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Abstract:
In this paper I want to review the investigations in the Citizens Committee for Human Rights in Mental Health. It is this organisation in the usa and other countries which have consistently brought the risks of psychiatry to the attention from the general public who generally are the victims of a marriage between pharmaceutical companies and their paid distributors of lethal drugs, psychiatrists. This alliance continues to be based on the greed for the money, profits and kudos all in the name of the science that as one leading authority called - "hokum"
Introduction: A Short History
A brief history of psychiatry is strewn with the deaths; torture and misadventure that will make any sane person wonder why it's been permitted to continue to practice this black art for thus long. Obviously the anti-psychiatry movement has been around for nearly as long as the profession itself. How did this all begin? You need to return to the era of the asylums that grew up in early area of the 1800's specifically in England and the USA. These places were no more than prisons for the mad, those souls that may not function inside the societies norms that dictated how you ought to act and behave. The top of the asylums was a physician, the first psychiatrist. This man caged the mentally ill in cells, with no heating, little food but rotten scraps and in 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 were only available in England using the York Retreat a Quaker run institute for that mentally ill run on completely different lines in the asylums which were government institutions. Within the York retreat the inmates received 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. While the York retreat had some success it was still according to charge of the mad. Later as the years passed and also the 1800s ended the rise of the huge mental hospitals arrived. Psychiatry had new weapons to defeat the mentally ill, this time with brain surgery called lobotomies, hydro-treatment, fire hoses to spray patients with forced jets water, wet blanket wrapping, where patients would be bound in wet sheets on a bed unable 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 not remembering why they had problems in the first place. As the Twenty-first century arrived the price of these hospitals became so burdensome to governments they closed them down as well as in their stead introduced "care in the community" which ironically didn't care at all and most mental health patients became homeless and the new beggars in our streets. It wasn't before the early 1900's that finally Freud introduced his "talking cure" a humane way to try and understand the plight of the mentally disturbed and a method of providing them with insight and a possible cure. Of course you'd to possess money for this treatment much as you do today.
Psychoanalysis is perfect for those who can pay the price. As the century blossomed so did Freud's theory which was being various kinds 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. All those barbaric treatments that never worked were about to be replaced, not by another type of institutions but by a chemical straightjacket that originated from the pharmaceutical industry. Now drugs were the brand new form of treatment, suddenly the lowly carer from the insane, and the psychiatrist could become a real doctor and prescribe psychopharmecutical drugs to any or all. So an era of drug pushing began, where new mental disorders were produced in to sell more drugs. At the start of a lifetime Krapelin invented a small 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 person result in a label for their problem, such as depression, anxiety, mania, hysteria, homosexuality, immoral behaviour plus much more. As the years passed the profession of psychiatry kept contributing to this book and inventing new labels in order to match a drug to handle it.
Today we've the DSM IV version with the next one almost completed as number V. Over the years it's discovered a variety of new methods to classify human emotions to be mentally ill. Bipolar disorders, ADHD in children, PTSD for soldiers (shell shock of WW1) and many more. While these labels might have some usefulness and also have been recognised as genuine problems for a few people, now obviously according to psychiatry we are all mentally ill, otherwise now however in our lifetime. So that they divide populations into existing clients of drugs and prospects of drugs. Today mental health isn't a profession, not even a scientific medical branch but simply a marketing arm from the pharmaceutical industry that pays millions of dollars annually to help keep the myth of mental illness alive and expanding.
Evidence;
Here' want to list some facts that speak for themselves.
� 100 million people are on psychotropic drugs � In addition to crippling lots of people daily, each month psychiatric drugs kill an estimated 3,000 worldwide. � 70% of all psychiatrics drugs are prescribed by general physicians. � 374 mental disorders are listed; almost all with no single scientific test to prove they really exist biologically. � Psychiatric drugs in 1966 were 44 but by today which has risen to in excess of 180. � The very best five drugs gross more money than half the world's nations. � Drugs redesign a third of the trillion dollars annually. � 20 million children all over 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 america alone. � Electric shock treatments are still in use even though it causes memory loss and has little long term help to the patients. This really is straight forward abuse of Human Rights.
All of the above were researched by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and backed worldwide by some of the very eminent psychiatrists and psychologists today.
The long list above is simply the tip from the psychiatric abuse saga. It's a profession according to money and more money. Most drugs on the market are only tested for less than eight weeks in numerous studies prior to being given FDA approval by a panel of psychiatrists taken care of by the very drug companies they are said to be regulating. Not a single medical drug on the market today is freed from negative effects which of course are the real effects of taking dangerous drugs for often fictisous mental illnesses. You can't solve an existence issue my masking it with drugs and expecting to feel good. The issue is still there - so you've to accept drugs for life to be able to never think about your real problems. Of course using the side effects of 1 drug you are prescribed many more all to combat each others effects - so most people having a proper diagnosis of mental problems end up on a cocktail of drugs for life. It's amazing how much money people spend to chemically anesthetise themselves when a tiny proportion of this cost could be spent visiting a counsellor, psychologist and therapist and actually dealing with their issues and never having to take a drug within the fist place.
Conclusions
Psychiatry, disables, kills and helps to create drug addicts. Simple really when you accumulate the costs to society. Will they have a location in medicine at all? Well yes, they might focus on helping severely disturbed individuals with understanding, kindness even when they've already to assert some control over that individual for any small amount of time. However for most patients taking psychotropic drugs they might stop them tomorrow (or at best phase them to minimise withdrawal effects) and start likely to visit a therapist. I would suggest a counsellor skilled in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for depression and anxiety, Transactional Analysis for parenting, communications skills, stress at work and lots of other day to day issues that require some practical skills insight. For personality issues with anger, emotional turmoil, long-term unhappiness and dysfunction a psychoanalyst could be perhaps your choice. Most psychologists who treat patients in counselling are Eclectic this means they borrow from many styles of theory and practice to make use of the most appropriate approach based on each clients needs. The list really is limitless but any therapy that helps you to definitely become stable, responsible for your own actions and gives you the understanding of choices is much better by far than a life span of medication and unhappiness.
