Psychiatric Fraud - information on the fraud of psychiatric disorders<o:p></o:p>

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The psychiatric profession purports to be the sole arbiter on the subject of mental health and “diseases�?of the mind. However, psychiatric “disorders�?are not medical diseases and psychiatrists admit in their own literature that they have no idea how the mind works.<o:p></o:p>

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In medicine, strict criteria exist for calling a condition a disease: a predictable group of symptoms and the cause of the symptoms or an understanding of their physiology (function) must be proven and established. Chills and fever are symptoms. Malaria and typhoid are diseases. Diseases are proven to exist by objective evidence and physical tests. Yet, no mental “diseases�?have ever been proven to medically exist.<o:p></o:p>

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While mainstream physical medicine treats diseases, psychiatry can only deal with “disorders.�?In the absence of a known cause or physiology, a group of symptoms seen in many different patients is called a disorder or syndrome. Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., says that in psychiatry, “all of its diagnoses are merely syndromes [or disorders], clusters of symptoms presumed to be related, not diseases.�?lt;o:p></o:p>

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As Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, observes, “There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases.�?lt;o:p></o:p>

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http://www.psychiatry.info/uncategorized/psychiatric-disorders-are-a-fraud/<o:p></o:p>

http://psychfraud.freedommag.org/page04a.htm<o:p></o:p>

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http://www.nowpublic.com/psychiatric_chemical_imbalance_fraud_confirmed_by_three_new_england_states<o:p></o:p>

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http://adhdfraud.org/ <o:p></o:p>

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WARNING <o:p></o:p>

 Antidepressants Cause Suicide.<o:p></o:p>

On Sept 14, 2004, an FDA panel voted 18 to 5 to require manufacturers of all antidepressants to add black box warnings to their product labeling. A month later, the FDA adopted the panel's recommendations. The warning reads in part: <o:p></o:p>

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Antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior. <o:p></o:p>

A "black box" warning is the most serious warning placed on the labeling of a prescription medication<o:p></o:p>

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