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Interview with Peter Breggin, MD,
a psychiatrist denouncing the psychiatric profession and
psychotropics, articulating the futility of DNA and
amino tests etc. Dr Breggin is one of many neuropharmacologists,
psychologists, psychiatrists exposing this fraud.







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America’s mental illness epidemic: It turns out that the drugs are the problem
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
Online Journal Contributing Writer

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Tens of millions of innocent, unsuspecting Americans, who are mired deeply in the mental “health” system, have actually been made crazy by the use of or the withdrawal from commonly-prescribed, brain-altering, brain-disabling, indeed brain-damaging psychiatric drugs that have been, for many decades, cavalierly handed out like candy -- often in untested and therefore unapproved combinations of drugs -- to trusting and unaware patients by equally unaware but well-intentioned physicians who have been under the mesmerizing influence of slick and obscenely profitable psychopharmaceutical drug companies, a.k.a. BigPharma.

That is the conclusion of two books by investigative journalist and health science writer Robert Whitaker. His first book, entitled Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill noted that there has been a 600 percent increase (since Thorazine was introduced in the US in the mid-1950s) in the total and permanent disabilities of millions of psychiatric drug-takers. This uniquely First World mental ill health epidemic has resulted in the life-long taxpayer-supported disabilities of rapidly increasing numbers of psychiatric patients who are now unable to be happy, productive, taxpaying members of society. Whitaker has done a powerful, albeit unwelcome job of presenting previously hidden, but very convincing evidence to support his thesis, that it is the drugs and not the diagnosis that is causing the epidemic of mental illness disability. Many open-minded physicians and many aware psychiatric patients are now motivated to be wary of any and all synthetic chemicals that can cross the blood/brain barrier because all of them are capable of altering the brain in ways totally unknown to medical science, especially when the patients are taking the drugs long-term. .

In Whitaker’s second book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, he goes much further in advancing this sobering reality. He documents the history of the powerful forces behind the relatively new field of psychopharmacology and its major shaper and beneficiary, BigPharma. Psychiatric drugs, whose developers, marketers and salespersons are all in the employ of the giant drug companies, are far more dangerous than the drug and psychiatric industries are willing to admit: These drugs, it turns our, are fully capable of disabling -- often permanently -- body, brain and spirit.

More evidence to support Whitaker’s well-documented claims are laid out in two important new books written by psychiatrist and scholar Grace Jackson. Jackson did a beautiful job of researching and documenting, from the voluminous basic neuroscience research (which is uniformly ignored by the clinical sciences) the unintended and often disastrous consequences of the chronic ingestion of any of the five major classes of psychiatric drugs. Her second and most powerful book: Drug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, that any of the five classes of drugs that are commonly used in psychiatric patients (antidepressants, antipsychotics, psychostimulants, tranquilizers and anti-seizure/”mood-stabilizer” drugs) have shown microscopic, macroscopic, biochemical, clinical and/or radiological evidence of brain shrinkage and other signs of brain damage, which can result in clinically-diagnosable, permanent dementia, premature death and a variety of other related brain disorders that can mimic mental illnesses. Jackson’s first book, Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Informed Consent was an equally sobering book warning about the many hidden dangers of psychiatric drugs.

This sad truth is that the seemingly knee-jerk prescribing (without very much information being given to patients about the long list of serious long-term adverse effects) of potent and often addicting/dependency-inducing psychiatric drugs has become the standard of care in American psychiatry since the introduction of the so-called anti-schizophrenic “miracle” drug Thorazine in the mid-1950s. (Thorazine was the offending drug that all of Jack Nicholson’s fellow patients were coerced into taking at “medication time” in the Academy Award-winning movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”) Thorazine and all the other “me-too” early antipsychotic drugs are now universally known to have been an iatrogenic (= doctor or other treatment-caused) disaster because of their serious long-term, initially unsuspected, brain-damaging effects that resulted in a number of incurable neurological disorders such as tardive dyskinesia and Parkinson’s disease.

Thorazine and all the other knock-off drugs like Prolixin, Mellaril, Navane, etc., are synthetic “tricyclic” chemical compounds similar in molecular structure to the tricyclic “antidepressants” like imipramine and the similarly toxic, obesity-inducing, diabetogenic, “atypical” anti-schizophrenic drugs like Clozaril, Zyprexa and Seroquel.

