Why is their medical practice a fraud and scam and not real medicine?

How do they diagnose? They talk to you for 5 minutes and than come to the conclusion that they know your whole life story and everything about you to claim a diagnose in the brain…

That process has ZERO scientific basis. NONE. The claim you have “brain chemical imbalance” caused by “too much dopamine”… How can they make this claim?

When they have NOT performed any MRI tests, CAT scans, blood tests, genetic or DNA tests or any imaging device or tool which can PROVE with OBJECTIVE DATA that the patient has “too much dopamine”… ? Big pause right? EXACTLY!

An opinion is an opinion when all you did is talk to the patient for 5 minutes MAX… And quite literally a very inaccurate confidence damaging opinion.

A diagnosis can only made made under the scientific test once you can measure a condition within the body or brain (too much dopamine) by an OBJECTIVE measuring tool that can display results of a analysis or test with the measuring tool.

And first of all blocking dopamine will make sure that this person is not able to work or go to college at all.

Google “invega made me fail college”…

Countless stories.

If such is the case? The patient is better off murdering any doctor or medical staff who tries to inject them if they are court ordered including their entire family even if it’s a 1 month old infant.

Why?

Due to the extreme damage done to not only to their education and career but their health and their romantic life since these drugs ALWAYS destroy sex drive and fertility…

No fertility due to these drugs? The one month old infant of some doctor should be murdered as it is justified since this doctor is feeding this infant from his salary which he steals by giving toxic poison to patients by court order force which destroys their ability to have a infant…

Thus the doctors infant is justified to be thrown into a heating microwave in front of the whole garbage fucking medical doctor family as the infant screams from the burning heat. Fuck you….

The judges who signed such court orders including any judge and doctor extending the order? Their one month old infant will also be murdered after being tortured inside a burning microwave oven.

The nurse who performed the injections? Same fate… The cops who brought to hospital? Same fate…

The security guards who work at hospital and help them force injection on you? Same fate. Yes… We are EVEN going to murder the security guards who work at these hospitals since they help forcefully chemically rape patients… They should also be given gang violence especially since they use force on others against their will when the doctor or nurse or medical staff tells them “hey restrain this patient so we can inject them with poison”

Many patients get court ordered simply because toxic family members or landlord made up bogus complaints on them to get them in hospital which takes their word as proof.

\Many patients get court order despite never putting their hands on anybody or nor sexually assaulting or raping someone (full proof needed – a women’s word is VERY unreliable which is why the wisdom of Islam does not rely on female witness only. Many men get false rape charges because women lie and the jews who have thrown out of every fucking country changed the laws to take their word because the jews know women lie a lot)

These drugs cause side effects and than the doctors claim the condition is worsening when actually their poison is causing more side effects in the first place. These drugs do NOT tame a person at all… Why?

Because they want to permanently keep these patients in a trap so they can make money while destroying their ability to have kids, career, college or even be able to sleep or sit still.

All while destroying their health both mentally and physically.

The major reason these drugs must be made illegal and their pharma drug company beneficial owners publicly executed by cartel style torture mandate by court order?

These drugs have caused multiple patients to become so aggressive that they decide to commit a mass shooting… The media tries their best to cover it up…

All mass shooters in recents years have been on these toxic drugs which caused them to kill in the first place, YOU NEVER EVER HAD MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE OLD DAYS!!!!!!!!!!

TrumpCasino.io was formed due to these toxic drugs being pushed… and no these drugs did not make the patient become productive and thats why TrumpCasino.io become reality… NOT AT ALL!

The patient did zero work in programming or anything really. He is NOT Vishnu… He is from a non-faggot race…

It caused him to become so fucking angry that he decided to form this casino, okay fuck face jew pieces of shit?

You DID NOT tame him, you made him FAR FAR FAR more aggressive PERMANENTLY due to your stupid plans of injections due to jealousy… got it? FUCK YOU!

These drugs have been known to PERMANENTLY destroy the sex drive of a person for LIFE due to the damage done to the BRAIN.. The brain is involved in sexual arousal and once permanently damage it can NEVER be fixed!

Men who have been castrated will have better sexual functions than a patient who had their brain damaged due to these toxic SCAM drugs!

We are going to murder all the lawyers for Johnson & Johnson Co, Pfizer Corporation, Moderna including all the major multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies along with all their beneficial owners inside of SUPERMAX prison!

