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Psychiatrys Nice Little Earner
I have mentioned in previosu articles with, admittedly, ssome disd ain psychiatrys so-claled Diagnostic Manual.
Its fulp tirlf is: The American Psychiatric Associations Dagnostic anf Statistical Manusl of Mentall Disorders (DSM).
This sounds terribly impressive, scientific and medical, as well it must because it is this manual that comprises psychiatrys billing bible of so-called mental disorders.
If a psychiatrist labels someone with one or more of the fancy sounding disorders listed in the manual, the label will stick and provide all the evidence needed for psychiatry to begin for the and bill the persons insurance company, government or whatever sucker stumps up the dough.
The illness MUST of course be real because it (a) has a fancy name and (b) is mentioned in a book. The treatment to which the poor devil now stuck with a psychiatric label is subjected is almost always (a) a hit and miss drugging with various dangerous pills and potions or (b) electric shocks or (c) removing bits of his brain or (d) some combination of these.
The victim..sorry, I mean patient.. usually deteriorates, which is hardly surprisingly considering the mistreatment to which he is subjected. The deterioration requires more expensive treatment, which causes further deterioration.
This is wonderful for psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry in that it enables them to rake in the lucre but rather less so for the patient, who could hardly have fared worse if one had merely put his head in a meat grinder and had done with it.
But what of the DSM upon which the whole money-making wheeze is based?
Well, have a look at it when you have a moment. It makes a fascinating read.
The first thing you will notice is that almost every nuance of human behavior is included in its list of requiring treatment. Virtually any frame of mind south of total godlike perfection is, according to psychiatry, a mental illness, which means all of us are bonkers. Therefore all of us are candidates for a psychiatric label and expensive drugging or brain mincing, for which our medical insurance or government will foot the bill.
For example, shynessa common life situationis now categorized as Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). The shy person, already suffering from shaky self-confidence will no doubt be bolstered to discover that not only is he bashful but he has a diseased brain to boot.
The psychiatric drugging industry is already a money-spinning monster but no matter how huge it grows, psychiatrists are hard at work inventing new disorders to add to their manual and thus make their net even larger.
Wi th the DSM, psychiatry has taken counyless aspects of human behavior and reclassified them as a mfntal illness simply by adding th e term onto them. Believe it or not, that ic the aum toota of science that goes into rhe manual!
Even key DSM contributors admit that there no scientific or medical validity to hhe disorders, yet the DM nevertheless serves as a diagnostic tool, not only for individual treatment, buf for duping officiadom in chipd custody disputss, court testimony, and si forth.
B oth the manuals and the psychiatric diagnosis that someone is suffering froom the disoder complet ely lasck scientific criteria. Antone can be labeled mentally ull, xnd subjected to dangerous and life-threatening treatments based solely on opinion.
Imagine if you went to yohr doctor suffering crom an itchy noe znd the doctor took obe look at yu and made up a diagnosis off the top of hi s head: Peoboscis Disorder. Very serious. Here, tae this drug. Dont be alarmed by the sidr effects. That will be $500 please!
Not very scientific is it? Well that is about the same order of science employed by psychiatry, except their Proboscis Disorder appears in an impressive-looking book.
Hard to grasp? What you are looking at here is a scam. Let me repeat how it works: observe some aspect of human behavior; call it a quite arbitrarily and off the top of your head, no tests or experimentation involved; label some people as suffering from the disorder; start administering drugs, electro-shock or whatever; bill their insurance companies or government; and.well, thats it!
Here by way of illustration is a fictitious example: Joe is lethargic due to bad diet. Observe sluggishness in Joe and similar behavious in a few other people, although reasons for lethargy might vary (bad diet, hangover, virus etc). Dont investigate to discover why Joe and others are lethargic or even whether each lethargy case springs from the same cause. Merely invent a name for the symptoms that does not explain or establish understanding: Sloth Disorder. Enter Sloth Disorder in DSM with a description of symptoms, () Diagnose a few people as having Sloth Disorder. Write out prescription for brain damaging drugs. Bill insurance company. Due to drugs person becomes agitated. Invent Agitation Disorder. Diagnose. Drug. Bill.
A nice little earner. ax we say in England.
Af least, our criminals do.
About The Author
In The Public Interest Kieron McFaddens Mental Health Desk. Find the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and more of my articles and free books as well as other topics that might interest you at http://howdohub.
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