Peter Bregginprofessor of psychiatry at various universities in the United States, private consultant as a doctor in Ithaca (New York), columnist for scientific journals and author of numerous books, once stated in public that if one has a psychiatric problem, one should not You should see a psychiatrist, because it’s too dangerous. Peter C GotzscheProfessor of Medicine and specialist in drug analysis, wrote in one of his books in 2018, addressing all those who took psychiatric drugs and especially psychoactive drugs:
… You should not take psychotropic drugs. The only exception I can think of would be during an acute episode of severe derangement, but even then, the meds need to be tapered off quickly. If you are already taking one or more of them, you should seriously consider stopping them…
… Warning! Psychoactive drugs are addictive. They should not be stopped abruptly because withdrawal reactions can include severe emotional and physical symptoms that can be dangerous…
A few days ago an article came to my email inbox about the case of a girl in Murcia, who had been diagnosed with BPD, Borderline Personality Disorder at age 17, and at 20 she couldn’t take it anymore.
Apparently this young woman went to the emergency room of a hospital, Morales Meseguer, on January 4, with suicidal ideas, but far from worrying about her condition, according to what Cayetano Toledo, secretary of the TLP Cartagena Association, commented on a radio station: They had just given him an appointment with his psychiatrist for March 11.
Given this, the young woman’s parents began to put pressure on her and also said association, getting the young woman to receive a call from her psychiatrist telling her that having BPD she should continue to take medication and receive a lot of psychotherapy. Keeping the appointment for that day. Do we believe that this is the way to deal with help to a young woman in the prime of her life, by people who are supposed to be well-read?
An acquaintance of mine, JT, was receiving psychiatric treatment for a serious anxiety problem, he had been prescribed so many pills that he was unable to get his life back on track in a normal way. Two months ago he went to an ordinary psychiatric consultation where his doctor categorically told him that all he was doing was drugging him, but that did not solve the problem. He recommended an appointment with the Social Security psychologist, obtaining it for several months later.
After COVID, psychiatry seems to have come out stronger, but beware! Can we believe everything these doctors tell us, or should we question their diagnoses?
Antonio Muro, columnist in specialized magazines, in 2010, published an interesting article where he argued the following:
… We are terrified of madness, delusions and depressive states frighten us, we are disconcerted by what we cannot control … For this reason, despite the fact that the knowledge of Psychiatry is based on pure theories, society assumed at the beginning of the 19th century that its practitioners they were to become the guardians of our sanity. However, enough time has elapsed since then for it to be legitimate to ask today where is the scientific evidence that confirms the diagnoses of psychiatrists and the efficiency of their treatments. And we must say it clearly, they do not exist …
Every day there are more personalities from the scientific world who are against the use of psychotropic drugs on a regular basis. And they even conceive of medicine as a business that globally absorbs us as mere statistical numbers to achieve deep-seated economic objectives, without really caring about one’s own health. Antonio Sitges-Serra, Professor of Surgery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, among many other activities, including scientific columnist for the newspaper El Periódico between 1997 and 2017, commented in one of his books:
… Medicine is today a big business for a few and an increasing economic burden for many, regardless of whether we all pay for it together or each one separately. The corporate protagonists no longer plan medicine based on a personal encounter between doctor and patient, which is what gives it its full meaning, but rather have organized it within a complex and unstable political, economic and scientific system in which it has been has been losing the care and palliative purpose of the fact of curing… medicine is currently a predatory business perfectly assimilated to the deregulated neoliberal environment typical of our technological society.
And what is the trigger for being branded as mentally ill by one of those brainy doctors, showing that life, the things that happen to him, the fears that certain issues cause affect him emotionally. But is it that emotions are not part of who we are? I’m not going to get into that realm, but suffice it to say that if you go to a GP today telling them you have some strange moods, I even encourage you to make them up, they will immediately diagnose you as depressed, prescribe some medication dangerous, which surely, will have in its contraindications that it causes depression, and some worse issues and if you exaggerate the “presumed delirium” it will give you discharge or something worse, it will make an appointment with a psychiatrist who will put you on a wheel of psychotropic medication that it will only lead you into the darkest of caves.
The author I cited earlier, Antonio Sitges-Serra, wrote a book entitled If you can, don’t go to the doctor. Another of the aforementioned doctors, Peter C. Gotzsche, a specialist in drug analysis, went even further in one of his books. How to survive in an overmedicated world, where he stated:
… I wish the patients luck who leave all the decisions in the hands of their doctors, because they are going to need it. Doctors make numerous errors in judgment, often because they are ignorant and use too many drugs. We live in a world so overdiagnosed and overtreated that, in the richest countries, they are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer… Medical errors, such as those due to the use of medication and other reasons, have also been found to , represent the third leading cause of death in the world, even if we only count deaths in hospitals, most of which are preventable…
A few days ago at the Valencia Clinic, Spain, a 12-year-old girl died after going to the emergency room three times in eight days, where she was told that her abdominal and stomach pains were the product, among other erroneous period diagnoses, of In the end, he ended up dying of peritonitis, something that his parents had also been warning that it could be happening to him. The arrogance and useless wisdom of some emergency doctors ended the life of that girl. Who puts a price on such a tragedy?
And to conclude, comment on what Thomas Dorman, a member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and Canada, stated in the first decade of the 2000s about the DSM, a kind of bible for psychiatrists that, created by themselves, serves as a book header to argue in an embarrassing way their diagnoses without any scientific endorsement:
…In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories for “illnesses” by formalizing them through consensus and then assigning diagnostic codes which in turn leads to billing insurance companies, is nothing more than a scam that gives you to Psychiatry a pseudoscientific aura. Those who participate in it are enriching themselves at the expense of the public…
What would be interesting would be that in a coordinated manner, different sectors related to health, serious, committed and ethical, that is, not manipulated by the pharmaceutical industries, decide to permanently detoxify the millions of people who are being overmedicated and driven to a dark forest where they are irreversibly lost in a tangle of sensations caused by the drugs they consume, they are addicted and the only thing they need is someone to give them a hand so that they stop consuming what they are taking. Let’s remember that medicine is today a great industry that moves solely for money, nothing more than money.
Bibliography:
- DSALUD Magazine, No. 128 – Art. Is psychiatry a scientific discipline or a scam?, author Antonio Muro, year 2010.
- Book: How to survive in an overmedicated worldauthor Peter C. Gotzsche, Roca Editorial, 2019.
- Book: If you can not go to the doctor, author Antonio Sitges-Serra, DEBATE, 2020.
Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
