Disease mongering has reached a new level of
ridiculousness with the widely-reported announcement
that millions of American now have undiagnosed Road Rage
Disorder, also sometimes called Intermittent
Explosive Disorder (IED). Desperate to scrounge up
new diseases that can be treated with high-profit
prescription drugs, Big Pharma and its disease-pushing
sidekick, psychiatry, is now pulling diseases out of
thin air, making them up as it goes along, and hoping
enough impressionable consumers (and journalists) can be
hoodwinked into thinking every fictitious disease is
actually real.
Road Rage Disorder is merely the latest disease quackery
drummed up by the pharmaceutical industry. Many people
don't know this, but Big Pharma actually hires
psychiatrists to invent, then publicize new
"diseases." They actually sit around in rooms,
brainstorming new disease ideas and figuring out how to
convince the public that those diseases exist. That's
where they come up with junk science statements like,
"This is the most common disease you've never heard of!"
Inventing disease for profit
The psychiatric community has now become the disease
invention branch of
Big
Pharma. Psychiatrists dream up disorders, and
drug companies market the "treatment" that just
happens to have been recently FDA approved. Notice how
new diseases or disorders only get publicized and
advertised afterthe FDA
approves a Big Pharma drug to treat them? These diseases
apparently spontaneously afflict huge numbers of
Americans only in the days following the FDA approval of
any drug that might treat such diseases. Imagine the
odds.
To think, all these years, we've all been running around
with Intermittent Explosive Disorder and we didn't
even know it! The horrors!
The crooks running this medical scam are, of course, the
drug company executives and psych
doctors
who have apparently decided they will now do absolutely
anything to sell more drugs, including labeling
perfectly healthy people as sick. As the number of truly
ill people in society is limited, Big Pharma evil
geniuses have figured out that the only way to increase
their customer base is to start selling drugs to
people who aren't sick. And the quickest way to do
that is through disease mongering -- inventing,
then marketing non-existent diseases to a gullible
population that has grown far too comfortable with the
idea that every human behavior is now a disease.
This is how we get Road
Rage Disorder, Restless Legs Syndrome (an extremely rare
condition that drug companies are now trying to push
onto half the population) and even the idea that
menstruation is now a "disorder" that can be treated
with drugs to stop a woman's natural cycles from being
expressed. Merely being a woman, apparently, is a state
of ongoing disease and biological dysfunction according
to Big Pharma's disease pushers.
It's so outrageous, and based on such obvious
non-scientific psychobabble, that only a complete fool
would actually buy into it. Yet the public, the FDA and
the
mainstream media are currently exhibiting zero
skepticism about these wholly
fictitious diseases. Newspapers, magazines and
broadcast news programs continue parroting headlines and
press release handed to them by the public relations
firms bankrolled by Big Pharma. There is no science
here; no scrutiny, no genuine journalism and nothing
resembling "evidence-based medicine." It's just plain
old hucksterism dressed up to look like a
mental health discovery.
Got angry? You have a mental disorder.
The whole thing makes me so mad that I could slam my
head into the wall. And that, of course, qualifies me as
having Intermittent Explosive Disorder, a disease
based on such flimsy definitions that you can be
qualified as "ill" by simply having three major
anger outbursts in your entire life! You read that
right: Three bouts of anger, over your entire life, can
get you labeled as having this so-called "disease" and
put on powerful
psychotropic drugs for life.
Is there anyone who hasn't experienced at least three
episodes of anger in their life? Let's see... there's
the snotty girl who stuffed a slushy snowball down my
pants in the third grade, that's one. There was the
idiot who slammed into my car at a stoplight because he
was on prescription sleeping pills, that's two. And then
there was the embarrassing incident involving a circus
bear, a unicycle and three flaming juggling sticks that
I'd rather not talk about. That's three. Gee, I guess I
really am suffering from IED.
You might recognize the
three letters, by the way: IED also refers to
Improvised Explosive Devices that are killing
soldiers in
Iraq. So IED is both a road-side bomb and an anger
disorder. Sort of fitting, it seems, because when IEDs
actually explode and kill American troops in Iraq, the
surviving soldiers understandably get more than a bit
ticked off and have been known to go door to door
shooting civilians in a vengeful rampage. That behavior
may actually qualify as some sort of disorder. That's
real violence. Going door to door killing women and
children with military rifles probably qualifies you as
a whacko under any system of medicine. But saying you
have Road Rage Disorder because some psychiatrist
force-fed a false diagnosis into your impressionable,
defenseless brain only qualifies you as gullible.
Pseudoscientific psych surveys
How, exactly, did psychiatrists actually come up with
this stunning "discovery" that 16 million Americans
suffer from this new disease, IED? Get this: They
conducted a survey.
