| 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. |
| The primary function and goals of the DSM," contends Szasz, "is to lend credibility to the claim that certain (mis)behaviors are mental disorders and that such disorders are mental diseases. Thus, pathological gambling enjoys the same status as myocardial infarction."19
Because of the prominence of the DSM, and because of its scientific and existential claims, we can examine the DSM itself as a proxy for understanding what is meant by the notion of mental illness. The first edition of the DSM was 128 pages in length and enumerated 106 diagnoses. Each edition has grown. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 A range of behavioral, affective, and mental disorders affects children primarily. They are discussed in the following chapters.
In many cases, the culprit is found to be environmental toxins of one type or another. Dr. Harold Buttram has been pointing out for the past two decades that "while most of our knowledge of the effect of environmental toxins comes from reports of occupational exposure in adults, there is no doubt that developing children are at even greater risk. It is a known fact that pesticides are toxic to the nervous system. |
| Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in a 2006 statement, but "mental disorders remain unacceptably common, causing more disability in people under age 45 than any other class of non-communicable medical illness."
Dr. Gabriel Cousens believes that what we are really facing is an epidemic of biologically altered brains caused by nutritional deficiencies. "In every generation on a universally poor diet," Dr. Cousens says, "there is a successive increasing degeneration in our mental and physical state. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The major studies comparing HRT to placebo did not include women with mental disorders. HRT has been shown to be better than placebo in the treatment of depression in women who develop depression around the time of menopause.13 Stressed postmenopausal women who were caring for a spouse with depression reported less hostility when compared to those on placebo.14 Replacement of estrogen and testosterone in women who had their uterus and ovaries removed also resulted in an improvement in mood. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Attention Disorders In Adults
It is my belief that, just as we have pathologized children's behavior and mental disorders, and at the same time refused to examine the role of the environment?including sugars; caffeine; artificial sweeteners; empty calorie diets; and overuse of cell phones and computers, which cause electromagnetic pulses into the brain and disturb sleep patterns, impacting a child's behavior and causing symptoms that mimic ADD or ADHD—so too have we done the same with adults. Life has consequences. We cannot always control the outcome of things. We fear loss. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Liers: Oh yes, the mental disorders and tuberculosis, you can see from that perspective it can happen amazingly fast. I think you can pull back if you start doing all these right things. You know from your own experience, and we know maybe when we were younger we did not do all the things that we know now, and we were not as healthy as we are now. The degree of improvement from one generation to another generation, or within a generation, is a little hard to know because the experiment is' going the wrong way.
It blew me away when we started researching chlorella for nutrition. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Actually, there are side effects: Reduced risk of diabetes, obesity, depression, mental disorders and all sorts of cancers. Vitamin D is the miracle medicine the cancer industry claims it's searching for when it asks you to donate for those "run for the cure" events. But the cure already exists, and it's available for free.
When it comes to the cancer industry, Canada is the first western nation to stand up and say, "The Emperor has no clothes! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plus, as recent studies have shown, we're the #1 nation in the world in terms of mental disorders as well! Let's see: #1 in obesity, #1 in diabetes, #1 in cancer, #1 mental disorders, and we have the HIGHEST health care costs in the world, too. We have the most expensive drugs in the world. We have more doctors and health care professionals per capita than any country in the world. And, frighteningly, we're the country with the most nukes. Great idea, huh? Put the nuclear weapons under control of the most mentally disturbed population in the world... now if only our leaders were at least sane.. |
Melody Petersen
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 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. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 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. |
| 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. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Treating mental disorders by removing organs
The individual who best demonstrates the madness of "modern" surgery is Henry Cotton, a 20th century surgeon who became convinced that mental disorders were primarily caused by infections. With this belief as his guiding philosophy, he literally dragged "kicking and screaming" patients into his surgery rooms where he removed vital organs as part of the "cure." He would remove a patient's colon, stomach, uterus, gallbladder, and even pull all their teeth. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're also No. 1 in mental disorders and crazy whack jobs, some of which actually don't work for Big Pharma or the FDA.
