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00:00Hi, everybody. My name is Stefan Molyneux, and I'm the host of Free Domain Radio, which
00:03is the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world. This is a presentation
00:08entitled, There is No Such Thing as Mental Illness. And please, before we start, understand
00:13that I'm not trying to imply or state that depression and anxiety and other forms of
00:18discomfort and agony are not very real, very palpable, and sometimes debilitating. The
00:22experts that I've said here are going to argue that it does not fall into the category of
00:26illness, which is very, very important. So what is the theory around mental illness?
00:31Well, the idea is that there are billions of people around the world who suffer from this
00:36thing called mental illness or a disease of the mind. 26% of Americans suffer from mental
00:42illness. And according to the National Institute of Mental Health study in 2010, almost 60 million
00:49Americans are going to suffer from an episode of mental illness in any given year. Now, the
00:55general theory is presented that mental illness is a disease or a deficiency that is caused
01:01by a chemical imbalance in the brain that is corrected by psychiatric drugs, Zoloft and Prozac
01:08and Xanax and so on. The idea is put forward that psychiatrists can accurately diagnose mental
01:15illness and have safe and effective treatments for it. And thus psychiatry is considered a valid
01:23medical specialty like cardiology and so on. And the claims of the movement are based on
01:28scientific research. That is the theory that is put forward. And what is the scale of this? Well,
01:33we touched on this in the previous slide. The scale is enormous. Global sales of antidepressants
01:39and stimulants, anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic drugs reached more than $76 billion a year. That is
01:46more than double the annual U.S. government budget that is spent on the so-called war on drugs.
01:55Internationally, 54 million people are taking antidepressants, which are known to cause addiction,
02:02violence and homicidal behavior. Last year, this is 2011, last year, one in four women were taking
02:10mental health meds last year. 20% of all Americans, that's 15% of men.
02:1820 million school children worldwide have now been diagnosed with these mental disorders and
02:24prescribed cocaine-like stimulants and powerful antidepressants as treatment.
02:33Psychiatric drug use and abuse is surging worldwide. More than 100 million prescriptions for
02:37antidepressants alone were written in 2002 at a cost of $19.5 billion.
02:47One in seven prescriptions in France, for instance, includes a psychotropic drug,
02:52and more than 50% of the unemployed, almost 2 million people, take psychotropic drugs.
02:58Combined spending on antidepressants jumped from around $500 million in 1986 to nearly $20 billion
03:09in 2004. The scope is huge. Driven by DSM. A DSM is the Diagnostic Manual for Psychiatrists.
03:22It started off with just a few dozen, and now there are hundreds and hundreds of diagnoses of
03:28these mental illnesses. Driven by DSM-derived mental illness statistics, the international
03:33mental health budget has skyrocketed over the past 10 years. In 1994, in the U.S., the mental health
03:41budget was $33 billion. In 1994, to more than $80 billion today. Switzerland's spending on mental
03:50health has increased from a little over $70 million in 1988 to $84 million over a 10-year
03:57period, and these are all adjusted for inflation. Germany currently spends more than $2.5 billion
04:05per year on mental health. France, the mental health costs have soared, adding $400 million
04:13to the country's deficit. Let's look at the growth of these medications.
04:20So, if you have a medication that claims to cure malaria, and you have a population which
04:27is significantly infected by malaria, and you have a cure, then as you apply the cure, you
04:32should expect the cases of malaria to go down. That's one of the ways you know in which a
04:37medication is efficacious. You have a disease, and you have a cure. As you apply the cure, the
04:40disease incidence should shrink, should diminish. So, it should have declined. The per capita
04:47incidence of mental illness should have declined over the past 50 years since the introduction
04:52of the first mental health meds. So, let's look. In 1955, there were 355,000 adults in state
04:59and county mental hospitals with a psychiatric diagnosis. During the next three decades, which
05:05was the era of the first generation of psychiatric drugs, the number of disabled mentally ill rose
05:10from 355,000 to 1.25 million.
05:17Prozac arrived on the market in 1988, and during the next 20 years, the number of disabled mentally
05:22ill grew to more than 4 million adults in 2007.
05:27The prescribing of psychiatric medications to children and adolescents just exploded during
05:35this period, 1987 to 2007. And as this medical practice took hold, the number of youth in America
05:43receiving a government disability check because of a mental illness leapt from 16,200 in 1987
05:48to 561,569 in 2007. A 35-fold increase.
06:00So, look at some more growth.
06:02If we go back even further, at the turn of the last century, 1903, about 1 in 500 people
06:06was hospitalized for mental illness.
06:09From 1955 to 1987, the antipsychotic drugs Thorazine and Haldon and the tricyclic antidepressants
06:15such as Elavil and Anafranil, the number of disabled mentally ill increased four-fold to
06:21one out of every 75 persons.
06:26Now, one in every 50 Americans is disabled by mental illness.
06:30The number of mentally disabled people in the U.S. has been increasing at the rate of 150,000
06:36people per year since 1987. That's an increase every day over the past 17 years of 410 people
06:43per day newly disabled by mental illness. The drugs appear to be exacerbating the supposed
06:51illness. There's a reason for that, which we'll get into.
06:57There is an escalation to the application of the psychotropic meds.
07:02So, these are called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.
07:06This is the foundational component of these meds.
07:10So, you have some sort of depression, and you're given these drugs, and a certain percentage
07:15of people will suffer either a manic or psychotic attack, which is directly induced by the drug
07:20that they're taking. And so now, they've gone from depression to depression plus mania or psychosis,
07:28and they go to the emergency room, and at which point, they're shipped off to another psychiatrist
07:32who now gives them a diagnosis of bipolar, and they're given an antipsychotic to go along with
07:37the antidepressants. And at this point, they're moving down the path to chronic disability.
07:44Let's have a look at this growth. These are disability claims or recipients under the age of 65,
07:52diagnosed by mental illness from 87 to 2007. You can see they're just going way up and way up and way up.
07:57This is not a cure.
08:02Oh, the kids.
08:05From 1990 to 2010, as we mentioned, the number of disabled mentally ill children rose 35 times.
08:11Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children.
08:1450% of the total kids on SSI rolls in 2007 were considered mentally ill, mentally disabled.
08:20In Massachusetts, 60 to 70% of kids in foster care are now on psychiatric drugs.
08:25Why? Do they have some genetic difference? No.
08:27They're in foster care. They're traumatized.
08:32Kids are often put on antidepressants or stimulants like Ritalin.
08:35Stimulants can cause mania. Stimulants can also cause psychosis, and this puts the kids
08:40on the escalating meds problem.
