1 in 6.  Yes, you read that right 1 in 6 Americans take a psychiatric prescription drug.  70% of Americans take at least one prescription pharmaceutical drug. Some take psych drugs on top of other prescription pharmaceuticals as well.  

So are we just a nation of insane people? Depends on how you look at it.  If you’re looking at it from the standpoint as the drugs causing this mass insanity then I’d say yes.  Do I think all these people taking psych drugs are mentally unstable?  Absolutely Not.  

I’m not claiming the feeling of what we have labeled depression, anxiety, bipolar etc do not exist.  I think they have just been misunderstood and used to put a band aid on a much more complex issue than any drug could ever tackle.  An industry that profits off of your misery is not about to help you be free of your “illness” once and for all.

There are no scientific tests that prove the diagnoses in the psychiatric profession even exist.  So if they cannot prove your “mental illness” or “disorder” has any scientific backing how in the hell are 50 million Americans taking psych drugs for these illnesses? Of course, when they diagnose (label) you, you are told it’s something you will always struggle with.  

“Psychiatry makes unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin…This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naïve and perhaps delusional.” —Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist

There is no cure.  It can only be “managed.”  By managed I mean regular paying visits to a psychologist or psychiatrist and constant refills of the drugs they prescribe to help you manage your illness.  I am not claiming all psychologists and psychiatrists are just evil people and only push dangerous drugs and help no one.  I know there are some that do help.  Sometimes just listening to someone can really help them through a rough time.  I mean let’s be real life’s no walk in the park.

“There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. If such a test were developed…then the condition would cease to be a mental illness and would be classified, instead, as a symptom of a bodily disease.” —Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School, Syracuse

We face obstacles in our life that are going to hurt.  Make us anxious.  Stress us out.  Make us so sad we don’t want to get out of bed.  Just think about the rough times you have had in your life.  What was your behavior like during the rough times?  Those behaviors are usually what they use to diagnose a mental illness or disorder.  So at any given time throughout a person’s life, they are more than likely to meet the criteria used to prescribe dangerous drugs and label them with a mental illness or disorder, which can have profound implications for having their human rights violated.  

Ritalin pills and warning label.

Who wouldn’t stress out if the company they work for went out of business?  Who wouldn’t have a hard time getting out of bed that had just lost a loved one?  Even a lack of sunlight makes me feel down in the dumps. These are not disorders these are experiences.  That can be worked through without any drugs or psych labels.  Even our diet plays a huge role in our “mental health.”

If someone taught me how to meditate to deal with anxiety or depression a little over 10-15 years ago I could’ve avoided a whole lot of pain and suffering in my life.  Yet I don’t look back anymore.  I’m only looking forward and putting these issues out there into the public consciousness so we can stop someone else from going through unnecessary pain and discrimination.  

That alone can push a person over the edge.  It is no fun to be “dismissed” and called “crazy” because you may not think like the rest of the herd.  Or process emotions differently.  We’re not all wired the same so how can we expect everyone to react the same way when they go through hard times in their lives?  We can’t.  It’s absurd.

“I believe, until the public and psychiatry itself see that DSM labels are not only useless as medical ‘diagnoses’ but also have the potential to do great harm—particularly when they are used as means to deny individual freedoms, or as weapons by psychiatrists acting as hired guns for the legal system.” —Dr. Sydney Walker III, psychiatrist

We are facing a tragedy of enormous proportions!  Psychiatric drugs of every kind are exposing people to long-term risks of a declining quality of life, apathy, chronic disability, and even shrinkage of the brain. The psychiatric industry is a $330 billion dollar a year industry.  Considering the pharmaceutical lobby has surpassed the defense contract lobby in terms of funds spent to bribe our pathetic “lawmakers” to allow them to create a monopoly on dangerous drugs for invisible or misunderstood illnesses, it’s no surprise that we are facing this enormous unspoken crisis.

Wake up America.

Sources:

http://humansarefree.com/2018/02/1-in-6-americans-takes-psychiatric-drug.html

http://www.cchr.org/quick-facts/real-disease-vs-mental-disorder.html

https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-08-24-america-is-drugged-out-on-opioids-alcohol-and-prescription-medications-is-sanity-long-lost.html

https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/12-shocking-facts-psychiatric-drugs/