Psychiatry Exposed

[Bad Writer]

These days, many people in America who have mental health issues go to psychiatrists to complain about their problems. But after they go there, every little problem they have gets labelled and turned into a mental disorder.

Psychiatrists certainly have the go-ahead to prescribe drugs to alleviate the symptoms that chemical imbalances can cause, but I doubt they label everything as a mental disorder, especially if its an issue that can be talked through. Sometimes the best medication for some people is behavioral changes.

Even someone who has experienced a moderate level of stress and/or depression may get written off as having an "illness" in his brain that needs to be treated with psychotropic drugging.

Misdiagnoses happen all the time, very true. Stress is subjective to the person experiencing it, and a psychiatrists can only be as objective as what they observe of their patients.

Psychiatrists oftentimes tell their patients something along the lines of "What you have is basically a chemical imbalance in your brain that's causing you to feel the way you feel. But the good news is that there is a pill that can fix that, and you should take it," without conducting any kind of lab or physical tests on the patients to prove that there really is a "chemical imbalance" in the brain. Therefore it is not unreasonable to conclude that modern psychiatry, shamefully, lacks scientific validity.

I'm not certain I would go so far as to label this practice as shameful. Plenty of people truly do suffer from such actual chemical imbalances which can only be treated by a practicing psychiatrist.

So the question is (and it's rhetorical), why should any person who has a sound reasoning capacity, and is aware of these facts, ever take such a risk in an attempt to cure himself?

Certainly there are weak areas in this field, but the benefits by far outweigh the risks, and those risks are ones that society is subjected to otherwise.

It doesn't require much investigation to realize that the whole psychiatry industry today is rather a nicely packaged fraud, a deception, making people think that taking these drugs will "help" them, even though it actually hurts them more.

That's an odd conclusion to draw seeing as the science behind these drugs is real.

They've been able to convince just enough people to take drugs like this, with duplicitous commercials and selective suppression of facts, which as a result of they're amassing billions of dollars every year.

So are all the drugs bad then?

And that's pretty much the number one motivation behind selling these psychiatric drugs - i.e. money.

If I could legitimately help someone and my assistance has science to back me up, then I'd want to make some money off of that too. There's no point in working for free after all. People have to eat, but farmers don't just give away their crops for free, right?

Anyway, to say that the entire enterprise might be unnecessary would be to many individuals' detriment. Schizophrenia is real, and it's treatable. So is bi-polar disorder, as well as clinical depression. Psychiatrists are, it would seem, the only viable source of the drugs that suppress these issues. Without psychiatrists, our mental institutes would be overflowing; without pharmaceutical companies, there would be no research into newer, better drugs. Can you give evidence of a real conspiracy, or are we just going to have to take your word on this? Also, if what you're saying is absolutely true, do you have an alternative for us, or are mentally ill/unstable individuals simply screwed, for lack of a better term?

Here are two documentaries that provide more exposure of some of the slimy, double-dealing tactics of psychiatry and how it has pulled people into its tangled web of lies while acting under the guise of being the most ardent savior of mental health:

Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam

There are documentaries about how Global Warming is a scam, how GMOs are a health risk, and how the WTC was a cover-up, and all of them are rife with interviews and testimonials from credentialed experts in their fields. Do we give these theories credence as well?

I must add the following point also: I don't deny that there are good psychiatric programs out there that are indeed helpful to some extent (the ones which take a more humanistic approach, such as talk therapy and counseling).

Oh, good. We can breathe easy now.

But, on a larger scale, psychiatry seems be more destructive than helpful, especially when drugs are involved.

"Seems to be" is a phrase with a lot of wiggle room. At least this shows that you're honest about not having all the facts (unless I'm reading into that wrong).

And, unfortunately, with the rise of pharmaceutical and insurance industries, the practice of psychiatry has considerably shifted from talk therapy to drug therapy.

Both have their place in psychiatry, as I mentioned earlier.

I'll consider all the disagreements/criticisms/feedback as best as I can.

I remember you posting some time ago something about 9/11 being a conspiracy, so I have my doubts about this statement, sure. I've really only posed questions to you, not in an attempt to prove you wrong, but to see if you've thought of all the issues surrounding this.