I haven't yet read the full article, but will after lunch. I have known for some time that pharmaceutical companies and drug czars, with the psychiatry industry in their pocket, dream up imaginary conditions to sell more drugs for those newly created "disorders" that are in reality, normal human conditions. They have a manual of "known disorders" that they add to on a regular basis. These are not "discoveries". They are simply conditions that are "thought up" in committee, descriptions created and added to what doctors are supposed to treat and what they are supposed to accept as "known disorders".
Have a child that is running around in exhuberance? Drug them into a more passive state. Have a child acting out in school? Drug them into submission instead of going back to find the point at which the kid first didn't understand what was being taught or a word that was not defined. If a student becomes confused on a subject and it is not handled, they will lose interest, can become emotional and a discipline problem.
Drug companies are first and foremost corporations for profit. That alone is what drives their business, despite any feel-good ads or noble statements they may place in the media. They rush medications to the market as soon as some sort of benefit can be claimed for a particular drug, despite any side effects that are worse than the problem the drug is designed to handle.
In my earlier days, one was never prescribed a pill for say, sleeping or blood pressure or an antibiotic or anything else that would make one feel nervous, depressed, suicidal and so on. Nowadays, many ordinary drugs for other conditions have side effects that cause anxiety and other mental distress. My personal theory is that it is done purposely, in hopes that the patient will then get additional prescriptions to handle the mental side effects.
I never had panic attacks before taking a certain prescription antihistamine some years ago. At least one other person I have spoken to had the same reaction. Neither of us suspected until much later that we were experiencing a side effect not listed in the possible drug reactions. The panic attacks did not stop though when the drug was stopped.
You should know if you don't already that doctors, at least here in the U.S., get a commission from the drug companies for many medications each time they write a prescription. The drug companies pay your doctor a sizeable bonus for drugging you.
Please note: The below is not aimed at any individual here. Just my thoughts and observations on the matters mentioned.
Unfortunately, there is no actual laboratory test that the pharmaceutical companies or doctors have invented/discovered yet to prove the "brain chemical imbalance theory" is real. It is yet another condition cooked up by the drug industry with their cronies to convince people that they must have drugs because the patient is physically defective somehow. A patient takes a pill, feels better, so they must be right.
You wouldn't take your doctor's word for it if he just suspected you had breast cancer and wanted to operate, right? You get a mammagram or a biopsy.
A person who is seeking treatment needs first a properly balanced diet, need to be checked for any real chemical imbalances like low hormones or vitamins, and needs to get light exercise, have a safe space to exist in, and receive productive counseling. I fully believe that such matters are essentially spiritual in their nature, coming from the being who uses the mind to operate the body.
Now, off to lunch and finish reading the article. Yes, read whatever makes you feel better after reading it (I've read part of it now), but don't forget what you read. Vigilance is the price of freedom.
Yes, I am highly opinionated on this particular matter and do not expect all to agree with me.
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Date: 2012-01-08 07:43 pm (UTC)Have a child that is running around in exhuberance? Drug them into a more passive state. Have a child acting out in school? Drug them into submission instead of going back to find the point at which the kid first didn't understand what was being taught or a word that was not defined. If a student becomes confused on a subject and it is not handled, they will lose interest, can become emotional and a discipline problem.
Drug companies are first and foremost corporations for profit. That alone is what drives their business, despite any feel-good ads or noble statements they may place in the media. They rush medications to the market as soon as some sort of benefit can be claimed for a particular drug, despite any side effects that are worse than the problem the drug is designed to handle.
In my earlier days, one was never prescribed a pill for say, sleeping or blood pressure or an antibiotic or anything else that would make one feel nervous, depressed, suicidal and so on. Nowadays, many ordinary drugs for other conditions have side effects that cause anxiety and other mental distress. My personal theory is that it is done purposely, in hopes that the patient will then get additional prescriptions to handle the mental side effects.
I never had panic attacks before taking a certain prescription antihistamine some years ago. At least one other person I have spoken to had the same reaction. Neither of us suspected until much later that we were experiencing a side effect not listed in the possible drug reactions. The panic attacks did not stop though when the drug was stopped.
You should know if you don't already that doctors, at least here in the U.S., get a commission from the drug companies for many medications each time they write a prescription. The drug companies pay your doctor a sizeable bonus for drugging you.
Please note: The below is not aimed at any individual here. Just my thoughts and observations on the matters mentioned.
Unfortunately, there is no actual laboratory test that the pharmaceutical companies or doctors have invented/discovered yet to prove the "brain chemical imbalance theory" is real. It is yet another condition cooked up by the drug industry with their cronies to convince people that they must have drugs because the patient is physically defective somehow. A patient takes a pill, feels better, so they must be right.
You wouldn't take your doctor's word for it if he just suspected you had breast cancer and wanted to operate, right? You get a mammagram or a biopsy.
A person who is seeking treatment needs first a properly balanced diet, need to be checked for any real chemical imbalances like low hormones or vitamins, and needs to get light exercise, have a safe space to exist in, and receive productive counseling. I fully believe that such matters are essentially spiritual in their nature, coming from the being who uses the mind to operate the body.
Now, off to lunch and finish reading the article. Yes, read whatever makes you feel better after reading it (I've read part of it now), but don't forget what you read. Vigilance is the price of freedom.
Yes, I am highly opinionated on this particular matter and do not expect all to agree with me.