM disorders, “mental health professionals.” And take the time to learn about the common adverse and withdrawal symptoms of the psych neurotoxins … those who call yourselves “mental health professionals.”
Oh, all distress caused by the world wide distressing event of 9.11.2001, was blamed upon a “chemical imbalance” in my brain alone … when I was picking up my and my family’s medical records in 2005, including from my child abuse covering up psychologist, and according to my innocent child’s medical records.
The current “mental health system” does the opposite of actually “helping” people, too often, sadly.
Do you get money from the TAC? And “you do not speak for everybody” either. But I totally agree, “Certainly, your case and others like it deserve to be rectified.” Yet they haven’t been yet.
I recently helped a loved one heal from a bad heart drug cocktail being abruptly – but appropriately – withdrawn, albeit without an appropriate alternative heart med being introduced, plus also likely “alcohol encephalitis.”
My loved one was stabilized, and has been doing fairly well, since last fall, by being given a low dose of lithium, and largely … but not completely … getting off the alcohol. He’s now off the lithium, albeit I don’t know for certain if we’re out of the weeds yet.
I know, from my beloved grandmother’s and my personal experience, that my family does not react well to the anticholinergic drugs, which seem to be the “gold standard treatment” for all “psychotic” people, in the ER’s.
But if a low dose of lithium can be used to stabilize the most “psychotic” person I’ve personally ever seen, and I think the ambulance driver had ever seen (albeit, my loved one wasn’t violent).
Maybe the psych “professionals,” and ER doctors, should start to calm down the non-“dangerous” “psychotic” people, with something milder and more natural than the antipsychotics and other anticholinergic drugs? Since the anticholinergic drugs (which includes the antidepressants and antipsychotics) are known to actually create “hallucinations” and “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome?
As one who ran art and S.T.E.A.M programs to help educate middle class and underprivileged students. I agree, the psych neurotoxic poisoning of the American children, is child abuse. Good luck in your run for Congress.
Thank you as always, Dr. Peter, for speaking the truth. American propaganda is out of control, too.
“Tea said she wanted to interview me, but I shall decline. It can only go wrong.” I hope you will rethink this, because if you give Tea some information to research into first, and say you’ll allow her to interview you, after she properly educates herself with the “alternative,” albeit, truthful view. It may go better than you think?
“But journalists? They must be among those with the lowest intelligence of all trades.” Well, I personally think that’s likely the psychologic industry – since I think they used to be the only industry that could get into grad school, without taking the GRE, albeit maybe I’m wrong about that, and that no longer seems to be the case.
Nonetheless, one journalist is somewhat my hero of mine, since he’s the one who pointed out the actual iatrogenic etiology of my “bipolar” misdiagnosis. But he seems to be modest enough to have people, rightfully, and even he is now pointing out systemic failures, within both the medical pharmaceutical industries and big media.
And, as a former economics and marketing major, I will say, both those industries are corrupted also. Just check out my favorite economics professor’s pointing out of the fraud of Keynesian microeconomic theory in his book:
My condolences to you on your loss, Carly, and thank you for sharing Joey’s story and videos. I completely agree, “There needs to be more informed consent with these medications.”
Especially since the psychiatric and psychologic industries have been blatantly lying to us for decades, and now are claiming innocence, via ignorance. Do tell … why should people now claiming innocence due to their ignorance, be able to call themselves “professionals”?
I love the last picture of Joey, it really emanates his charm. But it brings a tear to my eye, when I read about psychiatry’s and psychology’s recent murders.
Please stop neurotoxic poisoning children, psychologists, psychiatrists, and mainstream doctors … including the pediatricians, who can’t stop neurotoxic poisoning the children … “because it’s too profitable.”
“the authors emphasize the need for evidence-based trauma therapies and interventions that are widely accessible so as to not exclude the most vulnerable populations that may need treatment the most.”
For goodness sake, today’s DSM “bible” billing “mental health professionals” can’t even bill to help child abuse survivors today. Why don’t the “mental health professionals” start by allowing themselves to actually honestly bill to help child abuse survivors first?
Or better yet, since what is actually helpful for a child abuse survivor to heal, is getting him/her away from the abusers, treating an abuse survivor with love, mutual respect … and justice – none of which the “mental health” industries seem capable of doing. Quite to the contrary, today’s “mental health professions” are basically a multi-billion dollar – primarily child abuse covering up – group of industries.
… But a child abuse survivor can heal, and go from remedial reading in first grade (after the abuse), to getting 100% on his state standardized tests in eighth grade, to graduating from university Phi Beta Kappa, in addition to winning multiple psychologic university and civic awards since then.
So it’s very important that the “mental health industries” end their systemic “dirty little secret of the two original educated professions'” faustian “partnership” with the mainstream religions. And get out of the child abuse covering up business, for those paternalistic religions.
And please stop incorrectly assuming all child abuse survivors – and their legitimately concerned mothers – need “mental health treatment,” or are stupid, or “fictional” – scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers and neurotoxic poisoners.
I agree, Robert Whitaker did an excellent job of pointing out that the antidepressants and ADHD drugs can create the “bipolar” symptoms, in ‘Anatomy of an Epidemic.’ We donate to MiA almost every year, in thanks for Robert’s research findings, and his honest reporting.
But I’ll repeat, once again, my research findings … which are relevant, Neil, to your concerns of “schizo” diagnoses, and “psychosis,” in general.
The antipsychotics / neuroleptics (as well as the antidepressants, since they’re also an anticholinergic drug) can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia” (including “psychosis”), via anticholinergic toxidrome.
“Portraying mental illness in exclusively genetic terms may perpetuate stigma, encourage discrimination, and harm the mental health of people living with psychiatric diagnoses.” Especially since such claims are a blatant lie, and doctors really shouldn’t be blatantly lying to their clients, or their clients’ families.
I think the Covid measures / gas lighting have made all American children, child abuse survivors now (wearing a mask in school for years, for example).
And since some “mental health professionals” have been systemically betraying child abuse survivors, and their families, for over a century.
And because the DSM deluded “mental health professionals” can’t even bill to honestly help child abuse survivors, according to their own “invalid” DSM “bible.”
I’m quite certain there is a need for someone – other than the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals” – to help our society’s child abuse survivors.
As the mother of a child abuse survivor – who did heal and graduate from university Phi Beta Kappa, because I got my child quickly away from a child molester, and I eventually [on 6.6.06] closed down a “school for gifted children,” that had a pedophile on their school board. And I was also able to keep my child away from those who wanted to profiteer off of covering up child abuse (a “social worker” who wanted to drug my child, based upon her lies, because my child got 100% on his state standardized tests in 8th grade, and since the public school was “not equipped to deal with the smartest children,” as was eventually confessed to by my child’s school principal).
I’m quite certain love is the answer … not a scientific fraud based, for profit only, scientifically “invalid” “mental health industry.” And child abuse does NOT cause the “invalid” DSM disorders, which does seem to be the direction the, likely justifiably embarrassed,” DSM deluded “mental health” researchers are going.
My wonderful son recently won another award, as a “mover and shaker” in his neighborhood. Neurotoxic poisoning all intelligent child abuse survivors is NOT the answer, as systemic, child abuse covering up, “mental health professionals” all told me.
“The children are our future,” is the truth, and love … not greed … is the cure.
All people, of all countries … including all Americans … need to stand against “mainstream psychology,” and their scientific fraud based “psychiatric,” DSM “bible” masters.
My condolences to the indigenous people of America, for the horrendous and systemic crimes committed against them, by America’s scientific fraud based, so called, “mental health professionals.”
“I feel grief about, and want to acknowledge, the patients I may have unintentionally harmed while practicing unconsciously.”
There are so few psychiatrists who will apologize for the harm the DSM deluded psychiatric and psychologic industries are systemically doing. Thank you for apologizing.
And I agree, Jung’s theology is likely closest to the truth. I’ve got my own, wounded researcher and truth sharer, story … and it is about equating my conscious and unconscious selves. Ironically, brought about by being slowly weaned off the psych drugs, by my former psychiatrist.
Thank God, for the psychiatrists who are actually slowly, and with respect for their patients’ opinions, weaning people off the psych drugs.
Thank you for sharing your and your wife’s experience, Sam. You do know how to make a lady cry. If ever you and your wife decide you want to meet in person, the offer’s still open, please do let me know.
Amy, that was a beautiful interview and book review, you were so empathic and understanding. God bless, to Deborah Kasdan and her family … and I will say, it’s sad how much our paternalistically set up systems want to destroy the strong “big sis’s” of our society.
Thank you for all you’re dong, Christine. Please tell us how we may help you. Most definitely, ending the forced and coerced psych drugging of children, and innocent adults, is imperative.
For goodness sakes, my former religion’s pedestrians and psychologists, et al (like the owners of the ELCA hospitals, which is the ELCA religion) think such crimes against children are “too profitable” to end.
Especially, given the reality that psychiatry has yet to confess that their ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the ‘bipolar’ symptoms … resulting in an iatrogenic “bipolar epidemic,” in America.
And the psychiatric, and their psychological industry “partners,” have largely, collectively yet to confess to the scientific fraud of their DSM “bible” billing system. Albeit, thank you to those within those industries, who are speaking the truth!
But it also needs to be confessed that their “antipsychotics” can create both the positive and negative symptoms of, so called ‘schizophrenia,’ via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder.
– So, the “ADHD,” “depression,” “bipolar,” and “schizophrenia” “disorders,” are all “curable” “disorders” … if you can safely get off the psych neurotoxins – which is NOT necessarily easy.
But, as I painted in 2005, we are living in an upside down and backwards America. Let’s hope and pray we may bring about a better world for all … some day, and soon.
Thus, I do so hope, the “Feb. 1 proposed legislation to temporarily exclude individuals with a sole underlying medical condition of mental illness until 2027” is enacted.
But, as one who was misdiagnosed with three so called “mental illnesses,” within three days, by three different – greed and malevolent child abuse and easily recognized iatrogenic illness profiteering inspired doctors. I know excluding all individuals with any, and a myriad of so called “mental illnesses, is unwise.
So let’s hope and pray the Feb 1 “proposed legislation” prevents Canadian doctors from mass murdering the innocent people that psychiatry, psychology, and mainstream doctors have been fraudulently defaming with the “invalid” DSM “disorders,” for nefarious reasons, and for decades.
“aside from your censor adults beliefs,” should be changed from “aside from your censor adults’ beliefs,” to a change to respecting the well researched, legitimate concerns of adults, and loving moms.
As one who is being censored from pointing out that the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of so called “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder – by all but MiA, but MiA is not making this sad reality more clear.
I’m rather saddened that your blog ends with your belief that the need to further censor all, is a good idea.
Albeit, as a mom who refused to give my children smart phones at a very early age – and has two children who are doing quite well (one was a Phi Beta Kappa recipient, who is now getting an another award, for his local community activism; and the other just had a successful presentation of ideas, regarding his doctorate).
Albeit, I will admit, both my children would be considered to be within a “marginalized community.” Albeit, so would I, since I am a mother who stands 100% against the systemic child abuse covering up crimes, of the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals,” and their religious “partners.”
There are an awful lot of people who have had spiritual journeys / “emergencies,” etc. misdiagnosed as psych symptoms. I, for one, had a dream about being ‘moved by the Holy Spirit’ (and ‘brain zaps’), misdiagnosed as ‘bipolar.’
Yet both my subsequent anticholinergic toxidrome induced ‘psychosis,’ and my ‘drug withdrawal induced manic psychosis’ were of a Spiritual nature.
But as a “case manager serving several adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders,” I do so hope you know that the antidepressants and antipsychotics can both create “hallucinations” and “delusions,” via anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning.
“Medication is seen as superior and essential despite inconsistent statistical evidence of its effectiveness or full disclosure of its harms, and as a result, all other interventions are limited.”
Disclosure of the harms of the so called “ADHD drugs” and “antidepressants.”
“The authors state the content in these textbooks directly contradicts those with lived experience, who report ‘their experiences are deeply meaningful and personal, contextualized within their life experiences, and not wholly negative.'”
Let’s hope and pray that some day, the psychologists realize their entire psychiatric DSM “bible” billing belief system is “invalid, thus a lie … or delusion, on their part.
And by functioning as mere funnels to the neurotoxic poisoning psychiatrists, the psychologists have been systemically harming, and aiding in mass murdering, innocent people for profit for decades.
“We suggest that regional experiments to test whether types of prevention work are cost-effective is a better use of resources than further randomized controlled trials comparing subtle differences in antidepressant medications.”
Gee, wasn’t all the wasted tax payer dollars spent on continued research into the “invalid” DSM disorders, and their neurotoxic psychiatric “treatments,” supposed to end ten years ago, according to the NIMH?
“There is a preponderance of evidence that broken attachment between infant and mother, childhood abuse, and neglect, along with other adverse childhood events, do strongly predict depression and other health status and struggles in adulthood.”
Don’t you think that it’s highly unethical that the psychologists, who claim to be the “profession” who helps child abuse survivors, can NOT even bill to help child abuse survivors?
Since this inability to bill to help child abuse survivors, results in psychologists denying and covering up child abuse, with their “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisonings.
And this “victim blaming” by psychologists and their psychiatric partners is NOT a small problem, it’s a systemic problem with all DSM “bible” billers … and the paternalistic, systemic child abuse covering up religions, who have “partnered” with them.
I hope this systemic, paternalistic problem with the DSM will be rectified soon, and the “dirty little secret of the two original educated professions’,” systemic, multibillion dollar, medical / religious child abuse covering up “partnership” will be ended.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” We have absolute corruption, of many powerful industries.
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“I propose that we rename them serotonin activity destabilizers, because they are indeed SAD!” I agree.
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The reality, however Blu, is that since all doctors are taught in med school – including the psychiatrists – that the antidepressants and antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, your adverse reactions to the psych drugs was not likely “paradoxical.” Not the mention the antipsychotics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
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Let’s be realistic. “Therapy-Speak,” should be properly called, debunked DSM ‘bible’ stigmatization / defamation.
Because continued use of the debunked DSM results in “a privatization of distress, where suffering is interpreted as a signal of individual dysfunction.” Well, in my personal case, my distress was caused by the societal dysfunction, that resulted in my – and the entire world’s – legitimate distress at the distressing 9/11/2001 event.
I guess that’s called political abuse of psychology and psychiatry, in America, huh?
If, “Their goal is not to reject therapy altogether, but to propose a form of practice that breaks with the individualizing and depoliticizing tendencies of the therapeutic turn,” then the psychologists need to break from use of their “invalid” psychiatric DSM “bible” … and stop functioning as nothing more than funnels into the “BS” psychiatric forced drugging, iatrogenic illness creating, system.
“More than simply naming problems, therapy-speak [DSM stigmatization-speak] provides tools to manage contradictions without confronting them.” Especially, when it comes to covering up child abuse, which has become, by DSM design, the number one actual function of both the DSM “bible” billing psych industries.
Therapy does “carry unacknowledged harms, especially for those experiencing mild to moderate distress” or none, thus the psych industries should learn to live, and let live, and leave innocent others alone. (It was less than a year ago that I finally got a criminal computer hacking psychologist, who I refused to hire, hopefully forever, out of my computer and phone.)
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It’s meant to be confusing to the masses, that’s why the medical community utilizes Latin and “therapy-speak,” instead of English.
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The psych “professions” do like to silence their clients. I had to leave my former psychiatrist once I realized he had very literally declared my entire life to be “a credible fictional story” in his medical records, as if I would believe his delusions.
Decades after I left that nut job psychiatrist, I was attacked by a psychologist, in a church, who tried to gaslight me into signing a thievery contract. Of course I didn’t sign it. But apparently my art work was “too truthful” for him, at least according to recovered emails I found, after learning this “creepy” psychologist, had been hacking into my computer for years.
And, yes, covering up child abuse is the number one actual societal function of the psych industries, and it’s all by design, according to their debunked DSM.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Thank you for sharing your story, Trudie. And God bless you on your healing journey.
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lol
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“behavioral health professionals now lead the response via mobile crisis teams, not law enforcement, such as the officers who handcuffed Isbell.”
Yet the “mental health professions'” goal is taking people to hospitals, for profit, just like the police, government, and paternalistic religions, who own the hospitals.
And I’m not generalizing, I’m speaking from personal experience, as one with medical evidence of eleven anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders, by the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, and his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, Dr. Humaira Saiyed, who deserves to be arrested, too.
I dealt with, if I recall correctly, just over $30,000 of fraud based “treatment,” paid for by my insurance company, for Kuchipidi and Saiyed’s anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders. But Kuchipudi and Saiyed were hoping to make their fraud from my medical insurance carrier over $120,000, with an unneeded tracheotomy … since I was fraudulently admitted to that hospital, with a non-existent “chronic airway obstruction.”
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As one who had a dream about being “moved by the Holy Spirit,” and medical evidence of easily recognized and complex medical iatrogenesis, misdiagnosed as “psychosis,” due to my legitimate distress caused by 9/11/2001.
I largely agree with most of what you say, if the latter part of your post stands for pro-dream analysis, and against the current Western “biologically reductionist” DSM deluded “mental health” industries’ claims all dreams, and me, are “irrelevant to reality,” and brain zaps are “psychosis,” within one or two appointments – which is the antithesis of treating one’s client, as they would like to be treated.
Thank you for sharing, Bei Linda Tang.
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Very true, they’re being used as weapons by pastors, bishops, and by dysfunctional families, et al.
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“Healing begins when we listen deeply—not just to symptoms, but to the whole story behind them.” I agree, but sadly that’s not what is happening in today’s “mental health” industries, any where in Western civilization. So I couldn’t agree more, the whole world needs a paradigm “shift” away from psychiatry’s “biologically reductive” DSM “BS.”
It would be wonderful if you could share some insights into what helps “mental health” symptoms in Korean medicine, here on MiA.
Just an FYI, my parents met at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thank you for sharing, and helping people get off of psychiatry’s neurotoxins, Daehyun.
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If I’m not incorrect, I recall from my research somewhere, learning that the entire way “Family Court” is structured is bad, for example, there are no juries. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
But, then again, the entire maritime legal system (as opposed to common law, which we are supposed to have in the US, but don’t) is convoluted. This guy does a good job of explaining this in his “foundational knowledge” section.
https://awarriorcalls.com
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Yes, the psych professions do target middle aged women. I went into a hospital due to a pulled muscle over my heart, it was caused by exercising with weights that were too heavy – which had nothing to do with depression.
I wasn’t allowed to leave that ER without some doctor coming up to me and asking, “Are you depressed?” I told him, “No, and I’m allergic to the anticholinergic drugs.” I sat there and watched him trying to comprehend what I had just said, it took him a minute. Then he just walked away, and I was allowed to leave.
I did a portrait of the last psychologist who medically unnecessarily approached me, in a church, not a medical setting. I call the painting, “Portrait of a Doctorate in Gaslighting.” He spent two years harassing (trying to gaslight) me into signing a thievery contract. You can see it in the art section of this website.
I’m glad some psychologists are finally starting to wake up, and starting to clean up the deplorable mess, the psych professions created.
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I pray to God our society returns to a semblance of sanity, and stops the mass psychiatric drugging of children, seemingly due to the greed of the psych industries specifically, but also because of the greed of the entire medical community, who has seemingly bought into the psychiatric industry’s “BS.”
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Don’t forget about those “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness” lies that the psych – professions spew.
And the fact that the psych professions don’t even know how to safely wean people off their neurotoxins, so even finding a psych professional to agree to wean you off, is hard.
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I agree, the DSM “bible” billing industries function as a “cult.” A “cult,” seemingly hell bent, on functioning to “maintain the status quo,” which is a “status quo” that is based upon bad systems, thus it is dysfunctional, and unjust.
I mean, in the US, we’re all supposed to believe “we are all created as equal,” yet the psych industries want to create and maintain a greed only inspired caste system, which protects the “professionals” while putting everyone else through a literal iatrogenic living hell, and steal more than everything from them … at least according to my medical, financial, and legal records, and research.
More ways to point out how the psych industries are un-American, thank you, Cat.
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I agree, No-one, it is nice that MiA allows philosophical commentary.
I haven’t yet looked into all your links, Tom, but thanks for the thought provoking commentary and links.
But I will agree, “depression does not cause a lack of hope,” unless it’s “clinical depression,” which too many within the psych professions claim is “a life long, incurable, genetic illness,” caused by a “chemical imbalance,” “just like diabetes” … all of which is blatant lies.
Meaning these psych professions are telling blatant lies to their clients, in order to steal people’s hope, for profit.
And I agree, “It IS a lack of hope [that can cause depression], and its cure, therefore, is obviously the restoration of hope.”
Which largely means, get away from the psych professions that are spewing hope destroying lies at you, and stop believing these systemic liars.
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I agree, “what many people need is not more diagnoses, but more dignity, resources, and economic security.” But I’m not certain I agree with your conclusion that cash transfers are a good idea.
As an ethical banker’s daughter, I’d say the real solution is to turn over the unethical globalist bankers'” table” / bad banking system … again … and, hopefully, forever.
But in the story of my dreams, God’s ultimate goal is a free society, like with no money whatsoever. Albeit with the understanding by all, that God (our Creator) owns this planet, as well as all the planets in our ever expanding universe, and that there is both wisdom and folly within all religions … except, the DSM “bible” billers’ ‘religion’ / book of stigmatizations – there is no wisdom in a book of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations – albeit I do admit the psychiatrists’ drugs can and do create the symptoms of their DSM disorders.
I was listening to this as I was reading your blog, and found a lot of wisdom within it, despite not actually being a believer in communism, since communism denies God’s existence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqQCF5NBrDQ
But forgive my lack of full knowledge, since I’m still on my spiritual journey, working my way towards wisdom … yet I do now understand neither I, nor any one else, will ever be able to understand everything about all things, in our waking hours … nor do I even want to.
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Not to change the subject, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which today’s “mental health” industries are innately un-American.
Like, for example, since the “mental health” industries are “partnered with” both the religions and the governments, that has destroyed our Bill of Rights claim that in the US, there should be a “separation of church and state.” The “mental health” industries have destroyed that right of American citizens.
And, for example, since most of the antipsychotics are dopamine antagonists, meaning they block dopamine. But since everyone basically knows dopamine is a “feel good hormone,” as is also serotonin, which the antidepressants block.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/feel-good-hormones-how-they-affect-your-mind-mood-and-body
Isn’t that actually evidence that the force and coerce drugging psychiatrists, et al have been intentionally taking away American’s right to “life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness,” for profit?
That’s just two examples I came up with for why psychiatry is un-American, but I’m sure there are many more examples. Please give me more examples of how forced psychiatric drugging is un-American, ladies and gentlemen of MiA.
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I, too, had the common symptoms of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome misdiagnosed (according to the DSM-IV-TR at the time). And, I agree, the brain zaps were bizarre, and a physical symptom that made you think it wise to go to a “head doctor.” What a mistake!
I’m sorry you were not able to wean off your antidepressant, Laura, but I’m glad you are stabilized on a low dose, at least that’s a harm reduction approach.
However, it is sad to me that so many of the nurses and non-medically trained “mental health professionals” are so ignorant, and uncurious, about the staggering iatrogenic harm that the psychiatrists have been perpetrating on humanity, for decades … especially the elderly and children.
What is it they say, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member,” so what does the current psychiatric debacle say about the leaders of Western civilization today?
But I’m glad you’ve chosen to start actually helping the people harmed by the psychiatrists instead, Laura.
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At least there are some good British psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against the fraud and harm of psychiatry. In the States, I think it’s likely much worse than in the UK, perhaps in part because we have too many “mental health professionals?”
