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Drug Addiction and Mental Illness
Myths About Drug Addiction and Mental Illness Two of the myths about addiction are that it is a “mental illness” or disease, and that it’s one from which one can never fully recover. The way the story goes, according to the “very best” authorities, is that in order to control the addiction beast, one must go to meetings forever, or take "maintenance" drugs forever. In other words, it is considered by the mental wizards of the day to be a permanent disease – even a potentially inheritable one, which one must live with, somehow. However, if one looks, one will find that thousands have actually recovered from addiction and other mental afflictions, and gone on to lead normal lives without further treatment, and without going to meetings continually. And more are doing so on a regular basis every day. So it’s actually not true that one cannot recover from addiction or other so-called mental illnesses. One will also find that neither addiction nor other so-called mental illnesses fit the definition of disease. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a disease is defined as "a pathological condition of a part, an organ, or a system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms. Per the above well-accepted definition of disease, in order to then classify an objectionable behavior pattern as a mental illness or disease, there would have to be some physical body part, organ or body system which could be shown to be malfunctioning. However, there is no current test (nor has there ever been one), which could show that anyone classified as mentally ill (whether involving an addiction or otherwise), had any physical malfunction whatsoever which was responsible for the affliction. So if addiction and other mental problems do not meet the requirements to be classified as a disease, why does the mental health industry refer to them as illnesses or diseases? Where did that nutty idea come from? The answer is that classifying mental problems (including addiction) as illnesses would be very profitable for both the drug makers and their pusher network of psychiatrists. Thus there was a very strong financial motive for finding a way to classify objectionable behavior patterns as diseases, as these characters intended to use drugs to suppress the symptoms of those behavior patterns that they had gerrymandered into being diseases. They could then keep the person on those drugs forever, as the drugs were addictive and very difficult to withdraw from, in most cases. Meanwhile they would arrange things so that a person’s insurance coverage would pay for it all, resulting in a nice continuing income stream for the psychiatrist and the drug companies and high insurance costs for everyone else. Since psychiatric “treatment” nearly always involves some type of drug, this resulted in the psychiatrist and the drug companies combining forces in an unholy alliance to make them both filthy rich by finding a way to hornswoggle the population into believing that drugging people with psychoactive medications was actually justified in some way. And thus was born the chemical imbalance theory, which was how they managed to justify the fraud. The idea that mental problems stem from a chemical imbalance in the brain was brilliant, as it is virtually impossible to dispute. This is because the only way to dispute it would be to first cut up a healthy living brain to find out what a “correct” chemical balance would be, then do the same with someone diagnosed as having a mental illness and compare the two. But due to the complete lack of volunteers for such an operation, and the fact that once cut open, the brain would no longer be healthy, it is virtually impossible to disprove. However, by the same token, it is also impossible to prove...and thus it never has been. In fact, the chemical imbalance theory is just that; a theory...a completely half baked, loony tune theory at that, which was arrived at with no science at all. But what can one expect from a group whose closest approach to the scientific method in classifying objectionable behaviors as mental illnesses, is to have an in-group of psychiatrists vote every few years, on what behaviors they don’t like, and now wish to classify as mental illnesses. After tallying up the results of their “purely scientific” vote, the behaviors winning the majority vote are now moved from the category of human behaviors, and reclassified as mental illnesses, in a demonstration of how unscientific they really are. Those behaviors can then be included in the DSM IV, and thus get these mental witch doctors paid by your insurance premiums to “treat” them, by drugging and otherwise destroying the lives of any luckless human who exhibits a human behavior that they object to. Ever wonder why insurance costs are so high? Well, a lifetime “treatment” program for mental illnesses is one of the big reasons. In order for psychiatrists, medical doctors and the pharmaceutical companies to get paid for “treating” a mental problem, the problem being “treated” must be given one of the codes listed in a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (which is currently in its forth edition and is referred to as the DSM IV). One can find the psychiatric billing bible DSM IV in the local library, google it, or go to
http://psyweb.com/Mdisord/DSM_IV/jsp/dsm_iv.jsp If it’s in the DSM IV, a psychiatrist can then bill your insurance policy for “treating” it. And the “treatments” are either mind altering drugs, cutting out parts of the brain, or running several hundred volts across the brain, all highly profitable for psychiatry, the drug companies, the hospitals and the insurance companies, but very damaging to the individual. For a clarification of anything listed in the DSM IV see http://www.minddisorders.com/ Looking over DSM IV will be an enlightening experience for most people, as there one will find listed, as a mental illness, just about every human behavior imaginable, including such things as Mathematics Disorder - #315.1. The psychiatric solution; give the person a mind altering drug. Reading Disorder - #315. The psychiatric solution; give the person a mind altering drug. Nicotine Dependence - #305.1. The psychiatric solution; give the person a mind altering drug. Also one finds the abuse of and the symptoms resulting from the abuse of just about every drug that can be abused, classified there as a mental illness. And the “treatment” of choice is…you guessed it, another mind altering drug. Now the really beautiful thing about the use of psychiatric drugs (from the drug company’s and the psychiatrist’s point of view) is that they create still other objectionable symptoms which are referred to as the “side effects”of the drug. And there’s a long list of side effects for every psychoactive medication. And you wouldn't wish any of them on your worst enemy...well, maybe you would, depending. Anyway, those symptoms are then given another label and DSM IV code as a new and different mental illness, and thus the person begins to accumulate a whole host of new diagnoses, along with a whole medicine cabinet full of different psychiatric medications to “handle” them. And since most psychiatric medications are addictive as well as being pure murder to withdraw from, the psychiatrists and the drug companies now have a customer for life (which will unfortunately be much shorter than normal thanks to such “treatments”). In summary, neither addiction nor any other so-called mental illnesses are really diseases. They are simply objectionable behavior patterns. And they are all completely and permanently reversible without more drugs, without electroshock and without brain surgery...if one hasn’t been too badly damaged by psychiatric “treatments” first.
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This is a great article. These guys have never cured anyone and yet they make the decision if you are sane or not.
In many ways this is actually a brave article. It's honest and pulls back the curtain to reveal some obvious truths. What I never did understand is why they never focus on a cure, just harp on about ongoing treatment. Finding a cure nips the issue in the bud providing a real life affirming solution.
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