In
the wake of the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, major media have been
pushing and pushing the narrative that “extremist right-wing groups are
calling for violence…Civil War…”
Well, here is a Civil War already in progress. It’s been going on for decades.
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A
point before I dive into this grotesque subject. Suddenly withdrawing
from psychiatric drugs can be dangerous and even
life-threatening. Withdrawal needs to be conducted gradually by a
professional who knows what he’s doing. See breggin[dot]com for more
information about this.
All right, here we go:
Society is now celebrating people who say they have mental health issues.
Athletes who “come forward” with their confessions are heroes.
So let me be clear. “Mental health issues” is a PRODUCT. It’s being sold like SUVs, cereal, beer, skin care lotions.
And
just to give you an idea of how successful the sales campaign is, here
is a staggering quote from NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental
Illness, about a large survey of college students:
“The
researchers also found that students are more willing to use university
mental health services…By 2015, nearly 20 percent of those surveyed
said they used these services…Moreover, nearly 75 percent said they
would consider using university mental health services…”
These services are a gateway, a funnel into the diagnosis of a mental disorder…and then the prescription of drugs.
The drugs are the bottom line, the moneymaker.
The
drugs CAUSE very real mental problems. There is no doubt that some of
the people confessing their mental health issues these days are really
talking about the effects of the drugs; but they don’t know it.
It’s
also true that some students who claim to be “triggered” by words and
ideas are actually reporting the effects of the drugs; but again, they
don’t know that.
Promoting
diabolically false science, psychiatry creates a gateway for defining
many separate states of consciousness that don’t exist at all. They’re
cheap myths, fairy tales.
It’s time to lay out the facts about psychiatry, to show how bankrupt this “science” really is.
The
first question to ask is: do mental disorders have any scientific
basis? There are now roughly 300 of them. They multiply like fruit
flies.
An open secret has been bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years.
THERE ARE NO DEFINING LABORATORY TESTS FOR ANY SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDER.
No blood tests, no urine tests, no saliva tests, no brain scans, no genetic assays.
And along with that:
ALL
SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDERS ARE CONCOCTED, NAMED, LABELED, DESCRIBED,
AND CATEGORIZED by committees 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.”
Yes,
people suffer. Yes, people have problems. Yes, they experience anguish
and pain. For a wide variety of reasons. But this is FAR DIFFERENT from
claiming the suffering can be separated into distinct labeled disorders
which actually exist, can be diagnosed, and treated with a blizzard of
psychiatric drugs.
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.
In
a PBS Frontline episode, "Does ADHD Exist?", Dr. Russell Barkley, an
eminent professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center, unintentionally spelled out the fraud.
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:
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.
Boom.
Oh,
indeed, that DOES make them invalid. Utterly and completely. All 300
mental disorders. They’re all hoaxes. Because there are no defining
tests of any kind to back up the diagnosis.
You
can sway and tap dance and bloviate all you like and you won’t escape
the noose. We are looking at a science that isn’t a science. It’s a
fraud. A rank fraud.
There’s
more. 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 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 obliquely 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 this is medical science, a duck is a rocket ship.
To
repeat, Dr. Frances' work on the DSM IV allowed for MORE toxic drugs to
be prescribed, because the definitions of Bipolar and ADHD were
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”) 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 Ritalin
(and other similar amphetamine-like 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 effects of Ritalin and cited published
journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.
For
every one of the following (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
Let’s
go deeper. 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.
Let’s take a little trip back in time and review one psychiatric drug, Prozac.
Prozac,
in fact, endured a rocky road in the press for a while. Stories on it
rarely appear now. The major media have backed off. But on February 7th,
1991, Amy Marcus’ Wall Street Journal article on the drug carried the
headline, “Murder Trials Introduce Prozac Defense.”
She
wrote, “A spate of murder trials in which defendants claim they became
violent when they took the antidepressant Prozac are imposing new
problems for the drug’s maker, Eli Lilly and Co.”
Also
on February 7, 1991, the New York Times ran a Prozac piece headlined,
“Suicidal Behavior Tied Again to Drug: Does Antidepressant Prompt
Violence?”
In
his landmark book, Toxic Psychiatry, Dr. Peter Breggin mentions that
the Donahue show (Feb. 28, 1991) “put together a group of individuals
who had become compulsively self-destructive and murderous after taking
Prozac and the clamorous telephone and audience response confirmed the
problem.”
A
shocking review-study published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental
Diseases (1996, v.184, no.2), written by Rhoda L. Fisher and Seymour
Fisher, titlled “Antidepressants for Children,” concludes:
“Despite
unanimous literature of double-blind studies indicating that
antidepressants are no more effective than placebos in treating
depression in children and adolescents, such medications continue to be
in wide use.”
