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Human

Mad in America

Everything that I had been told was part of an elaborate, profiteering form of mass human control by psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. In my desperation and loneliness, I had been the perfect psychiatric victim. Only a little bit,” they nonchalantly responded.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

Mad in America

If one reads the ADM literature, it is quite apparent that the pharmaceutical industry—with the help of psychiatry—since day one has been involved in a cover up of the dangerousness of these drugs. of the drugs reviewed had two or fewer cases of violence, which is reassuring for most pharmaceuticals. meprobamate) as well.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

Mad in America

However, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, by skillfully manipulating the media, have convinced physicians and the public at large that these psychosocial factors in health are really brain diseases and there are drugs available that will effectively treat those psychosocial factors in physicians’ patients!

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. A century ago, Paul Ehrlich, whose research helped create the modern pharmaceutical industry, saw the ideal medicine as a Magic Bullet, a drug that hits a target without causing collateral damage. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Standard treatments like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) are effective for both MDD and GAD.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

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I’m diagnosing a depressive and anxiety disorder and recommending medication.” So I just thought that maybe I needed to change pharmaceuticals, not change who I was and my perspective. She called my mother one day, I didn’t know this at the time and said, “I’m recommending a psychiatrist.