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Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Role of the FDA

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Dr. Breggin points out the side effects of psychiatric drugs and procedures that many doctors either ignore or don't know about due to drug company hype and the FDA's shoddy oversight. I wish more doctors would read this book before they prescribe dangerous drugs and procedures who's long term effects are in many cases still unknown.

I am a mental health professional, and am extremely grateful for this book. For years, I sought to explain why most of my clients were suffering through medical treatments that are supposed to help but clearly did not. I knew that medication contraindicated psychotherapy, which has far superior efficacy relative to medication, but I couldn't verbalize exactly how or why. This book did a great job of doing just that. I also knew that drug companies played a significant role in perpetuating the fraud of psychiatry, but I didn't have the time to find out how or why. This book did a great job of explaining that sad unethical phenomenon. I knew that many of the medications produced a lobotomy-like indifference in most of my clients, and I appreciate individuals with the courage to make this finding public despite the wide-spread denial of those who have the 'medicalized executive functioning cognitive deficit.' Throughout my years as a mental health professional, I thought about ways to expose the fraud of psychiatry that was and continues to ruin my clients' lives. This book did a great job of exposing that fraud. It has also motivated me into taking action against this fraud. One other thing: this review is based on generalities. Thus, I do not wish to take away anything from the relatively minimal amount of consumers that have benefitted from psychiatric medication, which I have never seen personally. However, it should be noted that psychological methods are far more efficacious and do not produce nasty, and sometimes permanent side effects relative to toxic medications. I encourage people to take this into consideration before I begin treatment with them, which is something that many psychiatrists will never admit to or allow their clients the empowerment to decide on their own).

This book helped my son, but unfortunately the information it contains came to me too late to help a woman friend whose brain was severely damaged by neuroleptic drugs. My son was taking a popular anti-depressant administered by a Psychaitrist. He was able to get out of bed which was some improvement in his condition and was limping along through life when I told him of the possible destructive effects and essential ineffectualness of these psychaiatric drugs which attack symptoms only. He immediately fired his psychaitrist whose sessions consisted merely of asking him if he felt better, contacted a psychologist and started a course of talk therapy. There were times when he hated me, times when he hated his mother, but now he is doing fine without the need for drugs. I have done considerable research on the findings outlined in the book. The National Library of Health website is full of articles confirming the incredibly destructive effects of these drugs on a significant percentage of patients.

Any fool who thinks that ECT and other wacky treatments are based on science had better read Dr. Elliot S. Valenstein's GREAT AND DESPERATE CURES. The science is a joke. When families are desperate for a "cure", they will let physicians try anything on the paitent. Why do we feel we must "cure" mental paitents? Why will we try any crazy idea to facilitate a cure?

ECT, like lobotimization and insulin shock therapy and drilling holes in the skull to let out evil spirits, is based on physicians and neurosurgeons and psychiatrists burning desire to gain "name and fame" and inflate their egos... perhaps by writing up their "new" method of trying to torture the illness out of paitents. Yeah, often they think they are "helping", but if someone tries to "help" you by putting you into a coma, I suggest you RUN LIKE HELL!

I have a suggestion... how about we treat paitents with kindness, make institutions liveable for the violent, promote comfortable group-homes for those who are not? Perhaps pay psychiatric nurses and attendants well so that they will like their jobs and treat paitents well. How about we give up straightjackets and "four-point restraint" (biding paitents hands and feet) as a casual method of controlling paitents? How about we actually /care/ for them instead of harming them to "cure" them?

These treatments are twisted and Nazi-esque.

Love, Human kindness, gentle understanding, and proper science helps. Trying to jump the Human brain like jumping a car battery is ridicluous, stupid, cruel, and based on the sickest, flimsiest science ever created.