08:42So, what is the fundamental issue that is occurring?
08:48Well, psychiatrists and psychiatric researchers have yet to conclusively prove that a single mental illness
08:55has a biological or physical cause or a genetic origin.
08:58They have been trying this for many, many years, and they have not come up with anything conclusive.
09:03And at this point, it doesn't matter.
09:05If they come up with something conclusive tomorrow, it still does not explain the last 50 years.
09:11Psychiatry has yet to develop a single physical test that can determine whether or not an individual
09:18has a particular mental illness.
09:20There is not a single blood test or brain scan or MRI or anything like that,
09:24which can determine whether anybody has a single or particular mental illness.
09:29The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
09:32This is the DSM-IV.
09:34There's a DSM-V coming out with newly minted, fresh categories of psychiatric disturbance coming out in 2012.
09:40And remember, at one point, homosexuality was considered a mental illness.
09:45Now, it's not.
09:45They voted in and out of existence.
09:47So, this DSM uses behavior, not physical symptoms, to diagnose mental illness.
09:53It lacks both scientific reliability and validity.
09:55It's a checklist of behavior.
09:57It is not a physical test.
10:01Let's look at the lack of evidence.
10:04Surgeon General's report, 1999, states that
10:06the precise causes or etiology of mental disorders are not known.
10:11There is no definitive lesion, laboratory test, or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify
10:16a mental illness.
10:18If you have an infection, you have red, you have swelling,
10:20you have increased white blood counts,
10:22you can't find anything like that when it comes to these so-called mental illnesses.
10:28The textbook of clinical psychiatry, again from 99, states
10:31Validation of the diagnostic categories as specific entities has not been established.
10:36This is 40-plus years into the mass medication of millions of people.
10:44Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases.
10:46There are no lab tests, no brain scans, no x-rays, or chemical imbalance tests that can verify
10:50that any mental disorder is a physical condition.
10:55Let's hear from the experts, which, of course, I'm not one of.
10:58Dr. David Kaiser, a psychiatrist, says,
11:00Modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic-slash-biological cause of any single
11:06mental illness.
11:08Patients have been diagnosed with chemical imbalances, despite the fact that no test exists
11:12to support such a claim.
11:14And there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.
11:19And the fact that some people claim to feel better after they take these meds is no evidence
11:23of cause or deficiency.
11:25If you have a headache and you take an aspirin, can it reliably or scientifically be said that
11:31the reason you had a headache was because of a deficiency of aspirin?
11:34Of course not.
11:36Dr. Ron Liefer, a psychiatrist, quote,
11:39There's no biological imbalance.
11:40When people come to me and say, I have a biochemical imbalance, I say, show me your lab tests.
11:44There are no lab tests.
11:45So what's the biochemical imbalance?
11:49Dr. Joseph Glenn Mullen, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, quote,
11:53While there has been no shortage of alleged biochemical explanations for psychiatric conditions,
11:57not one has been proven.
11:59Quite the contrary.
12:00In every instance where such an imbalance was thought to have been found, it was later proven false.
12:07Dr. Elliot Wallenstein,
12:09The theories are held on to not only because there is nothing else to take their place,
12:13but also because they are useful in promoting drug treatment.
12:18Let's keep going.
12:19Dr. Thomas Sass, who's actually been on this show before,
12:22Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, quote,
12:25There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of mental illness,
12:30as there is for most bodily diseases.
12:32If such a test were developed, then the condition would cease to be a mental illness
12:36and would be classified instead as a symptom of bodily disease.
12:41Dr. Sidney Walker, the third.
12:43Quote,
12:44I believe until the public and psychiatry itself see that DSM labels are not only useless as a medical, quote,
12:50diagnosis, but also have the potential to do great harm,
12:53particularly when they are used as means to deny individual freedoms
12:56or as weapons by psychiatrists acting as hired guns for the legal system.
13:04Bruce Levine, PhD, author of Common Sense Rebellion, quote,
13:08No biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for attention deficit disorder,
13:15oppositional, defiant disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, compulsive alcohol and drug abuse,
13:20overeating, gambling, or any other so-called mental illness, disease, or disorder.
13:25Tena DeDean, sorry, Tena DeDean, PhD psychologist.
13:32Unlike medical diagnosis that convey a probable cause, appropriate treatment, and likely prognosis,
13:36the disorders listed in DSM-IV are terms arrived at through peer consensus.
13:42Dr. Joseph Glenn Mullen again, quote,
13:47No claim for a gene for a psychiatric condition has stood the test of time,
13:50in spite of popular misinformation.
13:54David Kaiser, psychiatrist, quote,
13:57Modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic-slash-biologic cause of any single mental illness.
14:02Dr. Fred Bowman, junior child neurologist, fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, quote,
14:10In 40 years, quote,
14:11Biological psychiatry has yet to validate a single psychiatric condition-slash-diagnosis as an abnormality or disease,
14:19or as anything neurological, biological, chemically imbalanced, or genetic.
14:25Definitions of disease
14:27Dr. Colin Ross says,
14:30The way things get into the DSM is not based on blood test or brain scan or physical findings.
14:36It's based on descriptions of behavior.
14:38And that's what the whole psychiatry system is.
14:43Dr. Stefan Krzyzewski, Harvard-trained Pennsylvania psychiatrist, quote,
14:48We can manufacture enough diagnostic labels of normal variability of mood and thought
14:53that we can continually supply medication to you.
14:55But when it comes to manufacturing disease, nobody does it like psychiatry.
15:02Dr. Thomas Dorman, quote,
15:04In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of, quote, disease,
15:10formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them,
15:15which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing,
15:17is nothing but an extended racket, furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura.
15:24The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.
15:30The creation of, quote, disease.
15:33Psychiatry's diagnostic criteria are literally voted into existence and inserted
15:42into the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders.
15:50What is voted in is a system of classification of symptoms
15:53that is drastically different from, and foreign to, anything else in medicine.
15:57None of the diagnoses are supported by objective evidence of physical disease, illness, or any kind of science.
16:07Voting in illness.
16:08What does this process look like?
16:10Mental disorders are established without scientific basis and procedure.
16:15The low level of intellectual effort was shocking.
16:17This is according to a psychologist attending the DSM hearings.
16:21Diagnoses were developed by majority vote,
16:23on the level we would use to choose a restaurant.
16:25Then it's typed into the computer.
16:28It may reflect on our naivete,
16:30but it was our belief that there would be an attempt to look at the things scientifically.