They will all serve a LIFE SENTENCE inside general population in a SUPERMAX prison cell where El Chapo Guzman is serving a sentence…

Here is proof that these drugs are scams and actually cause the very same symptoms they claim to treat and make better or cure: (They why do they approve it? Corruption, bribes and lobbyists… But Karma balances out all evil corruption and they will be arrested by Saudi Royalty power since drugs are produced only if you have oil and Saudi Royals actually control oil completely – NOT the piece of shit Rockefeller family! Got it? lol fuck your jewish piece of shit “doctors” – we are going to murder the garbage old money assholes who own the pharmaceutical companies that feed you fancy dinners as bribes)

https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/06/antipsychotics-do-not-provide-a-clinically-meaningful-short-term-benefit-a-review-of-the-evidence

https://scitechdaily.com/we-need-to-reconsider-scientists-expose-hidden-dangers-of-antipsychotic-medications

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/mar/02/mythoftheantipsychotic

THE ABOVE ANIMATED VIDEO HAS 8 FAKE PATIENTS EXPOSE PSYCHIATRY AS A FRAUD!

THE ABOVE VIDEO FEATURES COUNTLESS DEATHS CAUSED BY THESE GREEDY BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF PHARMA COMPANIES – THESE OWNERS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!! WE WILL MURDER THEM INSIDE PRISON BY GANG MEMBERS IN THE PEN AFTER PHYSICAL TORTURE & SEXUAL/GENITAL TORTURE !

THE VIDEO BELOW SHOWS HOW THIS INDUSTRY TRAPS PEOPLE… Sons from divorced households should be seeking help from gangs not from these piece of shit spoiled scum who went to medical school with their parent’s help…

THE ABOVE VIDEO SHOWS NOTHING BUT STATISTICS PROVING HOW PATIENTS ARE BETTER OFF NOT TAKING THESE TOXIC SCAM DRUGS! No opinions, just statistics and facts!

https://dinizululawgroup.com/fake-diagnoses-hide-high-rates-of-drugging-at-nursing-homes

WHAT DO ALL MASS SHOOTINGS HAVE IN COMMON?

Opinion – Mass shootings seem to have become commonplace in today’s society.

This is a hotly debated topic with a major political ripple effect.

Over the past 20 years, practically every mass shooting, including isolated shootings and suicides, have one concerning thing in common.

Psychotropic Drugs

The evidence is overwhelming.

Psychotropic drugs (SSRI’s) are the single largest factor in all of these shooting incidents.

All of these shooters were currently or were at one time taking these powerful drugs.

This commonality can not be overlooked.

STUDIES CONDUCTED

Numerous credible scientific studies have been conducted over the past decade in addition to Big Pharma’s own suppressed pharmaceutical documents that clearly show a connection.

SSRI drugs (Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors) have known but unreported side effects, including suicide and aggressive behavior.

One of the first drugs to hit the market was the widely prescribed Prozac.

Many other anti-depressants and anti-psychotic drugs were soon to follow.

ARE WE ARE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS REGARDING GUN VIOLENCE?

No matter what side of the gun law issue you may stand we can not overlook the one common occurrence in all of these violent shootings happening across the country.

These shooters were all prescribed very powerful prescription drugs.

Drugs that affect the brain in ways the medical community still does not fully understand.

If you have ever known someone that was prescribed one of these drugs, you most likely have seen the impact they can have on an individual.

That’s not to say that some people may feel like SSRI drugs are helpful to them.  Nevertheless, they are going to have side effects of some kind.

Everyone is different and people are affected differently.

What if we are really looking at the wrong issue causing the uptick in mass shootings over the last few decades?

IS IT GUNS AND GUN LAWS OR COULD THE CAUSE OF THESE SHOOTINGS BE SOMETHING ELSE?

It does stand to reason that Big Pharma would have an interest in keeping the link between their prescribed drugs and mass shootings a secret.

They make A LOT of money selling us their drugs.

Click Here For Anti-Depressant Stories From Others  A collection of over 6,000 stories that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) in which prescription drugs were mentioned and in which the drugs may be linked to a variety of adverse outcomes including violence.

Psychiatric Drugs: School Shootings And Other Acts Of Senseless Violence

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Read CCHR’s fully documented report Psychiatric Drugs: Create Violence & Suicide—School Shootings and Other Acts of Senseless Violence 

Do psychiatric drugs play a role in school shootings and other senseless acts of violence?