Thorazine, incidentally, was originally developed in Europe as an industrial dye. That doesn’t sound so good although it may not be so unusual in the closely related fields of psychopharmcology and the chemical industry, especially when one considers that Depakote, a popular drug marketed initially as an anti-epilepsy drug but now is being heavily used as a so-called “mood stabilizer.” Depakote, known to be a hepatotoxin and renal toxin, was originally developed as an industrial solvent capable of dissolving fat -- including, presumably, the fatty tissue in human livers and brains.

Some sympathy and understanding needs to be generated for the various victims of BigPharma’s compulsive drive to expand market share and ”shareholder value” (share price, dividends and the next quarter’s financial report) by whatever means necessary. Both the prescribers and the swallowers of BigPharma’s drugs have succumbed to BigPharma’s cunning marketing campaigns, the prescribers having been seduced by attractive drug company representatives and their “pens, pizzas and post-it note” freebies in the office, and the patients being brain-washed by the inane and unbelievable (if one has intact critical thinking skills) commercials on TV that quickly gloss over the lethal adverse effects in the fine print while urging the watcher to “ask your doctor” about the latest unaffordable wannabe blockbuster drug. .

For a quick overview of these issues, I recommend that everybody with an open mind read a long essay written by Whitaker that persuasively identifies the source of America’s epidemic of mental illness disability (a phenomenon that doesn’t exist in Third World nations because costly psych drugs are not prescribed so cavalierly as in the US).

Whitaker and Jackson (among a number of other ground-breaking and whistle-blowing authors who have been essentially black-listed by the mainstream media and mainstream medical journals) have proven to most critically-thinking scientists, alternative practitioners and assorted “psychiatric survivors” that it is the drugs -- and not the so-called “disorders” -- that are causing our nation’s epidemic of mental illness disability. The Whitaker essay, plus other pertinent information about his books can be accessed at Mad In America. A recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio can be accessed at www.wpr.org (at their radio archives link) and a long interview with Dr.Joseph Mercola can be heard here.

After reading and studying all these inconvenient truths, mental health practitioners must consider the medicolegal implications for them, especially if the information is ignored or if the information is dismissed out of hand by practitioners who might be tempted to not take the time to study this new information. Those people who are hearing about this for the first time need to pass the word on to others, especially their prescribing healthcare practitioners who should be equally concerned. This is important because the opinion leaders in the highly influential (for good or ill) psychiatric and medical industries have been marketed into submission without hearing the all the facts (which may have been intentionally hidden from them. If that is the case, they cannot be automatically blamed for. proceeding in a practice that some day might represent malpractice. It shouldn’t have to be pointed out that is the solemn duty of ethical practitioners who are in positions of authority to fully examine potential malpractice issues and then warn others, especially their patients, of the dangers.

Sadly, it must be admitted that most of the over-worked, double-booked care-givers in medical clinics have not yet heard the news that most if not all of the brain-altering synthetic chemicals known as psychotropic drugs (which are treated as hazardous waste unless they are packaged in a swallowable capsule!) have been marketed as safe and effective -- but only for short-term use. The captains of the drug industry know that the psychotropic drugs that they present for the FDA-approval have only been tested in animal trials for days and in clinical trials for 6 weeks. They also know -- indeed they hope -- that patients will be taking their drugs for years (despite no long-term trials proving safety and efficacy) as the only “treatment” for mental ill health. They know that their brain-altering drugs are also dependency-inducing (aka addicting, causing withdrawal symptoms when stopped), neurotoxic and increasingly ineffective (a la “Prozac Poop-out”) as time goes by.

The truth is that the people diagnosed as “mentally ill” for life are often simply those unfortunates who find themselves in acute or chronic states of crisis or “overwhelm” due to any number of preventable, curable and treatable (without the use of drugs) bad luck accidents such as poverty, abuse, violence, torture, homelessness, discrimination, underemployment, brain malnutrition, addictions/withdrawal, brain damage from electroshock “therapy” and/or exposure to neurotoxic chemicals in their food, air, water or prescription bottles.

Those labeled as the “mentally ill” are just like us “normals” who have not yet decompensated because of some yet-to-happen, crisis-inducing, overwhelming (however temporary) life situation. And thus we have not yet been given a billable code number (accompanied by the seemingly obligatory -- and unaffordable -- drug prescription or two signifying we are now chronically mentally ill. Unlabeled, we are likely to remain off prescription drugs but with a label and in “the system,” it is hard to “just say no to drugs.”

