Was it Dr. Peter Gotzche who asked if the psychiatrists were crazier than their patients? Yes, they are, indeed … new low, after new low, after new low, psych industries.
“When it’s time to change,” we’ve got to rearrange, who we are and what we’re going to be. Awaken with the Holy Spirit, and pray to be moved by the Holy Spirit, “mental health professionals,” and welcome in the common sense, please.
Psychiatry did turn “Life into Illness,” and sadly psychology turned itself into a funnel to the neurotoxic poisoners of psychiatry, instead of listeners.
No offense, psychologic industry, but you all bought into the billing code “bible” of the psychiatric industry’s ‘invalid’ DSM “bible,” which was debunked as “invalid” in 2013, by the head of the NIMH.
Yet too many of you, who have also unethically “partnered” with the mainstream paternalistic religions, who want to “maintain the status quo,” long after 2013, actually should repent and change from your evil ways. Instead of merely pretending you’re changing from your evil ways, without repentance, and ending your faustian “partnerships.”
I do agree that society should “depsychiatrize,” since their “bible” was debunked as “invalid,” by the head of the NIMH in 2013, as well as being confessed to be “BS” by the head editor(s) of the DSM(s).
And those of us here all know that the psych industries’ neurotoxins, can and do create the symptoms of their DSM “disorders.” (Please see my prior comments on MiA if you’d like to see my links to prove this.)
All DSM “bible” billers are the guilty, based upon my experience, and medical records. And they should all repent, burn their “invalid” DSM billing code “bible,” and change from their evil, pathological lying, and highly delusional ways.
That happened to me, Vee. Thank goodness my insurance company refused to pay for me to be institutionalized for life, by doctors, one of whom was eventually convicted by the FBI.
I agree, Dr. Peter, prescribing of depression pills absolutely must end in all of child bearing age, and younger. But I don’t think there is a need for use of that class of drugs, for anyone of any age, in the long run. Thus, I believe use of antidepressants should eventually end – let those on them, who find them useful, or don’t want to go through withdrawal, stay on them; but wean those who want to be taken off them, off them.
I almost did not read past the first couple sentences, because I was afraid it might make me cry. In the summer of 2009, I met a couple of Israelis outside a hotel in downtown Chicago. They were speaking in Yiddish, which sounds similar to German. I asked if they were from Germany, and this greatly offended them. They told me the Germans were the enemy, and that they were from Israel. I apologized for my error, and we made polite small talk, until we finished our cigarettes. But, it had never occurred to me in my waking hours, prior to that conversation, that for at least some Israelis, WWII never ended. And this gave me a great deal of empathy for the people of Israel. I pray all the wars, everywhere on this planet, end soon.
Nonetheless, I’m glad I continued reading, because I absolutely agree, art heals. Painting, journaling, dancing, gardening, and music all helped me heal. Making art allowed me to get the evil out. Journaling allowed me to make sense of the insanity of today’s “mental health” industries. Gardening allowed me to commune with nature. And since I can basically tell my entire life’s story, as if I were a muse for the musicians, in music lyrics … well, ‘music has charms to sooth a savage beast.’ And dancing goes hand in hand with music, and is a good way to get the extra energy of a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania out. God bless you on your healing journey, Yishay.
As one who shares a nickname with you, within the websites of my dreams – which are organized like the internet of the “collective unconscious” / dream world – which is probably why most people’s dreams are confusing to them. But of what I know of my awakenings to my dreams, makes sense to me, and they are where I find the common sense of all.
I will say last night I was a bad girl, I went to my local convince store to buy some ice cream. I was in line between two black woman. One was complaining about all the, largely financial based, problems in her life to the other. I don’t know if the women knew one another.
But gradually, I entered into the conversation … agreed with the complaining woman that it was difficult to live in a different state than the rest of her family. And asked her why she moved here. Eventually I asked the woman frustrated with life’s problems, if she’d do me a favor. I politely asked her to consider praying two prayers.
I asked her to pray one night to awaken with the Holy Spirit. Then when she felt ready, to pray to be moved by the Holy Spirit.
Initially, she was a bit defensive, since she hadn’t been going to church recently. As the listening black women was checking out she asked me about what religion I belonged to. I told both women I’m in between religions right now. But then I mentioned … that doesn’t mean you have to stop believing in the Triune God.
I then told them both I was friends with a couple pastors, who I used to work with, and I knew their hearts were in the right place. So I recommended their church to them. The complaining women then asked me for the prayer suggestions again, and she was so grateful, that she bought my ice cream for me, despite her financial problems. Of course, I did “pay it forward” for her in return.
But this whole personal story does lead me to the polite suggestion for you too, No-one, and everyone else, to please also consider praying those two prayers.
I believe Jon’s story points out a very important reason why our society absolutely needs to stop psych neurotoxic poisoning all children, as well as all of child bearing age, who might possibly like to have children and live a normal and happy life … which is pretty much the entire population.
Thank you, Peter, for your continued truthful reporting.
You are very modest, Jon, your research and efforts are very impressive. And, as one who was also, misjudged – in your case for stupid reasons, in my case for stupid and nefarious reasons – and harmed with the anticholinergic drugs. I hope you don’t mind if I link your story in a comment in yesterday’s article about the antidepressants, by Peter Simons.
I believe your story points out a very important reason why our society absolutely needs to stop psych neurotoxic poisoning all children, as well as all of child bearing age, who might possibly like to have children and live a normal life. God bless you in your healing and research journeys, Jon.
“Laughter is the best medicine,” as they say, and as I mentioned in a highlighted youtube comment recently. And I do tend to get my news, from comedians, on both the left and right. Largely because the divide and conquer strategy of the mainstream media, that is destroying the country in which I live, is obnoxious. And it’s better to laugh at one’s insane society, rather than to cry.
And, hey, Kermit Cole, who comes in the name of my eldest son, and other relatives. We did sort of, possibly, “cure” schizophrenia … or we could, since we found the iatrogenic etiology of schizophrenia. Given the fact that the antipsychotics can create the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, via anticholinergic toxidrome; and the negative symptoms can be created, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Albeit, we also know there are many other psycho/social – but not “genetic” – causes of schizophrenia symptoms. Please see my comment on yesterday’s Dr. Peter Gøtzsche’s post on MiA, of the ones I know of, and add any more, of which, I may still be unaware.
Laughter is the best medicine, psychiatrists, not defaming people with “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisoning people. Please wake up, psychiatry.
Thank you for the interview, Mr. Whitaker and Mr. Cole.
I do like your idea of memorials for those harmed and killed by the psych industries, Cat. May I put my hat in the ring to make the memorials, if funding is ever raised for Cat’s good idea?
I need to design a memorial for my father’s grave. And have come up with an idea, and it – or something similar – might also be a cool design for such memorials to the many harmed and killed by the psychiatrists.
I’ve been doing research into sacred geometry, which is basically the mathematics behind everything in God’s universe. And sacred geometry designs are supposed to have healing properties, and are visually appealing to humans.
I’ve concluded that to make my dad’s memorial, I should probably take a class in 3-D printing, and I have found a local university that teaches it. Because I need to come up with a 3-D model of my design, in order to have it caste in bronze.
In essence what I have in mind is a 3-D image of a flower of life, that has a rising sun, worked into the design, the location of which is based upon the fibonacci spiral. If you don’t know anything about sacred geometry (since it’s not taught in the US schools), this may be difficult to envision, but you can google it. And I think it’s a cool idea for a memorial.
I plan to also put a stylized image of an olive tree (roots, slightly gnarly trunk, and branches) in my dad’s memorial, since his hobby was genealogy. Then I thought I’d mount it on some granite, probably. The size of the bronze part could be 21″ x 21″ or 42″ x 42″ or 21″ x 34″, or possibly larger, so there’s lots of options.
At least I’d like to throw my hat into the ring for consideration, as an artist and designer, if Cat’s idea ever found funding.
Thank you, Dr. Peter Gøtzsche for your consistent truth telling.
“Psychiatry should be demolished and built up from the ground, focusing on psychosocial interventions, as recently recommended by the United Nations and the WHO.50”
Personally, I believe that psychiatry should focus on learning to wean people off the psych neurotoxins (in essence to minimize the mess they’ve created). Then psychiatry, as a medical profession, should gradually be weaned out of existence.
As to psychology, the non-medically trained psychologists should not be diagnosing anyone with anything. And, as one who believes the Jungians are the closest to the truth, they could research into things like the collective unconscious, etc. (in other words, no clinical work).
Or, maybe since they are already “partnered” with the religions, I suppose that as long as everyone is made aware of this relationship (in other words, the churches could pay the psychologists, but they should never ever charge a client, fraudulently implying they work for the client, then run off to get lies and gossip from a pastor about the client, as happened to me). But since I already know this is a faustian partnership, it’s probably better that “partnership” is ended.
But if the psychologists actually want to help people, they should become helpers, largely unrelated, to the medical field, in places like Soteria Houses or healing farms, and the like.
“And all treatment needs to be voluntary.11,12” I agree, forced and coerced treatment should eventually be made illegal. But this gets tricky, when it comes to someone who is psychotic.
So who will help a person who is experiencing psychosis, you may ask? Based on experience with a loved one, I know families do need help in such cases. A short course of benzos? That didn’t work for my loved one, but it may be a good place to start. A short course (like one or two days) of neuroleptics might at least calm the person down, allow them to sleep, but then you do run the risk of a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis. But if you follow the antipsychotic up, in a healing space, for a week or two, with a low dose of lithium. And then reduce the lithium within a month to six weeks. Well, just an antidotal case, but that is what helped my loved one.
I guess the “healing space” should begin in the hospital. But once the person is stabilized on the lithium, if they do need a safe space until they get weaned off the lithium. I do believe we should move towards alternatives like Soteria houses, healing farms, maybe open dialogue, and give me more ideas, ladies and gentlemen. If a person is actually violent, then the police likely should deal with them. But the paramedics and police are not very good about assessing whether a psychotic person is dangerous, unless they are told the person is not dangerous. (There’s been too much psychiatric brainwashing of the public.)
As to what are the causes of psychosis?
street drugs
alcohol encephalitis
the ADHD drugs
the anticholinergic drugs (antidepressants, antipsychotics, etc.)
drug interactions
psych drug withdrawal
trauma
sleep deprivation
None of which are “genetic” etiologies. But do add to the list, if you can. And please make other suggestions for alternatives, or disagree with me, and explain why we should not move in this direction, please … I’m still just thinking through it.
“this study confirms that artificial intelligence does not provide a solution to human stigma. In fact, without explicit countermeasures and community oversight, large language models (LLMs) risk automating existing prejudices on an unprecedented scale.”
Thank you for finally defining a LLM, for those of us who are not computer specialists. And I agree,
“This work reinforces the calls from the consumer-survivor-ex-patient movement to involve individuals with lived experiences at every stage of technology design, evaluation, and deployment.”
Smart younger generation ADHD, bipolar defamed, et al … us older, not terribly computer savvy, need your help, please.
Of course, “Coercion in Psychiatric Wards Tied to Worse Recovery.” And forced and coerced psych drugging is horribly anti-democratic. If the psych “professions” can’t, without coercion and force, sell their neurotoxins, then they need to change their business model. And that is what needs to happen.
And isn’t it shameful that the number one function of all DSM deluded “mental health professions” is covering up child abuse for the mainstream religions?
As one who has found that if one claims to be a critical psychiatry person, and psychopharmacology researcher … that is an effective approach. I do recommend use of that term. At least I found a young psychiatrist will agree, ‘I, too, am a critical psychiatry person.’
Thank you, as always, for your truth telling, Bruce. I’m new to the concept of “pluralism,” but think I agree more with them. Since I do stand against the DSM “bible” deluded psychiatric / psychological DSM monopoly. Thus I think the psychological industry, et al, should break from the DSM deluded psychiatric industry, and actually become real helpers instead.
But I will say, I do understand why this is, for greed inspired reasons, difficult to do, for the “invalid” DSM “bible” billing psychological, et al, industries.
For goodness sake – the take a percentage of gross, conservatorship, “art manager” contact, I was handed over by a psychologist – that I refused to sign, pointed out the greed only inspired system of the DSM “bible” billers … and really the entire medical system.
Thank you for sharing your story, Timothy. I remember a couple decades ago, when I was first researching into the psych drugs, I watched a video of a woman in benzo withdrawal – it was truly heartbreaking. When will psychiatry stop harming people for profit? God bless you on your healing journey.
I hope to see an end to “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” and that comes from an ethical banker’s daughter, that has supposedly been keeping track of the money you worship, in our dreams.
As the mother of a child abuse survivor, according to my child’s medical records, who was able to scare a school, that had a pedophile on its school board, to close forever, on 6.6.06.
I will say – to this day – that since the “mental health professionals” can NOT bill to actually help child abuse survivors, by DSM design.
Until this paternalistic problem is changed, all child abuse survivors should stay as far away as possible, from the “invalid” DSM “bible” billers.
But I will say that since the psych industries’, the systemic primarily child abuse covering up industries, have “partnered with” the large religions, my entire family had to leave our childhood religion, seemingly forever.
I’m one of the “widows” mentioned in the latter book’s Preface. Whose family was forced out of our lifelong religion, due to attempted thievery, by a child abuse covering up, and attempted thieving, psychologist.
But I’ll ask should all, not able to bill to help child abuse survivors, so systemically child abuse covering up DSM deluded, be trying to steal from, all mothers and grandmothers of child abuse survivors. and getting them out of their lifelong religions?
“The Burden of Disease figure by age for mental illness seems to show that some part of the very large decreases in all mental illnesses is probably due to similar learning effects/environmental changes.”
