Our fears are just natural
There’s no doubt people are facing new challenges in life due to the difficulties that have gone hand-inhand with recent and ongoing local and national
restrictions as a result of the global pandemic.
The stresses facing companies, employers, employees, and individuals are beyond anything that could have been envisaged.
However, the natural fears, uncertainties, insecurities, and stresses exhibited by concerned citizens are being misinterpreted and redefined before being categorised as so-called mental illness that requires
“treatment”.
It reflects a notorious psychiatric practice called disease-mongering, defined as the act of convincing essentially well people that they are sick or slightly sick people that they are very ill.
Life situations are being unscientifically turned into psychiatric conditions, where people from every walk of life consider they have something wrong with them and demand a pill as the answer.
An example is loneliness which has been the plight of many during these unprecedented times.
It has led scientists to consider the idea of a pharmaceutical drug as a "treatment”.
But loneliness isn’t an illness unless you’re an unscrupulous entrepreneur who’s looking to cash in.
Expensive psychiatric drugs however don’t heal or cure anything.
They cover up or mask a person’s problems, creating a false impression that something therapeutic is happening.
This becomes apparent when reality hits and the effects of the mind-altering drug wear off.
Users are then left to cope with the mental effects of the drugs which include anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, nightmares, trembling, exhaustion, irritability, hostility and aggression.
We must be alert to these frequent drug effects so that they’re not mistakenly blamed on just "more mental illness”.
Brian Daniels.
National Spokesperson, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom).
“We’ve seen a huge increase in demand for our bereavement support service.”