For goodness sake, I had one psychiatrist – who was the psychiatric “snowing” partner of the now FBI convicted V.R. Kuchipudi – who spent years fraudulently listing me as her “out patient,” despite the fact I was never her “out patient.”
And a decade plus later I was also medically unnecessarily approached by a psychologist, who tried to gaslight me into signing a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with a conservatorship contract, that was disingenuously claimed to be an “art manager” contract – of course I refused to sign his appalling thievery contract. But I did find out a few years after my family left the church where we met this psychologist, that this psychologist had been illegally hacking into my computer for years.
So I agree with you the hate, of the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals” towards those of us mothers who stand against child abuse in my case, is most definitely blatantly obvious – to the point of being downright criminal behavior. And it was my love, in part for my young children who needed me, that helped save me, too.
Thanks for sharing, and God bless, Ekaterina.
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What the “psych” industries in the US have done is not nearly as “complex” as they like to proclaim. The “bipolar” diagnosis is a good example of this.
If one goes to a “psych professional,” (due, for example, for questioning “brain zaps,” which are a common symptom of withdrawal from the non-“safe smoking cessation meds” / antidepressants) and claims to not be depressed. Then the DSM “bible” billers just automatically “diagnoses” the person as “manic,” thus “bipolar” … as if there are only two states of being, which is ridiculous. The “bipolar diagnosis” itself is a “Catch 22.”
And how ironic, the “bad fix” on my broken bone doctor, did call himself “Dr. 22,” in my medical records.
Thank you for your research, ladies and gentlemen of Japan. Please don’t buy into, and work against, the “BS” and fraud of the Western “mental health” industries and big Pharma.
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“being an honest human being is not a profession!” isn’t that a sad truth of reality?
But us truth tellers, will not be so easily silenced.
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By the way, the evil ‘voices’ i got, were due to psychiatric anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings. And my ‘salvage one’ ‘voices’ were caused by my ‘drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.’
Wake up, non-medically trained, DSM deluded psychologists, et al.
But just because I can medically explain my “voices,” doesn’t negate my spiritual journey, it’s just DSM defamation of character.
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“clinicians who wish to respect individual meaning-making for voice-hearers might learn to hold multiple explanatory models that differ from their own [DSM] ideas and frameworks without applying an illness, deficit, or risk lens.”
Oh, but then the DSM deluded “psych professionals” can’t bill.
Sadly, my former DSM deluded, “holist, Christian, talk therapist,” who railroad me off to psychiatrists within two appointments, was 100% the opposite of “holistic” and a “talk therapist.” Since she turned herself into a neurotoxic poisoner, who ended up having her – not listened to – client’s entire life declared a “credible fictional story” instead. And no DSM “bible” believer may claim to be Christian, since one may not believe in the scientifically “invalid” DSM stigmatization “bible,” and the Holy Bible.
A person should be able to discuss a spiritual question/journey with a “holistic, Christian talk therapist.” But one may not, with a scientifically “invalid” DSM “bio, bio, bio” “bible” believer.
Thank God for the internet, I’m listening to this as I read and type this. And I did have a bizarre “seventh heaven” aspect to my mysterious, mystical, musical, drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEYSRzr96Go
For those of you who, like me, had a spiritual inquiry, misdiagnosed by a “bio, bio, bio” only believing DSM “bible” thumper … you might find that video creator interesting.
Back to the blog at hand, I agree, hearing voices groups should be encouraged and studied, even though I’ve never been to one, since there isn’t one close to me.
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Being innately shy, and being uncomfortable speaking in public (feeling such is apparently called by psychiatry “awkward”) are not actually “mental illnesses,” to anyone other than the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” billers … and perhaps, also, the teachers in charge of public speaking classes.
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Thank you for sharing that blog. Forgive my ignorance, but I didn’t see a comment section on Mad in Norway … and I’m not even certain what language is spoken in Norway, Norwegian? but of course.
The word for mad and the word for food must be similar in Norwegian? Or the translator is goofy, since many of the “Mad in …” websites are translated into English as “Food in.” This may be something that MiA wants to look into? I did report a couple of them as bad translations.
Nonetheless, in as much as I agree with much of what the author said. If anyone knows how to remind the Norwegian psychiatrists that, I think all doctors, were taught in med school that the neuroleptics/antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
But knowing this means, I agree with his conclusion that renaming the neuroleptic drugs, “antipsychotics,” was quite morally reprehensible, on the part of psychiatry and/or big Pharma.
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Perhaps it’d be wise to acknowledge the likely number one cause of “psychosis”? … the anticholinergic drugs, themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
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“When socially powerful professional institutions do not acknowledge their manifest limitations and seek to remedy their evident failures—thereby violating the fundamental spirit of scientific methodology [and justice within society]—we contribute to the erosion of public confidence in expert opinion.”
I agree.
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Just a reminder, in the US, separation of church and state is supposed to be the rule of law … but the psych industries (I’m pretty certain, illegally – in addition to many of the 501c3 organizations they’ve “partnered with”) bridged that gap.
Not to defame the truth tellers of MiA, which is a 501c-3 organization, that I do donate to. But the unrepentant Holy Spirit blasphemers of my ex-religion, are not innocent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcsGp9wzN48
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Thank you for the brief history of psychiatry, Randy. It helps explain why the DSM “bible” is actually being taught in the seminaries today, and part of why the younger generations are not going to the churches.
For goodness sakes, one cannot believe in a DSM “bible” of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations, while also believing in the Holy Bible, which is a book of wisdom, that’s message is largely about the need for love and mutual respect.
But I will point out that all this is unethical and unwise, on the part of the seminaries that actually believe in God, and want to bring the young people into their churches.
For goodness sakes, now I understand why none of the young “mental health professionals” – who are “partnered” with my ex-religion – ever bother to show up for church services. And now I understand why my mom’s former church is a dying, greying, church.
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Let’s hope and pray, Chris.
No offense, Sandra, but I think MiA’s film festival was in 2014. Sorry to always be pointing out psychiatrists’ flaws.
But, hey, my young son pointed out that Jesus’ theology had a “trick” to it, when he was only 7. That “trick,” of course, is I do have a right to treat others, as they have treated me (of course, with respect for God’s laws). And, my personal experience is that all psych workers “conspire” against their clients, especially mothers of child abuse survivors and child abuse survivors. And every “mental health” worker I’ve ever personally met, and mentioned that I have medical evidence of child abuse in my child’s medical records, has told me they want to neurotoxic poison my well behaved, intelligent, multiple award winning child.
All DSM “bible” deluded psych workers should get out of the schools and churches, especially until they may bill to help child abuse survivors, which they still may NOT do today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Best wishes on your book sales, Laura.
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But I will say, my loved one’s “psychosis” etiologies – and he is doing well now – had nothing to do with the psychiatric industry’s “invalid” “lifelong, incurable, genetic” DSM “bible” disorders.
Since his issues were related to his nurse practitioner’s inappropriately given bad drug interactions (although I didn’t catch those potentially deadly bad drug interactions initially either, and I did check), sleep deprivation, the death of his 21 year old beloved dog, and likely alcohol encephalitis.
So I still do stand in support of getting rid of the scientifically “invalid” DSM.
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Well, and being given the undeserved “right” to force drug, control, and play “judge, jury, and executioner,” to innocent others, seems to have allowed psychiatry and psychology to lose their own minds, with their undeserved and unchecked power.
Maybe we should get rid of the evil systems of control, that are attacking the innocent people (which are what the psych industries, et al, greed only inspired industries chose to become)?
And we should try to return to a just and free society instead?
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Ditto.
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It’s a complex subject, I will admit.
As one whose introduction to the psych drugs was by a, dangerously paranoid of a non-existent malpractice suit PCP, who wanted to cover up her husband’s “bad fix” on a broken bone of mine – which I’d call criminal abuse of psychiatry. And since my second opinion doctor was a psychologist who, according to her, and all my family’s medical records (and my later psych research), misdiagnosed me based upon her pastor’s and a pedophile’s wife’s lies. Well, since covering up child abuse is illegal, that was also criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And as one who had one of my force drugging hospital doctors eventually convicted by the FBI for having lots of patients medically unnecessarily shipped long distances to himself, then his “snowing” psychiatric partner massively neurotoxic poisoned people in the hope they would stop breathing, so they could do unneeded tracheotomies on people, for profit – a third form of criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And I was also attacked by another psychologist, decades after my escape, who tried to gaslight me into signing a contract that was a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with an appalling conservative contract, all disingenuously dressed up as an “art manager” contract – and use of those conservatorship contracts is one more form of criminal abuse of psychiatry/psychology as well, IMHO. Of course I didn’t sign the contract. Oh, but I did learn a couple years after that, that psychologist had been hacking into my computer, for years, which is also illegal.
Well, obviously I know the “right” to force drug people is being systemically abused by criminal doctors (and pastors, et al). But I did also have much more mutually respectful interactions with psychiatrists, after I’d researched into the psych industries for a couple decades.
I had a loved one who was more “psychotic” than anyone I’d ever seen, who did eventually need to be held against his will in a psych facility briefly. The psychiatrists I dealt with at that hospital were embarrassed that I’d dealt with the “bad fix” covered up with complex iatrogenesis. But they were kind enough to avoid the anticholinergic drugs, and got my loved one calmed down, and no longer psychotic, on a low dose of lithium, within about a week and a half. And my loved one was weaned off that lithium pretty quickly.
So, in as much as I know there is way too much forced psych drugging for nefarious reasons, I also know it’s not easy to deal with a large psychotic person oneself. So the legality and/or need for forced treatment is a complex subject, but the systemic corruption of the psych industries should be addressed, too.
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I’m pretty certain, those of us at MiA, are the ones saying “STOP” this. But we are the most defamed in society today.
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“The idea that human flourishing is intimately tied to the natural world is gaining traction across disciplines, offering a powerful counterpoint to dominant psychiatric models that isolate mental health from social, political, and ecological conditions.”
Yes, let’s hope the DSM deluded some day gain insight into common sense. As one who dealt with a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania, I will say, being in nature was helpful for me. And locking a manic person into a windowless environment is about the worst thing you can do.
So I definitely agree, “pro-environmental and sustainable behavior, aimed at preserving the environment, can be understood as benefiting both the environment and the individual.” Being in nature also helps when one finds oneself “manic.”
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Huh, that all sounds like false advertising, which I was told was illegal, back when I was getting my marketing degree.
And you’ll pardon me for pointing out the irony of you confessing this on a website filled with people who were harmed by your “misleading claims.”
Better late than never, I suppose. I’m glad you finally “got off the fence,” and ended your illegal false advertising. Someone should sue big Pharma for false advertising.
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“The findings suggest that a more trauma-informed, flexible approach to therapeutic goal-setting is urgently needed in school-based counseling.”
It breaks my heart that the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers are even in the schools, since the DSM doesn’t even allow them to bill for child abuse.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
“These findings resonate with previous research on young people’s perceptions of goal-setting, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach may not be suitable.”
Well, of course “a one-size-fits-all approach” is inappropriate.
“For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
Especially when the children are being defamed with the “invalid” DSM stigmatizations in “therapy,” which is what all of today’s DSM “bible” billers / psychiatrists / psychologists / social workers / CPS workers, et al do. And the insane social workers, who make up lies about the best and brightest, award winning, children of America, since the school districts are not actually “equipped to deal with the smartest American children,” are actually the DSM deluded / insane people. This is a societal problem.
“Additionally, clinicians must consider how their approach to goal-setting may inadvertently pathologize natural and contextually appropriate responses to life challenges.”
Well, since my personal experience with the reductionist, DSM deluded “bible” billers – many of whom I had to ask, in my “mean mom voice,” Does anyone here speak English? – is that they do not know how to treat innocent others in a manner, that they’d like to be treated.
“Ensuring young people feel heard, supported, and respected throughout their therapeutic journey is essential.”
Yet this is the opposite of what today’s DSM “bible” billers do. So we should get the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” deluded “mental health professionals” out of the schools.
“This study adds to mounting concerns that some evidence-based tools, while well-intentioned, may undermine the core principles of healing, especially when they are applied without sensitivity to context, culture, trauma, and identity. For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
I agree, let’s end the mass psychological and psychiatric drugging of children in schools, and the scientific fraud based psychologic defamation, with the “invalid” psychiatric DSM disorders, of children in our schools.
“In line with trauma-informed and harm-reduction frameworks, the authors call for a more collaborative, consent-based approach to goal-setting.”
Yes, the ending of all forced and coerced psychological and psychiatric drugging of innocent children should end … as should all such communications with our children.
“This study joins a growing body of research questioning dominant paradigms in school mental health.”
“the need for trauma-informed, context-sensitive approaches—ones that center lived experience, resist over-standardization (as the DSM deluded do), and take seriously the structural and cultural factors that shape young people’s emotional lives in and out of schools,” is needed.
Get rid of the “invalid” DSM.
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I agree, the psychiatric nurses should “establish and lead psychotropic drug deprescribing and discontinuation services.” One of my good friends is a retired nurse, who is now highly embarrassed by today’s medical community.
And it was, largely ethical nurses, who worked to save me, many thanks to them.
And the systemic betrayal of today’s psychiatric industry, of their “clients,” is appalling (see my last comment on this website, for the medical evidence of this comment).
Stand tall, and take control, nurses … the doctors have lost their way, due to their seemingly insatiable greed, and the insatiable greed of big Pharma and the insurance industries.
Maybe we should move back to a time where the doctors are actually working for their patients, instead of working for big Pharma, their hospital managers, and/or the insurance companies?
But we do need the nurses to stand up, and stop the systemic iatrogenic harm the psychiatrists are perpetuating. And I am grateful for the ethical nurses who helped me.
And, sadly, I do agree, “‘Psychiatric Drugs’ are ‘A Crude Form of Chemical Restraint.'” For goodness, sakes, the psychological and psychiatric industries have turned themselves into a bunch of systemic child abuse covering up satanists (again, see prior comments on this website for medical evidence of my legitimate concerns), of which I, of course, have both medical and legal proof.
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“Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical (remember, psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors, and must go through the same core training).”
And since we know “psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors,” and we can research and learn that all MDs are taught in medical school, about anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
We can garner insight into the fact that the psychiatric industry is an unethical aspect of the medical industry, that took the medical knowledge of how to make a person “psychotic” … which does harm their patients … and turned systemically harming their patients, into their “gold standard of care.”
What the psychiatric industry has done is so unethical, it’s hard to actually believe … but, sadly, it is the truth.
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Indeed, incorrectly assuming (and trying to brainwash) all their “clients” that they are “stupid, weak and timid” is a systemic problem for the DSM deluded “mental health professions.”
A systemic problem that makes an “a-s” out their “clients,” but also sometimes makes an “a-s,” out of the scientifically “invalid,” incorrectly assuming “mental health professionals” … and hopefully soon their entire, unGodly disrespectful, industry.
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I agree, it’s a great article, which successfully deconstructs psychiatry. Thank you, Chuck Ruby.
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” And, sadly, that does seem to be where we’re living.
I’m glad you escaped the insanity of today’s psychiatric system, and thanks for sharing your story, Rich.
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As one who has met Laura in real life, I will say Deleno is a kind and generous person, and agree “her haters would really look stupid if Delano found herself in a debate with one of them.”
But that may be because, I too, am a truth telling psychopharmacology researcher … who found the medical evidence that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
But I do understand the big Pharma funded mainstream media is now starting to behave, seemingly, as bad as the scientific fraud based, big Pharma deluded, “mental health professions.”
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“One secondary problem is that when psychiatry is used as a form of intervention by the government it violates the principle of separation of church and state because psychiatry operates as a satanic religion willing to sacrifice anybody and anything on the bloody altar of cold, hard cash.”
Sadly, I have to agree that’s what psychiatry has turned themselves into today. But it’s even worse, since numerous or all of our mainstream paternalistic religions have also “partnered” with the state, psychology, and psychiatry’s DSM “bible’s” “satanic religion.”
And, yes I agree, “we need a revolution,” albeit hopefully a peaceful one … and I do think the Triune God likely inspires the artists … and in their subconscience, all people.
Thus, the psychological industry dismissing the subconscious self, the Id, or whatever the psych industries choose to change the name of one’s dreams and subconscious self to be, was and is morally wrong.
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“If we come to view symptoms as representative of underlying psychopathology in need of our attention—as depth psychology does—then drowning out the voice of the psyche is contrary to the nature of the psyche itself.”
That’s exactly what my former DSM deluded psychologist did, by railroading me off to a psychiatrist within only two appointments, so the psychiatrist could also deny my dreams might have validity, and anticholinergic toxidrome poison me.
IMHO, the non-medically trained psychological industry really should go back to valuing their client’s psyches, including their dreams (like, for example, not claiming all dreams are “psychosis”). And they should divorce themselves from the scientifically “invalid,” systemic, neurotoxic poisoners of psychiatry.
I mean in reality right now, the psych industries are very literally “conspiring” against everyone in our society who is not considered to be a so called “professional;” so they may maintain a Ponzi scheme of a bad banking system, so they may maintain a failed pharmaceutical based “Rockefeller medical system,” so they maintain the appalling crimes of the maritime based legal system, so they may maintain “the status quo.”
When, in reality, it is the bad systems that need to be gotten rid of, and a lot of undeserved forgiveness is going to need to be given to those working within those bad systems. But God did point out in the real Bible that repentance, and especially changing from one’s evil ways, is needed … to fix society’s real problems.
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“authors Santiago Delboy and Linda Michaels (co-founders of PsiAN) surveyed over 1,500 adults across the United States. Their results suggest that people still want the kind of therapy that takes time, fosters deep understanding, and treats the whole person.”
Yet the “scientific fraud” based DSM “bible” based psychiatric / psychological, et al, deluded industries, went in the opposite direction.
But, since the scientific fraud based DSM deluded have already had their DSM be declared to be “invalid,” let’s hope someday soon those who work within those industries, may soon overcome their delusions of grandeur, that they are the judges of all of humanity, as opposed to that being God’s job. It’s “complex,” yet not that “complex” to those of us who know what is actually going on.
Let’s hope and pray, some day, that those of the “mental health professions,” who were unwisely given the role of playing “judge, jury, and executioner” to the masses … by our seemingly deluded governments and religions of Western civilization … someday understand the fact that God’s the ultimate judge, not the DSM “bible” billers … nor any government, nor religion.
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“In a way, evidence-based medicine has degraded clinical practice.” And “evidence based medicine” is largely a euphemism for “Rockefeller medicine.”
“What I mean is that with this idea that you have guidelines that apply to everyone, whereas it is the clinical judgment of the clinician who has to interpret those guidelines. But clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines, and it’s very dangerous.”
This is a very important confession by a medical professional … and seemingly, the possible failure of all of Rockefeller medicine, in the long run (we here at MiA may be the “canaries in the coal mine” of all of Rockefeller medicine).
And I found that psychiatry / psychology are so DSM deluded / clinically controlled / avarice controlled, that all they seem to do is incorrectly assume everyone who comes to them has a “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness,” with zero actual proof, while declaring all of a person’s real life to be “a credible fictional story.”
But I couldn’t agree more, “clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines,” in other words it means actually behaving like a person’s caring doctor. But this is particularly an issue in the “mental health” arena, since the current mainstream psychiatric DSM guidelines recommend anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning almost all their clients.
I highly recommend reading Rockefeller’s belief system and goals, since after doing such, one does start questioning the entirety of how the medical / pharmaceutical / insurance industrial complex is structured … like, for example, is it wise for any doctor to put an insurance company’s interests above their clients’ interests? No, but that’s how Rockefeller medicine is structured.
Oh, how convenient, Jimmy Dore and James Corbett touched on this subject in Jimmy’s interview with James today. (BTW, I highly recommend Corbett’s research and reporting, and Jimmy is at least sometimes funny, when reporting on the inconvenient truths.”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWzgeb8AVqA
Yet it is very sad that too many of today’s psychiatrists and mainstream doctors consider “not following orders, not following guidelines … very dangerous.” It has resulted in a disastrous and deadly “mental health care” system.
Thank you for this interview, Mr. Whitaker and Dr. Fava.
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“Two included studies found that indoor ALAN exposure was linked to manic symptoms in people with bipolar disorder.”
Well, since the “mental health professions” believe “all distress is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain” (despite their “chemical imbalance” theory being debunked decades ago), and “genetics” (despite having zero evidence of this), wouldn’t mania caused by light issues be considered a misdiagnosis?
“The authors note that past research has linked exposure to light pollution at early ages to younger ages of bipolar disorder onset.”
I’m pretty certain the appalling “childhood bipolar epidemic” was caused by the fact that our society didn’t used to psych drug children, and the iatrogenic issues pointed out in Robert Whitacker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic.” Although, I have zero doubt “artificial light at night (ALAN)” may be a part of the problem.
I agree, “Research into mood disorders in the post-modern era should not underestimate the effects of urbanization and should thus be aware of the detrimental effects of various sources of pollutants on the development and exacerbation of these conditions.” And that “the results of this review suggest how building more livable cities that protect public health should include eco-friendly lighting, alongside other factors, according to the principles of sustainability.”
But I will politely point out, as a 14 year member of the planning commission of my former village, that we did have light pollution issues written into our laws, decades ago. So, IMHO, this is, once again, having to point out the lack of common sense of our scientific fraud based “mental health professions,” to themselves.
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“No one in their right mind would think powerful substances would NOT affect developing fetuses.”
…except those who profit off of forcing and coercing them on to innocent others?
My question is, why weren’t these rat studies done, prior to the last several decades of forced and coerced drugging of humans? Shouldn’t the drug testing be done on the rats, prior to the human population?
Oh, that’s right, read Rockefeller’s writings, and goals ….
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Thank you, Robert and Giovanni, for acting as conduits of mutually respectful communication opportunities between critical psychiatry / psychology people and/or psych survivors, and the publisher and CEO of a possibly no longer truth telling medical journal.
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Thanks for all you have done, and do, Altostrata.
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Ladies and gentlemen of MiA, let’s all go out and request our libraries carry
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808605-strangers-to-ourselves
And Laura’s book
https://www.amazon.com/Unshrunk-Story-Psychiatric-Treatment-Resistance/dp/1984880489
from our local libraries. They sound like an intriguing couple books, and such is a benign thing anyone who feels like a dejected psych survivor could do, as too many of us here, were made to feel we were.
But please do buy the books, too, if you can afford them.
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“Russian roulette is not the same without a gun,” my subconscious self has been singing that for seemingly over a decade.. And it is a song about psychiatry’s iatrogenic harm, IMHO. But, of course, one can’t prove such. However, I do NOT believe God is ignorant of what is going on.
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Sounds largely what a truly informed consent form should say, for all psych “professionals” today. Thank you, Keith.
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Well Birdsong, thank Boans, since he’s actually the one who came up with the suggestion, which I’m just repeating, because I thought it was a good suggestion too.
I guess my addition of “Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books,” was my creative marketing of what I thought was a good idea of Boans, but my first college degree was a marketing degree.
Nonetheless, we should both say thanks to Boans. And hopefully critical psychiatry, et al, people will go start requesting critical psychiatry and survivor books, at their local libraries.
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Thanks for sharing, since I’ve yet to read Laura’s book, but I do thank Laura for her courage, strength, and ability, to get her book published by a mainstream publisher.
“I’ve come to believe those who want to shut down conversations critical of psychiatry and standard mental health treatment have their own agenda.” And I do agree, “it’s all about the Benjamins.”
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In general, the monied “powers that shouldn’t be” lost control of the narrative, with the onset of the internet. So they are now trying to take back their undeserved, under researched, and/or fraud based researched, power.
RIP, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. But an end to the supposed open dialogue on the realities of the psych industries, does also represent an end to any kind of true science within the psych industries. Especially given the fact that having an open dialogue is largely a necessity, upon which any real science is based.