From what I’ve read, the Covid debacle has greatly increased, not decreased, the defamations of people with the “invalid” psych DSM diagnoses. Can you please give citations to how the Covid situation has decreased psych diagnoses, please, Polygene?
Kim, this website does have recommendations for doctors who claim to be weaning people off the psych drugs, under their ‘drugs’ section. Perhaps you can find a doctor near you?
But I will say, from what I understand, the best way to wean off as many of the psych drugs as is possible for you, if not all, is via a hyperbolic tapering.
But given the extremely adverse withdrawal effects of the psych drugs, I do suggest you have a good support system of loved ones, who are aware of what you’re hoping to do, and are informed regarding the possible short and long run adverse withdrawal effects of the psych drugs … which are basically the same as the DSM disorder symptoms … which is why the symptoms of withdrawal are usually misdiagnosed as “a return of the illness.”
But, hopefully, a slice of hope for you, is I was also misdiagnosed with the “invalid” “bipolar’ diagnosis, and have been drug free for about two decades now, so it can be done.
Well, Davey, you may be right that there is a ‘physiological,’ if that is the right term, ‘basis’ for some psychiatric problems. Like, for example, psychosis can be caused by sleep deprivation, alcohol encephalitis, et al. But those are not biological or genetic causes. And depression, IMHO, is usually caused by depressing events, or situations.
So, Steve is definitely right. There is way too much incorrect assuming being done by our ‘make an a-s out of you and me,’ psych industries.
I had to look up what CPTSD was an abbreviation for, and found it rather comical you chose to use your “diagnosis,” thus your lived experience, as your qualification, as an expert by experience. Wise move, Shay.
Maybe us experts by experience on MiA should all come up with a “university,” that gives us experts by experience “degrees,” in hard earned wisdom?
According to my former, biased psychologist, who got all her misinformation about me from her – didn’t know me – pastor, and a pedophile’s wife (according to all my family’s medical records). The deluded psychiatrist, who I was railroaded off to by that biased psychologist within two appointments, eventually declared my entire real life to be “a credible fictional story.”
Whereas, 40 hours of unbiased psychological career testing, claimed I should be an architect and/or judge … I’ll go with the unbiased psychological assessment.
How is your wife doing, Steve? You may email me, if you prefer more privacy, but I can’t guarantee my emails are private either.
Ditto. A move towards a mutually respectful society is what’s needed. And, sadly, the forced drugging, pathological lying, “invalid” DSM deluded psych industries, are largely the opposite of that.
“The most influential actors were predominantly male (55%) and in academia (60%), psychiatrists (38%) or psychologists (26%) and based in the US (22%) and UK (22%). Individuals working in funding government, private sector or membership organisations received less than 5% of total nomination, while similarly few individuals in neuroscience, nursing/social work, law, social sciences, policy or lived experiences advocacy were considered influential.”
Thanks to the British and UN, who both have different recommendations regarding the psychiatric neurotoxins, than the lunatic, American DSM deluded, “mental health professions,” that want to “maintain the status quo.”
“Historically, the global mental health field has focused on treating severe psychiatric disorders, especially in low- and middle-income countries.”
I think this statement is likely completely wrong, since the scientific fraud based “mental health professions” are only now trying to bring about a global “mental health” system, in “low- and middle-income” countries.
“critics have raised concerns that academic and clinical elites continue to monopolize the conversation.”
I agree.
“Participants suggested that if ministers only valued the opinions of mental health clinicians, missing relevant experience and knowledge from other professional disciplines (e.g. psychologists, anthropologists, nurses), they lacked the crucial nuance necessary to reframe mental health globally.”
I agree, and a nurse friend of mine, now confesses to be embarrassed by today’s American, actually the entirety of the medical system. But she’s particularly embarrassed by the US “mental health system,” within which, she did briefly work.
“the COVID-19 pandemic, as national crises required immediate response”
Now, it seems, most know this was untrue. But at least the Covid debacle was profitable for the gaslighting “mental health” industries (sarcasm).
There is a need “for more meaningful engagement from people with lived experience,” but instead, we are largely ignored, and silenced (not to mention, I was handed over a thievery contract … and this is a systemic psych industries’ problem … by a computer hacking, criminal, child abuse covering up psychologist, who I refused to hire).
“many participants warned that structural dominance by Western academic psychiatry risks reinforcing individualistic and medicalized models”
… an industry whose DSM “bible” was confessed to be “invalid” in 2013, by the head of NIMH.
“Creating informed guidance that includes discussion around the supports needed for quality management of daily stress, and addressing the mental health spectrum versus focusing only on disorders and medical interventions are calls to action made by Shiraz now.”
Who is Shiraz … “a city in southwest central Iran?”
I agree, “help bring[ing] about a fundamental shift in how we approach mental health care,” is greatly needed. And I thank those working within the “Criminal Justice and Sociology,” et al industries, for doing their part in speaking out against today’s “invalid,” mass murdering, psych industries.
The reality, however Blu, is that since all doctors are taught in med school – including the psychiatrists – that the antidepressants and antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, your adverse reactions to the psych drugs was not likely “paradoxical.” Not the mention the antipsychotics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Let’s be realistic. “Therapy-Speak,” should be properly called, debunked DSM ‘bible’ stigmatization / defamation.
Because continued use of the debunked DSM results in “a privatization of distress, where suffering is interpreted as a signal of individual dysfunction.” Well, in my personal case, my distress was caused by the societal dysfunction, that resulted in my – and the entire world’s – legitimate distress at the distressing 9/11/2001 event.
I guess that’s called political abuse of psychology and psychiatry, in America, huh?
If, “Their goal is not to reject therapy altogether, but to propose a form of practice that breaks with the individualizing and depoliticizing tendencies of the therapeutic turn,” then the psychologists need to break from use of their “invalid” psychiatric DSM “bible” … and stop functioning as nothing more than funnels into the “BS” psychiatric forced drugging, iatrogenic illness creating, system.
“More than simply naming problems, therapy-speak [DSM stigmatization-speak] provides tools to manage contradictions without confronting them.” Especially, when it comes to covering up child abuse, which has become, by DSM design, the number one actual function of both the DSM “bible” billing psych industries.
Therapy does “carry unacknowledged harms, especially for those experiencing mild to moderate distress” or none, thus the psych industries should learn to live, and let live, and leave innocent others alone. (It was less than a year ago that I finally got a criminal computer hacking psychologist, who I refused to hire, hopefully forever, out of my computer and phone.)
The psych “professions” do like to silence their clients. I had to leave my former psychiatrist once I realized he had very literally declared my entire life to be “a credible fictional story” in his medical records, as if I would believe his delusions.
Decades after I left that nut job psychiatrist, I was attacked by a psychologist, in a church, who tried to gaslight me into signing a thievery contract. Of course I didn’t sign it. But apparently my art work was “too truthful” for him, at least according to recovered emails I found, after learning this “creepy” psychologist, had been hacking into my computer for years.
And, yes, covering up child abuse is the number one actual societal function of the psych industries, and it’s all by design, according to their debunked DSM.
“behavioral health professionals now lead the response via mobile crisis teams, not law enforcement, such as the officers who handcuffed Isbell.”
Yet the “mental health professions'” goal is taking people to hospitals, for profit, just like the police, government, and paternalistic religions, who own the hospitals.
And I’m not generalizing, I’m speaking from personal experience, as one with medical evidence of eleven anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders, by the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, and his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, Dr. Humaira Saiyed, who deserves to be arrested, too.
I dealt with, if I recall correctly, just over $30,000 of fraud based “treatment,” paid for by my insurance company, for Kuchipidi and Saiyed’s anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders. But Kuchipudi and Saiyed were hoping to make their fraud from my medical insurance carrier over $120,000, with an unneeded tracheotomy … since I was fraudulently admitted to that hospital, with a non-existent “chronic airway obstruction.”
As one who had a dream about being “moved by the Holy Spirit,” and medical evidence of easily recognized and complex medical iatrogenesis, misdiagnosed as “psychosis,” due to my legitimate distress caused by 9/11/2001.
I largely agree with most of what you say, if the latter part of your post stands for pro-dream analysis, and against the current Western “biologically reductionist” DSM deluded “mental health” industries’ claims all dreams, and me, are “irrelevant to reality,” and brain zaps are “psychosis,” within one or two appointments – which is the antithesis of treating one’s client, as they would like to be treated.
“Healing begins when we listen deeply—not just to symptoms, but to the whole story behind them.” I agree, but sadly that’s not what is happening in today’s “mental health” industries, any where in Western civilization. So I couldn’t agree more, the whole world needs a paradigm “shift” away from psychiatry’s “biologically reductive” DSM “BS.”
It would be wonderful if you could share some insights into what helps “mental health” symptoms in Korean medicine, here on MiA.
Just an FYI, my parents met at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thank you for sharing, and helping people get off of psychiatry’s neurotoxins, Daehyun.
If I’m not incorrect, I recall from my research somewhere, learning that the entire way “Family Court” is structured is bad, for example, there are no juries. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
But, then again, the entire maritime legal system (as opposed to common law, which we are supposed to have in the US, but don’t) is convoluted. This guy does a good job of explaining this in his “foundational knowledge” section.
Yes, the psych professions do target middle aged women. I went into a hospital due to a pulled muscle over my heart, it was caused by exercising with weights that were too heavy – which had nothing to do with depression.
I wasn’t allowed to leave that ER without some doctor coming up to me and asking, “Are you depressed?” I told him, “No, and I’m allergic to the anticholinergic drugs.” I sat there and watched him trying to comprehend what I had just said, it took him a minute. Then he just walked away, and I was allowed to leave.
I did a portrait of the last psychologist who medically unnecessarily approached me, in a church, not a medical setting. I call the painting, “Portrait of a Doctorate in Gaslighting.” He spent two years harassing (trying to gaslight) me into signing a thievery contract. You can see it in the art section of this website.
I’m glad some psychologists are finally starting to wake up, and starting to clean up the deplorable mess, the psych professions created.
I pray to God our society returns to a semblance of sanity, and stops the mass psychiatric drugging of children, seemingly due to the greed of the psych industries specifically, but also because of the greed of the entire medical community, who has seemingly bought into the psychiatric industry’s “BS.”
Don’t forget about those “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness” lies that the psych – professions spew.
And the fact that the psych professions don’t even know how to safely wean people off their neurotoxins, so even finding a psych professional to agree to wean you off, is hard.
I agree, the DSM “bible” billing industries function as a “cult.” A “cult,” seemingly hell bent, on functioning to “maintain the status quo,” which is a “status quo” that is based upon bad systems, thus it is dysfunctional, and unjust.
I mean, in the US, we’re all supposed to believe “we are all created as equal,” yet the psych industries want to create and maintain a greed only inspired caste system, which protects the “professionals” while putting everyone else through a literal iatrogenic living hell, and steal more than everything from them … at least according to my medical, financial, and legal records, and research.
More ways to point out how the psych industries are un-American, thank you, Cat.
I agree, No-one, it is nice that MiA allows philosophical commentary.
I haven’t yet looked into all your links, Tom, but thanks for the thought provoking commentary and links.
But I will agree, “depression does not cause a lack of hope,” unless it’s “clinical depression,” which too many within the psych professions claim is “a life long, incurable, genetic illness,” caused by a “chemical imbalance,” “just like diabetes” … all of which is blatant lies.
Meaning these psych professions are telling blatant lies to their clients, in order to steal people’s hope, for profit.
And I agree, “It IS a lack of hope [that can cause depression], and its cure, therefore, is obviously the restoration of hope.”
Which largely means, get away from the psych professions that are spewing hope destroying lies at you, and stop believing these systemic liars.
I agree, “what many people need is not more diagnoses, but more dignity, resources, and economic security.” But I’m not certain I agree with your conclusion that cash transfers are a good idea.
As an ethical banker’s daughter, I’d say the real solution is to turn over the unethical globalist bankers'” table” / bad banking system … again … and, hopefully, forever.
But in the story of my dreams, God’s ultimate goal is a free society, like with no money whatsoever. Albeit with the understanding by all, that God (our Creator) owns this planet, as well as all the planets in our ever expanding universe, and that there is both wisdom and folly within all religions … except, the DSM “bible” billers’ ‘religion’ / book of stigmatizations – there is no wisdom in a book of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations – albeit I do admit the psychiatrists’ drugs can and do create the symptoms of their DSM disorders.
I was listening to this as I was reading your blog, and found a lot of wisdom within it, despite not actually being a believer in communism, since communism denies God’s existence.
But forgive my lack of full knowledge, since I’m still on my spiritual journey, working my way towards wisdom … yet I do now understand neither I, nor any one else, will ever be able to understand everything about all things, in our waking hours … nor do I even want to.
Not to change the subject, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which today’s “mental health” industries are innately un-American.
Like, for example, since the “mental health” industries are “partnered with” both the religions and the governments, that has destroyed our Bill of Rights claim that in the US, there should be a “separation of church and state.” The “mental health” industries have destroyed that right of American citizens.
And, for example, since most of the antipsychotics are dopamine antagonists, meaning they block dopamine. But since everyone basically knows dopamine is a “feel good hormone,” as is also serotonin, which the antidepressants block.
Isn’t that actually evidence that the force and coerce drugging psychiatrists, et al have been intentionally taking away American’s right to “life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness,” for profit?
That’s just two examples I came up with for why psychiatry is un-American, but I’m sure there are many more examples. Please give me more examples of how forced psychiatric drugging is un-American, ladies and gentlemen of MiA.
I, too, had the common symptoms of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome misdiagnosed (according to the DSM-IV-TR at the time). And, I agree, the brain zaps were bizarre, and a physical symptom that made you think it wise to go to a “head doctor.” What a mistake!
