Just watched documentary GenerationRX. I am so ANGRY!
The DSM-IV and V (considered the 'bible' of psychiatry) include many phony mental illnesses created by paid off doctors and scientists in cahoots with drug companies just to sell more drugs.
According to his calculations, the original 1952 DSM manual contained 107 mental health disorders. By the fourth edition in 1994, the number had more than tripled to 365.
Long term use of ritalin, anti-depressants etc. cause brain shrinkage. ADD and ADHD are Made- Up Disorders!
Is the DSM controlled by drug companies?
If it seems to you that psychiatric afflictions are multiplying as quickly as drugs are developed to address them, you may not be far wrong. A study published in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics found that more than 50 percent of all the medical experts responsible for the most recent editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry; that for sections on anxiety and eating disorders, the percentage was closer to 80 percent; and for schizophrenia and mood disorders, 100 percent of the experts involved had pharmaceutical industry connections. Does that mean that they were less likely to include disorders that don't respond to medication, and more likely to invent or expand disorders for which medication could be prescribed? Another journal, PLOS Medicine, sure thinks so. According to a USA Today article on the concern over the DSM,
PLOS Medicine accused the drug industry of "disease-mongering," inventing diseases from everyday aggravations, such "restless legs syndrome," and widening definitions to sweep up more patients. Psychologist David Healy of the United Kingdom's Cardiff University notes that recent revisions to the DSM eliminated a subtype of schizophrenia that responded poorly to drugs. And "melancholia" was eliminated in favor of major depressive disorder, Healy says. "The upshot is that some patients are going to lose out," he says.
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If the drug companies have duped so many who studied psychology since 1990 (probably earler than that) They most likely have done the same with the medicine text book that pre-med students study which explains why so many doctors dispense so many unnecessary drugs (dangerous drugs) to so many people. All for greed and money. The drug companies MAKE UP DISEASES TO SELL MORE DRUGS!!
The good news: We are not as mentally ill or disease riddled as so many doctors and drug companies say we are.
Please protect your loved ones, especially the children. Learn to cope without drugs. Do your own research on uncomfortable symptoms and on any medications that are suggested (or pushed) on you by doctors.
There are no Quick Fixes or Magic Pills out there. If you're carrying around a made up disorder Label sue the Drug Companies!!