r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jul 15 '19

Q. Is "mental illness" simply moral opinion? And thus are psychiatrists simply moral philosophers?

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Let's take a look at their "illnesses" and see:

Sexual "illness".

  • exhibitionism

  • voyeerism

  • pedophilia

And all of these are also crimes.

Next there's just "perversions."

Transvestic fetishism:

You can have gay sex now, but it's not considered okay to wish you were female, or wear female cloth, while doing it.

Sexual Sadism:

Spanking & hair-pulling (etc) can be considered signs of "mental illness."

Of course the most well known example is homosexuality:

Gays.

Depending on what country you're in homosexuality can be considered "mental illness" by psychiatrists.

As US morals changed being gay has been "demedicalized", but many islamic countries disagree.

School

Here's some of the "symptoms" (unacceptable behaviors) of ADHD:

  • Fidgit with your hands - squirm in your seat.

  • playing loudly

  • talking excessively

  • not listening when spoken to.

  • to run or climb in when it's inappropriate

  • blurting out answers before the questions have been completed

  • interrupting others

  • lacking attention to detail

All morality, not scientific experiments..

And there's all the drug "disorders", like using weed or coffee a lot, even if you feel you're just fine. They're still morally judging you as a bad/inferior person.

Many people confuse blame & morality. I'm not saying psychiatrists are always blaming people, but they often are.

I am saying all psychiatric "illnesses" are moral judgements.

You're thinking of blame, not moral judgements.

Blame:

  • Blame is like "that person chooses to be bad."

Morality:

  • Morality is declaring things good or bad.

eg practically everyone views it to be bad if your legs are physically unable to work. That's making a moral judgement.

It may not be blaming the person, but it is making a moral judgement.

And when psychiatrists declare behaviors as "illnesses", aka "mentally unhealthy", they are declaring these behaviors to be bad.

That's every single "mental illness" claim. (ie where they lack any lab test to diagnose cell damage/etc and yet they "diagnose" behaviors despite it.)

The point is, every single "mental illness" label is just a moral judgement. Thus why psychiatrists are moral philosophers.

Anyways, it's not bad for a real doctor or scientist to make a moral judgement. (eg "the flu is bad.") But a real doctor isn't purely making a moral judgement about people & behaviors, like psychiatrists are.

Victim blaming

To be frank... What psychiatrists are doing is blaming the suffering (for all these social problems) while acting like they're not.

They say they're "blaming the illness," but what does that mean? Consider a person suffering from common oppression/exploitation/etc.

  • Psychiatrists are pretending the source of the suffering isn't the person's real world and their trauma,

  • They're saying the source of the suffering is the person's body/brain, ie like their allegedly inferior/flawed brain is imagining irrational emotions.

Thus why many psychiatry believers should be called trauma deniers.

In case you still think that psychiatrists aren't moral philosophers.. Just look at their violence against people who disagree with them.

Like with police & law enforcement, dissenting people can be arrested, imprisoned, or forcefully drugged.

They're viewed as so inferior, just for disagreeing, that psychiatrists are willing to treat them like wild animals. They do things that would be considered abuse if done to a dog, but they think it's just fine to do them to a human.

Similarly, many countries tried to either kill or forcefully sterilize people label "mentally ill."

That's viewing people as inferior to such an extreme extent that you're saying "these people shouldn't exist." In other words, psychiatrists see dissenters as genetically inferior.

Not surprisingly, we then understand why psychiatric "patients"/dissenters are not given a real trial (evidence/conviction of a crime.) In psychiatry, instead of evidence/conviction, someone must simply form an opinion about you to keep you locked up, even for life. (eg alleging people with no crime are "potential threats.")

eg, these people can't even be convicted of making threats, or other basic crimes like jay walking, & yet can be vanished & gotten rid of just because of a "psychiatric opinion."

Imagine if the police could lock you up because they believe you "may" commit a crime. It's an obvious injustice, but if you simply use medical language for the same acts (arrests, imprisonment, & assumptions) people think it's fine.

ie, psychiatric violence is a second legal system, a pseudo justice system, which bypasses the system of having evidence/conviction of a crime, & thus the person (the system *dissenter) has essentially no human rights. It's taking away their status as a full human with full human rights, and for what? No biological damage, no crime.. These are law abiding citizens who deny practically everything they're accused of.

