Mental Disorders: The Facts Behind the Marketing Campaign
“Psychiatry makes unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin…This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naïve and perhaps delusional.” — Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist
“There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.” Allen Frances, Psychiatrist and former DSM-IV Task Force Chairman
Read more: Psychiatrists Admit Disorders Are Not Diseases
Introduction: 120 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with mental disorders and placed on psychiatric drugs as ‘treatment.’ And while people are led to believe a diagnosis of mental illness or having a mental disorder is based on medical evidence or tests that these disorders are legitimate medical conditions, the fact is they are simply based on checklists of behaviors. People are also convinced that the only solution for treating problems of emotion, mood or behavior for themselves or their child, is drug treatment. The purpose of the information presented on this page is to provide the public with information about psychiatric diagnosis, mental disorder tests, drug side effects and medical alternatives to drugs, so they can make informed, educated decisions.
1) There are no medical or scientific tests that can prove mental disorders are medical conditions. Psychiatric diagnosis is based solely on opinion. Unlike medical disease, where tests can verify the existence of a medical condition (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc) psychiatric diagnosis are based solely on checklists of behaviors, not any medical tests…
2) Yes people experience depression, anxiety and sadness, children do act out and/or misbehave, and yes, some people can become irrational and/or psychotic. This doesn’t make them ‘diseased’ and there is no evidence of physical/medical abnormality for any psychiatric disorder whether its Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD), Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or Schizophrenia . This doesn’t mean that there aren’t solutions for people experiencing difficulty, there are non harmful, medical alternatives. But they do not require a psychiatric “label” to treat them. There is no mental illness test that is scientifically/medically proven. This isn’t a matter of opinion, psychiatrists who are opposed to the labeling of behaviors as mental illness openly admit this, and even the American Psychiatric Association admits this in the fine print of their own manual of mental disorders…
3) Why safe effective medical treatments to mental difficulties are kept buried. The fact is, there are many medical conditions, that undetected and untreated, can appear as psychiatric ‘symptoms. There are non-harmful, non-drug solutions to treating problems of mood, attention, behavior that do not require a psychiatric diagnosis or psychiatric ‘treatment’ (drugs) but can be effectively treated with standard medical, not psychiatric, treatment.
4) The campaign to “Stop The Stigma of Mental Illness” is brought to you by…Big Pharma. You’ve probably seen the ads, to “Stop the Stigma” of mental illness but most likely weren’t informed that the industry sponsoring this campaign was the Pharmaceutical industry which makes $88 billion dollars a year on sales of psychiatric drugs…
5) What are psychiatric labels? Bi-Polar, Schizophrenia, ADHD, Social Anxiety Disorder, Depression – these are all psychiatric labels. People are being labeled based not on medical tests, but on psychiatric opinion. These labels are problematic for numerous reasons, the first of which is that these labels become part of their permanent medical record…
6) Psychiatric drugs are big business. The psychiatric pharmaceutical industry is making a killing—$84 Billion per year based on people being labeled with mental disorders that are not based on science or medicine, but on marketing campaigns…
7) Psychiatric drug side effects— there are 207 International Psychiatric Drug Regulatory Warnings, 221 Psychiatric Drug Studies and more than 470,000 adverse reactions to psychiatric drugs on file with the US FDA (only 1-10% are ever reported so these numbers represent only a fraction of the side effects being experienced by patients/consumers). CCHR has compiled all international drug regulatory warnings & studies about psychiatric drug risks into an easy to search psychiatric drug database.
1) THERE ARE NO TESTS IN EXISTENCE THAT CAN PROVE MENTAL “DISORDERS” ARE MEDICAL CONDITIONS. PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS IS BASED SOLELY ON OPINION.
There is no medical “mental illness test.” The psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars a year in order to convince the public, legislators and the press that psychiatric disorders such as Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, etc., are medical diseases on par with verifiable medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. But unlike medical disease, there are no scientific tests to verify the medical existence of any psychiatric disorder. Despite decades of trying to prove mental disorders are biological brain conditions, due to chemical imbalances or genetic factors, psychiatry has failed to prove even one mental disorder is due to a faulty or “chemically imbalanced” brain. There are virtually no psychiatric disorders that can be verified medically as a physical abnormality/disease.
In fact the “brain scans” that have been pawned off as evidence that schizophrenia or depression are brain diseases, have been disproven as valid research. Most have not been done on drug naive patients, meaning someone who has not been on psychiatric drugs such as antipsychotic drugs, documented to cause brain atrophy (shrinkage). Other brain scans have shown the brains of smaller children to show smaller brains in comparison to larger/older children and then claimed children with ADHD have smaller brains. None have been conclusively proven to verify mental disorders as abnormalities of the brain.