The victims of hopelessness-generating situations like simple bad luck, bad circumstances, bad company, bad choices, bad government, big business, and a competitive society that generates a few winners but mostly losers. America tolerates, indeed celebrates, punitive and thus fear-inducing social systems resembling in many ways the infamous police state realities of 20th century European totalitarianism, where people who were different or just dissidents were thought to be abnormal and therefore “disappeared” into insane asylums, jails or concentration camps without just cause or competent legal defense. And many of them were and are drugged with disabling psychoactive chemicals against their will.

The truth is that most, if not all, of BigPharma’s psychotropic drugs are lethal at some dosage level (the LD50, the lethal dose that kills 50 percent of lab animals, is calculated before efficacy testing is done), and therefore the drugs must be regarded as dangerous. The chronic use of these drugs is a major cause of cognitive disorders, brain damage, loss of creativity, loss of spirituality, loss of empathy, loss of energy, loss of strength, fatigue and tiredness, permanent disability and a multitude of metabolic adverse effects that can readily sicken the body, brain and soul by causing insomnia or somnolence, increased depression or anxiety, delusions, psychoses, paranoia, mania, etc. So before filling the prescription, it is advisable to read the product insert labeling under WARNINGS, PRECAUTIONS, ADVERSE EFFECTS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, TOXICOLOGY, OVERDOSAGE and the ever-present BLACK BOX WARNINGS ABOUT SUICIDALITY.

Long-term, high dosage or combination psychotropic drug usage could be regarded as a chemically traumatic brain injury (TBI) or, as drugs like Thorazine were known in the 1950s and 60s, a “chemical lobotomy.” That is a useful way to conceptualize this serious issue, because such chemically brain-altered patients are often indistinguishable from those who have suffered a physically traumatic brain injuries or been subjected to ice-pick lobotomies which were popular in the 1940s and 50s -- before the drugs came on the market.

America has a mental ill health epidemic on its hands that is grossly misunderstood because it is worsening, not by the supposed disease progression, but because of the neurotoxic, non-curative drugs that are somehow regarded as first-line “treatment.”

For more information of these extremely serious topics check out these websites: www.mindfreedom.org, www.breggin.com, www.icspp.org, www.cchr.org, www.drugawareness.org, www.psychrights.org, www.benzo.org.uk, www.quitpaxil, org, www.wildscolts.com, www.endofshock.com, www.mercola.com and www.madinamerica.com and follow the links.

Dr. Kohls is a family physician who, until his retirement in 2008, practiced holistic mental health care. His patients came to see him asking for help in getting off the psychotropic drugs that they knew were sickening and disabling them. He was successful in helping significant majorities of his patients get off their drugs using a thorough and therefore time-consuming program that was based on psychoeducational psychotherapy, brain nutrient therapy, a drastic change away from the malnourishing and often toxic Standard American Diet (SAD) plus a program of gradual, closely monitored drug withdrawal. Dr. Kohls warns against the abrupt discontinuation of any psychiatric drug because of the common, often serious withdrawal symptoms that can occur with the chronic use of any dependency-inducing psychoactive drug, whether illicit or legal. Close consultation with an aware, informed physician who is hopefully familiar with dealing with drug withdrawal syndromes (starting with the original prescribing physician), who will read and study the above books and become aware of the previously unknown dangers of these drugs and the nutritional needs of the drug-toxified and nutritionally-depleted brain.
Dr. Kohls is a member of MindFreedom International and the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. He is the editor of the occasional Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter.


Vids on Fox News and ABC News about the futility and addiction of so called anti-depressants and pain killers.

http://wn.com/Dangers_Of_Antidepressants_Suppressed_Fox_News

Pyschotropics DO NOT WORK

Sorry about the rant here, but I have seen what those drugs have done to my dearest and closest .... :-@! I have the full report in PDF format for those who want it, just send me a PM.

Psychiatric drugs & suicide in Sweden 2007
A report based on data from the
National Board of Health and Welfare
By Janne Larsson

The purpose of this investigation has been to find data about the preceding psychopharmacological treatment for all persons who committed suicide in Sweden 2007.

The conclusion is that a large percentage of the persons who committed suicide in Sweden in 2007 had received extensive treatment with psychiatric drugs within a year of and close to the suicide.

This is a report about suicides committed in Sweden (with around 9 million citizens) in 2007 and the psychiatric drug treatment that preceded these suicides.

