CCHR Int

Here are interviews with psychiatrists at the American Psychiatric Association in 2006. Now 20 years later they still have no confirmatory tests for any mental disorder, they still play trial and error with drugs and still have no idea if the drugs will "work" or not.

@keepontruckin78 We are filing complaints with the review boards and oversight agencies in Canada but you are right, the law needs to be changed and that is not just in Canada. cchrint.org/2023/07/10/inv…

If BC’s Mental Health Act can detain a researcher with no charges and “deem” him to consent to forced drugs, the problem isn’t just one psychiatrist. It’s the law. And it needs to be ripped apart in open court. #SaveNicholasWagter

The APA has begun to develop deprescribing guidelines (40 years too late) not out of care for patients, but out of fear of power - the government has had enough & this scares them... To bias it, the APA has commissioned the most pharma-compromised Drs in the US to write them...😏

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.@GSK aggressively marketed Paxil off-label for children from 1998 to 2003 until trials showed it increased risk of suicide in teens. A 2004 lawsuit revealed GSK had actively buried negative safety and efficacy data regarding children while publishing a fraudulent study (written by a ghostwriter) claiming Paxil is safe and effective for teens. This study (Study 329) was never retracted. Full interview with psychiatric RN David Wayne at 4:30pm CT

Veteran journalist Douglas Kennedy exposed the links between antidepressants, suicide, and violence as well as the chemical imbalance fraud as far back as 2001 and continued with more than 25 exposes.

Few people realize the chemical imbalance theory arose out of the "Decade of the Brain", a U.S. presidential initiative from 1990–1999 aimed at boosting neuroscience research and public awareness. At this time, psychiatry was being heavily criticized for being unscientific with the field questioned for its reliance on subjective symptoms rather than any evidence of physical abnormality that could be verified by test. And so, to bolster its credibility and secure funding, psychiatry began heavily promoting the chemical imbalance theory. There was never any test to prove a chemical imbalance. It was marketing.

Dr. Thomas Szasz—"You have to have a term in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual [of Mental Disorders] in order to then call it a disease and treat it as a disease and write a prescription for it. When I went to medical school, there were only six or seven items in the manual. Now there are over 300. I mean, you mean to tell me that there have been 294 new diseases discovered in the last 60 years? In psychiatry alone? It's a joke. It's an epidemic of psychiatry that we are dealing with. We don't have an epidemic of mental illness. We have an epidemic of psychiatry. You eat too much, it's a disease. It's an addiction. You smoke too much, it's a disease. You are too unhappy, it's a disease. You're too thin, it's a disease. You're too fat, it's a disease. You have too little sex, it's a disease. You have too much sex, it's a disease. No free will. It's all chemicals. No self-discipline. No self-control. A chemical imbalance meshes very well with the idea that you give a drug which restores the balance. It's a story. A mythology. A fable. Now this is, it’s not just psychiatry, it’s the whole psychiatrization of the culture. Now what’s more toxic, Zoloft or beer? Amen, case closed. Nobody has yet measured, demonstrated, or created a test to show that somebody has a chemical imbalance in their brain. Period. Psychiatrists are getting further and further away from this human-to-human touch. They’re becoming more and more quacks where they talk and act and impersonate doctors... about which they know nothing. Zero. It’s not science, it’s politics and economics. Behavior control. It is not science. It is not medicine. This is so big that it boggles the mind." Dr Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Thomas Szasz, Lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, "Psychiatrists are getting further and further away from this human to human touch...It's not science. It's politics and economics. Behavior control. It is not science. It is not medicine"

Let’s never forget the 1991 FDA advisory committee hearings were on the emergence of violence and suicide with Prozac. It’s time we hold investigations like we did with suicide in mid 2000s. To this day, there are been no federal investigations. Thankfully, Tennessee after the just passed legislation to test for therapeutic levels of psychotropic drugs and other relevant substances in shooters. Great job @ablechild and Amy Miller for tireless dedication.

Precedent setting - The newly passed Tennessee law will test therapeutic levels of psychiatric drugs in cases of mass violence. Results go to University of Tennessee for study, with quarterly reports to state legislators.

Decades ago this article exposed the Psycho-pharmaceutical playbook. “Disorders Made to Order” shows how Psychiatry + Pharma hyped mental disorders via PR firms, paid psychiatrists & fake patient groups and pushed Paxil/Prozac to drive massive SSRI sales. That’s why millions are on psychiatric drugs today. The same playbook the psycho-pharmaceutical industry is still running. motherjones.com/politics/2002/…