If there were such verifiable brain scans, or in fact any medical/scientific test that could show a physical/medical abnormality for any psychiatric disorder, the public would be getting such tests prior to being administered psychiatric drugs.
This is fact: There are no genetic tests, no brain scans, blood tests, chemical imbalance tests or X-rays that can scientifically/medically prove that any psychiatric disorder is a medical condition. Whereas real diseases are discovered in labs, psychiatric disorders are invented by committee and voted into existence.
2. YES, PEOPLE CAN GET DEPRESSED, SAD, ANXIOUS AND EVEN ACT PSYCHOTIC. THAT DOESN’T MAKE THEM MENTALLY “DISEASED”
No one is saying that people don’t get depressed, sad, troubled, anxious, nervous or even sometimes act psychotic. The question then is simple—is this due to some mental “disease” that can be verified as one would verify cancer or a real medical condition? And the answer is No. For example, can soldiers returning from war experience extreme and often debilitating stress? Yes. It is something wrong with their brain? No. It’s the horrors of war. Can children become distracted and not pay attention? Since time immemorial, the answer is yes. But psychiatry has pathologized childhood behaviors into a “mental illness.” The same is true of mothers. Can a new mother become distraught after a joyous occasion such as the birth of a child? Yes. Is it a brain abnormality or mental disease? No. And is the most humane solution to put these people on drugs documented by international regulatory agencies to cause mania, psychosis, worsening depression, heart attack, stroke, sudden death? Or for new or nursing mothers to risk birth defects or damage to their infants from being prescribed such powerful drugs?
This is also true of people diagnosed “schizophrenic.” There is no medical test to verify someone has a brain abnormality or medical condition of schizophrenia. And while no one claims people can’t become psychotic, the fact remains there is no biological evidence to support schizophrenia as a brain disease or chemical abnormality. And consider this, if people do become psychotic, or irrational, is it in fact caused by some underlying medical (not psychiatric) problem? A 15-year multiple follow up study found that there was a 40% recovery rate for those diagnosed schizophrenic who did not take antipsychotics, versus a 5% rate for those who did? What happened to their supposed “brain disease?” Did it simply vanish? Moreover, if they could recover from such a mental state, do they deserve the “stigma” of “schizophrenia” still being part of their permanent medical record? For life? Think about it. Imagine you were extremely overweight—obese. You lose all the weight so you are no longer obese. Yet your medical records continue to say that you are.
Loren Mosher, the former Chief of Schizophrenia Research for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)openly stated that there is no biological condition of schizophrenia as a disease or brain malfunction. His 2-year-outcome studies proved that those diagnosed schizophrenic could recover without the use of drugs.
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3. WHY SAFE, EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS TO MENTAL DIFFICULTIES ARE KEPT BURIED
The larger problem is that the biological drug model (based on the bogus mental disorders are a disease marketing campaign) prevents governments from funding real medical solutions for people experiencing difficulty. There is a great deal of evidence that medical conditions can manifest as psychiatric symptoms, and that there are non-harmful medical treatments that do not receive government funding because the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying efforts, including hundreds of their pharma funded “patient’s rights” groups to counter any medical modality that does not support their biological drug model of mental disorders as a disease. This even includes people diagnoses psychotic or schizophrenic – and there have been workable, non-drug programs such as Soteria House which have not received the recognition they should have been afforded considering their success rate when compared to patients treated with drugs. Why? Billions of dollars in revenue for the psycho/pharma industry would have been lost. This is an industry that time and again, has been proven to put profit above patients lives.
See non-drug solutions/alternatives to psychiatric drugs here:
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4. THE CAMPAIGN TO “STOP THE STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS” IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY… BIG PHARMA
With a seemingly altruistic agenda, the fact is the campaign to end the “stigma” of mental illness is one driven and funded by those who benefit from more and more people being labeled mentally ill—pharma, psychiatry and pharmaceutical front groups such as NAMI and CHADD to name but a few. For example, take NAMI’s campaign to stop the “stigma” and “end discrimination” against the mentally ill—the “Founding Sponsors” were Abbott Labs, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Pfizer, Novartis, SmithKline Beecham and Wyeth-Ayerst Labs. (For an in-depth look at what else Pharma funds and how this funding not only helps set mental health policies but campaigns such as this, read Pharmaceutical Industry Agenda Setting in Mental Health Policies at the bottom of this post)
The fact is that the “stigmatization ” is coming from those that benefit from people being labeled/stigmatized with mental disorders that have no medical/biological evidence. Case in point, if you are rebellious, you are “stigmatized” with the label “oppositional defiant disorder.” If your kid acts like a kid he is “stigmatized” with the label “ADHD.” If you are sad, unhappy (even temporarily) you are “stigmatized” with the label “depressive” or “bi-polar disorder.” If you are shy you are “stigmatized” with the label “social anxiety disorder.” Moreover, you or your child are now stigmatized for life as this label, which is based solely on opinion, is now part of your medical record, despite the fact there is no medical evidence to prove you are “mentally ill”.