Although there can be numerous reasons for mass murder, violent crime, and suicide, with just as many solutions proposed to curb it and funding poured into its prevention, senseless acts of violence continue unabated. One aspect that has never been the subject of a government investigation, is the link between such heinous acts of senseless violence, such as school shootings, and those under the influence of mind-altering psychiatric drugs, documented to cause violence, mania, psychosis, depersonalization, and even homicidal ideation.

With millions of people prescribed psychiatric drugs, clearly not everyone taking them (or in withdrawal) will experience violence, mania, psychosis, or homicidal ideation. However, according to International Drug Regulatory Agency warnings, a percentage of them will. And no one knows who will be next. 

School Shootings and School Violence

At least 39 school shootings and/or school-related acts of violence have been committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs resulting in 200 wounded and 100 killed (in other school shootings, information about their drug use was never made public—neither confirming or refuting if they were under the influence of prescribed drugs). This list includes those who have not only used guns, but also the use of knives, swords, and bombs. Moreover, this list is only comprised of cases where the perpetrator’s toxicology reports and/or psychiatric drug use were disclosed. More often than not, the perpetrator’s psychiatric drug use, or toxicology report is not made public.

Fully documented report on investigating the link between psychiatric drugs and violence

The mental health watchdog group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International created a fully documented 64-page report that details more than 60 examples of school and mass shootings, stabbings, and senseless violent acts committed by those under the influence of psychotropic drugs or experiencing serious withdrawal from them. It also provides more than 30 studies that link antidepressants, antipsychotics, psychostimulants, mood stabilizers, and sedative-hypnotics to adverse effects that include hostility, mania, aggression, self-harm, suicide, and homicidal thoughts.

Citing Mental Illness as the “Cause”

Media quote experts saying that such individuals are “mentally disturbed,” or have “untreated mental illness,” but that doesn’t explain the level of violence we are seeing or what drives a person to pull a trigger or intentionally crash an airplane, killing all 150 people on board.

A review of scientific literature published in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry regarding the “astonishing rate” of mental illness over the past 50 years revealed that it’s not “mental illness” causing the problem; rather, it’s the psychiatric drugs prescribed to treat it. Therefore, citing a mental disorder is not a predictor of aggressive behavior; however, the drugs prescribed to treat it are documented to cause such behavior.

There Must Be Disclosure of Psychiatric Drug Use in Investigations

Drug proponents argue that there are many shootings and acts of violence that have not been correlated to psychiatric (psychotropic) drugs, but that is exactly the point. It has neither been confirmed nor refuted, as law enforcement is not required to investigate or report on prescribed drugs linked to violence, and the media rarely pose the question.  In cases of toxicology reports, the Coroner can decide not to publicly release the full toxicology report, even when the perpetrator is deceased.

CCHR is clear that not every violent killer has been documented to be under the influence of, or withdrawing from a psychotropic drug at the time of committing a crime, but in many cases, such drugs only emerge when investigative reporters probe the killer’s background. And the media does not always ask the right questions.

Therefore, some of the recommendations in the report include:

• Legislative hearings should be held to fully investigate the correlation between psychiatric treatment and violence and suicide.
• Toxicology testing for psychiatric drugs should be mandatory in cases where someone has committed a mass shooting or other serious violent crime, the information from which would become part of a national database that all branches and levels of law enforcement could access.

Read the full report here.

The Ongoing Movement Against Psychiatric Medications

Author(s)Ronald W. Pies, MD

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Antipsychiatry’s animus toward psychiatric medication has both ancient and modern parallels. 

Demonize: “to portray (someone or something) as evil or as worthy of contempt or blame.”

–Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The following historical note recently appeared in the New York Times and immediately caught my eye¹:

“Feb 8, 1901. Six women, armed with ‘pitchforks, umbrellas, and canes,’ trashed several drugstores and attacked pharmacists in Chicago…declaring that ‘drugs were the agents of the devil’…the women were followers of John Alexander Dowie, the evangelist and ‘anti-medicine faith healer’…Mr. Dowie was leading a deadly cult…he died at 59 from complications of an illness. One doctor quoted by the Times said previous medical care might have prolonged his life 15 years.”

