Google will help diagnose your clinical depression: it's wonderful
By Jon Rappoport
In my work-in-progress, The Underground, here is what I wrote
about Google: "They're clever, I'll give them that. They're saying you
can search them for any information in the world, but they're really
searching you."
Google has decided it's not doing enough to lead us into a better world. So now it's going to enter the field of psychiatry.
Engadget.com: Google is "offering a medically validated,
anonymous screening questionnaire for clinical depression if you search
for information on the condition. This won't definitively indicate that
you're clinically depressed, to be clear, but it will give you useful
information you can take to a doctor."
"Google and others are determined to fight fake news, and
they know that the consequences of false or incomplete medical
information could be serious. If you need help, they want to be sure you
get the appropriate support."
Let's see if I can help Google fight false or incomplete medical information.
For example, be aware that there is no defining lab test for clinical depression.
No blood test, no urine test, no saliva test, no brain scan, no genetic assay.
Committees of psychiatrists sit down and look at unscientific
menus of human behavior, lump certain behaviors together, and
arbitrarily label them "clinical depression."
Therefore, any Google questionnaire is simply going to feed into that trough of pseudoscience. That's all.
Then, of course, there are the drugs that come with a
diagnosis of depression. Drugs like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft. I'll help
Google fight "incomplete medical information" in this area as well.
In 2004, Dr. Peter Breggin, eminent psychiatrist, expert
witness in court trials, and author of Toxic Psychiatry, wrote the
following about these drugs. I suggest paying close attention:
"On March 22 [2004] the FDA issued an extraordinary 'Public
Health Advisory' that cautioned about the risks associated with the
whole new generation of antidepressants including Prozac and its knock
offs, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, and Lexapro, as well as Wellbutrin,
Effexor, Serzone, and Remeron. The warning followed a public hearing
where dozens of family members and victims testified about suicide and
violence committed by individuals taking these medications."
"...In the debate over drug-induced suicide, little attention
has been given to the FDA's additional warning that certain behaviors
are 'known to be associated with these drugs' including 'anxiety,
agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility,
impulsivity, akathisia (severe restlessness), hypomania, and mania'."
"From agitation and hostility to impulsivity and mania, the
FDA's litany of antidepressant-induced behaviors is identical to that of
PCP, methamphetamine and cocaine---drugs known to cause aggression and
violence. These older stimulants and most of the newer antidepressants
cause similar effects as a result of their impact on a neurotransmitter
in the brain called serotonin."
"For more than a decade, I have documented in books and
scientific reports how this stimulation or activation profile can lead
to out-of-control behavior, including violence..."
"As a psychiatrist and as a medical expert, I have examined
dozens of cases of individuals who have committed suicide or violent
crimes while under the influence of the newer antidepressants such as
Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox and Celexa. In June in South Carolina,
Christopher Pittman will go on trial for shooting his grandparents to
death while they slept. Chris was twelve when his family doctor started
him on Zoloft. Three weeks later the doctor doubled his dose and one
week later Chris committed the violent acts. In other cases, a
fourteen-year-old girl on Prozac fired a pistol pointblank at a friend
but the gun failed to go off, and a teenage boy on Zoloft beat to death
an elderly woman who complained to him about his loud music. A greater
number of cases involve adults who lost control of themselves while
taking antidepressants. In at least two cases judges have found
individuals not guilty on the basis of involuntary intoxication with
psychiatric drugs and other cases have resulted in reduced charges,
lesser convictions, or shortened sentences."
"The FDA includes mania in its list of known antidepressant
effects. Manic individuals can become violent, especially when they are
thwarted, and they can also 'crash' into depression and suicidal states.
They can carry out elaborate but grandiose and doomed plans. One
clinical trial showed a rate of 6% manic reactions...on Prozac. None
developed mania on a sugar pill [placebo]. Even in short-term clinical
trials, 1% or more of depressed adults develop mania compared to a small
fraction on the sugar pill."
"Unfortunately, there are also risks involved with stopping
antidepressants. Many can cause withdrawal reactions that last days and
sometimes longer, causing some patients to feel depressed, suicidal or
even violent. Stopping antidepressants should be done carefully and with
experienced clinical supervision."
"...the FDA and the medical profession must forthrightly
educate potential patients and the public about the sometimes
life-threatening risks associated with the use of antidepressant
medications."
Here is the kicker. Google can do anything it wants to with
the information in this article, the one you're now reading. It can
lower its ranking.
Google can control the flow of information.
Given that Google has that kind of power, I strongly suggest caution when it touts its own "depression questionnaire."
It's not only rigging the system, it is the system.
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