5. WHY PSYCHIATRIC “LABELS” ARE THE PROBLEM
Increasing numbers of people realize that just because a child fidgets, or loses pencils or toys—criteria for an “ADHD” diagnoses, this doesn’t mean a child is mentally ill. In fact many now claim that children diagnosed “ADHD” are really suffering from lead toxicity, or allergies, or poor diet, or lack of reading skills, and not a mental “illness.” The problem is that they continue to use the psychiatric label, ADHD, which stigmatizes a child as “mentally ill.” If in fact a child suffers from lead toxicity, then why not call it lead toxicity? If he hasn’t been taught to read, why don’t we just say he hasn’t been taught to read? The same is true of all psychiatric diagnoses—every single psychiatric label stigmatizes the person being labeled. Psychiatric diagnoses are simply lists of behaviors that psychiatrists have compiled into little lists, given a name, added “disorder” on the end— then voted them into their billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as “legitimate.” This is big, big business, but it isn’t even close to legitimate diagnoses. Not in any medical or scientific context. But in a profit making context? Yes— coming up with new lists of behaviors and new “disorders” is the bedrock of the multi-billion dollar psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry. Its how they get paid. Remember, no psychiatric label, no billing insurance. No psychiatric label, no drug prescribed. So until we stop using these psychiatric labels, which mean nothing other than what some psychiatrists decided was a mental “illness, ” we will never stop the “stigma.” The psychiatric labels are backed by corporate interests—not medicine, and not science.
6. PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS ARE BIG BUSINESS—AND THE PSYCHIATRIC/PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IS MAKING A KILLING—$84 BILLION PER YEAR.
The primary reason people take psychiatric drugs is because they’ve been taught to believe they have a medical condition called a psychiatric disorder, which then justifies taking drugs to treat it. This is a brilliant marketing campaign, but it is not science. Any drug changes behavior or mood, whether cocaine, alcohol, marijuana or heroin. This does not mean someone who acts or feels differently on cocaine does so because they had a cocaine imbalance which the cocaine then corrected. It means that drugs change mood, emotion and behavior. But while the illicit use of drugs is universally frowned upon, and considered a bad way for people to deal with their problems, psychiatric drugs are made out to be “good” drugs, despite the fact many are more addictive than cocaine or heroin, and have side effects that rival such hardcore street drugs as LSD, heroin and crack cocaine.
7. WHERE TO GET THE FACTS ABOUT PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS RISKS AND SIDE EFFECTS
Because the public has been so mislead by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry on the dangers of psychiatric drugs, CCHR has created a one-of-a-kind, easy to search psychiatric drugs side effects database, containing all international studies and drug regulatory warnings that have been issued on both classes of drugs (antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-anxiety drugs, stimulants, etc) and brand names such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Risperdal, Seroquel, Ritalin etc. These are provided by CCHR as a free public service to help people make educated decisions based on facts, not marketing campaigns.
For Summaries of all known risks on these categories of drugs, visit these pages
For Antidepressant Drug Side Effects
For Anti-Anxiety Drug Side Effects
For Antipsychotic Drug Side Effects
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Really very good stuff. Lot of youths are being labelled psychiatrist and their life has been spoiled by others.. I would like to know more about this site… the publisher of this article and CCHRI. I would like to know about the person who wrote this article and if possible would like to be in touch with him / her. Please do reply to me..
AWESOME RESEARCH, THIS IS TRUE
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So well said! I have been saying these things for years and nobody wants to hear it. I don’t have a medical degree but I read books by those who do and who tell me exactly what you have written above. I am especially sick of the “stigma” campaigns – they create victims. I have friends who have lost their ability to create because they are on these drugs. So many lives wasted and nobody pays except the patient, who never should have been one in the first place.