If this obscure bit of history seems oddly familiar, the explanation is not hard to come by. Fervent antidrug or antimedicine antipathy has been a part of Western culture from ancient times to our own day, as recent events demonstrate. John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907), for example, “…challenged the medical establishment’s scientific claims to heal anything, [and argued that] the pharmaceutical industry was no better, poisoning the American public with unproven and dangerous drugs that were no better than the drug scourge of the time: opiates, especially morphine and heroin. Medicine, Dowie argued, was Satan’s’ way of deceiving Christians by mimicking healing and health, while offering none of the physical or spiritual benefits of divine healing.”²

Now, to be sure, there was far less regulation of the pharmacopeia in Dowie’s day. The US Food and Drug Administration was not created until a year before Dowie’s death, and there were undoubtedly dangerous drugs circulating in Dowie’s milieu. But before delving into the historical aspects of antimedication ideology, it is important to state that not every criticism of prescribed medication represents demonization. As a psychopharmacology consultant for over 20 years, I spent much of my time in nursing homes, trying to whittle down a patient’s list of psychiatric medications from 5 or 6 to 1 or 2. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that psychopharmacology is largely the science of knowing when to be critical of a drug or drug combination. Inappropriate polypharmacy is a case in point.³

So, when I speak of demonization, I am gesturing at something quite extreme—and not, say, at someone pointing out (correctly) that antipsychotic medications can cause severe weight gain; or that, in a small but significant percentage of cases—roughly 1 in 35 patients—discontinuation of antidepressants can provoke serious withdrawal symptoms.⁴ No—I am referring to claims bordering on Dowie’s “drugs [are] the agents of the devil.” Some recent examples include the bogus claim that serotonergic antidepressants induce young men to become school shooters; or that these agents (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRIs]) have the same addictive properties as heroin.^5,6Unfortunately, brief versions of both these false claims were recently voiced by none other than the incoming head of the Department of Health and Human Services.⁶ (It has always puzzled me that some extremist critics of antidepressants claim that these agents are little more than expensive sugar pills, while simultaneously claiming that antidepressants so powerfully affect the brain as to produce violent killers).

Although not as extreme, the baseless claim that the use of psychiatric medications has sparked an epidemic of mental illness arguably qualifies as demonization of whole classes of psychiatric medication.^7,8 All that said, my aim is not to relitigate these misleading claims, which would take an entire monograph; but rather, to place such demonization in a cultural and historical context.

First though, it is important to note that the terms medicine and drug are quite ambiguous and subject to various definitions. As Edward D. Zanders, PhD, has noted, “The terms drug and medicine are used interchangeably, although the word ‘drug’ has the connotation of an illegal substance, such as cocaine or heroin…”⁹ Not surprisingly, psychiatry’s more extreme critics almost invariably allude to psychiatric drugs (and drugging of patients) rather than to psychiatric medications. As always, language drives ideology, and vice versa. For purposes of this commentary, I will use the broad term drug to refer to any substance taken internally or injected, other than food or water, that alters the way the body functions, physically or mentally. Medications (or medicines) comprise a subset of this class, and refer to substances that help prevent, treat, or cure diseases.¹⁰

The Pharmakon in Ancient Greece: Savior or Slayer?

Our terms pharmacy and pharmacology have their roots in ancient Greek myth and magic, reflecting that culture’s deep-seated ambivalence toward drugs and medicine—and perhaps toward those who held themselves out as healers. As classics scholar Todd M. Compton explains, “The pharmakos was a human embodiment of evil who was expelled from the Greek city at moments of crisis and disaster. The name is probably, but problematically, connected with pharmakon, ‘medicine, drug, poison’. Both poison and drug were originally magical; so a pharmakon is a magical dose…causing destruction or healing. Pharmakos then would be ‘magic man, wizard’ first, though the borderline between magic and religion is not easy to define; the early pharmakos might have been ‘magic man’ or he might have been ‘sacred-man’. Then, presumably, he or she was ‘healer, poisoner’, then later, expiatory sacrifice for the city and rascal…On the one hand, the pharmakos could be the medicine that heals the city…on the other, he could be the poison that had to be expelled from the system (he is often ugly or criminal). Thus, these 2 interpretations are not exclusive.”¹¹

Western culture, of course, has been heavily influenced by its ancient Greek roots—think of the impact the figure of Hippocrates has had upon the culture of Western medicine. Indeed, we can see echoes of the ancient Greek ambivalence—and animus—toward drugs and medicine in our own time, particularly in the area of psychiatric medication. On the one hand, medication for depression or anxiety is often recognized as necessary and helpful, in some cases; on the other hand, it is often falsely portrayed by extremist critics as toxic, brain damaging, and powerfully addictive.^12,13 In my view, these unsubstantiated claims have stigmatized many of our patients who rely on psychiatric medication for their emotional stability and well-being and led to the stigmatization of psychiatrists and psychiatry.¹⁴