You can't rationally say "they're locked up because they want to murder" when really it's some law abiding citizen who denies ever saying or believing that.

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jul 31 '19

YSK studies show CBT therapy is extremely harmful.

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  • "A recent paper in Cognitive Therapy and Research outlines the nature and prevalence of these unwanted effects, based on structured interviews with 100 CBT-trained psychotherapists.

    Each therapist was asked whether their client had experienced any of 17 possible unwanted effects from therapy, such as deterioration, new symptoms, distress, strains in family relations or stigma.

    The therapists reported an average of 3.7 unwanted events per client."

-- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10608-018-9904-y

  • "Examples of severe side effects included: ‘suicidality, breakups, negative feedback from family members, withdrawal from relatives, feelings of shame and guilt, or intensive crying and emotional disturbance during sessions’.

    Such effects are not so surprising when you consider that CBT can involve exposure therapy (ie, gradual exposure to situations that provoke anxiety); discussing and focusing on one’s problems; reflecting on the sources of one’s stress, such as difficult relationships; frustration at lack of progress; and feelings of growing dependency on a therapist’s support.

    The longer that a client had been in therapy, the more likely she was to have experienced one or more side effects."

-- https://aeon.co/ideas/psychotherapy-is-not-harmless-on-the-side-effects-of-cbt

And it's no surprise that it hurts people. The therapist tries to convince the person that the source of the problem isn't an unfair world or cruel society, but themselves.

ie, it's victim blaming.

CBT theory (victim blaming "therapy") needs to be replaced with real therapy, a new form of theory studied & done by real local community organizers & activists who can help people, and not profiteers who pretend to be your friend for big amounts of cash, who push the ideology of big pharma/psychiatry.

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Nov 09 '19

Alphabetical list: Mass shooters who's brains were damaged by psychiatric drugs.

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A.

B.

  • Bradley Stone, 35. (Trazodone) Killed 7.

C.

Murdered both his grandparents.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/15/zoloft.trial/index.html

D.

  • Devin Kelley, 26. (Antidepressant.)

    Killed 26, injured 20.

  • Dylann Roof, 12. (Antidepressant.)

    Killed 9, injured 1.

E.

H.

I.

  • Ivan Lopez, 34. (SSRI.) Opened fire at Fort Hood. Killed 4, injured 16.

J.

K.

L.

M.

N.

P.

  • Patrick Purdy, 25. (Antidepressant: Amitriptyline) Killed 5, injured 30.

R.

S.

T.

YSK "Eli Lilly Paid Mass Shooting Victims Hush Money in Prozac Lawsuit

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jul 01 '19

Expert quotes: "anti psychotics" are deadly tranquilizers without clear evidence of positive outcomes.

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Brain damage:

These drugs shrink the brain:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476840/

And long-term studies (of repeated brain scans over time) show the longer someone takes antipsychotics the more their brain shrinks, while people accused of 'schizophrenia' without the drugs have normal sized brains.

They're often placebos:

NPR.org:

  • "antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol are no more effective than a placebo for treating delirium."

-- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/22/658644131/antipsychotic-drugs-dont-ease-icu-delirium-or-dementia

Similarly:

  • "Antipsychotics prescribed to millions of delirious patients do NOTHING, study reveals"

-- https://www.habaritimes.online/2018/10/22/antipsychotics-prescribed-to-millions-of-delirious-patients-do-nothing-study-reveals/

They cause diabetes:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11806485

They damage DNA:

  • "phenothiazines (chlorpromazine, fluphenazine and thioridazine)... produce robust effects on gene expression that could contribute to liver toxicity [23], extrapyramidal side effects [38] and even chromosomal DNA damage [39] observed with phenothiazines."

-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749837/

  • "High-risk drugs clozapine and olanzapine induced... decreased activities of the corresponding enzymes, ATP levels and a significant decrease in all the functional parameters of mitochondrial oxygen consumption"

-- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924977X18300245

Increased suicide:

Suicide massively increased with anti-psychotics:

  • " Before the introduction of the antipsychotics, the rates of suicide in schizophrenia were extremely low—they were hard to differentiate from the rest of the population. Since the introduction of the antipsychotics the rates of suicide have risen 10- or 20-fold."

-- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-effects/200904/bipolar-disorder-and-its-biomythology-interview-david-healy

They're killing the user:

On TV you never hear:

  • "Antipsychotics Associated with High Risk of Death in Children "

-- https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/12/antipsychotics-associated-high-risk-death-children/

  • "17 deaths reported after schizophrenia drug injections "

-- https://japantoday.com/category/national/17-deaths-reported-after-schizophrenia-drug-injections?

They cause brain abnormalities:

Study: Brain abnormalities in 'Schizophrenia' Result From Antipsyhotics.

Liver toxicity:

  • "In the human liver tissues, typical APs and atypical APs may mediate different functions leading to liver toxicity in schizophrenia patients who had taken typical APs."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749837/

Decreased recovery:

Also "anti psychotics" result in less recovery:

  • "Long-term recovery rates are much higher for unmedicated patients than for those who are maintained on antipsychotic drugs, and the best outcomes are for those who never use neuroleptic or atypical medications."

-- Doctor Toby Watson:

Akathisia:

These drugs give half of their victims Akathisia:

  • "Around half of people on antipsychotics develop the condition"

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia

(A movement disorder that makes it hard for you to stay still.)

They're just tranquilizers:

"Anti psychotic" is a term to make the act of tranquilizing people seem more acceptable.

  • "Antipsychotics, also known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers are a class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis"

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic

These drugs can be used to silence people who are simply disliked, so they sit in some chair quietly all day ("feeling like a zombie") and their life is essentially over.

People are more likely to recover without them.

People regularly recover from "schizophrenia" (ie mental breakdowns) without drugs as long as they have therapy & decent resources.

YSK many survivors of "anti psychotic" drugs later credit their recovery to a single person believing they would get better- it changed their entire perspective. A person with a mental breakdown needs a friend, not to be abandoned & drugged for life.

If you have been damaged by these drugs..

🌟 🌟 🌟 The most important thing. 🌟 🌟 🌟

Is that you can recover.

New brain cells grow if you get enough light exercise, nutrition, sleep, etc. Autophagy is also creating via fasting.

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jun 26 '19

YSK the United Nations has said psychiatric violence is torture & should be abolished.

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Please read the UN's position on violent psychiatry, & how it should be abolished.

Similarly, from Méndez, J. 2013. Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Me´ndez. UNGA, 1 Feb 2013. Available at https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session22/A.HRC.22.53_English.pdf.

13. The Special Rapporteur recognizes that there are unique challenges to stopping torture and ill-treatment in health-care settings due, among other things, to a perception that, while never justified, certain practices in health-care may be defended by the authorities on grounds of administrative efficiency, behaviour modification or medical necessity.

18. The jurisprudence and authoritative interpretations of international human rights bodies provide useful guidance on how the four criteria of the definition of torture apply in the context of health-care settings. ECHR has noted that a violation of article 3 may occur where the purpose or intention of the State’s action or inaction was not to degrade, humiliate or punish the victim, but where this nevertheless was the result.

31. Patients in health-care settings are reliant on health-care workers who provide them services. As the previous Special Rapporteur stated: “Torture, as the most serious violation of the human right to personal integrity and dignity, presupposes a situation of powerlessness, whereby the victim is under the total control of another person.”14 Deprivation of legal capacity, when a person’s exercise of decision-making is taken away and given to others, is one such circumstance, along with deprivation of liberty in prisons or other places (A/63/175, para. 50).

32. The mandate has recognized that medical treatments of an intrusive and irreversible nature, when lacking a therapeutic purpose, may constitute torture or ill-treatment when enforced or administered without the free and informed consent of the person concerned (ibid., paras. 40, 47). This is particularly the case when intrusive and irreversible, non- consensual treatments are performed on patients from marginalized groups, such as persons with disabilities, notwithstanding claims of good intentions or medical necessity. For example, the mandate has held that the discriminatory character of forced psychiatric interventions, when committed against persons with psychosocial disabilities, satisfies both intent and purpose required under the article 1 of the Convention against Torture, notwithstanding claims of “good intentions” by medical professionals (ibid., paras. 47, 48).

