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"The American Psychiatry Association introduced a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders 1952, revised in 1987 (called DSM-III-R), in which symptoms and signs, personality disorders and mental disorders are described, physical conditions, psycho social stressors, etc, are (in the best case) put together, but the labeling of a condition is often questionable. Today, we have less electroshock (at least it is banned in some countries by law), but we have an overload of drugs. We have an unbelievable amount of drugs with partially horrible side effects." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Because mental disorders are rarely based on measurable physical symptoms, he said, they are "open to conceptual definition." Many of the growing number of psychiatric conditions listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, the primary reference for psychiatrists, were brought to light through funding by the pharmaceutical companies, Parry wrote. For example, few Americans had heard of an illness called panic disorder, he said, before Upjohn began marketing a drug called Xanax to treat it in the 1970s." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"My main area of research has involved imaging the brain of patients who suffer from depression and other mental disorders. Several years ago I was contacted by the families of some young people who had killed themselves while taking a medication for acne called Accutane. They asked if brain imaging would show similar changes in the same area of the brain of all those who were so adversely affected by Accutane. I spoke with the company that made the drug about supporting research, but it wasn't interested." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"We take for granted pronouncements like, "You have a biochemical imbalance," and "Mental disorders are like diabetes," and can easily feel shocked when someone challenges their factual basis. In reality, these are not scientific observations—they are promotional slogans, so adamantly repeated in the media and by individual psychiatrists that people assume them to be true. The psychopharmaceutical complex fosters these falsehoods in order to promote the widespread use of their products." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"There are many different mental illnesses, varying in their effects on disability, mental function and mental disorders are the leading cause of age groups. This is a large and disability in North America. complicated health matter. Probiotics and the B Vitamins Probiotics do not reside in the brain and as such cannot offer any direct benefit to mental health. Nor is it likely that probiotics will be found to cure mental illnesses. However, some probiotic species are known to improve the levels of available B vitamins in the body." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"The symptoms are not associated with Pervasive Developmental Disorder, schizophrenia, or other mood or mental disorders. These diagnostic criteria for ADHD can result in the following diagnoses: ADHD, Inattentive Subtype. Diagnosis is confirmed if the criteria of Category 1 have applied for six months or longer, but not those of Category 2. ADHD, Hyperactive-Impulsive Subtype. Diagnosis is confirmed if the criteria of Category 2 have applied for six months or longer, but not those of Category 1. ADHD Combined Subtype." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Three of the leading ten causes of disability (major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) are mental disorders. The most serious of these problem may lead to suicide. In the year 2000, about 29,000 Americans took their own lives. More than 90% of them suffered from a diagnosable mental disorder. Men commit suicide four times more often than women, however women attempt suicide 2-3 times as often as men.3 How accurate are these numbers? Establishing just how many people suffer from mental illness—that is, national estimates of prevalence—is problematic." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Despite the extent of mental disorders, the American medical establishment has paid little attention to causes, so intent are they on obtaining the relief of the symptoms of these conditions. Take alcoholism, for instance. There are dozens of studies showing that alcoholics are chronically deficient in certain essential nutrients. Other studies show that when these nutrients are given at optimal levels, the chemical imbalances that precipitate the craving for alcohol are diminished or eliminated, thus biochemically breaking the addictive response." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "There is widespread concern of the over-medicalization of mental disorders and the overuse of medications. Financial incentives and managed care have contributed to the notion of a 'quick fix' by taking a pill and reducing the emphasis on psychotherapy and psychosocial treatments. There is much evidence that there is less psychotherapy provided by psychiatrists than 10 years ago. This is true despite the strong evidence base that many psychotherapies are effective used alone or in combination with medications." Why is the profession so devoted to the drugs? Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "That year the federal government first provided disability insurance coverage for mental disorders. The states could at last relieve themselves of the financial burden by refusing admission to new patients and by discharging old ones. The discharged patients, callously abandoned by psychiatry, received a small federal check for their support in other facilities, such as nursing or board and care homes. Some patients went home as dependents while others went onto the streets." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Bioaccumulation of toxic substances over time is responsible for many physical and mental disorders, especially ones that are on a rapid rise such as asthma, cancer, and mental illness. It's no surprise that as a result, detoxification therapies are increasing in importance and popularity. More than a Food Chain: As you can see in this illustration, our world is interconnected far beyond simple food-chain dynamics. We are consumers and producers of products that share the same environment. WHAT QUALIFIES AS A TOXIN? It helps to first examine what the very word toxin means." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"This expanding number of psychiatric diagnoses, as well as the growing number of people said to suffer from them, has led to a bitter national debate: Is life being redefined as a string of mental disorders, each requiring treatment with pills? Dr. Stuart A. Kirk, a professor of social welfare at UCLA, has spent years studying the DSM, how it was created and how it is used. He says he has come to believe that the psychiatrists who wrote the DSM are "making us all crazy" by their continual expansion of behaviors they defined as psychiatric disorders. In an essay in 2005, Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Doctors treating children with mental disorders often do just that, prescribing psychotropic drugs for children for uses not approved by the FDA, in many cases cheered on by representatives of the companies that make the drugs that the doctors are prescribing. A study of children in Tennessee's Managed Care program for Medicare showed that the number of prescriptions for antipsychotics doubled in a five-year period ending in 2001. During this time, one in every one hundred children became a new user of an antipsychotic." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"MARKETING MYTH: PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ARE DISEASES LIKE DIABETES COMPARING "MENTAL DISORDERS" like anxiety, depression, and mania to diabetes, as is often done, is false and misleading. Diabetes has all of the hallmarks of a real disease, including many biological markers, such as an elevated fasting blood sugar. It has known biological causes, such as reduced insulin production and reduced cellular capacity to utilize insulin. Finally, it has several specific, rational physical treatments, such as dietary control and medication, including insulin replacement." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Population for Mental Illness"), the president's New Freedom Commission Report of 2003 recommended that all children receive mandatory screening for mental disorders and that those who are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder should receive "state-of-the-art treatments" using "specific medications for specific conditions." The Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), which was developed while President Bush was governor of Texas, was cited as a model." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"For many years, the experts on my radio show and I have been protesting the huge and still increasing numbers people taking drugs to treat mental disorders. According to IMS Health, a heath-care information company, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants reached nearly 230 million in 2006, making them the number one type of medication in the US. That number is up from 197 million in 2002. Then there's the case of Ritalin, the stimulant used for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In the last decade of the twentieth century alone, Ritalin production increased seven-fold." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Thus, over time, DSM-IV became, in the words of its editors, a detailed "classification of mental disorders that was developed for use in clinical, educational and research settings."17 Yet even as it became a standard reference, its wise authors recognized that they are dealing with muddy foundational concepts.18 Some scholars, psychiatrists among them, rejected the very notion that emotional problems are illnesses. Every normal person has various complaints, some much worse and more serious than others." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "One psychiatrist critic offered two hypotheses to explain the growth of the DSM: that with advances in medical science, we can now "identify mental illnesses that were there all along, but went unrecognized" because of our "primitive knowledge"; alternatively, "we are witnessing the expansion of mental health professions, which label as mental disorders human behaviors that only four decades ago were considered either medical disorders or routine difficulties of ordinary life." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Each of the mental disorders," according to the editors is conceptualized as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome... associated with either a painful symptom (distress) or impairment in one or more areas of functioning (disability)____There is behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunction... the disturbance is not only in the relationship between the individual and society.15 The third edition gave considerable attention, previously absent, to the logic and actual process of diagnosis. Some categories were expanded." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"A deficiency of B12 may lead to mental disorders including confusion, depression, memory loss, and impaired coordination. Vitamin B12 is also protective against the toxic buildup of another substance called homocysteine. In an article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the department of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine found that a high level of homocysteine in the blood "is a strong, independent risk factor for the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "All work together nicely to reduce homocysteine levels and protect against anemias as well as mental disorders. In 2004 the Nutrition Research Newsletter reported a "memory" study done in Switzerland, where participants were divided into groups with varying stages of cognitive problems. The researchers not only discovered that a high homocysteine level may be an early risk factor for dementia, but that a low folic acid level may precede the onset of Alzheimer's disease. The Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study confirmed similar results in 2005." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In fact, low blood levels of omega-3 EFAs have been associated with various mental disorders, including ADHD, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and depression. There are numerous published reports demonstrating the benefits of supplementation with individual or combination omega-3 EFAs for many of these mental disorders as well as borderline personality disorder, conduct disorder in children, and bipolar disorder." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The idea of this study was to see if there was a way to prevent two major mental disorders: schizophrenia and antisocial disorder. Antisocial disorder leads to a great deal of criminal behavior and is marked by aggression, impulsivity, and lack of remorse. The study began in 1972 and 1973 when the children were three years old. Children from two towns in Mauritius were assigned to two groups. One hundred children were placed in an experimental "enrichment program"; a control group of about 350 children received no additional services." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "In 1948, a visiting Danish psychiatrist found that most of his American colleagues would not even discuss the possibility of genetic causes of mental disorders. Psychoanalysis had become the scientific religion of choice.28 (And beyond that, genetics, in the aftermath of Nazi experiments, had become a bad religion.) And now we are way back to Galton. When in doubt, genes are the cause. But Aplysia has told us that in one stroke, we can do away of all these artificial distinctions. "Nature and nurture stand in reciprocity, not opposition," as Harvard psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg has written." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "It has been said that Spitzer was "more interested in including mental disorders than in excluding them." "Bob never met a new diagnosis that he didn't at least get interested in," said Allen Frances, a psychiatrist who worked closely with Spitzer on the DSM-III. "Anything, however against his own leanings that might be, was a new thing to play with, a new toy." Spitzer was a technician of diagnosis and loved to compose symptom lists, sometimes drawing them up on the spot.50 It should be noted that in his centrist approach, Spitzer also presided over many positive developments." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The World Health Organization's 2001 report noted that "patients with mental disorders can be very successful in helping themselves, and peer support has been important in a number of conditions for recovery."21 The peer movement, with its emphasis on peer providers who are now stable and who are reaching out to others who are less so, has been a central feature of a broader movement, the "recovery movement" in psychiatry." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"This is where the ripple effects of the body's stress response can lead to full-blown mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, as well as high blood pressure, heart problems, and cancer. Chronic stress can even tear at the architecture of the brain. But how to make sense of such a woolly concept as stress? By keeping in mind its biological definition. Above all, stress is a threat to the body's equilibrium. It's a challenge to react, a call to adapt. In the brain, anything that causes cellular activity is a form of stress." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"It would appear that modern psychiatry has regressed back to the nineteenth century, when the predominant view of mental disorders was that they were either hereditary or due to brain disease. Freud had not yet introduced the idea that psychology, not physiology, was the important factor in mental disorders. So pervasive was the conventional view, however, that even Freud had trouble disavowing it." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"A program in Indiana modeled after TMAP, called TeenScreen, used passive screening, where schools were allowed to test children for mental disorders if the parents did not return a form to the school specifically asking them not to. This outraged many of the parents who did not feel they had provided consent. The 2002 Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act also had a significant impact on how drugs are now tested and administered to children in this country." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"And despite the diagnostic dilemma again, psychiatrists confess in their own textbooks: "Access to the brain and techniques for measuring and evaluating its functions, particularly mental activities, are still limited because our understanding of the etiology [finding the cause of a disease] and pathogenesis [the development of a disease] of mental disorders is scant.... As a result, terminology and definitions of terms have varied widely among different psychiatrists and in different places."187 Nice, how innocent and naive that sounds!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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