Top APA Psychiatrist Needs Lesson in Disease vs. Disorder
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The President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), psychiatrist Nada Stotland, obviously needs a bit of a lesson on the difference between a disease and a “mental disorder,” given her recent comments. Diseases can be confirmed by medical/scientific tests. Mental disorders are simply checklists of behaviors.
Mental health experts on psychiatry, psychiatric drugs and invented mental “disease”.
Green Mental Health: An Alternative to Toxic Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatry’s solution to life’s problems is the administration of mind-altering toxic drugs which according to the FDA can cause mania, worsening depression, anxiety, delusions, seizures, liver failure, suicide, mania, heart attack, stroke, fatal blood clots, sudden death, diabetes and much more. Green Mental Health Care is a non-toxic, non-additive and non-invasive approach to mental health which focuses on workable medical, not psychiatric, solutions that have better patient outcomes and are not harmful or toxic to those seeking help…
Dr. Hyla Cass: First Do No Harm
Psychiatrist Hyla Cass describes how most psychiatrists simply label patients mentally ill based solely on symptoms and put them on dangerous and addictive drugs, instead of doing complete physical examinations to find and treat underlying medical conditions which can manifest as psychiatric symptoms.
What’s Wrong with Psychiatry? A Psychiatrist Explains…
Dr. Niall McLaren, a practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, explains what is wrong with the psychiatric profession: That this is an industry which cannot take criticism, for fear the entire model of biological psychiatry will unravel.
That there is no science to psychiatric diagnoses, no brain based diseases. And that psychiatry only pushes mental disorders as biological disease in order to convince people to take psychiatric drugs, causing a host of dangerous side effects.
Ron Paul’s Parental Consent Act of 2009
Kent Snyder, Presidential Campaign Manager for Ron Paul 2008 and former Executive Director of the Liberty Committee discusses the federal plan to screen all US schoolchildren for mental disorders and how Congressman Ron Paul introduced the Parental Consent Act to counter this Orwellian plan which lead to more US children diagnosed with subjective mental disorders and put on psychiatric drugs.
Psychiatry & Politics with G. Edward Griffin
G. Edward Griffin, political lecturer & author of critically acclaimed book about the Federal Reserve, The Creature from Jekyll Island discusses how psychiatry merges with politics to eliminate political dissent.
Whistleblower Allen Jones/Mental health screening of kids
Whistleblower Allen Jones gained international press coverage after uncovering pharmaceutical industry payments to government officials for the purpose of implementing a national mental health screening/psychotropic drug treatment plan. In this video interview, Jones describes the pharma funding and psycho/pharma agenda behind mental health “screening” of schoolchildren. He is a former investigator for the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General.
The CIA Doctors: Psychiatry & Mind Control
Psychiatrist Colin Ross, author of The CIA Doctors and Military Mind Control describes the longstanding relationship between intelligence agencies, the military, psychiatry and psychology in Mind Control experiments on unwitting subjects, including use of LSD, psychiatric drugs, radiation, brain electrode implants, hypnosis, verified through government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Shane Ellison, award-winning chemist and former pharmaceutical scientist
Shane Ellison has a masters degree in organic chemistry and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his studies in biochemistry and physiology. Here Shane exposes the inner workings of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and marketing of psychiatric drugs and the fact that the psycho/pharma industry is well aware their drugs do not cure anyone. He previously worked for both Array BioPharma and Eli Lilly.
Dr. Mary Ann Block, Medical director of the Block Center, is an outspoken critic of children being diagnosed ADHD and put on drugs documented to cause tics, stunted growth, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. She describes how parents are being misinformed about the medical legitimacy of ADHD and the dangers of the drugs being prescribed to treat children. She encourages parents to have their child given a full medical examination to find underlying medical problems that are being misdiagnosed as a mental disorder.
Depression Test Puts Kids’ Health at Risk
Mental health screening is a tool of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, used as a feeder line to get more kids and adults on drugs. “Depression Screening Day” was created by Signs Of Suicide, a group receiving millions in Pharma funding. See www.signsofsuicide.org/ for the documents.
Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
CCHR’s co-founder, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Dr. Thomas Szasz, has been challenging his own profession for decades, calling psychiatry a “pseudoscience.” According to Edwin Shurr of the Atlantic Monthly, Szasz has probably “…done more than any other man to alert the American public to the potential dangers of an excessively psychiatrized society.”
Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
Dr. Jeffrey Schaler’s speech on psychiatry upon accepting the Thomas S. Szasz Award at CCHR International’s Anniversary and Human Rights Awards Ceremony.
Videos about the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and diagnostic fraud.
Top APA Psychiatrist Needs Lesson in Disease vs. Disorder
The President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), psychiatrist Nada Stotland, obviously needs a bit of a lesson on the difference between a disease and a “mental disorder,” given her recent comments. Diseases can be confirmed by medical/scientific tests. Mental disorders are simply checklists of behaviors.
Psychiatry: No Science, No Cures
Psychiatrists openly admitting at an American Psychiatric Association conference that they have no scientific tests to show mental “illnesses” are biological or physical diseases, and that they have no cures for these unproven mental illnesses.
The DSM: Inventing Mental Illness
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is made up, it is fiction, it is fabricated by psychiatrists. Members of a panel vote on what goes into it, then they immediately start calling them “diseases”. This is fraud.
The Difference Between a Medical Disease and a Psychiatric Disorder
This video shows the difference between a physical disease and a psychiatric mental “disorder”.
Few people aren’t affected in some way by psychiatric drugs in society—be it a family member, friend or co-worker, or just from the news of another act of violence tied to psychiatric drugs. Find out more about psychiatric drugs in the videos below.
Psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants, have serious, life threatening side effects and patient’s are rarely warned about the full risks of the drugs. International drug regulatory agencies including the U.S. FDA warn that these drugs can and do cause worsening depression, mania, aggression, psychosis, depersonalization, diabetes, hallucinations, suicidal and homicidal thoughts, heart attack, stroke and sudden death.
The Psycho Pharmaceutical Industry with former Pharma Scientist
Shane Ellison has a masters degree in organic chemistry and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his studies in biochemistry and physiology. Here Shane exposes the inner workings of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and marketing of psychiatric drugs and the fact that the psycho/pharma industry is well aware their drugs do not cure anyone. He previously worked for both Array BioPharma and Eli Lilly.
Dr. Mary Ann Block, Medical director of the Block Center, is an outspoken critic of children being diagnosed ADHD and put on drugs documented to cause tics, stunted growth, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. She describes how parents are being misinformed about the medical legitimacy of ADHD and the dangers of the drugs being prescribed to treat children. She encourages parents to have their child given a full medical examination to find underlying medical problems that are being misdiagnosed as a mental disorder.
Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine
For the first time the side effects of psychiatric drugs that have been reported to the FDA have been decrypted and been made available to the public in an easy to search psychiatric drug side effects database and search engine.
Drug Ad Parody: Tripolar Disorder
Parody: What the antidepressant drug commericals should show as these are FDA documented side effects of antidepressants.
20 million children are currently taking psychiatric drugs documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause heart attacks, strokes, mania, violence, psychosis, sudden death and suicide.
Families who were never warned of the risks and suffered tremendous loss are fighting back to help save other children’s lives.
Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging
The trailer for CCHR’s award-winning documentary Making a Killing. Examining the controversy surrounding psychiatric drugs, the film features interviews with scores of mental health experts, patients and family members and provides consumers with vital facts. The film has been honored with a Silver Telly Award, an Accolade Award for Best of Show and two Communicator Awards of Distinction.
A Warning on Antidepressants for Pregnant/Nursing Women
This is the story of a mother who took an antidepressant while pregnant, and was never warned of the risks or the fact that thousands of reports of infant deaths and birth defects have been reported to the FDA for pregnant and nursing mothers taking psychiatric drugs.
