| Many psychiatrists have placed themselves on | | | | Fisher - Assistant Superintendent, Elgin |
| top of the pedestal as the last bastion of | | | | State Hospital - Power, Greed, and Stupidity |
| help; as experts in the field of the mind; as | | | | in the Mental Health Racket |
| those who know best when it comes to raising | | | | |
| children, fixing relationships, handling | | | | "The young and the old are defenseless |
| depression, judging sanity and insanity, | | | | against relatives who want to get rid of them |
| educational failures and so much more. They | | | | by casting them into the role of mental |
| hold degrees from higher institutions to back | | | | patient, and against psychiatrists whose |
| up these claims and they demand high hourly | | | | livelihood depends on defining them as |
| fees or are highly paid witnesses. | | | | mentally ill." - Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist ; |
| | | | Cruel Compassion, 1994 |
| Interestingly enough they hold the | | | | |
| distinction of having the highest rate of | | | | The headlines of today's newspapers tell |
| insurance fraud convictions and the highest | | | | tales of people driven to acts that can only |
| rate of suicide amongst their own ranks. A | | | | be termed insane: students who come to school |
| large number of their own families and they | | | | armed for mayhem, workers who blaze away at |
| themselves suffer from many of their own | | | | their fellows, killers stalking innocent |
| made-up diseases that they claim they can | | | | victims for no reason at all, mothers who |
| cure yet this profession still purports that | | | | kill their innocent children. |
| they can help the rest of us. | | | | |
| | | | But if these people are driven to madness, |
| MEET THE PSYCHIATRISTS. | | | | who's doing the driving? Digging deeper into |
| | | | the scene, one finds time and again evidence |
| These are the people who are driving drugs | | | | of psychiatrists hard at work, causing the |
| into the schools; who are excusing poor | | | | very insanity that they claim to be able to |
| scholastic performance under the guise of | | | | treat. Evidence: Adolf Hitler (yes... he was |
| "feel-good" education; who routinely bilk | | | | being treated by psychiatry BEFORE the |
| healthcare insurers (and thereby the public) | | | | Holocaust!); Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, |
| of millions of dollars a year in spurious | | | | George Washington (yes, he too died at the |
| "treatments" which yield demonstrably | | | | hands of psychiatric treatment!), Ernest |
| negative results and in many cases do not | | | | Hemingway, John Hinckley (prior to shooting |
| occur at all. These are the people who | | | | John Lennon!), Kip Kinkel, Columbine |
| advocate torture in the form of electroshock | | | | shooters, Andrea Yates, Shawn Cooper, and the |
| and who have tasked themselves with | | | | list can go on for miles... More than 80% of |
| reorganizing the way the world educates its | | | | suicides are PRECEDED by the use of |
| young and deals with its "abnormals". Yet | | | | psychiatric type treatments (drugs, therapy, |
| these are also the people who not only cannot | | | | etc.). |
| agree on definitions of the diseases they | | | | |
| claim to be able to treat, but openly admit | | | | Why am I writing this article now? Because |
| that they don't know what they're doing. | | | | I'm frustrated of having to clean up and |
| | | | educate the very people that so many psychs |
| THESE ARE THE PEOPLE who actively seek to | | | | have ruined. And make no mistake about it... |
| wreck our culture and our civilization by | | | | it's virtually everyone... we have become a |
| legitimizing a viewpoint that treats man as | | | | nation of fast fixes, "no responsibility", |
| an animal, incapable of improvement and | | | | "spectators to life", lacking a true view of |
| doomed to a life of limitations. In the hands | | | | ourselves as spiritual beings, humanoids! We |
| of psychiatrists, Beethoven would have been | | | | view our bodies as "who we are" instead of |
| tranquilized, Rembrandt lobotomized, and | | | | the thing separate from us that we are in |
| Jesus Christ given ECT, put in restraints and | | | | control of. We look for sensations and |
| locked away, never to see the sky again. | | | | pleasures. We get our education from the TV |
| | | | commercials about what drugs to tell our |
| IF YOU ARE WONDERING why the world seems to | | | | doctors we want to ingest that will hopefully |
| be coming apart at the seams, why crime, | | | | change our lives... instead of changing our |
| illiteracy, drug abuse and moral decline, | | | | lifestyles! There is not one person who has |
| depression, suicides, psychotic behaviour, | | | | not been influenced by psychiatric |
| divorce, etc. continue to make headlines | | | | propaganda. (except the few who have risen |
| daily, and why those who SAY they can do | | | | above it and are willing to step outside the |
| something about mental health CANNOT, you are | | | | box and get educated. |
| not alone. | | | | |
| | | | The side effects of anti-depressants and |
| IF YOU WANT to find out about psychiatry, you | | | | drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, Zoloft, Prozac, |
| can't do much better than listen to the | | | | etc. will fill pages: suicide ideology, |
| psychiatrists themselves. They will tell you | | | | blocks the production of hormones, |
