From Old Bedlam to Modern TeenScreen, Psychiatry Continues to Harm in the Name of Help

This editorial on psychiatric "help" might make useful reading

Excerpt below:

Perhaps there should be no stigma connected to mental illness. There should however, be stigma connected to the solutions that psychiatry proffers in the name of help which are destructive of individuals and society: mind-altering drugs, stigmatizing labels, shock treatment and abuse of human rights for profit. [...]

Why is it that one never hears from a psychiatrist about such workable solutions as nutrition, tutoring, legitimate medical examinations, and change of environment? Why do nearly all of their solutions come in a bottle with an FDA black box warning label that even they admit to not understanding why these drugs work?

("Ritalin and amphetamine have almost identical adverse effects on the brain, mind and behavior, including the production of drug-induced behavioral disorders, psychosis, mania, drug abuse, and addiction,") Billy J. Sahley, PhD, author of Is Ritalin Necessary?

Could it be that labeling an individual with a "disorder" from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is the only way that psychiatrists can make a living? The belief of the existence of these "disorders" is their sole basis for receiving money from insurance companies, research grants, charitable foundations, etc.

If a psychiatrist sends a child who is acting up in school to see a nutritionist or for tutoring, how would he make any money? If he labels that same child with "ADHD", he is creating a patient for life.

Backing up this viewpoint are recent articles in USA Today, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and countless other major newspapers which revealed the hidden financial connection between big Pharmaceutical Companies and the authors of the Diagnostic and Statistical manual.

This manual, the self-proclaimed bible of psychiatry and sole wellspring of all of the more than 370 mental "disorders" used to label normal people and absolve those who should not be absolved, is the very foundation of psychiatry's most precious tenets. Not only were the majority of psychiatric panel members that created the DSM receiving funding from drug companies in one way or another, but their entire panel of "experts" had direct connections to pharmaceutical monies.

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