I’m sorry you were not able to wean off your antidepressant, Laura, but I’m glad you are stabilized on a low dose, at least that’s a harm reduction approach.
However, it is sad to me that so many of the nurses and non-medically trained “mental health professionals” are so ignorant, and uncurious, about the staggering iatrogenic harm that the psychiatrists have been perpetrating on humanity, for decades … especially the elderly and children.
What is it they say, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member,” so what does the current psychiatric debacle say about the leaders of Western civilization today?
But I’m glad you’ve chosen to start actually helping the people harmed by the psychiatrists instead, Laura.
At least there are some good British psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against the fraud and harm of psychiatry. In the States, I think it’s likely much worse than in the UK, perhaps in part because we have too many “mental health professionals?”
For goodness sake, I had one psychiatrist – who was the psychiatric “snowing” partner of the now FBI convicted V.R. Kuchipudi – who spent years fraudulently listing me as her “out patient,” despite the fact I was never her “out patient.”
And a decade plus later I was also medically unnecessarily approached by a psychologist, who tried to gaslight me into signing a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with a conservatorship contract, that was disingenuously claimed to be an “art manager” contract – of course I refused to sign his appalling thievery contract. But I did find out a few years after my family left the church where we met this psychologist, that this psychologist had been illegally hacking into my computer for years.
So I agree with you the hate, of the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals” towards those of us mothers who stand against child abuse in my case, is most definitely blatantly obvious – to the point of being downright criminal behavior. And it was my love, in part for my young children who needed me, that helped save me, too.
What the “psych” industries in the US have done is not nearly as “complex” as they like to proclaim. The “bipolar” diagnosis is a good example of this.
If one goes to a “psych professional,” (due, for example, for questioning “brain zaps,” which are a common symptom of withdrawal from the non-“safe smoking cessation meds” / antidepressants) and claims to not be depressed. Then the DSM “bible” billers just automatically “diagnoses” the person as “manic,” thus “bipolar” … as if there are only two states of being, which is ridiculous. The “bipolar diagnosis” itself is a “Catch 22.”
And how ironic, the “bad fix” on my broken bone doctor, did call himself “Dr. 22,” in my medical records.
Thank you for your research, ladies and gentlemen of Japan. Please don’t buy into, and work against, the “BS” and fraud of the Western “mental health” industries and big Pharma.
By the way, the evil ‘voices’ i got, were due to psychiatric anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings. And my ‘salvage one’ ‘voices’ were caused by my ‘drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.’
Wake up, non-medically trained, DSM deluded psychologists, et al.
But just because I can medically explain my “voices,” doesn’t negate my spiritual journey, it’s just DSM defamation of character.
“clinicians who wish to respect individual meaning-making for voice-hearers might learn to hold multiple explanatory models that differ from their own [DSM] ideas and frameworks without applying an illness, deficit, or risk lens.”
Oh, but then the DSM deluded “psych professionals” can’t bill.
Sadly, my former DSM deluded, “holist, Christian, talk therapist,” who railroad me off to psychiatrists within two appointments, was 100% the opposite of “holistic” and a “talk therapist.” Since she turned herself into a neurotoxic poisoner, who ended up having her – not listened to – client’s entire life declared a “credible fictional story” instead. And no DSM “bible” believer may claim to be Christian, since one may not believe in the scientifically “invalid” DSM stigmatization “bible,” and the Holy Bible.
A person should be able to discuss a spiritual question/journey with a “holistic, Christian talk therapist.” But one may not, with a scientifically “invalid” DSM “bio, bio, bio” “bible” believer.
Thank God for the internet, I’m listening to this as I read and type this. And I did have a bizarre “seventh heaven” aspect to my mysterious, mystical, musical, drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania.
For those of you who, like me, had a spiritual inquiry, misdiagnosed by a “bio, bio, bio” only believing DSM “bible” thumper … you might find that video creator interesting.
Back to the blog at hand, I agree, hearing voices groups should be encouraged and studied, even though I’ve never been to one, since there isn’t one close to me.
Being innately shy, and being uncomfortable speaking in public (feeling such is apparently called by psychiatry “awkward”) are not actually “mental illnesses,” to anyone other than the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” billers … and perhaps, also, the teachers in charge of public speaking classes.
Thank you for sharing that blog. Forgive my ignorance, but I didn’t see a comment section on Mad in Norway … and I’m not even certain what language is spoken in Norway, Norwegian? but of course.
The word for mad and the word for food must be similar in Norwegian? Or the translator is goofy, since many of the “Mad in …” websites are translated into English as “Food in.” This may be something that MiA wants to look into? I did report a couple of them as bad translations.
Nonetheless, in as much as I agree with much of what the author said. If anyone knows how to remind the Norwegian psychiatrists that, I think all doctors, were taught in med school that the neuroleptics/antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
But knowing this means, I agree with his conclusion that renaming the neuroleptic drugs, “antipsychotics,” was quite morally reprehensible, on the part of psychiatry and/or big Pharma.
“When socially powerful professional institutions do not acknowledge their manifest limitations and seek to remedy their evident failures—thereby violating the fundamental spirit of scientific methodology [and justice within society]—we contribute to the erosion of public confidence in expert opinion.”
Just a reminder, in the US, separation of church and state is supposed to be the rule of law … but the psych industries (I’m pretty certain, illegally – in addition to many of the 501c3 organizations they’ve “partnered with”) bridged that gap.
Not to defame the truth tellers of MiA, which is a 501c-3 organization, that I do donate to. But the unrepentant Holy Spirit blasphemers of my ex-religion, are not innocent.
Thank you for the brief history of psychiatry, Randy. It helps explain why the DSM “bible” is actually being taught in the seminaries today, and part of why the younger generations are not going to the churches.
For goodness sakes, one cannot believe in a DSM “bible” of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations, while also believing in the Holy Bible, which is a book of wisdom, that’s message is largely about the need for love and mutual respect.
But I will point out that all this is unethical and unwise, on the part of the seminaries that actually believe in God, and want to bring the young people into their churches.
For goodness sakes, now I understand why none of the young “mental health professionals” – who are “partnered” with my ex-religion – ever bother to show up for church services. And now I understand why my mom’s former church is a dying, greying, church.
No offense, Sandra, but I think MiA’s film festival was in 2014. Sorry to always be pointing out psychiatrists’ flaws.
But, hey, my young son pointed out that Jesus’ theology had a “trick” to it, when he was only 7. That “trick,” of course, is I do have a right to treat others, as they have treated me (of course, with respect for God’s laws). And, my personal experience is that all psych workers “conspire” against their clients, especially mothers of child abuse survivors and child abuse survivors. And every “mental health” worker I’ve ever personally met, and mentioned that I have medical evidence of child abuse in my child’s medical records, has told me they want to neurotoxic poison my well behaved, intelligent, multiple award winning child.
All DSM “bible” deluded psych workers should get out of the schools and churches, especially until they may bill to help child abuse survivors, which they still may NOT do today.
But I will say, my loved one’s “psychosis” etiologies – and he is doing well now – had nothing to do with the psychiatric industry’s “invalid” “lifelong, incurable, genetic” DSM “bible” disorders.
Since his issues were related to his nurse practitioner’s inappropriately given bad drug interactions (although I didn’t catch those potentially deadly bad drug interactions initially either, and I did check), sleep deprivation, the death of his 21 year old beloved dog, and likely alcohol encephalitis.
So I still do stand in support of getting rid of the scientifically “invalid” DSM.
Well, and being given the undeserved “right” to force drug, control, and play “judge, jury, and executioner,” to innocent others, seems to have allowed psychiatry and psychology to lose their own minds, with their undeserved and unchecked power.
Maybe we should get rid of the evil systems of control, that are attacking the innocent people (which are what the psych industries, et al, greed only inspired industries chose to become)?
And we should try to return to a just and free society instead?
As one whose introduction to the psych drugs was by a, dangerously paranoid of a non-existent malpractice suit PCP, who wanted to cover up her husband’s “bad fix” on a broken bone of mine – which I’d call criminal abuse of psychiatry. And since my second opinion doctor was a psychologist who, according to her, and all my family’s medical records (and my later psych research), misdiagnosed me based upon her pastor’s and a pedophile’s wife’s lies. Well, since covering up child abuse is illegal, that was also criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And as one who had one of my force drugging hospital doctors eventually convicted by the FBI for having lots of patients medically unnecessarily shipped long distances to himself, then his “snowing” psychiatric partner massively neurotoxic poisoned people in the hope they would stop breathing, so they could do unneeded tracheotomies on people, for profit – a third form of criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And I was also attacked by another psychologist, decades after my escape, who tried to gaslight me into signing a contract that was a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with an appalling conservative contract, all disingenuously dressed up as an “art manager” contract – and use of those conservatorship contracts is one more form of criminal abuse of psychiatry/psychology as well, IMHO. Of course I didn’t sign the contract. Oh, but I did learn a couple years after that, that psychologist had been hacking into my computer, for years, which is also illegal.
Well, obviously I know the “right” to force drug people is being systemically abused by criminal doctors (and pastors, et al). But I did also have much more mutually respectful interactions with psychiatrists, after I’d researched into the psych industries for a couple decades.
I had a loved one who was more “psychotic” than anyone I’d ever seen, who did eventually need to be held against his will in a psych facility briefly. The psychiatrists I dealt with at that hospital were embarrassed that I’d dealt with the “bad fix” covered up with complex iatrogenesis. But they were kind enough to avoid the anticholinergic drugs, and got my loved one calmed down, and no longer psychotic, on a low dose of lithium, within about a week and a half. And my loved one was weaned off that lithium pretty quickly.
So, in as much as I know there is way too much forced psych drugging for nefarious reasons, I also know it’s not easy to deal with a large psychotic person oneself. So the legality and/or need for forced treatment is a complex subject, but the systemic corruption of the psych industries should be addressed, too.
“The idea that human flourishing is intimately tied to the natural world is gaining traction across disciplines, offering a powerful counterpoint to dominant psychiatric models that isolate mental health from social, political, and ecological conditions.”
Yes, let’s hope the DSM deluded some day gain insight into common sense. As one who dealt with a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania, I will say, being in nature was helpful for me. And locking a manic person into a windowless environment is about the worst thing you can do.
So I definitely agree, “pro-environmental and sustainable behavior, aimed at preserving the environment, can be understood as benefiting both the environment and the individual.” Being in nature also helps when one finds oneself “manic.”
Huh, that all sounds like false advertising, which I was told was illegal, back when I was getting my marketing degree.
And you’ll pardon me for pointing out the irony of you confessing this on a website filled with people who were harmed by your “misleading claims.”
Better late than never, I suppose. I’m glad you finally “got off the fence,” and ended your illegal false advertising. Someone should sue big Pharma for false advertising.
“The findings suggest that a more trauma-informed, flexible approach to therapeutic goal-setting is urgently needed in school-based counseling.”
It breaks my heart that the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers are even in the schools, since the DSM doesn’t even allow them to bill for child abuse.
“These findings resonate with previous research on young people’s perceptions of goal-setting, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach may not be suitable.”
Well, of course “a one-size-fits-all approach” is inappropriate.
“For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
Especially when the children are being defamed with the “invalid” DSM stigmatizations in “therapy,” which is what all of today’s DSM “bible” billers / psychiatrists / psychologists / social workers / CPS workers, et al do. And the insane social workers, who make up lies about the best and brightest, award winning, children of America, since the school districts are not actually “equipped to deal with the smartest American children,” are actually the DSM deluded / insane people. This is a societal problem.
“Additionally, clinicians must consider how their approach to goal-setting may inadvertently pathologize natural and contextually appropriate responses to life challenges.”
Well, since my personal experience with the reductionist, DSM deluded “bible” billers – many of whom I had to ask, in my “mean mom voice,” Does anyone here speak English? – is that they do not know how to treat innocent others in a manner, that they’d like to be treated.
“Ensuring young people feel heard, supported, and respected throughout their therapeutic journey is essential.”
Yet this is the opposite of what today’s DSM “bible” billers do. So we should get the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” deluded “mental health professionals” out of the schools.
“This study adds to mounting concerns that some evidence-based tools, while well-intentioned, may undermine the core principles of healing, especially when they are applied without sensitivity to context, culture, trauma, and identity. For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
I agree, let’s end the mass psychological and psychiatric drugging of children in schools, and the scientific fraud based psychologic defamation, with the “invalid” psychiatric DSM disorders, of children in our schools.
“In line with trauma-informed and harm-reduction frameworks, the authors call for a more collaborative, consent-based approach to goal-setting.”
Yes, the ending of all forced and coerced psychological and psychiatric drugging of innocent children should end … as should all such communications with our children.
“This study joins a growing body of research questioning dominant paradigms in school mental health.”
“the need for trauma-informed, context-sensitive approaches—ones that center lived experience, resist over-standardization (as the DSM deluded do), and take seriously the structural and cultural factors that shape young people’s emotional lives in and out of schools,” is needed.
I agree, the psychiatric nurses should “establish and lead psychotropic drug deprescribing and discontinuation services.” One of my good friends is a retired nurse, who is now highly embarrassed by today’s medical community.
And it was, largely ethical nurses, who worked to save me, many thanks to them.
And the systemic betrayal of today’s psychiatric industry, of their “clients,” is appalling (see my last comment on this website, for the medical evidence of this comment).
Stand tall, and take control, nurses … the doctors have lost their way, due to their seemingly insatiable greed, and the insatiable greed of big Pharma and the insurance industries.
Maybe we should move back to a time where the doctors are actually working for their patients, instead of working for big Pharma, their hospital managers, and/or the insurance companies?
But we do need the nurses to stand up, and stop the systemic iatrogenic harm the psychiatrists are perpetuating. And I am grateful for the ethical nurses who helped me.
