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The promotion of the fraudulent "depression industry", in cahoots with the pharmaceutical industry and the corrupted psychiatric profession
Updated Oct 5, 2019
The use of anti-depressants and other psychiatric drugs is now widespread, even among young children (!), and is wreaking destruction on society, like a cancer, including a monumental increase in suicides resulting from the psychosis (= mental illness) that the use of these drugs often causes. Probably more than 30% of the U.S. adult population are currently using anti-depressants and this percentage is considerably higher among military veterans. This situation is similar in most other Western countries such as Australia.
There is strong political backing (e.g., see here) behind this "depression industry". Now we have private (i.e. for profit) "help" organizations that funnel people with emotional and psychological problems into becoming addicted to psychiatric medications, while at the same time, state-run mental health departments are being de-funded.
One prominent company in the field of privatized mental health services is Headspace.
The major explanation for this is, of course, the many, many billions of dollars that the pharmaceutical industry and the depression industry in general are making each year from this fraud. (In addition, I would not be surprised if part of this might be a long-term mass experiment to see how different types of psychiatric drugs can be used to make the population more amenable to control.)
If you doubt my claim about this depression industry, just keep your eyes and ears open for how often the topics of "depression", 'mental health" or "mental illness" pop up in the mainstream media nowadays. The aim is to keep the word, "depression" prominent in people's consciousness and make more and more people imagine that their occasional periods of sadness associated with the normal ups and downs of life are reasons to start using anti-depressants. Of course, these drugs are legally and widely advertised on TV in the U.S. A secondary aim, I suspect, is to propagate misinformation among the population in order to counteract the information and opinions such as those expressed on this page. The "voice of authority" is used this way to make these opinions appear to be "extremist" or "non-scientific" and to marginalize the people who express these opinions as "kooks" and "conspiracy theorists".
But once people start using anti-depressants, a large number of them then find that real, and much more severe depression than before is afflicting them, especially if they fail to continue using the drugs.
Even the normal human emotion of anxiety is now classified as a form of psychiatric "illness", requiring medication. No governments are willing to disclose the true statistics, but the number of suicides in society resulting from this fraud in the past 25 years has absolutely skyrocketed. This is truly evil!
There is a lot of information about this on the internet. Here are just a few links:
Try this article to begin - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4726134/Can-pills-depression-turn-killer.html
1) Bruce Levine
The Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America This article is also found here
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psych-drug-corp/bruce-levine-psychopharmaceutical-complex
http://brucelevine.net/?s=The+U.S.+Psycho-Pharmaceutical-Industrial+Complex&submit=Search
Webpage: http://brucelevine.net
2) http://www.ssristories.com/
4) 'Military Deaths Linked to Prescribed Psych Drugs'
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/779/56
This article includes the following statement: "With suicides now an alarming 18 per day (22 per day by 2014) and 950 attempts per month, it's disturbing to note that almost 40 percent of the Army's suicide victims in recent years have been on psychiatric drugs, especially SSRI antidepressants like Paxil, Effexor, Zoloft and Prozac."
But the article only mentions people who were using SSRI drugs at the time of their suicide; it did not include those who were withdrawing from these drugs, which is a major time for suicides.
In order to explain the number of military suicides, articles on this topic usually write about "post traumatic stress disorder" (PTSD), traumatic brain injury caused by explosives, and the fact that many soldiers are under stress because they have to serve multiple terms in Iraq or Afghanistan. But the veterans from the Vietnam War, the Korean War or WW2 did not commit suicide at anywhere near the same rate and the Vietnam War, if not the other wars, was certainly traumatic for those who served there.
My father,
for example, was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for 3 years during WW2 and although I
think he suffered some post-traumatic stress depression at times through his life as a result
of his wartime experiences, it was certainly nowhere near enough for him to consider
suicide. In fact, he very much valued living. Not only
that, a large number of military suicides in the U.S. are among soldiers
who have not yet been deployed to any war zone and therefore would
not be suffering PTSD as a result of war.
5) A Few Videos
Video - "Dead Wrong"
http://www.cchr.org/videos/dead-wrong.html
Video - "Making a Killing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHlLRge45sg
Video - "Antidepressants—Addiction and Withdrawal" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpex0n0DXuc
Video - Sharp rise in kids two or under given psychiatric drugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAKFcyGwpbA
6) Dr. Peter Breggin
His website - http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
There are several good videos on his website but the video of his 2010 testimony before a U.S. Congress committee that was concerned about suicides in the military is especially important to watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SBJfZtB_3cc. More information about that testimony is on the following page - http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=286
7) Robert Whitaker
Robert Whitaker: Our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4guc7Q8PaQ
The Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America This article also found here
http://www.c-span.org/video/?293935-1/book-discussion-anatomy-epidemic (1.5 hrs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whitaker_%28author%29
Website - http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Home.html
8) Dr. Peter Gøtzsche
Dr. Gotzshe is a powerful voice against the fraud of psychiatric medication. The website of his organization, The Cochrane Collaboration, says that over 30,000 medical experts around the world are co-operating with his organization – http://www.cochrane.org/.
The following video shows him speaking - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VIIQVll7DYY (watch especially after the 2 minutes 50 seconds point.)