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” … there’s no silencing the bell Laura has rung.” Let’s hope and pray.
As one who has met Laura in real life, and learned from meeting her that she’s a wonderful, empathetic, kind, truth seeking, and generous person … albeit I have yet to ask my local library to purchase her book so I may read it, and learn more about her journey.
Not to say people shouldn’t buy her book themselves, I may myself, but my bookshelves are getting pretty overfilled. But please do think about going and requesting her book at your local library, since that too could help her book sales (and our truth telling cause).
Although, at this late date, I’d say requesting Robert Whitaker’s, Moncrieff’s, Breggin’s, Gøtzsche’s, et al’s critical psychiatry books from your local libraries would be a good thing to do also, if they don’t already have them. Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books.
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” … Those who object must be ‘anti-bloodletters!’ Or flat earthers. Or Scientologists. Or anti-psychiatrists. There is no need to listen to them. We, the mainstream media, will not let psychiatry die in transparency.”
And us independent psychopharmacology researchers here say, let’s not let psychiatry die in transparency, let’s expose the psychiatric industries’ DSM lies … which are really big lies. And why the historically holocaust causing, continuingly harmful, scientifically fraud based psychiatric industry should likely die.
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I do agree we are seeing “the unraveling of what to me – has been a wide scale poisoning, of trusting people.”
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“A section on antipsychotics, for instance, cites studies that purport to show that people who take them fare worse than people who never take them or stop them. (This is misleading; people do not take them unless they have severe symptoms.)”
Is [this] a blatant lie as people are for sure put on antipsychotics without a single exhibition of psychosis.
Indeed it is a lie, since I was put on antipsychotics because a non-medically trained, child abuse covering up, psychologist thought all dreams are “psychosis.”
But when all who dream are “psychotic,” according to the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” believers, they’ve rendered their term “psychotic,” to be “irrelevant to reality” … just like the “mental health” industries’ DSM “bible” was claimed to be … way back in 2013.
Wake up, deluded DSM “bible” believers, please!
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Yes, I too, was misdiagnosed by a “holistic, Christian talk therapist” – who quickly railroaded me off to a neurotoxic poisoning psychiatrist – a child abuse covering up psychologist, whose medical records also prove she was a Holy Spirit blasphemer.
It’s hard today to be able to trust any doctor, including the ones who claim to be “holistic.”
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I have found younger psychiatrists – who are intelligent enough to know that their DSM “bible” was debunked as “BS” and “invalid” over a decade ago – who do agree they, too, are a critical psychiatry person. At least when politely approached by an independent psychopharmacology researcher.
So “you may be right,” but you “may be crazy”/wrong. Thus, despite the fact that most older psychiatrists did not give their clients the common courtesy of treating them in a manner in which they’d like to be treated. We here at MiA need to be respectful of the younger psychiatrists, who hopefully will clean up the mess that the elder psychiatrists created.
Oh, and as one who was defamed as “crazy,” in part, for noticing I could tell my life’s story in music lyrics, that reminds me of these music lyrics.
“You may be right
“I may be crazy
“Oh, but it just may be a lunatic
“You’re looking for”
But I do believe it is time to stop teaching psychiatry in the universities, and stop psych drugging the children. Psychiatry is a “scientifically invalid” industry, which just creates holocaust after holocaust.
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“Antidepressants in” ALL “Patients Increase Risk of Death.” So let’s hope and pray the “professionals,” who are handing these neurotoxins out like candy, some day learn this.
And a little reminder, “the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.” So neurotoxic poisoning the children is morally reprehensible, as is neurotoxic poisoning the elderly … but so is neurotoxic poisoning anyone. Wake up, doctors!
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“what I realized was that I was carefully groomed to disbelieve the people whose health I was trying to take care of.”
Isn’t that a truly shameful aspect of Rockefeller medicine? As a banker’s daughter, I’ll say the doctors should do some research into Rockefeller’s belief system.
“This is one of the most insidious things about the medical profession. We are subtly (or not-so-subtly) taught that we (doctors) know best, no matter what.”
Yet, now, most doctors are claiming ignorance of the common adverse and withdrawal symptoms of the drugs they prescribe.
“I’ve never listened more to my patients than I do now. I’ve never learned more from my patients than I do now. I am constantly learning, growing, and questioning every single day in discerning what step for someone to take next.”
And isn’t that a much more fulfilling way to “practice medicine?” At least as a fellow fan of perpetual learning, who also wants to help the majority, I would think so.
“It is a partnership, not a dictatorship, built on a solid foundation of mutual trust and respect.”
And that’s what all “medical care” should be, but you do point out why forced psychiatric drugging should be ended – although I do understand why such is a controversial subject.
Bottom line is, Jennifer, thank you for questioning, researching, actually respecting your patients, and choosing to be a psychiatrist who actively works to help people get off the psychiatric neurotoxins. We need more (if not all) psychiatrists doing such.
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“Freedom is explosive for a repressed person in the beginning, and may even be dangerous, but this is the energy of the organism bursting back through and it is these energies that are the energies of living – AND healing.” Very insightful and true, No-one.
That’s how I felt, once I’d been weaned off the psychiatric neurotoxins. That extra healing energy was probably, in part, due to a drug withdrawal induced “super sensitivity mania.” But it most definitely also had to do with being once again:
“Free at last, free at last
I thank God I’m free at last.”
https://genius.com/Martin-luther-king-jr-free-at-last-annotated
Gotta love a great public speaker and pastor, with whom I share a birthday. But it is sad that a religion named after Martin Luther is now “partnered with” the systemic child abuse covering up, control freaks, and scientifically “invalid” neurotoxic poisoners of the “mental health professions.”
And it’s also sad that our mainstream medical community deluded themselves into believing opioids were “safe pain meds,” and went off believing all the “BS” lies of the psychiatrists.
Pardon my continued disgust at the continuing modern day “psychiatric holocaust.” An old friend asked me to come to a celebration of life for her parents, so I had to return to my ex-religion. And in as much as it was nice to see some of my old youth group friends, none of whom attend that church now. It was very uncomfortable being around the systemic child abuse covering up, attempted thieving, old people who are running that beautiful old church into the ground.
But I agree,
“Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
and I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
and I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he.”
That is exactly what one does when they escape the satanic psychiatric system. And let’s pray us truth tellers “lead them all in the dance” that leads to common sense, and hopefully someday wisdom. I pray to God, for an end to our modern day psychological and psychiatric industries’ holocaust of millions of innocent humans.
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Another psychiatric “Whack a mole” issue?
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“I’ll be requesting my local library to obtain a copy.” That’s a good idea, Boans. I’ve requested my local library get me research papers that are hidden behind paywalls. Librarians are very nice, and they’ve been really accommodating.
But if a bunch of us critical psychiatry people all go to our local libraries and ask for Moncrieff’s, Levine’s, Whitaker’s, Breggin’s, and other critical psychiatry/psychology doctors’ books … and psychiatry/psychology survivors’ books … I think that’d be a great idea. Thanks, Boans.
And well said, regarding the rest of your comment. If it makes you feel any better, as one who is supposed to be an “architect” or “judge” according to 40 hours of unbiased psychological career testing, I’ve had God seemingly sending people to the “lake of fire” in my dreams, since 2015 (according to my brother, who was listening to me sleep talk).
Not that I personally think God should need a “lake of fire,” since He created the entire universe, so there are likely other less “advanced” worlds, that the evil souls of this planet can go to, to pay for their sins, in a eye for an eye manner. Which I believe is infinitely more just, than “sins of the father” justice.
Thus why would God ever bother empowering satan with some sort of eternal “lake of fire?” Instead, I prefer to think the “fire” may represent light, or an unveiling of the truth.
… And we are all going through an unveiling of the ugly truth, or a “great awakening,” via the internet. But who really knows all the answers … probably only God? Yet the bottom line is, I do believe God is actively preparing for whatever He plans to do, so maintain the hope, and I do believe He’s listening, and acting on your prayers, Boans.
Back to your initial comment, maybe MiA could come up with a list of books for us critical psychiatry people to start requesting our local libraries purchase? I know I’d like to read Laura Delano’s new book, too.
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Those of us who have been long time “wack a mole” commenters on MiA noticed decades ago, the need to point out psychiatry’s and psychology’s “wack a mole” problem.
You were given an antidepressant, which supposedly made you manic, thus you’re now “bipolar.” This type of misdiagnosis (according to the DSM-IV-TR at the time), thus malpractice, has happened to lots of us here at MiA.
“Wack a mole”
You’re supposedly “bipolar,” so you must be given huge amounts of antipsychotics, the “schizophrenia” treatments. Why the psych “professionals” believe this is appropriate, I still don’t understand, aside from their need to try to control and create iatrogenic illnesses, for profit, in innocent others.
Despite the fact that it’s already medically known – by all but the non-medically trained psychologists, and the rest of the non-medical researchers of the world – that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“Whack a mole.”
Oh, the entirety of the “mental health industry” is a “whack a mole,” iatrogenic illness creating system, with the goal of controlling and stealing from the rest in society (which I do have both medical and legal proof of) … thus it is the opposite of a system that actually helps their “clients.”
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Thank you for sharing your story, Phillipp. My personal experience with visiting Austria, is that the Austrian people are wonderfully kind and accepting. I hope your Mad Camp Europe goes well, and that there is a Mad Camp near me some time soon.
If you or Will Hall wants to have a partner in setting one up in the northeast of the US, I hope MiA will allow you and/or Will to have my email (albeit give me a heads up, since I’m better reached by text, and not always good about checking my massive number of emails). But I do have amazing national parks in my area, and so my area would be a great place to have one.
Mutual respect and love are the true root to healing. Sadly today’s DSM deluded “mental health” industries do 100% the opposite of treating others in a mutually respectful and loving manner. And that is not good for either the patients, nor the force drugging “mental health professionals.”
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I’m sorry you have been subjected to so much appalling psychiatric abuse and “torture,” Andrew. And I do pray God helps you escape, and thrive.
I will tell you, I’ve personally had some success in dealing with psychiatrists and mainstream medical doctors by politely mentioning that I have become an independent psychopharmacology researcher. And mentioning that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
But on a different note, I will say kudos to you, for not gaining huge amounts of weight on the olanzapine … that alone shows something about your inner strength.
And thank you for sharing your important story about systemic psychiatric abuses.
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“… what needs to be whacked down is establishment psychiatry.” I agree. Thank you again for your continued truth telling, Bruce.
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My PCP requested I do a two hour teaching physical with him and one of his students. I was going through the residual common adverse effects of my prior neurotoxic poisonings, one symptom of which was dyskinesia in my ankle. The student wanted to prescribe a restless legs drug, but couldn’t, because I medically explained the etiology of my wiggly ankle.
The student then wanted to prescribe a “smoking cessation med,” since I smoke. Thankfully, my doctor already knew my “mental health” issues were caused by a misdiagnosis of brain zaps, a common withdrawal symptom of the non-“safe smoking cessation meds” (antidepressants). So I was able to leave that physical with no prescriptions for drugs.
What do you think my ethical doctor was trying to teach his student(s)? Now that we all have the internet, patients can do their own research? Sometimes it’s better not to prescribe, than prescribe? No doubt, my doctor wanted to get to know me a little better, which is understandable, since it was only my second physical with him. And he and I did have a lot of laughs, while “teaching” his student.
But maybe the doctors should start using English, instead of Latin, as their primary language, to avoid miscommunication problems that could result in inappropriate and dangerous prescriptions?
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Based upon my experience, the “Global North[‘s] psy industries’ goal seems to be to “disconnect…” everyone and everything “from their historically communal and relational contexts.” Since the American paternalistic DSM deluded industries have a faustian, albeit multi-billion dollar, systemic child abuse and rape covering up system, in cahoots with the mainstream paternalistic religions (at least my ex-religion and former doctors, et al, do).
And I do have written medical and legal evidence that “the Western [psy industries’] model of integration” does 100% the opposite of prioritizing “self-discipline, personal insight, and the idea of an individual ‘hero’s journey.'”
Quite to the contrary, today’s Western psychological industry defames people with scientifically “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisons innocent others. (Please see my other prior comments on MiA for corroborating evidence of this.)
The “invalid” DSM deluded “Western” psychological and psychiatric industries also systemically deny the personal insight of innocent others, do not repent and pay for their obvious malpractice, and then try to steal more than everything from innocent others with appalling conservatorship contracts, to prevent us from writing our own ‘hero’s journey” stories.
Thus I do agree, “psychedelic therapy [should] break from the patterns of traditional psychiatry and offer genuinely transformative possibilities.”
However, this would require a conscious effort to prevent the replication of existing power imbalances, “particularly between the Global North[‘s]” psychological and psychiatric industries ‘patients,’ and themselves, “but also with the Global South[‘s],” hopefully more insightful … and less systemically corrupted …and hopefully more common sense based, non-DSM deluded, “mental health professionals.”
God help us, South America, since the DSM deluded of the US (which is a lot of people), are destroying the US, and their goal – with their “global mental health” initiatives does seem to want to take the DSM deluded “mental health professionals'” desire to neurotoxic poison all people, within all countries – worldwide.
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Artwork and writing one’s story – aside from love, heathy eating, and regular moderate exercise – are the best medicines. If that’s what Madzines are meant to incorporate into the “mental health” or “social worker” industries, I’m sure they’re a good idea.
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“Voices,” “voices,” “voices” … oh my former child abuse covering up psychologist was obsessed with “voices.” I had no idea what she was talking about, but due to her obsession, I finally confessed there may have been an unknown “voice” I’d heard in Nordstrom’s parking lot.
And such a confession of not knowing who was yelling in a parking lot is what the psychological industry apparently believes is “psychosis” … that, and / or one’s dreams. My former psychologist was crazy, and /or a mentally abusive gaslighter.
Let’s hope and pray AI some day garners insight into the reality that schizophrenia is an iatrogenic illness, created with the schizophrenia “treatments.” The antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, via anticholinergic toxidrome. And the neuroleptics can also create the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
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As a female, I must say I am embarrassed this was written by a female psychologist. Especially since, no psychologists should be trying to increase their business, until they have something more than gaslighting and force drugging their clients with neurotoxins, to offer their clients.
Learn to live and let live, scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries.
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“The first step is acknowledging that deprivation of liberty is a punishment and cannot be a treatment or support for the person[‘]s well being.” Excellent point, Tina.
And since defamation with any of the “invalid” DSM disorders results in a “deprivation of liberty,” neurotoxic poisonings, and/or other “punishment.”
Which means forced, or coerced, “treatment” for any of the “invalid” DSM disorders is medically and morally wrong … and a paradigm change is definitely needed.
Thanks for all you do, and have done, Tina.
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Good work, brother Bob! Gotta love those brother Bobs. And definitely, we do need to end the anosognosia / agnosia delusions of the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers.
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Indeed. As one who had a psychologist hand over a – take a percentage of gross thievery contract – combined with an appalling conservative contract, all dressed up disingenuously as an “art manager” contract … all to cover up prior psychological and psychiatric child abuse covering up, and easily recognized medical iatrogenesis, crimes.
Definitely, I have both medical and legal evidence that the only thing that the scientifically “invalid,” “BS” based, Western “mental health professions” actually believe in is greed … staggering avarice.
“’Western depression is not a universal condition,’ and treating it as such risks misallocating precious resources.” Which is what’s been happening in Western civilization for decades.
“Another study found that research in low and middle income countries tends to focus on treating depression rather than preventing it through addressing systematic issues of inequality and injustice” … which is exactly what the Western “mental health” industries systemically do in Western civilization.
The Western “mental health system” is an iatrogenic illness creation system.
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-America-Medicine-Enduring-Mistreatment/dp/0465020143
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
Stand tall, and just say NO, to the Western “mental health professions'” iatrogenic illness creating “BS,” Ethiopians, et al.
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I wish my PCP hadn’t lied to me, and incorrectly told me a dangerous, addictive antidepressant and opioid were “safe meds.”
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“what truly motivates psychiatry (and its assorted minions):” aside from money, “an unconscious fear of” what they can’t bill for, which I guess gets us back to the avarice issues of the so called “mental health professions.”
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Yes, thank you for sharing your experience, Jessica. And it’s sad to hear, albeit sadly not that surprising.
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Tear jerking interview, thanks to both of you. And from the bottom of my heart, my sincerest condolences to Richard’s family and friends. Truly the magnitude of harm that psychiatry is doing, especially to children, is heart breaking.
Thank you for sharing your story, and for all you are doing to help others, including working to make your deceased son’s goal come true. When given lemons, it’s good to remember, sweet lemonade goes well with baseball.
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Very true, Bill. Covering up abuse or sexual assault is the number one actual function of the psych industries, I think.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
And it’s all by DSM design.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
And you are right, covering up child abuse is also a problem for the religious leaders, I had to leave my ex-religion because of their systemic child abuse covering up “partnership” with the “mental health” workers.
Ethical pastors of a different religion confessed this systemic criminal behavior is known as “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions.”
“… And the ones we hail
Are the worst of all …”
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Corey,
The “psych meds work” … if the goal of the “psych meds” is to create iatrogenic illnesses with the “psych meds,” for the profit of the “psych” and mainstream medical industries.
Please take Steve’s advice, and read critical psychiatry advocates’ work, specifically Whitaker’s, Moncrief’s, Kirsch’s, Breggin’s, et al.
And, if you also still believe the “antipsychotics” are beneficial, you may even do me the common curtesy of reading my medical research findings. Since the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
Plus the neuroleptics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
I didn’t personally make up the names of those medically known toxidrome and syndrome.
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Thank you for sharing your story, Jackie. I’m glad you are “now medicine-free and feeling better than ever.” Especially since I’ve seen just horrendous videos of people suffering from benzo withdrawal.
But I could write a blog entitled the same to my former psychiatrists, since they both prescribed egregious anticholinergic toxidrome inducing drug cocktails, despite having been taught in med school, about anticholinergic toxidrome.
“Oh, we’re ‘professionals,” who all now claim to be ignorant of the common adverse and withdrawal effects of the drugs we force and coerce onto innocent others. Pardon my disappointment … and, honestly, my disgust at the scientific fraud based “mental health professions.”
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Claus,
Try politely telling your psychiatrist that you mean no disrespect, but you’ve become an independent psychopharmacology researcher, thus critical psychiatry person. When I was trying to help a loved one in extreme distress, this did result in a young hospital psychiatrist agreeing that he, too, was a critical psychiatry person.
Then politely request to avoid altogether, the anticholinergic drugs (a drug class which includes the antipsychotics) – or be safely weaned off of them – whatever your particular case might involve. Since, if you’re dealing with the “positive symptoms of schizophrenia,” those symptoms can be created with the antipsychotics and/or antidepressants, via anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
And if you’re dealing with the “negative symptoms of schizophrenia,” those symptoms can be created with the antipsychotics / neuroleptics, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome, as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
I’m not familiar with your exact situation, Claus. However I hope my decades of research, and experience helping myself and a loved one, may help you too.
But do be forewarned about the fact that withdrawal from the anticholinergic drugs can also cause a drug withdrawal induced “super sensitivity manic psychosis.” So a personalized, slow, hyperbolic, taper is likely best.
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“Taking psychiatric medications long-term is like playing Russian roulette.” I was singing “Russian roulette is not the same without a gun,” in relation to psychiatry’s neurotoxins, almost two decade ago.
Great blog, Dr. Witt-Doerring. Thank you for your truth telling, and working to get innocent people off of the psychiatric neurotoxins.
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Be careful, No-one, you’re NOT allowed to believe in God or the Holy Spirit, according to the American psych industries. And I do have medical proof of this, written right in my medical records.
And even worse, a non-medically trained American hospital social worker once told me, “I declare so many people to be Jesus, I don’t even remember meeting you.” I didn’t remember meeting her either, which is why I called her.
But that social worker incorrectly declared me to be Jesus, just prior to medically unnecessarily shipping me off to the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, who tried to kill me, so he could do an unneeded tracheotomy on me, for profit. So obviously it’s unwise to ever even mention belief in Jesus to any US “mental health professional” today, too.
Thank you for all your truth telling, Rob. Definitely, change is needed. Especially since the primary actual function of today’s US “mental health professions,” is covering up child abuse and rape, which is illegal behavior, for profit.
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“For me, the most critical point raised by Adele Framer, Will Hall, Karen Hoffmann, Angie Peacock, and Dina Tyler is that promoting the belief that severe withdrawal is inevitable for everyone discontinuing psychotropic prescription drugs is both unhelpful and factually incorrect.”
I don’t think that is what “Adele Framer, Will Hall, et al” are promoting. My reading of their article left me feeling that their belief system’s goal is stopping the mainstream psychological and psychiatric industries’ from continuing their systemic “belief that severe withdrawal is inevitable for everyone discontinuing psychotropic prescription drugs” … and that the mainstream psychological and psychiatric industries’ DSM deluded belief system is both unhelpful and factually incorrect,” thus unhelpful for all their clients.
But I will agree, the psychological and psychiatric industries’ systemic crimes against their own countrymen/women are likely much worse in the US, than what is going on in other countries.
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Psychology and “Psychiatry [drive] you insane and then [call] you insane.” Indeed.
The ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the “bipolar” symptoms. And the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, and the negative symptoms, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“‘I’m a person.’ I think she must have stopped taking [the neurotoxins], because that phrase is unmistakably what almost anyone feels on escaping the drugs.”
Yes, I escaped by going through all the untruths about my real life, written into my psychiatrist’s medical records, while my former psychiatrist was describing my entire real life to be “a credible fictional story” in his medical records. Too crazy for me, highly delusional, former psychiatrist. Bye!
Thank you for sharing your story and experiences, RW.
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“At that moment, I saw no purpose in telling them the truth. As they chose to believe that I was a ‘mentally ill criminal’, it was safest to say and do nothing. Three individuals had condemned me without evidence. I was outnumbered and began to doubt my own memories and reality.”
That is the goal of gaslighters. I’ve lived it, and learned to avoid it, too. Gaslighting, force, and other lies, seem to be the MO of today’s scientific fraud based “mental health” industries. Despite the fact that it is well known that gaslighting is “mental abuse,” not “mental health care.”
The “mental health” system needs systemic change. Thank you for sharing your story, Cat. God bless and empower you, I pray.
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Brilliant comment, Dan. Thank you.
“Foucault reveals how mental phenomena are affected by unstable variables, such as cultural ideas, social contexts, and individual experiences.” And I do agree at least somewhat with Foucault, I think (I did read his works in college), since all the distress and problems I personally dealt with, had to do with cultural, social, and individual experiences … which psychologists incorrectly assumed were personal “genetic” scientifically “invalid” DSM disorders … which they were not.
Although, I must say, in as much as I am now a believer that “God is dead,” and that might be a good thing, since it may mean God has omnipotent power again. I was not a believer in that belief system until 2013, or later, personally.
Foucault’s “early writings examined how psychology, despite its claims to scientific objectivity, remained entangled in social and cultural forces that shaped what was considered normal or pathological.”
Well, and we do have that systemic child abuse covering up “partnership” that the psychological industries do have with the mainstream religions. “The dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” is still a paternalistic societal problem.
But I do agree, “Unlike physical illness, mental phenomena do not have clearly identifiable lesions or organ damage that can be measured and treated.” So both the scientific fraud based psychological and psychiatric communities have gone in the wrong direction.
“Psychology can never fully distinguish between normal and pathological functions.” I sadly agree, since seemingly all of the psychologists are non-medically trained doctors, who are too ignorant to know the ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the symptoms of “bipolar.” And what’s sad is too many psychologists are also not smart enough to read the rules in their DSM, and they’re also too ignorant or unethical to also confess, that their psych drugs can also create the symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing/dp/0307452425
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
I could go on, quoting the improprieties that today’s scientific fraud based psychological industry is still participating in, but I’ll leave it for that right now.
