ECT psychs aren’t telling patients the truth
ECT psychiatrists and device manufacturers aren’t telling patients the truth about ECT side effects and this is now resulting in legal consequences Still pushing marketing over science
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And just how is psychiatry improving mental health?
An examination of two countries that are among the highest psychiatric drug use per capita in the world finds that both have long statistical trends of increased suicides.
Psychiatry’s DSM – just a bunch of opinions
Psychiatry’s influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is only based on the consensus of opinions of a small number of American Psychiatric Association psychiatrists, rather than science.
Danish study finds the more psychiatric treatment, the greater risk of suicide
Despite attempts to explain away shocking outcomes, the bottom line is that persons receiving psychiatric interventions were found to more likely commit suicide
What’s gone wrong with Australia’s youth mental health?
With youth suicide rates rising from the mid 2000s and astonishing increases in psychiatric drugs being prescribed, where have things gone wrong with the handling of youth mental health?
Antipsychotics – a horrible replacement for even worse alternatives
When the first antipsychotic, chlorpromazine, emerged in the 1950s it was gleefully described by psychiatrists as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ – as though this was something to aim for.
Akathisia – side effects of psychiatric drugs
“It may be less of a question of patients experiencing fluoxetine-induced suicidal ideation than patients feeling that ‘death is a welcome result’ when the acutely discomforting symptoms of akathisia are experienced on top of already distressing…
Chemical imbalance – psychiatry as a pharma marketing tool
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of contributions from psychiatrists in support of the chemical imbalance theory, some leading voices in the field deny there ever was a theory and the public have been misled. It was all somehow pharmaceutical marketing at fault.
Rape and sexual assault by psychiatrists
“In every house where I come, I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women and men.”
ECT: Is this the best you can do?
It is estimated that the use of ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) in the USA alone provides around 1.8 billion dollars in annual income to psychiatry. It is big business and that business is being protected.
Neuroscience is failing psychiatry
“Unfortunately, it is still not possible to cite a single neuroscience or genetic finding that has been of use to the practicing psychiatrist in managing these illnesses despite attempts to suggest the contrary.”
The lunacy of lobotomy
If any activity in psychiatry conjures up pictures of lunatic psychiatrists running around performing sadistic human experimentation on terrified patients, it is lobotomy.
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