And, sadly, I do agree, “‘Psychiatric Drugs’ are ‘A Crude Form of Chemical Restraint.'” For goodness, sakes, the psychological and psychiatric industries have turned themselves into a bunch of systemic child abuse covering up satanists (again, see prior comments on this website for medical evidence of my legitimate concerns), of which I, of course, have both medical and legal proof.
“Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical (remember, psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors, and must go through the same core training).”
And since we know “psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors,” and we can research and learn that all MDs are taught in medical school, about anticholinergic toxidrome.
We can garner insight into the fact that the psychiatric industry is an unethical aspect of the medical industry, that took the medical knowledge of how to make a person “psychotic” … which does harm their patients … and turned systemically harming their patients, into their “gold standard of care.”
What the psychiatric industry has done is so unethical, it’s hard to actually believe … but, sadly, it is the truth.
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Indeed, incorrectly assuming (and trying to brainwash) all their “clients” that they are “stupid, weak and timid” is a systemic problem for the DSM deluded “mental health professions.”
A systemic problem that makes an “a-s” out their “clients,” but also sometimes makes an “a-s,” out of the scientifically “invalid,” incorrectly assuming “mental health professionals” … and hopefully soon their entire, unGodly disrespectful, industry.
As one who has met Laura in real life, I will say Deleno is a kind and generous person, and agree “her haters would really look stupid if Delano found herself in a debate with one of them.”
But that may be because, I too, am a truth telling psychopharmacology researcher … who found the medical evidence that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
But I do understand the big Pharma funded mainstream media is now starting to behave, seemingly, as bad as the scientific fraud based, big Pharma deluded, “mental health professions.”
“One secondary problem is that when psychiatry is used as a form of intervention by the government it violates the principle of separation of church and state because psychiatry operates as a satanic religion willing to sacrifice anybody and anything on the bloody altar of cold, hard cash.”
Sadly, I have to agree that’s what psychiatry has turned themselves into today. But it’s even worse, since numerous or all of our mainstream paternalistic religions have also “partnered” with the state, psychology, and psychiatry’s DSM “bible’s” “satanic religion.”
And, yes I agree, “we need a revolution,” albeit hopefully a peaceful one … and I do think the Triune God likely inspires the artists … and in their subconscience, all people.
Thus, the psychological industry dismissing the subconscious self, the Id, or whatever the psych industries choose to change the name of one’s dreams and subconscious self to be, was and is morally wrong.
“If we come to view symptoms as representative of underlying psychopathology in need of our attention—as depth psychology does—then drowning out the voice of the psyche is contrary to the nature of the psyche itself.”
That’s exactly what my former DSM deluded psychologist did, by railroading me off to a psychiatrist within only two appointments, so the psychiatrist could also deny my dreams might have validity, and anticholinergic toxidrome poison me.
IMHO, the non-medically trained psychological industry really should go back to valuing their client’s psyches, including their dreams (like, for example, not claiming all dreams are “psychosis”). And they should divorce themselves from the scientifically “invalid,” systemic, neurotoxic poisoners of psychiatry.
I mean in reality right now, the psych industries are very literally “conspiring” against everyone in our society who is not considered to be a so called “professional;” so they may maintain a Ponzi scheme of a bad banking system, so they may maintain a failed pharmaceutical based “Rockefeller medical system,” so they maintain the appalling crimes of the maritime based legal system, so they may maintain “the status quo.”
When, in reality, it is the bad systems that need to be gotten rid of, and a lot of undeserved forgiveness is going to need to be given to those working within those bad systems. But God did point out in the real Bible that repentance, and especially changing from one’s evil ways, is needed … to fix society’s real problems.
“authors Santiago Delboy and Linda Michaels (co-founders of PsiAN) surveyed over 1,500 adults across the United States. Their results suggest that people still want the kind of therapy that takes time, fosters deep understanding, and treats the whole person.”
Yet the “scientific fraud” based DSM “bible” based psychiatric / psychological, et al, deluded industries, went in the opposite direction.
But, since the scientific fraud based DSM deluded have already had their DSM be declared to be “invalid,” let’s hope someday soon those who work within those industries, may soon overcome their delusions of grandeur, that they are the judges of all of humanity, as opposed to that being God’s job. It’s “complex,” yet not that “complex” to those of us who know what is actually going on.
Let’s hope and pray, some day, that those of the “mental health professions,” who were unwisely given the role of playing “judge, jury, and executioner” to the masses … by our seemingly deluded governments and religions of Western civilization … someday understand the fact that God’s the ultimate judge, not the DSM “bible” billers … nor any government, nor religion.
“In a way, evidence-based medicine has degraded clinical practice.” And “evidence based medicine” is largely a euphemism for “Rockefeller medicine.”
“What I mean is that with this idea that you have guidelines that apply to everyone, whereas it is the clinical judgment of the clinician who has to interpret those guidelines. But clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines, and it’s very dangerous.”
This is a very important confession by a medical professional … and seemingly, the possible failure of all of Rockefeller medicine, in the long run (we here at MiA may be the “canaries in the coal mine” of all of Rockefeller medicine).
And I found that psychiatry / psychology are so DSM deluded / clinically controlled / avarice controlled, that all they seem to do is incorrectly assume everyone who comes to them has a “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness,” with zero actual proof, while declaring all of a person’s real life to be “a credible fictional story.”
But I couldn’t agree more, “clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines,” in other words it means actually behaving like a person’s caring doctor. But this is particularly an issue in the “mental health” arena, since the current mainstream psychiatric DSM guidelines recommend anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning almost all their clients.
I highly recommend reading Rockefeller’s belief system and goals, since after doing such, one does start questioning the entirety of how the medical / pharmaceutical / insurance industrial complex is structured … like, for example, is it wise for any doctor to put an insurance company’s interests above their clients’ interests? No, but that’s how Rockefeller medicine is structured.
Oh, how convenient, Jimmy Dore and James Corbett touched on this subject in Jimmy’s interview with James today. (BTW, I highly recommend Corbett’s research and reporting, and Jimmy is at least sometimes funny, when reporting on the inconvenient truths.”)
Yet it is very sad that too many of today’s psychiatrists and mainstream doctors consider “not following orders, not following guidelines … very dangerous.” It has resulted in a disastrous and deadly “mental health care” system.
Thank you for this interview, Mr. Whitaker and Dr. Fava.
“Two included studies found that indoor ALAN exposure was linked to manic symptoms in people with bipolar disorder.”
Well, since the “mental health professions” believe “all distress is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain” (despite their “chemical imbalance” theory being debunked decades ago), and “genetics” (despite having zero evidence of this), wouldn’t mania caused by light issues be considered a misdiagnosis?
“The authors note that past research has linked exposure to light pollution at early ages to younger ages of bipolar disorder onset.”
I’m pretty certain the appalling “childhood bipolar epidemic” was caused by the fact that our society didn’t used to psych drug children, and the iatrogenic issues pointed out in Robert Whitacker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic.” Although, I have zero doubt “artificial light at night (ALAN)” may be a part of the problem.
I agree, “Research into mood disorders in the post-modern era should not underestimate the effects of urbanization and should thus be aware of the detrimental effects of various sources of pollutants on the development and exacerbation of these conditions.” And that “the results of this review suggest how building more livable cities that protect public health should include eco-friendly lighting, alongside other factors, according to the principles of sustainability.”
But I will politely point out, as a 14 year member of the planning commission of my former village, that we did have light pollution issues written into our laws, decades ago. So, IMHO, this is, once again, having to point out the lack of common sense of our scientific fraud based “mental health professions,” to themselves.
“No one in their right mind would think powerful substances would NOT affect developing fetuses.”
…except those who profit off of forcing and coercing them on to innocent others?
My question is, why weren’t these rat studies done, prior to the last several decades of forced and coerced drugging of humans? Shouldn’t the drug testing be done on the rats, prior to the human population?
Oh, that’s right, read Rockefeller’s writings, and goals ….
Thank you, Robert and Giovanni, for acting as conduits of mutually respectful communication opportunities between critical psychiatry / psychology people and/or psych survivors, and the publisher and CEO of a possibly no longer truth telling medical journal.
from our local libraries. They sound like an intriguing couple books, and such is a benign thing anyone who feels like a dejected psych survivor could do, as too many of us here, were made to feel we were.
But please do buy the books, too, if you can afford them.
“Russian roulette is not the same without a gun,” my subconscious self has been singing that for seemingly over a decade.. And it is a song about psychiatry’s iatrogenic harm, IMHO. But, of course, one can’t prove such. However, I do NOT believe God is ignorant of what is going on.
Well Birdsong, thank Boans, since he’s actually the one who came up with the suggestion, which I’m just repeating, because I thought it was a good suggestion too.
I guess my addition of “Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books,” was my creative marketing of what I thought was a good idea of Boans, but my first college degree was a marketing degree.
Nonetheless, we should both say thanks to Boans. And hopefully critical psychiatry, et al, people will go start requesting critical psychiatry and survivor books, at their local libraries.
Thanks for sharing, since I’ve yet to read Laura’s book, but I do thank Laura for her courage, strength, and ability, to get her book published by a mainstream publisher.
“I’ve come to believe those who want to shut down conversations critical of psychiatry and standard mental health treatment have their own agenda.” And I do agree, “it’s all about the Benjamins.”
In general, the monied “powers that shouldn’t be” lost control of the narrative, with the onset of the internet. So they are now trying to take back their undeserved, under researched, and/or fraud based researched, power.
RIP, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. But an end to the supposed open dialogue on the realities of the psych industries, does also represent an end to any kind of true science within the psych industries. Especially given the fact that having an open dialogue is largely a necessity, upon which any real science is based.
” … there’s no silencing the bell Laura has rung.” Let’s hope and pray.
As one who has met Laura in real life, and learned from meeting her that she’s a wonderful, empathetic, kind, truth seeking, and generous person … albeit I have yet to ask my local library to purchase her book so I may read it, and learn more about her journey.
Not to say people shouldn’t buy her book themselves, I may myself, but my bookshelves are getting pretty overfilled. But please do think about going and requesting her book at your local library, since that too could help her book sales (and our truth telling cause).
Although, at this late date, I’d say requesting Robert Whitaker’s, Moncrieff’s, Breggin’s, Gøtzsche’s, et al’s critical psychiatry books from your local libraries would be a good thing to do also, if they don’t already have them. Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books.
” … Those who object must be ‘anti-bloodletters!’ Or flat earthers. Or Scientologists. Or anti-psychiatrists. There is no need to listen to them. We, the mainstream media, will not let psychiatry die in transparency.”
And us independent psychopharmacology researchers here say, let’s not let psychiatry die in transparency, let’s expose the psychiatric industries’ DSM lies … which are really big lies. And why the historically holocaust causing, continuingly harmful, scientifically fraud based psychiatric industry should likely die.
“A section on antipsychotics, for instance, cites studies that purport to show that people who take them fare worse than people who never take them or stop them. (This is misleading; people do not take them unless they have severe symptoms.)”
Is [this] a blatant lie as people are for sure put on antipsychotics without a single exhibition of psychosis.
Indeed it is a lie, since I was put on antipsychotics because a non-medically trained, child abuse covering up, psychologist thought all dreams are “psychosis.”
But when all who dream are “psychotic,” according to the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” believers, they’ve rendered their term “psychotic,” to be “irrelevant to reality” … just like the “mental health” industries’ DSM “bible” was claimed to be … way back in 2013.
Yes, I too, was misdiagnosed by a “holistic, Christian talk therapist” – who quickly railroaded me off to a neurotoxic poisoning psychiatrist – a child abuse covering up psychologist, whose medical records also prove she was a Holy Spirit blasphemer.
It’s hard today to be able to trust any doctor, including the ones who claim to be “holistic.”
Was it Dr. Peter Gotzche who asked if the psychiatrists were crazier than their patients? Yes, they are, indeed … new low, after new low, after new low, psych industries.
“When it’s time to change,” we’ve got to rearrange, who we are and what we’re going to be. Awaken with the Holy Spirit, and pray to be moved by the Holy Spirit, “mental health professionals,” and welcome in the common sense, please.
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Psychiatry did turn “Life into Illness,” and sadly psychology turned itself into a funnel to the neurotoxic poisoners of psychiatry, instead of listeners.
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No offense, psychologic industry, but you all bought into the billing code “bible” of the psychiatric industry’s ‘invalid’ DSM “bible,” which was debunked as “invalid” in 2013, by the head of the NIMH.
Yet too many of you, who have also unethically “partnered” with the mainstream paternalistic religions, who want to “maintain the status quo,” long after 2013, actually should repent and change from your evil ways. Instead of merely pretending you’re changing from your evil ways, without repentance, and ending your faustian “partnerships.”
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I do agree that society should “depsychiatrize,” since their “bible” was debunked as “invalid,” by the head of the NIMH in 2013, as well as being confessed to be “BS” by the head editor(s) of the DSM(s).
And those of us here all know that the psych industries’ neurotoxins, can and do create the symptoms of their DSM “disorders.” (Please see my prior comments on MiA if you’d like to see my links to prove this.)
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All DSM “bible” billers are the guilty, based upon my experience, and medical records. And they should all repent, burn their “invalid” DSM billing code “bible,” and change from their evil, pathological lying, and highly delusional ways.
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That happened to me, Vee. Thank goodness my insurance company refused to pay for me to be institutionalized for life, by doctors, one of whom was eventually convicted by the FBI.
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I agree, Dr. Peter, prescribing of depression pills absolutely must end in all of child bearing age, and younger. But I don’t think there is a need for use of that class of drugs, for anyone of any age, in the long run. Thus, I believe use of antidepressants should eventually end – let those on them, who find them useful, or don’t want to go through withdrawal, stay on them; but wean those who want to be taken off them, off them.
