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Depression
Continuing the fraudulent medical analogy, psychiatrists commonly claim
today that depression is also an “illness, just like heart disease or
asthma.”
The DSM says that five out of nine criteria must be met to diagnose
depression, including deep sadness, apathy, fatigue, agitation, sleep disturbances
and appetite change. Even psychiatrists are concerned about such attempts to
“make an illness out of what looks to be life’s normal ups and downs.”
Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Glenmullen says, “… [T]he symptoms [of depression]
are subjective emotional states, making the diagnosis extremely vague.”
Dr. Glenmullen says the superficial checklist rating scales used to screen
people for depression are “designed to fit hand-in-glove with the effects of
drugs, emphasizing the physical symptoms of depression that most respond to
antidepressant medication. … While assigning a number to a patient’s depression
may look scientific, when one examines the questions asked and the scales used,
they are utterly subjective measures based on what the patient reports or a
rater’s impressions.”
David Healy, psychiatrist and director of the North Wales Department of Psychological
Medicine reports, “There are increasing concerns among the clinical community
that not only do neuroscientific developments not reveal anything about the
nature of psychiatric disorders but in fact they distract from clinical research.
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Prof. Szasz points out: “If schizophrenia, for example, turns out to have a
biochemical cause and cure, schizophrenia would no longer be one of the diseases
for which a person would be involuntarily committed. In fact, it would then
be treated by neurologists, and psychiatrists would then have no more to do
with it than they do with Glioblastoma [malignant tumor], Parkinsonism, and
other diseases of the brain.”
“Schizophrenia
is defined so vaguely that, in actuality, it is a term often applied to
almost any kind of behavior of which the speaker disapproves.”
— Dr. Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus, 2002
“No one has anything
but the vaguest idea of the chemical effects of [psychotropic] drugs on
the living human brain.”
— Dr. Joseph
Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School
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