Umair, you mention how great you feel on your psych drugs…look, if someone goes and blows a line of cocaine up their nose, they may feel great too…for a while, then, the hard dose of reality sets in when the drug wears off and they crash in to depression worse than before…I knew a kid that did cocaine so much he had only one nostril, so I don’t advise it (for among other reasons)…similarly, your beloved psych drugs that make you feel like such a shiny happy person is merely a facade, its a crutch, and a smoke and mirror for reality, you are not experiencing reality, you are instead experiencing the effect of a chemical distorting your brain made by a bunch of mostly men that profit off of your crappy feelings…depression is largely the result of several things; 1, the wrong diet, 2, their environment, someone making them feel that way (actually, the person letting themselves feel that way usually be not changing their scene), or 3, depression due to fear which is based on feeling no control over themselves which is caused by ignorance of a situation regarding how to overcome a problem. As long as you continue to be the guinea pig for the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry Umair, you will never know what true reality is, and you will also not really know if you are truly happy or just stoned on a chemical byproduct that is cutting off the firing of nerve synapses inside your brain…and, you will suffer the adverse side effects of the drugs you use. And, according to the med world you spend your time studying, any synthetic chemical that is introduced in to the body to attempt to alleviate one ailment, has to by nature, produce an alternate effect which is another ailment. Consider this the yin and the yang of the universe if you will, or call it- drugs of any schedule, class, make, or model are NOT the answer- they are not, no matter how you try to justify it. I urge you to get brave and be a full and complete human being, and face your soul and mind like an adult, and crawl away from the failing crutch and lie that is the psych industry and their chemicals.
We at Hillcrest Life Improvement Centre fully support CCHR. Doing the work that we do we come across people daily who are on Psychiatric Drugs that have no idea of just how harmful they are.Showing them the DVD’s Marketing of Madness, Dead Wrong, Making a Killing, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual and Psychiatry Industry of Death really educate them and get them on the road to being drug free
Thank you for making these DVD’s available . lots of love Sharon
I came across this article accidentally when I was actually searching for the side effect I have been experiencing lately cos of antidepressants. When I went through the whole article yesterday, I felt the author MIGHT be right. I decided that I will stop taking these drugs from tomorrow, because I wanted to test if all that’s mentioned in this article is really true. I’m on antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs from about 5 months which have brought a lot of changes in me. Now I don’t feel sad, have no social fear, feel confident in doing tasks etc which I had before starting meds. But today when I skipped my medication for one single time, I immediately felt the changes right from the afternoon and I was back like how I was before medication. Like sad without reason, mood off, feeling worthless, sleeping whole day today and feeling so lethargic. If drug has no role to play, then why such drastic changes on skipping just one time’s drugs??
I’m a medical student myself(final yr) and have done lot of research regarding depression especially. But I find mixed results and no clear-cut answers. For some the drug works and for some doesn’t, infact get worsen. I have lost 2 years of my studies cos of the depression, though I did take medications 2yrs back as well, but it just worsened, so stopped it. But discontinuing had marked effect on my mental health again, so I was back to psy drugs, but different ones. This time it worked for me and have been going good from past 5 months.
I would also like to add one fact, that except psychiatry department, no other department in our college/hospital believes that depression even exists! Then how are these drugs bringing about so many improvements??
A suffering patient doesn’t see facts and figures, he/she just wants to get rid of their horrible illness with either medication/counseling/proper-nutrition or whichever works, they go for that. For me, its medicines currently.
You can not turn something that doesn’t exist on and off like a switch. “Adhd” is a fictitious disorder and comes from the same book
of ridiculous “disorders” such as “arithemetic disorders,” “sad,” etc.
“Mental illness” is political and has nothing to do with health,the
mind,or scientific medical practice.
You are describing all physical symptoms which are real and exist.
Proper nutrition and exercise will work wonders on personal outlook
and life etc. Understand that “psychiatry” is not a medical field
by any stretch of the imagination. Period.
Understand “psychiatrists” are not medical doctors. They know nothing
about medicine otherwise they surely wouldn’t be prescribing Seraquel
to a two yearold. A child can’t digest foods that adults eat,so
Gerbers manufactures baby food for their little digestive tracts and
systems…But the “psychiatrist” who claims to be a “medical doctor??”
who knows they need naps,knows they can’t digest adult foods,but feels
their tiny brains,liver,kidneys,and bodies can handle the massive
toxic poison that is called Seraquel,the same exact poison that could
drive a full grown adult to wind up hanging on the end of a rope?????
Your 40 yrs exp. as a medical doctor is wonderful,(physical illness)
is real and you have obviously treated many. But if you believe in
“mental disorders,” you don’t know much about the mind (spiritual)
or brain (physical.) This is proven and is FACT: No “chemical imbal-
ances” in the brain. The mind cannot possibly ever become ill.
The human mind is not made up of cells, thus it doesn’t have any. The
mind is not biological so it can’t possibly ever catch a virus or become contaminated. It cannot be touched, seen, or “treated.”