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Thank you.
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That’s what they’ve been doing for decades, with all their psychiatric neurotoxins.
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I almost did not read past the first couple sentences, because I was afraid it might make me cry. In the summer of 2009, I met a couple of Israelis outside a hotel in downtown Chicago. They were speaking in Yiddish, which sounds similar to German. I asked if they were from Germany, and this greatly offended them. They told me the Germans were the enemy, and that they were from Israel. I apologized for my error, and we made polite small talk, until we finished our cigarettes. But, it had never occurred to me in my waking hours, prior to that conversation, that for at least some Israelis, WWII never ended. And this gave me a great deal of empathy for the people of Israel. I pray all the wars, everywhere on this planet, end soon.
Nonetheless, I’m glad I continued reading, because I absolutely agree, art heals. Painting, journaling, dancing, gardening, and music all helped me heal. Making art allowed me to get the evil out. Journaling allowed me to make sense of the insanity of today’s “mental health” industries. Gardening allowed me to commune with nature. And since I can basically tell my entire life’s story, as if I were a muse for the musicians, in music lyrics … well, ‘music has charms to sooth a savage beast.’ And dancing goes hand in hand with music, and is a good way to get the extra energy of a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania out. God bless you on your healing journey, Yishay.
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No-one,
As one who shares a nickname with you, within the websites of my dreams – which are organized like the internet of the “collective unconscious” / dream world – which is probably why most people’s dreams are confusing to them. But of what I know of my awakenings to my dreams, makes sense to me, and they are where I find the common sense of all.
I will say last night I was a bad girl, I went to my local convince store to buy some ice cream. I was in line between two black woman. One was complaining about all the, largely financial based, problems in her life to the other. I don’t know if the women knew one another.
But gradually, I entered into the conversation … agreed with the complaining woman that it was difficult to live in a different state than the rest of her family. And asked her why she moved here. Eventually I asked the woman frustrated with life’s problems, if she’d do me a favor. I politely asked her to consider praying two prayers.
I asked her to pray one night to awaken with the Holy Spirit. Then when she felt ready, to pray to be moved by the Holy Spirit.
Initially, she was a bit defensive, since she hadn’t been going to church recently. As the listening black women was checking out she asked me about what religion I belonged to. I told both women I’m in between religions right now. But then I mentioned … that doesn’t mean you have to stop believing in the Triune God.
I then told them both I was friends with a couple pastors, who I used to work with, and I knew their hearts were in the right place. So I recommended their church to them. The complaining women then asked me for the prayer suggestions again, and she was so grateful, that she bought my ice cream for me, despite her financial problems. Of course, I did “pay it forward” for her in return.
But this whole personal story does lead me to the polite suggestion for you too, No-one, and everyone else, to please also consider praying those two prayers.
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All psych drugging of children, and people of child bearing age, needs to be ended, worldwide.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/05/two-decades-of-pssd-a-life-stolen-by-antidepressants/?unapproved=315191&moderation-hash=83001b859e241a39fa3bdab96651a954#comment-315191
I believe Jon’s story points out a very important reason why our society absolutely needs to stop psych neurotoxic poisoning all children, as well as all of child bearing age, who might possibly like to have children and live a normal and happy life … which is pretty much the entire population.
Thank you, Peter, for your continued truthful reporting.
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You are very modest, Jon, your research and efforts are very impressive. And, as one who was also, misjudged – in your case for stupid reasons, in my case for stupid and nefarious reasons – and harmed with the anticholinergic drugs. I hope you don’t mind if I link your story in a comment in yesterday’s article about the antidepressants, by Peter Simons.
I believe your story points out a very important reason why our society absolutely needs to stop psych neurotoxic poisoning all children, as well as all of child bearing age, who might possibly like to have children and live a normal life. God bless you in your healing and research journeys, Jon.
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“Laughter is the best medicine,” as they say, and as I mentioned in a highlighted youtube comment recently. And I do tend to get my news, from comedians, on both the left and right. Largely because the divide and conquer strategy of the mainstream media, that is destroying the country in which I live, is obnoxious. And it’s better to laugh at one’s insane society, rather than to cry.
And, hey, Kermit Cole, who comes in the name of my eldest son, and other relatives. We did sort of, possibly, “cure” schizophrenia … or we could, since we found the iatrogenic etiology of schizophrenia. Given the fact that the antipsychotics can create the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, via anticholinergic toxidrome; and the negative symptoms can be created, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
Albeit, we also know there are many other psycho/social – but not “genetic” – causes of schizophrenia symptoms. Please see my comment on yesterday’s Dr. Peter Gøtzsche’s post on MiA, of the ones I know of, and add any more, of which, I may still be unaware.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/05/are-psychiatrists-more-mad-than-their-patients/
Laughter is the best medicine, psychiatrists, not defaming people with “invalid” DSM disorders, and neurotoxic poisoning people. Please wake up, psychiatry.
Thank you for the interview, Mr. Whitaker and Mr. Cole.
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Or, duckduckgo, research it. I haven’t googled it lately.
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I do like your idea of memorials for those harmed and killed by the psych industries, Cat. May I put my hat in the ring to make the memorials, if funding is ever raised for Cat’s good idea?
I need to design a memorial for my father’s grave. And have come up with an idea, and it – or something similar – might also be a cool design for such memorials to the many harmed and killed by the psychiatrists.
I’ve been doing research into sacred geometry, which is basically the mathematics behind everything in God’s universe. And sacred geometry designs are supposed to have healing properties, and are visually appealing to humans.
I’ve concluded that to make my dad’s memorial, I should probably take a class in 3-D printing, and I have found a local university that teaches it. Because I need to come up with a 3-D model of my design, in order to have it caste in bronze.
In essence what I have in mind is a 3-D image of a flower of life, that has a rising sun, worked into the design, the location of which is based upon the fibonacci spiral. If you don’t know anything about sacred geometry (since it’s not taught in the US schools), this may be difficult to envision, but you can google it. And I think it’s a cool idea for a memorial.
I plan to also put a stylized image of an olive tree (roots, slightly gnarly trunk, and branches) in my dad’s memorial, since his hobby was genealogy. Then I thought I’d mount it on some granite, probably. The size of the bronze part could be 21″ x 21″ or 42″ x 42″ or 21″ x 34″, or possibly larger, so there’s lots of options.
At least I’d like to throw my hat into the ring for consideration, as an artist and designer, if Cat’s idea ever found funding.
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Thank you, Dr. Peter Gøtzsche for your consistent truth telling.
“Psychiatry should be demolished and built up from the ground, focusing on psychosocial interventions, as recently recommended by the United Nations and the WHO.50”
Personally, I believe that psychiatry should focus on learning to wean people off the psych neurotoxins (in essence to minimize the mess they’ve created). Then psychiatry, as a medical profession, should gradually be weaned out of existence.
As to psychology, the non-medically trained psychologists should not be diagnosing anyone with anything. And, as one who believes the Jungians are the closest to the truth, they could research into things like the collective unconscious, etc. (in other words, no clinical work).
Or, maybe since they are already “partnered” with the religions, I suppose that as long as everyone is made aware of this relationship (in other words, the churches could pay the psychologists, but they should never ever charge a client, fraudulently implying they work for the client, then run off to get lies and gossip from a pastor about the client, as happened to me). But since I already know this is a faustian partnership, it’s probably better that “partnership” is ended.
But if the psychologists actually want to help people, they should become helpers, largely unrelated, to the medical field, in places like Soteria Houses or healing farms, and the like.
“And all treatment needs to be voluntary.11,12” I agree, forced and coerced treatment should eventually be made illegal. But this gets tricky, when it comes to someone who is psychotic.
So who will help a person who is experiencing psychosis, you may ask? Based on experience with a loved one, I know families do need help in such cases. A short course of benzos? That didn’t work for my loved one, but it may be a good place to start. A short course (like one or two days) of neuroleptics might at least calm the person down, allow them to sleep, but then you do run the risk of a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis. But if you follow the antipsychotic up, in a healing space, for a week or two, with a low dose of lithium. And then reduce the lithium within a month to six weeks. Well, just an antidotal case, but that is what helped my loved one.
I guess the “healing space” should begin in the hospital. But once the person is stabilized on the lithium, if they do need a safe space until they get weaned off the lithium. I do believe we should move towards alternatives like Soteria houses, healing farms, maybe open dialogue, and give me more ideas, ladies and gentlemen. If a person is actually violent, then the police likely should deal with them. But the paramedics and police are not very good about assessing whether a psychotic person is dangerous, unless they are told the person is not dangerous. (There’s been too much psychiatric brainwashing of the public.)
As to what are the causes of psychosis?
street drugs
alcohol encephalitis
the ADHD drugs
the anticholinergic drugs (antidepressants, antipsychotics, etc.)
drug interactions
psych drug withdrawal
trauma
sleep deprivation
None of which are “genetic” etiologies. But do add to the list, if you can. And please make other suggestions for alternatives, or disagree with me, and explain why we should not move in this direction, please … I’m still just thinking through it.
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“this study confirms that artificial intelligence does not provide a solution to human stigma. In fact, without explicit countermeasures and community oversight, large language models (LLMs) risk automating existing prejudices on an unprecedented scale.”
Thank you for finally defining a LLM, for those of us who are not computer specialists. And I agree,
“This work reinforces the calls from the consumer-survivor-ex-patient movement to involve individuals with lived experiences at every stage of technology design, evaluation, and deployment.”
Smart younger generation ADHD, bipolar defamed, et al … us older, not terribly computer savvy, need your help, please.
Thank you for your truthful reporting, Kevin.
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Of course, “Coercion in Psychiatric Wards Tied to Worse Recovery.” And forced and coerced psych drugging is horribly anti-democratic. If the psych “professions” can’t, without coercion and force, sell their neurotoxins, then they need to change their business model. And that is what needs to happen.
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And isn’t it shameful that the number one function of all DSM deluded “mental health professions” is covering up child abuse for the mainstream religions?
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As one who has found that if one claims to be a critical psychiatry person, and psychopharmacology researcher … that is an effective approach. I do recommend use of that term. At least I found a young psychiatrist will agree, ‘I, too, am a critical psychiatry person.’
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Thank you, as always, for your truth telling, Bruce. I’m new to the concept of “pluralism,” but think I agree more with them. Since I do stand against the DSM “bible” deluded psychiatric / psychological DSM monopoly. Thus I think the psychological industry, et al, should break from the DSM deluded psychiatric industry, and actually become real helpers instead.
But I will say, I do understand why this is, for greed inspired reasons, difficult to do, for the “invalid” DSM “bible” billing psychological, et al, industries.
For goodness sake – the take a percentage of gross, conservatorship, “art manager” contact, I was handed over by a psychologist – that I refused to sign, pointed out the greed only inspired system of the DSM “bible” billers … and really the entire medical system.
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Thank you for sharing your story, Timothy. I remember a couple decades ago, when I was first researching into the psych drugs, I watched a video of a woman in benzo withdrawal – it was truly heartbreaking. When will psychiatry stop harming people for profit? God bless you on your healing journey.
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I hope to see an end to “the dirty little secret of the two original educated professions,” and that comes from an ethical banker’s daughter, that has supposedly been keeping track of the money you worship, in our dreams.
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As the mother of a child abuse survivor, according to my child’s medical records, who was able to scare a school, that had a pedophile on its school board, to close forever, on 6.6.06.
I will say – to this day – that since the “mental health professionals” can NOT bill to actually help child abuse survivors, by DSM design.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Until this paternalistic problem is changed, all child abuse survivors should stay as far away as possible, from the “invalid” DSM “bible” billers.
But I will say that since the psych industries’, the systemic primarily child abuse covering up industries, have “partnered with” the large religions, my entire family had to leave our childhood religion, seemingly forever.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820633.php
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/heal-for-life/
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Culture-Wars-Reclaiming-Prayer/dp/1598868330
I’m one of the “widows” mentioned in the latter book’s Preface. Whose family was forced out of our lifelong religion, due to attempted thievery, by a child abuse covering up, and attempted thieving, psychologist.
But I’ll ask should all, not able to bill to help child abuse survivors, so systemically child abuse covering up DSM deluded, be trying to steal from, all mothers and grandmothers of child abuse survivors. and getting them out of their lifelong religions?
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“The Burden of Disease figure by age for mental illness seems to show that some part of the very large decreases in all mental illnesses is probably due to similar learning effects/environmental changes.”
From what I’ve read, the Covid debacle has greatly increased, not decreased, the defamations of people with the “invalid” psych DSM diagnoses. Can you please give citations to how the Covid situation has decreased psych diagnoses, please, Polygene?
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Kim, this website does have recommendations for doctors who claim to be weaning people off the psych drugs, under their ‘drugs’ section. Perhaps you can find a doctor near you?
But I will say, from what I understand, the best way to wean off as many of the psych drugs as is possible for you, if not all, is via a hyperbolic tapering.
But given the extremely adverse withdrawal effects of the psych drugs, I do suggest you have a good support system of loved ones, who are aware of what you’re hoping to do, and are informed regarding the possible short and long run adverse withdrawal effects of the psych drugs … which are basically the same as the DSM disorder symptoms … which is why the symptoms of withdrawal are usually misdiagnosed as “a return of the illness.”
But, hopefully, a slice of hope for you, is I was also misdiagnosed with the “invalid” “bipolar’ diagnosis, and have been drug free for about two decades now, so it can be done.
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Well, Davey, you may be right that there is a ‘physiological,’ if that is the right term, ‘basis’ for some psychiatric problems. Like, for example, psychosis can be caused by sleep deprivation, alcohol encephalitis, et al. But those are not biological or genetic causes. And depression, IMHO, is usually caused by depressing events, or situations.