We try to make decisions to get us ahead in life, we all have our problems and struggles. Life is full of ups and downs for most people. Why has common since and human dignity been sacrificed in the name of corporate greed? Most hard working respectable people are going to face tribulations in life and sometimes those close to them assure them that there psychiatrist is supplying them with beneficial "medication" which helps you cope better. Common sense says "they have a doctorate degree so they definitely know what they are talking about..."Hey a magic pill which can be combined with all sorts of other pills to help me succeed in all of my goals. To think you have to take any mind altering drug to succeed in life is a grandiose delusion in itself relying on distorted science instead of human rationality. Sure you are going to have your medicated institutionalized people who start down the path getting sucked in to believing they need medication whose side effects they "have adjusted" who preach psychiatry is a savior, the pills, the doctor, the ECT all benefited my status. These people usually influence judges opinions and are molded into the psychiatrist's human experiment who will support anything they say or do giving the psychiatrist ultimate control and influence over their lives. And short term it might actually benefit some people who's incredible circumstances warrant a small dose of intervention. But to stay in life long "medicated" treatment is like entering a war on yourself without an EXIT STRATEGY!!!
IF NEEDED PSYCHOLOGY OVER PSYCHIATRY ANY DAY!!!
Psychiatrists please read up on this stuff and stop over-medicating and let your patients realize they have some dignity through communication
Thank you to people who still respect human dignity and are judging others still with a conscience!!! Such as Dr. Breggin, and Dr. John Breeding and other fellow freedom fighters supporting inspirational truth.!!

Having suffered from bi-polar disorder some forty-seven years, I take great exception to Dr. Breggin's book. Dr. Breggin, do you know of what you speak. I do. I have received some 300 ECT's , insulin therapy and quite a few other treatments of the "barbaric" variety. I wouldn't be writing this review, nor the father of five very productive children if if weren't for these treatments. I served as an advocate for ECT before my state's legislature in 1998 when the state was trying to "outlaw" these treatments. They didn't, incidentally. No, I would have preferred other forms of therapy, but in my particular case they have offered prompt solutions to depressions which would have completely debilitated me and prevented my being able to function altogether. So I suggest the good "doc" take a few of these treatments himself and get back in the real enlightened world of mental health treatment. As for psychotropic drugs, I'll gladly keep taking mine, until someone comes along with the ability to "ward off evil spirits".