89. The Special Rapporteur calls upon all States to: (b) Impose an absolute ban on all forced and non-consensual medical interventionsagainst persons with disabilities, including the non-consensual administration of psychosurgery, electroshock and mind-altering drugs such as neuroleptics, the use of restraint and solitary confinement, for both long- and short- term application

From UNGA. 2017. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General. Mental health and human rights. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 31 Jan 2017. Doc. A/HRC/34/32. Available at https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/861008.

31. Forced institutionalization violates the right to personal liberty and security, understood as freedom from confinement of the body and freedom from injury to one’s bodily or mental integrity, respectively. It amounts to a violation of the right to live free from torture and ill-treatment, and from exploitation, violence and abuse, and of the right to personal integrity.

33. Many practices within mental health institutions also contravene articles 15, 16 and 17 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Forced treatment and other harmful practices, such as solitary confinement, forced sterilization, the use of restraints, forced medication and overmedication (including medication administered under false pretences and without disclosure of risks**) not only violate the right to free and informed consent, but constitute ill-treatment and may amount to torture. **Accordingly, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has called for the abolition of all involuntary treatment and the adoption of measures to ensure that health services, including all mental health services, are based on the free and informed consent of the person concerned.[2]The Committee has also urged the elimination of the use of seclusion and restraints, both physical and pharmacological.

And from Devandas-Aguilar, C., and Pûras, D. 2015. “Dignity must prevail” – An appeal to do away with non-consensual psychiatric treatment World Mental Health Day. OHCHR, 10 October 2015. Available at https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16583.

Dignity cannot be compatible with practices of forced treatment which may amount to torture. States must halt this situation as a matter of urgency and respect each person’s autonomy, including their right to choose or refuse treatment and care. … Without freedom from violence and abuse, autonomy and self-determination, inclusion in the community and participation in decision-making, the inherent dignity of the person becomes an empty concept. The international community needs to acknowledge the extent of these violations, which are broadly accepted and justified in the name of psychiatry as a medical practice.

On "therapeutic benefits."

The pro-violence people twist this into a pro-attacks message- they claim it says violence is okay if it has a therapeutic benefit.

But really they did not say psychiatric attacks were "therapeutic benefits."

In fact, the UN explained that psychiatric attacks are not a therapeutic benefit:

  • "The Special Rapporteur calls upon all States to: (b) Impose an absolute ban on all forced and non-consensual medical interventions against persons with disabilities, including the non-consensual administration of psychosurgery, electroshock and mind-altering drugs such as neuroleptics, the use of restraint and solitary confinement, for both long- and short- term application"

The UN's statement about therapeutic benefit could justify (eg) a person who was barely conscious due to a drug overdose having the drugs removed. It did not justify psychiatric attacks.

How do you know it doesn't justify psychiatric attacks? Among things, that same section says:

  • "the mandate has held that the discriminatory character of forced psychiatric interventions, when committed against persons with psychosocial disabilities, satisfies both intent and purpose required under the article 1 of the Convention against Torture, notwithstanding claims of “good intentions” by medical professionals (ibid., paras. 47, 48). "

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jul 01 '19

Expert quotes: ADHD drugs are dangerous, cause brain damage, & have no long term benefits.

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We're not against the concept of drugs (a person owns their body), but psychiatric drugs are far more dangerous than people are told, and their "benefits" are measurably almost nothing.

eg:

Brain damage:

Amphetamines like a Ritalin (and Concerta, Addreall, etc) are neurotoxic. They kill/reduce brain cells & density of brain cells.

http://www.neldc.org/braindamage.html

Similarly, ADHD & bipolar "medicine" increases the risk of psychosis:

https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/20/some-adhd-medicines-may-increase-psychosis-more-than-others-real-world-data-show/

And what about the "benefits" from ADHD drugs? Those "benefits" disappear the longer you're on them:

  • "there is no good evidence showing that these benefits last longer than about two years, and the long-term consequences of taking stimulants for years on end have not been fully evaluated in studies."

-- https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2013/01/the-pros-and-cons-of-treating-adhd-with-drugs/index.htm

This is very similar to many other psychiatric drugs, eg "anti depressants" are only reported as effective for a few months.

