Art is a way of reaching life on another level.
When
the first cave painter scratched an animal on a stone wall, he was
undertaking a unique action. He was expressing his own consciousness
beyond living his life.
He was inventing.
Suddenly, his experience had another use. It could be gathered up and transformed into painting, creation.
Civilizations
rise and fall, come and go, and their fate is decided by untold
millions of people who refrain from taking the path of the artist.
Through
art, the chain of cause and effect, threading from past into present,
breaks. Instead, imagination/consciousness invents new realities and new
futures.
Energy conversion and liberation begin.
Many,
many artists don't realize the power they have in their hands. They
persist in seeing themselves as “entitled to be crazy,” and this
undercuts their own consciousness.
Many
artists are so obsessed with commercial success and fame they'd dance
at the end of a leash like a toy dog if they thought it would bring them
recognition. This, needless to say, is debilitating.
So-called
spiritual traditions tend to have a habit of depicting states of
consciousness and enlightenment. They're intent on describing the
Reality behind reality.
Art
makes no such claims. On its path, the artist invents many, many
realities, and in doing so, he moves beyond all such descriptions.
For
a culture to realize all these things, something quite different from
propaganda and indoctrination would have to take place.
In this society, psychiatrists are the primary definers of mental states. Their efforts are accepted as official science.
The Psychiatric Political State is based on myths and fairy tales about distinct and separate disorders and “good treatment.”
One of the main psychiatric mantras gaining force? “Everyone at some time in their lives will experience a mental disorder.”
But an open secret has been slowly bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years.
THERE ARE NO DEFINITIVE LABORATORY TESTS FOR ANY SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDER.
And along with that:
ALL
SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDERS ARE CONCOCTED, NAMED, LABELED, DESCRIBED,
AND CATEGORIZED by a committee of psychiatrists, from menus of human
behaviors.
Their
findings are published in periodically updated editions of The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), printed by
the American Psychiatric Association.
For years, even psychiatrists have been blowing the whistle on this hazy crazy process of “research.”
Of
course, pharmaceutical companies, who manufacture highly toxic drugs to
treat every one of these “disorders,” are leading the charge to invent
more and more mental-health categories, so they can sell more drugs and
make more money.
Here
is a mind-boggling twist. Under the radar, one of the great psychiatric
stars, who has been out in front inventing mental disorders, went
public. He blew the whistle on himself and his colleagues. And for
years, almost no one noticed.
His name is Dr. Allen Frances, and he made VERY interesting statements to Gary Greenberg, author of a Wired article: “Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness.” (Dec.27, 2010).
Major media never picked up on the interview in any serious way. It never became a scandal.
Dr.
Allen Frances is the man who, in 1994, headed up the project to write
the (then) latest edition of the psychiatric bible, the DSM-IV. This
tome defines and labels and describes every official mental
disorder. The DSM-IV eventually listed 297 of them.
In an April 19, 1994, New York Times piece, “Scientist At Work,” Daniel Goleman called Frances “Perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America at the moment...”
Well,
sure. If you're sculpting the entire canon of diagnosable mental
disorders for your colleagues, for insurers, for the government, for
Pharma (who will sell the drugs matched up to the 297 DSM-IV diagnoses),
you're right up there in the pantheon.
Long after the DSM-IV had been put into print, Dr. Frances talked to Wired's Greenberg and said the following:
“There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.”
BANG.
That's
on the order of the designer of the Hindenburg, looking at the burned
rubble on the ground, remarking, “Well, I knew there would be a
problem.”
After
a suitable pause, Dr. Frances remarked to Greenberg, “These concepts
[of distinct mental disorders] are virtually impossible to define
precisely with bright lines at the borders.”
Frances
might have been referring to the fact that his baby, the DSM-IV, had
rearranged earlier definitions of ADHD and Bipolar to permit many more
diagnoses, leading to a vast acceleration of drug-dosing with highly
powerful and toxic compounds.
If
I were an editor at one of the big national newspapers, and one of my
reporters walked in and told me, “The most powerful psychiatrist in
America just said the DSM is sheer b.s.,” I think I'd make room on the
front page.