So, Steve is definitely right. There is way too much incorrect assuming being done by our ‘make an a-s out of you and me,’ psych industries.
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Thank you for the truthful interview, and all your work, Robert and Joanna.
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I had to look up what CPTSD was an abbreviation for, and found it rather comical you chose to use your “diagnosis,” thus your lived experience, as your qualification, as an expert by experience. Wise move, Shay.
Maybe us experts by experience on MiA should all come up with a “university,” that gives us experts by experience “degrees,” in hard earned wisdom?
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lol
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Indeed. How wrong can the psych industries get?
According to my former, biased psychologist, who got all her misinformation about me from her – didn’t know me – pastor, and a pedophile’s wife (according to all my family’s medical records). The deluded psychiatrist, who I was railroaded off to by that biased psychologist within two appointments, eventually declared my entire real life to be “a credible fictional story.”
Whereas, 40 hours of unbiased psychological career testing, claimed I should be an architect and/or judge … I’ll go with the unbiased psychological assessment.
How is your wife doing, Steve? You may email me, if you prefer more privacy, but I can’t guarantee my emails are private either.
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Ditto. A move towards a mutually respectful society is what’s needed. And, sadly, the forced drugging, pathological lying, “invalid” DSM deluded psych industries, are largely the opposite of that.
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“The most influential actors were predominantly male (55%) and in academia (60%), psychiatrists (38%) or psychologists (26%) and based in the US (22%) and UK (22%). Individuals working in funding government, private sector or membership organisations received less than 5% of total nomination, while similarly few individuals in neuroscience, nursing/social work, law, social sciences, policy or lived experiences advocacy were considered influential.”
Thanks to the British and UN, who both have different recommendations regarding the psychiatric neurotoxins, than the lunatic, American DSM deluded, “mental health professions,” that want to “maintain the status quo.”
“Historically, the global mental health field has focused on treating severe psychiatric disorders, especially in low- and middle-income countries.”
I think this statement is likely completely wrong, since the scientific fraud based “mental health professions” are only now trying to bring about a global “mental health” system, in “low- and middle-income” countries.
“critics have raised concerns that academic and clinical elites continue to monopolize the conversation.”
I agree.
“Participants suggested that if ministers only valued the opinions of mental health clinicians, missing relevant experience and knowledge from other professional disciplines (e.g. psychologists, anthropologists, nurses), they lacked the crucial nuance necessary to reframe mental health globally.”
I agree, and a nurse friend of mine, now confesses to be embarrassed by today’s American, actually the entirety of the medical system. But she’s particularly embarrassed by the US “mental health system,” within which, she did briefly work.
“the COVID-19 pandemic, as national crises required immediate response”
Now, it seems, most know this was untrue. But at least the Covid debacle was profitable for the gaslighting “mental health” industries (sarcasm).
There is a need “for more meaningful engagement from people with lived experience,” but instead, we are largely ignored, and silenced (not to mention, I was handed over a thievery contract … and this is a systemic psych industries’ problem … by a computer hacking, criminal, child abuse covering up psychologist, who I refused to hire).
“many participants warned that structural dominance by Western academic psychiatry risks reinforcing individualistic and medicalized models”
… an industry whose DSM “bible” was confessed to be “invalid” in 2013, by the head of NIMH.
“Creating informed guidance that includes discussion around the supports needed for quality management of daily stress, and addressing the mental health spectrum versus focusing only on disorders and medical interventions are calls to action made by Shiraz now.”
Who is Shiraz … “a city in southwest central Iran?”
I agree, “help bring[ing] about a fundamental shift in how we approach mental health care,” is greatly needed. And I thank those working within the “Criminal Justice and Sociology,” et al industries, for doing their part in speaking out against today’s “invalid,” mass murdering, psych industries.
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Thank you, Shirin, for helping point out the stupidity of trusting in “mental health” apps.
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“I propose that we rename them serotonin activity destabilizers, because they are indeed SAD!” I agree.
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The reality, however Blu, is that since all doctors are taught in med school – including the psychiatrists – that the antidepressants and antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, your adverse reactions to the psych drugs was not likely “paradoxical.” Not the mention the antipsychotics can also create the negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
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Let’s be realistic. “Therapy-Speak,” should be properly called, debunked DSM ‘bible’ stigmatization / defamation.
Because continued use of the debunked DSM results in “a privatization of distress, where suffering is interpreted as a signal of individual dysfunction.” Well, in my personal case, my distress was caused by the societal dysfunction, that resulted in my – and the entire world’s – legitimate distress at the distressing 9/11/2001 event.
I guess that’s called political abuse of psychology and psychiatry, in America, huh?
If, “Their goal is not to reject therapy altogether, but to propose a form of practice that breaks with the individualizing and depoliticizing tendencies of the therapeutic turn,” then the psychologists need to break from use of their “invalid” psychiatric DSM “bible” … and stop functioning as nothing more than funnels into the “BS” psychiatric forced drugging, iatrogenic illness creating, system.
“More than simply naming problems, therapy-speak [DSM stigmatization-speak] provides tools to manage contradictions without confronting them.” Especially, when it comes to covering up child abuse, which has become, by DSM design, the number one actual function of both the DSM “bible” billing psych industries.
Therapy does “carry unacknowledged harms, especially for those experiencing mild to moderate distress” or none, thus the psych industries should learn to live, and let live, and leave innocent others alone. (It was less than a year ago that I finally got a criminal computer hacking psychologist, who I refused to hire, hopefully forever, out of my computer and phone.)
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It’s meant to be confusing to the masses, that’s why the medical community utilizes Latin and “therapy-speak,” instead of English.
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The psych “professions” do like to silence their clients. I had to leave my former psychiatrist once I realized he had very literally declared my entire life to be “a credible fictional story” in his medical records, as if I would believe his delusions.
Decades after I left that nut job psychiatrist, I was attacked by a psychologist, in a church, who tried to gaslight me into signing a thievery contract. Of course I didn’t sign it. But apparently my art work was “too truthful” for him, at least according to recovered emails I found, after learning this “creepy” psychologist, had been hacking into my computer for years.
And, yes, covering up child abuse is the number one actual societal function of the psych industries, and it’s all by design, according to their debunked DSM.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Thank you for sharing your story, Trudie. And God bless you on your healing journey.
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lol
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“behavioral health professionals now lead the response via mobile crisis teams, not law enforcement, such as the officers who handcuffed Isbell.”
Yet the “mental health professions'” goal is taking people to hospitals, for profit, just like the police, government, and paternalistic religions, who own the hospitals.
And I’m not generalizing, I’m speaking from personal experience, as one with medical evidence of eleven anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders, by the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, and his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, Dr. Humaira Saiyed, who deserves to be arrested, too.
I dealt with, if I recall correctly, just over $30,000 of fraud based “treatment,” paid for by my insurance company, for Kuchipidi and Saiyed’s anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders. But Kuchipudi and Saiyed were hoping to make their fraud from my medical insurance carrier over $120,000, with an unneeded tracheotomy … since I was fraudulently admitted to that hospital, with a non-existent “chronic airway obstruction.”
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As one who had a dream about being “moved by the Holy Spirit,” and medical evidence of easily recognized and complex medical iatrogenesis, misdiagnosed as “psychosis,” due to my legitimate distress caused by 9/11/2001.
I largely agree with most of what you say, if the latter part of your post stands for pro-dream analysis, and against the current Western “biologically reductionist” DSM deluded “mental health” industries’ claims all dreams, and me, are “irrelevant to reality,” and brain zaps are “psychosis,” within one or two appointments – which is the antithesis of treating one’s client, as they would like to be treated.
Thank you for sharing, Bei Linda Tang.
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Very true, they’re being used as weapons by pastors, bishops, and by dysfunctional families, et al.
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“Healing begins when we listen deeply—not just to symptoms, but to the whole story behind them.” I agree, but sadly that’s not what is happening in today’s “mental health” industries, any where in Western civilization. So I couldn’t agree more, the whole world needs a paradigm “shift” away from psychiatry’s “biologically reductive” DSM “BS.”
It would be wonderful if you could share some insights into what helps “mental health” symptoms in Korean medicine, here on MiA.
Just an FYI, my parents met at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thank you for sharing, and helping people get off of psychiatry’s neurotoxins, Daehyun.
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If I’m not incorrect, I recall from my research somewhere, learning that the entire way “Family Court” is structured is bad, for example, there are no juries. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
But, then again, the entire maritime legal system (as opposed to common law, which we are supposed to have in the US, but don’t) is convoluted. This guy does a good job of explaining this in his “foundational knowledge” section.
https://awarriorcalls.com
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Yes, the psych professions do target middle aged women. I went into a hospital due to a pulled muscle over my heart, it was caused by exercising with weights that were too heavy – which had nothing to do with depression.
I wasn’t allowed to leave that ER without some doctor coming up to me and asking, “Are you depressed?” I told him, “No, and I’m allergic to the anticholinergic drugs.” I sat there and watched him trying to comprehend what I had just said, it took him a minute. Then he just walked away, and I was allowed to leave.
I did a portrait of the last psychologist who medically unnecessarily approached me, in a church, not a medical setting. I call the painting, “Portrait of a Doctorate in Gaslighting.” He spent two years harassing (trying to gaslight) me into signing a thievery contract. You can see it in the art section of this website.
I’m glad some psychologists are finally starting to wake up, and starting to clean up the deplorable mess, the psych professions created.
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I pray to God our society returns to a semblance of sanity, and stops the mass psychiatric drugging of children, seemingly due to the greed of the psych industries specifically, but also because of the greed of the entire medical community, who has seemingly bought into the psychiatric industry’s “BS.”
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Don’t forget about those “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness” lies that the psych – professions spew.
And the fact that the psych professions don’t even know how to safely wean people off their neurotoxins, so even finding a psych professional to agree to wean you off, is hard.
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I agree, the DSM “bible” billing industries function as a “cult.” A “cult,” seemingly hell bent, on functioning to “maintain the status quo,” which is a “status quo” that is based upon bad systems, thus it is dysfunctional, and unjust.
I mean, in the US, we’re all supposed to believe “we are all created as equal,” yet the psych industries want to create and maintain a greed only inspired caste system, which protects the “professionals” while putting everyone else through a literal iatrogenic living hell, and steal more than everything from them … at least according to my medical, financial, and legal records, and research.
More ways to point out how the psych industries are un-American, thank you, Cat.
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I agree, No-one, it is nice that MiA allows philosophical commentary.
I haven’t yet looked into all your links, Tom, but thanks for the thought provoking commentary and links.
But I will agree, “depression does not cause a lack of hope,” unless it’s “clinical depression,” which too many within the psych professions claim is “a life long, incurable, genetic illness,” caused by a “chemical imbalance,” “just like diabetes” … all of which is blatant lies.
Meaning these psych professions are telling blatant lies to their clients, in order to steal people’s hope, for profit.
And I agree, “It IS a lack of hope [that can cause depression], and its cure, therefore, is obviously the restoration of hope.”
Which largely means, get away from the psych professions that are spewing hope destroying lies at you, and stop believing these systemic liars.
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I agree, “what many people need is not more diagnoses, but more dignity, resources, and economic security.” But I’m not certain I agree with your conclusion that cash transfers are a good idea.
As an ethical banker’s daughter, I’d say the real solution is to turn over the unethical globalist bankers'” table” / bad banking system … again … and, hopefully, forever.
But in the story of my dreams, God’s ultimate goal is a free society, like with no money whatsoever. Albeit with the understanding by all, that God (our Creator) owns this planet, as well as all the planets in our ever expanding universe, and that there is both wisdom and folly within all religions … except, the DSM “bible” billers’ ‘religion’ / book of stigmatizations – there is no wisdom in a book of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations – albeit I do admit the psychiatrists’ drugs can and do create the symptoms of their DSM disorders.
I was listening to this as I was reading your blog, and found a lot of wisdom within it, despite not actually being a believer in communism, since communism denies God’s existence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqQCF5NBrDQ
But forgive my lack of full knowledge, since I’m still on my spiritual journey, working my way towards wisdom … yet I do now understand neither I, nor any one else, will ever be able to understand everything about all things, in our waking hours … nor do I even want to.
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Not to change the subject, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which today’s “mental health” industries are innately un-American.
Like, for example, since the “mental health” industries are “partnered with” both the religions and the governments, that has destroyed our Bill of Rights claim that in the US, there should be a “separation of church and state.” The “mental health” industries have destroyed that right of American citizens.
And, for example, since most of the antipsychotics are dopamine antagonists, meaning they block dopamine. But since everyone basically knows dopamine is a “feel good hormone,” as is also serotonin, which the antidepressants block.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/feel-good-hormones-how-they-affect-your-mind-mood-and-body
Isn’t that actually evidence that the force and coerce drugging psychiatrists, et al have been intentionally taking away American’s right to “life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness,” for profit?
That’s just two examples I came up with for why psychiatry is un-American, but I’m sure there are many more examples. Please give me more examples of how forced psychiatric drugging is un-American, ladies and gentlemen of MiA.
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I, too, had the common symptoms of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome misdiagnosed (according to the DSM-IV-TR at the time). And, I agree, the brain zaps were bizarre, and a physical symptom that made you think it wise to go to a “head doctor.” What a mistake!
I’m sorry you were not able to wean off your antidepressant, Laura, but I’m glad you are stabilized on a low dose, at least that’s a harm reduction approach.
However, it is sad to me that so many of the nurses and non-medically trained “mental health professionals” are so ignorant, and uncurious, about the staggering iatrogenic harm that the psychiatrists have been perpetrating on humanity, for decades … especially the elderly and children.