| exactly what they think about the human | | | | depression, headaches, addiction, high blood |
| condition, what can be done about it, and how | | | | pressure, weight gain, impotence, sleep |
| they believe the sane man (and therefore the | | | | disturbances, itching, dry mouth, dizziness, |
| ideal society) should function. | | | | gastritis, and the list goes on and on... |
| | | | These drugs do more damage and have yet to |
| DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT: Others have come | | | | CURE anyone of the so-called mental diseases. |
| to their senses and know exactly what's going | | | | |
| on. Those few who have the courage to speak | | | | Our recent culture has been marred greatly by |
| out against the majority in their profession | | | | the underhanded dealings of psychiatrists... |
| deserve attention as well. | | | | but as you noticed earlier in this article... |
| | | | there are a few brave souls out there within |
| "What's happening in the training of | | | | that profession who have taken a stand |
| psychiatrists and in the quality of a | | | | against their own group. |
| psychiatrist is that they have become drug | | | | |
| pushers. They have ... forgotten how to sit | | | | You as a consumer or natural health |
| down and talk to patients as to what their | | | | practitioner/consultant simply do not have to |
| problems are." - Walter Afield, psychiatrist, | | | | bow down to their domination any longer. |
| 1994 | | | | There are solutions out there that are |
| | | | natural and work. Sure... you may be in such |
| "... in 40 years, 'biological psychiatry' has | | | | a mess right now that you still want that |
| yet to validate a single psychiatric | | | | quick fix... I understand. Now let me point |
| condition/diagnosis as an abnormality | | | | something out to you... there is not A PILL |
| disease, or as anything 'neurological', | | | | that will handle your life for you. Only YOU |
| 'biological', 'chemically imbalanced', or | | | | can handle your own life. |
| 'genetic'." Dr. Fred A. Baughman Jr., | | | | |
| Pediatric Neurologist "Malpractice and | | | | There is no such thing as ADD or ADHD. There |
| Violation of Informed Consent" | | | | is no disease of Alcoholism. There is no |
| | | | disease of being BI-POLAR. There is no |
| "... modern psychiatry has yet to | | | | disease of being Manic-Depressed. YES, there |
| convincingly prove the genetic/biological | | | | are SYMPTOMS! That I know. But they are NOT |
| cause of any single mental illness ... | | | | diseases that need mind altering addictive |
| Patients [have] been diagnosed with 'chemical | | | | drugs... those drugs CURE NOTHING! Never |
| imbalances' despite the fact that no test | | | | have, never will. And YES... fixing the |
| exists to support such a claim, and ... there | | | | problem takes work. |
| is no real conception of what a correct | | | | |
| chemical balance would look like." - David | | | | I understand that not everyone reading this |
| Kaiser, psychiatrist; "Commentary Against | | | | or everyone out there will rise to the |
| Biological Psychiatry" - Psychiatric Times, | | | | occasion and do what they have to do to help |
| December 1996 | | | | themselves reach health and happiness. I |
| | | | understand that I might step on the toes of |
| "What do you do when you don't know what to | | | | some doctors. I understand that some of you |
| do? No wonder there are more suicides among | | | | simply still want the quick fix. But for |
| psychiatrists than in any other profession." | | | | those of you who are determined to get your |
| Psychiatrist R. D. Laing - Wisdom, Madness, | | | | life back, determined to do something about |
| and Folly, p. 126 | | | | it, determined to not live a life drugged, |
| | | | dulled, and numbed... well... you are the |
| "The way to sell drugs is to sell psychiatric | | | | ones we in the natural health field want to |
| illness." - Carl Elliot, Bioethicist ; | | | | help. |
| University of Minnesota, 2001 | | | | |
| | | | DESPITE ALL that the psychiatrists and their |
| "We don't have an independent, valid test for | | | | cohorts would have you believe, remember that |
| ADHD; there are no data to indicate that ADHD | | | | there is hope. No one is doomed to a life |
| is due to a brain malfunction ... and | | | | bound by drugs, shock, psychosurgery, or |
| finally, after years of clinical research and | | | | worse. No society or individual is doomed to |
| experience with ADHD, our knowledge about the | | | | the degradation of going to "Hell in a |
| cause or causes of ADHD remains speculative." | | | | hand-basket". Much can be done to help the |
| - National Institute of Health; Consensus | | | | individual naturally. I urge all doctors to |
| Conference on the Diagnosis; and Treatment of | | | | learn the truth and quite treating symptoms |
| ADHD, 1998 | | | | alone. I urge all patients to sit up, take |
| | | | notice that continuing to do the same thing |
| "The field of mental health is highly | | | | over and over again simply will not result in |
| subjective, capricious, and dominated by | | | | a change! Get educated. Become pro-active. |
| whims, mythologies, and public relations. In | | | | Take control of your health and find a |
| many ways it is a pop culture with endless | | | | natural health practitioner that will assist |
| fads but with no real substance." Dr. Walter | | | | you in preventing and rebuilding. |