A
study from the September 1989 Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, by Joseph
Lipiniski, Jr., indicates that in five examined cases people on Prozac
developed what is called akathesia. Symptoms include intense anxiety,
inability to sleep, the “jerking of extremities,” and “bicycling in bed
or just turning around and around.” Dr. Breggin comments that akathesia
“may also contribute to the drug’s tendency to cause self-destructive or
violent tendencies … Akathesia can become the equivalent of biochemical
torture and could possibly tip someone over the edge into
self-destructive or violent behavior … The June 1990 Health Newsletter,
produced by the Public Citizen Research Group, reports, ‘Akathesia, or
symptoms of restlessness, constant pacing, and purposeless movements of
the feet and legs, may occur in 10-25 percent of patients on Prozac.'”
Other studies:
“Emergence
of self-destructive phenomena in children and adolescents during
fluoxetine [Prozac] treatment,” published in the Journal of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1991, vol.30), written by
RA King, RA Riddle, et al. It reports self-destructive phenomena in 14%
(6/42) of children and adolescents (10-17 years old) who had treatment
with fluoxetine (Prozac) for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
July,
1991. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Hisako Koizumi, MD,
describes a thirteen-year-old boy who was on Prozac: “full of energy,”
“hyperactive,” “clown-like.” All this devolved into sudden violent
actions which were “totally unlike him.”
September,
1991. The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry. Author Laurence Jerome reports the case of a ten-year old
who moves with his family to a new location. Becoming depressed, the boy
is put on Prozac by a doctor. The boy is then “hyperactive, agitated …
irritable.” He makes a “somewhat grandiose assessment of his own
abilities.” Then he calls a stranger on the phone and says he is going
to kill him. The Prozac is stopped, and the symptoms disappear.
In
his breakthrough book, Toxic Psychiatry, Dr. Peter Breggin discusses
the subject of drug combinations: “Combining antidepressants [e.g.,
Prozac, Luvox, Paxil] and psychostimulants [e.g., Ritalin] increases the
risk of cardiovascular catastrophe, seizures, sedation, euphoria, and
psychosis. Withdrawal from the combination can cause a severe reaction
that includes confusion, emotional instability, agitation, and
aggression.”
Note:
Prozac is one of the SSRI antidepressants. Others include Zoloft and
Paxil. You would expect similar effects from all the SSRIs.
Here’s a coda:
This one is big.
The so-called “chemical-imbalance” theory of mental illness is dead.
Dr.
Ronald Pies, the editor-in-chief emeritus of the Psychiatric Times,
laid the theory to rest in the July 11, 2011, issue of the Times with
this staggering admission:
“In
truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban
legend — never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed
psychiatrists.”
Boom.
Dead.
However…urban
legend? No. For decades, the whole basis of psychiatric drug research,
drug prescription, and drug sales has been: “We’re correcting a chemical
imbalance in the brain; every mental disorder stems from such a
chemical imbalance.”
The
problem was, researchers had never been able to establish a normal
baseline for chemical balance. So they were shooting in the dark. Worse,
they were faking a theory. Pretending they knew something when they
didn’t.
In
his 2011 piece in Psychiatric Times, Dr. Pies tries to cover for his
colleagues in the psychiatric profession with this fatuous remark:
“In
the past 30 years, I don’t believe I have ever heard a knowledgeable,
well-trained psychiatrist make such a preposterous claim [about chemical
imbalance in the brain], except perhaps to mock it…the ‘chemical
imbalance’ image has been vigorously promoted by some pharmaceutical
companies, often to the detriment of our patients’ understanding.”
Absurd.
First of all, many psychiatrists have explained and do explain to their
patients that the drugs are there to correct a chemical imbalance.
And second, if all well-trained psychiatrists have known, all along, that the chemical-imbalance theory is a fraud…
…then why on earth have they been prescribing tons of drugs to their patients…
…since those drugs are developed on the false premise that they correct a chemical imbalance?
---The
chemical-imbalance theory is a fake. There are no defining physical
tests for any of the 300 so-called mental disorders. All diagnoses are
based on arbitrary clusters or menus of human behavior. The drugs are
harmful, dangerous, toxic. Some of them induce violence. Suicide,
homicide. Some of the drugs cause brain damage.
Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.
It’s all gibberish, all the way down.
Meanwhile, the business model demands drugs for sale.
So even though the chemical-imbalance nonsense has been discredited, it will continue on as a dead man walking, a zombie.
Big Pharma isn’t going to back off. Trillions of dollars are at stake.
And now we have the vigorous selling of “mental health issues” as the latest thing in personal confessions.
A person is a hero if he says he has these issues. Media celebrate him.
You can expect schools to disastrously incorporate “education on mental health” to students, including very young children.
This
burgeoning social trend masks the fact that it is actually being sold
as a gateway into mental-disorder diagnoses and the prescription of
highly dangerous drugs.
You want to fight for a right?
Fight
for the right of every adult to refuse medication. Fight for the right
of every parent to refuse medication for his/her child. Fight for the
right of children to be free from indoctrination into “mental health.”
[...]
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(Episode
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Three mind-boggling events this past week; Number 3 is virtually
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