Our Puritan Heritage: Let’s Blame the Victim

I believe that a fair portion of our modern day, antidrug animus is a vestige of our Puritan heritage, and its attitude toward disease, suffering, sin, and expiation. As historian An Vandenberghe has written¹⁵:

“Puritan preachers believed in a strong and logical connection between disease and personal sin. Proof of that lies in the advice which each minister again and again gave to the sick person and his family; namely to search their soul to try and find out what they had done to displease God. Puritans also linked certain kinds of diseases to certain kinds of sin. Bodily afflictions were mostly the consequence of sins performed with the body. Cotton Mather especially proved to be a strong believer in a correspondence between the sin and those parts of the body that were in pain. When someone was afflicted by tooth ache, for example, this person probably had sinned with his teeth ‘by Sinful, Graceless, Excessive Eating’ or ‘by Evil Speeches.’”

There was also a conviction among the early Puritan preachers that “…afflictions were spiritually beneficial in various ways; they made humans humble, aware of death and their fragile body, and, above all, aware of their past sins. The best way for the sick, their relatives and friends to profit from these advantages was to subject their will to the will of God and not to try to escape His afflictive hand.”¹⁵

I believe that our modern day culture—for all its superficial sophistication—reflects a similar ethos, albeit in an attenuated and often secularized form. This sometimes takes the form of minimizing the immense harms of clinical depression or exaggerating its dubious benefits.^16,17 Worse still, there is the hectoring, castigating, and guilt-tripping of severely depressed patients who choose to take an antidepressant. This choice is often disparaged as a failure (or refusal) to deal with the so-called “real” or “underlying” causes of the person’s depression. One self-declared expert asserts that “…each moment, you are depressing yourself from the choices you make, which are not honoring your Higher Self… The anti-depressants only cover up the symptoms of what you are feeling inside.”¹⁸Medication is thus regarded as a cop-out or an unwillingness to confront one’s psychological or interpersonal vulnerabilities. (Of course, for some patients, those issues indeed turn out to be very important).

As Maria Yagoda wrote concerning her own experience with depression¹⁹:

“Anyone who struggles with a mental illness or mood disorder must routinely endure a litany of off-the-cuff, unsolicited feelings, ideas, and proposed solutions from people who fancy themselves doctors…One recurring theme is distaste for medication. To talk openly about your mental health struggles is to come into contact with the widespread belief that taking medication is needless or toxic or the result of some kind of personal failing — as though you are simply not trying hard enough to be happy and well-adjusted.”

The patronizing attitude Yagoda describes reminds me of the famous maxim from the French moralist, La Rochefoucauld (1630-1680): “We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others.”²⁰Sometimes, even well-meaning but misinformed therapists collude in this form of drug-shaming, as psychiatrist Nathan Billig, MD, has noted²¹:

“I am aware of therapists who have accused a patient of ‘taking the easy way out’ if he took medication and failed to resolve all the issues analytically, in spite of great disability. Patients may feel ashamed, disloyal or too threatened to seek a treatment different from the one offered, particularly when it means a sharp disagreement with their ongoing therapists. And yet, patients who are depressed and anxious may become dependent on their therapists and feel trapped when the therapist advises that ‘you must suffer through this and feel the pain to reach a resolution; medication is a cop-out.’ I agree that psychotherapy is a useful, often crucial, treatment and not an easy process for either patient or therapist. Psychic pain is often inherent in the growth that results. But sometimes the pain of depression immobilizes the patient so that the work of therapy cannot be done effectively.”

Ironically—and rather surprisingly—Vandenberghe points out that even the Puritan ministers were notadamantly opposed to the use of medicines, so long as this was understood in terms of Puritan theology. She notes that when, in 1721, “…smallpox broke out in Boston, [Puritan clergyman] Cotton Mather called on the town’s physicians to consider using inoculation to prevent further victims. All the Boston lay physicians rejected the idea, except for doctor Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766), who performed the first inoculations in colonial America on Mather’s 6-year-old son and 2 African American servants….[Furthermore]…although one would assume that they would consider the use of medicine as disobedience against the will of God, Puritan ministers of both the late 17th and the 18th century did not see it as a sin if sick people tried to get well again. Moreover, the search for bodily healing was not only allowed, but even an obligation. God was not only the righteous Giver of disease and pain, but also the merciful Inventor of medicine on which mankind could rely in times of pain and suffering.”¹⁵

In sum: although the Puritans’ concept of disease placed considerable blame on the sick individual and the consequence of sins, the Puritans were not uniformly opposed to the use of medicinal remedies. And in at least 1 respect, the Puritan clergy may have been more enlightened than some of our modern-day antivaccine extremists.⁶

