Mortality of People Using Mental Health Services and Medications

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At the instigation of the National Mental Health Commission, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) conducted a study of Mortality of People Using Mental Health Services and Prescription Medications, Analysis of 2011 data.1 They examined the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) records of 3,190,847 persons, who comprised 14.8% of the Australian population of 21,507,719, who had accessed “mental health-related treatments” in 2011. Then they investigated their death records and suicide records.

The scope of MBS (Medicare Benefits Schedule) and PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) data was restricted to persons who accessed subsidised mental health-related items listed on the MBS or PBS in 2011. The study did not include persons in public hospitals who were given drugs from hospital pharmacies, or drugs prescribed under the Department of Veterans Affairs and Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Veterans were counted within the population denominator but those who committed suicide not included in suicide numbers.2 ABS data also excluded persons who accessed services through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Programmes that did not use the Medicare processing system. Suicide rates are reportedly high in Aboriginal populations.

Nonetheless, the doubling and trebling of mortality was irrefutable. 153,451 deaths were registered in Australia in the period 10 August 2011 to 27 September 2012. 75,858 of these deaths were registered for persons who had accessed mental health-related treatments. These deaths accounted for 49.4% of all deaths in this period.

The standardised death rate for persons accessing mental health-related treatments in 2011 was almost twice (1.9 times) that of the standardised death rate for the Australian population (11.4 /1,000 vs. 6.1/1,000).

In the 15-74 age group accessing mental health-related treatments the standardised death rate was 2.4 times higher than for the population of the same age (7.4/1,000 vs. 3.0 /1,000.) For males aged 15-74, it was almost three times (2.9) higher (11.2/1,000 v 3.8/1,000). For females aged 15-74 it was 2.2 times, (5.1 v 1,000 v 2.3/1,000) population).

The leading cause of death was ischaemic heart disease, followed by lung cancer. Mental health patients died of lung cancer (12.3% v 14.1%) and heart disease at a greater rate than the general population. Psychiatric patients smoke because the hydrocarbons in cigarettes induce the enzymes that metabolise antidepressants and antipsychotics, and as a result they feel less toxic and more comfortable. The cause of death by intoxication (poisoning) and suicidality is drug toxicity, levels above the therapeutic window of opportunity. Psychiatric drugs affect all organ systems and death can be cardiac, respiratory, endocrine, or multiple organ failure. Damage occurs to brains, now called substance/medication-induced neuroleptic brain injury. It used to be called Neuroleptic Induced Deficit Syndrome, NIDS. Brains are injured by neuroleptics if given in high doses, particularly if the person cannot metabolise them. It appears to be happening much more to the very young.

The outcome is an adult who was normal before getting medication but now appears to be autistic. The clinical presentation is reminiscent of people who were born with early infantile autism, diagnosed at six weeks of age with Kanner’s Syndrome and grew to maturity.

The expectation is that the assessors for Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme will be finding scores of these young people who have not surfaced and have not been properly diagnosed. The oldest of them would be in their early 40s now. Indeed these assessors need to be told to look out for the problem.

The standardised death rate by intentional self-harm for persons who accessed mental health-related treatments was more than three times (3.3) higher than the standardised death rate by intentional self-harm amongst the total Australian population (34.4 deaths per 100,000 population compared with 10.5/100,000).

These suicide figures understate the number of medication-induced suicides. Medication-induced and medication withdrawal suicides are 100% preventable, can be predicted from a genotype and can be prevented if compulsory continuing medical education is taken away from the pharmaceutical industry and given to responsible educators. The pharmaceutical industry had the blessing of the Commonwealth government to educate doctors as it wished, and it wished to educate them not in the interests of patients but in their own interests.3 Some members of the medical profession have demonstrated that they are unwilling to learn, read or take on board any information that threatens their current practices and incomes. The regulators of medical practice in Australia have relied on what they believed to be standard psychiatric practice as defined by clinical practice guidelines drafted by the pharmaceutical industry, amended slightly and signed by key opinion leaders who are well remunerated problems. Sometimes the text and graphics are virtually identical to a plethora of clinical practice guidelines ghost written in Canada at the request of the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, TMAP, a consortium of pharmaceutical industry interests which has been sued many times.