16:36Lynn Rosewater, a psychologist who attended a DSM hearing presided over by one of the manuals,
16:41leading architect, psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, reported, quote,
16:44They were having a discussion for a criterion about masochistic personality disorder,
16:50and Bob Spitzer's wife, social worker and the only woman in that meeting,
16:53on Spitzer's side of the debate, says,
16:55I do that sometimes.
16:57And he says,
16:57Okay, take it out.
16:59You watch this and you say,
17:01Wait a second, we don't have the right to criticize them because this is a science?
17:07Schizophrenia.
17:08Edward Drummond, M.D., associate medical director at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, says,
17:15There is no accepted ideology of schizophrenia, although there have been many theories.
17:20The unfortunate truth is that we don't know what causes schizophrenia or even what the illness is.
17:26Thomas Sass, again, says, in his book, Schizophrenia, the sacred symbol of psychiatry,
17:32there is, in short, no such thing as schizophrenia.
17:37In the epilogue of their book, Schizophrenia, Medical Diagnosis or Moral Verdict,
17:42Theodore Sorbin and James Mancuso say, quote,
17:45We have come to the end of our journey.
17:48Among other things, we have tried to establish that the schizophrenia model of unwanted conduct lacks credibility.
17:54The analysis directs us, ineluctably, to the conclusion that schizophrenia is a myth.
18:00Efforts to prove a biological basis for so-called schizophrenia have invoked brain scans of pairs of identical twins,
18:09when only one is a supposed schizophrenic.
18:12And they do indeed show that the so-called schizophrenic has brain damage his identical twin lacks.
18:18The flaw in these studies, of course, is that the so-called schizophrenic has inevitably been given brain-damaging drugs,
18:26called neuroleptics, as a so-called treatment for his so-called schizophrenia.
18:29It is these brain-damaging drugs, not schizophrenia, that has caused the brain damage.
18:37Anyone treated with these drugs would have such brain damage.
18:41The inefficacy of these medicines.
18:47After thousands of studies, hundreds of millions of prescriptions, and tens of billions of dollars in sales,
18:54two things are certain about pills that treat depression.
18:57Antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft work.
19:03And so do sugar pills.
19:07A new analysis has found that in the majority of trials conducted by drug companies in recent decades,
19:13sugar pills have done as well as, or better than, antidepressants.
19:17Companies have had to conduct numerous trials to get two that show a positive result,
19:21which is the Food and Drug Administration's minimum for approval.
19:25So you need two that show a positive result.
19:26You'd expect in the bell curve distribution of drug trials, you would get two positives.
19:30Eventually, you just keep running them until you get the two positives,
19:32and then you say, look, we have a pill that cures depression.
19:37What's more, the sugar pills, or placebos, cause profound changes in the same areas of the brain
19:42affected by the medicines, according to research published recently.
19:45One researcher has ruefully concluded that a higher percentage of depressed patients
19:50get better on placebos today than 20 years ago.
19:53So what that means is, even if you're given a placebo,
19:56and possibly it's the care and attention given to the problem, to the person,
20:01that helps us, but the brain changes, whether you're on these drugs, which harm the brain,
20:05or you're on a placebo, which doesn't.
20:07The new research may shed light on findings, such as those from trials last month
20:15that compared the herbal remedies in John's Wort against Zoloft.
20:19St. John's Wort fully cured 24% of the depressed people who received it,
20:23and Zoloft cured 25%.
20:25But the placebo fully cured 32%.
20:30So why is this happening?
20:34Why is this nonsense going on?
20:35Well, according to Dr. Margaret Hayden, psychologist and author of
20:39Whores of the Court, the Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice,
20:43is blunt about the real motive that lies behind the DSM voting system,
20:47quote,
20:48If you can't come up with a diagnosis, you can't send a bill.
20:54The amount of money the U.S. spends on psychiatric drugs
20:57is more than the gross national product of two-thirds of the world's countries.
21:00The efficacy of the supposed treatment
21:06In an eight-year study, the World Health Organization
21:09found that severely mentally disturbed patients in three economically disadvantaged countries,
21:15whose treatment plans do not include a heavy reliance on drugs,
21:18India, Nigeria, and Colombia,
21:21found that patients did dramatically better than their counterparts in the United States,
21:25and four other developed countries.
21:26A follow-up study reached a similar conclusion.
21:30And by the by, if you've seen the movie A Beautiful Mind,
21:33Professor Nash is portrayed in the movie as having gotten better as a result of being on medication.
21:38This is not true.
21:40Dr. Nash recovered on his own,
21:43which is true of a lot of people with these kinds of disorders,
21:45and he'd been drug-free for 20 years,
21:47and he vehemently was outraged
21:49and protested the portrayal of meds in the movie,
21:52but, of course,
21:53didn't really achieve very much.
21:56In the U.S. in the 1970s,
21:57the late Dr. Lauren Moshe's Soteria House experiment
21:59was based on the idea
22:01that schizophrenia can be overcome without drugs.
22:04Soteria clients who didn't receive neuroleptics
22:06actually did the best,
22:07the best,
22:08compared to hospital and drug-treated control subjects.
22:12Swiss, Swedish, and Finnish researchers
22:14have replicated and validated the experiment
22:16and are still using this today.
22:21In Italy, Dr. Giorgio Antonucci
22:23dismantled some of the most oppressive psychiatric wards
22:26by treating severely disturbed patients
22:27with compassion and respect
22:29and without drugs.
22:30Within months,
22:31the most violent wards became the calmest
22:34because the meds produce violence in people.
22:39And remember,
22:40people diagnosed with mental disorders
22:42have no known problems
22:43with their neurotransmitter systems
22:45and these drugs perturb
22:47or disturb the normal functioning
22:49of neurotransmitters.
22:51The drugs cause the problems.
22:54Why is it that when we treat
22:55these supposed ailments or illnesses
22:57with these drugs
22:59that we get an increase in these ailments?
23:00Because the drugs cause problems.
23:03Barry Jacobs, a Princeton neuroscientist,
23:05describes what happens to a person
23:06given these SSRI antidepressants.
23:08These drugs, he said,
23:10alter the level of synaptic transmission
23:12beyond the physiologic range achieved
23:14under normal environmental biological conditions.
23:17Thus, any behavioral or physiologic change
23:20produced under these conditions
23:22might more appropriately be considered pathologic
23:24rather than reflective of the normal biological role
23:26of serotonin.
23:28You mess up people's serotonin levels.
23:30You mess up their receptors in their brain.
23:32The effects on teens and kids
23:36is particularly brutal.