Carl Jung:”The foundation of “mental illness” is the AVOIDANCE of
LEGITIMATE SUFFERING.” GOD bless
I am a board certified allergist,pediatrician and environmental medical doctor with over 40 years of experience. You can turn ADHD on and off like a switch with a drop of an allergy extract of dust, molds, pollen, chemicals and foods. You can expose children to these items or skin test them single blindly. The answer is not a drug or years of psychiatric care or counselling, although that certainly is needed for some. Some are better in 5 to 7 days with an allergy diet. Others with an air purifier in a few hours. I have thousands of videos to prove what I just wrote. You want answers, listen to someone who has done it for years and has some fast inexpesnive solutions without drugs. If a child is wild from red dyes and sugar the answer is to stop the red dyes and sugar. Siome doctors can treat for these substances. Why do so many struggle when the answer is known and availabl. fast and ften inexpensive?.
@tig
No you do not have a “mental illness,” there isn’t such a thing.
You are comparing real legimate disease (physical) that can be and is
tested, against a fictitious nonsensical illness (“mental illness”)
that real modern medical science with all of their diagnostic testing tools don’t and haven’t ever worked. It is a big rotten hoax on America!!!
You are obviously naive and trusting (taking poison… “medication”
that is doing everything to your body except healing you.)A “psychiatrist” is NOT a medical doctor. They are legal drug pushers
and you are one of their customers.Win/Win for “psychiatry.” You can’t
recover, they keep prescribing, insurance keeps paying $$$$$$ what a
vicious cycle!!! This is what they have done to you:
They saw you, labled you into what they call a “patient,”you believed
them, and now you willingly became one. But you “believe” you are. No you are not “mentally ill,” just ridiculously gullible. Do you have the extensive blood work, the brain scans,the second and third opin-
ions to reveal thus verify your “illness????”
Think about how you feel when you are physically sick with the flu.
Extremely sluggish, fever, you can’t do much of anything but rest.
Now what do you think would happen if your mind could ever become ill? You probably wouldn’t live. (At the least you would seriously be
out of commission.)
It is probably pointless to try to rationalize with you (but what the heck…) If you don’t believe that you are NOT “mentally ill” and that everybody here is lying to you, consider this FACT: The mind is not biological. It has NO CELLS…It cannot contract a virus or become ill ever. The mind cannot be seen or touched. You see, unlike real legitimate physical illness which is biological and has
cells and can contract illness and disease, the mind just can’t. This
is based on science and fact and IS PROVEN!!!
A headache is a real physical temporary biological ailment. Headaches
exist, and America is dependent on aspirin to relieve migrains, etc.
Do not lump “mental illness” in with physical illness which is real.
Do you believe that because milk and cookies get purchased more in
grocery stores across the nation when it hits mid December, that
santa,his elves,and reindeer are responsible, therefore they must exist?? The “psychiatrist” is a living persona, but in reality he/she
cannot help or fix you anymore than santa can by quenching your blues sliding down your chimney leaving you all the gifts you had wished for. (Bet you wonder how he doesn’t get stuck in all those chimneys.)
You need to separate reality from fiction. “Psychiatrist”= pretender.
They haven’t healed anyone, but they have hurt scores of people.
They don’t know how to treat or heal because they are NOT doctors,
they only listen to your story, then prescribe what they “feel” is
“right for you.” THEY ARE DANGEROUS!!!
A legitimate medical doctor who actually heals people from conducting
various routine scientific and medical tests concludes his exam. with
a report based on what the real medical tests and evidence yields. If
he/she write out a prescription drug to be taken, you can be assured
that they know the effects, how it works, and why they are prescrib- ing it to you unlike the “psychiatrist” who has absolutely no idea on
how the “medication” they prescribe to you works, or what the full
effects of the drugs are. They don’t care. They just keep writing
prescriptions, getting kickbacks, and oh yeah….getting $$$$$$$$$.
Unfortunately, “psychiatry” can be found quite easily. They want you.
You are business. They will continue to peddle those drugs that will cause great harm or death to you or anyone who BELIEVES THEIR PURE FICTITIOUS LIES THEN WILLINGLY SEEKS ONE. You should thank CCHR, they are a fine caring bunch of humanatarians who are out to help you and anyone else, who will open their ears and minds by listening and lear-
ning while they expose all the evil that this terrible profession that needs to come crashing down hard has done….”psychiatry.”
No. Shame on you for lashing out on a topic you know nothing about.
CCHR has all the facts and they are 100% accurate, as they have been
studying this “pseudo science” a long time.
