More care and love
It's undeniable that we are all facing stresses while navigating through the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The challenges facing organisations, employees, and individuals are staggering.
But, it would be a tragedy if the natural fears of COVID-19 are redefined as “mental disorders”, opening the door to psychiatric “treatment”.
This is where diseasemongering comes into view.
It’s a practice defined as the act of convincing essentially well people that they are sick or slightly sick people that they are very ill.
Psychiatrists know about this practice. Drug companies know about it. Advertising executives throughout the world know about it too.
By using it, I believe some psychiatrists and drug companies have carved out a lucrative market niche.
It’s a strategy that turns life situations into psychiatric disease states, getting people of every walk of life to worry and to demand a pill.
Disease-mongering campaigns create the illusion of widespread mental illness, where, I suggest, some psychiatrists promote mind-altering psychiatric drugs known to have serious damaging effects.
A common side effect is called akathisia, commonly found in people taking antipsychotic drugs or antidepressants.
Akathisia is a terrible feeling of anxiety, an inability to sit still, a feeling that one wants to crawl out of his or her skin.
It’s behind much of the violence to self and others that’s seen in those taking psychiatric drugs.
Don’t however think that psychiatric drugs heal anything.
They are intended to cover up or “mask” problems.
Meanwhile, they tend to wear out the body. Mental effects include anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, nightmares, trembling, exhaustion, irritability, hostility and aggression.
The patient and their family must be alert to these frequent drug effects so that they’re not mistakenly blamed on just “more mental illness”.
During these unprecedented times, the care and love that's been shown for each other has been both heart-warming and humbling .
These human qualities don’t have serious or damaging side effects.
They only have positive effects.
It would be a good idea to increase their dosage now and into the future. Brian Daniels, National Spokesperson. Citizens Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom).
“These human qualities don’t have serious or damaging side effects.”