August 1, 2005

Tom Cruise is right. Psychiatry is a pseudoscience. There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the brain. And psychiatric drugs are very harmful. The proof is easy to come by.

The fact that he's getting slammed by the press and talk show hosts also proves something. It proves that the multibillion-dollar brainwashing campaign put forth by the drug companies and the APA (American Psychiatric Association) has been successful.

I'm sure you've seen the cute little Zoloft cartoons. A sad circle takes Zoloft and turns into a happy circle. How wonderfully simple it all is. But let's take a look at what the commercial is actually saying:
“No one knows what causes depression. One theory is that there's a chemical imbalance in your brain. Zoloft works to correct this imbalance.”

All right, let's examine these statements. “No one knows what causes depression.” I can live with that.
Line two: “One theory is that there's a chemical imbalance in the brain.” No problem. Its a theory.
Line three: “Zoloft works to correct this imbalance.” What! In three lines we went from “No one knows…,” to “One theory is…,” to Zoloft cures it! Cures what? A theory?

And the average person watching this overt lie doesn't get it. They're also not told that Zoloft and all the other psychiatric drugs can cause depression, suicide and mania, to mention just a few side effects. (Many psychiatric patients experience these things when taking the drugs. The doctors tell them that they always had these mental disorders and that the drug is just bringing them out. Another lie.)

Out of the millions of people who have been told by their doctors that they have a chemical imbalance in their brain, not one of them can show you their lab test report.
Why? Because there are no lab tests for chemical imbalances in the brain. In fact, no one knows exactly what the chemical balance of the brain should be. What we do know for sure is that drugs cause a chemical imbalance in the body. The diagnosis, like all psychiatric diagnosis is completely subjective. “But,” you say, “they are the experts in the field of the mind. Surely if they say I'm crazy I must be crazy!”

Well, exactly how expert are they? In her book, Whores of the Court, Dr. Margaret Hagen points out that child psychological professionals are worse than chance at determining when kids are lying. That in almost two out of three cases psych professionals incorrectly predict which criminals will repeat their offenses. And that therapy for convicted sex offenders and batterers doesn't work.

The magazine, Psychology Today, had an article a few years back showing that mental health experts had more suicides, more drug abuse problems and more divorces than any other profession. Would you take your car to a mechanic who couldn't fix his own car?
Is psychiatry a pseudoscience?

Psychology and psychiatry went wrong 100 years ago when they decided to use a medical model for mental and spiritual problems. Claiming that man was nothing more than a stimulus-response animal with no soul, all mental problems became medical problems with the brain. This meant they were forced to look for physical solutions to all mental and spiritual problems (drugs, lobotomies, shock treatment).