“Psychiatry” is the disease it purports to treat. Wake-up and get
educated. Your mind is fine, you either have a real physical illness,
or a spiritual problem. But not “mental illness.” GOD Bless.
I have a mental illness. A real mental illness. If I do not take my medication like clockwork, it comes back that very afternoon and debilitates me. I live in fear of losing my medication or being taken off of it for a time period for whatever reason. I think sites like yours are very disturbing. You think that because you don’t have a test for a headache, that doctor’s shouldn’t prescribe aspirin? Do you think that if in the past there were no tests for juvenile fibromyalgia, that the disease didn’t exist? And you are preying on those who have mental illness, telling them not to seek help! Shame on YOU, sitting there reading this, for not looking at all the facts. And, by the way, aren’t you Scientologists?
Tig G
Hi,
While I entirely agree the pharmaceutical companies are causing terrible, even irreparable harm, it is not true that ADD and ADHD are trivial or normal syndromes of behaviour. It has been proven through hundreds of thousands of cases of children treated with music that ADD and ADHD are audio-processing deficits, what Dr. Guy Berard terms ‘bilateral distortions’. Those audio deficits for some other syndromes of abnormal behaviour have been specified by Berard; for example, suicidal depression is deficits at 2 and 8 kHz, usually in the left ear. He healed 97.7% of his suicidally depressed patients, most of them within two weeks. Through our schizophrenic son, whose dyslexia had been healed by The Tomatis Method, I discovered how and what it is that music heals: the stapedius muscle of the middle ear. If the right ear cannot process sound adequately, the loss of energy to the left cerebral hemisphere causes losses of left-brain dominance of the right hemisphere. In the case of schizophrenia, there is virtually no left-dominance: the hemispheres ‘trade places’ every two minutes. Daniel was twice healed of schizophrenia (which he identified as being similar to his experience of dyslexia) with music and he has had no further symptoms of schizophrenia or of dyslexia since he learned how to take care of his ears. He lost 10 years of his life to drugs, both illicit and prescribed. He is finishing his high school equivalency, learning self-control in many areas of his life where he had been unable to learn, and otherwise is making up for those 10 lost years. Please check out my blog and writing for the ear-brain paradigm that explains how so-called ‘mental’ illness is audio-processing deficits that can be treated with high-frequency music, providing the person has not been too badly harmed with drugs.
Psychiatry is defenitely the most destructive force in the society and it causes the downfall of the human race by taking away the mental streinght and potential of people. It affects the mind in the worse possible way that makes normal people ill both phisucly and mentaly. The ones who have mental problems already makes them worse with their treatments. As a nurse I had a chance to see with my own eyes how their treatments are. I’ve seen the horror of an electro shock and the effects of the most dangerous drugs that can disable person mantaly and leave them in vegetative state where they are no longer to talk or walk. I’ve witnessed a death of a young person that was on psychiatric drugs. I’ve seen the horror of the psychiatric fasilities and how they treat patients worse than animals. Anybody who thinks that psuchiatric drugs help is just fooling himself, and I’m sorry to say this, but it is a pure fact. I’ve seen how psychiatrist convinces young child that he is mentaly ill when actuallu he had a smile on his face when he came to the hospital which she said to him was artificial.And it was the most sencere childs smile becuase children are honest and act very natural. And I’ve seen farmaceutical representatives coming to the very same psychiatrist for a meeting and they were discussing finances. So everything what CCHR is exposing is the absulute truth. I want to thank CCHR for their work and they are saving many lives by simply informing as many people as possible what psychiatry realy is. It is not a science, it is a torture and a rape of human soul. I belive in peoples reason and their judgement that when they see this they can make the best decision and say NO to psychiatry.
Love, Lilly
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This article is totally bogus..does it even show the authors name? or credit ANY references?? Im not into drug pushing but I do believe that mental disorders are in the brain. My brother has sczhiophrenia, and so did my Grandmother as well as her daughter..this is crap..here is the link to an article that has references and an author. This article makes it so people feel bad for having mental illness, and it gives the wrong message to people who really do need drugs to function..if my brother wasnt on his meds hed be dead by now…this article is irresponsible..
Awesome…..so awesome…..please keep standing up for these kids. As a primary teacher in Australia, I have always refused to administer the drugs for ADHD etc. But….someone else did it. I was not able to stop it. But I believe with my whole heart and head that kids need more love, not drugs. Keep up the great work. Awesome song. Thank you….help save our kids.