Aside to say, I agree with you, Dan, that in as much as we need to rid Western civilization of the scientific fraud based psychological and psychiatric industries, we must also free humanity from the globalist banking system.
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In other words, psychology and psychiatry are all about kicking someone when they’re down, under the false guise of “help”? … shocker, that was my experience, too.
And yes, given the fact that all MDs are taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school, and all psychiatrists are MDs, the psychiatrists are “knowingly” and intentionally “causing ‘brain damage’ in people,” for profit. Sad, but true.
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Very interesting, thank you for sharing your research, Robert. I, too, had a spiritual dream misdiagnosed. I am glad, however, that you know God loves you. I believe the same is true for me.
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Lol, yes, I had the misfortune of dealing with some of those “BAD” doctors.
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My theory is that a lot of “schizophrenia” is a result of iatrogenesis, since the “schizophrenia” treatments can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome. And they can also create the negative symptoms, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
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Thank you as always, Dr. Peter, for your truth telling.
“When asked what they prefer, six times as many people prefer psychotherapy for pills,38 but they get the exact opposite.” Yes, but it is shameful that there are so many unethical psychologists, social workers, et al … who merely function as a funnel into psychiatry.
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Sad, but seemingly true, Yildrim.
“In short. Involuntary psychiatric treatments chemically damage the brains of people with healthy brains. And possibly cause related permanent mental illnesses.”
Indeed, that is where we are.
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I agree, Dan, “MIA’s existence could be viewed as a reaction to a mad status quo.” I have a 2005 painting of the American flag painted upside down and backwards, so sadly it’s not a new societal problem. Although, sadly, an older, male, psychologist told me his goal was to “maintain the status quo,” and he also tried to steal more than everything from me, with the most appalling thievery contract you’ve ever read, just a few years ago.
But I agree with most of the rest of what you say, too. I found marijuana, or its relatives, to be quite effective in helping a manic loved one, get the much needed sleep he needed.
Personally, I think it would likely be a better first line of treatment for manic and psychotic people, than the antipsychotics, which are already medically known to create psychosis, both when on them, via anticholinergic toxidrome, and when taken off them, via a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.
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“There is substantial evidence indicating that psychiatric hospitalizations increase the risk of suicide both during and after psychiatric hospitalization.”
Isn’t the point of psychiatry and psychology supposed to be about preventing suicides?
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“Their study echoes research showing how psychiatric diagnosis itself often functions as a site of epistemic injustice, where individuals labeled as ‘mentally ill’ find their knowledge and agency systematically undermined.”
As one who – fifteen years after being weaned off my last psych drug, and a decade after getting a non-medically trained psychologist’s misdiagnosis off my medical records, by a well respected medically trained doctor – is still dealing with “epistemic injustice,” defamation, by the head of my former religion, a religion which has a Faustian “partnership” with the psych industries.
And as one – who was initially misdiagnosed to cover up a “bad fix” on a broken bone, and medical evidence of the abuse of my small child – two illegal motives, for the provable misdiagnosis.
I thank you for this blog, Samantha.
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As one whose main experience with psychological therapy was having a psychologist function as a funnel, into the psychiatric industry.
But, decades later, I did also have the misfortune of dealing with a computer hacking psychologist, who tried to steal everything, and more, from me … according to the appalling take a percentage of gross contract, combined with the conservatorship contract, he wanted me to sign.
I most definitely believe both psychology and psychiatry have lost their way.
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I would be included in the “66% of service users experiencing antidepressant withdrawal [who] were misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder.” That’s an unacceptably high misdiagnosis rate, IMHO.
And brain zaps are not cured, with more anticholinergic drugs. I’m now on 23 years and counting, with brain zaps.
My doctor was kind of funny, however, when I told him about how I could now largely control the brain zaps in my waking hours, and brain zap away a headache in a NY second. He called them “neuro-protective.” I smiled, but thought glorifying iatrogenic harm (that he’d confessed he couldn’t fix) was not really appropriate.
But I do also thank Joanna Moncrieff and John Read for all their truthful reporting.
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Here’s her work email:
nevjones@pitt.edu
She’s a good psych researcher.
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Thank you, Hope. And I’m glad you, too, survived.
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I ‘m pretty certain Nev Jones is a female.
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“First, they call on counselors to support clients by fostering self-care and empowerment through advocacy, psychoeducation [is “chemical imbalance lies”], and interprofessional consultation, particularly in addressing the role of trauma and its intersection with various forms of oppression” … except the trauma that is caused by the torturous, forced psychiatric and psychologically “invalid” misdiagnosing DSM deluded lies / oppression.
“Second, the authors emphasize the importance of fostering social support networks and highlighting the role of community.
As one who had to leave my ex-religion twice, due to their systemic “partnership” with the systemic child abuse covering up psychological and psychiatric industries. I know the scientific fraud based, DSM deluded psychologists and psychiatrists are committing egregious crimes, against child abuse survivors, and their legitimately concerned mothers.
It’s sad, illegal, and so ungodly disrespectful, psychology and psychiatry. I have no doubt, God is ashamed of you, and the mainstream religions you bought out, so you could cover up the child abusing pastor’s crimes. It’s just shameful, and so sad to live in a world where “those we hail, are the worst of all.”
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Yeah for the internet, it’s a great research tool, that has helped shed light onto the systemic crimes, in private, of the scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries.
But I will say, a knowledge of all their scientific fraud, iatrogenic illness creation, and corruption in general, does make me sad some days. It’s just so darn evil.
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I can understand why it might be traumatic to be basically forced to learn a language, other than one’s own. But maybe God’s trying to end the Babylon problem, by giving people the gift of tongues? Maybe, the ungodly disrespect of people, for having a spiritual journey, by the psychological and psychiatric industries, should end? Just a theory, but maybe Patricia should be respected and listen to, when she is speaking in tongues, instead? Some Christian religions believe in that.
Please leave the people of South Africa alone, psychologic and psychiatric industries, since your DSM “bible” deluded religion has already been debunked as scientifically “invalid” and “BS.”
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I largely agree, birdsong, but somedays the complete corruption of it all, leaves me sad. But today is my dead brother’s birthday, and a family friend died today, too … so I have legitimate reasons for having a sad day.
I had a “spiritual” journey, similar to yours, Tim, except I was misdiagnosed for asking a psychologist what the meaning of a dream that I was moved by the Holy Spirit meant, and that Holy Spirit blaspheming psychologist thought all dreams are “psychosis.” Thank you for sharing your experience and research, Tim.
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So how is Brooks now? Thank you sharing your story.
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“I’d give anything to be able to find out if there’s any legal action being contemplated to stop this. However, I’m unable to do so,” as are the rest of us. Since the lawyers will not take cases, even by those of us who have dealt with now FBI convicted criminal doctors, if the innocent person has been defamed with an “invalid” DSM disorder.
Psychiatry and psychology’s “invalid” DSM deluded system prevents the US from being a country of law and order … which means the scientifically “invalid” psychologic and psychiatric industries are the opposite of what they claim to be.
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The “cause” of the most “serious” DSM disorders, is likely iatrogenesis. As Whittaker pointed out in his 2010 book, ‘Anatomy of an Epidemic,’ “bipolar” is “caused” by the iatrogenic “illnesses,” created by the psychological and psychiatric industries’ antidepressants and ADHD drugs.
And the “antipsychotics” can also create both the negative and positive “symptoms” of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome, and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
So it’s highly likely that the most common “cause” of all the DSM disorders, is iatrogenesis, not “genetics.”
But I do know from personal family experience, that things like sleep deprivation and alcohol encephalitis, can also cause “psychosis.” Yet they are not “genetic causes,” thus are not listed in the DSM, as possible causes of “psychosis,” in the “invalid” DSM.
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It is shameful, since the primary actual function of today’s scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries is, covering up child abuse and rape for the mainstream religions … but also covering up easily recognized iatrogenesis, for the mainstream doctors … all of which is illegal.
Shame on psychology and psychiatry today, for your “invalid” DSM industries’ systemic neurotoxic poisoning crimes.
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Thank God for friends, since me and my family used to believe in the scientific validity of the medical community. But thanks to the “BS” and greed of the psychological and psychiatric communities, we no longer do.
But I did need my friends, and am grateful to them, since I was attacked by scientifically fraud based “mental health professionals,” so they could cover up the abuse of my innocent child, by DSM design.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Since the “mental health professionals” can not actually charge for helping children who’ve been abused, nor can they bill for helping their legitimately concerned mothers, they misdiagnose us with their “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poison us.
Thank God, for both friends, and family … but sadly not my ex-religion, which is “partnered” with the scientifically “invalid,” systemic child abuse covering up, “mental health professionals.”
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“If it wasn’t for my [friends and] family I’d be another victim of psychiatry on streets or dead,” me too.
Indeed, the psychological and psychiatric industries are doing more harm than good, sadly.
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Thank you, as always, Dr. Peter, for your truth telling. I’ve forwarded your work to those in my life to whom, it is relevant.
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“Don’t Include Involuntary Commitment as a Treatment Tool in Seattle” … nor any where else.
Since today’s “mental health” industry is a scientifically “invalid,” iatrogenic illness creating system, not a system that promotes health. See my previous comments for links to the medical evidence of this sad reality.
And today’s “mental health” system is being used for criminal purposes … like covering up easily recognized malpractice for incompetent doctors, and medical evidence of child abuse, for unethical pastors … both of which happened to me.
In a free market economy, no one should ever be forced to pay for unwanted “treatment.”
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“1. Dehumanization
“Service users often felt that they were viewed as disorders to be managed rather than as people deserving of care.”
Well, I have written proof this is how my ungodly disrespectful psychiatrist thought of me, written right in his medical records.
“2. Disregard for Lived Experiences
“Many service users reported that their input was dismissed or ignored during treatment planning and care discussions.”
My psychiatrist very literally denied the common adverse effects of his anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings, as the symptoms of my psychologist’s misdiagnosis. And, in the end, he declared the entirety of my life to be a “credible fictional story,” since he’d gotten all his misinformation about me from a child abuse covering up psychologist.
“3. Conveying Hopelessness
“Service users often described feeling as though they were given no sense of purpose or hope for recovery.”
I was defamed to my husband by my child abuse covering up psychologist, as having a “life long, incurable, genetic illness,” none of which was true. But that “conveying hopelessness,” and stigmatization / defamation, by a child abuse covering up psychologist, did destroy my marriage.
So I do most definitely agree, all these forms of psychiatric and psychological “microaggressions” are common behaviors by today’s scientific fraud based psychological and psychiatric professions.
“Emotional and Psychological Impact,” or how to heal oneself, from psychological and psychiatric abuse:
“Plot 1: Seeking Safety and Recognition: Service users expressed a longing for relationships where they felt seen and valued.” Isn’t that what everyone needs? In as much as I had less than zero safety and recognition from “mental health professionals,” “peer support groups and recovery colleges.” I do agree, “My friends, our conversations, our work — they were my salvation.”
“Plot 2: Taking Back Control:” I do agree, the only way to heal from the systemic sins and crimes of today’s “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries is to escape and take back control of one’s life – today’s psychological and psychiatric industries are unworthy of trust.
“Plot 3: Proving Them Wrong: Some participants described defying the expectations placed on them by mental health professionals.” Well, we here have found the medical evidence of the iatrogenic etiologies of the two “most serious” DSM “disorders,” their billing code “bible” was debunked in 2013, so I think we have scientifically proven the “mental health professionals” are “wrong,” but they’ve yet to repent and change from their iatrogenic illness creating ways.
“… psychiatric institutions, despite their mission to provide care, can erode dignity and perpetuate stigma.” Indeed, since their DSM “bible” of “disorders” is “invalid,” all psych diagnoses are merely used to stigmatize people … and declaring the entirety of a person’s real life to be “a credible fictional story” is very wrong, absurd, and insulting.
“The findings suggest that recovery often occurs outside traditional mental health settings due to the relational deficits within them.” Or since the psych drugs can create iatrogenic illnesses that mimic the DSM disorders, escape from the psychiatric system, is likely the only way to heal … albeit, withdrawal from the psych drugs can also create the symptoms of the “invalid” DSM disorders.
“These behaviors are deliberate and they are intended to inflict pain and suffering on people who are supposedly being helped.” I agree, HadEnough. I’ve had too much disrespect, too.
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“It would be much more effective and certainly more compassionate if his psychiatrist recommended his visiting his closest gay bar, but I have never heard of this occurring.”
I introduced my gay son to the only gay bar owner in his city, by having him watch him in a play, and we happened to be friends with him. So I can agree with your recommendation for how to help a gay child feel comfortable in his own skin … but I will say I left my former psychiatrist, because I’d been handed over the medical proof of the abuse of my beloved child at a deplorably young age, and my former psychiatrist, and a former misdiagnosing psychologist and subsequent non-clinical psychologist, all thought my now multiple award winning child, should have been, and now should be, psych neurotoxic poisoned forever.
Obviously, I don’t stand in support of the psychological and psychiatric industries’ neurotoxic poisoners, their by DSM design systemic child abuse covering up system.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
And I most definitely don’t stand in support of their bad advise to mothers of child abuse survivors, who end up gay or trans children.
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Maybe the medical community should get out of the business of declaring legal activities, to be “mental illnesses?” Oh, or have they? Since when I dealt with a loved one dealing with a bad drug interaction, in connection with a likely case of alcohol encephalitis, I was told there was nothing the doctors could do … nothing … but most importantly, they could not write a script to allow my loved one to spend a week or so at a seeming Soteria-like healing home.
Especially since, decades ago, what a doctor told me, that a “safe smoking cessation med” (Wellbutrin, which is not even approved as a “safe smoking cessation med”) doubles the amount you smoke, not decreases it, and it certainly doesn’t help you stop smoking.
And when you’re inappropriately abruptly taken off of the non “safe smoking cessation med,” and suffer the common symptoms of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome in late 2001 … Oh, now all the so called “mental health professionals” claim ignorance that “brain zaps” are a common adverse withdrawal symptom of the antidepressants, until 2005 … then, in a very hubris filled manner, finally admit to their ignorance, thus to their complete and total lack of “professionalism.”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/brain-shivers-from-chat-room-to-clinic/642FBBAE131EAB792E474F02A4B2CCC0
And there is also medical evidence that the psych drugs increase alcohol consumption, whereas I still hear some good things about AA, a non-medical approach to alcohol discontinuation support – from both Catholics and Baptists.
Perhaps, the medical community’s greed (and especially the psychiatric community’s) problem, is usurping more control over society, than they can handle?
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“A world where children go hungry is not one in which more prescriptions or diagnoses will suffice. It is a world in desperate need of equity, compassion, and systemic change.”
But sadly, too many within the “we want to maintain the status quo” psy-“professions” stand against changing the “status quo” … since changing the “BS,” of the mainstream DSM deluded “status quo,” is truly imperative, IMHO.
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“The idea of epistemic injustice encourages clinicians to think in more nuanced ways and ask themselves if reluctance to support and supervise people during tapering could be based on unjustified negative stereotypes such as dangerousness, preconceptions about what a good life is like, or bias about chronicity.”
Absolutely, epistemic injustice, and avarice, does encourage clinicians to NOT withdrawal people from the antipsychotics. But thankfully for me, my psychiatrist finally realized – once he finally stopped believing my psychologist’s lies – I was not a “dangerous person” and had a “good life.” So, according to my my medical records, he blamed my psychologist’s “invalid” DSM misdiagnosis on that non-medically trained psychologist.
And my psychiatrist finally weaned me off his anticholinergic toxidrome inducing neurotoxic drug cocktails. But I will say, medically unnecessarily anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning people forever, for profit, is highly profitable for the psychiatrists. But it is also highly unethical.
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I saw three different doctors, within about three days, and had three different psych labels, according to my medical records. So you are absolutely right, Topher, about the scientific fraud of the DSM “diagnoses” / “disorders.”
The DSM is “unscientific, invalid nonsense.” But it’s used by the incompetent and unethical doctors to cover up their easily recognizable malpractice, and psychological misdiagnosis with the DSM disorders is how the unethical pastors cover up their, and others’, child abuse crimes … at least according to the totality of my family’s medical records.
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Thank you for your stinging critique of the magnitude of the corruption, and the impropriety of psych drugging children, Lawrence.
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By the way, I do have a business degree, and access to a a small stipend of annual funds allocated towards 501c corporations, in a local family community fund.
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I don’t know where you live, Kelli, but as one who helped heal herself from the deplorable harm psychiatry does, with a lot of gardening, biking, journaling, art creation, rehabbing, et al. I’d like to help set up actual healing spaces for non-violent, non-criminal “manic” and/or “psychotic” people, too.
Oh, and psychiatry should stop defaming all “manic” and “psychotic” people as “violent,” since I know from personal experience, that they are NOT.
Honestly, the worst place for a “manic” person to be, is in a locked hospital … being in nature is a much, much more healing place for a “manic” person to be.
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I had, apparently incorrectly, thought the ODD diagnosis was created in about 2013, as an alternative diagnosis for all the children who had the common adverse effects of the ADHD drugs and antidepressants misdiagnosed as “bipolar,” as Whitaker pointed out in his 2010 “Anatomy of an Epidemic?”
There should be a call for an end to the “invalid” DSM stigmatization of all children, and humans. Your DSM “bible” was debunked over a decade ago, “mental health” industries, please wake up to reality … and flush your billing code “bible” of scientifically “invalid” (albeit iatrogenically created) stigmatizations.
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As one who hopes the US will some day use common sense, and take direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising off the mainstream media (we’re one of only two nations on the planet who unwisely allow it). I have to agree with Whitaker, on his belief the mainstream media is a part of the problem.
Since all of big Pharma’s illegal (false advertising is illegal) advertising has resulted in ”the public” being “betrayed” – and even deluded by psychiatry’s “BS” DSM – and “millions” have been “harmed.”
Thank you, Robert, as always, for your truth telling.
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“But if the whole structure of psychiatry is diseased then having a rights based approach in treatment by a psychiatrist is a contradiction in terms, isn’t it”?
Do you mean, like, if the psychiatric system is, in reality, a gigantic Ponzi scheme of an iatrogenic illness creation system? As those of us here know is the truth.
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I largely agree, but not with absolutely everything you said.
“Across these critiques, a common theme emerges: the need for a radical transformation of psychology—one that moves beyond individual adaptation to challenge systemic injustices and foster collective empowerment.”
But I absolutely believe the psychologic industry must end both their faustian “partnerships” with the psychiatric and religious industries, if ever they are able to make the needed systemic change. Since those faustian, systemic, industry wide, “partnerships” are what cause the “systemic injustices” of today’s psychological industry.
For goodness sake, I had to leave my childhood religion forever, due to psychology’s systemic child abuse covering up “partnership” with the iatrogenic illness creating psychiatrists, and my ex-religion.
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Thank you for sharing this history, Robert.
“What lessons are here? Hawthorne deserves to be remembered for how mental health leaders must ensure that people are respected for their dignity as human beings.”
Sadly, this is the opposite of what today’s debunked DSM “bible” believers do. Thus, “The moral treatment model, nearly 250 years old, is almost unknown now in Oregon and elsewhere.”
Indeed, today’s “mental health” industry is all about stigmatizing people with “invalid” “life long, incurable” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisoning people forever. Where’s the healing? And how can the “mental health” industry even call yourself a “healing profession,” when you don’t believe your patients can heal?
“But this history shows that in less than 25 years this state moved from 12 men deciding who was ‘insane’ and seeing them auctioned off for their ‘care’ to the lowest bidder to creating a safe place focused on recovery.”
Well, let’s hope and pray we can end today’s appalling “life long, incurable” stigmatizing and neurotoxic poisoning “mental health” system, and turn it into a “moral treatment model,” within the next 15-25 years, or less.
“The goal of the Hawthorne asylum was getting the people’s lives back as soon as possible.” But, sadly, the seeming goal of today’s DSM “bible” believers is to gaslight people into believing they have a “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness,” that needs never ending neurotoxic poisoning.
“As in the recovery of Archibald Pelton and John Day, no medications were available, so it was not drugs that were responsible for recovery.” And we here all know that it is the psych drugs that create the “life long,” curable, iatrogenic DSM disorders. So we know it is today’s psych drugs that are the problem, thus they will most definitely NOT be “responsible for recovery.”
“It takes creative and courageous leaders … to make this kind of success a reality.” Let’s hope and pray, we are, and can encourage, those creative and courageous advocates and leaders, that can bring about swift change.
Thank you for sharing this history, hope, and possible goal of bringing back “moral care,” Robert.
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I largely agree, Naomi, “therapeutic hate speech” … and the psy “professions” have the gall to call a book of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations, a “bible.”
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That is a very hopeful, and from my personal experience, truthful blog.
And it’s nice that they state, “When it comes to curing mental illness and shifting the paradigm, the sufferers who have managed to cure are indeed the real experts.”
Hey, maybe I can be declared NOT “w/o work, content, and talent,” “irrelevant to reality,” and “fictional” some day? Thank you for your acknowledgement of the work of the independent psychopharmacology researchers … and all those who had to heal ourselves.
And let’s hope and pray that psychiatry, et al, soon stop forcing drugs – that can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia” – on innocent others, for profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
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Thank you, Birdsong.
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I, too, understand today’s psychologic industry tends to have a “gossip” problem – I have medical evidence of such a psychological “gossip” problem within my medical records.
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I largely agree, Dan. And I will admit, I found psychologists to be worse (more morally corrupt) than psychiatrists, albeit I’m not standing in support of either industry.
And I agree, “Some [within the psy industries] don’t recognize their complicity; others secretly revel in it while still others aren’t secret at all.”
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I shouldn’t say that, since I’m sure there are lots of “mental health professionals” and doctors who actually went into the so called “healing professions,” to actually help people heal.
And I do also know from personal experience, it’s not easy dealing with a “psychotic” loved one.
However, I also do know those DSM deluded “mental health professionals” need to garner insight into the fact that your DSM “bible” was debunked, as scientifically “invalid,” 14 years ago.
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
Largely since it was pointed out in Robert Whitaker’s 2010 “Anatomy of an Epidemic,” and further since, that the ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the symptoms of your theorized DSM “bipolar” disorder.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
And see my next comment, for the medical evidence of the iatrogenic etiology of “the sacred symbol of psychiatry.”
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And how sad it is to point out that the so called “cure” – the antipsychotics / neuroleptics – for the “sacred symbol of psychiatry” can create both the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, and the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
“Former professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was an atheist, (“When you talk to god, it’s called prayer. When god talks to you, it’s called schizophrenia”). He claimed that psychiatrists acted more like priests than Doctors or scientists.”
I agree they do. But what happens when a person has lots of medical evidence that it is pastors, doctors, social workers, et al who handed over medical evidence that it is the pastors, doctors, social workers, et al who believe an innocent other is “the second coming of Jesus Christ,” has “Jesus, a man speaking through her,” and has “voices of God who speak through her to other people”?
Maybe psychiatry should stop “partnering” with the mainstream religions, to systemically cover up child abuse, and stop drugging people up for belief in the Holy Spirit and God?
Thank you for speaking your truth, Nick. Sadly, I must agree with you “that society itself is sick, that spiritual meaning has been replaced with materialism, hedonism, and the pursuit of profit above the well-being of the environment and of the individual.”
But I am a math person, too … and I will say, gotta love “sacred geometry,” don’t you, Nick? Keep the faith, please.
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Zero?
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Personally, I think psychiatry’s greatest failure is its “Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes” problems – which are so bad that my former psychiatrist literally declared my entire life to be a “credible fictional story” in his medical records.
