If psychiatry ever cured anyone, it would go out of business
World Mental Health Day should be embraced as an opportunity to focus on mental health, a time to present optimism for those who are struggling. Psychiatry however has a tendency to focus on mental difficulties, the negative aspects of life, how bad things are while categorising these issues as "mental illness" and…
Be fully informed about the effects of antidepressants
The pharmaceutical industry and the psychiatric industry form an unholy alliance, generating profits from human misery. Their business model is simple; list out and group together a set of emotional and behavioural characteristics and give them a scientific-sounding psychiatric label. Then prescribe psychiatric drugs like antidepressants to those who present with that…
Senseless violence and psychiatric drugs
Bereaved families, affected by the tragedy that recently occurred in the state of Iowa, will be in the thoughts of many people following the Perry High School shooting. A student, named as 17-year-old Dylan Butler, shot six people, fatally injuring one before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Attention as always, turns…
How psychiatrists dress up torture and call it ‘treatment’
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a procedure that’s been compared to a torture method more likely to be found in an interrogator's tool kit rather than in the inventory of a “medical practitioner.” It’s difficult to sanitise the procedure when the truth is in full view. With this…
Psychiatry advertises its failures to get funding
If psychiatry ever cured someone of their mental difficulties, it would go out of business.
The psychiatric recruitment problem that doesn’t go away
The problem of psychiatric vacancies has been a longstanding situation resulting in regular recruitment campaigns run by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). Recruitment to the profession has been and continues to be hampered by the poor public perception surrounding it. Mainstream media went undercover to film abuse of vulnerable people detained…
Psychiatric sales talk can be convincing but deadly
Psychiatrists are keen to be considered on a par with medical professionals. Their practice however of redefining regular life problems and idiosyncrasies as so-called 'mental disorders' has resulted in psychiatrists and their profession being held up to ridicule. Mental health 'experts' scrutinise, debate and pontificate over human behaviours, before voting on which…
Psychiatry doesn’t result in mental health
Whether it relates to children, adolescents, adults or the elderly, there has been a constant stream of news stories in recent times referring to mental health. Any reference however to mental health has been inverted. The pessimistic narratives in the stories often relate to the difficulties experienced by people during these difficult…
The psychiatric recruitment problem that doesn’t go away
Despite lengthy and extensive recruitment campaigns over the years, psychiatric vacancies are still a major concern for the profession according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Recent headlines claimed there aren't enough psychiatrists to help people with mental illness, resulting in long waiting lists. The psychiatric industry considers it a crisis but…
The psychiatric narrative that promotes pessimism
Regarding the mental welfare of those who are experiencing difficulties....
Athletes should be applauded for their dedication and courage
There has been a lot of coverage recently addressing mental health and sport. As well as the amazing triumphs, the Olympics was an event that brought to light the stresses of competition, the gruelling routines as well as the constant public pressures and expectations to win. There’s no doubt that athletes face many…
Senseless violence and the link to psychiatric drugs
As the search for answers begins following the senseless and indiscriminate shooting in Plymouth