The survey asked American adults if they had ever
experienced three anger outbursts in their entire
life. Not surprisingly, a whole lot of people said
they had. From this flimsy evidence -- and this alone!
-- the Archives of General Psychiatry (a
medical journal that takes loads of money from drug
companies) printed the survey results that hype this
fictitious disease.
Apparently, surveys now provide all the evidence
needed by
conventional medicine to scare half the population
into believing they suffer from some new, mysterious
disease. Promoters of drugs and surgery are proud to
proclaim Western medicine is "evidence-based medicine,"
but they never admit what that so-called evidence is
really based on. In this case, it's based on a flimsy
survey that was obvious designed from the get-go to
"discover" some new disease that could be hyped up in
the media.
It's downright sinister, I
say. It's a recipe of instilling fear in the public in
order to sell more drugs to people who simply don't need
them.
So I have a new idea here. Stay with me on this.
We're all going to get rich. I'm going to send a survey
to thousands of American adults and ask if they've ever
experienced hesitations in their breathing, like holding
their breath, shallow breathing or rapid breathing (such
as during exercise).
When I get the survey results, I'm going to tabulate
them and declare that 25 million Americans now suffer
from Intermittent Breathing Disoder (IBD),
a disease that's "very common even though you've never
heard of it!"
Then I'm going to get fast-track FDA approval on
drugs to treat IBD. I'll buy full-page ads in
medical journals, bribe a few psychiatrists with
"consulting fees," and whip out some press releases that
will be faxed to all the national
newspapers and magazines. Drug sales will skyrocket
in no time! Invest in my IBD company now, and we'll all
get rich!
Sounds like a con, right? Yet it's exactly what's
happening right now with Restless Legs Syndrome, Road
Rage Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and even
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Every one of
these is utterly bogus. Completely fictitious. Designed
for one sinister purpose: To sell drugs to people who
don't need them.
As reported in one news story, "Experts claim IED is
caused by inadequate production of serotonin in the
brain, which regulates our moods. It is felt that
treatment with
antidepressants can help the condition."
Ah. Antidepressants. No such disorder is ever
publicized, you see, unless there's a "treatment"
already available and approved by the FDA. Modern
mental health has nothing to do with actually helping
people and everything to do with marketing more drugs.
No
mental disorders exist except those for which
medications are readily available.
No pathological basis for disease
Have you ever heard of doctors using a survey to
come up with disease definitions? Of course not. A real
disease has some observable
pathology: A microbe, a physical deformity, a change
in chemistry, a measurable malfunction... something that
can be used by doctors to actually diagnose the
condition.
But none of these
psychiatric disorders express any observable
pathology. Take IED, for instance:
Can you weigh IED? Touch it? See it? Smell it?
No.
Can you see IED or its effects under a microscope?
No.
Can you measure IED with a blood test?
No.
Is there a carrier for IED such as a virus,
bacterium, fungus, prion or spore?
No.
Can you find IED in the genetic code? A CAT scan? An
MRI?
No. No. No.
Behavior is a choice
You see, there is no such thing as IED, or bi-polar
disorder, or ADHD. These fictitious diseases are
diagnosed through interview questions by a
psychiatrist and are based purely on behavior, not
pathology. And behavior is a choice, friends, not a
disease.
That's a big statement, so take it in slowly:
Behavior is a choice, not a disease. I fully realize
that believing this requires taking responsibility for
your own actions... and that's not something many people
really want to do. It's easier to accept a label and
blame everything on some fictitious disorder.
Kids get away with it all the time. At school, they
proclaim, "I'm ADHD!" So they get to take tests with an
open book. But at home, they play Halo on the Xbox for
six hours without even taking a restroom break. How's
that for mental focus? If they have an attention
disorder, how can they play Halo for six hours?
Many people, you see, don't want to admit that
behavior is a choice simply because that would require
acting like an adult. Harsh, but true.
The catch-22 on mental disorders
Psychiatrists don't believe behavior is a choice,
either. They believe behavior is a disease, especially
behavior that doesn't fit in with the crowd or that
questions authority. They even have a name for that one,
too: Oppositional Defiance Disorder, described on
page 100 of the DSM-IV-TR manual. I'm looking at it
right now, and it says this "disease" is characterized
by, "...persistent stubbornness, resistance to
directions, and unwillingness to compromise, give in, or
negotiate with adults or peers."
So if you don't compromise and give in to your peers,
you have Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Well count me
in on this one, too, because I'm not about to join the
uninformed masses and do what doctors and psychiatrists
insist people should do.
It's a clever Catch-22 medical con, isn't it? If you
give in and submit to their disease mongering, they trap
you with such sweeping definitions of disease that
practically everyone will eventually be put on drugs.
But if you resist and claim that modern
psychiatry is nonsense, and you don't buy into their
pseudoscientific psychobabble, they can label you with a
defiance disorder.