What is it they say, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member,” so what does the current psychiatric debacle say about the leaders of Western civilization today?
But I’m glad you’ve chosen to start actually helping the people harmed by the psychiatrists instead, Laura.
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At least there are some good British psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against the fraud and harm of psychiatry. In the States, I think it’s likely much worse than in the UK, perhaps in part because we have too many “mental health professionals?”
For goodness sake, I had one psychiatrist – who was the psychiatric “snowing” partner of the now FBI convicted V.R. Kuchipudi – who spent years fraudulently listing me as her “out patient,” despite the fact I was never her “out patient.”
And a decade plus later I was also medically unnecessarily approached by a psychologist, who tried to gaslight me into signing a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with a conservatorship contract, that was disingenuously claimed to be an “art manager” contract – of course I refused to sign his appalling thievery contract. But I did find out a few years after my family left the church where we met this psychologist, that this psychologist had been illegally hacking into my computer for years.
So I agree with you the hate, of the scientifically “invalid” “mental health professionals” towards those of us mothers who stand against child abuse in my case, is most definitely blatantly obvious – to the point of being downright criminal behavior. And it was my love, in part for my young children who needed me, that helped save me, too.
Thanks for sharing, and God bless, Ekaterina.
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What the “psych” industries in the US have done is not nearly as “complex” as they like to proclaim. The “bipolar” diagnosis is a good example of this.
If one goes to a “psych professional,” (due, for example, for questioning “brain zaps,” which are a common symptom of withdrawal from the non-“safe smoking cessation meds” / antidepressants) and claims to not be depressed. Then the DSM “bible” billers just automatically “diagnoses” the person as “manic,” thus “bipolar” … as if there are only two states of being, which is ridiculous. The “bipolar diagnosis” itself is a “Catch 22.”
And how ironic, the “bad fix” on my broken bone doctor, did call himself “Dr. 22,” in my medical records.
Thank you for your research, ladies and gentlemen of Japan. Please don’t buy into, and work against, the “BS” and fraud of the Western “mental health” industries and big Pharma.
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“being an honest human being is not a profession!” isn’t that a sad truth of reality?
But us truth tellers, will not be so easily silenced.
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By the way, the evil ‘voices’ i got, were due to psychiatric anticholinergic toxidrome poisonings. And my ‘salvage one’ ‘voices’ were caused by my ‘drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity manic psychosis.’
Wake up, non-medically trained, DSM deluded psychologists, et al.
But just because I can medically explain my “voices,” doesn’t negate my spiritual journey, it’s just DSM defamation of character.
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“clinicians who wish to respect individual meaning-making for voice-hearers might learn to hold multiple explanatory models that differ from their own [DSM] ideas and frameworks without applying an illness, deficit, or risk lens.”
Oh, but then the DSM deluded “psych professionals” can’t bill.
Sadly, my former DSM deluded, “holist, Christian, talk therapist,” who railroad me off to psychiatrists within two appointments, was 100% the opposite of “holistic” and a “talk therapist.” Since she turned herself into a neurotoxic poisoner, who ended up having her – not listened to – client’s entire life declared a “credible fictional story” instead. And no DSM “bible” believer may claim to be Christian, since one may not believe in the scientifically “invalid” DSM stigmatization “bible,” and the Holy Bible.
A person should be able to discuss a spiritual question/journey with a “holistic, Christian talk therapist.” But one may not, with a scientifically “invalid” DSM “bio, bio, bio” “bible” believer.
Thank God for the internet, I’m listening to this as I read and type this. And I did have a bizarre “seventh heaven” aspect to my mysterious, mystical, musical, drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEYSRzr96Go
For those of you who, like me, had a spiritual inquiry, misdiagnosed by a “bio, bio, bio” only believing DSM “bible” thumper … you might find that video creator interesting.
Back to the blog at hand, I agree, hearing voices groups should be encouraged and studied, even though I’ve never been to one, since there isn’t one close to me.
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Being innately shy, and being uncomfortable speaking in public (feeling such is apparently called by psychiatry “awkward”) are not actually “mental illnesses,” to anyone other than the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” billers … and perhaps, also, the teachers in charge of public speaking classes.
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Thank you for sharing that blog. Forgive my ignorance, but I didn’t see a comment section on Mad in Norway … and I’m not even certain what language is spoken in Norway, Norwegian? but of course.
The word for mad and the word for food must be similar in Norwegian? Or the translator is goofy, since many of the “Mad in …” websites are translated into English as “Food in.” This may be something that MiA wants to look into? I did report a couple of them as bad translations.
Nonetheless, in as much as I agree with much of what the author said. If anyone knows how to remind the Norwegian psychiatrists that, I think all doctors, were taught in med school that the neuroleptics/antipsychotics can create “psychosis,” via anticholinergic toxidrome.
But knowing this means, I agree with his conclusion that renaming the neuroleptic drugs, “antipsychotics,” was quite morally reprehensible, on the part of psychiatry and/or big Pharma.
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Perhaps it’d be wise to acknowledge the likely number one cause of “psychosis”? … the anticholinergic drugs, themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
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“When socially powerful professional institutions do not acknowledge their manifest limitations and seek to remedy their evident failures—thereby violating the fundamental spirit of scientific methodology [and justice within society]—we contribute to the erosion of public confidence in expert opinion.”
I agree.
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Just a reminder, in the US, separation of church and state is supposed to be the rule of law … but the psych industries (I’m pretty certain, illegally – in addition to many of the 501c3 organizations they’ve “partnered with”) bridged that gap.
Not to defame the truth tellers of MiA, which is a 501c-3 organization, that I do donate to. But the unrepentant Holy Spirit blasphemers of my ex-religion, are not innocent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcsGp9wzN48
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Thank you for the brief history of psychiatry, Randy. It helps explain why the DSM “bible” is actually being taught in the seminaries today, and part of why the younger generations are not going to the churches.
For goodness sakes, one cannot believe in a DSM “bible” of scientifically “invalid” stigmatizations, while also believing in the Holy Bible, which is a book of wisdom, that’s message is largely about the need for love and mutual respect.
But I will point out that all this is unethical and unwise, on the part of the seminaries that actually believe in God, and want to bring the young people into their churches.
For goodness sakes, now I understand why none of the young “mental health professionals” – who are “partnered” with my ex-religion – ever bother to show up for church services. And now I understand why my mom’s former church is a dying, greying, church.
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Let’s hope and pray, Chris.
No offense, Sandra, but I think MiA’s film festival was in 2014. Sorry to always be pointing out psychiatrists’ flaws.
But, hey, my young son pointed out that Jesus’ theology had a “trick” to it, when he was only 7. That “trick,” of course, is I do have a right to treat others, as they have treated me (of course, with respect for God’s laws). And, my personal experience is that all psych workers “conspire” against their clients, especially mothers of child abuse survivors and child abuse survivors. And every “mental health” worker I’ve ever personally met, and mentioned that I have medical evidence of child abuse in my child’s medical records, has told me they want to neurotoxic poison my well behaved, intelligent, multiple award winning child.
All DSM “bible” deluded psych workers should get out of the schools and churches, especially until they may bill to help child abuse survivors, which they still may NOT do today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
Best wishes on your book sales, Laura.
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But I will say, my loved one’s “psychosis” etiologies – and he is doing well now – had nothing to do with the psychiatric industry’s “invalid” “lifelong, incurable, genetic” DSM “bible” disorders.
Since his issues were related to his nurse practitioner’s inappropriately given bad drug interactions (although I didn’t catch those potentially deadly bad drug interactions initially either, and I did check), sleep deprivation, the death of his 21 year old beloved dog, and likely alcohol encephalitis.
So I still do stand in support of getting rid of the scientifically “invalid” DSM.
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Well, and being given the undeserved “right” to force drug, control, and play “judge, jury, and executioner,” to innocent others, seems to have allowed psychiatry and psychology to lose their own minds, with their undeserved and unchecked power.
Maybe we should get rid of the evil systems of control, that are attacking the innocent people (which are what the psych industries, et al, greed only inspired industries chose to become)?
And we should try to return to a just and free society instead?
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Ditto.
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It’s a complex subject, I will admit.
As one whose introduction to the psych drugs was by a, dangerously paranoid of a non-existent malpractice suit PCP, who wanted to cover up her husband’s “bad fix” on a broken bone of mine – which I’d call criminal abuse of psychiatry. And since my second opinion doctor was a psychologist who, according to her, and all my family’s medical records (and my later psych research), misdiagnosed me based upon her pastor’s and a pedophile’s wife’s lies. Well, since covering up child abuse is illegal, that was also criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And as one who had one of my force drugging hospital doctors eventually convicted by the FBI for having lots of patients medically unnecessarily shipped long distances to himself, then his “snowing” psychiatric partner massively neurotoxic poisoned people in the hope they would stop breathing, so they could do unneeded tracheotomies on people, for profit – a third form of criminal abuse of psychiatry.
And I was also attacked by another psychologist, decades after my escape, who tried to gaslight me into signing a contract that was a take a percentage of gross thievery contract, combined with an appalling conservative contract, all disingenuously dressed up as an “art manager” contract – and use of those conservatorship contracts is one more form of criminal abuse of psychiatry/psychology as well, IMHO. Of course I didn’t sign the contract. Oh, but I did learn a couple years after that, that psychologist had been hacking into my computer, for years, which is also illegal.
Well, obviously I know the “right” to force drug people is being systemically abused by criminal doctors (and pastors, et al). But I did also have much more mutually respectful interactions with psychiatrists, after I’d researched into the psych industries for a couple decades.
I had a loved one who was more “psychotic” than anyone I’d ever seen, who did eventually need to be held against his will in a psych facility briefly. The psychiatrists I dealt with at that hospital were embarrassed that I’d dealt with the “bad fix” covered up with complex iatrogenesis. But they were kind enough to avoid the anticholinergic drugs, and got my loved one calmed down, and no longer psychotic, on a low dose of lithium, within about a week and a half. And my loved one was weaned off that lithium pretty quickly.
So, in as much as I know there is way too much forced psych drugging for nefarious reasons, I also know it’s not easy to deal with a large psychotic person oneself. So the legality and/or need for forced treatment is a complex subject, but the systemic corruption of the psych industries should be addressed, too.
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I’m pretty certain, those of us at MiA, are the ones saying “STOP” this. But we are the most defamed in society today.
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“The idea that human flourishing is intimately tied to the natural world is gaining traction across disciplines, offering a powerful counterpoint to dominant psychiatric models that isolate mental health from social, political, and ecological conditions.”
Yes, let’s hope the DSM deluded some day gain insight into common sense. As one who dealt with a drug withdrawal induced super sensitivity mania, I will say, being in nature was helpful for me. And locking a manic person into a windowless environment is about the worst thing you can do.
So I definitely agree, “pro-environmental and sustainable behavior, aimed at preserving the environment, can be understood as benefiting both the environment and the individual.” Being in nature also helps when one finds oneself “manic.”
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Huh, that all sounds like false advertising, which I was told was illegal, back when I was getting my marketing degree.
And you’ll pardon me for pointing out the irony of you confessing this on a website filled with people who were harmed by your “misleading claims.”
Better late than never, I suppose. I’m glad you finally “got off the fence,” and ended your illegal false advertising. Someone should sue big Pharma for false advertising.
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“The findings suggest that a more trauma-informed, flexible approach to therapeutic goal-setting is urgently needed in school-based counseling.”
It breaks my heart that the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” billers are even in the schools, since the DSM doesn’t even allow them to bill for child abuse.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-child-does-not-have-bipolar-disorder/201402/dsm-5-and-child-neglect-and-abuse-1
“These findings resonate with previous research on young people’s perceptions of goal-setting, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach may not be suitable.”
Well, of course “a one-size-fits-all approach” is inappropriate.
“For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
Especially when the children are being defamed with the “invalid” DSM stigmatizations in “therapy,” which is what all of today’s DSM “bible” billers / psychiatrists / psychologists / social workers / CPS workers, et al do. And the insane social workers, who make up lies about the best and brightest, award winning, children of America, since the school districts are not actually “equipped to deal with the smartest American children,” are actually the DSM deluded / insane people. This is a societal problem.
“Additionally, clinicians must consider how their approach to goal-setting may inadvertently pathologize natural and contextually appropriate responses to life challenges.”
Well, since my personal experience with the reductionist, DSM deluded “bible” billers – many of whom I had to ask, in my “mean mom voice,” Does anyone here speak English? – is that they do not know how to treat innocent others in a manner, that they’d like to be treated.
“Ensuring young people feel heard, supported, and respected throughout their therapeutic journey is essential.”
Yet this is the opposite of what today’s DSM “bible” billers do. So we should get the scientific fraud based DSM “bible” deluded “mental health professionals” out of the schools.
“This study adds to mounting concerns that some evidence-based tools, while well-intentioned, may undermine the core principles of healing, especially when they are applied without sensitivity to context, culture, trauma, and identity. For young people still developing a sense of self, being evaluated every week can heighten self-criticism and inhibit the kind of open, exploratory process that therapy is meant to provide.”
I agree, let’s end the mass psychological and psychiatric drugging of children in schools, and the scientific fraud based psychologic defamation, with the “invalid” psychiatric DSM disorders, of children in our schools.
“In line with trauma-informed and harm-reduction frameworks, the authors call for a more collaborative, consent-based approach to goal-setting.”
Yes, the ending of all forced and coerced psychological and psychiatric drugging of innocent children should end … as should all such communications with our children.
“This study joins a growing body of research questioning dominant paradigms in school mental health.”
“the need for trauma-informed, context-sensitive approaches—ones that center lived experience, resist over-standardization (as the DSM deluded do), and take seriously the structural and cultural factors that shape young people’s emotional lives in and out of schools,” is needed.