If the reporter then added, “This shrink was in charge of creating the DSM-IV,” I'd clear room above the fold.
If
the reporter went on to explain that the whole profession of psychiatry
would collapse overnight if the DSM was discredited, I'd call for a
special section of the paper to be printed.
I'd
tell the reporter to get ready to pound on this story day after day for
months. I'd tell him to track down all the implications of Dr. Frances'
statements.
I'd open a bottle of champagne to toast the soon-to-be-soaring sales of my newspaper.
And then, of course, the next day I'd be fired.
Because
there are powerful multi-billion-dollar interests at stake, and those
people don't like their deepest secrets exposed in the press.
And
as I walked out of my job, I'd see a bevy of blank-eyed pharmaceutical
executives marching into the office of the paper's publisher, ready to
read the riot act to him.
Dr.
Frances' work on the DSM-IV allowed for MORE toxic drugs to be
prescribed, because the definition of Bipolar was expanded to include
more people.
Adverse effects of Valproate (given for a Bipolar diagnosis) include:
* acute, life-threatening, and even fatal liver toxicity;
* life-threatening inflammation of the pancreas;
* brain damage.
Adverse effects of Lithium (also given for a Bipolar diagnosis) include:
* intercranial pressure leading to blindness;
* peripheral circulatory collapse;
* stupor and coma.
Adverse effects of Risperdal (given for “Bipolar” and “irritability stemming from autism”) include:
* serious impairment of cognitive function;
* fainting;
* restless muscles in neck or face, tremors (may be indicative of motor brain damage).
Dr.
Frances' label-juggling act also permitted the definition of ADHD to
expand, thereby opening the door for greater and greater use of toxic
Ritalin (and other similar compounds) as the treatment of choice.
So what about Ritalin?
In
1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a most
important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called “An Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)” [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].
Scarnati
listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited published
journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.
For
every one of the following (selected and quoted verbatim) Ritalin
effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical
literature:
* Paranoid delusions
* Paranoid psychosis
* Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
* Activation of psychotic symptoms
* Toxic psychosis
* Visual hallucinations
* Auditory hallucinations
* Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
* Effects pathological thought processes
* Extreme withdrawal
* Terrified affect
* Started screaming
* Aggressiveness
* Insomnia
* Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
* Psychic dependence
* High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
* Decreased REM sleep
* When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
* Convulsions
* Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.
A
recent survey revealed that a high percentage of children diagnosed
with bipolar had first received a diagnosis of ADHD. This is
informative, because Ritalin and other speed-type drugs are given to
kids who are slapped with the ADHD label. Speed, sooner or later,
produces a crash. This is easy to call “clinical depression.”
Then
comes Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft. These drugs can produce temporary highs,
followed by more crashes. The psychiatrist notices the up and down
pattern---and then produces a new diagnosis of Bipolar
(manic-depression) and prescribes other drugs, including Valproate and
Lithium.
In
the US alone, there are at least 300,000 cases of motor brain damage
incurred by people who have been prescribed so-called anti-psychotic
drugs (aka “major tranquilizers”). Risperdal (mentioned above as a drug
given to people diagnosed with Bipolar) is one of those major
tranquilizers. (source: Toxic Psychiatry, Dr. Peter Breggin, St. Martin's Press, 1991)
This psychiatric drug plague is accelerating across the land.
Where
are the mainstream reporters and editors and newspapers and TV anchors
who should be breaking this story and mercilessly hammering on it week
after week? They are in harness.
And
Dr. Frances is somehow let off the hook. He's admitted in print that
the whole basis of his profession is throwing darts at labels on a wall,
and implies the “effort” is rather heroic---when, in fact, the effort
leads to more and more poisonous drugs being dispensed to adults and
children, to say nothing of the effect of being diagnosed with “a mental
disorder.”
I'm
not talking about “the mental-disease stigma,” the removal of which is
one of Hillary Clinton's missions in life. No, I'm talking about MOVING A
HUMAN INTO THE SYSTEM, the psychiatric apparatus, where the essence of
the game is trapping that person to harvest his money, his time, his
energy, and of course his health---as one new diagnosis follows on
another, and one new toxic treatment after another is undertaken, from
cradle to grave.
