Anatomy of an Epidemic

[Guest guest]

I thought I would serialise little snippets of Whitaker's book here. If

you read this book you will see that psychiatry is nothing more than organised

crime (well, that's my opinnion), which has caused a terrible amount of

suffering. Over the last 30 years many pschiatrists have been telling the

American Psychiatic Association that the drugs don't seem to be working that

well and that they also seem to be making the illneses they treat worse in the

long run. Many have conducted their own experiments and many have looked at

alternative treatments, but the APA has simply ignored them. The point I am

trying to make is that a whole section of psychaitry has had real concerens

about the medical treatments that psychaitry uses. These people are not

anti-psychiatry, just genuine people looking at the facts, and so a broad

section of psychiatry is made up of good honest and sincere people. The real

evil comes from the psychiatrists who in the corridors of power that work

closely with the drug companies and profit very well from it.

In germany many people were taking St s Wort to good effect and seemed to be

be getting better results than that from traditional psychaitric medicines, and

so some American psychaitrists decided to test test SJW on American patients in

well conducted double blind trails. The results were that 24% of those on SJW

got better, 25% on an SSRI got better, and 36% on placebos got better. So the

AMA looked at the research which was conducted by these 'well meaning'

psychiatrists and announced in the press that the SSRI's were clearly more

effctive for treating depression than SJW, but they never ever mentioned

anything about the placebo results. So for tha APA then, is was back to normal

and millions of more prescriptions for their medicines continued to be made.

Stay tuned folks for more in this series.

Kaivey