The "Chemical Imbalance" Hoax
From cradle to the grave, we are bombarded with information pushing us
towards a chemical “fix.” But let’s take a closer look at some very
important aspects of this new psychoactive, drug-centered philosophy.
Psychiatrists claim that a person “needs” a drug to combat their
“chemical imbalance” in the brain which is causing a person’s “mental
disorder.” However, the concept that a brain-based, chemical imbalance
underlies mental illness is false. While popularized by heavy public
marketing, it is simply psychiatric wishful thinking. As with all of
psychiatry’s disease models, it has been thoroughly discredited by
researchers.
Diabetes is a biochemical imbalance. However, as Harvard psychiatrist
Joseph Glenmullen states, “the definitive test and biochemical imbalance
is a high blood sugar balance level. Treatment in severe cases is
insulin injections, which restore sugar balance. The symptoms clear and
retest shows the blood sugar is normal. Nothing like a sodium imbalance
or blood sugar imbalance exists for depression or any other psychiatric
syndrome.”
In 1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser said, “...modern psychiatry has yet
to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental
illness...Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’
despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim,
and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance
would look like.”
Today’s brain imagery photos, said to prove mental illnesses are
physical diseases, are deeply flawed. Indeed, prescribed psychotropic
drugs most likely cause the changes seen in the brain. Steven Hyman,
director of the National Institute of Mental Health, admits that
indiscriminate use of such brain scans produce “pretty but
inconsequential pictures of the brain.”
Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author of Blaming the Brain, is unequivocal:
“[T]here are no tests available for assessing the chemical status of a
living person’s brain.” No “biochemical, anatomical, or functional signs
have been found that reliably distinguish the brains of mental
patients.”
According to Valenstein, “The theories are held on to not only because
there is nothing else to take their place, but also because they are
useful in promoting drug treatment.”
Source: CCHR http://h11.protectedsite.net//index.cfm/5314/5976
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