We should all be thankful to the field of psychiatry for proving over and over again that electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) has never helped anyone, ever, be a smarter or a better person.
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry’s Grand Confession
If you have ever thought drugs were to be any help for depression, here is an article with at great confession by the perpetrators and profiteers of some of them.
Posted on January 23, 2012 by Jonathan Leo, Ph.D. / Jeffrey Lacasse, Ph.D.
The psychiatric profession has finally come clean and confessed on a national media outlet that there is no evidence to support the Serotonin Theory of Depression. Today, on NPR’s Morning Edition there is a segment about the chemical imbalance theory, and virtually all the psychiatrists who are interviewed acknowledge that the there was never any evidence in support of the idea that low serotonin causes depression. But then, amazingly, they go on to say that it is perfectly fine to tell patients that serotonin imbalance causes depression even though they know this isn’t the case.(more)
Anti Depressants and Mental Health – Article by Dr Julian Whitaker
“Today, 4 percent of men and 10 percent of women in this country are taking antidepressants.”
[2008] Mental Health: It’s Life, Not Depression by Dr. Julian Whitaker (read the full article)
That means a percentage of all people driving cars on the road today are under the influence of one of these drugs. Does that make it any safer?
What is the DSM?
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is psychiatry’s billing bible of so-called mental disorders.
With the DSM, psychiatry has taken countless aspects of human behavior and reclassified them as a mental illness simply by adding the term disorder onto them. While even key DSM contributors admit that there is no scientific/medical validity to the disorders, the DSM nonetheless serves as a diagnostic tool, not only for individual treatment, but also for child custody disputes, discrimination cases, court testimony, education and more. As the diagnoses completely lack scientific criteria, anyone can be labeled mentally ill, and subjected to dangerous and life threatening treatments based solely on opinion. The treatment of virtually ANY of the “illnesses” listed and so diagnosed is virtually ALWAYS one or more drugs.
There is NO science behind the “illnesses” listed, no test results, no verifiable or duplicable experimental data and NO evidence that such illnesses actually exist. They are voted into the manual by a show of hands at psychiatric conference. That is how much “science” is involved. Take Road Rage as a recent example. People sometimes get mad while driving. Decide to call it a mental illness, get it voted into the DSM by a show of hands and Road Rage is now a mental illness.
“The nonscientific approach used to create DSM leads to irrational and constantly changing diagnostic criteria: a patient might be perfectly normal according to one version of DSM and mentally ill by the standards of the next. (For instance, ‘narcissistic personality disorder’—used to describe vain people who are self-centered and frequently take advantage of others—was a DSM ‘diagnosis’ until 1968. It was eliminated from the version used between 1968 and 1980, when it was reinstated. Thus, a self-centered, vain person was ‘mentally ill’ before 1968, normal for the next twelve years, and then ‘mentally ill’ again after 1980.)” – Dr. Sydney Walker, III, psychiatrist, neurologist
17 Interesting Facts about Doctors and Patients – Misdiagnosed Conditions
This is from EdMedExpert Blog:
http://www.emedexpert.com/blog/general/17-interesting-facts-about-doctors-and-patients/
Go to the link to read the explanation. My comments are below each point in square brackets.
1. How frequently do doctors misdiagnose patients?
[I thought their 10-15% was a little low. See the book ‘A Dose of Sanity’ by Sydney Walker III M.D. for commonly misdiagnosed conditions.]
2. Who prescribes antibiotics inappropriately? Foreign, extra-busy and older MDs.
3. Doctors’ choice of prescriptions are often influenced by their patients.
[In Canada, where it’s illegal to have those spacy drug ads in magazines or on TV, I see those American ads on US television programming. I can imagine a patient coming into their doctor’s office and having some symptom. Goodness, their medical education comes from thumbing through an issue of Oprah Magazine, bursting with drug ads. “Doctor, I think I should be prescribed Griefexa.” What’s next? Learning brain surgery on Youtube? |All that ‘training’ is obviously going to lead to more misdiagnosed conditions.]
4. Free drug samples influence prescribing.
5. Patients treated with respect are more likely to follow medical advice.
6. Doctor-Patient communication has a real impact on health.
7. Most patients want to shake hands with their physicians.
8. Seven things patients expect from doctors.
[Oddly enough, being able to diagnose what is wrong with them isn’t on this list.]
9. Surgeons are taller and better looking than other doctors.
10. Patients often receive incomplete drug instructions.
[And often not knowing the side effects and how they interact with other drugs]
11. Disclosure of medical errors: there is a gap between physicians’ attitudes and their real-world experiences admitting such errors.
12. The highest rate of “Off-label” prescriptions accounts for Antidepressants, Anticonvulsants, and Antipsychotic medications.
13. Seven medical myths even doctors believe.
14. Majority of U.S. doctors believe religion is beneficial for patients’ health.
15. Psychiatrists are the least religious of all doctors.
16. However, psychiatrists are most interested in patients’ religion.
17. The fine art of patient-doctor relationships.