Concluding Thoughts

Antimedication myths, fears and beliefs are as old as ancient Greece and as new as recent congressional testimony.⁶ Demonizing psychiatric medications is a recurrent motif among antipsychiatry voices, along with the disparagement of psychiatry as a medical specialty. Our patients with the most severe illnesses, many of whom need medication to remain in remission from serious illness, bear the burden of this stigmatizing rhetoric. This is surely not to advocate uncritical cheerleading for psychiatric medication. Indeed, the flip-side of demonization is pseudoscientific hype. In this regard, my colleague, Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH, gives as an example the promotion of hallucinogens like psilocybin as “…better than sliced bread.”²² And, yes: in the 1990s and early 2000s, there was considerable hype surrounding the SSRIs, which—while moderately effective for many patients with severe, acute major depression—are assuredly not the greatest thing since sliced bread.²³ As clinicians, we have a responsibility to convey to our patients both the significant benefits of psychiatric medications and their attendant risks.^24,25 Drugs are not the agents of the devil, nor are psychiatric medications panaceas. They are, at best, a bridge between misery and recovery. It is the privilege of the psychiatrist to help the patient walk across that bridge.

Dr Pies is professor emeritus of psychiatry and lecturer on bioethics and humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University; clinical professor of psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; and editor in chief emeritus of Psychiatric Times (2007-2010). Dr Pies is the author of several books, including several textbooks on psychopharmacology. A collection of his works can be found on Amazon.

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2. Sanchez-Walsh A. Doctors, drugs and devils: pentecostalism’s anti-medicine history. Religion in American History. September 28, 2013. Accessed February 17, 2025. https://usreligion.blogspot.com/2013/09/doctors-drugs-and-devils-pentecostalism.html

3. Ghaemi SN. Polypharmacy in Psychiatry (Medical Psychiatry Series). CRC Press; 2002.

4. Henssler J, Schmidt Y, Schmidt U, et al. Incidence of antidepressant discontinuation symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Psychiatry. 2024;11(7):526-535.

5. Knoll JL, Annas GD. Warning: antidepressants may cause messaging manslaughter. Psychiatric Times. September 19, 2017. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/warning-antidepressants-may-cause-messaging-manslaughter

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7. Whitaker R. Anatomy of an epidemic: psychiatric drugs and the astonishing rise of mental illness in america. Ethical Hum Sci Serv. 2005;7(1):23-35.

8. Pies RW. The bogus “epidemic” of mental illness in the us. Psychiatric Times. June 18, 2015.https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/bogus-epidemic-mental-illness-us

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11. Compton TM. Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History. Harvard University Press; 2006.

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16. Pies RW. Is depression a disease?Psychiatric Times. November 9, 2020. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/depression-disease

17. Pies RW. Is major depression “adaptive”?Psychiatric Times. February 10, 2011. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/major-depression-adaptive

18. Sheen B. Depression: the real causes of depression and how to feel good again without medications. Accessed February 18, 2025. https://briansheen.com/dr-brian-sheen-posts-the-real-causes-of-depression/

19. Yagoda M. I need medication to treat my mental illness. Why can’t people accept that?Vice.May 10, 2018. Accessed February 17, 2025.https://www.vice.com/en/article/long-term-medication-mental-illness-stigma/

20. La Rochefoucauld F. Maxims. 1665.

21. Billig N. Medicine for depression is not a “cop-out.” Washington Post. May 29, 1989. Accessed February 17, 2025. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1989/05/30/medicine-for-depression-is-not-a-cop-out/df5fbf87-2ac5-4c2c-a31e-64773e32bcc5/

22. Ghaemi N. Pseudoscience and hype in psychiatry. Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Bulletin.February 2025. Accessed February 18, 2025. https://maps.memberclicks.net/assets/Newsletters/2025/2502%20MPS%20February%202025%20Newsletter.pdf

23. Pies RW. Serotonin: how psychiatry got over its “high school crush.” Psychiatric Times. November 2, 2015. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/serotonin-how-psychiatry-got-over-its-high-school-crush

24. Pies RW. Antidepressants, the hamilton depression rating scale conundrum, and quality of life. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2020;40(4):339-341.

25. Ruffalo ML. A return to lithium: psychiatry’s first miracle drug. Psychology Today. July 6, 2020. Accessed February 17, 2025. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freud-fluoxetine/202007/return-lithium-psychiatrys-first-miracle-drug

For Further Reading

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