Here is another interview of Dr. Gotzsche –
http://www.anh-europe.org/ANH-Intl+Exclusive+Interview+with+Dr+Peter+Gotzsche+author+of+Deadly+Medicines+and+Organised+Crime
9) Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy
a) Statement before a U.S. Congress Committee, 2006 (3 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0-XzEq3x8
b) Radio interview, The Danger of SSRI's (antidepressants), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXSoiziPdek
c) Article, May 2016, "ANTIDEPRESSANT SUICIDE OR MURDER?"
10) Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry
Their Youtube homepage is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8eIK8kuf7tht1gV1HApH0g
11) Ray MOYNIHAN - "Motivational Deficiency Disorder" (laziness)
This video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E-vIuyEeuU, mixes in some humor with this serious topic. The following webpage explains how "Motivational Deficiency Disorder" is a fictional psychiatric disorder, it's satire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry/Motivational_deficiency_disorder. But his point is that there are some genuine entries in the psychiatric handbooks now that are equally as ridiculous as that, such as a "shyness disorder" and an "anti-authority disorder" among adolescents, all treated with psychiatric drugs, of course.
12) The Pharmaceutical Companies
Stop Suicide By Helping Big Pharma, Says Shady Suicide Prevention Group (August, 2017)
This article includes the following important statement, when referring to military suicides: "More than a third of the deaths were in soldiers who never deployed so combat stress was not a factor."
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Five more points related to this topic:
i) The FDA Approval of Prozac
Former U.S. President and former head of the CIA, George Bush senior, a prominent "globalist" and Club of Rome proponent, was on the board of Eli Lily when Prozac was approved by the United States FDA in the late 1980's. Prozac, an invention of Eli Lily, was the first of the dangerous SSRI class of anti-depressants and, as many experts have proclaimed, by the accepted standards of validation and of safety, Prozac should never have been approved, i.e., there is evidence of massive fraud and corruption at the expense of ordinary people.
ii) Brain Damage & Depression Caused by Amphetamine-type Drugs
I think it is true that quite a few people today are experiencing brain damage (psychosis) and the resulting depression as a result of the use of the illegal drug "Ice" and similar powerful illegal drugs of the amphetamine class. But, in my humble and non-expert opinion, to treat such depression with these psychiatric drugs is almost a sure-fire slippery slope to even greater mental illness and eventual suicide for many of these sufferers.
iii) Cannabis
The psychiatric profession and drug companies have tried to claim that heavy cannabis use can also produce the same mental damage as amphetamines but this has never been proven and I think it is virtually impossible to consume an amount of cannabis that would cause severe, long-term brain damage. This claim about cannabis is, in my opinion, an attempt to deflect attention away from the brain damage caused by anti-depressants and other psychiatric drugs.
On the other hand, although I believe cannabis is a relatively benign drug for most people, if 1) you are already suffering from brain damage (depression) as a result of amphetamine or other drug use, or if 2) you are using anti-depressants then I suspect that heavy cannabis use or the use of particularly strong cannabis might tip the scales and cause severe psychosis (often labelled as schizophrenia). This risk would probably be heightened if both of these factors exist together. However, I suspect heavy alcohol use would be even more dangerous for these people. Of course, powerful hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD would be the most likely to cause psychosis.
For people who are experiencing "normal" depression associated with the ups and downs of life, i.e., not as a result of brain damage caused by other drugs, it seems to have been historically proven that a moderate use of cannabis, as 'a medicine', can in fact help people – it has been used for this purpose for centuries in several varieties of traditional Eastern medicine, where they mix it with other herbs.
iv) Withdrawal & Recovery
Experts say it takes a full year of gradual withdrawal from anti-depressants before users of this drug can completely quit it with safety. Those who try to quit the use of antidepressants cold turkey or even over several weeks run a high risk of becoming suicidal. Fortunately, the brain has been shown to have a remarkable ability to heal itself from damage, by "re-wiring" itself to some extent, sometimes even to a large extent.
v) Schizophrenia
If you search and read about schizophrenia on the internet, you'll first find many articles on this topic written by the psychiatric profession on websites sponsored by the drug companies. It's important to keep in mind that there has been a "mysterious" sky-rocketing increase in both schizophrenia and suicide since the introduction of Prozac, the first SSRI antidepressant. Then, if you have the time and interest and you read more broadly about schizophrenia, more broadly about metal illness in general, and about the psychiatric profession, you'll start to see things with more clarity, that is, see the truth.
In contrast to what the psychiatric profession and drug companies say about schizophrenia, I don't believe that it is necessarily and totally a permanent, incurable condition, although most people suffering from this condition in Western society now, and in the past, make very little progress out of this condition. Instead, they live out their lives in a drugged state. On the other hand, schizophrenia sufferers in poor countries where drugs are rarely used to treat the condition, where family support is stronger, and where most people do physical labor in the fields to survive, many of these sufferers do largely recover. (A person suffering from schizophrenia who does physical labor in the fields is still considered to be a useful and valued member of the family and of society.) Research Dr. Thomas Szasz and Soteria if your are interested in alternative ideas about schizophrenia.
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