Dr. Breggin continues to be the critcally needed conscience of fraud psychiatry with its junk science and fraud theories promoted as proven science on a naive, gullible public brainwashed by the current nazi doctors, creators of the Holocaust, all genocide after practicing their murderous arts on those labelled mentally ill in the nazi era, which they used in the wars against women, children, blacks and any other powerless victims they could exploit to further their evil fraud, greed and power as the USA BIG BOTHER organization funded and promoted by their cohorts BIGPHARMA, the noble, courageous Dr. Peter Breggin exposes with fact after fact and all too many real studies. I feel sorry for those brainwashed by these evil frauds as I was in the past unable to do their own research like me as a Division scholar librarian. Dr. Breggin has a growing number of like minded ETHICAL whistleblowers fighting at great costs to expose these evil child killer psychiatrists with their current horrific assaults against humanity. Fortunately, ethical neurologists like Dr. Fred Baughman and others horrified by the psychiatric fraud against innocent babies no less to kill them at the youngest age have joined the noble Dr. Breggin in exposing the absolute FRAUD of BIGPHARMA funded psychiatrists, the APA, NAMI, CHADD, the dishonest Surgeon General, the FDA, the medical journals and all other government and other agencies getting rich and gaining much totalitarian power, their real job always, and profit to rob their victims of their minds, bodies, spirits and ALL DUE PROCESS AND CIVIL rights as "WHORES OF THE COURT" in our so called democratic USA. Like Dr. Baughman ask any of the BIGPHARMA backed frauds above to cite the exact scientific evidence, journal articles, proof, documentation that proves the evil lie brainwashing biomedical reductionist THEORIES perpetrated as proven science as he did the Surgeon General, psychiatrists, the APA and others and either he got NO RESPONSE or weak admissions that such PROOF does not exist YET after billions of wasted tax and other funds for many years to perpetrate this destructive fraud against unsuspecting victims trusting them as the doctors they pretend to be with their ongoing MAD DOCTORING as Dr. Breggin exposes here and all too clearly elsewhere along with a growing number of outraged ethical people within and without this evil profession that MUST be eliminated once and for all before we are a destroyed nation of zombies with no brains and cripples in their evil dictatorship they have almost totally accomplishied in the USA and are trying to inflict on other countries worldwide where the so called mentally ill there have proven they recover without this evil treatment while their psychiatric victims in the USA often do not and Dr. Breggin exposes why in this critically needed book and his others to save victims once they catch on to the evil fraud and destruction of their lives by these evil witch hunters in the guise of help. Dr. Breggin exposes why Dr. Loren Mosher, another famous and successful psychiatrist with impeccable credentials resigned from the APA in disgust for its incestuous relationship with the huge drug industry for greed and profit at the cost of countless lives, babies and children no less, to show their evil has no limits. Read this and other of Dr.Breggin's and similar antipsychiatry books and sites and know why these evil fraud so called doctors are the only ones who need massive security and guards because they fear their nonviolent protesting "former not so satisfied "patients" with their destroyed lives or survival at untold costs. I pity anyone who has fallen for the evil fraud of ADD, bipolar, depression and other so called fraud unproven junk science promoted as proven diseases and proven brain imbalances to show these people have no ethics, conscience or concern about the TRUTH whatever and freely repeat these evil lies in government documents, medical journals by BIGPHARMA with psychiatrist ghost writers exposed despite all evidence to the contrary. Dr. Peter Breggin like Dr. Baughman exposes that any so called brain damage or differences they find and use fraudulently as evidence for their fraud is iatrogenic or toxic drug damage from their toxic drugs and treatments after they inflict their fraudulent victim blaming misdiagnoses when they know all too well that anyone they trap in their webs of deceit have been abused and traumatized or have serious live problems they exploit to totally destroy the victim seeking help, making them helpless, trapped and less able to escape or cope, a shocking horrible betrayal and exploitation of people in crisis. YOU MUST READ THIS AND ALL DR. BREGGIN's CRITICAL BOOKS exposing this evil fraud and all those ethical whistleblowers you can be sure BIGPHARMA and their psyhchiatric cohorts and drug funded organizations like NAMI passing the buck of their evil, bad parenting or attempts to eliminate competitors for money and power as they have historically and will do all to attack and discredit as they spout their junk pseudoscience and pretend it is proven fact as usual since the truth has no meaning from a group like the APA that openly admits to "dancing with the devil," BIGPHARMA, they admit they must then allow to "call the shots" and they sure do as Dr. Breggin exposes here and elsewhere. See his excellent website and other courageous honest ethical heroes courageously exposing this evil fraud at great cost to themselves. They like other heroes deserve our support. BUY THIS BOOK and avoid the mental death profession like the plague. BEEN THERE WITH PREVIOUS SUCCESSFUL CAREER AND LIFE DESTROYED BY A NAZI DOCTOR in about 15 minutes with a life death sentence, a bunchof toxic drugs sure to make me crazy when I wasn't then, real doctoring; no, MAD DOCTORING FROM THE REAL CRAZIES with "delusional dominating disorder" as exposed by Dr. Paula Caplan in THEY SAY YOUR CRAZY, another excellent exposure among a growing number protesting pschychiatric evil and fraud.

Sadly, the vulnerable and unknowing will use this rubbish to justify their noncompliance with the biologically oriented therapies so berated by the ill-informed Dr. Breggin. (A doctor, notably, who is not board certified by his profession-thank God). Granted, medication and "electroshock" modalities are far from perfect (as is the case with most current medical treatments), yet they are the best that psychiatry has to offer. Moreover, such aggressive therapies are, and should be, be reserved only for those who suffer severe psychopathology. Perhaps, as in the past, we should torture schizophrenics with psychotherapy-even blame mom? Perhaps we should return to the widespread institutionalization of the mentally ill? Or trephine the skulls of the mentally ill to let out the evil spirits? I think not!