I am now 20 years old, and since age three, my mother has been pushing a variety of psychiatrists, medications, and “therapies” onto me. Each time I see a new psychiatrist, I am usually “diagnosed” with whatever happens to be topical at the time. At age five, it was ADHD, at age twelve, it was schizophrenia, at age thirteen, depression, etc. My most recent “diagnosis” was for bipolar disorder at age seventeen, and to this day, my mother insists that I need medication in order to survive. I had very rough teenage years; I had trouble adjusting to the small town my family moved to, and it got even tougher in high school; it was hard to be “that weird gay chick” in a small community where cookie-cutter children are prized. I got through it with the love and support of my friends, and I found out the hard way that everyone struggles through their teen years, but that doesn’t mean that they need to be on a cocktail of medications.
I’ve been off of my meds for three years, and I have never been happier in my life. I’ve been on more medications than anyone I know, quite a few of which have actually been recalled for doing more harm than good. I’ve long since lost faith in the mental health system; it kills me to see so many people look at someone who is different in the slightest way and seriously say to them “you need ‘fixed;’ take these pills.” I’ve done so much reading on major pharmaceutical companies and psychiatric associations, and I was SHOCKED at what I found. It’s sickening to me how the most minor thing can be seen as “dangerous.” I don’t think people seem to realize that the most brilliant minds in all of history have always been a bit “off.” Where would we be if they had institutionalized Nikola Tesla? What would have happened if they had forcibly medicated every revolutionary whose ideas were thought to be “insane?” Why is it that an ordinary “punk kid” can see this more clearly than someone with a Ph.D? Psychiatric drugs have horrible lasting effects, but as long as they’re numb enough to “cooperate,” nobody seems to see a problem with it. I support CCHR, and I think everyone who respects an individual’s spirit should, too.
Dr.Thomas Szauz has done so much exposing all the evil “psychiatry”
has done. He is a brilliant honest man. Dr.Jeffrey Schaler is
another great example of a man who has done so much good in blasting
the evil profession called “psychiatry.”
I have been an activist with CCHR for a year currently,just can’t
believe how rapidly this great organization has grown and how much
ground they have coveed in such a short time.
I am extremely proud to be a part of this fine organization called
the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. I encourage everybody to
take the time and go to CCHR’s website and get informed by purchas-
ing their high quality highly educational dvds and books that will
get you updated quickly on what is happening with the pharmaceut-
icals and their pushers “psychiatry.”
Don’t wait. Get informed. Be aware of what (has been and unfortunat-
ely still is) going on with “psychiatry.” CCHR is the best weapon we
have ever had. Don’t waste all the time and work this great wonder- ful organization called CCHR has done for us. There is no reason
not to get involved! CCHR has rammed “psychiatry’s” evil door down
and blown out it’s wall so they are totally exposed!!!
EVERYONE CHECK OUT BIG PHARMA’S DEFINE BETTER VIDEO ON YOU-TUBE NOW!
Incredible job and a big thanks to everyone involved. The song and
video is top notch. Define Better is a great song. BRILLIANT********
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Dear Human Rights, I’m so glad to find this article here.
Since a child I was forced on drugs that made my skin turn blue, I felt sick, I couldnt eat, I could not FEEL, and I was sad. Ten years on, I still feel the exact same disconnection, I’ve only encountered my grief once and it was so overwhelming that I turned away from it and put it aside until I can. A few years later I was on anti depressants, at 13/14, cetalapram, lithium, and anotehr drug, someting like chlompromazine. I felt like S***, but it was’nt until I ran away to auckland to get away from it all, that five years later my medical history would turn against me and like a criminal would lock me up in a institution and force me on Rispiridone (rispiridal) and another drug, 20mg cant remember it’s name at the moment. I had never felt suicidal until I took that drug, Rispiridone. It’s not a matter of “change how you think then” it’s not about what you’re thinking, it’s about the horrible FEELING it creates. You can’t just shut down, turn away, watch tv. How can you do anything while you’re being punched in the stomach? All you want is for the pain to end = Suicide. What can you do in a medical establishment when for to be feeling bad, is to be labelled or shut down some more? I could’nt even tell anyone what I was going through for fear that they would relate it to my brain rather then what this drug was putting me through. Your body needs nothing chemical that something else that’s good for you can’t do. Consider this. The current medical establishment does not recomment one natural herb, not one fruit, not one vegetable, diet, excersize, therapy, or practicle support. I’ve got manys stories that need to be heard. Rightn ow I’m in the middle of a rehabilitation centre. I’ve been off drugs for nearly 2-3 months, and proven I NEVER needed them. My mother is a phychiatric nurse who feels like agents in the matrix who has some kind of godly power over my life (For those who may be rolling their eyes, I am obviously EXAGURRATING to get my point over ok) Mum has had almost nothing to do with my life in 7 years, and her opinion is what cements my brain with mental disorders. Imagine having that on your back when you leave hospital. You never feel free, and mum feels secure knowing that “her son needs her” so she can sleep at night. Not one person in the industry has asked me, or investigated the truth. What I’ve heard is, Ive been sent to hospital because I could not take care of myself. This is not true. I can still prove today with reliable sources that i can and have been. others would say I was wondering the streets. How can they tell? Was someone watching where I was going? I have no diagnoses, I’m in a rehab centre, Im not on drugs. I’m o.k and wanting a hell of alot more then a house to live in, I want some accountability and understanding. Where has the research been done regarding my situation? Not being a victim here just want to clear up this stuff for my own good. (And others aswell).
