BEWARE : BIG PHARMA-PSYCHIATRY TERRORISM AND GANGSTERISM HAVE BEEN LEGALISED, ARE PROTECTED BY STATE LEGISLATION AND ARE IMPOSED BY THE STATE ON THE ENTIRE POPULATION UNDER THE FALSE COVER OF “MEDICAL (MENTAL HEALTH) TREATMENT”
By Justice Lover


Dr. Fred Baughman, the renowned American neurologist, is quoted by Wikipedia describing the Big Pharma-psychiatry alliance as follows :


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baughman


“… the only way the pharma-psychiatry-government cartel differs for the Cali, Medellin, Tijuana, and opium cartels of the world is that the pharma-psychiatry-government cartel target everyone, from cradle to grave—your parents, and grandparents in their nursing home beds, those truly physically ill, adding their never-essential drugs to essential drugs, compromising real medical and surgical treatment, and infants, toddlers, preschoolers and all they can force or court-order to swallow their brain-altering, brain-damaging, “chemical balancers.” We are warned by Le Carre, that their power, in league with government, is the greatest of all threats to our liberty and right of self-determination".


In other words, the Big Pharma-psychiatry alliance has been using methods similar to those used by organised crime syndicates against innocent people to maintain and to increase colossal profits and worldwide power.


In the chapter Conclusions of his book, The Myth of Mental Illness (Paladin, 1972) , Prof. Thomas Szasz , MD (professor of psychiatry), states as as follows :"It is customary to define psychiatry as a medical specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness. This is a worthless and misleading definition. Mental illness is a myth. Psychiatrists are not concerned with mental illnesses and their treatment. In actual practice they deal with personal,social, and ethical problems in living."



Also in his book, Schizophrenia - The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry, the same author states that "There is, in short, no such thing as schizophrenia" (Syracuse University Press, 1988, p. 191).



Another American veteran psychiatrist,Dr. Peter Breggin , in his book TOXIC PSYCHIATRY (HarperCollins,London,1993) describes psychiatry at p. 453 as follows :"...Organised psychiatry is big business more than it is a profession. As a big business, managed by APA and NIMH, it developes media relationships, hires PR firms, developes its medical image, holds press conferences to publicise its products, lobbies on behalf of its interests, and issues 'scientific reports that protect its members from malpractice suits by lending legitimacy to brain- damaging technologies."


Earlier in the same book, at page 451 Breggin describes psychiatry and its partners as follows :"What we have been examining is a giant combine similar to the military-industrial complex and involving the psychiatric profession (APA), government (NIMH and FDA), private industry (drug companies and health insurers), education (medical schools),and organisations representing the parents of patients (NAMI and other family groups)."


As for psychiatric drugs, here is an opinion of one honest psychiatrist :


http://www.antipsychiatry.org/drsmith1.htm



"Why Psychiatric Drugs Are Always Bad

by Douglas C. Smith, M.D.



I no longer recommend psychiatric medications to anyone.This seems radical in this country because we are in the midst of the "biological revolution." Everyone seems to assume medications are specifically effective for various mental illnesses which are at least in part chemical or genetic in origin. I believe the science behind this is seriously flawed. It is based on false assumptions.


This seems radical in this country because we are in the midst of the "biological revolution." Everyone seems to assume medications are specifically effective for various mental illnesses which are at least in part chemical or genetic in origin. I believe the science behind this is seriously flawed. It is based on false assumptions that lead to self-perpetuating mythology (and huge profits for drug companies).

I first gave up on tranquilizers, then antidepressants, then all psychiatric drugs. I learned that there are certain general principles that govern all psychoactive substances and biologic treatments.General Principles:

(1) "Mental illnesses," even severe ones, are relational (I'd say spiritual as well). Psychiatry, by focusing almost exclusively on biology, is making itself increasingly irrelevant.

(2) Psychoactive substances provide at best, temporary relief, but always make things worse in the long run. They make things worse directly (chemically) and indirectly by distracting from the real issues.

(3) All psychoactive substances have rebound and withdrawal-related problems. "Relapse" rates, in general, during withdrawal from psychiatric drugs, are about 10 times higher than would be expected if the drug had never been taken.

(4) "All biopsychiatric treatments share a common mode of action -- the disruption of normal brain function" (Peter Breggin, M.D., Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry, Springer Pub. Co., 1997, p. 3). Drugs never correct imbalances. They never improve the brain. They "work" by impairing the brain and dampening feelings in various ways.
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THE AUTHOR, Douglas C. Smith, M.D., graduated from Indiana University (1982 - Phi Beta Kappa) and Indiana University School of Medicine (1986) and completed his psychiatry training in 1990 and is board certified in psychiatry. He also has had additional training in psychoanalysis. He currently lives and practices in Juneau, Alaska."
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Dr. Baughman, as a veteran neurologist, warns people against brain damage caused by psychiatric drugs as follows :
http://adhdfraud.org/frameit.asp?src=commentary.htm

Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD: “…it is a known fact that all psychotropic drugs relieve mental, psychic pain by damaging the brain. All of them without exception damage the brain. No mental illness damages the brain. The only abnormalities detectible in such patients in life or, at autopsy are those due to the drugs they are on, have been on, ECT or psychosurgery. The empty promise of psychopharmacology rests on the fact that their is no disease/damage to begin with. Psychopharmacologists posit they can improve upon the normal brain with their drugs when they only damage it--they only damage the previously normal brain--the organ of adaptation, of learning.”


