Mr Daniels says in the Yorkshire Post what I have always thought and have not quite had sufficient knowledge or ability to express. Although his organisation is a wretched one, you cannot gainsay the main points which are well made.Psychiatry a "wholly unscientific charade"
From: Brian Daniels, national spokesperson, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, East Grinstead, Sussex.IT has been reported that experts have called for better funding for mental health services, and for urgency in addressing depression as a public health priority, according to research from the World Health Organisation.
In England alone, mental health received the biggest portion of the NHS budget in 2005-06.Out of an NHS budget of £80.1bn, spending on mental health amounted to £8.5bn. However, the results are not representative of the investment. The latest call from the experts for better funding proves the point. No results, but requests for more funds is representative of a failing industry. In addressing depression, the common method of treatment is anti-depressants, more commonly referred to as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs).The problem is these designer medical bullets are shrouded in controversy due to adverse drug reactions associated with them, such as violence, aggression and suicide.While medical drugs commonly treat, prevent or cure disease, or improve health, psychiatric drugs at best suppress symptoms, symptoms that return once the drugs wear off. Like illicit drugs, they provide no more than a temporary escape from life's problems.It is commonly thought that psychiatric disorders, like depression, are the same as medical diseases or illnesses. While mainstream physical medicine deals with diseases such as malaria, bronchitis and hepatitis that have exact, identifiable physical causes, psychiatry deals with "disorders", names given to undesirable feelings and behaviour for which no exact physical causes have been isolated.These mental disorders are frequently referred to as illnesses or diseases, but they are not the same thing. In fact, no mental diseases have ever been proven to medically exist. This difference sets psychiatry far apart from the usual practice of medicine.Leading psychiatric agencies, such as the World Psychiatric Association, admit that psychiatrists do not know the causes or cures for any mental disorder or what their treatments specifically do to the patient.They have only theories and conflicting opinions about their diagnoses and methods, and are lacking any scientific basis for these. As a past president of the World Psychiatric Association, Norman Sartorius, said: "The time when psychiatrists considered that they could cure the mentally-ill is gone. In the future, the mentally-ill have to learn to live with their illness."So, we have a mental health industry that receives massive government funding, but which does not cure its patients. Worse still, it exacerbates the perceived conditions where those receiving "treatment" become violent or aggressive, who "…have to learn to live with their illness," or even take their own lives. Psychiatry is a profit-driven industry. If it were ever to cure its patients, it would go out of business. It is time to find real solutions to people's problems, rather than pumping more money into the wholly unscientific charade that is psychiatry.
