Real Disease vs. Mental “Disorder”

Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases. There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition. This is not to say that people do not get depressed, or that people can’t experience emotional or mental duress, but psychiatry has repackaged these emotions and behaviors as “disease” in order to sell drugs. This is a brilliant marketing campaign, but it is not science.

Psychiatric Disorders Voted Into Existence

Psychiatry’s diagnostic criteria are literally voted into existence and inserted into the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM). What is voted in is a system of classification of symptoms that is drastically different from, and foreign to, anything in medicine. None of the diagnoses are supported by objective evidence of physical disease, illness, or science.

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Psychiatry Admits It Has No Cures

“We do not know the causes [of any mental illness]. We don’t have the methods of ‘curing’ these illnesses yet.” —Dr. Rex Cowdry, psychiatrist and director of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1995

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No Brain Scans For Mental Illness

Psychiatrists claim that brain scans now show brain changes that “prove” mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and depression, are brain-based. There is no scientific evidence to prove this: it remains what the “fine print” in the studies tell you: “suggests,” “may” and “it is hoped.”

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Side Effects

Psychiatrists can’t predict what adverse side effects you might experience because not one of them knows how their drugs work.

Psychotropic drugs are increasingly being exposed as chemical toxins with the power to kill. Psychiatrists claim their drugs save lives, but according to their own studies, psychotropic drugs can double the risk of suicide.

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No Genetic Proof of Mental Illnesses

“No claim for a gene for a psychiatric condition has stood the test of time, in spite of popular misinformation.” —Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist

Of course this is crazy. No sane person could possibly see it otherwise. It is, though, how psychiatrists make a living. It’s not terribly difficult, actually. Just select a behavior, a mood, or a complaint, and attach a diagnosis to it. The only trick is to make sure that it’s listed in the psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM for short. The reason is quite simple: Each so-called disorder comes with its own special number. That number is entered into a form and sent to an insurance company. Then, like magic, money gets returned in the mail.

This is not an exaggeration. It’s exactly what happens. There is absolutely no science behind any of the DSM diagnoses. Not one shred of proof demonstrates that there’s any physical disorder of the brain behind a single diagnosis. People have experimented by going to several different psychiatrists and making the same complaint in each office. The result would be laughable, except that real people are diagnosed and drugged…and drugged and drugged…by these same shrinks every single day.

When I was first diagnosed with bipolar disease, I was already taking a unipolar antidepressant, Wellbutrin; I was taking buspar and clonazepam for anxiety; and I was taking something, I forget what, for a misdiagnosed case of OCD. My new psychiatrist didn’t drop those drugs immediately when she began adding bipolar medications. The changes she made were gradual. As I say, our brains are delicate, and you never know what small change is going to throw someone off the manic-depressive cliff.

It’s been more than a year, and we’re still working on that mix. Lamictal did nothing for me, and so I’m gradually weaning off that drug. Lithium has been a lifesaver, and I’m still on Seroquel, clonazepam, Wellbutrin, and Topamax. This is down dramatically from what I was taking in the beginning, so what I’d say is hang in there and keep expressing your desire to taper off and, if you can, take fewer drugs at some happy point in the near future. Good luck!