Consider this outrage : the “treating” shrink considers the neuroleptic drugs disruption of the patient’s normal brain function (and leading to irreversible brain damage) as an “improvement” therefore maintains the high dose ( or increase it to “achieve improvement”) while deceiving the patient as well as the psychiatric nurses who are supposed to help the patient, but in reality serve only the shrinks and Big Pharma.


However, the neuroleptics (“Antipsychotics”) make psychosis worse, not better, as the following email by a British veteran psychiatrist to Rebecca Merhav’s father proves :

"Hi Ben,

You have my complete sympathy - for 50 years the evidence has been that all so called anti-psychotic drugs are in fact pro-psychotics - they prolong the psychosis. I cover what should be done in my recent book 'unsafe at any dose'.

I have been ejected from 6 consultant psychiatric posts - and effectively barred from ever working in the NHS again - however, my research into the software problems of mental disease convinces me, as evidence from long ago confirms, that all psychoses are 100% curable - whereas all drugs make things worse.

I wish you well in your campaign, and when I get a media pedestal I shall give you my full support.

Best Wishes,
Bob Johnson"
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Worse still, not only are the psychiatric drugs unnecessary, very dangerous , with many adverse and damaging effects, they actually prevent the patient’s recovery, and they shorten the patient’s life span by 25 years !

“The Alternative Mental Health News,
Issue 67, July 2007
Editor's Note
(mail@alternativementalhealth.com)

A recent USA Today headline—quite startling, really—splashed across its pages: MENTALLY ILL DIE 25 YEARS EARLIER, ON AVERAGE. One would think this would strike the psychiatric world like a 9/11, stirring drastic changes. It did not.

They've known for decades that psychiatric patients die earlier that the average population. But since the early 1990s the lifespan gap has DOUBLED. That's right. Patients used to live 10-15 years less. Now it's 25. Still, psychiatrists are not storming CNN to get the message out.Even more damning is the fact that the research that discovered this 25-year gap was published in 2006 and is only now reaching a major newspaper.

We are left to wonder if the lives of the mentally ill are considered less important—so much so that the guardians of their care, modern psychiatry and its professional organizations, brushes off this news with a sigh and the usual finger-pointing.

If a headline announced that the general public was dying 10-15 years earlier, what do you think the response would be from the public and private sectors?Also, one would think that alarm bells would be ringing over two matters.First, the only thing that has significantly changed in psychiatry in the past two decades is the medications. "Modern" medications cause diabetes, obesity and other medical complications. A reasonable person could conclude that they are shortening the lives of millions of people by 10-15 years and that this could easily be regarded as a national crisis.

In fact, this was stated blatantly in the January 2007 issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry by researcher Mary Seeman: "The general health of individuals with schizophrenia suffers from neglect, poor life style choices, and current treatments that increase death rates."Secondly, while numerous explanations have traditionally been given for why the mentally ill die early, even before the 1990s, one reason that is never given is the most obvious reason of all: They are physically ill.

Perhaps most mental illnesses are caused by hidden physical disorders that not only affects the person's mind but his body as well and will kill him early if not detected and treated.When a population has a life expectancy of 1/3 less than the rest of the population, why is this most obvious conclusion not being addressed? Why are millions spent on more drugs for symptoms and almost no treatments being developed that detect and address underlying physiological causes?"We're going in the wrong direction and have to change course," says Joseph director of psychiatric services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health
and lead author of the report.

The facts are simple. A person with a mental disorder had a far better chance of living longer 50 years ago than he does today. When medical doctors "treat" people resulting in an ADDITIONAL 10-15 year loss of lifespan, calling it a "wrong direction" is charitable at best. A court might call it negligent homicide—on a very large scale."

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Many Schizophrenics Recover Faster Without Drugs

Research published in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease has found that many people diagnosed with schizophrenia actually recover without medication. The study's author's concluded, "The current longitudinal data suggest not all schizophrenia patients need to use antipsychotic medications continuously throughout their lives."The research found that, after 10 years, 79% of patients on antipsychotics were psychotic, whereas 23% of those not on medication were psychotic. After 15 years, 65 per cent of patients on antipsychotics were psychotic, whereas only 28% of those not on medication were psychotic.

