Fairykang
Cybernetic Esotericist
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The dopamine chemical imbalance hypothesis that is still commonly used today was created as justification for why antipsychotics work. This has never been proven. In fact, more and more evidence points to the individual brain cells in a mentally ill person being fundamentally different than a normal person's cells. The term antipsychotic itself, derives from the term antischizophrenic which was applied to tranquilizers because it sounded as if it was actually treating the disease instead of just sedating the patient. All modern atypical antipsychotics used to treat the mentally ill are just more complex tranquilizers at the end of the day.
The WHO, much to the embarressment of modern psychiatry, found that schizophrenics in developing countries with no medicine have higher rates of recovery than in developed countries. Although there have been papers released since arguing that its possible the WHO got it wrong, no one has had the courage to replicate the studies themselves and for good reason. Even psychiatrists, in their conferences, admit that there's no neurochemical justification for why their medicine treats the disease and that treatment with the medication causes relapse simply from withdrawal.
The argument that mental illness is like diabetes is fundamentally built on false pretenses and is the modern psychiatric approach to treating the disease.
A corrupt tree bears corrupt fruit.
Even the America's expert in schizophrenia in the 70s proved that social intervention was more effective than the medicines psychiatry prescribes yet the field refuses to look at alternatives to drug therapies. And for some strange reason, they always prescribe the drugs that are still under patent and cost $1600 a bottle. All covered by the taxpayers.
The WHO, much to the embarressment of modern psychiatry, found that schizophrenics in developing countries with no medicine have higher rates of recovery than in developed countries. Although there have been papers released since arguing that its possible the WHO got it wrong, no one has had the courage to replicate the studies themselves and for good reason. Even psychiatrists, in their conferences, admit that there's no neurochemical justification for why their medicine treats the disease and that treatment with the medication causes relapse simply from withdrawal.
The argument that mental illness is like diabetes is fundamentally built on false pretenses and is the modern psychiatric approach to treating the disease.
A corrupt tree bears corrupt fruit.
Even the America's expert in schizophrenia in the 70s proved that social intervention was more effective than the medicines psychiatry prescribes yet the field refuses to look at alternatives to drug therapies. And for some strange reason, they always prescribe the drugs that are still under patent and cost $1600 a bottle. All covered by the taxpayers.