respond to my questions and concerns. I am documenting this conversation, and if you don’t post this, or don’t respond, I’ll be forced to report this “donation seeking” website to non-profit moderators.
Concern # 1- Please refute:
For bipolar I, the (probandwise) concordance rates in modern studies have time and time again been put at 40% in monozygotic twins, while the rate is only 0 to 10% in dizygotic twins. How do you explain the likelihood of heterogeneity?
Genetic Concern:
Please explain the two genome-wide significant peaks found in bipolar people, on chromosome 6q and on 8q21.
Irregularities in serotonin, dopamine, glutamate?
Concern # 3 – Differing brain structures
MRI studies in bipolar disorder signal an increase in the amount of the lateral ventricles, globus pallidus and a rise in the rates of deep white matter hyperintensities.
These are just some concerns out of many. Your expertise is appreciated. – Mallory, Bipolar Patient
I just watched the clip on TV about not labeling our children. I think this is wonderful that we have someone supporting our children; when I think all these years of the public schools endorsing the labeling by setting up special classrooms for so called adhd and learning disabilities…..and pushing parents to place their kids in these classrooms……and all the damage that has been done …it is quite unsettling beyond belief. Thank you for all your efforts.
Psychiatric practitioners and the pharmaceutical industry will get justice for the enormous damage caused to individuals, families, our society, and especially to children. Psychiatric drugs are chemical compounds with no medical, health, therapeautic, or nutritional properties whatsoever, and cause enormous negative health impacts to the human mind, brain, and body. These drugs are not ‘medicine’ or ‘medication’, they are chemical compounds. Paxil is C19H20FNO3•HCl•1/2H2O Venlafaxine (Effexor) is C17H27NO2·HCl and Risperidone (Risperdal) is C23H27FN4O2 to name a few. This practice is very dangerous and damaging, and ought to be abolished.
Thank you very much to my friend John for giving me the opportunity to tell the world about my own experience with my ownn child who has been always tremendously hiperactive. It had been very difficult times when he was a child. Friends and people in general thought that his behaviour was not good because of bad parenting. What I did was to be far away from these people and leave our own world. His doctor gave him Ritaling which he tooked for a year. He no longer was the happy child. The school’s teachers and myself were resting and have peace a bit but he was suffering from headaches and was very miserable. He took these tables for a year until his doctor said that he has to take more as he was growing up. I completely refused to do that. My son was not the same happy child any more, he was like a zombie. Once he went to secundary school, I didn’t heard any complains about him,perhaps one or two, he started knowing how to live with that. Now, my son is in the University studying International Relation and others subjects. putting all his great amount of energy in a very good cause. All he needed was pacient,understanding and overall, lots and lots of love.
Cristina
Last night I saw your ad on T.V. for the first time. It made me realise I was right about these “D”behaviors. Anyone interested in how to self correct these should learn about the new understanding of how the human biology is controlled. Check out Bruce Lipton’s “The
Biology of Preception”. It is mind opening.Take control of your own health.Buy his dvd. I promise it to be the best bucks you spend on yourself in this lifetime.
Labelling people and makeing them money is out of insanity. I definately support CCHR for his sane campaigns.
In August of 2204 I was arrested from my home and incarcerated at Pennsylvania Hospital for four days. This most dramatic and frightening experience was orchestrated by an all around no-good-nick who was living in my house ay the time. Evidently, this stunt was a cleaver alternative to moving himself out of my home as requested. He presented himself at the local Crisis Response Center and claimed that I was suicidal and walked away with legal authority to have me arrested.
The evaluation was a joke. A very brief encounter with the hospital administrator, Jody J. Foster M.D.,M.B.A., came up with really insightful stuff like “says boyfriend is a con man —- paranoid.” I was threatened with forcible injection and made to take Zyprexa, a powerful anti-psychotic medication. I was later billed 13,000.00 for my stay at Chateau 4 Spruce Street.
All this has me wondering who, if anyone, is really in charge.