In order to sell the new psychotropic drugs, psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies came up with a marketing campaign that a chemical imbalance in the brain causes mental disorders and that drugs correct that imbalance.
The marketing hype was repeated so often that millions of people around the world were led to believe it was fact.
But it is important to understand that there is a big difference between medical disease and psychiatric “disorders.”
In medicine, a condition is only labelled a disease after it has met strict standards: you have to isolate a predictable group of symptoms, be able to locate the cause of the symptoms or see how they function. This must all be proven and established by a physical test such as a blood test or X-ray.
In psychiatry, there are no laboratory tests to identify their disorders. Their drugs treat symptoms.
For example, a patient might have symptoms such as chills or a fever. In medicine, tests would be done to find out what physically observable disease is causing them, such as malaria or typhoid. Psychiatrists, on the other hand, do not look for the root cause, and instead prescribe a drug that suppresses the symptoms. Meanwhile, the cause of the problem is not being treated and may worsen.
As stated above, psychiatrists claim that their “disorders” come from a chemical imbalance in the brain. The claim has never been proven true, since there are no tests to assess the chemical status of a living person’s brain or how to determine what a correct chemical imbalance looks like.
The World Psychiatric Association admits that psychiatrists do not know the causes of or cures for any mental disorder or what their “treatments” (usually drugs) do to the patient.
There is no question that people do experience problems and upsets in life that may result in mental troubles, sometimes very serious. But to say that these are “medical diseases” caused by a “chemical imbalance” that can only be treated with strong and dangerous psychiatric drugs is dishonest, harmful and often deadly.
Psychiatric drugs mask the real cause of problems, often denying you the opportunity to search for workable, effective solutions.
Needless to say, allowing yourself to be treated with psychiatric drugs is very risky, since there is very little science to back it up.