It's a good thing, then, that politicians are pretending to get serious about health care reform. These health reform proposals pretend to reduce health care costs through a shell game illusion that merely shifts the burden of paying for disease management services to whatever group hires the fewest lobbyists. Once the reforms are complete, corrupt politicians can take center stage and pretend to have helped the American people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The death rate of his patients reached an astounding 30 percent, and yet Cotton pronounced these as "successful" because the patients, he explained, were no longer suffering from mental disorders. Overall, he proclaimed to have an 80% cure rate. Of course, this 80% includes those who died on the operating table.
The psychiatric community, by the way, enthusiastically accepted Cotton's work as "scientific." In fact, the leaders of psychiatry went out of their way to protect Cotton, even giving him a forum from which to lecture and publish the results of his work. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Normal is no mental disorders.
Kevala: Right, how many people are schizophrenic and running around, medicating themselves other ways – for example, using food, sugar and conspicuous consumption as their means of anesthetizing themselves?
Mike: That's a great way to put it – alcohol, caffeine, sodas, lots and lots of sugar. This is sort of leading to another area that I wanted to ask you about. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Let's see: #1 in obesity, #1 in diabetes, #1 in cancer, #1 mental disorders, and we have the HIGHEST health care costs in the world, too. We have the most expensive drugs in the world. We have more doctors and health care professionals per capita than any country in the world. And, frighteningly, we're the country with the most nukes. Great idea, huh? Put the nuclear weapons under control of the most mentally disturbed population in the world... now if only our leaders were at least sane...
But no, wait a minute -- the doctors are right, all diseases are just genetic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. |
Mike Adams
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 The consumption of refined carbohydrates absolutely and inarguably promotes diabetes, cancer, heart disease, mental disorders and other problems. The evidence is quite simply overwhelming.
Refined carbohydrates contribute to an alarming number of diseases
The more you read about the negative health consequences of consuming carbohydrates, the higher the mountain of evidence gets. |
| They had healthy teeth with virtually no cavities, and they suffered almost no mental disorders such as depression and aggression. But once these populations were exposed to the Western diet through the importation of refined foods, soft drinks, and the proliferation of fast food restaurant chains, things changed significantly. In just one generation, rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer skyrocketed. Mental states were radically altered, and people began to experience depression, violence, aggression and mood swings. |
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 But when a more careful examination of the research is made, it becomes clear that this is another house of cards in the search for a genetic explanation for mental disorders.
The advocate of genetic causes would probably like to interrupt me here and object, "But with twin research we can isolate genetic versus environmental influences by examining those identical twins who have been raised apart." That would be a rather powerful research design if we actually had research studies involving identical twins that were truly raised apart. |
| Twin Studies
Twin studies are cited in every textbook I have ever used which addresses the issue of mental disorders. "The lifetime risk of developing schizophrenia varies with one's genetic relatedness to someone having this disorder.
Across countries, barely more than 1 in 10 fraternal twins, but some 5 in 10 identical twins, share a schizophrenic diagnosis."72 Again, a genetic basis for schizophrenia may seem to be the only possible explanation. It is not.
Start with the basic fact that if twins are identical, they are both boys or both girls. |
| Peter Breggin who is one of the real heroes in the fight to end the biological model of depression and mental disorders uses the strongest language in discussing Rosenthal and his work:
The book presents one of the most tragic chronicles of child abuse recorded anywhere. Yet, at no time is the abuse discussed as such. In no place in the book is it summarized. The data is strewn throughout the six hundred pages in reports of the various professionals. Much of it is contained in footnotes .... |
| That is, of course, why the drug companies spend untold millions to promote these "mental disorders." The fact that so many have so readily accepted these labels as legitimate is just one more evidence that America has indeed been fooled.
GABA concentrations. No, to determine if you have this "medical condition" you must simply ask yourself whether or not "you are afraid of making a mistake or looking like a fool." Do you know anyone who does not mind looking like a fool? They continue, "It feels like everyone is watching you and judging you. |
Jay Joseph
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 A branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of "mental disorders."
Psychopathology. Mental distress or the manifestation of abnormal behavior. Frequently grouped into diagnostic categories.
Racial Hygiene. (See Eugenics).
Schizophrenia. A psychiatric disorder characterized by symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions. It may also involve social withdrawal and affective flattening. Like many psychiatric disorders, the reliability and validity of this diagnosis is questionable. In the Danish-American adoption studies, this diagnosis was called "chronic (Bl) schizophrenia. |
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