Dr. Mercola's Interview with Robert Whitaker on Mental Health (Part 1 of 7)

[MichielontheKeys]

After reading Robert Whitakers book 'Atonomy of an Epidemic' you can't conclude any different than people who still prescribe this kind of drugs are mad.

[allietacker]

Thanks for sharing THIS. Awesome Post!! 

[pamcaymol777]

In the USA pharmaceutical companies make out like bandits ...Many drs - psychiatrists- look ''scientifically'' at labels, so they mostly will prescribe too many SRRI'S and other anti depressants and categories...Then when someone tries to go off these medications, their bodies will sometimes have a very very negative response ! It is like a roller coaster.

[Flaka955]

Wonderful work bringing attention to the over used of medication. We need your help !. Specially about short term advocay versus long term.

[whiff1962]

Mr. Whitaker is an unabashed, liberal, psych apologist, cut from the same cloth as those who have given psychiatry its social currency: elitist, leftist collectivists! And although I do applaud his efforts at uncovering the unsavory aspects of present-day American psychiatric practices-most notably the supposed iatrogenic dangers of "preemptive" treatment with neuroleptics-I am still rather dismayed by the unequivocal support of the moral enterprise of psychiatry, passing as medicine!

[ray34iyf]

@whiff1962

Referring to your first sentence, how the heck do you figure? Where does he show this? Certainly not in his books or in any of his recent work.

[whiff1962]

I have read much in the way of psyche critique, including the "anti-psych" literature of the 1960s and early 1970s (Foucault, Laing, et.al.) Both the "old- guard" left and the "new- left" critique accept the "reality" of madness, with both positions admittedly applying a different take, principally Marxist and Liberal-statist, respectively. I am a Libertarian-Humanist, as T. Szasz, and disagree with madness as disease. Rather, psychiatriy's mission is of the medicalizing of problems in living.

[whiff1962]

1 second ago I fear that the only good that will come of the "over-medicating" critique is a consolidation of the psych profession. Little will actually change, as the medicating, incarcerating, and force deployed by the psych enterprise will go unabated. Plus ca change.

[whiff1962]

The good doctor says that emotional issues can be quite challenging in life, and there is no disagreement. Then, the language is shifted, and an emphasis on the medicalizing of affect is underscored. As the eggs have been cracked, it is hard to conceive of psychiatry as anything but reductive and biologistic. Imagine the complexity of the brain and individual being subsumed by such an "understanding" of the richness that is human affect. Where once there was religion, now our culture has shrinks

[arzoyan]

Capitalism is the wage slavery of immense humanity in a politically corrupt,destructive MARKET SYSTEM OF ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY to perpetuate poverty and exploitation across the world in the interest of the dominant ruling capitalist class. Capitalism is the alienation,suppression and distortions of our common humanity in a template of war,enviornmental destructions,animal cruelty and suffering and more. We need to share the Earth in cooperations for our material and emotional needs and well being

[arzoyan]

@whiff1962 Your mind is colonised for commercial use, what I stated was for a world of cooperation for our common needs and well being, I guess you are barking for tyranny of minority rule across the world .

[whiff1962]

@arzoyan The beret-wearing, Pernot -sipping, left-bank obscurantists can still be found in Paris. Why not go there and share your vomitus. As for myself, I will stay away from your junkpile. Spare me the agony of having to sift through your Utopian abstractions!

[arzoyan]

@whiff1962 Thanks for your time, Pernot is lovely and Paris is great.I am not a left of Capitalist intellectual pimp or anobscurantist ideologue and never liked beret. Your otherwise vomitus emotional anguish is not of my making, you are suffering from the increasing misery of Capitalism as Karl Marx predicted such a long time ago.

[whiff1962]

@arzoyan And don't tell me, its time for the proleteriat to rise up again? Anyone up for another run at statist totalitarianism? You are indeed a wacked-out, (European, no doubt) off-topic, throwback to the late steam-age!

[arzoyan]

@whiff1962 Capitalism is the historic evolution of private property relationship of alienation,exploitation and suffering of immense humanity in a modality of Commodity production for profit in a Market system of artificial scarcity to perpetuate the conditions of wage slavery in the interest of ruling/owning class. A majority democratic movement is a possibillity to transcend the false tyrannical limits of Capitalism in whatever guise, State or Private Corporate.

[whiff1962]

@arzoyan Uh, you might want to consider the present argument for private property rights, as well as the cornerstone of any free and open society, that of economic self-determination. I am sorry, but MY private property is from my hard-earned wealth, so please, enough with your Marxist cant!

[billhuston]

It's a great interview. Lots of great info. (e.g., that Prozac contains Fluouride).

A little disappointed that Mindfulness (meditation), MBCT, MBSR, etc. were not mentioned. Studies show that this is the most effective therapy for chronic depression. A great book is "Mindful Way Through Depression" by Williams, Zinn, et. al.

You mention in the interview "inappropriate feelings of guilt". I would say guilt is a thought, not a feeling. Demonstrates how thoughts can help keep one depressed.

[DeafJana64]

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