Truth About Mental Illness and Disease

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The idea of mental illness as a biological entity is easy to refute. In 1988, Seymour S. Kety, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience in Psychiatry, and Steven Matthysse, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychobiology, both of Harvard Medical School, said "an impartial reading of the recent literature does not provide the hoped-for clarification of the catecholamine hypotheses, nor does compelling evidence emerge for other biological differences that may characterize the brains of patients with mental disease"

In 1992 a panel of experts assembled by the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment concluded: "Many questions remain about the biology of mental disorders. In fact, research has yet to identify specific biological causes for any of these disorders. ... Mental disorders are classified on the basis of symptoms because there are as yet no biological markers or laboratory tests for them."

Columbia University psychiatry professor Jack M. Gorman, M.D., said "We really do not know what causes any psychiatric illness."

Another Columbia University psychiatry professor, Jerrold S. Maxmen, M.D., said "It is generally unrecognized that psychiatrists are the only medical specialists who treat disorders that, by definition, have no definitively known causes or cures. ... A diagnosis should indicate the cause of a mental disorder, but as discussed later, since the etiologies of most mental disorders are unknown, current diagnostic systems can't reflect them."

Psychiatrist Peter Breggin, M.D., said "there is no evidence that any of the common psychological or psychiatric disorders have a genetic or biological component."

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[crazygreg09]

I'm on Clozaril and it's sorted me out. I'd rather be spaced out than hearing voices and being psychotic any day.

[prokopton]

@crazygreg09 there are natural alternatives.

[crazygreg09]

@prokopton Thats news to me. What are they?

[prokopton]

@crazygreg09 There is a link below the video; might want to watch some of the videos on that channel. EncognitiveVids

[prokopton]

@crazygreg09 There is a link below the video; might want to watch some of the videos on that channel.

[Bigshotism]

I smell Scientology. Please, Szasz is a mouthpiece for organized Scientology. He has a religious conviction that schizophrenia is a euphemism for 'problems in living.' Unfortunately, many of psychiatry's detractors are as close-minded and ideological as the zealots who want to drug children with neuroleptics. Szasz (and his cohorts at the CCHR) fall prey to the argument from ignorance as they confidently claim schizophrenia is not a disease because it wasn't proven to be a disease.

[smallpeckerman]

@zabelicious

I agree 100%

[pass17indirect]

This has been a message for GREEDY CORPS, i guess they do put the wind up me! So i might just take a pill and go beddy byes! :O LOL

[pass17indirect]

What can I say, im a dog with a wagaly tail, not loyal, i go where the bacon is better and where im well looked after! Not crazy dog biting its tail going round in circles. I don't stray.! Lol Disclaimer ; research for fiction book, game and pure interest! Lol

[pass17indirect]

When it comes to changing times, everything seems to change, sometimes for the positive, the pharm corps and the science behind it, rarely changes, it just gets more complicated! More conditions more pills,  more pills, more profits. The Pharm corps hate me! But im into arms and missiles it more bang for your buck! So they don't intimidate me! Fuck them lol

[pass17indirect]

I don't know about the truth,  but there are new techniques that under the right loving and postive conditions can make like with metal illness a little better. There sometimes better ways to treat mental illness, but the doctors that try these new treatments are quickly silenced. It's what the big pharm corps don't want you to know! They would rather keep people down, it's a billion dollar windfall for them!

[bhagavathar9]

@HyperNessie an ad hominem argument does not establish the truth. There are many of us professionals who are not affiliated with any religion (in terms of our professional orientation) that have been warning people for years about psychiatry as 'bad medicine.'

[zabelicious]

Most so-called "mental disorders" are the result of emotional immaturity due to some kind of trauma. Cognitive function has been impeded and the only cure is to bring these suffering people up to speed with the rational world. Black and white thinking, all-or-none, right or wrong, good vs bad and sweeping generalization are the most common features I have been observing throughtout my life. Self-centerness also results from that... Psychiatry is big business!