But I do agree, both psychiatry and psychology have a “failure … to recognize [their] own limitations” issue. Yet if our societies took away their “right” to defame innocent others with the “invalid” DSM stigmatizations, and force neurotoxic poison people they do not know … this might help reduce that staggering, systemic, psychological and psychiatric hubris?
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A possible slice of wisdom? … the “mental health” industries only care about profits, whereas the “experts by experience,” and research, actually care about their own health, and the health of their loved ones.
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“As an example of the worsening outcomes, a recent study found that 50% of the population could be considered ‘mentally ill’ by the time they are 18; over the course of a lifetime almost 90% of people will become ‘mentally ill.'”
And according to my former “mental health professionals,” all dreams are “psychosis.” Thus, since we all dream, this means 100% of people should be defamed as “mentally ill” … but in reality, this is greed inspired insanity on the part of the DSM deluded “mental health industry,” not reality.
How long will it take for us, as a society, to actually admit to the “bullshit” nature of the DSM? Oh, that’s right, Allen Frances and Thomas Insel both admitted to the “bullshit” and “invalid” nature of the DSM “disorders” in 2013 – 11 years ago.
So it’s long past time for the “mental health professionals” to flush their “bullshit” DSM “bible.” But instead, they want to “maintain the status quo,” according to an attempted thieving, computer hacking psychologist, who I adamantly and repeatedly refused to hire.
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I, too, had to move in order to heal from a bunch of anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings (which look a lot like “schizophrenia,” to the “mental health” industries, but is actually created with the antidepressants and/or antipsychotics).
But that’s because a now FBI convicted, foreign born, doctor’s psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, also a foreign born doctor, was illegally listing me to insurance companies as her “out patient” for years. Her lackeys even called – after I’d moved out of state – to ask me why I didn’t show up to an appointment, that I never made. I had to tell them that if the psychiatrist didn’t stop fraudulently claiming I was her “out patient,” then they’d all be seen as the criminals they are … since, of course, I wasn’t making appointments with doctors, in a state in which I did not live.
“Exile” is sadly a necessary option, when it comes to the “invalid” DSM defamations of the psychiatric and psychological industries, et al. Including “exile” from my ex-religion, which is “partnered” with the systemic child abuse, and easily recognized malpractice, covering up psychological and psychiatric industries.
I’m sorry about what psychiatry did to you, Robert, and thank you for sharing your story.
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I agree, especially since the “antipsychotics” and “antidepressants” can and “DO cause” the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
And the “antipsychotics” / neuroleptics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
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“Is Virtual Psychotherapy of Lesser Quality Than In-Person?” The common sense answer would, of course, be yes.
… not that I’m a big fan of our current DSM deluded psychological industries’ systemic crimes, nor methods … quite the opposite.
But I do hope, we may confess to the reality that industries that believe it is their right to psych op innocent others, or the entire world, have chosen to use their knowledge for evil … and to be merely trying to protect themselves and their scientifically “invalid” industries, for profit.
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“Is There Transformative Meaning in Madness?” Well, if you’re someone like me, who was neurotoxic (anticholinergic toxidrome) poisoned, for questioning what the meaning of a dream about being moved by the Holy Spirit means, I will say yes.
But it’s pretty much the antithesis of what the Holy Spirit blaspheming, all dreams are “psychosis” believing, DSM deluded, psychologists and psychiatrists believe. Their psychiatric neurotoxins weaken a person, so that satanic souls / people can create “psychosis,” via the anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings.
But when one is weaned off the psychiatric neurotoxins, one will often suffer from a “drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.” However, this type of “psychosis,” at least in my case, functioned as an awakening to my dreams, and an equating of my subconscious self with my waking hour self – and that can be quite enlightening, thus good.
By the way, my dream that was misdiagnosed as “psychosis,” merely means I’m a moved by the Holy Spirit person, according to ethical pastors of a different religion.
But the answer to your question, I believe, is yes … but just not how the DSM deluded psychologists and psychiatrists believe. Being put on the psych drugs can make one ungodly sick, but being slowly weaned off them can help one awaken to the story of their dreams.
Albeit, I’m still trying to be patient (but not a psych patient, for over 15 years). And I am still hoping God will let us go from the living nightmare – that is profitable for big Pharma and the psych “professions” – and we may all return to living the American dream … in a mutually respectful world.
God forewarned us about the evils of “Pharmakia” in the Holy Bible … please wake up Phamakia forcing, “scientifically invalid,” ungodly disrespectful, non-free market believing, force drugging, Holy Spirit blaspheming, systemic child abuse, rape, and easily recognized malpractice covering up, DSM deluded psych “professions.”
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
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All doctors are taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school, which I think is evidence that the mass murders by the psychiatric industry, are indeed intentional murders for profit, by the psychiatric industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
My condolences, Robert, for the loss of your loved one, and thank you for continuing to tell your story.
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Violet, I’m sorry you were subjected to abuse. I’m the mother of a child abuse survivor, who actually scared a school who had a child abuser on their school board, into closing down that school, after the medical abuse of my child was handed over.
But I agree, it’s absolutely disgusting that too many within both the psychological and psychiatric industries are systemic child abuse cover uppers.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
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“I believe we need to move away from the dominant biological model of psychiatric treatment.” I agree, as do some of my retired nurse friends, who are largely embarrassed by mainstream medicine at this point in time.
“The person is told they have a broken brain which would result in most people feeling very hopeless.” Yes, when a non-medically trained psychologist lies to a client and her husband, fraudulently claiming the wife has a “lifelong, incurable, genetic mental illness,” with zero genetic proof of this, it is intended to take away hope, and does destroy marriages.
“In a lot of cases a person suffering from life stress may benefit from a psychological model of ‘treatment’, with compassion, understanding and simple validation that what they are feeling is indeed normal.” If only the psychological industry hadn’t been largely corrupted by the lies of the DSM creators, but sadly most psychologists are DSM “bible” billers and believers today.
“Parents need to be told when their children are prescribed psychiatric drugs, so they know what to look out for and when to get help.” And the adults shouldn’t be lied to either. The “antidepressants” are not actually “safe smoking cessation meds.”
“I believe one of the biggest problems and wrongs is the medicalisation of normal human emotion. I also believe that we are now living in an increasingly sick society, one in which we were not evolved to live and cope in.” I agree, we have bad systems.
” … I am a strong believer in neuroplasticity and therefore believe in the brain’s innate ability to adapt to its previous state over time.” Me, too. Reminding a loved one who had been made terribly sick, via malpractice and bad personal behavior, about neuroplasticity, was what helped my loved one maintain hope and heal.
God bless in your drug withdrawal journey, Laura. I can’t claim it will be easy, but I do believe withdrawing from the antidepressants will be easier, and more successful, now that people know to hyperbolically wean off the anticholinergic drugs. And I will say, keep the faith … it is possible to heal from the iatrogenic illnesses created with the psychiatric neurotoxins.
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But, Steve, you can’t convince a healthy person they are “insane,” if you don’t first start spewing complete insanity at the person, like belief in the “invalid” DSM “BS,” then denying you spewed insanity at the person.
Oh, but that’s called “gaslighting,” and gaslighting is already known to be “mental abuse,” not “mental health care.”
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There is a big problem with the psych “professionals” misdiagnosing spiritual queries as “psychotic.” I had a dream about being moved by the Holy Spirit misdiagnosed as “psychosis.” No, it was just a dream that means one is moved by the Holy Spirit. But if all dreams are “psychosis,” since we all dream … well, that rather means everyone is “psychotic,” which renders the term “psychosis” to be “irrelevant to reality.”
And, yes, you are right that lots of drugs, both legal and illegal, can cause “psychosis,” but so too can sleep deprivation, etc. But included among the drugs that can create “psychosis” are the so called “antidepressants” and “antipsychotics” / neuroleptics, themselves.
The antidepressants and “antipsychotics” can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
And what’s sad is every doctor is taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school, including the psychiatrists … so I cannot say “they know not what they do.” A more truthful statement is what a family friend said, just after graduating from med school – “I know enough to be dangerous.”
God bless, Peter.
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“The behavior, thoughts, and feelings of distressed people are always reactions to something. Always. The only place where it makes any sense to label reactions as ‘symptoms’ is in a system that contrary to all science and reason insists on calling patterns of reactions-to-distress diseases that need treatment.”
Indeed, today’s scientifically “invalid,” DSM based psychiatric system itself, is insane.
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I agree, personally I found psychologists to be some of the least ethical people on the planet. One psychologist I dealt with charged me for her services, fraudulently implying she was working for me, but then she ran off like a manic lunatic to get lies and gossip about me from a child abusing pastor and a pedophile’s wife (neither of whom knew me), according to her own medical records.
Decades later I was attacked by a second psychologist, who hacked into my computer, and handed me the most appalling take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with an appalling conservatorship contract, all disingenuously dressed up as an “art manager” contract. I refused to sign his appalling contract … many, many times. And finally I had to report him to the police.
Definitely some psychologists have less than zero ethics. I’m sorry about what happened to you, Cornelia.
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Personally, I think that since we know the ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create “psychosis” / “voices.”
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
And since we know the psychiatric treatment for “voices” / “psychosis” – the antipsychotics – can create “voices” / “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, and a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis, and also possibly neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
I think the most important way to deal with “voices” / “psychosis” is to prevent the psychiatrists, psychologists, and mainstream doctors from actually putting innocent people on the psych drugs in the first place.
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It is interesting to point out that equine therapy, which may likely have helped you, and art therapy, which did help me … but neither of which financially benefits the medical / pharmaceutical industrial complex … may be the best healing modalities, for the legitimately distressed human beings?
Although, I am a big believer in other arts (like music and writing) and nature based (like mere gardening) natural healing methods / non-“therapies,” too. Some day, the reality that bad things sometimes happen to good people, needs to be admitted to.
I hope both psychology and psychiatry will some day stop denying this common sense reality of life, and stop coerce and force drugging all legitimately distressed humans.
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I’m glad you “not only survived, but” are “also thriving,” Martha. I agree, the scientifically “invalid” psychiatric and psychological industries have majorly betrayed their clients.
But you do bring up a point that I think is very important, “Thirty years ago … my husband (now ex) did believe you — and he wasn’t there for any of this. He left me and our children when he heard this from you.”
A non-medically trained, DSM deluded, psychologist’s misdiagnosis destroyed my marriage decades ago too. There should be a price to pay for such a psychological non-“holistic, Christian” “marriage therapist’s” / psychologist’s blatant malpractice … since she seemingly wanted to cover up the abuse of my innocent child, for her pastor (and this seemingly is a systemic problem called “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” according to ethical pastors of a different religion) … and according to my child’s medical records.
Both the DSM deluded psychological and psychiatric industries are literally systemic child abuse cover uppers, according to the actual medical evidence, and they nose themselves into the lives of innocent families, and sometimes perhaps ignorantly, but sometimes definitely intentionally, try to rip families to shreds.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
I have both medical and legal evidence of these systemic crimes … not to mention also evidence of the systemic child abuse covering up crimes of my ex-religion.
https://books.google.com/books?id=xI01AlxH1uAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary
_r&cad=#v=onepage&q&f=false
i’m one of the likely many “widows” mentioned in the Preface to that book, which was written right after I’d handed over a medical synopsis of the malpractice I’d dealt with to my former religion.
But I’ll ask, how is ripping marriages and families to shreds, considered “medical care,” psychology and psychiatry?
I’m glad you’ve escaped and healed, Martha.
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Unless, it’s been censored – which a lot of the truth has been – sadly.
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David, I too was neurotoxic poisoned for belief in God. It’s disgusting that the psychologic and psychiatric “professions” claim to NOT do that, yet they do … seemingly systemically.
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” … a more core error of establishment psychiatry, one shared by many other mental health professionals, is a certainty that societal and cultural ‘consensus realities’ are in fact natural realities. This certainty is quite sad given that many prominent thinkers have questioned the sanity of societal and cultural consensus realities.”
Yes, those of us who had all distress caused by the distressing 9/11/01 event, blamed upon a “chemical imbalance” in my brain alone … one who knows that was insane … but I also know we do have bad systems / corporations in control of our society … and have for too many decades, if not centuries, or millennium.
“Part of what makes life worth living is having curiosity to discover truths that are ignored or denied by consensus reality. Such curiosity energizes a joyful and empowering expansion of one’s being ….” I agree, being an open minded, never ending researcher and learner, is a wonderful way to live one’s life … and work oneself (and hopefully all others) towards wisdom.
Thank you, as always, for your truthful reporting, Bruce.
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Sadly, you’re right, John. The corruption is not just within the medical and big Pharma industries … best I can tell, from my many decades of research into many of the systemic problems within industries is … it’s pretty much systemic, avarice inspired corruption, within all the so called “professions.”
Thank you, Peter, for your continued honest reporting of the systemic crimes of the psy industries and big Pharma.
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I’m glad you found a psychologist, who utilized not just the analytic side of their brain, but also the creative side of their brain, Nancy.
My many decades of experience and research has left me believing way too many “mental health professionals” are only able to utilize the analytical side of their brains … which is why (aside from pure greed) they still want to continue utilizing their debunked DSM, and marginal psychological theories … not to mention, it’s also part of why so many bloggers here are artists / creatives.
Creative thinking is a much undervalued talent in Western civilization. And it’s also a much under taught talent in Western education systems.
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Oh, there’s no money in researching into the need for societal change. For goodness sake, the psychiatric and psychological powers that shouldn’t be, want to “maintain the status quo” … so does big Pharma.
But there are some of us who have researched into such anyway, and hope and pray we will all some day work to clean up the messes, that our predecessors have left us, and bring about God’s will on this planet instead.
Thank you, as always, for speaking the truth, Dr. Peter.
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“psychotic symptoms may be withdrawal effects from reduction of antipsychotics and may not necessarily represent unmasking of the underlying disorder.”
Most definitely. As one who was inappropriately put on antipsychotics, to supposedly “cure” the common symptom of “brain zaps,” which were due to an inappropriate abrupt withdrawal from a non-“safe smoking cessation med,” an actual dangerous antidepressant.
I will say, as one who dealt with blatant psychological / psychiatric malpractice, according to the DSM-IV-TR, at the time. Trying to treat the common adverse and withdrawal effects of the antidepressants (anticholinergic drugs) with multiple more anticholinergic drugs (the even worse, antipsychotic drugs) does NOT work.
Twenty plus years later, I still have the brain zaps, which I’ve thankfully learned to control in my waking hours, so they aren’t that bothersome to me any longer, at least in my waking hours.
But I will say, I do now have insight, by experience, and much subsequent psychopharmacology research, into what “psychosis” actually is. And I do so hope to help give the psychiatrists and psychologists insight into what “psychosis” actually is, how it relates to their dangerous anticholinergic drugs, and safe withdrawal from them.
All dreams are NOT “psychosis,” as my former Holy Spirit blaspheming “holistic, Christian talk therapist” psychologist incorrectly believed. And brain zaps are NOT “psychosis” either.
When an essentially healthy person is inappropriately put on an antipsychotic, however, it can make a person “psychotic,” via anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning. An anticholinergic toxidrome induced “psychosis” is a very nasty and evil form of “psychosis.”
A slowly tapered withdrawal off of antipsychotics, as my psychiatrist did, after he stopped listening to the lies of my misdiagnosing, non-medically trained, psychologist. That did result in a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis – but it wasn’t an evil “psychosis,” it functioned as an awakening to my dreams … where lots of my soul mates, within the collective unconscious, were trying to save me.
“Horowitz and Moncrieff suggest that long-term treatment with antipsychotics may cause brain adaptations as the brain works to process and reach homeostasis.”
I agree, since like many of us here, I also have done my homework. And I do have my drug history all written up in a one page synopsis spread sheet, if either of you are interested in getting a copy, Horowitz or Moncrieff? I’ll update it a little, since I first wrote it up in 2005, and Whitaker’s, et al, and my subsequent reporting and research did provide further insight into the actual etiology of the malpractice I dealt with.
“Given the evidence presented above highlighting the convergence in relapse rates between the maintenance and discontinuation arms in antipsychotic discontinuation trials at three years, this suggests that tapering patients over approximately three years (although with substantial individual variability) …”
My tapering period was a little longer, 3 – 7 years, depending upon whether to want to respect the psychological malpractice covering up crimes of the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, not to mention the similar crimes by my ex-religion. Albeit, my ex-religion’s psychological malpractice covering up crimes are still on-going … decades later.
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Thank you for speaking so much common sense, Ethan.
“But Americans’ faith in their ruling institutions is declining, and for good reason. The spell of the literal and figurative priesthood has been broken. Just as it has become increasingly common for individuals to declare that they are ‘spiritual not religious,'” which is also for good reason.
“I hope and believe that it is only a matter of time before people turn against the psychiatric priesthood and find that the answers are within themselves and within their own communities.” Let’s all hope and pray for the day.
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“To put it another way, is the person truly helping the subject accomplish his/her goals or simply helping themselves at the subject’s [or religion’s, or corporation’s, or government’s] expense?”
“In the latter case, I’d call it murder.” Me, too, or at least it was attempted anticholinergic toxidrome murders, that I personally call attempted murders, by my ex-religion and criminal doctors … since I had no desire to die, when I was a young mom, hoping to properly raise my children.
Sadly, we are dealing with a repeating of the worst of history, a new psychiatric holocaust … seemingly for the worst religions, corporations, and governments on the planet.
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The link to the survey results has been deleted. Is that something that can be seen again?
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“Essentially, SAMHSA is invoking what we have called level 1 causality, cognizant that we do not know the precise pathophysiological processes that explain bipolar disorder or schizophrenia (level 2 causality).”
Well, us critical psychopharmacology researchers have pointed these out. Psychiatry’s antidepressants and ADHD drugs can create the symptoms of “bipolar.” (read “Anatomy of an Epidemic”)
And we’ve also pointed out that the anticholinergic drugs (which includes the antidepressants and antipsychotics) can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome. And the antipsychotics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“…it is logically circular to say that depression caused the person’s depressed mood, [but] it is not circular to say that depression caused the person to not attend an event.”
But in my case, I had to leave my ex-religion because a non-clinical psychologist chose to behave as an attempted thief, since he was apparently ignorant of psychiatry’s systemic iatrogenic illness creation crimes. But we did not stop attending church services of that religion because either my mother or I claim to be “depressed,” or “mentally ill” in any way.
“But this is precisely where the circularity charge falls apart. For if the depression itself can cause a person to ‘not attend an event,’ then, ipso facto, depression itself necessarily has causal efficacy; ie, it can itself act on individuals to produce clinical or behavioral effects.”
Not if a family leaves a religion – thus does “not attend an event,” like going to church – due to an attempted thieving (disingenuous conservatorship contract handing over), ignorant, psychiatric deluded non-medically trained, non-clinical psychologist is just trying to steal from us.
We left my ex-religion because of a DSM deluded attempted thief, not because of any claims of any “disability” on our part.
“Consequently, there is no reason in principle why depression could not also cause the person to sleep poorly, eat poorly, feel guilty or suicidal, or experience psychomotor slowing.”
I never had any complaints of sleeping or eating poorly (but I did lose weight, via regular moderate exercise, upon the recommendation of an orthopedic surgeon, due to a “bad fix” on a broken bone). Nor did I ever have of feelings of guilt or suicidality. And the only “experience psychomotor slowing” I ever personally dealt with, was “brain zaps.” Which is a common adverse effect of being abruptly taken off of an ineffective supposed (but not approved for that purpose) “safe smoking cessation med,” an actual dangerous antidepressant.
“And importantly: none of these facts requires us to have a complete or even a partial understanding of the pathophysiology or etiopathology of depression itself.”
I disagree. Etiology actually matters, especially when it comes to societal greed only inspired medical crimes.
“when James Parkinson described a well-defined constellation of signs and symptoms he called ‘the shaking palsy,’ he had in fact identified a disease state that caused the patient’s signs and symptoms—and what would later become known as Parkinson disease.”
Well, this might be true, if the psychiatric industry had been honest about the fact their neuroleptics can create dyskinesia, which looks like Parkinson disease to the doctors … but the psychiatrists haven’t been honest about this, to a large extent, until recently.
“It would be absurd, on that basis, to say that Parkinson disease did not exist—or was not the cause of parkinsonian symptoms—until its etiopathology was discovered in the 1950s and 60s.”
What exactly do you claim to be the known “etiopathology” (etiologic) cause of Parkinson’s disease, since this article, which seems to have been published in 2018, says “The cause of PD is not known ….”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK536722/
“This fact flatly contradicts the position that only conditions with known and identified pathophysiology count as bona fide diseases.”
Your claimed “fact,” to my knowledge, is not a “fact.” And I know from personal family history that a grandmother had to be quickly taken off of an inappropriately given neuroleptic, because it caused Parkinson like, dyskinesia.
Thankfully, appropriately taking my grandmother off an inappropriately given neuroleptic worked, and my psychic (not “psychotic”) grandmother, never again dealt with “Parkinson” symptoms, and lived a healthy life, to the ripe old age of 94.
“Finally, to be clear: in asserting that some psychiatric diagnoses can legitimately be said to be causative of symptoms, we are not claiming that psychiatric disorders arise solely from constitutional-biological factors.”
Well, that’s wrong, since that’s exactly what the non-medically trained psychologists, and psychiatrists who deny the common adverse and withdrawal effects of the psych drugs, have been doing for decades.
“Of course, we all wish that psychiatry were at the point of invoking level 2 causality in our diagnoses,” but that, too, is also untrue. Since that’s not in the iatrogenic illness creating psychiatrist’s financial best interest.
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I think it is downright stupid, and evil, to force amphetamines on children. I pray for the day our society ends its forced drugging of children, with any of the psych drugs.
I know its profitable, but I think it is morally repugnant for grown adults to neurotoxic poison children.
Thanks for helping to point out the absurdity and insanity of today’s iatrogenic illness creating, DSM “BS” based, psychiatric system, Nick.
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Thank you for sharing your story, Cameron. If it matters, as a loving mother, I will say I think this is a rather evil thing for your adoptive parents to have said to you, “Your mother didn’t want you, so we took you.” Where’s the love?
Although, as one whose nemesis was an adoptive mother, who was allowed to adopt a child – after she and her husband were so negligent, that their first born toddler ran into a street, was hit by a truck, and died.
I will say, we do need to have potential adoptive parents better researched into, prior to letting them adopt a child … not that that means you should have killed your adoptive parents … but I’m quite certain those murders were likely due to the psychiatric neurotoxins.
And, of course, the psych drugging that you experienced was horrendous. I’m so sorry you, and all who’ve dealt with psychiatric iatrogenesis, have had to deal with that living hell.
Thank you for sharing your story, Cameron. And I’m glad you survived the horrendous psych drugging, and drug withdrawal, and are doing better now. God bless.
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Go Buckeyes! I’m glad the economists are researching and reporting on the fraud of big Pharma and psychiatry. Thank you.
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“Third, with our American-style capitalism (think neoliberalism),” MiA is big on standing against “neoliberalism.” I must say, I wasn’t quite certain exactly what “neoliberalism” is, so I looked it up.
My computer says it is, “a political movement that favors free market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.”
Well, in as much as I agree with the potential of free market capitalism and a reduction in government spending. I do believe a government’s only real job is to regulate large industries, to protect the people living within their society, from the potential criminality and greed of big industries.
And the US government seems to have done the opposite of its actual, and only legitimate job – which is to regulate industries to protect their people from the run amok greed only inspired industries.
And protecting the American citizens from the staggering greed of big Pharma, and the financial ponzi scheme of the globalist banking system, is what the US government has neglected to do, for a long time.