Those who did well off medication tended to have certain character traits including better premorbid (before the illness) developmental achievements, favorable personality and attitudinal approaches, less vulnerability, greater resilience, and favorable prognostic factors.The study concluded that there is a subgroup of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia who do not immediately relapse while off antipsychotics and experience intervals of recovery."
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In conclusion the above mentioned facts and scientific evidence are sufficient to convince any doubtful person that Big Pharma-psychiatry alliance are presiding over a huge racket, a very dangerous racket, which is protected by the state ! Therefore, no psychiatrist can be considered innocent by plain human morality rules ! Yet, there are apparently, some “lost souls” even amongst the corrupt shrinks, who are simply very confused about their profession, such as the following example :

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/07/22/141824.php :

"A Psychiatrist Airs His Professional Doubts
Written by Dr Michael Benjamin
Published July 22, 2007

Did you ever stop to wonder or ask yourself 'what am I doing?' I did and in many ways I wish I had not. As a Psychiatrist, I still do not know what our profession is trying to do. It seems we have a series of solutions and now we are trying to find the problems that they can solve. My observations are either anecdotal or part of research that I have done as a Psychiatric Auditor and are based on my 38 years experience in the field of Psychiatry.

Psychiatrists are treating two major populations: Adults and Juveniles. These populations are further subdivided into severe and mild disturbances.I am not a Juvenile Psychiatrist, but I speak from impressions and my readings in the field. There is nothing more heart breaking than the severely mentally ill juvenile. We have increased our arsenal of medications, but in results and understanding, compared to other medical professions, our success rate is poor.

Prevention is a distant dream.The mildly mentally ill juveniles are a cause of concern to me. Psychiatry has waltzed into learning disorders with the crusading gusto that only psychiatrists seem to have. We are witnessing the 'medicinization' of a former outlawed drug. The criteria for using Ritalin far too often go unmet. There is no doubt in my mind that children that would not be given Ritalin by experts in the field are receiving it. No one can say with honesty and certainty what the effect of Ritalin use in juveniles will have on their brains as they age.

Yet the Ritalin pushers have an almost messianic fervor for their 'solution'.In the adult population, generally speaking, the influence of the Drug Companies is terrifying. Very few research projects disprove the efficacy of a drug when the trial is sponsored by the drug's manufacturer. Harmful facts that may be discovered are not disclosed. When they are, their importance and significance are downplayed.

For example, one of the major, popular, new anti psychotic drugs actively and substantially increases the risk factors for heart attacks or CVAs. In all the adult population the major medical goal is to reduce these risk factors. Only severely mentally ill psychiatric patients are the exception.It has been shown that after 10 years of illness a psychotic not taking medications is four times more likely to be symptom free than one that is taking medications.

Read that again. You would expect the complete opposite. In spite of the hype, the quality of life in patients using the older medications are better than the new. So we are paying more, endangering more and getting less. Not very impressive is it? The mantra of today's Psychiatric Services are something like this:A patient gets ill.He goes to the emergency room where he is admitted or referred to community service organizations.On admission he is diagnosed, medicated and sent home to continue care in the community.He continues his therapy in the community.He is only re-referred if the community cannot cope.

What happens in reality?There are no hard and fast rules or consistency as to who is received and why. A large proportion of first time hospitalized patients will never re-appear in the Mental-Health system. Why were they hospitalized in the first place? Referrals to community care from the ER are done badly, if at all.

The vast majority of hospitalized patients remain unknown to community care after discharge.A large proportion of the patients are no longer taking medications in a meaningful way three months after discharge from hospital.Most of the patients seen in community care were not hospitalized.Grim reading indeed.Over 30% of the adult population will visit their Family Doctor in any year. 30% of them, 10% of the population, are considered to have emotional problems.For some reason these emotional disturbances are treated as if they are mild forms of mental illness. They are not.

Very often we are seeing stress caused by poor coping styles or skills. They are treated as if they have, or about to have depression, anxiety, or panic. The vast majority are offered medication. They should be offered alternative drug-free modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Psychotherapy. Of those referred to psychotherapy much less than half will get past three visits.

The major explanation of 'file closure' in these cases is drop-out. 'Completion of therapy' ranks as one of the least given reasons.Are there any bright points? Yes there are:CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is causing a rethink of treatment. It asks a patient to think about their feelings and behavior and thus influence subsequent behavior. This is a good answer for the patients with emotional problems in primary care. It enhances coping skills. This is a different approach from the attempt to cure an illness that does not exist.

We can now offer Online CBT in a Self-Help format over the Internet.Compliance and adherence: This is not a problem inherent only to Psychiatry. Doctors are not trained to explain and ensure compliance. They do not have the time to do simple weekly follow ups. This is easily done using the Internet web sites.

Medical Management: Uniform systematic treatment is essential. It is possible to ascertain accurately patient needs and utilization. It is possible to follow the two parameters in real time. Thus ensuring efficient performance of the Mental-Health system as a unit. Alongside this, the individual patient is never unknowingly lost. This can be done in real time and online.Yes there is a lot of criticism here. Is it justified? It certainly is honest and based on my clinical experience. I have hopefully done my part by initiating a discussion and providing solutions, as I see them to the problems as I saw them.
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Doctor Michael Benjamin is a Psychiatrist with 38 years experience. “

(Emphasis by Justice Lover)