JyotiPullen142
Abstract:
Within this paper I wish to review the investigations in the Citizens Committee for Human Rights in Mental Health. It is primarily the organisation in the usa and other countries that have consistently brought the risks of psychiatry towards the attention from the general public who generally are the victims of the marriage between pharmaceutical companies and their paid distributors of lethal drugs, psychiatrists. This alliance continues to be in line with the greed for the money, profits and kudos all within the name of a science that as you leading authority called - "hokum"
Introduction: A Short History
A brief history of psychiatry is strewn using the deaths; torture and misadventure that will make any sane person wonder why it's been allowed to continue to practice this black art for thus long. Obviously the anti-psychiatry movement has been around for almost so long as the profession itself. How did this all begin? You have to return to the era of the asylums that grew up in early area of the 1800's specifically in England and also the USA. These places were no a lot more than prisons for the mad, those souls that could not function within the societies norms that dictated how you ought to act and behave. The head from the asylums was a physician, the first psychiatrist. This man caged the mentally ill in cells, without any heating, little food but rotten scraps and in order to cure them of their madness the inmates were tortured by flogging, burning, immersion in water and many other inhumane acts called treatment. The down fall from the asylums started in England using the York Retreat a Quaker run institute for that mentally ill run on very different lines from the asylums which were government institutions. In the York retreat the inmates were given jobs to perform, were helped by continuing to keep simple rules and rewarded for following them.
They received humane treatment that would cause them to God and sanity. As the York retreat had some success it was still based on charge of the mad. Later as the years went by and the 1800s ended the rise of the large mental hospitals arrived. Psychiatry had new weapons to defeat the mentally ill, this time with nuclear physics called lobotomies, hydro-treatment, fire hoses to spray patients with forced jets water, wet blanket wrapping, where patients could be bound in wet sheets on the bed not able to move for hours, insulin injections, to cause artificial brain seizures not to mention electric convulsive therapy - shocking patients with bolts of electricity to be able to numb the mind into forgetting why they'd problems in the first place. Because the Twenty-first century arrived the cost of these hospitals became so burdensome to governments they closed them down and in their stead introduced "care within the community" which ironically did not care at all and many mental health patients became homeless and also the new beggars within our streets. It was not before the early 1900's that finally Freud introduced his "talking cure" a humane method to try and comprehend the plight from the mentally disturbed along with a method of giving them insight along with a possible cure. Obviously you had to possess money with this treatment much as you do today.
Psychoanalysis is for those who can pay the cost. As the century blossomed so did Freud's theory that was to become many types of therapy from behaviourism, cognitive, transactional and many more variegation of his original idea. In fact without Freud there would be no modern psychology as we know it. From about 1960 a brand new ear for psychiatry emerged. Those barbaric treatments that never worked were about to be replaced, not by another type of institutions but with a chemical straightjacket that originated from the pharmaceutical industry. Now drugs were the new type of treatment, suddenly the lowly carer from the insane, and the psychiatrist turn into a genuine doctor and prescribe psychopharmecutical drugs to any or all. So a period of drug pushing began, where new mental disorders were manufactured in order to sell more drugs. Early in the century Krapelin invented a little book called the DSM (diagnostic statistical manual of mental illness) within this book he gave lists of mental symptoms that if added up in one individual lead to a label for his or her problem, such as depression, anxiety, mania, hysteria, homosexuality, immoral behaviour plus much more. As time went by the profession of psychiatry kept contributing to this book and inventing new labels to be able 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 it has discovered a variety of new ways to classify human emotions to be mentally ill. Bipolar disorders, ADHD in children, PTSD for soldiers (shell shock of WW1) and many others. While these labels may have some usefulness and have been recognised as genuine trouble for a few people, now of course according to psychiatry many of us are mentally ill, otherwise now however in our lifetime. So they divide populations into existing clients of drugs and potential clients of drugs. Today mental health isn't a profession, not really a scientific medical branch but simply an advertising and marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry that pays millions of dollars annually to keep the myth of mental illness alive and expanding.
Evidence;
Here' want to list some facts that speak for themselves.
� 100 million people worldwide are on psychotropic drugs � Along with crippling scores of people daily, every month psychiatric drugs kill an estimated 3,000 worldwide. � 70% of psychiatrics drugs are prescribed by general physicians. � 374 mental disorders are listed; almost all with out a single scientific test to prove they actually exist biologically. � Psychiatric drugs in 1966 were 44 but by today which has risen to over 180. � The very best five drugs gross more income than half the earth's nations. � Drugs make over a third of a trillion dollars annually. � 20 million children around the world are prescribed psychiatric drugs (USA 9 million alone). Most under Five years old for non-scientific problems. � Every 75 seconds someone is involuntarily committed a mental institution in the US alone. � Electric shock therapy is still being used though it causes memory loss and it has little long-term benefit to the patients. This is easy abuse of Human Rights.
All of the above were researched by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and backed worldwide by a few of the most eminent psychiatrists and psychologists today.
The long list above is only the tip of the psychiatric abuse saga. It's a profession based on money and much more money. Most drugs in the market are only tested for under eight weeks in numerous studies before being given FDA approval with a panel of psychiatrists taken care of through the very drug companies they are said to be regulating. Not a single medical drug currently available is freed from side effects which obviously are the real results of taking dangerous drugs for often fictisous mental illnesses. You can't solve a life issue my masking it with drugs and looking to feel better. The issue is there - so you have to take the drugs for life in order to never think about your real problems. Obviously using the negative effects of one drug you are prescribed many more all to combat each others effects - so many people with a proper diagnosis of mental problems end up on a cocktail of drugs for life. It is amazing how much money people spend to chemically anesthetise themselves when a tiny proportion of that cost might be spent seeing a counsellor, psychologist and therapist and actually dealing with their issues without needing to take a drug in the fist place.
Conclusions
Psychiatry, disables, kills and helps to create drug addicts. Simple really whenever you add up the expense to society. Will they have a place in medicine at all? Well yes, they might concentrate on helping severely disturbed people with understanding, kindness even when they may have to say control button over that individual for any small amount of time. However for most patients taking psychotropic drugs they might stop them tomorrow (or at least phase them to minimise withdrawal effects) and start going to see a therapist. I would recommend a counsellor skilled in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for depression and anxiety, Transactional Analysis for parenting, communications skills, stress at the office and many other day to day issues that require some practical skills insight. For personality problems with anger, emotional turmoil, long-term unhappiness and dysfunction a psychoanalyst would be perhaps your choice. Most psychologists who treat patients in counselling are Eclectic this means they borrow from many types of theory and practice to use the best approach according to each clients needs. The list really is limitless but any therapy that helps you to become stable, accountable for your own actions and provides you the insight into choices is much better undoubtedly than the usual life span of drugs and unhappiness.