In 1993, 68 persons committed suicide while being treated by NSW mental health services, and in 1999, 173 persons committed suicide. Between 1996 and 2002, 1163 persons committed suicide within 28 days of contact with the service. Between 2003 and 2008, 937 more committed suicide, making a total of 2000 suicides.4 However the way those suicides were counted changed, and after 2002, suicides were counted only if they occurred within 7 days of contact with NSW mental health services, which looked better. This means that more patients than were included in the statistics committed suicide and homicide on medication that had been prescribed by NSW mental health services.

Between 1993 and 2001, suicide numbers in those under mental health care trebled, increasing from 9% to 21% of all suicides in New South Wales. Increased suicide numbers in NSW were exactly accounted for by the suicides committed by patients under mental health care.5

Hospitalizations for suicide attempts in NSW increased threefold, from 55/100,000 of the population in 1989-90, to 155/100,000 of the population in 2005-06. These accounted for 9,000 hospitalizations a year, and some hospitals did not count them at all.6

The clinical trial data that was accepted by the FDA for the licensing of antidepressants and atypical antipsychotics provides warnings about these phenomena. Following the signing of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States in 2005, Australia adopted the standard of the FDA.7 The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) did not tell the Australian public that the drugs that it approved as far back as 1990, using the standard of the US FDA, were no longer safe or effective and that they were not independently evaluated in Australia. Darrow investigated the process of drug approval at the FDA and concluded that the public (and physicians and insurers) should not rely on the fact of FDA approval as an indication that medicines, including new and very highly priced ones, possess efficacy that is meaningfully greater than no efficacy at all.8

In order to get a drug approved by the FDA, it needs to surpass placebo in two clinical trials on any criterion that the drug company nominates. The efficacy of antidepressants is tested using the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D), which measures energisation, but not the ability to return to work. Some people become manic and score well on the HAM-D, only to go on to kill themselves and others. Drug companies can do any number of trials before they have two successful trials to present, and in the case of risperidone and sertraline for children, two such trials were eventually conducted some 20 years after the drugs were first approved.

Healy summarised the lines of evidence that demonstrate that the relative risk of suicide on antidepressants is somewhere between two and three times that on sugar pills.9

The “atypical” antipsychotics entered the market with significant warnings and a side effect profile of life threatening conditions. FDA data established that one in every 145 persons enrolled in clinical trials for olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel), and ziprasidone (Geodon) died as a result of adverse reactions to the drugs including, but not limited to, suicide, diabetes, convulsions, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, pancreatitis, hyperglycemia, tardive dyskinesia, stroke, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy, hyper prolactinaemia, and obesity. Persons on atypical antipsychotics committed suicide two to five times more frequently than the schizophrenic population in general. The initial diagnosis is irrelevant, as the side effects occur in people with psychiatric and non-psychiatric disorders. In 1997, when there were five antidepressants on the market and three new atypicals, and they were being prescribed together, the suicide rate in Australia reached record levels. Hanging, the most common form of suicide in akathisia sufferers, accounted for the mode of suicide in 50% whereas it is usually 10%.10

Medications not associated with mental health that are reported to the FDA as causing suicidality include muscle relaxants, analgesics (Tramadol is an SSRI), oxycodone, amphetamines, MDMA (Ecstasy), Ritalin (methylphenidate), and drugs as diverse in structure and function as hypericum (St John’s Wort),11 (Chantix®), oseltamivir (Tamiflu®), isotretinoin (Roaccutaine®), mefloquine (Lariam®), metoclopramide (Maxalon®), zolpidem (Stilnox®), calcium channel blockers, antiepileptic drugs promoted as ‘mood stabilizers,’ allergy medicines,12 reserpine, benzodiazepines, statins, and interferon, all induce suicidal and homicidal thinking as an occasional side effect.13 14 Moore et al. identified 1527 cases of violence including homicides disproportionally reported to the FDA for 31 drugs, including varenicline, 11 antidepressants, sedative/hypnotics, and 3 drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.15