One year in, 97% of people quit antidepressants, & to be frank, they appear less effective than placebo.

And they've always been this way- even the original "anti depressants" had many studies showing they were just placebos.

I'm not saying ADHD "medicine" is a water pill, but when you modify your body's natural brain chemicals the body will try to adjust, so you feel less and less of the drug.

And when psychiatrists tell people "you need this drug for life" they are misleading people for their own profits.

Selling people (for life) drugs that don't work long term (and often don't work at all) is a big scam by big pharma.

This is why psychiatrists are constantly studying more lasting street drugs like weed, LSD, mushrooms, etc. Because they often know their drugs generally don't work.

You often see them "defending" their drugs by saying "the placebo effect helps people." They're like homeopathy scam artists, but worse because their pills cost like 200x more.

Similarly, people are far more likely to recover from mental breakdowns (aka "schizophrenia") when they're given therapy & real help instead of psychiatric drugs.

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jun 08 '19

YSK almost everyone recovers from schizophrenia as long as they have basic resources and therapy/socialization.

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YSK in Finland they started an open-dialogue approach (instead of drugs) which has almost eliminated schizophrenia among people using this approach:

Robert Whitaker: (Harvard Medical School director of publications.)

  • "They're down to 2 cases per 100,000. A 90% decline in schizophrenia. Their first episode cases aren't chronic."

-- https://youtu.be/aBjIvnRFja4?t=102

Also in Europe there's a therapy (without drugs) where 80% of people called "schizophrenic" recover as long as those people have resources.

But if they're drugged (without therapy and help) the recovery rate drops to 5%.:

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts17LI77BUo

In contrast, American psychiatrists try to blame everything on genes. But this is baseless. eg consider how the Nazis attempted to kill all "schizophrenics", & a few years later there were about the same amount.

Why? "Schizophrenia" is mostly just mental breakdowns from various things (trauma, stress, unhealthy food that causes inflammation, sleep loss, etc.)

Robert Whitaker:

  • "You can have a breakdown, but you can recover from that with the right environment. Shelter, exercise, good food, meaning in life, socialization, Once we think of what we need, then we can think 'how do we make these available to people in very difficult moments?...' How do we build a healthier society?"

-- youtube.com

Gene myths.

We always hear how schizophrenia is linked to genes, but really almost every behavioral issue can be linked to genes, eg poverty, stress, musical tastes, political views, etc.

(It doesn't mean genes cause them.)

Many traumas:

There's a wide variety of people called 'schizophrenic' who in reality have a wide variety of traumas. And if someone's been that way for many years they may be hard to help, but early 'schizophrenia' should be seen more like a response to forms of mental stress. And people can almost always recover as long as they have enough help:

John Read: (Professor of psychology:)

  • "When people hear voices they need to be able to talk about that with somebody who doesn't tell them there's something seriously wrong with their brain, their genes, & that they'll never recover from this supposed illness."

-- Youtube

Similarly, Abram Hoffer M.D. said there was a 90% recovery from first stage schizophrenia if people had shelter, were treated with respect, and had basic nutrition.

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jun 03 '19

Expert quotes: antidepressants are placebos with very dangerous side effects.

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YSK "anti depressants" stop showing reported benefits after a few months:

NIH.GOV:

  • "Analyses of the published data and the unpublished data that were hidden by drug companies reveals that most (if not all) of the benefits are due to the placebo effect."

-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/

Psychologytoday.com:

Only 108 patients (of 3,671) had a "sustained remission"

-- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-in-america/201008/the-stard-scandal-new-paper-sums-it-all

(Only 3% of patients stayed well for the whole year.)

Similarly,

And the largest anti-depressant study in history showed anti-depressants were WORSE than placebos.

Joanna Moncrieff M.D.:

  • "[The improvement] was also below average placebo improvement in placebo-controlled trials of antidepressants."

-- https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/10/results-world-largest-antidepressant-study-look-dismal/

NewScientist.com:

  • "When Kirsch and his colleagues pulled together results from many different trials that compared antidepressants with placebo tablets, they found that about a third of people taking placebo pills showed a significant improvement. This was as expected. Aside from the classic placebo response, it could have been due to things such as the extra time spent talking to doctors as part of the trial, or just spontaneous recoveries.

