Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
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Friday, July 17, 2015

120 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with mental disorders and placed on psychiatric drugs, which carry 286 international drug regulatory agency warnings, as ‘treatment.’ The general public has been lead to believe that a diagnosis of mental disorder is the same as a legitimate medical diagnosis of disease, which is false. Any diagnosis of mental disorder is dependent solely upon the psychiatrist’s opinion, reading through checklists of behaviors that define the various “mental disorders” contained within in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The disorders listed within the DSM are arrived upon by psychiatrists literally voting on what is, or is not, considered a mental disorder. Unlike the rest of medicine, mental disorders are arrived at by a political, not medical process. This is why a person diagnosed with one mental disorder, can see another psychiatrist who decides he has a completely different mental disorder. There are no medical tests to prove either psychiatrist’s diagnosis is wrong, because there are no medical tests to prove either psychiatrist is right. The statements above are not opinion. In the United States, the nation’s leading mental health organization is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and this is what the head of NIMH stated in 2013:

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‘Mental illness’ is terribly misleading because the ‘mental disorders’ we diagnose are no more than descriptions of what clinicians observe ...