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"This kind of honesty has to make one wonder how many people diagnosed with an alleged mental illness would take the mind-altering drug had their physicians told them "Hey, you know the pharmaceutical company that sells this drug doesn't completely understand how this drug works in your brain, but they say it does and you'll feel 'better.'" But this information is not regularly divulged by the family physician prescribing the mind-altering drug." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells mental illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Pfizer is not the only pharmaceutical company to link the "chemical imbalance" theory to the cause of the alleged psychiatric mental illness for which a drug has been approved to treat. In fact, virtually all of the antidepressants reviewed by the FDA for "black box" warnings mention the chemical levels in the brain as possible causes of the alleged mental disorders." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells mental illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "For example, the National Alliance for the Mentally 111 (NAMI), which boasts it is "The Nation's Voice on mental illness," states, in part, on its website that although "there is no single cause of major depression...whatever the specific causes of depression, scientific research has firmly established that major depression is a biological brain disorder." NAM I then goes on to state "Norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine are three neurotransmitters (chemical messengers that transmit electrical signals between brain cells) thought to be involved with major depression." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells mental illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theoiy of Personal Conduct, exposing the fraud of modern-day psychiatry. While it has been more than 40 years since his classic work was first published, his insight remains timely. Dr. Szasz explains the difficulty the psychiatric community faces in order to gain legitimacy within the medical community. " - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells mental illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"For example, homosexuality was officially considered to be a mental illness until the 1970s. Another example of this is the mental illness once known as drapetomania, a disease characterized by an unnatural desire to flee, or escape. It was applied in the 1850s-to runaway slaves. A medical authority noted at the time that, "With the proper medical care, this troublesome practice that many Negroes have of running away can be almost entirely prevented." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Pauling as intimately linked to brain function and mental illness. In addition to strong bodies good nutrition helps us keep our mental health and emotional stability. With the proper diet containing the right nutrients in correct amounts, symptoms of mental illness can be rolled back and treated. Deficiencies in certain necessary nutrients lead to psychotic symptoms and depression while supplementation of other nutrients help attenuate and improve the symptoms of mental illness. "In 1970 I read about Dr." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"The paper documented that as the age-group who witnessed the attacks have matured, a "growing number of students [are] coming to college with a history of mental illness, with an increase after 9/11."" While intuitively we know that positive beliefs of safety and well-being are good for us, these statistics appear to be confirming what we already suspect: that while life-affirming beliefs can heal us, negative beliefs from shock and trauma can hurt us as well. Here the proof is, coming from a medical perspective." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"National Alliance on mental illness (NAMI)—http://nami.org: Nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. National Institute of Mental Health—www.nimh.nih.gov: Excellent resource on all aspect of mental health and illness. Chapter 8: Prescriptions for Other Conditions Books Alschuler, Lise, N.D., and Karolyn Gazelle. Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrated Approach for Treatment and Healing. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 2007. Hyla Cass, M.D." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (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.)

"Among her concerns were that everything was being labeled as a mental illness?oppositional defiance disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, everything is a disease. If you are bored, that is attention deficit. If you are very active, they call that hyperactivity." The group that benefits most greatly from this is the mental health system. In Georgia, where she lives, Everett found that the local school system receives more than $6,000 per year per child labeled with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and put into special education." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "So a lot of inheritance studies were developed—with a lot of errors in them—that began to show that mental illness sometimes runs in families. They didn't consider other things that run in families—religion, accents, a lot of modeling of behavior. Just because it goes from one generation to the next doesn't mean that it's inherited." Dr. Colbert uses the example of schizophrenia to explain. "One of the statistics most quoted by supporters of a genetic theory is that the concordance rate between identical twins with schizophrenia is somewhere between 45 percent and 50 percent." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "In the early twenty-first century, the money is also in genetic research, based on the idea that mental illness can be found and treated in the genes. We're told that disorders such as schizophrenia and depression seem to be passed down from generation to generation, therefore it's in your genes. A lot of research talent and money is going into trying to find vaccines so that anyone with a genetic expression of a mental disease will be able to be vaccinated against it. Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The following are capsule descriptions of just some of the recent scientific articles that demonstrate the connection between nutritional factors and mental illness. The articles are from respected peer-reviewed journals. Physicians reading 410 this book will want to use this appendix as a resource guide. It will lead them to the original scientific research, which in turn will bolster and substantiate the ideas and clinical strategies expounded in this book." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Even those already suffering from mental illness get more agitated during magnetically stormy days. Persinger grew intrigued by a possible relationship between geomagnetic fluctuations in the Earth and the timing of epileptic seizures, after his neu-roscientist colleague Todd Murphy, who had temporal-lobe epilepsy as a child, disclosed that he often had out-of-body experiences while having a seizure. Some data had already linked an increase in geomagnetic activity with the timing of epileptic seizures.20 Could an epileptic fit result from geomagnetic disturbance?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Griffin and colleagues revealed that elderly women who reported having less control in their lives had higher rates of cardiovascular disease and mental illness.10 The framework—or story—that we choose will have a significant impact on our sense of self-identity and well-being. The distancing, reductionist language of AD that forms our standard view divides persons with Alzheimer's and ourselves into separate categories of "us" and "them" and precludes the possibility of brain aging being a love story." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "A sharp wedge was driven between organically based psychiatry and Freudian psychiatry as they competed for legitimacy in the modern discourse of mental illness. The stakes were high. While Kraepelin's Munich clinic struggled financially, so much so that Alzheimer had to foot his own lab costs, Freud and his disciples, including Carl Jung, were achieving widespread adulation for their psychoanalytic system. Their scholarship was also being backed with copious funding." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"With the proper diet containing the right nutrients in correct amounts, symptoms of mental illness can be rolled back and treated. Deficiencies in certain necessary nutrients lead to psychotic symptoms and depression while supplementation of other nutrients help attenuate and improve the symptoms of mental illness. "In 1970 I read about Dr. Abram Hoffer's work and at that time was approached by a friend who had just been stopped from suiciding in a gas oven by her husband. She had her head in there and the gas on." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"For instance, she found that in modern societies, expectations and beliefs about mental illness serve largely to alienate schizophrenic patients from their normal roles and thus to prolong illness. In contrast, nonbiomedical beliefs and practices held in nonindustrial societies encouraged shorter-term illness and a quicker return to normality." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Usually these doctors mistakenly attribute the overstimulation to "mental illness" and incorrectly diagnose the patient with a new anxiety disorder. Prozac overstimulated so many patients during its clinical trials for FDA approval that Eli Lilly decided to break the rules of the trials by giving tranquilizers and sleeping medications to many of the subjects. When the FDA was informed later on, the agency retrospectively permitted this breach of its own rules." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"There is no blood test or other way to test physically for attention deficit disorder or any other mental illness. Instead doctors use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a nine-hundred-page guide written by psychiatrists and published by the American Psychiatric Association, which has gained enormous power in America today. The DSM, as it is commonly called, states that a child has an attention deficit disorder if he or she displays six of nine described behaviors." - 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.)

