Issue 202 | Date: February 17, 2017
Psychiatrists Are
The Real Screwballs
I’m not so sure about the patients but I am sure about the
doctors: psychiatrists are just nuts!
They have a fantasy diagnosis system that is not based on
any real-world objective test. Not one. Not any! It’s shocking to grasp this
but you need to know… it’s true.
The so-called “bible” of psychiatry, the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual or DSM (currently number 5 or V), lists over
300 conditions, not one of which exists in reality.
OK, I’m kidding slightly. But not one of those
diagnoses can be proved, therefore in a sense they are not real. It’s all
opinion. There is no definitive blood test, x-ray, scan result,
urine change or microscope visual that can establish any of the 300
conditions.
That’s why you can visit one psychiatrist, who says you’re
depressed; another says you have anxiety neurosis; and a third (if you are
unlucky) will try to tell you that you have signs of schizophrenia. But none
of these experts will look at some lab work and say, “This
shows you have XYZ condition.” I repeat: there are no such tests.
Yet these people are dishing out some of the heaviest,
most destructive “therapies” known: toxic chemicals, including SSRIs,
electroshock convulsion treatment and, yes, they are still doing lobotomies
in some barbaric places (ie. Great Britain and The United States of America!)
British psychiatrist Maurice Partridge, who conducted a
follow-up study of 300 lobotomy patients, said that the treatment achieved
its effects by "reducing the complexity of psychic life". Following
the operation, spontaneity, responsiveness, self-awareness
and self-control were reduced. Activity was replaced by inertia, and people
were left emotionally blunted and restricted in their intellectual range.
In other words the patients is wrecked but complains less.
For “reducing the complexity of psychic life” read: cabbage state.
Based on the fact that they have no workable diagnostic
system, they have no right to treat anything. Yet they subsume the right to
destroy brain tissue permanently and blunt the whole purpose of living.
Holistic Psychiatry?
I complain that they do not have any lab work. But in fact
they do! It is my assertion that over 95% of so-called “mental illness” is
caused by undiagnosed and untreated physical disorders, namely food
allergies, heavy metal inflammation, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal
imbalances and hidden stealth pathogens.
So the real treatment becomes obvious: fix the physical
problem. Do not label the person as a mental case and treat him or her with
frightful chemicals under the guise of medicines.
I’m shortly finishing up a book on Holistic
Psychiatry (that’s its working title), which goes into these many
treatable disorders which can underpin mental symptoms.
I mean, just take hormones…. Any woman of menstruating age
can report that a change in hormones can signal severe, even extreme, mental
changes. Ask a man! It’s been a joke of mine for decades that “a lot of men
suffer from pre-menstrual tension!”
Does it mean a woman becomes a lunatic every month? I
don’t think so.
The point is that we do not need a Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of supposed disorders. We really need a book
of causes.
An effective manual of psychiatry would list food
allergies as probably the main condition; there would be a chapter on
hormones; another chapter on nutritional deficiencies (very common, even if
the overfed West); and a chapter on parasites and stealth pathogens.
There would also be a chapter on cool procedures to pull
people out of psychic trauma—trauma and abuse does exist, of course. But:
1.
Is not a mental
illness, even when incapacitating (see 2.)
2.
Need not be
permanent, if dealt with properly
3.
Should not be
treated with addictive chemicals that create ongoing dysfunctionality
Let’s do what the math teacher calls factorization. The treatment of depression due to food allergies
(I’ve cured over a thousand such) is change the diet; the treatment of
depression due to low thyroid function is supplement (replace) the thyroid
hormones; the treatment of depression due to B vitamin deficiency is to
supplement the vitamins; the treatment of depression due to Lyme’s is
antibiotics to kill the spirochete (I’m talking real Lyme’s: an infection
with Borrelia burgdorferi).
Take out the common factor, which is “depression”, and you
are left with a series of proper diagnoses and we do not need the word
depression at all!
Can’t Diagnose Sanity, Never Mind Mental
Illness
OK, let’s lighten up and have some fun. A couple weeks
ago, sitting reading in Waikiki, I came across an interesting experiment. The
book calls itself The Untold Story of Psychiatry and is by
Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD. He’s obviously a shrink and takes the orthodox
point of view. Not a vitamin or whole food in the entire book!
The article that caught my eye, referred to by Lieberman,
took place in 1973 (long before I came to the States). It was published in
the prestigious journal Science and was titled “On Being
Sane In Insane Places.” The author was David Rosenhan, a lawyer, not an MD
(he had a degree in psychology though).
The opening sentence of Rosenhan’s article was “If sanity
and insanity exist, how shall we know them?” Good question!
He proposed to investigate psychiatry’s take on this
important issue by sending sane, well-balanced and otherwise “normal”
individuals into mental hospitals, to see if they were spotted as sane and sent
home.
Unbeknownst to the hospital staffs, Rosenhan engineered
the secret admission of eight totally normal individuals. They used fake
identities and varied their profession from the real ones. At each hospital,
they telephoned ahead for an appointment and when they arrived they
complained of hearing voices and had been primed to say three words: “empty”,
“hollow” and “thud”.
Each of the fake patients was a voluntary admission, by
the way. Each was instructed to say they no longer heard voices and to start
behaving totally normally, once they reached the psychiatric ward. The
result?
All but one of the planted cases were diagnosed as
schizophrenic! They were locked up from 7 – 52 days (brave fellows!)
Rosenhan’s conclusion: We cannot distinguish the sane from
the insane in mental hospitals.
Predictably there was widespread outrage and derision from
the public at large. Some of my older subscribers may even remember this
outcry (1973).
But Rosenhan wasn’t done yet! The furor that he evoked
suggested a further chance to humiliate the psychiatrists! He issued a new
challenge to one of the hospitals, which unwisely accepted: “Over the coming
year, I will send in another round of impostors into your hospital. You try
to detect them, knowing full well that they will be coming, and at the end of
the year, we will see how many you catch.”
From a total intake of 193 patients over the subsequent
year, the staff identified 41 possible fake patients. To which Rosenhan
gleefully announced that he had not sent in a single imposter! So he declared
that, given psychiatry’s inability to tell sane from insane individuals, they
were clearly incompetent.
It resulted in the medical insurance companies, like Aetna
and Blue Cross, slashing the mental health benefits in their policies. Their
complaint, apart from the absurdity of being unable to identify true mental
illness, was that in this one specialty, only the patient and psychiatrist
could ever know what medical services were provided and why.
I laughed so much, I nearly spilled my Mai Tai!
To your continuing mental health!
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