David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
November 23, 2009
Contrary to the impression promoted by the psychiatric and drug industries, psychiatric drugs do not work by correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain, Joanna Moncrieff of University College London wrote recently in an opinion piece for the BBC. Instead, such drugs merely put people into “drug-induced states” that make it harder for them to experience the symptoms of their illness.
“Magazines, newspapers, patients’ organizations and Internet sites have all publicized the idea that conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be treated by drugs that help to rectify an underlying brain problem … just like a diabetic needs to take insulin,” Moncrieff writes. “The trouble is, there is little justification for this view.”
Moncrieff notes that prior to the 1950s, mental health workers largely saw antidepressants as psychoactive drugs, primarily sedatives, that eased the symptoms of depression without addressing the underlying cause – much as over-the-counter cold drugs may stop a runny nose without affecting the cold virus. This view was eventually replaced by the idea that depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and other mental health conditions result from chemical imbalances in the brain, imbalances that can be corrected by the right “magic bullet.”
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Strange article, ends with “people have to make up their own minds.” This NHS, fascist front attempting move more humane form of patient administration. Public sector broadcaster within Scotland, has a strangle hold upon most politicians, where without question their findings quoted within Parliament. Maybe they accept Freud, was a paid drug pusher? Now must move give question their past relationship and whole hearty support of psychology and psychiatry, of that corporation spends million upon. Stop the chemical cocktail. Stop compulsive treatment.