In vew of the large scale iatrogenic damage inflicted on patients by psychiatrists, it's a perverse marketing triumph that psychiatrists get handsomely paid to carry on the charade.
Their functions include detaining, restraining and consequently harming patients when purporting to "treat" them. And it's being done at public expense. Psychiatric "treatments" are essentially social control mechanisms. Whether it's prescribing in the community or in a psychiatric facility, psychiatric drugs are being used to chemically restrain patients.
As for healing - that's not part of the psychiatric equation. Many of the prescribed drugs are known to cause suicidal thoughts and suicidal behaviour. And when tragedies occur, psychiatrists perversely blame a patient's mental difficulties rather than observe the liabilities of their prescribing habits. Worst of all, the damage and the neglect are occurring with impunity.
It is an injustice of huge proportions. The day will come when culpability lies firmly and squarely with psychiatrists and psychiatry. #mentalhealth #prescribedharm #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness
Gaslighting is defined as a form of psychological manipulation used to make a person doubt their own reality and their perception of events. The term comes from the 1944 film Gaslight, where a husband manipulates his wife into believing she’s going insane by dimming the gas lights in their home and then denying that the lights are flickering.
In the same way the husband abused and manipulated his wife in the film, psychiatrists are doing it for real. They dismiss, invalidate, trivialise and generally make less of patients and their reported symptoms while pathologising them, leading to patients doubting their own reality, perceptions, and/or their sanity.
Gaslighting is cruel and inhumane. The comparison with psychiatry is not coincidental.
#mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatry #gaslighting #MentalHealthAwareness
A 12 year old boy walks into my office having already seen a psychiatrist, an allergist, a lung doctor, maybe a GI doctor. Seven different drugs by age 12. Kicked out of kindergarten for being disruptive. Diagnosed with ADHD and put on stimulant medication for years.
Nobody connected the dots. He also had asthma, headaches, stomachaches, insomnia. Each doctor treated their one piece and ignored the rest.
I did a full workup instead of writing another prescription. His gut microbiome was a mess. Leaky gut. Elevated gluten antibodies. Reacting to dairy. Fungal overgrowth. Low zinc, low magnesium, low B6, low folate, low omega 3s. Lead toxicity.
He ate only processed food. Never a vegetable in his life.
So we removed the gluten, dairy, sugar and processed food. Rebuilt his microbiome with probiotics. Treated the fungal overgrowth. Chelated the lead. Corrected the nutrient deficiencies with magnesium, zinc, fish oil.
Two months later his mother brought him back. No more symptoms. No more meds. No more behavioral issues.
And his handwriting went from illegible to perfect penmanship. Same kid, same brain, two months apart.
That handwriting change is what made me write The UltraMind Solution. A brain that chaotic and disorganized became coherent and synchronized once we fixed what was happening in his body. The writing on the page was just a reflection of what was happening in his gut.
ADHD is not a brain problem. It's a systemic problem that shows up in the brain. If your kid's brain isn't working right, don't just look north of the neck. Look at what's happening south of the border first.
"This drug saved my life. What do you say to that?"
I get this challenge a lot, and my answer surprises people: I believe you. If you are crippled by anxiety or depression and a drug turns the volume down on it, you become more functional, and it can genuinely feel life-saving. The suffering that leads people to these medications is real, and I never deny it.
But here's what I've watched over and over in my practice: there is a life cycle to being on these drugs, and "it saved my life" is usually what the beginning sounds like.
First, understand what the drug is doing. There is no chemical imbalance being corrected. The low-serotonin story is a myth. An SSRI produces a drug effect that masks symptoms, and your body pushes back against it, because serotonin isn't just mood. It runs your heart, your digestion, your immune system. So the body downregulates receptors and produces less serotonin naturally, and over time the effect wears off.
Then the stages appear. Stage one: it works, where has this been all my life. Stage two: I don't even know what this drug is doing anymore. Stage three: fatigue, brain fog, no motivation, and a doctor calling it "treatment-resistant depression" when it may be the drug itself. Stage four: after twenty years, the brain has built itself around the medication, and coming off makes life fall apart.
So when someone says these drugs are life-saving, and someone else says they wrecked them, they can both be telling the truth. They're just at different points on the same road. The question worth asking isn't whether the drug helped you once. It's where you are in the life cycle now.
@jill_d35 This is beyond belief. Enough to take down an elephant.
Who in their right mind can possibly think they are helping anyone with a deadly cocktail like this?
