Teesside Evening Gazette

The drugs don’t work

- Brian Daniels, National Spokespers­on, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom)

DRAMATIC soundbites from psychiatri­sts and their membership body paint a bleak picture of the future.

As the supposed custodians of mental health, they do nothing constructi­ve to alleviate natural concerns or to restore mental strength and wellness.

As a result of their junk science and pessimism, they are turning people of all ages into psychiatri­c patients. Whether it’s children, adolescent­s, adults or the elderly, psychiatri­sts are continuall­y manufactur­ing new ‘disorders’ to pigeon-hole what is considered undesirabl­e behaviour and which, in their view, requires ‘treatment.’

When so many aspects of human behaviour are unscientif­ically redefined and given a fancy psychiatri­c name, it can appear as though there’s an epidemic of mental illness. But that’s not true. Don’t be fooled.

The default setting for psychiatri­sts is to prescribe mindalteri­ng drugs to chemically mask or chemically restrain behaviour patterns. The effects of psychiatri­c drugs can make it look as though something therapeuti­c has occurred to a person who has been labelled. But this isn’t the case.

All that has happened is a foreign substance, the psychiatri­c drug, has been introduced to the body and is disrupting the normal biochemist­ry. Sometimes the disruption creates a false high, a temporary feeling of euphoria, short-lived bursts of increased energy or an abnormal sense of heightened alertness.

The drugs can speed up the normal functions of the body or slow them down, dam them up or overwhelm them and is the reason why people experience side-effects.

And don’t be fooled into thinking the drugs heal anything. They are intended to cover up or ‘mask’ problems. Meanwhile, they tend to wear out the body.

Psychiatri­sts commonly repeat the mantra that benefits of treatment outweigh the risks but consider this; if a person has a bad reaction to a specific drug, they have a habit of swapping it for another one, all the while failing to address the real cause of the problem, continuing to chemically restrain the person and causing even more difficulti­es for the patient.

There is no question that some people suffer from severe emotional problems. However, through the redefiniti­on of ‘normal,’ psychiatri­sts and drug companies have built themselves a lucrative niche, creating a multi-million pound industry that is feeding at the public trough.

By their own admission, psychiatri­sts don’t know the causes or cures for any mental disorder. If they had a Eureka moment and discovered the real causes and cures, psychiatry would go out of business.

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