Instead, the US government seems to be totally controlled by the greed of the globalist banking ponzi scheme, and the avarice and scientific fraud of big Pharma.
So I’m having trouble in seeing the value of a government, that has done the opposite, due to its own greed, of its only real job … which is to regulate big business, so its citizens can be protected from the systemic crimes of big industries.
In our current society, “it is the individual that is seen as ‘ill’ and needs to be fixed. Society gets a free pass. This too is a barrier to good ‘mental health’ care, for it prevents us from thinking about what changes we might make to our society that would be more nurturing for us all.”
I agree, this is morally wrong. Sometimes we need to look at the seeming greed only inspired flaws of our government and our society.
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“The pervasive lies in psychiatry are just overwhelming,” yes they are. As a former marketing major I was taught false advertising is illegal. If we lived in a world where the rule of law was abided by, I think pretty much all big Pharma advertisers of psych drugs and psychiatrists spewing their “chemical imbalance” lies, and other lies, should be arrested for false advertising.
Although, in reality, any “medical professional” who prescribes the antidepressants and/or antipsychotics should probably be arrested for worse crimes against humanity, given how dangerous and deadly the psych drugs actually are … and since all doctors were all taught in med school about anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
Although oddly, but conveniently for the psychiatric industry, anticholinergic toxidrome is not even mentioned in their “invalid” DSM “bible.”
Thank you, as always, for speaking the truth, Dr. Peter.
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It’s interesting you speak so much about the importance of faith communities, but I agree, they can be important. However, since my experience with a not hired by me psychologist, was one of him handing over a take-a-percentage-of-gross thievery contract, combined with a conservatorship contract – which, of course will get the intelligent widows out of their church. Since who in their right mind would want to worship in a church, where there is a psychologist who wants to steal everything and more from you? Not me, nor my widowed mother.
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I agree, Birdsong. According to my medical records, my psychologist and psychiatrists were Holy Spirit blasphemers and God deniers.
But what’s good about that is this means the psychological and psychiatric industries have committed “the only unforgivable sin in the Holy Bible” … so maybe us independent psychopharmacology researchers will win some day? Let’s hope and pray.
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“Antidepressants examined in our review may have a very small positive effect in older people with knee OA. This benefit may be outweighed by their potential risks.”
And since those of us who were young adults that were given the SNRIs, under the lie that the SNRIs are “safe smoking cessation meds” know the potential “risks” of the SNRIs is having the common adverse withdrawal effects of the SNRIs misdiagnosed as “bipolar,” which results in an iatrogenic living hell.
I agree, the systemic denial of truthful psychological and psychiatric “reporting of associated adverse events further challenges the use of antidepressants in older adults.”
But I am grateful a few American psychologists are waking up to the satanic iatrogenic illness creation system of the big Pharma deluded psychiatric system, Peter. Thank you for your truthful reporting.
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Psychology and psychiatry have entered into faustian deals with both the paternalistic mainstream religions and our government. But I do believe God knows this, and those Pharmakia forcing industries will be judged fairly by God. Let’s hope and pray for the fair judgement by God, of all those within the Holy Spirit blaspheming, psychological and psychiatric industries.
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I don’t mean to say, it’s absurd that Jesus would try to protect me, I think it was absurd that a pastor and a social worker would proclaim me to be Him.
But since I do now have medical evidence He did seemingly protect me from 14 different anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders of me, I will say, Jesus did seemingly protect me. And say, thank you, Jesus, for dying for my sins.
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” … when free spirit operates in you and becomes you, it can only work for your freedom.” I agree.
But I do have a question for those who dealt with Spiritual matters that were misdiagnosed as a “mental illness,” and most importantly any ethical doctors and/or “mental health professionals” who read this.
I have in my medical records evidence that a former pastor, “Don thought she is the second coming of Jesus.”
My medical records also state – I presume also from that ex-pastor – since it wasn’t from me, “voices of God talk through her to other people.”
But I also have evidence that a social worker, who I didn’t know, and she didn’t know me, who medically unnecessarily had me sent to a now FBI convicted doctor.
She claimed in my medical records that “a man, Jesus, spoke through her [me],” and Jesus supposedly warned that social worker, that she was participating in the attempted murder of me, which is technically what she did.
After I picked up my medical records, I called this unknown to me social worker, and asked her about this absurdity. She told me, “I declare so many people to be Jesus, I don’t even remember meeting you.”
So I’m wondering if any ethical doctors, pastors, “mental health professionals” or social workers that read this can tell me, is fraudulently declaring people to be Jesus medical / pastoral code for crucify this person?
Is that “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions?”
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“I believe that in our darkest moments or in our greatest highs we have an opening to find the courage to seek clarity within our hearts.” I agree.
“I wish for one principle to be accessible to all: A Never Give Up attitude that makes you available to the always possible mysterious miracle that hovers in all of our lives.”
Hope is imperative, I agree, but spewing lies about “lifelong, incurable, genetic mental illnesses,” caused by “chemical imbalances,” is the opposite of giving a person hope. Those lies destroy families.
Let’s all pray for that “mysterious miracle that hovers in all of our lives.” God bless you in your endeavors, and on your journey, Ron.
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Most of this blog came across as psychobabble to me, initially, until I went to the cited definitions of “direct interventions” / “suicide-focused” vs. “indirect interventions” / “other (indirect) psychotherapies on suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.”
First of all, I will say the psychological and psychiatric industries are obsessed with suicide, from my experience. I wasn’t remotely suicidal when I went to my former psychologist, I just wanted to know the etiology of my antidepressant withdrawal induced brain zaps.
But the psychologists are not medically trained doctors, so they should never be recommended as a doctor, to someone who has a real life physical symptom of antidepressant withdrawal. But that was way back in 2001, and none of the psychiatrists or psychologists even knew antidepressant discontinuation syndrome caused brain zaps, until 2005.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247806326_'Brain_shivers'_From_chat_room_to_clinic
Isn’t the ignorance based arrogance and hubris appalling?
Maybe we shouldn’t give any industries the right to play judge, jury, and executioner, to innocent others, for any ethical or unethical reasons they please? Maybe that’s the opposite of living in a just and law based society?
But I’m curious when you say, “Psychotherapy Reduces Suicide Attempts.” Is that compared to compassionate, actual care … or is psychotherapy only better than psychology’s partner, psychiatry’s “care,” which is one of forced chemical gang rapes, and neurotoxic poisonings?
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The psychological and psychiatric industries do like to neurotoxic poison people going through a spiritual experience. I’m not quite certain why they think that is legal in the US, since our country is supposed to have freedom of religion, thus neurotoxic poisoning people for questioning a dream about being moved by the Holy Spirit or merely for belief in God (both of which happened to me) should be illegal in the US.
Thank you for sharing your story, Ashley. I feel it’s really important for people to share the true evil of force drugging people, and you accomplished that task … it reminded me of the horror I was subjected to, by a now FBI convicted doctor and his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime. (It is chemical gang rape.)
Glad you escaped, enjoy your beautiful children, they grow up fast … and raising one’s children is a true gift, a labor of love. But I do find it hypocritical that the psychological and psychiatric industries (supposed “care” givers) apparently think that trying to properly raise one’s own children, which involves actual care giving, equates to being “w/o work, content, and talent” and “irrelevant to reality,” at least according to my medical records.
Personally, I think it is the scientifically “invalid” psychological and psychiatric industries that are “w/o work, content, and talent” and “irrelevant to reality” … albeit they do have a systemic projection problem.
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I agree, we need to get rid of basically all of the greed only inspired, “Rockefeller medicine” / big Pharma iatrogenic illnesses creating medical system.
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Well, that is exactly what makes psychiatric drug withdrawal so confusing to most, including also the mainstream doctors … if they were NOT taught about anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning in med school … which they all were.
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Thank you so much, Tomasz, I’m so grateful for you sharing your story about healing from psychiatric harm. As a US psychopharmacology researcher, who stands adamantly against big Pharma’s, psychiatry’s, and psychology’s systemic abuse of American children, I’m very grateful for your truth telling.
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That seems like an insult, registerforthissite. Did I read your comment incorrectly? If I read your comment incorrectly, please clarify.
But please keeping in mind, I have a right to be appalled at psychology and psychiatry, since I actually did deal with criminal abuse of both psychology and psychiatry … and these are systemic crimes against many … not just me.
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Nor, too often, do they even “know what they do,” or so they say.
Albeit, we now all live in the internet age, so the truth is becoming clearer. And given the fact all MDs are taught in medical school about anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
None of the MDs, including the psychiatrists, have any moral right to say they were not educated in medical school “how to be dangerous,” with the antidepressants and antipsychotics (and other anticholinergic drugs).
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Indeed, the US needs to make pharmaceutical advertising illegal again.
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Thank you for sharing your healing journey, Christine. I agree with Birdsong, the unconscious self is wiser than the conscious self … and me, like you, and likely almost all humans … are all still working our way towards wisdom.
But this is all the more reason I agree, Christine, that “The individual [should have] agency and responsibility … [And this means that] before [the psychological and psychiatric industries] find fault in the individual, we need to look at what is a choice and what is simply how the mind functions.”
And sadly today, neither psychology nor psychiatry seems to have this wisdom, thus they should stop judging and misjudging innocent others … since the psychologists and psychiatrists aren’t God, thus they shouldn’t be trying to function as the judges of all of humanity.
… Just my humble opinion, as one who dealt with a lot of psychological and psychiatric malpractice, and other psychological and psychiatric crimes.
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Lol, No-one.
“Having the risk of developing PSSD as an outcome is a breach of research ethics, so using randomized controlled trials to study the condition is not possible.”
Does this mean you may not do testing on people with antidepressants for PSSD, since it is – of course – morally reprehensible to create PSSD with the antidepressants?
Or did I misunderstand this comment? … and the antidepressants have already been passed out like candy to everyone the mainstream doctors and psychiatrists can possibly get to take them …. so haven’t all those doctors who’ve already been pushing and forcing the antidepressants on people, for decades, already behaved in a morally reprehensible manner?
“When service users recognize PSSD and bring it to the attention of healthcare professionals, they are often treated poorly.” Based upon my experience, anyone who has ever dealt with any kind of malpractice, gets put on an antidepressant, then all the common adverse and withdrawal symptoms of the antidepressants get “… incorrectly attributed to some mental health issue.”
As to “prevention,” it’s not complex, but it’s also not profitable for the doctors … get the doctors to stop covering up their easily recognized iatrogenesis, with the complex iatrogenesis of the psychiatric drugs. And eventually make prescribing the antidepressants illegal.
But, of course that would take time, since everyone dealing with today’s psychiatric industries’ “complex iatrogenesis” would need to be properly weaned off the psychiatric neurotoxins, if they so desire. And, in as much as that’s what should happen, it’d be very hard for the psychiatric industry and mainstream medical industry, to even clean up the iatrogenic living nightmare they’ve created … albeit, due to their avarice.
Aren’t we all a bunch of psychopharmacology researcher geeks here, No-one?
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“The solution, of course, is to treat these actions as the crimes that they are. That means sending people to prison and holding individuals personally accountable (that includes physicians).”
I agree.
“Other crimes in our society are treated seriously.” Well, I don’t know that I agree with that.
“Why do medical crimes get a pass?” It’s the same reason the child abuse crimes of the religions, by way of their “partnership” with the “mental health” industries, get systemically covered up … for profit.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/02/metoo-believing-women-
freuds-assault-on-truth/
https://books.google.com/books?id=xI01AlxH1uAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_
r&cad=#v=onepage&q&f=false
Thank you so much (sarcasm), paternalistic DSM deluded psychiatry and psychology, for “partnering” with the mainstream paternalistic religions, in a multi-billion dollar, systemic child abuse and easily recognized malpractice covering up DSM deluded “religion.” And forcing us all into a satanic “pedophile empire” – one you (and all other doctors) profiteer off of, psychological and psychiatric industries.
https://pedoempire.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/PedoEmpire-Flyer-One-Page.pdf
As one who seems to be, “that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion.” The problem seems to me to be one of belief in the “invalid” DSM “bible” vs. the Holy Bible.
But that’s just my humble opinion. However, it is an opinion from one who has medical, legal, and written proof by others, and psychopharmacology research of my own, of my legitimate concerns.
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I agree, I was given one based upon the lie that it was a “safe smoking cessation med.” Wellbutrin is NOT even approved for smoking cessation.
Oh, but my PCP had a projection problem, and she was dangerously paranoid of a non-existent malpractice suit, because it turned out her husband was the “attending physician” at a “bad fix” on a broken ankle of mine. Gee, is that a motive to defame a person with an “invalid” DSM disorder and try to murder the person, via a whole lot of medically known toxidrome poisonings? Obviously it was.
And what’s really rather sad is my ex-PCP’s husband did end up killing at least one other person with some sort of an ankle problem. Maybe it’d be better for all, if the incompetent doctors got out of the medical business instead?
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So corruption, systemically, by big Pharma and the FDA, exists? (sarcasm) Goodness, and they’re trying to systemically call all of those of us ethical older people pointing out this insane criminality by “Fierce Pharma” as insane? Same old, same old defamation, that’s been going on within the psychiatric faction of the Big Pharma deluded medical system for decades.
Thank you, as always, for your truthful reporting, young Peter.
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“any unpleasant symptoms experienced on discontinuing antidepressants have resolved within two weeks of stopping treatment.”
Well, I know my experience is only “antidotal,” but as one who went to a doctor due to “brain zaps” – a common symptom of antidepressant withdrawal, that all doctors were claiming complete ignorance of, until 2005 – in late 2001.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247806326_'Brain_shivers'_From_chat_room_to_clinic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant_discontinuation_syndrome
I will say none of psychiatry’s neurotoxins cure the common antidepressant adverse withdrawal effect of “brain zaps.” And I still have “brain zaps” 23 years later. But I used to
“trust my doctors.”
But this means it is a blatant lie that “any unpleasant symptoms experienced on discontinuing antidepressants [will] resolve within two weeks of stopping treatment.”
And I agree, “‘For those of us who were ignorant of the possibility of antidepressant withdrawal and whose lives were shockingly altered by the severity of it, reading the inevitable academic splitting of hairs of the potential numbers of us is highly frustrating. It is now fully accepted that withdrawal exists, so please may we have appropriate support services put in place to help people who need it.’”
And the truth is, the solution to psychiatric drug caused iatrogenic problems is NOT more psychiatric iatrogenesis (like massive anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings).
Thank you, as always, for your truth telling, Dr. John Read.
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What about us independents, which I think is about 40% of all Americans? I agree with others here who point out the simplistic beliefs of those who believe everyone needs to be divided between right and left.
It’s kind of like the psychiatric reductionism of the scientific fraud based psychiatric and psychological industries. No, there’s more than just two choices, at least there most certainly should be such.
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Thank you for sharing your “in-depth exploration of the PBD phenomenon,” I’ve only just read the first 29 pages, but I think it is likely a very important document. As a psychopharmacology researcher, out of necessity and experience, who does not agree with the DSM5, which took this disclaimer out of the DSM5.
“Note: Manic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant
treatment (e.g., medication, electroconvulsive therapy, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder.”
I agree with Whitaker’s concern that both the ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the symptoms of “bipolar.” Since I’d had the common symptom of antidepressant withdrawal, “brain zaps,” misdiagnosed as “bipolar” in 2001.
And I found medical evidence that the “antipsychotics” can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Gee, if the adverse effects / symptoms of the “schizophrenia treatments” can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “the sacred symbol of psychiatry,” doesn’t that just make the whole of the psychiatric industry … an iatrogenic illness creation system?
“Is Pediatric Bipolar an Epidemic in the U.S. or a Result of Pharma Influence?” I think it’s both, and due to medical avarice and psychiatric and psychological hubris.
I’ll go back to reading your article, Peter. Thank you for your so far, seeming, truthful research and reporting. We need to stop psych drugging the children, and adults, of America. It’s appalling.
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“An evidence-based approach clearly shows that the reliance on detention, force and coercion over the past two decades has not led to better outcomes.”
including the forced and coerced drugging of all, during the Covid debacle.
Let’s be realistic, big Pharma / psychiatry / psychology freaked out, and acted like three year olds, because their cash cow, psychiatry, had been scientifically debunked as scientific fraud. So “fierce Pharma” needed to look for a new “cash cow.”
So they created the forced and coerced drugging of all, via Covid, which resulted in a societal disaster.
The right of any doctor to force drug anyone, should be made illegal, worldwide.
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“I was surprised as I had been told that I would be on an antipsychotic for the rest of my life.” Isn’t it downright evil that the “mental health professionals” are telling us this?
As one who ran a S.T.E.A.M. program for disadvantaged youth in a town near me, until Covid hit. Where I saw amazing progress in the mostly disadvantaged black youth I worked with, albeit I also saw some of the abuse of underprivileged black youth … which no one properly addressed.
I will say, I’ve been trying to help all the youth of my own country become both left and right brain thinkers, my entire adult life. I hope America can overcome the divisive behaviors of our globalist want-to-be -“masters.” And realize we Americans are all one … black, white, it doesn’t matter our skin color … Humanity will hopefully all be “one in the Spirit,” pray to God, some day soon.
But I’m glad you escaped the oppression, Olúṣèyí. Thank you for sharing your story, and I agree, “Go Where You Are Watered.”
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“The exclusion of disabled and feminist perspectives, Hunt concludes, damages everyone—discrimination against anyone creates room for the discrimination of everyone.”
I agree, and that’s where we are. Good God, the Covid measures were abuse of all.
Let’s hope and pray that some day the paternalistic corporations and industries will change from their evil and scientifically “invalid” ways, and learn all people (including the women) need to be treated in a mutually respectful manner.
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Thanks for sharing your story, Robert. I like your title, it’s rather a good FU to those who, very literally, create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” with their antipsychotic / neuroleptic “treatments.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome (via anticholinergic toxidrome)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
“All that psychiatrists can tell you is negative and pessimistic.” I’ve found the same to be true of the incorrectly assuming, DSM “bible” billing, attempted anticholinergic toxidrome murdering, and appalling conservatorship contract handing out, computer hacking, attempted thieving, psychologists, too.
“I believe that every case of child abuse should be exposed, denounced and punished, even if the child is a homosexual and even if the abuser is a psychiatrist” … or even a local “cocaine dealer” or pastor.
I agree, and both the psychological and psychiatric fields have a proven history of systemically covering up child abuse, which of course is illegal.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
But it is by DSM design.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
And in as much as I had to leave my ex-religion, because they are “partnered with” the DSM “bible” billers, resulting in the leaders of my ex-religion becoming a bunch of systemic child abuse cover uppers and thieves, too.
https://books.google.com/books?id=xI01AlxH1uAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_
r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
I do agree, maintaining a loving relationship with God is important. But I don’t agree with you when you say,
“I consider my schizophrenia to be incurable simply because I refuse to give up my religious convictions and commitments.”
Instead, I think the psychologic and psychiatric industries should stop systemically defaming Spirit moved people, and believers in God … especially in the US, since that is also illegal behavior, on the part of the psychologic and psychiatric industries, in this country.
I do agree, however, “Without the sacred, life becomes meaningless,” so I, too, won’t stop believing in the Triune God.
And I also agree, “it is we crazy people [or us sane people living within insane societies and times] who change the world and that the world needs real changes now more than ever.” We are the “canaries in the coal mine,” and we do need major systemic change.
God help us. And God bless, Robert, I’m glad you escaped the insanity of today’s insane and “invalid” DSM deluded psychiatric, psychological, et al system. Thank you, again, for sharing your story.
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“… the researchers’ takeaway was to try your best to avoid high doses of amphetamines.”
“… try your best …”??? Trying your best would be ending the unnecessary, unneeded, and harmful psych drugging of children altogether. As a mother, and one who ran art programs for children, much of my life. I do know children – and their seeming never ending energy and inquisitiveness – can be challenging.
But I’ve known in my gut, for decades, that anyone who thinks force drugging children with amphetamines – drugs more or less chemically identical to cocaine – are insane … or evil … or maybe just incredibly ignorant and lazy. A slap on the hand of a mischievous child (even with a ruler) is no where close to as evil, as psych drugging a child for life.
And I never had to do, nor did, either. But I will admit I did have to give one of my own children a quick hand slap on the butt once … because I was remiss in teaching my three year old about how delicate a newborn’s neck is, and in the moment, I was terrified he might accidentally hurt or kill his newborn sibling.
“Beyond the question of high doses, the diagnosis of ADHD itself—and the prescription of stimulants at any dose—has received significant criticism from prominent figures in psychiatry.”
And us critical psychiatry people, who did our homework over the past decades, want to see the ending of the psych drugging of all children … and all adults. All the psych drugs are dangerous, iatrogenic illness creating neurotoxins.
Thank you, as always, Peter, for your truth telling.
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“Historically, Indian approaches to mental illness were deeply connected to spiritual and emotional well-being, with treatments often focusing on holistic methods.”
I think the same is true in most cultures, and Spiritual traditions.
“… Behaviors that were traditionally seen as part of an ascetic lifestyle—such as wandering [or in today’s US culture, merely choosing to be a stay at home mom and active volunteer, in a new neighborhood]—were reinterpreted as symptoms of mental illness.”
I agree, Britain’s “colonial practices” are, and have always been, deplorable. Trying to escape Britain’s deplorable “colonial practices” and bad systems, is largely why the US exists. Sadly, we’ve brought Britain’s bad systems over here with us.
But the “… Western psychiatric models continue to dominate the field in India.” And this is the problem.
And, I know, from personal experience. As one who had the misfortune of dealing with the India trained, now FBI convicted, V.R.Kuchipudi.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/oak-brook-doctor-sentenced-two-years-prison-connection-kickback-scheme-sacred-heart
And his DSM deluded India psychiatric “snowing” partner in crime. I’d politely ask India to get your not yet arrested, but criminal, greed only inspired, DSM deluded doctors out of my country.
I mean it’s insane a mother can not move from her local city, to a suburb to try to properly raise her children, without being defamed as “mentally ill,” by some DSM deluded, greed only inspired, criminal doctors from India, or other parts of the world.
“It did not make sense. Despite the alleged ‘dangers,’ why were people fleeing modern psychiatric care for faith healing?”
As an American who was inappropriately psych drugged for belief in the Holy Spirit and God largely by foreign doctors, to cover up the medical evidence of a ‘bad fix’ on a broken bone for a foreign doctor. And the medical evidence of the abuse of my innocent child for a criminal American. It makes perfect sense to me.
But that’s because I now understand the psychiatric drugs actually can create the symptoms of the “invalid” DSM disorders.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=transforming+diagnosis+nimh&t=osx&ia=web
The ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the “bipolar” symptoms. And the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
Both the people of India, and the people of America, instead, need to work together to end the evil “colonial practices” and bad systems of the British empire, like their psychiatric and psychologic systems.
Since the iatrogenic illness creating psychiatric and psychological systems, are likely only actually needed for the unwisely inbreeding, Western civilization controlling families … not the masses of civilization, who don’t inbreed, due to greed.
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God bless you on your drug withdrawal journey, Pamala. Keep the faith, some of us have extracted ourselves from the even worse, iatrogenic “bipolar epidemic” (of course, created with the “antidepressants.”)
And kudos to you, on all you are doing to help bring about safe psych drug withdrawal practices, in your nation. Please keep in close contact with MiA, and Americans, in general. Since some American psychologists will go to extreme illegal measures, to “maintain the status quo.” I do have legal proof of this.
But how disgusting can the psychologic industry of America get? Oh, after the American psychological industry’s DSM was debunked as scientific fraud, they seemingly brought us all the Covid, coerced and forced drugging, debacle?
Pardon my legitimate disgust at some American psychologists. But I recognize a societal gas lighting, and a psy-op, when I live through it.