23:38In one trial, 75% of the youth
23:40who were treated with antidepressants
23:41suffered an adverse reaction of some kind.
23:45In one study by the University of Pittsburgh,
23:4723% of children treated with an SSRI
23:49developed mania or manic-like symptoms.
23:52An additional 19%
23:53developed drug-induced hostility.
23:57Remember all these school shootings?
23:58The trials revealed no benefit for depression
24:03and all sorts of real problems
24:05were created in kids.
24:05Mania, hostility, psychosis
24:07and even potential suicidality.
24:09This is why the recent black box
24:11labels have been put on these drugs.
24:15Psychiatry has, unfortunately,
24:17a strong history with racism.
24:19So, for instance, in Britain,
24:21black men are 10 times more likely
24:23to be diagnosed as schizophrenic
24:25than white people
24:26and more likely to be prescribed
24:27and given higher doses
24:28of powerful psychotropic
24:30and mind-altering drugs.
24:32They're also more likely
24:34to receive electroshock treatment,
24:36which is 400 volts of electricity
24:38burning through somebody's brain
24:40and to be subjected
24:40to physical and chemical restraints.
24:43What's the biological basis for this?
24:45There is none.
24:46In the U.S., African-American
24:48and Hispanic children
24:49in predominantly white school districts
24:51are often classified
24:52as learning disabled
24:53more often than whites.
24:55This leads to millions
24:56of minority children
24:57being hooked
24:58onto prescribed
24:59mind-altering drugs,
25:00some more potent than cocaine,
25:02to treat this, quote,
25:03mental disorder.
25:06On the other side
25:07of the time pendulum,
25:08we have elderly abuse.
25:10So these tranquilizers,
25:12also known as benzodiazepines,
25:14can be addictive
25:15after only 14 days of use.
25:16In Australia,
25:19the elderly are prescribed
25:20these psychiatric drugs,
25:22the drugs in nursing homes,
25:23for being noisy,
25:24for wanting to leave
25:25the nursing home,
25:25and for pacing.
25:28In Canada,
25:29between 1995
25:30and March 1996,
25:32428,000 prescriptions
25:34for one particular
25:35highly addictive tranquilizer
25:36were written,
25:37with more than 35%
25:39of these
25:40for patients 65 and older.
25:41this is livestock management.
25:46British coroner's report
25:47reports showed
25:49benzodiazepines
25:50as more frequently
25:51contributing to
25:52unnatural death
25:53each year
25:53than cocaine,
25:55heroin,
25:55ecstasy,
25:56and all other
25:56illegal drugs.
26:00Anti-psychotic drugs,
26:02such as
26:02Zyprexa,
26:03Risperdal,
26:04and Seroquel,
26:04place the elderly
26:05at increased risks
26:06of strokes and death,
26:07and have a box warning
26:09to emphasize the risk.
26:13SSRIs
26:13cause suicidal thoughts
26:14and behavior.
26:16Paxil, for example,
26:17is seven times more likely
26:18to induce suicide
26:19in people taking it
26:20than those taking
26:20a placebo or sugar pill,
26:22according to
26:22a Norwegian study.
26:26In the US,
26:2765-year-olds
26:28receive 360%
26:30more shock treatments
26:31than 64-year-olds.
26:33Why?
26:34Because at the age of 65,
26:36government insurance
26:36coverage for shock
26:37typically takes effect.
26:40It's being driven
26:41by finance.
26:43Elderly death.
26:45The authors of
26:46a BMJ report,
26:47Antidepressant Use
26:48and Risk of Adverse
26:49Outcomes in Older People,
26:50Population-Based
26:51Cohort Study,
26:52analyzed data
26:53for 60,746 people
26:56in the UK
26:57who were over 65
26:58and diagnosed
26:59with depression
26:59between 1996
27:00and 2007.
27:02And they followed
27:02these people
27:03until December 2008.
27:05They found
27:06that all of these
27:07people who were depressed,
27:09of all of these
27:09people who were depressed,
27:10those who are prescribed
27:11SSRI antidepressants
27:13are at an increased
27:14risk of death
27:14and heart attack,
27:15stroke,
27:16falls and seizures
27:17than those who were
27:18prescribed the older,
27:20cheaper,
27:21tricyclic antidepressants.
27:22During these 10 years,
27:25patients not taking
27:26any antidepressants,
27:27they're all depressed,
27:28the people not taking
27:29antidepressants
27:29had a 7% risk
27:31of dying from any cause.
27:33The risk rose
27:34to 8.1%
27:35for those taking
27:36the older antidepressants
27:37and increased
27:38to 10.6%
27:39for patients
27:40prescribed
27:41SSRIs.
27:42This is a quote
27:47from the report.
27:50All classes
27:51of antidepressant drugs
27:53were associated
27:54with significantly
27:54increased risks
27:55of all causes
27:56of mortality,
27:57attempted suicide,
27:58self-harm,
27:58falls,
27:59fractures,
28:00and upper
28:00gastrointestinal bleeding
28:02compared with when
28:03these drugs
28:04were not being used.
28:06Selective serotonin
28:07reuptake inhibitors
28:08and the group
28:08of other
28:09antidepressant drugs
28:10were associated
28:11with increased risks
28:12of stroke,
28:13transient ischemic attack,
28:15and epilepsy seizures.
28:17Selective serotonin
28:18reuptake inhibitors
28:19were also associated
28:20with increased risks
28:21of myocardial infarction
28:22and hyponatromia.
28:27Soldiers
28:28and brain meds.
28:29Now, of course,
28:30generals have used drugs
28:31from the dawn of time
28:33to mess
28:35with their soldiers' heads
28:36and make them
28:36more efficient killers.
28:38George Washington
28:38ordered rum rations
28:39at Valley Forge
28:40during World War II.
28:41The Nazis
28:41fueled their blitzkrieg
28:43into France and Poland
28:43with the help
28:44of an amphetamine
28:46known as
28:46Pervitin.
28:48The U.S. Army
28:48also used amphetamines
28:49during the Vietnam War
28:50and actually
28:51the very word
28:52assassin
28:53is derived
28:53from the word hashish
28:54which was used
28:55to train
28:56Muslim assassins
28:57in the Middle Ages.
28:59One in six
29:00military members
29:01is prescribed
29:01psychiatric drugs
29:02such as Zoloft,
29:04Lexapro,
29:04Paxil, or Prozac
29:05even though the FDA
29:06warns that
29:07antidepressants
29:07increase the risk
29:08of suicidal thinking
29:09and behavior in some.