The harbinger of suicidality and violence is a neurotoxic side effect called akathisia (from the Greek, cannot sit) that comes on in conjunction with other substance/medication-induced disorders that mimic mental illnesses. Akathisia presents as a fluctuating, can’t-sit-down-restlessness, along with thoughts of death and dying, or unwelcome aggression which, turned inwards, becomes suicidality, and turned outwards, becomes violence, right up to homicide and mass homicide.16 17 18 A manifestation of drug sensitivity, akathisia correlates with blood levels that exceed the therapeutic window as well as sudden changes of dose, up or down. This makes starting and stopping a drug the most dangerous, but not the only time for suicide. Both should be done very, very slowly with compounded medication and supervision.

When an obviously medication-induced suicide or homicide is reported in the press, it appears that everyone in the community, except lawmakers and prescribers, asks the question, “What was he taking?” Five minutes of searching on the internet is recommended to see that this is a massive issue whose articulators and whistle blowers are all cruelly silenced by defamation and by medical regulators and their tribunals. Their courts are based on ecclesiastical courts, which were designed to weed out heretics and not to find the truth.

For example, after the Sandy Hook kindergarten massacre by Adam Lanza, a petition to the White House to find out what medication he was taking gained 86,000 signatures in two days. It was shut down by the White House with the words, “Thank you for your interest in gun control.” Lanza had initially been given escitalopram and had a very serious adverse drug reaction to it, which suggests seriously defective metabolising genes. His next treating psychiatrist absconded to New Zealand and destroyed his records. No one thought to ask what had been dispensed or test for post mortem.

The letter from the White House had about the same level of relevance as the “ministerials” (answers to questions prepared by public servants on behalf of the minister) that emerge from both the state and Commonwealth Departments of Health in response to the letters to the Minister. The information relating suicide to drugs and genes has been submitted to countless Senate committees and to state and federal health ministers whose departments’ ministerial writers are hamstrung by policy, even when they know what they should be saying.

The problem demands re-education of all people who write prescriptions for any kind of medication, and willingness and insisting that they get informed consent from the patient for every single drug. This can be most easily done by presenting a consumer information document, which is available for every drug on the website of the TGA. Patients are entitled to this and it should be enforced.

Akathisia has been associated with suicide since the 1950s and with homicide since 1985.19 Shear et al. reported homicides associated with akathisia after treatment with depot fluphenazine.20 Schulte described five cases of murder, suicide and severe violence with akathisia in psychiatric patients.21 22 The same drugs that induce violence also induce suicidality, and akathisia homicides often end in suicide.

Conditions that affect drug metabolism and cause a drug to reach toxic levels include the dose, co-prescribed medications that induce or inhibit the enzymatic pathways, age, nutrition, stress, liver disease, hormones (natural and extraneous), the sequence in which drugs have been prescribed or taken away, the route of administration, the range of the drug’s half-life in any population, potentially multiple metabolic pathways, the size of the therapeutic window above which a drug is both ineffective and toxic, the duration of therapy, and the duration of inhibition.23 24

The population is broadly divided into extensive, intermediate, poor and ultra-rapid metabolisers. Poor metabolisers develop side effects very quickly, but intermediate metabolisers are at higher risk because blood levels build up slowly and toxicity is not recognised. Most at risk of death from suicide and intoxication are ultra-rapid metabolisers. The appear to go in and out of withdrawal over a period of a day with some drugs, and this is problematic emotionally.25 26 With some drugs and prodrugs, ultra rapid metabolism producing an active metabolite can be problematic, particularly in withdrawal.27 28 29

Intermediate metabolizers may metabolize like poor metabolisers and some like extensive metabolizers, and they are vulnerable to inhibition.30 Some extensive metabolizers metabolize drugs like poor metabolizers after taking CYP inhibitors that reduce or eliminate enzyme activity.31 32

