Question: “Could our drug-based paradigm of care in some unforeseen way be fueling the modern day plaque of severe mental illness in the United States and in other rich countries?”
“Over the past 50 years, there has been an astonishing increase in severe mental illness in the United States. The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine-remembered today as psychiatry's first "wonder" drug-was introduced into the market. The number of Americans disabled by mental illness has nearly doubled since 1987, when Prozac-the first in a second generation of wonder drugs for mental illness-was introduced. There are now nearly 6 million Americans disabled by mental illness, and this number increases by more than 400 people each day. A review of the scientific literature reveals that it is our drug-based paradigm of care that is fueling this epidemic. The drugs increase the likelihood that a person will become chronically ill, and induce new and mote severe psychiatric symptoms in a significant percentageof patients.”
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, Robert Whitaker
https://emf.neocities.org/tmp/MadInAmerica.pdf
Doctor, Peter Breggin writes,“I am a psychiatrist and I have been watching my profession deteriorate for many decades. This is my most direct written statement about the dangers of stepping inside a modern psychiatrist’s office.” “The most dangerous thing you will ever do is see a psychiatrist.” March 2, 2020. https://www.madinamerica.com
In the YouTube video, Robert Whitaker asks 3 questions:
1. Why are outcomes so poor for major mental disorders in the United States and other rich countries?
2. Why is there such a disparity between what is found in the scientific literature about the psychiatric disorders and the effectiveness of treatments and what is told to the public?
3. The voice of those who have been treated has been missing so often in the general societal dissociation both today and in the past. Incorporating that voice into any societal dissociation, merits of psychiatric care.
Mad in America, launch February 2000
https://youtu.be/pcBVPwLM97E
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