Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Psychiatry Psells Psickness; Psychindustry Psychobabble Psucks! Don't Psell Your Psoul To Psychiatry!

Hello again. I have been on youtube a lot, paying particular attention to mental illness videos and history of psychiatry. There is a long and shameful history of psychiatry about which most laypeople are totally unaware. Did you ever see "One flew over the cuckoo's nest"? There is a lot of truth to that story. Psychiatry's systematic approach to mental illness is to first put a label on you, then medicate you indefinitely. From what I have been reading, the DSM-IV (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, edition 4, the psychiatric diagnostic "bible,") is updated with new "disorders" by consensus of majority of psychiatrists, rather than medical testing or other scientifically verifiable methods. To date, this manual contains 374 listed "disorders." These updates allow psychiatrists to first create diagnoses w/billing codes, then prescribe medications for these fictional disorders to unsuspecting patients, even innocent children as young as 2 years old. All of the available psychotropic medications have serious and even grave side-effects. There are many reasons for mental illnesses besides what we're told, including thyroid abnormalities, post-surgical and post-partum stresses, childhood abuses, and nutritional deficiencies, as well as lyme disease. Current laws allow people to be locked up against their will, medicated, injected, shackled, humiliated, electric-shocked, and even surgically treated at the whim of the treating psychiatrist. Right now, in the UK, there is a woman who is being treated with electric shock against her will. This is an outrageous violation of her civil rights. She is begging and pleading for them not to do this, even though it's never been proven beneficial, and has been proven harmful, causing irreversible damage to the memory. Current law allows for them to do it, with the permission of her husband, which he has given. She has no say over treatment which will ultimately affect her permanently. Finally, many of these medications have been shown to actually cause other mental illnesses besides the one you were originally diagnosed with. Example: anti-depressant medication, given to treat unipolar depression, can actually cause your mind to go to a manic state, thereby inducing what is called "bipolar disorder." This is what I believe happened in my own case. This is all I have for now; I promise to publish more of my thoughts very soon. Ciao, Redlisab