The suicide rate in schizophrenia between 1875 and 1924 was 20/100,000 hospital years, a lifetime rate of less than 0.5%. The suicide rate for all psychoses was 16/100,000 hospital years. Current rates of suicide for schizophrenia and other psychoses appear 20-fold higher.33

ABS uses a euphemism “death rate for intentional self-harm” and finds suicide to be more than three times higher in the medicated than in the population. This is an underestimate. ABS did not look at suicides in hospitals or suicide committed on medications prescribed in a hospital, or those that occurred within days of a patient being prescribed an antidepressant or an atypical antipsychotic in a hospital, and who committed suicide shortly after discharge. ABS did not count suicides in the workers compensation stream, particularly among police, because their prescriptions did not show up on the PBS. ABS did not inquire about the number of returned servicemen who committed suicide in 2012. Veterans are also committing suicide at least twice the rate of the general population.34 The mortality report did not count persons whose prescriptions were written under the Repatriation Scheme.

In 2003, the FDA issued a series of public health advisories concerning worsening depression and suicidality on antidepressants.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) remains “not convinced” in the face of reviews of literally hundreds (373) of clinical trials. That old antidepressants induced suicide in some people was in the 1960 undergraduate psychiatry textbook Clinical Psychiatry written by Mayer-Gross, Slater and Roth. The American Psychiatric Association immediately changed its clinical practice guidelines to include suicide warnings. The RANZCP refused to do so. This is because of fraud in the pharmaceutical sector, which has been documented extensively, country-by-country, and drug-by-drug.35 It is rife in Australia because the country has no way of getting restitution, either for individuals affected or for the Commonwealth and taxpayers. The problem may well be, as it is in the United States, that the pharmaceutical industry and its proxies, Medicines Australia, for example, are generous donors to both political parties. Any changes to this system would require a False Claims Act structured on the American model, so that the Commonwealth and the individuals harmed by pharmaceutical industry fraud can get some kind of restitution. It also would involve making the pharmaceutical industry banned donors.

RANZCP is hugely funded, particularly for its conferences, by the pharmaceutical industry. It is a trade union, not an expert body.

Show 35 footnotes

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  1. Take heed, here we’ve got the Australian variant of what should be an worldwide scandal. I don’t know about anti-medication, but when you get 20-fold increase in the suicide rate, maybe medication is the wrong word to use. How do we reverse this situation? Given industry lies and corruption, professional temerity and cowardice, guild interests, coupled with government collusion, the challenges are enormous. We still, unlike them, find the relevant health concerns of foremost importance. The pressure is on us. If we keep it up, eventually, maybe they will come to realize that the earth is round, not flat. The problem, rather than falling off the edges of the world;, and into the gaping jaws of some dragon or other, has spread from one hemisphere to the other. Perhaps the time for action has arrived.

    Thank you for this important and informative post. I truly hope people are paying attention.

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    • We’re talking about a present day continuous ‘mental health’ Holocaust that’s claiming many times more ‘mental health’ lives than the original ‘mental health’ Holocaust of the 1940s.

      Psychiatry takes these killings as it’s entitlement.

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  2. Yes, a high mortality among those using mental health services and psychiatric medications is not at all surprising. But consider how high the rate of just personal ineptitude, as well as the rate of intense despair, among those conned into believing in the denial systems of therapy, recovery and healing.

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  3. Dear Dr Lucire,

    Thank you for mentioning Fluphenazine Decanoate depot injection, I made longterm recovery as a result of stopping this drug (in 1984). In 1986 The President of The British Association of Psychopharmacologists was a Professor from the University that managed the Hospital where I was treated. My former Psychiatrst PA Carney was also producing promotional Research Papers on the drug Modecate (Fluphenazine).

    Even though Dr Allen Frances Drug/Suicide exposure came to the surface in 1983, Psychiatry (Worldwide) is still actively hiding (Fluphenazine) Akathisia/Suicides. My GP Surgery is attempting to hide evidence of my own historical reactions.

    (I have posted the Email below, previously on this website).

    EMAIL FROM ME TO:
    My Doctor Surgery, Newton Medical, Central London, UK.

