by reify | 2025-09-21 15:11:34+00:00
For me the USA verison of Psychiatry that has failed everyone.

Since the end of WW2 when the the USA determined that their way was the only way.

From the 1920s, there was tension between the Americans and Europeans over it

The dominant model for thinking about thinking across the Atlantic was Behaviourism, which depended on animals in laboratories, ‘controlled’ experiments, and various other trappings of science.

The Diagnostic and Statistics Manual was borne of the belief about control over the worlds psychiatry from those in the USA.

It has failed. There is no cure for any psychiatric illness or diagnoses. There are of course chemical coshes used in secure psychiatric wards and that is it, the rest are ineffective placebo's that hold many dangers.

Why did the psychiatric community allow the fake "Chemical Imbalance" claims to remain unchallanged for far too long. Simply because they have a hand in big Pharma, and nothing more.

I even taught this complete bullshit to undergratuate students. I drew a brain synapse on a blackboard, with two men in small rowing boats, one boat transfering serotonin back and forth between the synapse, and the other boat blocking the first boat from returning (reuptaking), to simplify how SSRI's work. What a load of bollocks! I feel terrible for having done that.

Then in the 1980's came the SSRI's.

SSRI antidepressants have different names throughout the world but the mechanism of action is the same.

Depression is a natural response to sadness and loss. We humans are well prepared to work through sadness and loss, we dont need drugs to do that.

I have seen far too many people diagnosed with clinical depression and prescribed SSRI's, because they meet 5 criteria in the DSM-5, when they were not clinically depressed.

There was a huge increase in teenage suicides in the 90's. They reduced prescribing to teenagers but assumed adults were OK. So they put warning labels on the packaging for adults, who, in my experience were, and still are, dying of suicides because of the medication they were taking.

I have spent my time in secure psychiatric wards and that is where you find the clinically depressed, who may, or may not, benefit from some sort of medicalised intervention.

SSRI's are generally prescribed on the basis they cure a ‘chemical imbalance’. No chemical imbalances have ever been proven to exist. No tests exist to support this theory, and it is a societal belief based on pharmaceutical marketing.

Instead of correcting biochemical imbalances, the drugs cause biochemical imbalances. Deterioration seen in many patients is not caused by an inherent disease process within the brain, rather a by toxic exposures to psychiatric medication.

I have seen far to many people prescribed anti-depressants for 10 years or more.

I spoke to chap recently who has been, and still is, taking Sertraline for the past 11 years for depression after his mother died, without any follow up review.

The man was a walking Zombie. 11 years of taking an anti-depressant every day for no reason.

This is a human being who was suffering from sadness and loss. There is no need to prescribe any medication for him.

Then there is the elephant in the room: Paradoxical Reaction:

Animal studies demonstrate when initially given Fluoxetine (Prozac), an SSRI Antidepressant , the brain shuts down its own production of serotonin, causing a paradoxical effect or opposite effect on the level of serotonin.

A large 2007 double-blind study of fluoxetine in patients with chronic Depression revealed that nearly one third (30.4%) experienced early worsening of symptoms, defined as a 5-point increase on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D).

The study emphasized that paradoxical effects are not just isolated anecdotes but designated as “common” and thus represent a measurable risk for a significant portion of patients.

The Suicide Prevention Strategy 2013-2016 included the statistics that 59% of the 5,119 people who died by suicide between 2009 and 2015 in Scotland had at least one mental health drug prescription dispensed within 12 months of death. 82% were prescribed an antidepressant alone or in combination with another drug.

Why are those in the medical professions still prescribing SSRI's???

then there is Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction, now recognised in the DSM-5, which they managed to keep quite and deny for 30 years. yet again, I worked with people who suffered with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction 20 years ago.