Psychiatry’s Prescription for Violence — teaser
Is there a link between the rise of senseless violence and school shootings in society and psychiatric drugs? Watch this trailer for CCHR’s 11-minute documentary, Psychiatry’s Prescription for Violence
1991 FDA Hearing with Testimony
As far back as 1991 CCHR was exposing the fact that antidepressants can cause suicide and violence. It would take 13 years for the FDA to finally admit this was true, and issued the agencies strongest warning, the “black box”, in 2004.
May 30, 1991:”Prozac (fluoxetine) had the highest number of adverse event reports submitted to the FDA National Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting System database. The database dates back to 1969.”
Alan Gelberg, Acting Chief, Surveillance and Data Processing Branch, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
September 20, 1991:
The Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee Hearing
CCHR’s Public Service Announcements.
Antidepressants and Child Suicides – “Home Movie”
Antidepressants have been documented by the FDA and international drug regulatory agencies to cause suicide, mania, psychosis and violence. Parents are frequently not warned about the drug risks.
Psychiatric Drugs and Child Suicides – “Matt”
The FDA issued black box warnings in 2004 that antidepressants can cause suicide in children and adolescents. The FDA also reports antidepressants have side effects including mania, psychosis, hostility, depersonalization, worsening depression and more. Parents are not being completely informed of these documented risks.
Psychiatric Drugs and Child Suicides – “Jacob”
The FDA issued black box warnings in 2004 that antidepressants can cause suicide in children and adolescents. The FDA also reports antidepressants have side effects including mania, psychosis, hostility, depersonalization, worsening depression and more. Parents are not being completely informed of these documented risks.
Psychiatric Drugs and Violence – “Office Visit”
A warning about the documented risks of psychiatric drugs and violence (international drug regulators cite mania, psychosis, suicide, depersonalization and homicidal ideation for antidepressant drugs). These drugs also have an FDA blackbox warning on suicidality.
Antidepressants and Child Suicides – “Prescription”
A PSA on the issue of psychiatric drugs (particularly antidepressants) and suicide. The FDA issued black box warnings on antidepressants for child suicides in 2004.
We’ve compiled some of our favorite videos here from news sources, documentary filmmakers and Youtube producers who are addressing these same topics.
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This compelling documentary chronicles an unprecedented change in Western culture: drugging children with dangerous psychiatric medications.
Psychiatry is fake science. The “Thud” Experiment proof
The enthralling account of psychiatrist David Rosenhan’s experiment showing how easily a perfectly normal and health person could be committed into a psychiatric institution, and what happened when the embarrassed psychiatrists challenged Rosenhan to try it again.
Douglas Kennedy appears on Hannity’s America, and reports that psychiatric treatment not only doesn’t work, but continues to be linked to acts of violence and suicide. If you’re concerned about the increase in societal and teen violence, this video is a must-watch.
Despondex: For the “annoyingly cheerful.” Brilliant satire. And check out the pharmaceutical industry guy—a fantastic characterization.
You’ve probably seen the little bouncing ball drug ad. But you may not have seen THIS version… “Zolift is not right for everyone, including humans and people.”
Fox News and Douglas Kennedy on the lies of Pharmaceutical Companies
Fox News Big Story with Douglas Kennedy on how Big Pharma leaves out the bad studies and downplays the nasty side effects of their highly addictive drugs.
A pink pill, and a yellow pill and a green pill — a musical parody from a therapist who was inspired, as he puts it, by his “experience as a therapist and the horrors that I’ve seen from psych drugs.”
FOX News and Douglas Kennedy: Lilly pays $1.42 billion in Zyprexa lawsuit
FOX News’ Douglas Kennedy reports how Eli Lilly’s greedy marketing efforts cost it in a $1.42 billion lawsuit.
Another great Zoloft ad parody, by MadTV.
Reckless Tortuga – Censorship PSA
A hilarious “PSA,” about censorship, with true information about the The Mothers Act issue.
Dr John Rengen Virapen, Whistleblower of the Psychopathic Pharmaceutical Industry, Speaks Out
Dr John Rengen Virapen is a former scientist who after 35 years of work in the pharmaceutical industry (Eli Lilly) has left it to warn the public of the nefarious dealings and motives of the pharmaceutical industry.
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