29:12Combat veterans
29:13and PTSD.
29:14According to
29:15government data
29:1610 to 20%
29:18of soldiers
29:18who see heavy combat
29:19develop lasting
29:20symptoms of
29:21post-traumatic stress
29:22disorder or PTSD
29:23and about a fifth
29:25of those who are
29:25treated are prescribed
29:26an antipsychotic drug.
29:28The JAMA report
29:30by prominent psychiatrists
29:31on the faculty
29:32of Yale University
29:33examined the treatment
29:34outcome for veterans
29:35suffering from PTSD
29:36whose treatment
29:37with SSRI antidepressants
29:39failed and who
29:39were then prescribed
29:40antipsychotics.
29:43The finding
29:44after six months
29:44of treatment
29:45was that veterans
29:46who were prescribed
29:47risperdal
29:48were doing no better
29:49than a similar group
29:50of 124 veterans
29:51who were given
29:51a placebo.
29:53About 5%
29:54in both groups
29:54recovered
29:55and 10 to 20%
29:55reported at least
29:56some improvement
29:57based on standardized
29:58measures.
29:59Interestingly enough
29:59whenever there's
30:00a major tragedy
30:01the grief counselors
30:02come swooping in
30:03studies have shown
30:04that those who
30:05receive grief counseling
30:06are far worse off
30:07mentally after the event
30:09than those who
30:09receive none.
30:13Quote
30:13We didn't find
30:14any suggestion
30:14that the drug treatment
30:16was having an overall
30:16benefit on their lives
30:17said Dr. John Crystal
30:19the director
30:19of this study.
30:22Murder, violence,
30:24suicide.
30:25A lot of people
30:26have been under
30:27the care of psychiatrists
30:28and subject to
30:30these kinds of
30:30terrible drugs
30:31who had pretty
30:33wretched outcomes.
30:33Ernest Hemingway
30:35Francis
30:35great writer
30:36Antonina Artaud
30:37jazz singer
30:38Billie Holiday
30:39Julie Garland
30:40Marilyn Monroe
30:41Vivian Lee
30:41Kurt Cobain
30:42the great Michael
30:43Hutchins
30:43the comic
30:44Phil Hartman
30:44the list goes on
30:4666 school shootings
30:48and incidents
30:49have been reported
30:50or recorded
30:51involving these SSRIs.
30:53Let's look at
30:53the physical damage
30:54the brain damaging
30:56potential of Ritalin
30:57and other of the
30:59psychostimulants
30:59most of the
31:00amphetamines
31:01have become
31:01increasingly clear.
31:03These drugs
31:05cause brain
31:06atrophy
31:06that is brain
31:07shrinkage.
31:10Over the past
31:1115 years
31:12psychiatric
31:12researchers have
31:13maintained that
31:14the brains of
31:14children with
31:15ADHD as seen
31:16in brain scans
31:17were on average
31:1710% smaller than
31:18those of normal
31:20control groups.
31:21Of course
31:22what they have
31:23withheld from
31:24the public
31:24and their
31:26readership and
31:26professionals that
31:27attend their
31:27professional meetings
31:28is that virtually
31:29all of the
31:29ADHD subjects
31:30in these many
31:31studies over
31:31the past 15
31:32years had
31:33been on long
31:33term stimulant
31:34treatment and
31:35that this treatment
31:36was the only
31:36physical difference
31:37between the
31:38ADHD subjects
31:39and the normal
31:40control group.
31:41Of course their
31:42brains were smaller
31:42it's a known
31:43effect of ADHD
31:43drugs.
31:46A study
31:47that was
31:50will be
31:50highlighted
31:50I guess was
31:51highlighted
31:51in Miami
31:53researchers found
31:54that brief
31:55low dose
31:55amphetamine use
31:56in primates
31:56caused
31:57possibly
31:57permanent
31:58cognitive
31:59impairment.
32:01What about
32:02the antipsychotics?
32:04Well these
32:04antipsychotics
32:05profoundly block
32:05dopamine receptors.
32:07They block
32:0770-90% of the
32:09dopamine receptors
32:09in the brain.
32:10So the brain
32:11adapts.
32:11What does it do
32:12in return?
32:12It sprouts
32:13about 50%
32:13more dopamine
32:14receptors.
32:15It tries to
32:15become extra
32:16sensitive to
32:17dopamine.
32:19Like if you
32:19blind yourself
32:20you become
32:21much better
32:23at hearing.
32:24So basically
32:25when you give
32:26somebody
32:26antipsychotics
32:27you're creating
32:28within them
32:28an imbalance
32:29in the dopamine
32:29system in the
32:30brain.
32:31So like on
32:32the one hand
32:32it's like you've
32:33got the
32:33accelerator down
32:34that's the
32:34extra dopamine
32:35receptors and
32:35the drug is
32:36the brake
32:36trying to
32:37block this
32:37but if you
32:38release that
32:38brake if you
32:39abruptly go
32:39off the
32:40drugs you
32:40now do
32:41have a
32:42dopamine
32:42system that's
32:43overactive as
32:43a result of
32:44this medication.
32:45You have too
32:45many dopamine
32:46receivers and
32:46what happens?
32:48People who go
32:49abruptly off the
32:49drug tend to
32:50have severe
32:51relapses.
32:55So of course
32:55if you're
32:56mucking up the
32:56dopamine system
32:57you're increasing
32:57the risk of
32:58psychosis which
32:59leads to
33:00another diagnosis
33:00and more
33:01medication.
33:03And when you
33:03look at people
33:04medicated on
33:05antipsychotics you
33:05start to see a
33:06shrinking of the
33:07frontal lobes,
33:07the crucial area
33:08that makes us
33:09human, allows for
33:10higher functioning.
33:12Ritalin and
33:13cancer risks.
33:15So researchers
33:16fed ritalin to
33:17adult mice over
33:18a two-year period
33:19at doses close to
33:20those prescribed
33:21to children.
33:21mice developed
33:25statistically significant
33:26incidences of
33:27liver abnormalities
33:28in tumors,
33:29including highly
33:29aggressive rare
33:30cancers known as
33:31hepatoblastomas.
33:32cancers.
33:35The National
33:36Toxicology Program
33:37concluded that
33:38ritalin is
33:39a possible
33:40human carcinogen
33:41and recommended
33:42the need for
33:42further research.
33:43Have you heard
33:43about this?
33:45Apart from
33:46cancer risks,
33:46there is also
33:47suggestive evidence
33:48that ritalin induces
33:49genetic damage
33:50in blood cells
33:51of ritalin-treated
33:52children.