Oh, but I truly wish you well on your healing journey, and do hope you keep speaking the truth, Pamala … many thanks.
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Sounds like an interesting topic, but the translation program is not working properly.
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Absolutely, you are correct. And such misdiagnoses were actually considered malpractice in the DSM-IV-TR. From that psychiatric “bible”:
“Note: Manic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant treatment (e.g., medication, electroconvulsive therapy, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder.”
But since that slice of wisdom was taken out of the DSM5 … likely due to Whitaker’s “Anatomy….”
To me, psychology, psychiatry, big medicine, and big Pharma have been behaving in a juvenile manner … albeit also seemingly in an insane manner.
“Oh, it’s too profitable” to stop neurotoxic poisoning the children, one pediatrician told me. After the Covid situation, one big Pharma rep told an undercover reporter from Project Veritas, “we’re looking for a new cash cow.” WTF???
Maybe those of us pointing out the iatrogenic etiologies of the DSM disorders, have started a wave, larger than we thought ?
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Gee, No-One, it seems you can somewhat comprehend how my bizarre dream nicknames, might have allowed me to get “Everyone Else,” with “love and the word of God”? Who knows? But my bizarre dreams make logical sense to me. However, I can also understand why most people’s dreams seem bizarre, and illogical, to them.
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Thank you for working to point out the problems of antidepressant withdrawal, Dr. Fava and Samantha. Especially since “Antidepressant Withdrawal [is] Commonly Misdiagnosed as ‘Mental Illness.'”
As one who dealt with the living nightmare of such misdiagnoses, I agree, “antidepressants should only be used for the most severe cases of depression [if at all] and for the shortest duration possible.”
And they sure as heck should NOT be fraudulently marketed as “safe smoking cessation meds.” As a marketing major, I will say that is false marketing, doctors and big Pharma, and false marketing IS technically illegal.
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“… if you take serequel, the grave diggers move in.” Lol, I abstractly painted myself with my head blown open, after being given Seroquel. That, plus Risperdal, gives you a staggeringly evil case of anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning. “Ouch” is what my former photographer called that painting. It was a living hell, and the entire psychiatric system, was like living my worst nightmare.
And what’s kind of sad is, it seems like we are all still somewhat living the nightmare. Let’s hope and pray America, and the world, may start living our dreams again, instead of perpetuating the societal nightmare of bad systems, in which we all find ourselves living.
I’ll date myself.
“When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange
“Who you are into what you’re gonna be.
“Sha na na na na na na na na
“Sha na na na na
“Sha na na na na na na na na
“Sha na na na na”
As to the article, I largely agree, “We need a radical new vision for health care that goes beyond the hospital and pharmacies to include ….” Except wouldn’t it be better to value the knowledge of the medical anthropologists of all countries? I think that’d be the best way to wean society off of the largely failed, for profit only focused, “Rockefeller medicine” societal problem.
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“the DSM-5 does not include SSRI/SNRI in the list of drugs responsible for drug-induced disorders”
Although all DSMs prior to the DSM5 did warn, “Manic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant treatment (e.g., medication, electroconvulsive therapy, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder.”
But “People are commonly misdiagnosed when withdrawing from antidepressants. Some symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal—like panic, anxiety, depression, and hallucinations—overlap with psychiatric diagnoses. However, many symptoms, such as brain zaps and nausea, are not shared with psychiatric disorders.”
Yet doctors have been misdiagnosing “brain zaps” as “bipolar,” out of ignorance, for decades. Doctors apparently didn’t even know “brain zaps” are a common symptom of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome until 2005.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247806326_'Brain_shivers'_From_chat_room_to_clinic
Can someone please tell me what is “professional” about arrogantly claiming ignorance, about the products one sells? … and in psychiatry’s and psychology’s case, forces and coerces onto innocent others.
And how is giving scientifically “invalid” aspects of the “medical” industry the right to unjustly play judge, jury, and executioner to anyone they want, for any reason – which is what the psychological and psychiatric industries have been given – acceptable in an actual free market society? It’s not.
All forced and coerced psychiatric and psychologic drugging, and any other forced or coerced drugging, should be illegal … at least in a supposedly free society.
Thank you, as always, Peter.
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Thank you, Bruce, as always, for an insightful piece. I consider you to be one of the “others who can energize us to keep looking.”
But I hope you are wrong that “dismantling the megamachine any time soon is unrealistic.”
Since I see us all now living in a critical time … the ponzi scheme of the monetary systems of Western civilization are imploding, the entire “mental health” industry is based upon scientific fraud, the medical system as a whole has lost credibility, the legal and judicial systems are convoluted and unjust, we’re on the edge of WWIII, ….
“When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am”
Gee, let’s just admit, Western civilization has bad systems … and actively work to change those bad systems (of course that will take those working within those bad systems, cleaning up the mess that their industry’s collective greed, created) … instead of letting the oligarchy that shouldn’t be (at least lawfully, I think, in the US) continue to dehumanize all of us.
I know I can’t do it alone, but I do believe all of us decent folks, can improve society together. Let’s hope and pray, God helps us do so, in a timely manner. Since I don’t want to hand over to my children, the societal mess that I was handed over, by the elder generations of Western civilization. Nor do I want WWIII.
But, of course, I was declared “mentally ill” / insane, for questioning those who were behind 9.11.2001. Resulting in all distress caused by 9.11.2001 being blamed upon a “chemical imbalance” in my brain alone, by an insane non-medically trained psychologist … rather than the chaos and distress caused by the distressing events of 9.11.2001 being blamed on the real masterminds behind 9.11.2001.
Gosh, my dad used to be Donald Rumsfeld’s campaign finance manager. What did Rumsfeld admit to the day before 9.11.2001? … Oh, we’re back to the monetary system is a fraud based Ponzi scheme societal problem.
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Thank you for sharing your story, Cat. And, yes, psychiatry / psychology are largely child abuse covering up industries, and it’s all by DSM design. I was neurotoxic poisoned, to cover up the abuse of my child, according to my family’s medical records, that were finally handed over.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
If they can’t bill for it, it gets misdiagnosed as one of the disorders they can get paid for. Then they neurotoxic poison you … which does also function to aid and abet the abusers, and has left those of us in the US all living in a “pedophile empire.”
https://pedoempire.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/PedoEmpire-Flyer-One-Page.pdf
I’m glad you escaped.
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I think you mean, there’s nothing “lawful” about this. The systemic crimes of the maritime lawyers (America is supposed to have common law – the law of the land) are downright convoluted.
This guy does a good job of breaking the complexity of it down in his “foundational knowledge” section. Although, I’ll forewarn you, you may need to listen to it several times, to wrap your head around how staggeringly convoluted the maritime legal system is.
https://awarriorcalls.com
Thank you for pointing out these horrendous legal crimes, Jaimee. I was handed over one of those contracts, combined with a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, all disingenuously disguised as an “art manager” contract, by a creepy psychologist.
Wow! It was a truly appalling contract! What a sick, control freak nut job that psychologist was! No way, Jose! Get away, and stay away, crazy, criminal computer hacking, and attempted thieving, psychologist!
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It strikes me as odd that the psychologists are doing research on how to best “help” child abuse survivors, yet the psychologists can NOT even bill to “help” child abuse survivors.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
And all the psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers – with whom I had the misfortune of dealing – were child abuse deniers and cover uppers.
And once the medical evidence of the abuse of my child was finally handed over, and I could no longer live in denial. I asked my psychiatrist how to best help a child abuse survivor. He thought a child, who had been healing from the abuse for four years, should be neurotoxic poisoned. That was my second to last appointment with my highly deluded psychiatrist.
Maybe we should have someone – other than the very industries that have been misdiagnosing and neurotoxic poisoning, en mass, innocent child abuse survivors and their mothers, for decades – helping child abuse survivors instead?
“the prevalence of childhood trauma exposure within borderline personality disorder patients has been evidenced to be as high as 92% (Yen et al., 2002). Within individuals diagnosed with psychotic or affective disorders, it reaches 82% (Larsson et al., 2012).”
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“Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?”
Not in my humble opinion, but they do create the symptoms of “bipolar,” (even when one was fraudulently given a SNRI, under the false claim, it is a “safe smoking cessation med.”) But such a “bipolar” misdiagnosis does result in one being inappropriately put on the “antipsychotics.”
But since the psychological and psychiatric industries have been arrogantly lying and denying knowledge of the adverse and common withdrawal symptoms of the psych neurotoxins, for decades. For example (wow! the censorship is staggering, this is seemingly now the best link I can give):
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/brain-shivers-from-chat-room-to-clinic/642FBBAE131EAB792E474F02A4B2CCC0
And the, mostly non-medically trained, scientific fraud based, DSM deluded, “mental health” industries are still denying the reality that the antidepressants / antipsychotics / neuroleptics / anticholinergic drugs can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia, via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
I truly believe we have a societal problem, in regards to the entirety, of the so called “mental health industries.” Who apparently can’t comprehend, that those who’ve been unjustly given the power to FUBAR innocent others, for profit, will also likely be judged fairly by God, like all others.
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“Student mental health has historically been a big concern on college campuses.” No, us older adults know that psych drugging children used to be taboo, and should still be, so this is a relatively new psychiatry/psychology/”mental health” industry caused problem … given the iatrogenic etiology of all the psychiatric DSM disorders. (See my prior comments on this website, if you want medical links to the proof.)
And, realistically, our society needs to deal with our real societal problems, like the Ponzi scheme of our Federal Reserve monetary system, which is unconstitutional, thus illegal. And is destroying American society, thus legitimately upsetting both us elders, and the younger generations of America.
But, of course, it is this fraud based monetary system that has been funding the fraud based “mental health” industries, to massively and inappropriately mass neurotoxic poison American children, for decades.
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As an older woman, I’ve found that when asked unnecessarily by some random doctor in a hospital, “Are you depressed,” for no reason (aside from medical / psychiatric averice). I was at the hospital because of a pulled muscle above my heart, which had to do with regular moderate exercise, but nothing to do with “depression.”
It’s best to tell that random hospital doctor, “No,” and then say, “and I’m allergic to the anticholinergic drugs.” This does have a tendency to embarrass the unnecessarily intrusive – and off point – doctor, and cause him to just leave you alone.
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According to my medical records, some doctors do intentionally utilize psychiatric iatrogenesis, to cover up their partner’s easily recognized iatrogenesis.
And a similar thing happened to a loved one, so covering up medical errors with psychiatric iatrogenesis is not likely uncommon.
And let’s be realistic, all doctors are taught in med school about anticholinergic toxidrome … so they all know the antidepressants and antipsychotics, which are both anticholinergic drugs, are dangerous neurotoxins.
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Good for you, for keeping the faith. And you are so right, we need to end the systemic destruction of our children, via the vast number of ways, that are going on in today’s society … not a pretty story.
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You hit the nail on the head, when you said, “It’s time systems change, and humanity becomes the priority.”
Western civilization has bad, and unconstitutional in the US, systems that need to be taken down.
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You might like a Chagall inspired piece I did, or am trying to finish up. I painted myself and my children, escaping the insanity of the DSM deluded industries, in a chariot pulled by Jesus on a white horse. Chagall’s piece it was inspired by, was called “War.”
Gotta love Chagall, his work paints my life, as if I were one of his muses. But, of course he and I would be great friends, if there is a “collective unconscious.”
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“… In this world, it’s just us …” And we’ve got to try to turn those DSM deluded lemons into lemonade, right?
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Permission granted, Google finally figured out who I am, and took my right to use that pseudonym away on YouTube. Gosh, does a lady who found the medical proof of the iatrogenic etiologies of the “sacred symbol of psychiatry” / the “cash cow” of big Pharma/psychiatry, deserve to have a right to use a pseudonym? One would think so … for safety reasons … but not according to the God complexed Google.
Well, I don’t know much about my dreams, but the internet of my dreams supposedly started when I was very young, and my family moved from Chicago to NY. I was sad to have to move away from my friends, so I supposedly created Annie, Eric, and Lisa websites in my dreams, so that I could stay friends with my IL friends in my dreams.
I started kindergarten in NY, and just started adding more websites in my dreams … each friend having their own website.
My family moved to OH when I was in junior high, and our church had a mission statement to “go get everyone with love and the word of God.” My subconscious self decided to accept this challenge. I kept adding more websites of new friends, I supposedly befriended the actors via the TV, and the musicians via the radio.
I also supposedly adopted a bunch of nicknames for myself, like Someone Else, Something Else, No One Else, etc. and Everyone Else … since getting everyone else was the goal in my dreams. I also had other websites, like a P.I.G. (standing for pretty, intelligent girl) website, where a lot of the male chauvinist pigs got put.
The internet of my dreams is basically a way to classify all those I’d met, or supposedly befriended, in my life and dreams. My subconscious self supposedly became somewhat of a “Dream Weaver.”
It’s a long and interesting story that goes on, and I can tell it largely in the lyrics of music, as if “he’s killing me softly with his song, singing my life with his words.” It’s largely a love story, except the psychology/psychiatry crap … “all dreams are psychosis” ??? No, all dream, and that’s normal … even for us “beautiful dreamers.”
Hopefully that’s enough for you to get the gist of how the internet of my dreams works … “the rest is still unwritten.”
But like many around me, I am “living the dream” (and formerly was living the nightmare of psychology/psychiatry).
But mine is a dream about how we are all going to save ourselves from the societal mess, in which we find ourselves. So it is a hope and love filled dream. Keep the faith, pray to God.
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Interesting, and thought provoking blog, Alex. Thank you, I may go pull out that old Foucault book on my bookshelf, that I likely read long ago for some philosophy or religion class.
But wow, No One, there is so much more research for me, and no doubt all of us, to do. Thank goodness for the real internet, although we must hope and pray these days, that the truth is not erased from it.
It is bizarre that my dreams are set up like the internet, with lots of websites. But isn’t it even more bizarre that two of my supposed nicknames – within the internet of my dreams – are a ‘No One,’ and a ‘No One Else,’ websites? It’s good to be a perpetual learner and researcher … in one’s waking hours … and when one is dreaming “the impossible dream.”
We likely are good friends within our dreams, No One.
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“Therapy” fails white women in the US, too. “Psychiatry has a long history of oppressing women and minorities.” But that is exactly why I’ve been trying to educate minority children to learn to use the creative side of their brains, as well as trying to educate black adults about the truth of psychiatry … much to the dismay of a paternalistic, likely computer hacking, white psychologist’s wishes.
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Beatrice, Inner Fire sounds wonderful, I’m so glad you are forming an LLC and starting to educate ‘psychiatrists and other prescribing practitioners’ about your healing process, and how to wean people off the psych neurotoxins.
I completely agree, anger is a justifiable emotion involved in psychiatric drug withdrawal, since we were systemically lied to by doctors, who’d promised to ‘first and foremost, do no harm’ – but did nothing, except defame and harm.
I agree, art is a wonderfully healing activity – albeit my artwork is “too truthful” for those “mental health” workers who want to “maintain the status quo.” I also found biking and gardening in nature, to be very helpful during my healing journey.
Dancing, too, was helpful when I was dealing with my drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis – since one’s gotta get that extra energy (‘Godspeed,’ as it felt to me) out, somehow … How insane it is for the psychiatrists to believe locking up a person who is manic in a windowless room, denying them water, and “snowing” them, is the best way to deal with a drug withdrawal induced mania. That’s the opposite of what’s helpful.
And getting one’s legitimate anger, at the betrayal, out is also helped by journaling and sharing our healing journeys here on MiA. Please forgive my legitimate anger over the past years, MiA, but thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
God bless in your endeavors, Beatrice, and I’d love to check Inner Fire out sometime. Do you ever look for like minded artists, with psych drug withdrawal experience, to help in your program? Perhaps having a visiting artist program might be an idea, given the high percentage of people, who are artists, that share their stories here on MiA?
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“we identified several concerning examples of causal language being paired with biologically reductionist statements that are unsupported by scientific evidence. For example, ‘[Depression] is a chemical imbalance in your brain that needs to be treated’ (Johns Hopkins University), or, ‘It is believed that chemical changes in the brain are responsible’ (MedlinePlus). It is worrying that such unsupported statements are presented as objective fact by medical authorities.”
I agree, the systemic psychologic / psychiatric “chemical imbalance” LIE is problematic.
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“to reimagine psychological science as a justice-making endeavor,” the psychologic industry would both need to stop functioning as a funnel into the scientific fraud based psychiatric industry … as well as end their “dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” faustian systemic child abuse and rape covering up deal with the mainstream religions.
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Thank you for speaking out against pilots taking the dangerous antidepressants, Gretchen, Kim, David, Charles, and MiA. The antidepressants make you stupid, or can make one crazy, “psychotic,” etc., when on them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
And they can create decades long bizarre adverse withdrawal effects, when taken off them.
For those, within the so called “mental health professions,” and mainstream medicine, who still don’t know … “brain zaps,” caused by improper discontinuation of a fraudulently claimed “safe smoking cessation med,” can cause decades of “brain zaps.” And none of the psych neurotoxins cure “brain zaps.”
Please wake up, scientific fraud based DSM “bible” billers.
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The psych drugging of children is deplorable, and needs to end. But the pediatricians, at least some when confronted with the truth about the psych drugs, don’t want to stop psych drugging the children, “because it’s too profitable.”
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This is the first time I’ve ever read the word mishiguene. It’s a hard word to look up online, to find a pronunciation.
Once I heard it pronounced properly, I knew the word … and had rather fond memories of the word. My Jewish childhood friends’ parents must have jokingly called all of us wild children running through the woods mishiguene, when I was growing up … not surprising.
Glad you escaped the insanity of today’s “mental health” system, Alan. And thank you for sharing your story.
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The psychiatric ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the “bipolar” symptoms.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
And the so called “bipolar” treatments can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
Most definitely, “psychiatric prescribing” is a “worldwide iatrogenic disaster in the making.”
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Please stop neurotoxic poisoning innocent little children, doctors.
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As a bishop’s son, who was a family friend, said when he graduated from med school … “Well, now I know enough to be dangerous.”
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Glad you escaped the insanity of today’s psychiatric “system,” Krista. And I will say, upon my second reading of Bruce’s blog, he really did nail the nefarious nature of the DSM “bible” billing “system.”
And I will say, when trying to help a loved one who was very “psychotic,” I did run into a young hospital psychiatrist – who actually confessed that he too, was a critical psychiatrist. I personally found the trick to getting respect from doctors, to be pointing out the medically known issue of anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
Since both the antidepressants and antipsychotics are anticholinergic drugs … medically known to create “psychosis.” And all doctors are taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school.
So keep the faith, maintain your hope, since I think more of the younger psychiatrists are wising up … if nothing else, out of being confronted with the medical reality of the iatrogenic harm, mainstream psychiatry as a whole, is systemically committing.
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Thank you, Leigh, for sharing Mel’s story. I think it’s really important to hear the background stories of those stigmatized / defamed and neurotoxic poisoned by psychiatry and mainstream medicine … especially given the magnitude of defamation of all those claimed to be “mentally ill” in the mainstream media, and by the psychologic and psychiatric industries – those industries which systemically defame their clients with “invalid” DSM disorders, instead of confessing that their drugs themselves, can cause violence and suicides. Pardon my continuing appall.
Nonetheless, your daughter sounds like she was a wonderful young lady, I’m so sorry she had the misfortune of getting caught in the psychological/psychiatric/mainstream medicine’s web of neurotoxic poisoning and blasphemy of patients. But it is hard to escape “the system” … so I empathize with your beloved daughter.
And from one loving mother to another, my condolences to you on the loss of your beloved and wonderful daughter. Oh, by the way, you too, could be defamed and neurotoxic poisoned by the psychological and psychiatric industries, for grieving too long
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/prolonged-grief-disorder
… so I’d stay away from the DSM “bible” billers. How absurd and insane it is for some people in society to believe it is their “job” to nose themselves into innocent others’ lives, and defame and drug them, for the human right of grieving a loved one?
The DSM is “invalid,” and in ways, downright absurd and insane. Thus, it’s way past time to stop using that “bible” of blasphemies. Again, please pardon my disgust at the DSM “bible” biller’s procrastination on the inevitable … “the truth shall make you free.” Wake up. Come to grips with the reality that your billing code “bible” is bogus, except that the psych drugs can create the symptoms of your “invalid” DSM disorders.
But blessings to you on your healing journey, Leigh. And forgive my well deserved harsh, albeit scientifically well backed (see my prior comment links), constructive criticism of the “mental health” industries.
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Thank you for this, Ann, and thank you for the links. Thankfully, I’m not trying to wean anyone off the opioids. But my mom has been in a lot of pain lately (due largely to advanced age), so I gave her some recommended alternatives, which she’s not currently trying. Who knows? Maybe mixing things up a little will help?
I do agree with you, “Just like I think psychiatrists should know how to help their patients taper. I still believe that, and with so much research available, it shouldn’t be up to patients to find their own path out of pain and drug use.”
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Given the fact that ACEs are the number one actual cause of most psychological distress, and the psychologic and psychiatric industries want to “treat” all distressed people. Perhaps it’s past time for those industries to be able to honestly bill for “helping” child abuse survivors? Right now, they can’t.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
But this would mean that the psychologic and psychiatric industries would need to stop denying and covering up child abuse, especially for their pastor “partners.” It’s past time to end “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions.” Since, of course, profiteering off of covering up child abuse is actually illegal.
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Thank you for sharing your story, Carmen. It’s a really important reality which needs public awareness, especially given the huge number of children who are being force drugged with the psych drugs. Thank you.
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“One study found that symptoms persisted after children were reunited with their families. Some children who were reunited with their parents exhibited behaviors such as crying, loss of appetite, nightmares, difficulty sleeping, and recurring feelings of fear.”
As a mother whose psychological medical records state that my former psychologist wanted to steal my children from me, on like my second appointment with her. This ‘Don’t remove … kids from their families” message needs to be conveyed to the entirety of the “mental health” industries … and it shouldn’t be a message only about immigrant children.
But my former psychologist’s entire goal was actually covering up child abuse for her pastor, I eventually learned, from all my family’s medical records. And this is a systemic problem known as “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” according to ethical pastors of another religion.
I, and my entire family, had to leave our ex-religion due to this systemic faustian deal / “partnership” between the pastors and psychologists. One may not speak out again any kind of child abuse in the ELCA churches today, without being attacked by a child abuse covering up psychologist.
How shocking, loving mothers speak out against the abuse of children, including the psychological and psychiatric industries’ systemic abuse of millions of children.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
Check out which psych drug classes can create “psychosis” and “hallucinations,” via anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
And those “antipsychotics” (aka as neuroleptics) can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
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“It’s troubling that the potential link between antidepressants and violence continues to be ignored by many psychiatrists,” and others, like law enforcement.
I was attending a church in a community which had a very high, high school suicide rate. And these suicides were violent suicides, like jumping in front of trains and lighting oneself on fire. There were something like 8 violent high school suicides during the time my children were in middle and high school. I later spoke with a police officer about the issue, and he pretended he knew nothing about the problem.
I knew those violent suicides were a result of so many children being put on the psych drugs, from personal experience, and as a psychopharmacological researcher. The whole situation was heartbreaking, for the children, and for us legitimately concerned mothers.
I agree, “Patients deserve full transparency about the side effects of their treatments,” instead of denial, which is the norm now. Thank you, as always, for speaking the truth, Dr. Gøtzsche.
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There is wisdom in which you speak, Matthew.
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It is really difficult to deal with the mainstream medical community, who seems to be totally in bed with psychiatry’s iatrogenesis for profit, and nefarious reasons (at least in my case, and seemingly systemically) … once one’s already dealt with psychiatric iatrogenesis.
I think they call it “the white wall of silence.”