#prescribedharm
Everyone knows the Lindsay Clancy case. Almost nobody knows this one, and the reason why should stop you cold: when a mother dies alongside her children, there is no trial, no media coverage, and no one digs into what happened in the months before.
Tranyelle Harshman was a 32-year-old Wyoming mother of four. No history of violence. No suicidal history. Her husband describes a loving mother and an incredible wife, and he is standing by her, just like Lindsay Clancy's husband. There was no affair, no conflict, no motive. I searched.
What there was, according to the Wall Street Journal's reporting and the wrongful death lawsuit her mother has filed, was take-home ketamine prescribed for postpartum depression. When Tranyelle reported heart palpitations and feeling disconnected from reality for days, she was reportedly told it often gets worse before it gets better, and her dose was increased. After taking that increased dose, she shot her four daughters and then herself. Toxicology reportedly showed ketamine at four times the threshold associated with mind-altering effects.
I helped develop a ketamine-based drug during my time in pharma. I know these side effect tables: dissociation in nearly half of patients, hallucinations, agitation, fear. This is why ketamine is normally given under clinical supervision, not at home, alone, with children napping upstairs.
The pattern from the Clancy case is identical. A struggling mother reports that a drug is making her worse, and the answer is a higher dose. I will keep saying this until it changes: when a patient gets worse on a psychiatric drug, that is information, not impatience. You do not double down on it.
Today, I visited the Åsgård Psychiatric Hospital in Tromso, Norway, to learn about its medication-free inpatient treatment program for patients with severe mental health conditions. Here are my initial impressions. 1/n
@jill_d35 It is unbelievable that these Victorian practices still take place.
I propose that all the psychiatrists who order these "treatments" have a mandatory 3x experience of ECT before they are allowed to prescribe it.
Same goes for SSRI' and Benzo's.
@stopvaccinating YOU KNOW. This is why you are doing this, preventing all the poison to enter your baby.
Do not be swayed by people who are interested in money, not health.
Well done you!
@jill_d35 The real question here is is who is actually deluded? Could it be the psychiatrist who uses his "arsenal" to poison his patients and fry their brains?
Let them tell us how many they have cured this way.
In 1938 a committee of psychiatrists told the British government that bombing would produce three times as many mental casualties as physical ones. Three to four million cases in the first six months.
The state believed them and built a network of emergency psychiatric clinics outside the city centres, staffed and waiting for the collapse.
The bombs came. Forty thousand civilians killed in eight months. A million London homes damaged or destroyed. People slept in the Underground, came up to find the street gone, and went to work.
The clinics closed for lack of patients. In the first three months of the Blitz London recorded around two cases of bomb neurosis a week. Suicides fell. Drunkenness fell.
That is a population on dripping, offal, eggs, whole milk and Sunday joints, being bombed nightly, and not breaking.
Their grandchildren: over eight million adults in England on antidepressants, close to ninety million prescriptions a year, one in five people aged eight to twenty-five with a probable mental disorder. Warm, fed, housed, at peace, and being bombed by nobody.
Everybody has an explanation ready. Phones, housing, the news, atomised communities. All real, and none of them the one nobody will say out loud.
We changed the fuel supply to the organ that does the feeling.
Your brain is two per cent of your bodyweight and takes a fifth of your energy at rest. Every thought, every mood, every act of holding yourself together under pressure is ATP, and ATP is made by mitochondria. A neuron carries thousands. When they run well you are resilient. When they do not, no amount of character makes up the difference.
Mitochondria have their own signature fat in the inner membrane, called cardiolipin, and the entire electron transport chain is embedded in it. Cardiolipin is assembled out of whatever fat you have been eating. The membrane your energy is generated across is made of your diet.
Feed a body linoleic acid, the dominant fat in sunflower, soybean, corn and rapeseed oil, and it goes into that membrane. Linoleic acid oxidises readily, and it is now sitting in the one place in the cell with the most oxygen and the most electron traffic going past it. When it goes, it damages the proteins around it and breaks down into aldehydes that attack the mitochondrial enzymes themselves.
The energy plant is being rebuilt out of a material that degrades under the exact conditions it has to work in. Not poisoned in a dose. Rebuilt, slowly, out of the wrong stuff, across forty years.
Before 1911 that fat barely existed in the human food supply. It is now the most consumed fat in the Western diet.
The generation that took the Blitz was running on beef fat and butter, and the clinics built for them stood empty.
We are the best fed, safest, most medicated people in British history, and we cannot get through a Tuesday.