Topic: psychiatric drugs--out of the frying pan into the fire
Cass A
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Dear Friends,
Early on, in 1998, I suspected I had Lyme due to my work helping people with a psychiatric diagnosis who were being abused in institutions. From my research, I found that probably most of these persons actually had an urgent, important, untreated medical condition. This is how I knew to get tested for Lyme disease---unfortunately, my test, the CDC recommended one, came back negative. But, that's a whole other story...
By labeling every possible human condition as a "mental illness," the psychiatric industry, in concert with Big Pharma, puts people onto harmful drugs and keeps them from ever having the underlying physical problem discovered or addressed.
You may not know it, but schizophrenia was nearly wiped out when doctors started treating syphilis with penicillin. And, Lyme's closest biological relative is syphilis! Also, the bacteria that cause gum disease are also spirochetes, like Lyme, and these are found, probably by microscope and not DNA so they might BE Lyme, uniformly in patients with Altzheimer's on autopsy.
Here's the text of a message from the Alliance for Human Research Protection about the fakery involved in psychiatric diagnosis and the adverse effects these drugs can cause.
Best,
Cass A
Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) Advancing Honest and Ethical Medical Research www.ahrp.org
FYI
The American Psychiatric Association, DSM-5 website, announced yesterday that it had dropped the most controversial of its numerous expansionist diagnoses: "Psychosis Risk" and "Mixed Anxiety Depression." They have been banished "for more study."
A diagnosis of "Psychosis Risk" would have misdiagnosed and exposed millions of children and adolescents to the scourge of neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs whose lethal risk profile is acknowledged by some of psychiatry's respected experts--seniors with independent sources of income whose clarity of vision has improved with age.
These drugs--Clozaril, Zyprexa, Risperdal, Seroquel, Geodon, Abilify and Eli Lilly's deadly combo, Symbyx (Zyprexa and Prozac)--are linked to debilitating, irreversible, life-shortening risks. These include: acute obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and a shortened life expectancy of 25 years.
The drugs are currently being misprescribed for anything remotely resembling unconventional behavior. How else does one account for these drugs being the most profitable blockbusters?
As Paula Caplan writes in an OpEd in The Washington Post, "The DSM has an undeserved aura of scientific precision surrounds the manual: It has �statistical� in its title and includes a precise-seeming three- to five-digit code for every diagnostic category and subcategory, as well as lists of symptoms a patient must have to receive a diagnosis. But what it does is simply connect certain dots, or symptoms � such as sadness, fear or insomnia � to construct diagnostic categories that lack scientific grounding. Many therapists see patients through the DSM prism, trying to shoehorn a human being into a category." See: Psychiatry's Bible, the DSM, is Doing More Harm Than Good, Washington Post, April 27, 2012
Indeed, the now discarded, DSM 5 invented "diagnosis," of "Psychosis Risk" was an effort by the DSM -5 task force to legitimize the illegitimate use of these drugs--especially in children and adolescents is emblematic of the problem with psychiatry's diagnostic methods. . The DSM-5 panel sought to lend its seal to an undefined, non-specific, "diagnosis" based on conjecture about possible future pathology--as valid a diagnostic method as reading tea leaves.
According to Allen Frances, MD, chair of the DSM-IV, who has been a leading critic of the DSM-5 panel, this retreat by the DSM-5 is the first in its history. He attributes the retreat to 1) extensive criticism from experts in the field; 2) public outrage; 3) uniformly negative press coverage; and, 4) the abysmal results in DSM 5 field testing.
See: Dr. Frances' blog on Psychology Today, Wonderful News: DSM 5 Finally Begins Its Belated and Necessary Retreat
The DSM-5 Task Force is asking for public comment from now until June 15, 2012.
Vera Sharav
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So sad, such a big issue. What can we do about it? Are there any good films on this gargantuan problem?
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Hubby has always said that he thought he could go to 5 different psychiatrists and talk his way into 5 different diagnoses. I think he is probably correct.
Several years ago the IDSA was trying to get a DSM code for antibiotic seeking behavior -- thank goodness that did not happen.
Every time hubby had a psych admit early in his illness before any real diagnosis or treatment he told me some very sad stories of other psych patients who always had some underlying medical condition that was the real root of their problem.
For example there was the guy who survived a tornado that carried him for several blocks and he had a head injury. Then there was the guy who fell off a ladder and because of his young age worker's comp would not pay for a knee replacement and he was addicted to pain meds.
I totally agree that the DSM manual is a real problem.
Bea Seibert
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momindeep
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Same thing happened to my daughter early on in her Lyme with no dx or treatment. So many psych wards...so many different diagnosises...stupid medications and the whole dang time I was asking the same million dollar question..."Could it be Lyme in her brain."...I believe it is Lyme in her brain I would say that over and over and I was so disregarded.
I even asked a psychiatrist of hers if he could tell the difference between an organic cause for mental unstability verses a non organic cause...I got a blank stare.
IT WAS LYME THE WHOLE TIME OF COURSE.
My daughter also has mentioned to me...and this really still bothers her to this day, is during her stays in the psych wards she would talk to other patients there and they would get to talking. Come to find out that they would have different dx's but all would be on the same medication.
This happened over and over again and it was like that every time she was stuck in a ward. She thinks that they are just guinnea pigs for trying out the "new" meds and I agree that that might be the case.
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