Chemical Psychiatry Found Dead, Murderers Identified

First, I have to admit that psychiatry and psychiatric medications saved my life more than once and helped me survive some of the worst experiences that my own mind created for me. I also have to admit that psychiatry can be life saving to others, too, under certain circumstances. Taking pills is convenient, mostly cheaper than psychotherapy, readily available to people in the remotest parts of the world, and more easily understandable to even illiterate people, even though they may have magical notions of how the pills work. I also have to admit that psychiatric medications can be beneficial if taken for a short while.

But I also strongly advocate that it is not only benzodiazepines that should not be prescribed and administered for more than a couple of weeks, because of their serious side effects. I think all psychiatric medication use and administration should be limited to a couple of weeks at most, because long term they do more harm than good, especially now that it is known that even the most serious mental disorders, i.e. schizophrenia and psychosis, as well as the most common ones, i.e. depression and anxiety, can be cured with the "talking cure", while all psychiatric meds do is to suppress the symptoms, hide the pain, and ignore the causes. In other words, psychiatry is at best only palliative medicine, not curative medicine, and never causal treatment.

I think students of medicine would best avoid specializing in psychiatry, since, although it might seem promising, instersting, and even lucrative at the present, future will see it founder miserably and stagerringly, unless something completely different and novel comes along. Besides, if medical students want to live healthier happier lives, they might want to avoid chemical psychiatry as their specialty, since psychiatrists have the highest rates of depression and suicide among all doctors. In other words, chemical psychiatry is every bit as harmful to psychiatrists as it is to the patients. (Save yourselves and others some trouble by not becoming psychiatrists.) Instead, if medical students are truly interested in helping mental patients, they could pursue careers in psychology and psychoanalysis.

Medical universities have to significantly overhaul their psychiatric education programs, if they are to remain in business. But the biggest losers of this development will be Big Pharma, losing literally billions of dollars to psychotherapists. They will put up stiff resistance, no doubt. But, they would make better use of their time, energy, and money by refocusing their research and development efforts on other ailments, which are actually more physiologically and biologiclly based.

In light of these developments, insane management laws need drastic reform, too.

I guess you are already familiar with the murderers of chemical psychiatry: Sigmund Freud, John Rosen, Revella Levin, among others. Great job, fellas. This was felicitous murder of a cruel tyrant who claimed to be benevolent, who wouldn't listen to reason, who forced himself down its victims' throats by judicial decree, who chemically imprisoned his victim's minds, who ruined his victim's lives simply because they dared be different, think differently, and speak differently, and who finally killed his victims mercilessly. Good riddance to bad rubbish. May it never wake up from its everlasting stupor.

The claims made in the last paragraph are not just baseless assertions made for the sake of rhetoric. If I find the time, I will summarize and point to the evidence in a future post. In the meantime, you can google phrases like "all-cause mortality and antidepressants", "all-cause mortality and antipsychotics", "antidepressants and risk of death", etc.

A loony's two cents. Please, write about your own experiences with psychiatry, psychiatrists, and psychiatric medications in the comments, or start your own blog about it. It is fun and therapeutic to write and interact. Thank you.