33:54All this
33:54for an illness
33:55that is not
33:56an illness.
33:57Concerns on
33:59ritalin's cancer
34:00risk are more
34:00acute in view
34:01of the millions
34:02of children
34:02treated annually
34:03with the drug
34:04and the escalating
34:04incidence of
34:05childhood cancer
34:06by some 35%
34:07over the last
34:08few decades,
34:09quite apart from
34:10the delayed
34:10risks of cancer
34:11in adult life.
34:13We've been
34:13pumping this
34:14drug into
34:14millions of
34:15children.
34:18We've got a
34:1835% increase
34:19in cancer.
34:22Researchers
34:22in Ireland
34:23reported in
34:232003 that
34:24since the
34:25introduction of
34:25the atypical
34:26antipsychotic
34:27the death rate
34:27among people
34:28with schizophrenia
34:28has doubled.
34:32So according
34:33to the experts
34:33psychiatry is
34:35a pseudoscience.
34:39So this is
34:41some approaches
34:42to what actually
34:43makes a
34:43scientific discipline.
34:44So this is
34:45some philosophers
34:45of science
34:46especially
34:46Karl Popper.
34:47So if a theory
34:48is going to
34:49qualify as
34:49hard science
34:50it's got to
34:50have the
34:51following
34:51characteristics.
34:53Parsermone
34:53as straightforward
34:54as the
34:55phenomena
34:55to be explained
34:56allow.
34:57This is
34:57Occam's razor.
34:58The most
34:58simple and
34:59brief explanation.
35:00Empirically
35:01testable and
35:01falsifiable.
35:04What's falsifiable
35:04about mental
35:05illness?
35:06Can't find it
35:07anywhere.
35:07How do you
35:08know that you
35:08don't have it?
35:08And people
35:09have gone,
35:10professors and
35:11researchers and
35:13reporters have
35:14gone into
35:14psychiatric wards
35:15and then have
35:17acted completely
35:17normal and have
35:18almost never
35:18been released
35:19even when the
35:19other patients
35:20know that
35:20they're
35:20shamming.
35:21Psychiatrists
35:21never seem to.
35:22Is the
35:24theory
35:24changeable?
35:25What change
35:26is made to
35:26the theory
35:27as new
35:27data is
35:27discovered?
35:29Well, if
35:30these drugs
35:31are supposed
35:31to treat
35:32these illnesses
35:32and the
35:33illness gets
35:33worse, is
35:34the drug
35:35regimen
35:35changing?
35:36No.
35:37Progressive.
35:38It encompasses
35:39previous successful
35:40descriptions and
35:40explains and
35:41adds more.
35:42Provisional.
35:43It's a
35:43tentative.
35:43The theory
35:43does not
35:44attempt to
35:44assert that
35:45it is a
35:45final description
35:46or explanation.
35:46How many
35:48of these
35:48does psychiatry
35:49accord with?
35:54Psychiatrists
35:54Colin Ross and
35:55Alvin Pam
35:55maintain that
35:56biopsychiatry
35:56does not
35:57qualify as a
35:58science on
35:58many counts.
36:00Why is this
36:01happening?
36:01Follow the
36:02money.
36:02What's changed?
36:03Government
36:03funding.
36:0573% of the
36:06approximately
36:06$23 billion
36:07spent by all
36:08mental health
36:08organizations in
36:09the U.S.
36:10in 1988
36:11came from
36:11public funds.
36:14And the
36:14FDA's funding
36:15changed in
36:16the 1990s.
36:16It was
36:17originally funded
36:17through taxes
36:18now or in
36:20the 90s an
36:20act was passed
36:21so that a lot
36:22of the FDA's
36:22funding came
36:23from the
36:23drug industry.
36:26So when
36:27drug companies
36:27applied for
36:28an FDA approval
36:28they had to
36:29pay a fee.
36:30And these
36:31fees became
36:31what is
36:31funding a
36:32large portion
36:32of the FDA's
36:33review of
36:33drug applications
36:34and of
36:35course the
36:35revolving door
36:36between the
36:37regulators and
36:38the industry
36:39leaders between
36:39the pharma
36:40companies and
36:40the FDA is
36:41well known.
36:42Conflicts of
36:43interest are
36:43legion.
36:44It's
36:44almost impossible
36:45to find a
36:46psychiatrist who
36:47doesn't have
36:47ties with a
36:47drug company to
36:48approve any of
36:49these supposed
36:49studies.
36:53Involuntary
36:53confinement.
36:55This is a
36:56pretty strong
36:57civil rights
36:57issue because
36:58each year
36:59approximately one
36:59and one half
37:00million people
37:00are taken to
37:01psychiatric
37:01institutions against
37:02their will.
37:03That's one
37:03person every
37:0475 seconds
37:05being confined
37:06against their
37:06will and
37:07drugged often.
37:09And wouldn't
37:09you know it,
37:10the chances
37:11that that
37:11person is
37:11going to
37:12be released
37:12are far
37:13slimmer if
37:14the person's
37:15insurance is
37:16paying for
37:16the treatment,
37:17if they are
37:17a cash cow.
37:21Let's just
37:22take a brief
37:22look at the
37:23history of the
37:24funding so we
37:24can understand
37:25how we got
37:25to this
37:25place.
37:27Community
37:27Mental Health
37:28Centers Act
37:28of 1963
37:29created academic
37:30community mental
37:31health centers
37:31through government
37:32funding.
37:33In 1965,
37:35reimbursements by
37:35Medicare and
37:36Medicaid, as
37:37well as
37:38disability insurance
37:39for mental
37:40health issues
37:40pushed a lot
37:41of money out
37:42into psychiatry.
37:43In the 1970s,
37:45this is very,
37:46very important,
37:46psychiatric
37:47lobbyists demanded
37:48prohibitions against
37:49insurance policies
37:50if they did not
37:51include psychiatric
37:52coverage.
37:53In other words,
37:53it became illegal
37:54to provide health
37:55insurance if it
37:55did not include
37:56mandatory government
37:57enforced psychiatric
37:58coverage.
37:59This was not
37:59driven by the
38:01market.
38:01It was not
38:01driven by consumer
38:02demand.
38:03It is driven
38:03by law,
38:05by force,
38:06by government,
38:07fiat and
38:07mandate.
38:09By the 1980s,
38:11a majority of
38:11states in the
38:11U.S.
38:12had passed
38:12mandated mental
38:13health coverage
38:13laws.
38:14Of course,
38:15people who want
38:16mental health
38:17coverage always
38:18want other
38:18people to
38:19subsidize it.
