Real Disease vs. Mental ‘Disorder’
Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases. There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder as a physical condition. This is not to say that people do not get depressed, or that people cant experience emotional or mental duress, but psychiatry has repackaged these emotions and behaviours as disease in order to sell drugs. This is a brilliant marketing campaign, but it is not science. more »
Psychiatric Disorders Voted Into Existence
Psychiatrys diagnostic criteria are literally voted into existence and inserted into the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM). What is voted in is a system of classification of symptoms that is drastically different from, and foreign to, anything in medicine. None of the diagnoses are supported by objective evidence of physical disease, illness or science. more »
Psychiatry Admits It Has No Cures
“We dont have the methods of curing these illnesses yet. Dr. Rex Cowdry, psychiatrist and director of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1995 more »
No Brain Scans For Mental Illness
Psychiatrists claim that brain scans now show brain changes that prove mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and depression, are brain-based. There is no scientific evidence to prove this: it remains what the fine print in the studies tell you: suggests, may and it is hoped. more »
No Genetic Proof of Mental Illnesses
No claim for a gene for a psychiatric condition has stood the test of time, in spite of popular misinformation. Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist more»
Mental Health Screening
Mental Health Screening is based on the subjective and unscientific diagnostic system developed by psychiatrists predominantly with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Today, such screening has become so much a part of many doctor’s surgeries, businesses and even school systems that few people question the ramifications screening presents. more »
Screening Children
Mental health screening of children asks young students embarrassing, personal and potentially upsetting questions that psychiatrists have worded in such a way that no student could escape being labelled mentally ill at some point during their education. These questionnaires can result in psychological or psychiatric intervention in lives of a child and his or her family – often against their will or under threat. Psychiatrists and psychologists working within the schools have also pressured teachers to conduct these screenings on students. more »