    SUBJECT:- CHALLENGE TO DIAGNOSIS

    On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 11:20,

    Dear Partners/Manager,

    Please examine the email and attachments (below).

    I am keen to challenge the 1986 Irish Record Summary and any Mental Health Diagnosis you might hold on me.

    Please record the exact location of the attachments to this email trail on your information system, so that I can refer to them at a later date.

    (Resent Emails dated 29 August 2013 + 16 October 2014 – also contain more background information).

    N.B.
    I would ask for the Amendment of the 1986 Irish Record Summary (not Removal).

    Please acknowledge receipt of this email trail + attachments.

    Yours Sincerely

    ME

    (Forwarded Email From Me To Ombudsman)

    On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 at 10:58,

    Dear Kirsty,

    Would you please pass this Information email on to Joanne Dawson. I apologise for any unpleasantness attached to the contents.

    Please find attached:-

    1. The Relevant Sections of my November 8, 1986 Handwritten Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter (3 pages).

    2. The November 24, 1986 Irish Record Summary (2 pages) – With Requested Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Intentionally OMMITTED.

    3. My January 13, 2012 ‘Near Fatal Modecate Experience’ – ‘Statement’, sent to;- Galway University, Depot Side Effect Research & Monitoring Team

    4. Admitting Doctor, Dr Fadels description of me ‘on presentation’ at Galway in November 1980.

    5. The November 1986 False Reassurance Letter From Dr Donlon Kenny

    MALPRACTICE AT GALWAY 1986
    Please examine and reconcile the attachments to this email and please read through the background information to the offending drugs for perspective. My recovery after April 1984 was as a result of discontinuing these drugs.

    MALPRACTICE & DIAGNOSIS
    I don’t think a Medical environment engaging in Malpractice can be trusted to represent a Medical Opinion.

    BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE OFFENDING DRUG

    Suicide
    Associated with Akathisia and depot Fluphenazine (Modecate) treatment

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment 1983 (Dr K Shearer, Dr A Frances..)

    Dr A Frances went on to become Committee Chairperson to DSM 4.

    Akathisia
    I think I describe the symptoms of Akathisia fairly well in my November 1986 Handwritten ADR Request Letter + in My January 2012 ‘Statement’ to Galway University.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia

    Wikipedia:- ‘Signs and Symptoms’
    “….Neuro-psychologist Dr. Dennis Staker had drug-induced akathisia for two days. His description of his experience was this: “It was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life…”….”

    Manufacturers Warning
    Adverse Drug Reaction
    https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=7520

    “…The side effects most frequently reported with phenothiazine compounds are extrapyramidal symptoms including pseudoparkinsonism, dystonia, dyskinesia, akathisia….”

    Yours Sincerely

    ME

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  4. In the report its written “The suicide rate in schizophrenia between 1875 and 1924” D. HEALY, M. HARRIS, R. TRANTER, P. GUTTING, R. AUSTIN, G. JONES-EDWARDS, A. P. ROBERTS
    The British Journal of Psychiatry Feb 2006, 188 (3) 223-228; DOI: 10.1192/bjp.188.3.223

    In the time before medical science had microscopes and the four blood types identified, I expect at least half of the mentally ill of that time had physical diseases affecting the mind/brain/feelings/thoughts ( as a reason for their misbehavior).

    “…by June 1918, Bruce Robertson (19) had observed three cases of fatal hemoglobinuria in 100 transfusions. Later in the war, preliminary blood grouping became the rule, but, when there were no facilities for laboratory work, his suggestion of a test injection was generally used, particularly in emergencies. If no symptoms occurred within 1 or 2 minutes after the injection of 15 to 20 cc. of donor blood, it was thought safe to proceed with the transfusion.”

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  5. I am suffering from this right now. It seems to be progressive. No doctor will give me a diagnosis. I have had to seek alternative treatments. They are not helping. I am desperate! I feel so isolated. Two neurologists deny a connection to Quetiapine. I want to stop Canada from rushing to adopt pharmacare because of this corruption! I want to stop the marketing of these drugs to parents desperate for help with their disruptive children. OMG please do something!

