Abstract:
In this article I want to review the investigations of the Citizens Committee for Human Rights in Mental Health. It is this organization in the United States and other countries that has consistently brought the dangers of psychiatry to the attention of the general public, who are generally the victims of a marriage between pharmaceutical companies and their paid distributors of lethal drugs, psychiatrists. . This alliance has been based on greed for money, profit and praise, all in the name of a science that, as a leading authority called – “nonsense”
Introduction: a brief history
The history of psychiatry is strewn with deaths; torture and misfortune that would make any sane person wonder why they have been allowed to continue practicing this black art for so long. Of course, the movement against psychiatry has been around for almost as long as the profession itself. How did this all start? You have to go back to the nursing home days that grew up in the early 1800s, particularly in England and America. These places were nothing more than prisons for the insane, those souls that could not function within the norms of society that dictated how we should act and behave. The head of the madhouses was a doctor, the first psychiatrist. This man caged the mentally ill in cells, without heating, with little food but rotten leftovers and to cure them of their madness the inmates were tortured with whipping, burns, immersion in water and many other inhuman acts called treatment. The fall of the asylums began in England with the York Retreat, a Quaker-run institute for the mentally ill that operates on very different lines from the asylums that were government institutions. At the York retreat, inmates were given jobs to do, helped to keep rules simple, and rewarded for following them.
They received humane treatment that would lead them to God and sanity. While York’s retreat was somewhat successful, it was still based on the control of the madmen. Later, as the years passed and the nineteenth century ended, came the rise of huge psychiatric hospitals. Psychiatry had new weapons to beat the mentally ill, this time with brain surgery called lobotomies, hydrotreatment, fire hoses to spray patients with forced jets of water, wet blankets, where patients would be tied up in wet sheets on a bed. unable to do so. moving for hours, insulin injections, to cause artificial brain seizures, and of course electrical seizure therapy – shocking patients with electric shocks to numb the brain so they don’t remember why they had trouble in the first place. When the 21st century rolled around, the cost of these hospitals became so onerous for governments that they closed them and instead introduced “community care” which ironically did not care at all and most mental health patients they were left homeless and new beggars in our country. streets. It wasn’t until the early 1900s that Freud finally introduced his “talking cure,” a humane way of trying to understand the plight of the mentally disturbed and a way of giving them insight and a possible cure. Of course, he had to have money for this treatment as much as he does today.
Psychoanalysis is for those who can pay the price. As the century flourished, so did Freud’s theory, which would evolve into many types of therapy, from behaviorism, cognitive, transactional, and many more varied from his original idea. In fact, without Freud there would be no modern psychology as we know it. From about 1960 on, a new ear for psychiatry emerged. All those barbaric treatments that never worked were about to be replaced, not by other types of institutions but by a chemical straitjacket that came from the pharmaceutical industry. Now drugs were the new form of treatment, suddenly the humble caretaker of the insane, and the psychiatrist could become a real doctor and prescribe psychotropic drugs to everyone. Then an era of drug sales began, where new mental disorders were manufactured to sell more drugs. At the beginning of the century, Krapelin invented a little book called DSM (Statistical Diagnostic Manual of Mental Illness) in this book he gave lists of mental symptoms that, if added up in a person, lead to a label for their problem, such as depression, anxiety , mania, hysteria, homosexuality, immoral behavior and much more. Over the years the profession of psychiatry was adding to this book and inventing new labels in order to match a drug to handle it.
Today we have the DSM IV version with the next one almost completed as number V. Over the years all sorts of new ways of classifying human emotions as mentally ill have been discovered. Bipolar disorders, ADHD in children, PTSD for soldiers (World War I shock) and many others. While these labels may have some utility and have been recognized as genuine problems for some people, now of course, according to psychiatry, we are all mentally ill, if not at this time, but in our life. Therefore, they divide populations into existing drug customers and potential drug customers. Today, mental health is not a profession, not even a scientific medical branch, but simply a marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry that pays millions of dollars a year to keep the myth of mental illness alive and spreading.
The evidence;
Here I would like to list a few facts that speak for themselves.
• 100 million people around the world are taking psychotropic drugs.
• In addition to paralyzing dozens of people every day, psychiatric drugs kill around 3,000 worldwide each month.
• 70% of all psychiatric medications are prescribed by general practitioners.
• 374 mental disorders are listed; almost all without a single scientific proof to show that they actually exist biologically.
• There were 44 psychiatric drugs in 1966, but today that has increased to more than 180.
• The top five drugs raise more money than half the nations in the world.
• Drugs generate more than a third of a trillion dollars a year.
• 20 million children worldwide are prescribed psychiatric medications (9 million in the US alone). Most under 5 years of age due to unscientific problems.
• Every 75 seconds someone is involuntarily committed to a mental institution in the US alone.
• Electric shock therapy is still used even though it causes memory loss and has little long-term benefit for patients. This is a direct abuse of human rights.
All of the above was investigated by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and endorsed around the world by some of the most eminent psychiatrists and psychologists today.
The long list above is just the tip of the psychiatric abuse saga. It is a profession based on money and more money. Most drugs on the market are only tested for less than eight weeks in clinical trials before receiving FDA approval from a panel of psychiatrists paid for by the same pharmaceutical companies they are supposed to regulate. Not a single drug on the market today is free from side effects which, of course, are the real effects of taking dangerous drugs for often fictitious mental illnesses. You can’t solve a life problem by hiding it with drugs and hoping to feel better. The problem is still there, so you have to take the medications for your entire life to never think about your real problems. Of course, with the side effects of one drug, many others are prescribed, all to combat the effects of the others, which is why most people with a diagnosis of mental problems end up with a cocktail of drugs for life. It’s staggering how much money people spend to chemically anesthetize themselves when a small proportion of that cost could be spent seeing a counselor, psychologist, and therapist and actually dealing with their problems and never having to take a drug in the first place.
Conclusions
Psychiatry incapacitates, kills and creates drug addicts. Really simple when the costs to society are added. Do they still have a place in modern medicine? Well yes, they could focus on helping severely disturbed people with understanding and kindness, even when they have to exert some control over that person for a short period of time. However, for the vast majority of patients taking psychotropic drugs, they could stop them tomorrow (or at least phase them out to minimize withdrawal effects) and start seeing a therapist. I would recommend an expert counselor in cognitive behavioral therapy for depression and anxiety, transactional analysis for parenting, communication skills, stress at work, and many other day-to-day issues that require practical knowledge. For personality problems with anger, emotional confusion, unhappiness, and long-term dysfunction, perhaps your choice is a psychoanalyst. Most psychologists who treat patients in counseling are eclectic, this means that they borrow many styles of theory and practice to use the most appropriate approach according to the needs of each client. The list is endless, but any therapy that helps you stabilize yourself, take responsibility for your own actions, and give you insight into your options is far better than a life of drugs and unhappiness.
If you feel the need, go see a therapist today, find out how to get away from dispensed drugs, and start finding purpose in life again.
References:
Citizens Commission for Human Rights – 2009 – Psychiatric human rights violations
DVD Making a Carnage: Drug Company Exposure Links to Psychiatry
DSM-IV Statistical Manual of Mental Illness – Version 4
R. Gross (1996) – Psychology – Theory of mind and behavior – refers to historical notes. Hodder and Stoughton Publications (Words 1622)