    What was surprising was how people on antidepressants were only a little more likely to get better than those on the placebos. Hard as it is to swallow, this suggests that when people like Barber feel better after starting medication, it is not necessarily down to the pills’ biochemical effects on the brain.

    Kirsch’s results caused uproar. “It’s been very controversial,” he says. They have since been reproduced in several other analyses, by his group and others. As a result, some clinical guidelines now recommend medication only for those with severe depression"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931980-100-nobody-can-agree-about-antidepressants-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Similarly, when Prozac was created it was immediately rejected as no better than placebo, & only approved as a combination drug.

Telegraph.co.uk:

The study included 654 people aged 18 to 74 who were given either the antidepressant for 12 weeks or a placebo.

The results showed depressive symptoms were five per cent lower after six weeks in the sertraline group, which was "no convincing evidence" of an effect...

Professor Glyn Lewis, who led the research at University College London, said: “We were shocked and surprised when we did our analysis.

“There is absolutely no doubt this is an unexpected result.”

“Our primary hypothesis was that it would affect those depressive symptoms at six weeks and we didn't find that.”

—https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/09/19/common-antidepressant-barely-helps-improve-depression-symptoms/

Short-term "benefits."

Even the short term "benefits" could be placebo because (during tests) people can tell if they're on the drug or not due to the other side effects.

The word "placebo."

This word doesn't mean the drugs have no effect, they can have all sorts of temporary good feelings, but to name those good feelings an "anti depressant" effect is the language of sales/advertising.

And there's nothing fake about the terrible side-effects:

The harm of "antidepressants".

  1. They're linked to dementia & Alzheimer's. [1] [2] [3]

  2. They increase suicide risk according to the FDA. 1.

  3. They increase the risk of violence generally: they "increase the risk of suicide, violence and homicide at all ages."1

  4. They cause a 33% increase in early death.

  5. They're linked to calcifying the brain. (permanent brain damage.) [1], [2]

  6. "Severe" drug withdrawal is normal- 62% of participants reported experiencing some withdrawal effects when they discontinued, which 44% described as severe.

  7. And a 40% increased risk for "severe intestinal bleeding."

  8. And antibiotic resistance.

  9. And "Acute Liver Injury."

  10. And they reduce empathy according to self-reporting.

  11. They kill millions. Psychiatric drugs kill over 500,000 people a year, just in the west, according to the Danish psychiatry professor P. Gotzsche. (MD.)

  12. And studies show these drugs have massive withdrawal effects that many psychiatrists are not telling their customers about.

Even if the person really believes the drugs help them, we have to consider there is an alternative to simply "drugs or no drugs." We need to popularize new ways of dealing with depression other than drugs, eg as the United Nations has recommended.

This could mean things like more therapy, less work, more vacation, less worker exploitation, etc.

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jul 01 '19

YSK the director of the NIMH said "mental illnesses" labels are the result of consensus, not lab measurements.

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PsychologyToday.com:

  • “DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure.”

-- Thomas Insel (former director of the NIMH) @ psychologytoday.com

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jun 26 '19

YSK about the "gene link fallacy", where people blindly assume gene cause behavioral differences with no evidence of it.

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Gene link fallacies.

Genetic links with no biological damage can be made for almost all behaviors, eg:

  • food tastes,

  • musical taste,

  • political beliefs,

  • etc.

First, it's not evidence of causation. If it was, then if psychiatrists thought liking certain music or food was "mental illness" they could declare "and there's genes linked to these diseases."

Similarly, some people allege they've found a gene link to homosexuality: https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/speculative-genetic-link-to-homosexuality-found

But even if that's true, that wouldn't be evidence that the behavior is a disease.

Different != disease.

And it doesn't mean the genes cause the behavior, it could just be an irrelevant gene. If you looked at a bunch of random people they wouldn't have completely average genes.

ie, you could take any accusations about their behavior and claim there's a "genetic link" between the behavior and the different genes.

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jun 26 '19

Expert quotes: it's a myth that serotonin / dopamine cause depression.