The report has three main parts:

• It gives unique data about all suicides committed in 2007 and the psychiatric
drugs that the persons received within a year of the suicide.

• It compares these data with autopsy reports about psychiatric drugs found in
the blood (of 98%) of all the persons who committed suicide in 2007.

• It gives extensive information about the psychiatric drug treatment given
within a year to the subgroup of persons who committed suicide in 2007 and
then were reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare by reason of
law 3 - one third of all suicides committed that year.

The data presented on these pages should have been published by the responsible national authorities.

A large percentage of the persons who committed suicide in Sweden in 2007 had received extensive treatment with psychiatric drugs within a year of their suicide.

The idea that persons who are depressed are suffering from “chemical imbalances” and are deficient in the substance serotonin has been marketed by the pharmaceutical companies selling antidepressants (in the class SSRI, such as Prozac, Paxil/Seroxat, Zoloft) for more than a decade.

The intensive marketing has led persons to believe that their low mood is a deficiency disease – and that it is vital to supply the substance that corrects this deficiency – the antidepressant drug.

But there is no scientific evidence that a low mood is caused by a ”chemical imbalance” in the brain 10 11. The hypothesis has been rejected with the following words by one of the most well known names in the field: “The serotonin theory of depression is comparable to the masturbatory theory of insanity.” 12 (The old theory that masturbation caused insanity.)

The Swedish medical agencies and their psychiatric consultants have used old data from forensic toxicological screenings to mislead the public and to heavily increase the use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs.

The most important information in this area is the patients’ medical history, the treatment history. Antidepressants, neuroleptics and other psychiatric drugs may cause harmful changes in the brain and these brain dysfunctions do not vanish when the drugs are discontinued – in many cases they cause chronic dysfunction to the brain, exemplified by the known neurological harm caused by neuroleptics. Many patients also get serious withdrawal reactions; reactions that can be so severe that they can lead to suicide.

Better sources of information are the unpublished clinical trials of psychiatric drugs done by pharmaceutical companies, and the important studies done by independent researchers.

A number of these studies show that antidepressants and neuroleptics increase the risk of suicidal behaviour and directly cause effects that lead to suicide.

Considering the results presented in this report, it is no longer possible to say that ”more” of the same sort is the solution to the problem. It’s not “more psychiatry” – more psychiatric drugs – that is the solution. Politicians, trying to surpass each other in demanding more funds for a psychiatric industry that only means more “treatment” with psychiatric drugs, should know that they directly contribute to harming people and to the creation of more “results” of the sort presented in this report.

Subservient nodding and voting when psychiatric opinion leaders require changes in law, so that people can be drugged with force in their homes, and so that “drug treatment without exceptions” can be given for people with mental problems, only lead to an increase in the psychiatric results described earlier. This report clearly shows one thing: A large majority of persons committed suicide after having had “adequate drug treatment” – in the meaning used in psychiatry; the very treatment that should prevent suicide. There is no reason to believe that the reporting system for adverse drug events work better in other countries. The catastrophic state of these “surveillance systems” makes it possible to keep destructive drugs on the market year after year.


All it takesis for pharmaceutical companies to show that many persons have been exposed to these drugs, and that almost no adverse event reports have been submitted; the drugs must be “safe and effective”.

This example from Sweden shows that in 338 cases persons committed suicide after having been prescribed psychiatric drugs – and none of these cases were reported to the registry for adverse drug events. Instead of Eli Lilly claiming that the drug Zyprexa was involved in 0 cases of suicide in Sweden 2007, the fact was that the drug was involved in 52 cases in this subgroup of 338 persons. Instead of Wyeth claiming the same for Effexor, the fact was that the drug was involved in 41 cases in
this group.

The reporting system must be completely reformed right away. It must be made mandatory for health care professionals to directly report all suspected serious adverse drug effects, and persons not reporting must be disciplined. Patients must be fully informed about the actual harmful effects of the drugs and given the right to report these effects to the adverse events registry, with the promise of effective follow-up.

The reformed system must not give room for the now ruling psychiatric concealment ideology, where obvious harmful effects of psychiatric drugs are treated as “symptoms” requiring more drugs. Instead all these effects must be reported as suspected harmful effects from the drugs.

And, most importantly, the data presented in this report must lead to basic changes in the ways in which persons with mental problems are being cared for.