Get rid of the “invalid” DSM.
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I agree, the psychiatric nurses should “establish and lead psychotropic drug deprescribing and discontinuation services.” One of my good friends is a retired nurse, who is now highly embarrassed by today’s medical community.
And it was, largely ethical nurses, who worked to save me, many thanks to them.
And the systemic betrayal of today’s psychiatric industry, of their “clients,” is appalling (see my last comment on this website, for the medical evidence of this comment).
Stand tall, and take control, nurses … the doctors have lost their way, due to their seemingly insatiable greed, and the insatiable greed of big Pharma and the insurance industries.
Maybe we should move back to a time where the doctors are actually working for their patients, instead of working for big Pharma, their hospital managers, and/or the insurance companies?
But we do need the nurses to stand up, and stop the systemic iatrogenic harm the psychiatrists are perpetuating. And I am grateful for the ethical nurses who helped me.
And, sadly, I do agree, “‘Psychiatric Drugs’ are ‘A Crude Form of Chemical Restraint.'” For goodness, sakes, the psychological and psychiatric industries have turned themselves into a bunch of systemic child abuse covering up satanists (again, see prior comments on this website for medical evidence of my legitimate concerns), of which I, of course, have both medical and legal proof.
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“Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical (remember, psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors, and must go through the same core training).”
And since we know “psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors,” and we can research and learn that all MDs are taught in medical school, about anticholinergic toxidrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
We can garner insight into the fact that the psychiatric industry is an unethical aspect of the medical industry, that took the medical knowledge of how to make a person “psychotic” … which does harm their patients … and turned systemically harming their patients, into their “gold standard of care.”
What the psychiatric industry has done is so unethical, it’s hard to actually believe … but, sadly, it is the truth.
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Indeed, incorrectly assuming (and trying to brainwash) all their “clients” that they are “stupid, weak and timid” is a systemic problem for the DSM deluded “mental health professions.”
A systemic problem that makes an “a-s” out their “clients,” but also sometimes makes an “a-s,” out of the scientifically “invalid,” incorrectly assuming “mental health professionals” … and hopefully soon their entire, unGodly disrespectful, industry.
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I agree, it’s a great article, which successfully deconstructs psychiatry. Thank you, Chuck Ruby.
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” And, sadly, that does seem to be where we’re living.
I’m glad you escaped the insanity of today’s psychiatric system, and thanks for sharing your story, Rich.
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As one who has met Laura in real life, I will say Deleno is a kind and generous person, and agree “her haters would really look stupid if Delano found herself in a debate with one of them.”
But that may be because, I too, am a truth telling psychopharmacology researcher … who found the medical evidence that the antipsychotics can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via both anticholinergic toxidrome and neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
But I do understand the big Pharma funded mainstream media is now starting to behave, seemingly, as bad as the scientific fraud based, big Pharma deluded, “mental health professions.”
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“One secondary problem is that when psychiatry is used as a form of intervention by the government it violates the principle of separation of church and state because psychiatry operates as a satanic religion willing to sacrifice anybody and anything on the bloody altar of cold, hard cash.”
Sadly, I have to agree that’s what psychiatry has turned themselves into today. But it’s even worse, since numerous or all of our mainstream paternalistic religions have also “partnered” with the state, psychology, and psychiatry’s DSM “bible’s” “satanic religion.”
And, yes I agree, “we need a revolution,” albeit hopefully a peaceful one … and I do think the Triune God likely inspires the artists … and in their subconscience, all people.
Thus, the psychological industry dismissing the subconscious self, the Id, or whatever the psych industries choose to change the name of one’s dreams and subconscious self to be, was and is morally wrong.
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“If we come to view symptoms as representative of underlying psychopathology in need of our attention—as depth psychology does—then drowning out the voice of the psyche is contrary to the nature of the psyche itself.”
That’s exactly what my former DSM deluded psychologist did, by railroading me off to a psychiatrist within only two appointments, so the psychiatrist could also deny my dreams might have validity, and anticholinergic toxidrome poison me.
IMHO, the non-medically trained psychological industry really should go back to valuing their client’s psyches, including their dreams (like, for example, not claiming all dreams are “psychosis”). And they should divorce themselves from the scientifically “invalid,” systemic, neurotoxic poisoners of psychiatry.
I mean in reality right now, the psych industries are very literally “conspiring” against everyone in our society who is not considered to be a so called “professional;” so they may maintain a Ponzi scheme of a bad banking system, so they may maintain a failed pharmaceutical based “Rockefeller medical system,” so they maintain the appalling crimes of the maritime based legal system, so they may maintain “the status quo.”
When, in reality, it is the bad systems that need to be gotten rid of, and a lot of undeserved forgiveness is going to need to be given to those working within those bad systems. But God did point out in the real Bible that repentance, and especially changing from one’s evil ways, is needed … to fix society’s real problems.
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“authors Santiago Delboy and Linda Michaels (co-founders of PsiAN) surveyed over 1,500 adults across the United States. Their results suggest that people still want the kind of therapy that takes time, fosters deep understanding, and treats the whole person.”
Yet the “scientific fraud” based DSM “bible” based psychiatric / psychological, et al, deluded industries, went in the opposite direction.
But, since the scientific fraud based DSM deluded have already had their DSM be declared to be “invalid,” let’s hope someday soon those who work within those industries, may soon overcome their delusions of grandeur, that they are the judges of all of humanity, as opposed to that being God’s job. It’s “complex,” yet not that “complex” to those of us who know what is actually going on.
Let’s hope and pray, some day, that those of the “mental health professions,” who were unwisely given the role of playing “judge, jury, and executioner” to the masses … by our seemingly deluded governments and religions of Western civilization … someday understand the fact that God’s the ultimate judge, not the DSM “bible” billers … nor any government, nor religion.
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“In a way, evidence-based medicine has degraded clinical practice.” And “evidence based medicine” is largely a euphemism for “Rockefeller medicine.”
“What I mean is that with this idea that you have guidelines that apply to everyone, whereas it is the clinical judgment of the clinician who has to interpret those guidelines. But clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines, and it’s very dangerous.”
This is a very important confession by a medical professional … and seemingly, the possible failure of all of Rockefeller medicine, in the long run (we here at MiA may be the “canaries in the coal mine” of all of Rockefeller medicine).
And I found that psychiatry / psychology are so DSM deluded / clinically controlled / avarice controlled, that all they seem to do is incorrectly assume everyone who comes to them has a “life long, incurable, genetic mental illness,” with zero actual proof, while declaring all of a person’s real life to be “a credible fictional story.”
But I couldn’t agree more, “clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines,” in other words it means actually behaving like a person’s caring doctor. But this is particularly an issue in the “mental health” arena, since the current mainstream psychiatric DSM guidelines recommend anticholinergic toxidrome poisoning almost all their clients.
I highly recommend reading Rockefeller’s belief system and goals, since after doing such, one does start questioning the entirety of how the medical / pharmaceutical / insurance industrial complex is structured … like, for example, is it wise for any doctor to put an insurance company’s interests above their clients’ interests? No, but that’s how Rockefeller medicine is structured.
Oh, how convenient, Jimmy Dore and James Corbett touched on this subject in Jimmy’s interview with James today. (BTW, I highly recommend Corbett’s research and reporting, and Jimmy is at least sometimes funny, when reporting on the inconvenient truths.”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWzgeb8AVqA
Yet it is very sad that too many of today’s psychiatrists and mainstream doctors consider “not following orders, not following guidelines … very dangerous.” It has resulted in a disastrous and deadly “mental health care” system.
Thank you for this interview, Mr. Whitaker and Dr. Fava.
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“Two included studies found that indoor ALAN exposure was linked to manic symptoms in people with bipolar disorder.”
Well, since the “mental health professions” believe “all distress is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain” (despite their “chemical imbalance” theory being debunked decades ago), and “genetics” (despite having zero evidence of this), wouldn’t mania caused by light issues be considered a misdiagnosis?
“The authors note that past research has linked exposure to light pollution at early ages to younger ages of bipolar disorder onset.”
I’m pretty certain the appalling “childhood bipolar epidemic” was caused by the fact that our society didn’t used to psych drug children, and the iatrogenic issues pointed out in Robert Whitacker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic.” Although, I have zero doubt “artificial light at night (ALAN)” may be a part of the problem.
I agree, “Research into mood disorders in the post-modern era should not underestimate the effects of urbanization and should thus be aware of the detrimental effects of various sources of pollutants on the development and exacerbation of these conditions.” And that “the results of this review suggest how building more livable cities that protect public health should include eco-friendly lighting, alongside other factors, according to the principles of sustainability.”
But I will politely point out, as a 14 year member of the planning commission of my former village, that we did have light pollution issues written into our laws, decades ago. So, IMHO, this is, once again, having to point out the lack of common sense of our scientific fraud based “mental health professions,” to themselves.
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“No one in their right mind would think powerful substances would NOT affect developing fetuses.”
…except those who profit off of forcing and coercing them on to innocent others?
My question is, why weren’t these rat studies done, prior to the last several decades of forced and coerced drugging of humans? Shouldn’t the drug testing be done on the rats, prior to the human population?
Oh, that’s right, read Rockefeller’s writings, and goals ….
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Thank you, Robert and Giovanni, for acting as conduits of mutually respectful communication opportunities between critical psychiatry / psychology people and/or psych survivors, and the publisher and CEO of a possibly no longer truth telling medical journal.
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Thanks for all you have done, and do, Altostrata.
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Ladies and gentlemen of MiA, let’s all go out and request our libraries carry
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808605-strangers-to-ourselves
And Laura’s book
https://www.amazon.com/Unshrunk-Story-Psychiatric-Treatment-Resistance/dp/1984880489
from our local libraries. They sound like an intriguing couple books, and such is a benign thing anyone who feels like a dejected psych survivor could do, as too many of us here, were made to feel we were.
But please do buy the books, too, if you can afford them.
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“Russian roulette is not the same without a gun,” my subconscious self has been singing that for seemingly over a decade.. And it is a song about psychiatry’s iatrogenic harm, IMHO. But, of course, one can’t prove such. However, I do NOT believe God is ignorant of what is going on.
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Sounds largely what a truly informed consent form should say, for all psych “professionals” today. Thank you, Keith.
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Well Birdsong, thank Boans, since he’s actually the one who came up with the suggestion, which I’m just repeating, because I thought it was a good suggestion too.
I guess my addition of “Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books,” was my creative marketing of what I thought was a good idea of Boans, but my first college degree was a marketing degree.
Nonetheless, we should both say thanks to Boans. And hopefully critical psychiatry, et al, people will go start requesting critical psychiatry and survivor books, at their local libraries.
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Thanks for sharing, since I’ve yet to read Laura’s book, but I do thank Laura for her courage, strength, and ability, to get her book published by a mainstream publisher.
“I’ve come to believe those who want to shut down conversations critical of psychiatry and standard mental health treatment have their own agenda.” And I do agree, “it’s all about the Benjamins.”
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In general, the monied “powers that shouldn’t be” lost control of the narrative, with the onset of the internet. So they are now trying to take back their undeserved, under researched, and/or fraud based researched, power.
RIP, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. But an end to the supposed open dialogue on the realities of the psych industries, does also represent an end to any kind of true science within the psych industries. Especially given the fact that having an open dialogue is largely a necessity, upon which any real science is based.
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” … there’s no silencing the bell Laura has rung.” Let’s hope and pray.
As one who has met Laura in real life, and learned from meeting her that she’s a wonderful, empathetic, kind, truth seeking, and generous person … albeit I have yet to ask my local library to purchase her book so I may read it, and learn more about her journey.
Not to say people shouldn’t buy her book themselves, I may myself, but my bookshelves are getting pretty overfilled. But please do think about going and requesting her book at your local library, since that too could help her book sales (and our truth telling cause).
Although, at this late date, I’d say requesting Robert Whitaker’s, Moncrieff’s, Breggin’s, Gøtzsche’s, et al’s critical psychiatry books from your local libraries would be a good thing to do also, if they don’t already have them. Let’s try to fill the libraries with truth speaking critical psychiatry based books.
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” … Those who object must be ‘anti-bloodletters!’ Or flat earthers. Or Scientologists. Or anti-psychiatrists. There is no need to listen to them. We, the mainstream media, will not let psychiatry die in transparency.”
And us independent psychopharmacology researchers here say, let’s not let psychiatry die in transparency, let’s expose the psychiatric industries’ DSM lies … which are really big lies. And why the historically holocaust causing, continuingly harmful, scientifically fraud based psychiatric industry should likely die.
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I do agree we are seeing “the unraveling of what to me – has been a wide scale poisoning, of trusting people.”
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“A section on antipsychotics, for instance, cites studies that purport to show that people who take them fare worse than people who never take them or stop them. (This is misleading; people do not take them unless they have severe symptoms.)”
Is [this] a blatant lie as people are for sure put on antipsychotics without a single exhibition of psychosis.
Indeed it is a lie, since I was put on antipsychotics because a non-medically trained, child abuse covering up, psychologist thought all dreams are “psychosis.”
But when all who dream are “psychotic,” according to the scientifically “invalid” DSM “bible” believers, they’ve rendered their term “psychotic,” to be “irrelevant to reality” … just like the “mental health” industries’ DSM “bible” was claimed to be … way back in 2013.
Wake up, deluded DSM “bible” believers, please!
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Yes, I too, was misdiagnosed by a “holistic, Christian talk therapist” – who quickly railroaded me off to a neurotoxic poisoning psychiatrist – a child abuse covering up psychologist, whose medical records also prove she was a Holy Spirit blasphemer.
It’s hard today to be able to trust any doctor, including the ones who claim to be “holistic.”
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