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        • If you believe in something, it can come true. The nocebo effect is when you believe you are ill from an authority telling you , “You are ill”.

          You can see, type and write intelligently, so therefore you are intelligent. Do not not let worry affect your logical mind of reason. Stay physically active, as in get out of the apartment/house every day. If you appear to to functional and stable, you ARE functional and stable. One day at a time I declare victory.

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    • Coffee60,

      “Two neurologists deny a connection to Quetiapine.” They are lying, the neuroleptics make everyone very ill. I agree with markps2, a positive attitude is important. Your diagnosis would be iatrogenesis, by the way.

      I was weaned off the neuroleptics, I did suffer from what’s known as a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis. But I did eventually recover. I dealt with the drug withdrawal induced “mania” by dancing, biking, gardening, painting, pouring my excess energy into productive endeavors. My “psychosis” part took the form of a spiritual awakening and a “born again” type tale, although some people do have scary “psychoses.” I recommend belief in God personally. You can do it, too. God bless.

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  6. CAFFEE60,

    I commiserate with you – but keep going!

    I suffered from dreadful anxiety when I tapered off neuroleptics. If you suffer from this, and are looking for solutions I would recommend the writings of Erckart Tolle i.e. “The Power of the Now”.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now

    He explains how to relieve anxiety (brilliantly). And the book costs very little.

    If you don’t get what you want from this – I would recommend to maybe try the Buddhists. Buddhism features again and again in a lot of Recovery success stories (like Will Hall and Rufus Mays success stories ..).

    Completely Independent Drug Withdrawal Support Groups are good as well. Don’t tell them maybe, that it’s psychiatric drugs that are the problem.

    You could mix the options as well – they are mutually supportive.

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  7. This Is Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime

    “…whistle blowers are all cruelly silenced by defamation and by medical regulators and their tribunals. Their courts are based on ecclesiastical courts, which were designed to weed out heretics and not to find the truth…”

    The witches (shamans) were a threat to the church!

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    • A lot of us “mad” folk seem to have an openness to the spirit world. I’m a Christian mystic–not an oxymoron really. It was that or become a sorceress.

      I took the drugs to normalize myself by dulling my soul. They also numbed my empathy and conscience.

      Mystics of any religion are a threat to modern scientism. Scientism should not be confused with science by the way. It resembles true science like astrology resembles astronomy or numerology higher math.

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  8. As shown in this very important piece, the only real figures about the safety of pharmaceutical drugs are the official government death statistics. They prove that the “scientific research” done on drugs is so fraudulent and corrupt that none of it can ever be trusted.

    Anyone can see that the claims that “the benefits outweigh the risks” are totally bogus. The governments must be well aware of this. Yet they continue to let it happen.

    As ex-Eli Lilly Prozac briber John Virapen said about the industry he worked for:

    “They’re not interested in curing any disease you may have. They’re more interested in making you get diseases… They want patients who are diabetics, cardiology patients, Parkinson’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, arthrosis. Because you live a long time, and the drugs you take, you have to take for the rest of your life.”

    “They punish you, and then they kill you. And it has to stop.”

    The pharmaceutical industry is the ultimate psychopath’s business.

    How can the doctors who do this live with themselves? Do they not see so many patients dying and even notice, or if they do feel guilty or even care at all?

    In some ancient societies, a doctor was only paid if a patient got well. That would put almost every psychiatrist in the world out of business right away, seeing as most of them believe that “no one ever gets well” and must be “managed” with drugs, thus giving them “job security”, even though it is documented throughout history that many people overcame depression and other problems on their own, that is, until they started being perpetually drugged out of their minds.

    But the current medical system requires harm and deaths to remain profitable. In hospitals, the statistics are that 1% of the people who die produce 10% of the revenue. The people they harm produce 25% of the revenue. But operating costs are fixed. And most hospitals only have a 5% profit margin.