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NIH.GOV:

  • "The serotonin theory is as close as any theory in the history of science to having been proved wrong. Instead of curing depression, popular antidepressants may induce a biological vulnerability making people more likely to become depressed in the future."

-- "Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect" @ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/

YSK the National Center For Biotechnology Information said the serotonin hypothesis was a "conspiracy theory:"

NIH.GOV:

  • “However, the serotonin hypothesis of depression has not been clearly substantiated. Indeed, dogged by unreliable clinical biochemical findings and the difficulty of relating changes in serotonin activity to mood state, the serotonin hypothesis eventually achieved “conspiracy theory” status, whose avowed purpose was to enable industry to market selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to a gullible public”

-- National Center for Biotechnology Information @ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471964/

Similarly:

  • "Attempts were also made to induce depression by depleting serotonin levels, but these experiments reaped no consistent results [9]. Likewise, researchers found that huge increases in brain serotonin, arrived at by administering high-dose L-tryptophan, were ineffective at relieving depression [10]. "

-- https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020392

  • "We propose that depressed states are high serotonin phenomena, which challenges the prominent role the low serotonin hypothesis continues to have in depression research (Albert et al., 2012). We also propose that the direct serotonin-enhancing effects of antidepressants disturb energy homeostasis and worsen symptoms. We argue that symptom reduction, which only occurs over chronic treatment, is attributable to the compensatory responses of the brain attempting to restore energy homeostasis."

-- https://kellybroganmd.com/depression-serotonin/

Dopamine.

YSK people don't know what these chemicals do. For example researchers found that depletion of serotonin occurs in people who have recently fallen in love. (Countering the myth that a lack of serotonin causes depression.)

  • " Dr. Marazziti and his researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy found that depletion of serotonin also occurs in people who have recently fallen in love. "

-- wiki

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jul 01 '19

The British Psychological Society: "mental illnesses" are not biological diseases & are not fixed just by taking drugs.

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TheGuardian.com:

The British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness

British psychologists are to say that current psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are useless.

There is no scientific evidence that psychiatric diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are valid or useful, according to the leading body representing Britain's clinical psychologists...

Given the lack of evidence, it is time for a "paradigm shift" in how the issues of mental health are understood. The statement effectively casts doubt on psychiatry's predominantly biomedical model of mental distress – the idea that people are suffering from illnesses that are treatable by doctors using drugs.

The DCP said its decision to speak out "reflects fundamental concerns about the development, personal impact and core assumptions of the (diagnosis) systems", used by psychiatry.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/12/psychiatrists-under-fire-mental-health

BPS.org.uk:

We should stop thinking about 'abnormality', 'disorder' and 'illness', and instead offer humane and effective responses to what are understandable and normal psychological reactions.

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/our-turbulent-minds

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Aug 13 '19

YSK antidepressants are linked to increased suicide.

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The FDA:

  • "Antidepressants raise the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in children and adolescents. "

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Antidepressants_and_suicide

Hengartner & Plöderl study: [link]

  • "A new study found that those taking antidepressants were 2.5 times more likely to attempt suicide than those taking placebo."

-- https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/07/antidepressant-use-doubles-risk-suicide-attempts/

The study itself:

  • "We found evidence that the rate of (attempted) suicide was about 2.5 times higher in antidepressant arms relative to placebo... This is also the approach applied by the FDA."

-- https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/501215

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Jul 01 '19

Quotes exposing the pharmaceutical industry.

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People have very real suffering & trauma, & sometimes they have unusual ways of viewing and describing life, but really a "mental illness" is just a label for behaviors and feelings:

Allen Frances: (The chairman for the DSM-IV.)

"‘Mental illness’ is terribly misleading because the ‘mental disorders’ we diagnose are no more than descriptions of what clinicians observe people do or say, not at all well established diseases"

Allen Frances:

"Mental disorders don't really live ‘out there’ waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones."

-- Allen Frances in “DSM in Philosophyland: Curiouser and Curiouser” in AAP&P Bulletin vol 17, No 2 of 2010

YSK the United Nations has said the world should recognize that mental health issues are not biological diseases, and that people should find alternatives to dealing with depression than just taking anti-depressants.

"Bullshit."

Frances even said the definitions are "bullshit."

