Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Psychiatrists and Big Pharma Desperately Want to Diagnose and Treat Your "Mental Illness" with Addictive, Dangerous and Expensive Psychotropic Drugs

Over the past couple of days I carefully screened the documentary "Marketing of Madness" produced by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. The video is almost three hours long and I recommend watching it in parts as the information is stunning and difficult to absorb all at once. In short, this important and disturbing work painstakingly establishes how the field of psychiatry has become compromised by financial relationships with drug companies that have led practitioners to more broadly define mental illness through the peer-generated DSM guidelines, and prescribe drugs with dangerous side effects to treat symptoms of disease. These psychotropic drugs do not cure the diseases or conditions but rather suppress the symptoms, and at the same time dramatically increase most patient's risk of depression, suicide, heart attack and sudden death, depending on the drug in question. The mechanism of action for all psychotropic drugs as listed on the package insert is "unknown" and the results of clinical trials and post-marketing research demonstrate that such drugs are very dangerous indeed. The money involved in the psychotropic drug industry amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars in the US alone and this money has corrupted the profession and regulatory agencies. I cannot begin to touch on the compelling evidence that many millions are being victimized and exploited by pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists in the mental health field and strongly urge you all to watch this important film. The links below all connect to the same documentary and I will post articles on these very important issues shortly. A Quick Facts reference link from CCHR is also listed below.


Citizens Commission on Human Rights - The Marketing of Madness
http://www.cchr.org/videos/marketing-of-madness/introduction.html

The Marketing of Madness - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1nbZCNDgbY&feature=related


The Marketing of Madness - Dr. Mercola.com
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/03/tips-to-avoiding-depression.aspx

CCHR - Quick Facts About Psychiatry
http://www.cchr.org/quick-facts/introduction.html

Note: The CCHR was established by the Church of Scientology and functions independent of that entity, as an international psychiatric watchdog group. I do not endorse the church but I do believe that the CCHR is an important critical voice with regard to abuses on the part of psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry. 

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