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