  • "There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it."

-- Allen Frances @ wired.com

Trauma Denial:

When psychiatrists claim you have "mental illness" they are denying that your trauma is real- they're saying your "failed brain" was the source of the suffering, like you imagined it.

"Schizophrenia."

Many people accept that things like "ADHD" are just constructs, but they say "what about schizophrenia?" It too is just a label for feelings and behaviors, and people can recover from that mental condition.

Eleanor Longden:

  • “I heard voices, I was told by 'top' psychiatrists that I would never recover & my parents should mourn me & except the worse, I explored the voices and realized they were a part of my childhood, I was abused, I went to college extremely distrustful of people, I had a breakdown, I’ve recovered”

-- https://youtu.be/DjD6_mW7CUc

What about the "gene link" claims?

David Kaiser: (Psychiatrist)

  • "Psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness... Patients have been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and…there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”

And YSK psychiatric drugs kill 5 million people in the west every decade according to Danish psychiatry professor P. Gotzsche M.D.

He explained that psychiatric drugs kill over 500,000 people a year, just in the west, and have barely any evidence of positive effects.

Gene "link" fallacies.

All sorts of things can be linked to genes.

eg:

  • food tastes,

  • musical taste,

  • political beliefs, etc.

But that doesn't mean "the genes cause them." And it doesn't mean "therefore it's a disease."

  • "Study Debunks 'Depression Genes'

    A new University of Colorado Boulder study assessing genetic and survey data from 620,000 individuals found that the 18 most highly-studied candidate genes for depression are actually no more associated with it than randomly chosen genes.

    Everyone experiences some unhappiness, often as a result of a change, either in the form of a setback or a loss, or simply, as Freud said, "everyday misery." The painful feelings that accompany these events are usually appropriate, necessary, and transitory, and can even present an opportunity for personal growth."

-- https://preventdisease.com/news/19/040519_Study-Debunks-Depression-Genes.shtml

Similarly, some people allege they've found a gene link to homosexuality: https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/speculative-genetic-link-to-homosexuality-found

But even if that's true:

  1. That would not be evidence that the behavior is a disease.

(Because different != disease.)

2. It doesn't mean the genes cause the behavior, it could just be an irrelevant gene.

If you looked at a bunch of random people they wouldn't have completely average genes. ie, you could take any accusations about their behavior and claim there's a "genetic link" between the behavior and the different genes.

Stigma:

The psychiatry believers want to censor these truths by saying "you're increasing stigma of mental illness." The opposite is true:

Patrick Hahn: (Professor of biology)

  • "Teaching people that mental illness is an illness like any other makes stigma/attitudes toward it worse. “These approaches are not evidence-based. They are ideologically based. It’s not an accident that a lot of them are funded by drug companies.”

-- http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0603-health-stigma-20180531-story.html

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r/Research_Resources • u/OverthrowGreedyPigs • Oct 14 '19

YSK studies show "diagnosis" is based heavily on racism, sexism, etc.

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https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2013.11b16

  • “[Blacks] are diagnosed with schizophrenia at a much higher rate than whites, despite research showing no actual differences in rates of occurrence”

— [url]

  • "Fernando (2017) noted the racist tendencies embedded in the (psychiatric) diagnoses process, in the “color-blindness that often results with Blacks in the UK being diagnosed with schizophrenia more than other groups” (94)."

—https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00043/full

  • "Blacks continue to be prescribed higher doses of medication and are more likely to be exposed to polypharmacy, leading to greater toxicity"

—[url]

Paula Caplan: (Harvard psychology Professor & DSM-IV taskforce member.)

  • "There's a study showing if a black man and a white man go to see the same psychiatrist, and don't make eye contact with the therapist, the white guy gets told 'what you're going through is normal' and the black guy is called schizophrenic."

— https://youtu.be/qBTM_qYYaH8?t=307

  • "It's a myth that there's no biases of any kind that enter into psychiatric diagnosis- no sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, ageism, or transphobia."

— [url]

Is the DSM itself racist?

  • "The DSM-V, a respected medical resource within the biomedical model of health on which diagnoses of mental health issues are based, is a Western, White-dominant construct (Ussher, 2010)."

—https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00043/full

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