How Drugs are Sold: Psychiatry - Making a Killing with Dr. Rima Laibow & G. Edward Griffen By CCHR
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides diagnostic criteria for mental disorders and disease theory but has no basis in science or medicine. An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal, experts warned.
According to Dr James Howenstine, MD and many others, 'Psychiatry is a Complete Fraud'.
Psychiatry itself admits 'it has not proven the 'disease theory' or the cause or source of a single mental illness it has classified and the theory of a chemical imbalance in the brain causes mental illness has been thoroughly discredited by the psychiatric industry itself' mainly because critics pointed out 'there isn't even a test for a chemical imbalance, it's complete nonsense'. They say psychiatry is the 'original pseudoscience, medical fraud and completely made up'.
When you look below the surface at the specialty of psychiatry, what you uncover is so ludicrous it is difficult to believe that it is really true. Prominent psychiatrists from all over the world gather annually for a meeting at which new diseases are invented. There are no objective findings that establish the diagnosis of these diseases.
These new diseases are included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases. Potential new diseases are discussed at these meetings and new diseases are voted in or out by a show of hands.
Among the new diseases are social anxiety disorder (everyone who is uncomfortable in a social setting has this disease) and mathematics disease (anyone who has struggled over a math problem has this disease). Gender identity disorder, passive-aggressive disorder, disorder of written expression and sexual disorder are other examples of invented diseases that will follow the individuals tagged with these ridiculous diagnoses the remainder of their lives. Naturally, all these phony diseases have a psychoactive drug, which supposedly ameliorates this disease.
It is used in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and policy makers.The DSM has attracted controversy and criticism. There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952, gradually including more disorders, though some have been removed and are no longer considered to be mental disorders.
This is laughable but it has serious consequences. When a child is diagnosed with depression the child is often placed on a potent SSRI drug. The manufacturer of one of the leading SSRI drug knew for many years that the drug caused loss of the ability to control violent behavior thus increasing violence toward self (suicide) and others (mass murders). This information was covered up because it would have hurt sales of the drug. Nearly every teen involved in the Columbine and Red Lake mass murders was taking an SSRI drug. There is a fundamental flaw in a nation more concerned about sales of drugs than the welfare of it's children.
Please watch the video below which explains how drugs are marketed and sold for conditions now classed as a disease both in america and here in the UK. It covers:
How drugs are marketed and approved
the revolving door
conflicts of interests
fast track drugs
medical approval
money in disease
Successful non-pharmaceutical treatments are blocked from being used because of this process.
Beginning with the problem that there is no single objective diagnostic test for a mental illness in the field of psychiatry — a problem the DSM sidesteps by referring only to "mental disorders", defined modestly as dysfunctional psychological or behavioral patterns — the DSM-IV has come under various criticisms over the years while being described by many as 'total fiction'.