The
result is a severely debilitated human being (if he survives), whose
major claim to fame is his list of diseases and disorders.
Thank you, Dr. Frances.
Here
is a smoking-gun statement made by another prominent psychiatrist, on
an episode of PBS’ Frontline series. The episode was: “Does ADHD Exist?”
PBS
FRONTLINE INTERVIEWER: Skeptics say that there’s no biological
marker---that it [ADHD] is the one condition out there where there is no
blood test, and that no one knows what causes it.
BARKLEY
(Dr. Russell Barkley, professor of psychiatry and neurology at the
University of Massachusetts Medical Center): That’s tremendously naïve,
and it shows a great deal of illiteracy about science and about the
mental health professions. A disorder doesn’t have to have a blood test
to be valid. If that were the case, all mental disorders would be
invalid…There is no lab test for any mental disorder right now in our science. That doesn’t make them invalid. [emphasis added]
Without intending to, Dr. Barkley blows the whistle on his own profession.
So
let’s take Dr. Barkley to school. Medical science, and disease-research
in particular, rests on the notion that you can make a diagnosis backed
up by lab tests. If you can’t produce lab tests, you’re spinning
fantasies.
These
fantasies might be hopeful, they might be “educated guesses,” they
might be launched from traditional centers of learning, they might be
backed up by billions of dollars of grant money…but they’re still
fantasies.
If
I said the moon was made of green cheese, even if I were a Harvard
professor, sooner or later someone would ask me to produce a sample of
moon rock to be tested for “cheese qualities.” I might begin to feel
nervous, I might want to tap dance around the issue, but I would have to
submit the rock to a lab.
Dr.
Barkley is essentially saying to the PBS Frontline interviewer, “There
is no lab test for any mental disorder. But if a test were the standard
of proof, we wouldn’t have science at all, and that would mean our whole
profession rests on nothing---and that is absurd, so therefore a test
doesn’t matter.”
That logic is no logic at all. Barkley is proving the case against himself. He just doesn’t want to admit it.
Close
to 50 years ago, psychiatry was dying out as a profession. Fewer and
fewer people wanted to see a psychiatrist for help, for talk therapy.
All sorts of new therapies were popping up. The competition was leaving
medical psychiatry in the dust.
As
Dr. Peter Breggin describes it in his landmark book, Toxic Psychiatry, a
deal was struck. Drug companies would bankroll psychiatry and rescue
it. These companies would pour money into professional conferences,
journals, research. In return, they wanted “science” that would promote
many mental disorders as biological/chemical facts, a gateway into the
drugs. Everyone would win---except the patient.
So
the studies were rolled out, and the list of mental disorders expanded.
The FDA was in on the deal as well, as evidenced by their drug “safety”
approvals, in the face of the obvious damage these drugs were doing.
So this is how we arrived at where we are. This was the plan, and it worked.
Under
the cover story, it was all fraud all the time. Without much of a
stretch, you could say psychiatry has been the most widespread profiling
operation in the history of the human race. Its goal has been to bring
humans everywhere into its system. It hardly matters which label a
person is painted with, as long as it adds up to a diagnosis and a
prescription of drugs.
Do
people suffer, do they have problems, do they experience anguish and
pain, do they make choices that sabotage their own interests, do they
fall victim to external circumstances, do they long for relief? Of
course.
But this has nothing to do with fraudulent psychiatric diagnoses.
It
has to do with nutritional deficits, toxic drugs, toxic food and
environmental chemicals, abuse, isolation, intimidation, and a whole
host of other potential factors.
Psychiatry
is trying to monopolize mental states and the understanding of the
mind. It has no science, and it has no authentic conscience. It's a
pseudo-medical version of Orwellian politics, flying under the banner of
a false professionalism.
Art liberates consciousness.
Psychiatry, parading as non-political science, is a toxic prison of the mind.
WARNING:
Suddenly withdrawing from psychiatric drugs can cause horrendous, even
life-threatening effects. Withdrawal should be done gradually under the
supervision of a qualified professional who completely understands the
situation. See Breggin[dot]com for more information.
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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