Naturalnews.com reported this very morning views on “The Epidemic of mental Illness: Why?”. Dr. Marcia Angell, for two decades the editor of the most prestigious medical journal in the world, The New England Journal of Medicine, wrote a devastating piece on psychiatry for the NY Review of Books. In this write up Angell points out that a staggering 10% of Americans at least seven years old take antidepressants. She reveals that the antidepressant drugs were observed to increase levels of a neurotransmitter called serotonin, was the impetus for claiming that depression was caused by a serotonin deficit. What she reveals here is that the whole theory of depression was invented backwards so it could fit what the drugs were doing. So we can think with this it would be like saying the flu is caused by a lack of Tamiflu in the body. That was “the science” behind the whole chemical imbalance theory of depression. Angell said, “We’ve got this drug (Prozac) that raises serotonin levels, so let’s say depression is caused by a deficit of serotonin, and let’s sell that idea.” She speaks of a study that was done at the National Institute of mental health showing 46% of randomly selected adults qualified for a diagnosis of mental illness, based on the definitions of disorders put together by the American Psychiatric Association. In some cases rehab was needed for these people. Well what we have here says Angell, is victim creation at its finest, because none of the official 297 mental disorders are diagnosed by any chemical or biological test. What they go by is just menus or checklist of behaviors. An example of this is like going to see a doctor for a conversation then he brings in a team of doctors and they sit around and discuss what you said, take notes, and then they decide you have cancer.
Two decades ago a number one person in America dedicated to the psychiatric hustle was a government representative and now secretary of state and she campaigned tirelessly for accepting the diagnosis of mental illness “without stigma” . Many other people have done the same. From this a revolution was put in place and now the big government could and did expand the theme of dependence. Angell made a further point that is often overlooked. Patients with schizophrenia and depression do have relatively brief episodes and with the onset of the drugs for treatment patients now find themselves with chronic conditions. An obvious conclusion here is that the drugs are creating abnormal brain function. In the US the use of psychiatric drugs increased 22% from 2001 to 2010. In fact in 2010, 21% of adult women took antidepressants. Robert Whitaker, author of “Anatomy of an Epidemic” sites these figures: in 1987, 1.2 million Americans were on government disability as a result of mental illness. By 2010, that figure had risen to 4 million.
Anyone of us may ask ourselves, “What is going on in this country?” Yes, if we observe what is actually going on we may see that government and psychiatry are in love.
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