38:20So they get
38:20the government
38:21through the
38:21psychiatric
38:22lobbyists,
38:22they get the
38:22government to
38:23enforce it on
38:23everyone else so
38:24that they have
38:24to pay much
38:25less because the
38:26costs are absorbed
38:26into the general
38:27population of
38:28people buying
38:28the insurance.
38:29Of course,
38:29the psychiatrists
38:30want it mandated
38:31because then lots
38:32of people have
38:33lots of free
38:33coverage,
38:34quote free
38:34coverage,
38:35which they
38:36could then spend
38:36on psychiatrists.
38:37between 1984
38:40and 1988,
38:41as a result of
38:42this,
38:42the number of
38:42psychiatric
38:43institutions
38:43doubled.
38:45Government forces
38:46people to pay,
38:47there's a massive
38:48spigot of money
38:48that comes out,
38:49of course,
38:49you're going to
38:50water this desert
38:51of futility.
38:54The number of
38:55psychiatric
38:55hospitalizations
38:56rocketed 350%
38:58in just four years,
38:59so when insurance
39:00began to pay,
39:01people began to
39:01be hospitalized
39:02and kept
39:03there.
39:04This is not
39:05a science.
39:08Let's look at
39:09some more history.
39:11From 1955
39:11to 1977,
39:13spending on
39:13mental illness
39:14went in
39:14inflation-adjusted
39:15dollars from
39:15$1.2 billion
39:17to $20 billion.
39:19It's going to
39:19draw a lot of
39:19people into
39:20the field,
39:20my friends.
39:22The number
39:23of psychiatrists
39:23tripled.
39:24Psychiatric
39:25social workers
39:25went from
39:2620,000 to
39:27almost 90,000.
39:30A study reported
39:31that average
39:31payments for
39:32those using
39:32psychiatric
39:33services from
39:34insurance companies
39:34were three times
39:35higher than
39:35for those
39:36who did not.
39:38Businesses
39:38reported that
39:39mental health
39:39claims were
39:40consuming up
39:40to 40% of
39:41their healthcare
39:42dollars, and
39:42it was rising
39:43since the
39:44beginning of
39:45the healthcare
39:45crisis.
39:47Foster Higgins,
39:48an insurance
39:48benefits consulting
39:49firm, reported
39:50that mental
39:50health costs
39:51of the average
39:51company again
39:52doubled between
39:531987 and
39:541991 in just
39:55four years.
39:56You open up
39:57this fire hose
39:57and everybody
39:58wants to drink
39:58from it.
39:58Now, the
40:01reality is that
40:02mental health
40:02coverage was
40:03always available
40:03for those who
40:04wanted to pay
40:04the additional
40:05premium.
40:05It's just that
40:06very few people
40:07felt that it
40:07was worth the
40:07cost, but once
40:08it was mandated,
40:09once it was
40:09quote free, once
40:10it was subsidized
40:11by everyone and
40:11it didn't matter
40:12whether you took
40:12it or not as
40:13far as your
40:13payments went,
40:15people began to
40:15use it.
40:17And psychiatry as
40:18a result, of
40:19course, began to
40:20find it much more
40:21profitable to spend
40:2315 minutes with
40:24people and prescribe
40:24the meds rather
40:25than an hour and
40:26actually explore
40:26their psyches.
40:29Let's look at
40:30the backing.
40:31Well, the
40:31psychiatry movement's
40:32major source of
40:33funding is the
40:33highly profitable
40:34pharmaceutical
40:35industry.
40:36Pharmaceutical
40:36industry funds
40:37drug research,
40:38psychiatric journals,
40:39and the American
40:39Psychiatrics Association
40:41itself, which in
40:42turn funds advertising
40:43to doctors and the
40:44public and even
40:45funds lay groups
40:46such as the NAMI to
40:48the tune of at
40:48least $11 million
40:49and children and
40:51adults with attention
40:51deficit disorder,
40:52at least a million
40:53dollars.
40:53So you understand
40:54the money flow here.
40:55The government
40:56forces people to
40:56pay for mental
40:57health.
40:58And then it's
40:59much more profitable
41:00to invent an
41:01illness or a
41:02disease which can
41:02be treated by a
41:03pill rather than
41:04actually explore
41:05people's thinking
41:06and help them come
41:07to more rational
41:07conclusions about
41:08their lives and
41:09understand where
41:10their lives need
41:11to change, how
41:11their relationships
41:12need to be solved,
41:13fixed, or
41:13abandoned.
41:16And so the
41:17pharma companies
41:18pour all this
41:19money on the
41:20psychiatrist to
41:21prescribe meds and
41:22the psychiatrists get
41:22all of this money
41:23to do that.
41:23They see fewer
41:24patients, they
41:24prescribe more.
41:25Or it's
41:26become, as
41:27again, one of
41:28the psychiatrists
41:29described, a
41:29complete racket.
41:31Monstrous.
41:32Let's look at the
41:33public funding of
41:34all of this.
41:35Medicaid is the
41:36largest source of
41:36funding, public and
41:37private, for the
41:38treatment of the
41:38mentally ill.
41:39Government money.
41:40Where you have
41:40government money, you
41:41have corruption and
41:42inefficiency.
41:43Medicare, of course,
41:44is the federally funded
41:45health care which
41:45begins at age 65.
41:47Coverage includes
41:47mental health care.
41:50Federal government
41:51also allocates funds
41:52for the mental health
41:53care needs of
41:54military veterans.
41:57The Social Security
41:58Administration has
41:59two programs to
42:00help people pay for
42:01mental health
42:01treatment.
42:01The first is
42:02supplemental security
42:03income, while the
42:03second is social
42:04security disability
42:05insurance.
42:07So to be eligible for
42:08these, your mental
42:08condition needs to be
42:09such that you're
42:10unable to make a
42:11considerable amount of
42:11money by working.
42:13And we can see how
42:14this happens, partly
42:16through fraud, partly
42:17through faking it, of
42:17course, because there's
42:18no objective test, so it's
42:19much easier to fake.
42:21And partly because these
42:22poor people get
42:22escalating amounts of
42:23meds, because they're
42:24supposed to have these
42:25quote illnesses, which
42:26then begins to wreck
42:27their minds and renders
42:28them absolutely and
42:32tragically disabled, often
42:34permanently.
42:36In 2001, 52% of
42:38selected mental health and
42:39substance abuse
42:39expenditures were
42:40government funded.