Either way, according to modern psychiatry, virtually
everyone is "sick" and needs treatment. This astonishing
claim is the cornerstone of the psychiatric mantra you
often find repeated in news stories: The plea for
treatment. It goes something like this: "Millions of
people have this disorder, but are going without
treatment. We must find a way to treat them!" The
implication, of course, is that all patients should be
"treated" because we don't want people to go without
treatment, do we?
But it isn't treatment. It's the exploitation of a
human being to generate corporate profits.
Consensus hallucinations
The idea that all these psychiatric disorders exist at
all isn't based on good science, or genuine pathology,
or anything with scientific merit. Rather, these
diseases only "exist" in modern society because of
consensus hallucination.
What is consensus
hallucination? It's when a large group of people all
agree to hallucinate something that isn't there. IED
doesn't exist in the real world, of course. You can't
find it in nature, nor in the body or brain tissues of a
human being. It only exists as a false concept, an idea
that is being hyped as real even though it isn't.
With enough media coverage and
advertising, the public can be convinced to
hallucinate practically anything: Saddam Hussein was
responsible for the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Housing
prices will keep going up forever. The U.S. economy is
strong. Imperialism is freedom. And most of the
population suffers from a variety of mental disorders
that must be treated with psychotropic drugs. These are
all consensus hallucinations. There are many more, in
case you're curious.
During the dot-com boom, the consensus hallucination
was that PE ratios meant nothing, that the laws of
economics had changed, and that everybody was going to
get rich selling each other little scraps of paper with
increasingly large numbers written on them. In the
cheap-money housing boom right now, the consensus
hallucination is that buying a home, no matter how high
the price, is always a good investment because home
prices will rise forever. They won't, of course. This
boom will bust much like the dot-com boom. But that
reality doesn't keep people from investing in the
consensus hallucination.
Modern psychiatric medicine is based almost entirely
on the invention and marketing of consensus
hallucinations. And as long as they can get away with
it, there's no stopping the disease mongers from
exploring even greater degrees of scientific fraud in
their efforts to market drugs to people who don't need
them.
Every bodily function and behavior may be declared a
disorder
How far will the drug companies go before lawmakers,
journalists and citizens come to their senses and
finally ban direct-to-consumer
drug advertising? You can expect them to try
anything to sell more drugs. No bodily function, emotion
or behavior is safe from Big Pharma's disease mongering
racket.
It won't be long before we
hear about IFD. That's Intermittent Farting Disorder,
in case you were wondering. It's the early expression of
CFD, Continuous Farting Disorder, which is far more
dangerous. Farting, you see, is a disease. You can tell
by the way it makes you dizzy and socially unacceptable.
Farting, the studies show, actually leads to Social
Anxiety Disorder and, in extreme cases, paranoia.
Fortunately, there are drugs available to help you.
Buying in to the hallucination
Since when did virtually the entire medical community,
the public, the FDA and the press all buy into the Big
Pharma hype that says every human action must be
chemically assisted? We all need drugs, we're told, to
pee, defecate, fall asleep, wake up or get an erection.
We need drugs to feel happy, confident, sexy or sane.
Only through drugs, we're told, can we stop pain,
socialize with peers, control blood pressure, gain
mental concentration, lower cholesterol or prevent
cancer.
This is the con that drug companies want us to
believe. They want us to think that we're born diseased,
powerless to take control over our own health, and that
we must rely on doctors, drugs and radical surgical
procedures to "manage" all our metabolic processes.
I tell you, there is no greater con in the history of
the world than this con being perpetrated by Big Pharma
and all the major players in conventional medicine: The
FDA, medical journals, psychiatry, med schools and even
the mainstream media (which, remember, accepts hundreds
of millions of dollars in advertising from drug
companies, thanks to the fact that direct-to-consumer
drug advertising is still absurdly legal in this
country).
You want the blunt truth on all this? Here it is:
Healthy people take no drugs, period. Taken for
anything other than short-term acute conditions, drugs
make you sick, not healthy. And drugs that mess with
your head make you mentally sick. The more drugs you
take, the more side effects you're going to start
experiencing, and you'll be trapped in the racket of
conventional medicine and its toxic medications.
If you aren't as healthy as
you want to be, look to your diet and exercise. That's
where the root cause of virtually every major
degenerative disease is really found. You do not have a
"deficiency" of brain chemicals or anything else
conventional medicine is trying to push on you. Don't
fall for the false authority, the pseudoscience, the
psychobabble, the drug pushing and the disease mongering
that now defines
modern medicine in the West.
Mental health is a genuine problem for psychiatrists
Although IED, ADHD and many other so-called diseases are
consensus hallucinations, the obvious question is: Are
there genuine mental health disorders?