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=3660&end=3680&view=yes&id=4926#newspost

DSM-5 REVISION, FLOXIES BEWARE

Floxies and others suffering from ADRs, often develop horrific symptoms, for which there are (conveniently) no tests. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) revising Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5), proposes to psychologize behaviors such as being justifiably show "concern" "and seeking help and understanding." It will be classified under somatic disorders!!!

Medical doctors and scientists are ignorant, deaf and blind, to symptoms/sufferings arising from ADRs... Most of those symptoms are functional occurring at cellular level. Rather than admit their ignorance and fear of repercussions, they opt for slapping a psychiatric label on to floxies and others.

On a personal level, I remember the days of inexplicable frightening symptoms being reported to doctors, met with deafening silence. Yet, when strong enough to research those symptoms, it was found that those receiving chemo, were suffering the same. There is a biochemical process manifesting itself for which there is limited rational explanation for most of those syptoms, that is TOXICITY from meds and vaccines. Rarely, if iatrogenic illnesses are acknowledged.

Keep in mind that Big Pharma will not allow development of tests linking toxicity from their medicines and vaccines.

Protect yourselves, do your research, use it to "justify" your symptoms, avoid being labeled as "mentally ill." it will be used against you for the rest of your life. Keep yourselves INFORMED.

Marketing of Madness

New Additons to DSM-V are sinister. The group of psychiatrists with strong ties with the psychopharmacology industry continues to "invent" more psychiatric disorders and subtypes, such as "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" (ODD) that's for anyone with a clear, analytical mind, and their own opinion, those who are defiant of authority!!!

"Antisocial Personality Disorder" that is for someone who is difficult, spiteful, mean, manipulative or a prick, yep, that too.

When your kid throws a tantrum, he is not just throwing a tantrum, he is suffering from "Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria." There is now a "Pediatric Bipolar Disorder."

If you think about sex too often, you don't have a high healthy libido related to high testosterone, you are suffering from "Hypersexual Disorder."

Essentially, characteristics of personalities are now being turned into psychiatric disorders.

Considering side effects - Lucrative and assured income for the pharmaceutical companies.

The Wall Street Journal reports $10 billion in profits in 2009, for pharmaceutical companies selling psychotropics in the US. At this rate, it will double by end of fiscal year 2010.

Incidentally, the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) lifted the ban on pilots taking psychotropics. Some pilots will be granted waivers whist taking Prozac, Lexapro, Celexa, Zoloft and generics. http://tinyurl.com/ybn6rnc

Hum, Welcome Aboard ....

Incidentally, those who suffer from serious addictions to psychotropics, are no longer suffering from addiction. This has now been altered to a "chemical dependency." Sounds nicer. This is clever marketing ploy, making the lure of psychotropics even more attractive.

Hide your grief, or you will be labelled as being "depressive", don't be shy now, you will be labelled with "Social Anxiety Disorder", apprehension is now "Anxiety" etc..

Not labeled yet, worry not, there is a new label which might suit you, it is called the "Psychosis Risk Syndrome", for those who are strong indviduals, slightly eccentric, strong opinions. This will apply regardless of the fact, that you are NOT psychotic, delusional, or hearing voices. This new label is an extension to "Schizophrenia" mainly to identify those who are at risks of becoming "schizophrenic."

Are we so disconnected that the only way to "connect" and "belong" is by discussing which "mental illness" we suffer from (as if belonging to a special club) and which are the most effective psychotropics, how to dodge inter dosage withdrawal symptoms? It never fails to irritate me when I hear someone who is basically capricious, manipulative, high/low intensities of emotions, lacking in self control and social skills, proudly announce they suffer from "bi-polar" disorder!!! They then perpetuate this behavior by acting out what is conceived as being "bi-polar."

Wake up, Stop being fooled about brain chemical imbalances, there is NO scientific evidence to support this.

Read up and research about psychiatric labels and anti-depressants.

What you will find instead - a strong lobby of psychiatrists, conflict of interest, skewed research, scandals involving drugging of children, disgraced and corrupt psychiatrists linked with politics, coercion, compliance, submission, and greed.

We live in a dysfunctional society, there is no doubt that in order to survive, we all need to be slightly dysfunctional - nothing more ......


http://www.cchr.org/#/home (Watch "Making a Killing Video" psychiatrists tell you that psychotropics and psychiatrics labels HAVE NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS)
http://www.dsm-5diagnosis.com/
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

Have some fun with the Disease Mongering Engine:
http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-mongering-engine.asp