"Or, the misinformed doctors attribute the mental deterioration to an "unmasking" of the patient's supposedly underlying mental illness, and then add yet another mind-altering drug to the treatment regimen. AKATHISIA: A PAINFUL DANCE OF DEATH SOME OF THESE BIZARRE SENSATIONS MEET the diagnostic criteria for akathisia, a drug-induced neurological disorder that is known to drive people to suicide and violence, and to madness." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The event's main message was that one out of every five Iowa children had a mental illness that could be diagnosed and treated. The organizers said that those children who were not treated were more likely to end up unemployed, abusing drugs, physically ill, or serving time in prison. Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, the University of Iowa, and the state's pediatricians urged parents to have their children tested. At least one pharmaceutical company had even been able to place a storybook it published in a library used by Iowa's public schools." - 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.)

"Another example of this is the mental illness once known as drapetomania, a disease characterized by an unnatural desire to flee, or escape. It was applied in the 1850s-to runaway slaves. A medical authority noted at the time that, "With the proper medical care, this troublesome practice that many Negroes have of running away can be almost entirely prevented." This same pathologizing can apply to many ADHD kids, who would have once merely been labeled as daydreamers, bundles of energy, class clowns, characters, fireballs, absentminded eggheads... or just plain boys." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"However, while the struggle around MCS and allergy was relatively covert, a secret war within medicine so to speak, the war which developed over ME and then Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, with its accusations of mental illness from psychiatrists and angry counter-offensives from sufferers, was to be fully and publicly declared. ME was formally classified as a disease of the nervous system in the World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases 8 (ICD 8), approved in 1965 and published in 1969. It is listed by the WHO both in the tabular list and in the Code Index." - Martin J. Walker, Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and and the Manufacture of mental illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Get the book.) "Professor Wessely sometimes seems to forget or mis-remember his committed views about mental illness. Accounting for this, he recently told a journalist that he did 'not fully appreciated the power of words.' The February 5, 1999 issue of the New Statesman carried an article by Ziauddin Sardar entitled 'Ill-defined notions.' Featuring Professor Wessely, the article commented: 'Even though 400 veterans have actually died and some 5,000 are suffering from illnesses related to Gulf War Syndrome, the syndrome does not officially exist . . ." - Martin J. Walker, Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and and the Manufacture of mental illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Get the book.) "Not least of these effects is that while those diagnosed with mental illness are encouraged to believe that they have no one but themselves to blame, final proof of organic illness caused, for instance, by chemicals would leave some industries and professional groups open to actions for liability. To understand the position of contemporary proponents of the psychiatric aetiology of ME and CFS and a number of other 'new illnesses,' such as Gulf War Syndrome, it is helpful to look at the developing understanding of chemically induced illness." - Martin J. Walker, Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and and the Manufacture of mental illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Get the book.) "This book traces the history, ideas and actions of those academics, physicians, mainly psychiatrists who have spent part of their careers denying the physical nature of a number of illnesses, and offering instead the diagnosis of mental illness. The book is not a scientific treatise and it does not attempt to scientifically or even academically explain the cause of any illness. The book does not even pose a definite physical cause of any illnesses, nor does it try to apportion polarity to either the body or the mind." - Martin J. Walker, Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and and the Manufacture of mental illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Get the book.)

"After studying many cases in my clinical and forensic practice, and reading and hearing communications from my colleagues, I have come to the conclusion that modern psychiatrists have misled themselves into believing that "mental illness" is difficult to treat, that many patients inevitably become worse during treatment, and that stunning improvements in the patient's quality of life are rare or even unattainable. These psychiatrists have no idea that their patients frequently grow worse, and almost never get much better, because they are poisoning their brains." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Alzheimer eagerly anticipated collaborating with an outstanding researcher and taxonomist like Kraepelin, because Kraepelin shared his belief that mental illness should be predicated on brain pathology rather than Freudian theorizing about the psyche. In addition, he realized that the chances of becoming a university professor would be strengthened by joining forces with such a formidable figure." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"We began this section with the question: Is mental illness really an illness? We conclude, having examined the DSM, still not knowing the answer. Job's Depression Months of delusion I have assigned for me, Nothing for my own but nights of grief, Lying in bed, I wonder when will it be day? Risen I think how slowly evening comes. Restlessly I fret till twilight falls. —The Book of Job, 7:1.6 According to NIMH, "depression" is an illness that "involves the body, mood, and thoughts [which] affects the way a person eats and sleeps ... feels about oneself... and thinks about things." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

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