Sure there are. And the behavior of modern
psychiatrists probably demonstrates several such genuine
disorders. What kind of doctor would exploit patients
for his own financial gain, cursing them with the label
of some fictitious disease and using the power of
placebo against them? Psych doctors, that's who.
I've seen homeless people wandering the streets
talking to themselves about things that don't exist. But
at least they're not hurting anyone. Psychiatrists, on
the other hand, talk to each other about things that
don't exist (like IED) and then go out and push that
consensus hallucination onto the world, drugging up
untold numbers of Americans on medicines that can only
harm them.
So who's crazier, the homeless guy who harms no one,
or the psychiatrist who puts perfectly normal patients
on powerful psychotropic drugs that they don't need? By
any reasonable standard, I'd say the inmates are
running the asylum in modern medicine. The
psychiatrists are crazier than the patients they're
diagnosing with fictitious disease. We've let this dark
branch of conventional medicine run amok, and now
drug companies run psychiatry.
Don't believe me? Just consider the recent finding
that one hundred percent of those psychiatrists who
wrote the behavior disorders guidelines in the DSM-IV
manual (the psychiatry "bible") have undisclosed
financial ties to drug companies. Not ninety percent,
not ninety-five percent, but one hundred percent.
And, unbelievably, they
insist there's no conflict of interest even though
they're taking money from the very companies who
financially benefit from their disease mongering. How's
that for classic self delusion?
What real brain medicine looks like
You want real brain medicine? It doesn't come in a pill,
and it's not made by a drug company.
Real brain medicine includes sunshine (which actually
enhances brain chemistry), exercise, fish oil
supplements, omega-3 oils and nutritionally dense fruits
like blueberries, goji
berries
and pomegranates. Real brain medicine comes from nature,
not drug companies, and it includes things like
bilberry, camu camu berries and astaxanthin.
Psychiatrists don't have a clue about real brain
medicine. These nutritionally illiterate hucksters don't
even believe that food has anything at all to do with
mental health -- an idea so preposterous that only
delusional health professional could possibly believe
it. And yet it's widely believed throughout psychiatry
today: Food and mental health are not related, they
declare.
Astonishing.
Who's qualified to talk about mental health anyway?
Critics of my criticism of psychiatry will no doubt say
I'm not qualified to talk about mental health. In fact,
I am unique qualified to talk about this subject because
I possess genuine objectivity (I take no money from drug
companies, unlike virtually 100% of psychiatrists) and
clear-headed thinking (because I take no drugs
whatsoever).
How many psychiatrists are there who can say they
have never taken money or gifts from any drug company,
and that they take absolutely no drugs themselves? (No
prescription drugs, no caffeine, no sugar, no
alcohol, nicotine, etc.) The answer is, well, just about
zero, except for the whistleblowers in the Critical
Psychiatric Network and other reform-oriented medical
groups. And so the majority of psychiatrists themselves
can't even attain clear-headed thinking because they're
influenced by drug company money and distorted by their
own substance abuse habits.
The few who have managed
clear thinking on this issue are now increasingly
speaking out against their own industry! I've been in
touch with several psychiatrists who are so outraged at
the lies and corruption they see in their industry that
they're looking for ways to blow the whistle on this
scam. To anyone who can think with even a little
clarity, the con is obvious: Drug companies bankroll
psychiatry, and in return, psychiatrists invent new
diseases to enrich drug companies.
It's a classic conspiracy, right here in front of us.
And for the moment, they're actually getting away with
it!
You can help stop the insanity and save yourself (and
your children, perhaps) from being diagnosed with yet
another fictitious mental disorder. Take this article
and post it on your website (with author credit and a
link back, please), or forward to friends. Also, visit
www.StopDrugAds.org,
a grassroots campaign to end direct-to-consumer drug
advertising.
Having a bad day is perfectly normal
By the way, if you had a bad day, got angry at a crazy
driver on the highway, couldn't fall asleep one night,
forgot where you put your keys or felt nervous at a
social gathering, there's nothing wrong with you.
It's called "life." Sometimes stuff happens. Every
day isn't perfect, and if you think that chemicals will
make your life better, you're kidding yourself. That old
slogan, "Better living through chemistry" was a cruel
joke.
Don't fall for the con of psychiatric medicine and
its incessant disease mongering. There's nothing wrong
with your head. You just need what we all need: Less
stress, more exercise, better
nutrition (especially the minerals), more time with
nature and loving, supporting relationships. It isn't
complicated.
But if reality sounds too challenging, I'm sure
there's a psychiatrist willing to medicate you instead.
You can always choose to let the chemicals run your
thoughts and emotions, sleep-walking through life like
the rest of the zombies who have surrendered their free
will to psychiatric medicine.
Psychiatrists are promising mental paradise, but
delivering mental prison. Don't become enslaved by
chemicals.
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