Noting that “childhood adversity is gaining increasing attention as a plausible etiological factor in the development of psychotic disorders,” researchers from Johns Hopkins, Aarhus University, and the Danish centers for Integrated Register-Based Research and Integrative Psychiatric Research find that childhood residential mobility is “associated with heightened risk of narrow and broad schizophrenia.” The research, published in Schizophrenia Research, found that the risk of psychosis grew with age – the strongest associations being found during adolescence.
Paksarian, D, Eaton1, W., Mortensen, P., Pedersen, C.; Childhood Residential Mobility, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar Disorder: A Population-based Study in Denmark. Schizophrenia Bulletin. Online June 5, 2014. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbu074
“Noting that “childhood adversity is gaining increasing attention as a plausible etiological factor in the development of psychotic disorders,”
And of course that was common sense 50 years ago. The story of our time will not be just that psychiatry was the only “medical” speciality not to advance in science, but that it knowingly went backwards and harmed and even killed (and even ruined many children and adults lives) in it’s backwards quest to increase their own profits. because, of course, medicaid and insurance companies were never going to pay them a doctors salary for helping people to come to terms with their past, something that most abused and traumatized people can do. Unlike psychiatric drug induced brain damage victims, who will continue suffering brain damage no matter what.
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The reality is, the psychiatric professionals have devised themselves a system which allows them to ignore their patients real life real problems. And instead defame their patients with fictitious and scientifically “lacking in validity” “disorders,” and majorly tranquilize them, so as to prevent the patients from rationally addressing their real life problems and healing.
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I have also heard from other parents that school social workers target new to area families, and try to get the new kids drugged up, which is of course profitable for the schools. But I guess it’s pretty obvious, given the DSM5 and it’s desire to claim no one is “normal,” psychiatry’s actual goal is to stigmatize and drug absolutely everyone.
What a shame for them to learn their ADHD drugs and antidepressants CAUSE their “bipolar” symptoms, and their antipsychotics CAUSE their schizophrenia symptoms and long run outcomes. Because, logically speaking, turning all of humanity into “bipolar” / “schizophrenics” isn’t really beneficial to humanity in the long run. But it is profitable for the psycho / pharmaceutical industries, the schools, the hospitals, the doctors, etc.
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Where do you get the research that states that teachers are in fact wanting to drug thier children for profit? Reading that medications cause people to develop Bipolar and Schizophrenia is also something that I find curious. Then what is happening when someone has syptoms of these illnesses, but have never been on any medications?
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Harriet, these are entirely reasonable questions. I can’t speak for the comment author but he (or she) may have meant that psychiatric medications promote more serious and longer lasting symptoms. SSRIs, for instance, are well known to cause bipolar disorder although psychiatrists claim that they can merely “trigger” pre-existing asymptomatic conditions. Stimulants for ADHD can also lead to bipolar disorder.
I don’t think that anybody would try to claim that psych drugs are the only possible cause of mental disorder. And as for teachers benefiting financially from drugging school kids, I’m afraid I just have no idea where that idea springs from.
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There are plenty of stories and there is plenty of evidence that stimulants and SSRI antidepressants can cause “manic episodes.” It even says so on the product information for most of them. I work with kids in foster care and see this effect all the time. Kids are diagnosed with “ADHD,” put on stimulants, become aggressive as a result, and are diagnosed with “bipolar disorder” and put on antipsychotics. Ironically, the stimulants increase dopamine supplies, while antipsychotics decrease dopamine supplies. So they increase dopamine with the stimulants, then see evidence of excessive dopamine transmission, which they view as a new “disorder” and “treat” with a new drug, rather than doing the obvious and stop overstimulating the dopamine system.
It definitely does happen to kids and adults who have never had these symptoms before. Some doctors have even been so disingenuous to say that the drug treatment “unmasked an underlying bipolar disorder!” For some reason, it seems difficult for many psychiatrists to accept the possibility that their drugs do sometimes make things worse.
—- Steve
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Harriet,
Here is a link discussing the fact that there is a financial incentive for the schools (not the teachers) to label children with the “mental illnesses.” You may also google “do schools get extra funding for ADHD students” to find more on this topic.
http://www.rense.com/general4/addd.htm
And thank you, Francesca and Steve, for pointing out the ADHD and antidepressant iatrogenic pathways to bipolar. As to schizophrenia, the definition of schizophrenia has changed dramatically over the years. Recently, proof of brain atrophy in schizophrenics has been used to prove that schizophrenia is a “real” brain disease. However, new research is coming in showing a direct correlation between the amount of “antipsychotics” given, and the amount of brain damage – thus implying the neuroleptics are actually what’s causing the brain damage. And the “antipsychotics” cause brain atrophy in “bipolar” patients, as well. Here’s some links pointing out this psycho / pharmaceutical industry “almost unfathomable in scope” societal betrayal:
http://books.google.com/books?id=KMapbFl0ZZMC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=iatrogenic+bipolar&source=bl&ots=wcP_ee7V-k&sig=t2xEHJHWHylwaa23kidO9DLOjgU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pOi8UY6ZEoq89QSt84DYCQ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwADgU
http://ssristories.com/show.php?item=4162
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/772/9/
http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/mad-in-america/201102/andreasen-drops-bombshell-antipsychotics-shrink-the-brain
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474133/
http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201004/psychiatric-diagnosis-gone-wild-the-epidemic-childhood-bipolar-disorder
http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/06/frontal-brain-volume-reduction-due-to-antipsychotics/
But, as Francesca stated, there is no one claiming all “bipolar” and “schizophrenia” is caused by the drugs. I think I read recently it’s estimated that approximately 85% of “bipolar” diagnoses have an iatrogenic etiology. But that explains why an illness that used to occur in only about 0.5% of the population is now found in a much higher percent of the population. And, forgive me, but I am personally disgusted by the fact the psychiatric practitioners are creating “mental illnesses,” for profit. It’s wrong – and they’re destroying millions of people’s lives.
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I wonder if the study took into account the fact that *parents* who change locales more frequently than average may themselves exhibit a higher than normal rate of psychopathology?
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This kind of research is always hopelessly flawed due to confounding variables. And using a formal psychiatric diagnosis as an operational definition means that you’re (a) wrongly excluding those who meet the criteria but just haven’t been diagnosed; and (b) wrongly including the misdiagnosed. These scientific resources would be much better spent elsewhere.
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“Misdiagnosed” with a DSM disorder? According to the psychiatric industry, if you believe you were misdiagnosed, that’s proof OF your “mental illness.” And I agree, the psychiatric industry does not understand the first thing about the scientific method, it’s a terrible waste of money. Let’s feed the world instead.
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