    So a greater than 5% drop in revenue would put them out of business, but they would lose 35% of their revenue if they stopped harming and killing people.

    The MBAs who run the hospitals look at those figures and realize, “If we get rid of the bad doctors who are killing people, we’re going out of business.” So they NEED the bad doctors, to deliberately profit off disease and death. They are their “profit centers”.

    A drug-pushing psychiatrist is a very bad doctor. That is why they earn so much money – they are sales-men and women prostituting themselves for the pharmaceutical industry, and the people they harm produce huge amounts of extra medical revenue. But with no physical tests to keep them in check, they have gone totally out of control and made up hundreds of fictitious diseases out of thin air, primarily so that they can prescribe drugs that do almost nothing but harm and kill.

    That is why psychiatry will never go away, until there is a mass awakening of the public. It is too profitable. Modern (Rockefeller) medicine exists not to improve people’s health, but to profit off destroying their health.

    If you do not believe the above, listen to this interview with a doctor who basically had to flee for her life from the United States after she realized what was happening and stopped conforming (for this, she was put on a terrorist watch list, and two do-not-employ lists). There are others like it, but this one is particularly shocking and truthful:

    “Medical Murder – American Doctors are Certified Killers”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCp2OAJgIi0

    We currently live in a nightmare, not the wonderful time of “progress” that people like Jeffrey Lieberman, wearing his white coat, would have people believe, after taking millions of dollars from drug companies to say so.

    Someone like him is exactly who they want to head the totally corrupt APA, terrifying many millions of patients that they have to take drugs to protect their brains from their “illnesses”, when they secretly know that there is nothing wrong with their brains, but that the drugs destroy their brains. It is hard to imagine a more vile thing to do.

    However, these people seem to be very satisfied with themselves and show zero remorse. They are protected from immediate arrest by the vast corruption of anyone with the power to bring them down.

    “They sleep in the same bed with governments. They use corruption to get what they want. Corruption involves money. And they have lots and lots and lots of money.” – John Virapen on the pharmaceutical industry.

    How does this actually operate in practice? If you want to see what is really going on behind the scenes, how terrible the corruption really is, watch the following talk dated 23 August 2017 by a whistleblower from deep on the inside.

    This is a MUST WATCH. If everyone saw this tonight, there would be mass outrage and perhaps a revolution. All sorts of horrible things, including psychiatry, would not be possible without the sheer psychopathic evil that the runs the world right now.

    However, YouTube is clearly pushing the number of views right down to a ridiculously low level so that it doesn’t rank in searches of videos, because they do not want people to see it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaFdKBb6z2E

    And yes, the mindset of a “System of Personal Destruction” exists in the pharmaceutical industry too:

    “We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live.” – One Merck employee’s email to another about doctors criticizing Vioxx, which killed at least 60,000 people in the US alone in four years, which they secretly knew would happen in advance.

    Mass murder has always been the most lucrative get-rich-quick-scheme in history, with war being the biggest and most obvious example. See “War is a Racket” by Major General Smedley Butler, written when he was the most decorated Marine in US history:
    http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf

    Psychiatry is chemical warfare on humans.

    Modern pharmaceutical medicine is the most lethal racket ever conceived. It kills more people than all the wars combined, for over $1 trillion a year now in revenue. For sheer destruction of human life, becoming a mainstream drug-pushing doctor, especially a psychiatrist, is probably the worst possible choice of “profession” one could ever make.

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  9. The mental health people are not going to tell you that you have been used. And therapists and recovery people are not going to help you learn how to fight back and restore you social and civil standing.

    They all want you to believe that the problem is because of you. And so yes, this does often result in mortality.

    The best doctors, the best medications, the best therapists, the best people praying for him.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG-IK2kXCQI

    And now Warren has an org devoted to making people believe that they suffer from ~Mental Illness~

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  10. Thank you, Yola Lucire for this comprehensive article… so many important points brought to light! We have the same problems in the U.S., if not worse. Thank you, too for highlighting Akathisia; there is so much awareness that needs to be raised about this psychotropic drug-induced ‘hell on earth’ illness!

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