42:41This is much lower
42:42than, this is a much
42:44lower estimate than it is
42:45in reality, because this
42:46does not include
42:46Medicare for those
42:47qualifying for Social
42:48Security or disability
42:49insurance or the
42:51federal grants to
42:51states for mental
42:52health spending.
42:54So in 1993, onwards,
42:56Medicaid legislation
42:57passed to build
42:58reimbursement for
42:58essential services for
42:59people with serious
43:00mental, quote, illnesses.
43:02In 1996, Clinton
43:04announced parity of
43:05health insurance coverage
43:05for mental disorders
43:06under federal employee
43:08health insurance plans.
43:09So you couldn't
43:10discriminate between
43:10mental disorders and,
43:12say, cancer or heart
43:13disease and so on.
43:15Now, just to end up
43:17here, let's briefly have
43:18a look at how Prozac
43:19was approved.
43:20Now, this is truly
43:21appalling.
43:23So, the studies to
43:24approve Prozac were
43:25performed by the
43:26manufacturer's own
43:27hand-picked doctors who
43:28chose to ignore evidence
43:29of Prozac's stimulant
43:30properties, right, the
43:31aggression and
43:32suicidality and psychoses.
43:34And patients who became
43:35agitated when being given
43:38this stimulant were
43:39administered sedatives.
43:41Sedatives, such as
43:43Clonopin, Ativan,
43:44Xanax, and Valium.
43:46Right, so the drugs that
43:48were being tested weren't
43:49just Prozac, it was
43:50Prozac plus anyone who
43:51showed evidence of
43:52stimulation being coupled
43:53with these sedatives.
43:56Researchers lied about
43:57the number of people
43:57tested.
43:58Eli Lilly, the
43:59manufacturer, claims that
44:00thousands of people
44:01received Prozac in
44:02controlled clinical trials
44:03during its testing
44:04phase.
44:04In actuality, the numbers
44:06were far lower, since
44:07those who failed to
44:08complete the studies due
44:09to negative side effects
44:10were never accounted
44:11for.
44:12So you start with
44:12thousands, and up to
44:14half of these people
44:15drop out because of
44:15serious side effects.
44:17And you just, you don't
44:18have to count those in
44:18your final numbers.
44:23In the end, only 286
44:25people were used as a
44:26basis for Prozac's
44:27approval, and these
44:27were people who most
44:29likely happened not to
44:31experience these
44:31horrendous side effects.
44:35And tests purposefully
44:37excluded all the kinds
44:39of patients who would
44:39later receive Prozac.
44:40So they excluded those
44:41who were suicidal or
44:42psychotic and afflicted
44:43with other emotional
44:44or mental disorders
44:45for which this stuff
44:47is regularly prescribed.
44:51So, during the time
44:52that Prozac was approved
44:53in the late 80s,
44:54about 16 other
44:55psychiatric drugs
44:56passed inspection,
44:57and nine of these
44:58have later since had
45:01major label changes,
45:03introduction of
45:04significant black box
45:05or other kinds of
45:06warnings from the FDA.
45:07This was not a safe
45:08approval process.
45:11Prozac causes
45:12biochemical imbalances.
45:14So, serotonin is a
45:15neurotransmitter or
45:16chemical messenger that
45:17normally connects to
45:17receptor sites and fires
45:19the nerves.
45:20Prozac prevents serotonin
45:22from being removed from
45:23the active place where
45:24it's working in the brain.
45:26It keeps the sparks alive
45:28longer, and as a result,
45:29a lot of excess firing
45:31takes place.
45:33And the brain doesn't like
45:34all of this overstimulation
45:35and eliminates 30 to 40%
45:37or more of these
45:39receptors.
45:41This is why these drugs
45:41are so hard to get
45:43off of my relapse.
45:44Critical, worse relapse
45:46is so common.
45:48So, let's conclude.
45:50Look, let's say tomorrow
45:52conclusive evidence for
45:54biological sources of
45:55mental illnesses is
45:56discovered does not
45:58justify the past 50 years
45:59at all.
46:00It does not justify the
46:01past 50 years at all.
46:03If I'm running a pyramid
46:04scheme or a Ponzi scheme,
46:06and then I happen to win
46:07the lottery and pay off
46:08a bunch of people, that
46:08doesn't mean that I wasn't
46:09running a scam for that
46:10long.
46:13Suffering and anguish are
46:14very, very real, and I
46:16don't want to minimize that
46:17or say, oh, these people
46:17just need to feel better or
46:19stiff upper lip or take a
46:20cold shower.
46:21I mean, this is very
46:21serious stuff.
46:22I mean, if anyone's
46:23interested, I mean, mental
46:24illness has afflicted my
46:25family just terribly with
46:27electroconvulsive therapies,
46:29shock treatments,
46:30involuntary
46:31institutionalization.
46:33I mean, it's just been
46:34absolutely brutal on my
46:35family.
46:35The anguish is extremely
46:36real.
46:37It's very real.
46:38It does not qualify,
46:39according to these experts,
46:40as an illness.
46:42And if I injure my back,
46:46then I have a real injury.
46:48I have a real injury which
46:49causes me real pain.
46:50That is not an illness.
46:51If I spend my days hunched
46:53over like a question mark
46:54and develop back problems,
46:55that is not an illness.
46:56That is an injury, a
46:57repetitive strain injury.
46:58I'll make the case as to
46:59what I think is going on,
47:00if you don't mind an
47:02amateur's opinion, in
47:03another video.
47:03But I don't want for
47:05people to think that I
47:06don't believe that this
47:07suffering is real.
47:07I believe that it is.
47:10There are effective
47:11non-drug solutions
47:11available.
47:13I'm a big fan of
47:14cognitive behavioral
47:15therapy.
47:16I myself was in therapy
47:17for many years, found it
47:18incredibly effective and
47:19powerful.
47:20So there are non-drug
47:20solutions that are
47:21available which last in a
47:23way that these drugs
47:23don't.
47:24So, thank you for your
47:26patience for this rather
47:27lengthy presentation.
47:28You can have a look at
47:29the sources for this
47:30data at fdrurl.com
47:33forward slash mental
47:35illness and thank you
47:36so, so much for taking
47:37the time.
47:37If you can share this
47:38with other people, I
47:39think this is an
47:40incredibly important
47:40issue, particularly for
47:42the children in society
47:43who deserve the chance to
47:44grow up without being
47:45addicted to these
47:46terrible brain shrinking
47:47stimulants and who have
47:49a chance, who should
47:50have a chance for a
47:51more normal and healthy
47:52adult life.
47:53Thank you so much for
47:54taking the time.