“Bipolar Disorder”

Psychiatry makes “unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin. … This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naive and perhaps delusional,” says psychiatrist David Kaiser.

Bipolar Disorder is supposedly characterized by alternating episodes of depression and mania—thus, “two poles” or “bipolar.” In January 2002, the eMedicine Journal reported: “The etiology and pathophysiology (functional changes) of bipolar disorder (BPD) have not been determined, and no objective biological markers exist that correspond definitively with the disease state.” Nor have any genes “been definitively identified” for BPD.

Craig Newnes, psychological therapies director of a Community and Mental Health Service in Shropshire, England, related the story of three psychiatrists who told a feisty grandmother that her grandson had bipolar disorder caused by a “brain-biochemical imbalance.” Quietly, but firmly, she asked what evidence they had that there was something wrong with his brain. They said his mood and behavior indicated a serious problem. She asked how they knew this was caused by brain chemistry. Her grandson was quickly transferred to a unit that offered “talking therapies” instead of drugs. “Imagine the same situation in oncology: you are told that you look like you have cancer, offered no tests, and told you will have two operations, followed by radiotherapy and a course of drugs that makes your hair fall out. The idea is preposterous …. Next time you are told that a psychiatric condition is due to a brain-biochemical imbalance, ask if you can see the test results,” said Newnes.

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