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“Of course it is incredibly hard to find good quality long term studies that show causative relationships between medications and outcomes ….”
As a medically trained doctor, Omar, weren’t you taught about anticholinergic toxidrome in med school (like all other MDs)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
What’s so difficult about garnering insight into the “causative relationships between medications and outcomes,” when you were likely taught about what drug classes cause anticholinergic toxidrome (and its insideous symptoms) in med school?
Thank you, as always, Bruce, for your insightful articles. Please stop neurotoxic poisoning the children, et al, doctors.
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“SAMHSA officials said they saw the increase as a positive development, citing efforts to normalize and destigmatize seeking out mental health treatment.”
How incredibly sad, SAMSA has sunk so low. Given the fact their DSM “bible” was debunked by the former head of the NIMH and the primary editor of the DSM-VI, in 2013 and 2010.
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/ff-dsmv/
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Thank you for sharing your story of protracted drug withdrawal, Tomasz. Mine was quite similar, although in one way, sort of the opposite odd issue. I haven’t even been able to read through my journals from back then, because it was so tough to read for me – one of these days I’ll try again. God bless, and thank you for working to help get others off of psychiatry’s neurotoxins.
They didn’t “promise us a rose garden,” but they did promise to “first and foremost do no harm” … yet psychiatry did the opposite. It’s shameful.
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“He basically argues that we unconsciously normalize childhood experiences of mistreatment, neglect, disappointment, and invalidation because we have to adapt to the limitations of parents and caregivers inasmuch as that’s all we know.”
Not to mention, the DSM deluded psy industries can NOT even bill to help child abuse survivors.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
And the psy industries have literally been, and still are, functioning as systemic child abuse cover uppers for over a century.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
… so Freud was part of a systemic, and continuing, paternalistic system of covering up child abuse, thus they are people who perpetuate generational family disfunction.
“… that’s all we know,” so what makes you “professionals”? Certainly, I know the psy “professions” are now claiming ignorance of the common adverse and withdrawal effect of the drugs they force on innocent others.
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Finally admitting that the antidepressants are dangerous for young women of child bearing age … Combined with the knowledge of the common symptoms of ‘antidepressant discontinuation syndrome’ (withdrawal) … This really does call for a rethinking of the bad, but relatively new habit, based upon their avarice (according to one pediatrician I spoke with, “it’s too profitable to stop psych drugging the children”) … Of the medical community in their continuing to psych drug, for profit, little children and young adults.
Thank you for helping to point out that this greed (and other nefarious reasons) inspired psych drugging of our children, by our medical community, is both immoral and unwise, Peter.
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Thank you, Micah, lots of insightful information you point out about the … “lack of insight” by today’s seeming “witch hunters” and Pharmkia forcing DSM deluded “mental health” workers of today.
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So much of your drug withdrawal experience resonates with mine – “All was connected. Synchronicities were off the charts.” A cover up of child abuse. Sadly, we do have a huge societal problem with many children being abused and trafficked – all sorts of horrible stuff. And the psy industries can not even bill to help child abuse survivors, according to the DSM. Thank you for sharing your story, Nicola, and I’m glad you’re finally happy to be alive.
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The “positive symptoms of schizophrenia” can be created, via anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
The “negative symptoms” can be created, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
Both can be created with the antidepressants and antipsychotics, and other psych drugs. We here at MiA have destroyed the “sacred symbol” of psychiatry, medically, at least.
But since too many American psychologists want to “maintain the status quo,” largely since they’re not actually medically trained doctors, nor psychopharmacology researchers.
But this means, the psychologists should never be psychologically misdiagnosing anyone with anything considered to be claimed to be a “life long incurable [DSM] disorder.” The psychologists need to stop functioning as a funnel into the psychiatric iatrogenic illness creators.
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“Hyperbolic tapering, including stabilisation on the dose if symptoms occur” does seem to be the internet censuses approach to withdrawal from the psych drugs.
My psychiatrist weaned me off his neurotoxins over three years, after he stopped listening to the lies of my former psychologist, and blamed her for the misdiagnosis of “brain zaps” as “bipolar.” But none of the doctors apparently even knew that withdrawal from the “safe smoking cessation meds” could cause “brain zaps” until 2005.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247806326_'Brain_shivers'_From_chat_room_to_clinic
But what is “professional” about claiming one is ignorant of the systemic sins of one’s industry? And what is ethical about all doctors claiming to be ignorant about anticholinergic toxidrome, when they were all taught about it in med school?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
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I’m not surprised, it’s not too far from my experience either. One of my former doctors was actually arrested and convicted by the FBI in 2016. He was having lots of well insured people medically unnecessarily shipped long distances to himself, admitting them with – according to my medical records – a non-existent “chronic airway obstruction.”
Then he had his psychiatric partner “snow” the patients, so they could profiteer off of doing unneeded tracheotomies on people for profit … thankfully I avoided the unneeded tracheotomy. But that psycho psychiatrist illegally harassed me for years, by fraudulently claiming I was her “out-patient,” according to health insurance companies, and harassing phone calls from her lackeys, even after I’d moved out of state.
But I agree, most lawyers are neglecting to do their jobs … when it comes to the suing the psychiatrists. I couldn’t find a lawyer either.
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“They also found that, across diagnoses, women were more likely to improve in the placebo group than men. This was true even after accounting for gender differences in diagnosis (since more women were found in the depression and anxiety groups). They were unable to explain this finding.”
It could be due to the fact that women tend to be targeted more than men by the paternalistic psychiatric and psychological industries. Plus, since the psy industries tend to target woman and men that were survivors of abuse or trauma. Whereas, they tend to target men who they consider “dangerous,” which a state of “psychosis” appears to be. It’s likely targeting women, in my case, for merely knowing innately that the wrong people were in charge, just after 9/11/2001, is unwise? Thankfully, I’m no longer the only one who sees this.
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I initially had trouble too, Marie. I had to change my password, but since I’ve had to change all my passwords recently – due to one or more people hacking into my phone and computer – I’d forgotten it. So I had some trouble initially, but eventually I got in.
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The magnitude of the never ending psychiatric / big Pharma propaganda really is shameful. Add one more to your list of people who was harmed by an antidepressant / non-“safe smoking cessation med.”
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Nicely stated, Topher.
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“Reframing PDP as a unique condition is a typical example of condition branding.” Yes, and despite such being typical for big Pharma and psychiatry, it is shameful they’re both still behaving in this manner … but too many have yet to be arrested for their systemic crimes, so of course the systemic corporate and industry crimes continue.
“Other drugs used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease have also been associated with psychosis, such as dopamine agonists and anticholinergics.” Yes, the anticholinergics (including both the antidepressants and antipsychotics) can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
Not to mention the anticholinergic drugs can also create akathisia and dyskinesia (a movement disorder – which looks like Parkinson’s to doctors).
I know because I’m reasonably aware of my grandmother’s medical history. She was, according to my family, “psychic,” and briefly mistreated with Stelazine about 60-70 years ago. And then she was quickly taken off that neurotoxic poison because she’d supposedly developed “Parkinson” symptoms (which was likely dyskinesia).
And there’s a really big difference between being “psychic” and “psychotic.”
It’s sad today’s “mental health professionals” are defaming people’s dead grandmothers, who they’ve never met, merely to rationalize their beliefs in their “invalid” “life long incurable genetic” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisonings of innocent humans.
But I do know that was “unethical” defamation of my beloved grandmother, that all my “mental health professionals” did. Not to mention even a subsequent “mental health” doctoral thesis interviewer, who defamed my beloved grandmother, in her doctoral thesis paper.
Please give up your beliefs in your “invalid” “life long incurable genetic” DSM disorders, “mental health professionals.” And take the time to learn about the common adverse and withdrawal symptoms of the psych neurotoxins … those who call yourselves “mental health professionals.”
Please.
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“[R]adical self-acceptance” for all distressed individuals is needed … NOT stigmatization with the “invalid” DSM disorders.
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
Oh, all distress caused by the world wide distressing event of 9.11.2001, was blamed upon a “chemical imbalance” in my brain alone … when I was picking up my and my family’s medical records in 2005, including from my child abuse covering up psychologist, and according to my innocent child’s medical records.
The current “mental health system” does the opposite of actually “helping” people, too often, sadly.
Thank you for sharing your story, Anne.
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“This message is from MindFreedom International:
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Kudos to the MindFreedom International volunteers! Many thanks for your advocacy.
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MBC,
Do you get money from the TAC? And “you do not speak for everybody” either. But I totally agree, “Certainly, your case and others like it deserve to be rectified.” Yet they haven’t been yet.
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John,
I recently helped a loved one heal from a bad heart drug cocktail being abruptly – but appropriately – withdrawn, albeit without an appropriate alternative heart med being introduced, plus also likely “alcohol encephalitis.”
My loved one was stabilized, and has been doing fairly well, since last fall, by being given a low dose of lithium, and largely … but not completely … getting off the alcohol. He’s now off the lithium, albeit I don’t know for certain if we’re out of the weeds yet.
I know, from my beloved grandmother’s and my personal experience, that my family does not react well to the anticholinergic drugs, which seem to be the “gold standard treatment” for all “psychotic” people, in the ER’s.
But if a low dose of lithium can be used to stabilize the most “psychotic” person I’ve personally ever seen, and I think the ambulance driver had ever seen (albeit, my loved one wasn’t violent).
Maybe the psych “professionals,” and ER doctors, should start to calm down the non-“dangerous” “psychotic” people, with something milder and more natural than the antipsychotics and other anticholinergic drugs? Since the anticholinergic drugs (which includes the antidepressants and antipsychotics) are known to actually create “hallucinations” and “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
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As one who ran art and S.T.E.A.M programs to help educate middle class and underprivileged students. I agree, the psych neurotoxic poisoning of the American children, is child abuse. Good luck in your run for Congress.
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I know all about the impropriety of giving “a drug to someone else!”
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Thank you as always, Dr. Peter, for speaking the truth. American propaganda is out of control, too.
“Tea said she wanted to interview me, but I shall decline. It can only go wrong.” I hope you will rethink this, because if you give Tea some information to research into first, and say you’ll allow her to interview you, after she properly educates herself with the “alternative,” albeit, truthful view. It may go better than you think?
“But journalists? They must be among those with the lowest intelligence of all trades.” Well, I personally think that’s likely the psychologic industry – since I think they used to be the only industry that could get into grad school, without taking the GRE, albeit maybe I’m wrong about that, and that no longer seems to be the case.
Nonetheless, one journalist is somewhat my hero of mine, since he’s the one who pointed out the actual iatrogenic etiology of my “bipolar” misdiagnosis. But he seems to be modest enough to have people, rightfully, and even he is now pointing out systemic failures, within both the medical pharmaceutical industries and big media.
And, as a former economics and marketing major, I will say, both those industries are corrupted also. Just check out my favorite economics professor’s pointing out of the fraud of Keynesian microeconomic theory in his book:
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Bigness_Complex.html?id=PLsUeY_Q1doC
And all do need to wake up to the systemic fraud of the globalist banking system, including the Federal Reserve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmc8GDlyAQg&t=5s
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My condolences to you on your loss, Carly, and thank you for sharing Joey’s story and videos. I completely agree, “There needs to be more informed consent with these medications.”
Especially since the psychiatric and psychologic industries have been blatantly lying to us for decades, and now are claiming innocence, via ignorance. Do tell … why should people now claiming innocence due to their ignorance, be able to call themselves “professionals”?
I love the last picture of Joey, it really emanates his charm. But it brings a tear to my eye, when I read about psychiatry’s and psychology’s recent murders.
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Please stop neurotoxic poisoning children, psychologists, psychiatrists, and mainstream doctors … including the pediatricians, who can’t stop neurotoxic poisoning the children … “because it’s too profitable.”
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So why are we supposed to “trust your doctor” any longer?
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“the authors emphasize the need for evidence-based trauma therapies and interventions that are widely accessible so as to not exclude the most vulnerable populations that may need treatment the most.”
For goodness sake, today’s DSM “bible” billing “mental health professionals” can’t even bill to help child abuse survivors today. Why don’t the “mental health professionals” start by allowing themselves to actually honestly bill to help child abuse survivors first?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Or better yet, since what is actually helpful for a child abuse survivor to heal, is getting him/her away from the abusers, treating an abuse survivor with love, mutual respect … and justice – none of which the “mental health” industries seem capable of doing. Quite to the contrary, today’s “mental health professions” are basically a multi-billion dollar – primarily child abuse covering up – group of industries.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
… But a child abuse survivor can heal, and go from remedial reading in first grade (after the abuse), to getting 100% on his state standardized tests in eighth grade, to graduating from university Phi Beta Kappa, in addition to winning multiple psychologic university and civic awards since then.
So it’s very important that the “mental health industries” end their systemic “dirty little secret of the two original educated professions'” faustian “partnership” with the mainstream religions. And get out of the child abuse covering up business, for those paternalistic religions.
And please stop incorrectly assuming all child abuse survivors – and their legitimately concerned mothers – need “mental health treatment,” or are stupid, or “fictional” – scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers and neurotoxic poisoners.
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
Writing the truth about your industries’ systemic crimes is good therapy. Thank you, MiA, for allowing the former “patients'” research to be heard.
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I’m not certain how many times I must point out that the psych drugs can create the “invalid” psych DSM “bible” disorders.
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
I agree, Robert Whitaker did an excellent job of pointing out that the antidepressants and ADHD drugs can create the “bipolar” symptoms, in ‘Anatomy of an Epidemic.’ We donate to MiA almost every year, in thanks for Robert’s research findings, and his honest reporting.
But I’ll repeat, once again, my research findings … which are relevant, Neil, to your concerns of “schizo” diagnoses, and “psychosis,” in general.
The antipsychotics / neuroleptics (as well as the antidepressants, since they’re also an anticholinergic drug) can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia” (including “psychosis”), via anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
Plus, the neuroleptics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit disorder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
The psych DSM “disorders” are iatrogenic illnesses, created with the psych neurotoxins … not “genetic disorders.”
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Thank you for working to help bring to fruition, safe ways to wean off the psychiatric neurotoxins, Peter.
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“Portraying mental illness in exclusively genetic terms may perpetuate stigma, encourage discrimination, and harm the mental health of people living with psychiatric diagnoses.” Especially since such claims are a blatant lie, and doctors really shouldn’t be blatantly lying to their clients, or their clients’ families.
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I think the Covid measures / gas lighting have made all American children, child abuse survivors now (wearing a mask in school for years, for example).
And since some “mental health professionals” have been systemically betraying child abuse survivors, and their families, for over a century.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
In my case, for their paternalistic, systemic child abuse covering up, religious “partners.”
https://books.google.com/books?id=xI01AlxH1uAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
And because the DSM deluded “mental health professionals” can’t even bill to honestly help child abuse survivors, according to their own “invalid” DSM “bible.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
I’m quite certain there is a need for someone – other than the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals” – to help our society’s child abuse survivors.
As the mother of a child abuse survivor – who did heal and graduate from university Phi Beta Kappa, because I got my child quickly away from a child molester, and I eventually [on 6.6.06] closed down a “school for gifted children,” that had a pedophile on their school board. And I was also able to keep my child away from those who wanted to profiteer off of covering up child abuse (a “social worker” who wanted to drug my child, based upon her lies, because my child got 100% on his state standardized tests in 8th grade, and since the public school was “not equipped to deal with the smartest children,” as was eventually confessed to by my child’s school principal).
I’m quite certain love is the answer … not a scientific fraud based, for profit only, scientifically “invalid” “mental health industry.” And child abuse does NOT cause the “invalid” DSM disorders, which does seem to be the direction the, likely justifiably embarrassed,” DSM deluded “mental health” researchers are going.
My wonderful son recently won another award, as a “mover and shaker” in his neighborhood. Neurotoxic poisoning all intelligent child abuse survivors is NOT the answer, as systemic, child abuse covering up, “mental health professionals” all told me.
“The children are our future,” is the truth, and love … not greed … is the cure.
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All people, of all countries … including all Americans … need to stand against “mainstream psychology,” and their scientific fraud based “psychiatric,” DSM “bible” masters.
My condolences to the indigenous people of America, for the horrendous and systemic crimes committed against them, by America’s scientific fraud based, so called, “mental health professionals.”
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“I feel grief about, and want to acknowledge, the patients I may have unintentionally harmed while practicing unconsciously.”
There are so few psychiatrists who will apologize for the harm the DSM deluded psychiatric and psychologic industries are systemically doing. Thank you for apologizing.
And I agree, Jung’s theology is likely closest to the truth. I’ve got my own, wounded researcher and truth sharer, story … and it is about equating my conscious and unconscious selves. Ironically, brought about by being slowly weaned off the psych drugs, by my former psychiatrist.
Thank God, for the psychiatrists who are actually slowly, and with respect for their patients’ opinions, weaning people off the psych drugs.
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I just renewed my license, and I didn’t notice that. So does your wife have a driver’s license?
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Thank you for sharing your and your wife’s experience, Sam. You do know how to make a lady cry. If ever you and your wife decide you want to meet in person, the offer’s still open, please do let me know.
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Amy, that was a beautiful interview and book review, you were so empathic and understanding. God bless, to Deborah Kasdan and her family … and I will say, it’s sad how much our paternalistically set up systems want to destroy the strong “big sis’s” of our society.
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Thank you, Michael, for speaking out against the heartbreaking, and scientifically “invalid,” stigmatizing and neurotoxic poisoning of children!
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Thank you for all you’re dong, Christine. Please tell us how we may help you. Most definitely, ending the forced and coerced psych drugging of children, and innocent adults, is imperative.
For goodness sakes, my former religion’s pedestrians and psychologists, et al (like the owners of the ELCA hospitals, which is the ELCA religion) think such crimes against children are “too profitable” to end.
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” … As of this year, the MAID program was also set to allow those with mental illness to choose euthanasia.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHc8DAmLMo0
This is really frightening for those defamed with the scientifically “invalid” DSM disorders in Canada, and the Americas, in general.
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
Especially, given the reality that psychiatry has yet to confess that their ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the ‘bipolar’ symptoms … resulting in an iatrogenic “bipolar epidemic,” in America.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
And the psychiatric, and their psychological industry “partners,” have largely, collectively yet to confess to the scientific fraud of their DSM “bible” billing system. Albeit, thank you to those within those industries, who are speaking the truth!
But it also needs to be confessed that their “antipsychotics” can create both the positive and negative symptoms of, so called ‘schizophrenia,’ via anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
– So, the “ADHD,” “depression,” “bipolar,” and “schizophrenia” “disorders,” are all “curable” “disorders” … if you can safely get off the psych neurotoxins – which is NOT necessarily easy.
But, as I painted in 2005, we are living in an upside down and backwards America. Let’s hope and pray we may bring about a better world for all … some day, and soon.
Thus, I do so hope, the “Feb. 1 proposed legislation to temporarily exclude individuals with a sole underlying medical condition of mental illness until 2027” is enacted.
But, as one who was misdiagnosed with three so called “mental illnesses,” within three days, by three different – greed and malevolent child abuse and easily recognized iatrogenic illness profiteering inspired doctors. I know excluding all individuals with any, and a myriad of so called “mental illnesses, is unwise.
So let’s hope and pray the Feb 1 “proposed legislation” prevents Canadian doctors from mass murdering the innocent people that psychiatry, psychology, and mainstream doctors have been fraudulently defaming with the “invalid” DSM “disorders,” for nefarious reasons, and for decades.
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“aside from your censor adults beliefs,” should be changed from “aside from your censor adults’ beliefs,” to a change to respecting the well researched, legitimate concerns of adults, and loving moms.
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Amy,
As one who is being censored from pointing out that the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of so called “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit disorder – by all but MiA, but MiA is not making this sad reality more clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
I’m rather saddened that your blog ends with your belief that the need to further censor all, is a good idea.
Albeit, as a mom who refused to give my children smart phones at a very early age – and has two children who are doing quite well (one was a Phi Beta Kappa recipient, who is now getting an another award, for his local community activism; and the other just had a successful presentation of ideas, regarding his doctorate).
Albeit, I will admit, both my children would be considered to be within a “marginalized community.” Albeit, so would I, since I am a mother who stands 100% against the systemic child abuse covering up crimes, of the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals,” and their religious “partners.”
https://www.behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2013/05/05/transforming-diagnosis-the-thomas-insel-article/
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
https://books.google.com/books?id=xI01AlxH1uAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Nonetheless, aside from your censor adults beliefs, I do largely agree with your concerns regarding social media and children.
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Marilyn,
There are an awful lot of people who have had spiritual journeys / “emergencies,” etc. misdiagnosed as psych symptoms. I, for one, had a dream about being ‘moved by the Holy Spirit’ (and ‘brain zaps’), misdiagnosed as ‘bipolar.’
Yet both my subsequent anticholinergic toxidrome induced ‘psychosis,’ and my ‘drug withdrawal induced manic psychosis’ were of a Spiritual nature.
But as a “case manager serving several adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders,” I do so hope you know that the antidepressants and antipsychotics can both create “hallucinations” and “delusions,” via anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
And the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can also create the negative symptoms of ‘schizophrenia,’ via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
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“Medication is seen as superior and essential despite inconsistent statistical evidence of its effectiveness or full disclosure of its harms, and as a result, all other interventions are limited.”
Disclosure of the harms of the so called “ADHD drugs” and “antidepressants.”
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
Full disclosure of the harms of the so called “schizophrenia treatments:”
The antidepressants and antipsychotics can both create the “positive symptoms of schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
And the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can also create the “negative symptoms of schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome
“The authors state the content in these textbooks directly contradicts those with lived experience, who report ‘their experiences are deeply meaningful and personal, contextualized within their life experiences, and not wholly negative.'”
Let’s hope and pray that some day, the psychologists realize their entire psychiatric DSM “bible” billing belief system is “invalid, thus a lie … or delusion, on their part.
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
And by functioning as mere funnels to the neurotoxic poisoning psychiatrists, the psychologists have been systemically harming, and aiding in mass murdering, innocent people for profit for decades.
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“We suggest that regional experiments to test whether types of prevention work are cost-effective is a better use of resources than further randomized controlled trials comparing subtle differences in antidepressant medications.”
Gee, wasn’t all the wasted tax payer dollars spent on continued research into the “invalid” DSM disorders, and their neurotoxic psychiatric “treatments,” supposed to end ten years ago, according to the NIMH?
https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
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I think you meant, “They need only LISTEN to us, their test subjects, to find the answers they seek.”
Your next comment, describing the typical iatrogenic illness creation process of likely most psychiatrists, is spot on, however, Kate L.
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“There is a preponderance of evidence that broken attachment between infant and mother, childhood abuse, and neglect, along with other adverse childhood events, do strongly predict depression and other health status and struggles in adulthood.”
Don’t you think that it’s highly unethical that the psychologists, who claim to be the “profession” who helps child abuse survivors, can NOT even bill to help child abuse survivors?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Since this inability to bill to help child abuse survivors, results in psychologists denying and covering up child abuse, with their “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisonings.
And this “victim blaming” by psychologists and their psychiatric partners is NOT a small problem, it’s a systemic problem with all DSM “bible” billers … and the paternalistic, systemic child abuse covering up religions, who have “partnered” with them.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php?fbclid=IwAR2-cgZPcEvbz7yFqMuUwneIuaqGleGiOzackY4N2sPeVXolwmEga5iKxdo
https://books.google.com/books?id=xI01AlxH1uAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
I hope this systemic, paternalistic problem with the DSM will be rectified soon, and the “dirty little secret of the two original educated professions’,” systemic, multibillion dollar, medical / religious child abuse covering up “partnership” will be ended.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” We have absolute corruption, of many powerful industries.
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