Biological psychiatry goes woke and stays dangerous

Freud and later psychiatrists depicted ‘overly emotional’ people as having a ‘mental illness.’ They used the medical model to describe mental stress.

Though there was no proof for their thought experiment, it has attracted much attention. Most profitable, which is valuable in a society that cares more about money than about people, seemed the claim that you don’t need to listen to distressed people (which Freud did), but you can give them ‘medication’ to ‘heal,’ and even to prevent ‘mental illness.’

Then, Capitalism’s next step is to seek ways to drug people into loyal, obedient, pleased workers, preventing any labor strike no matter how much they are abused and exploited. Denying endemic incest as the basis for much grownup suffering (the made-up Oedipus Complex) is a step toward such a goal, but pills are cheaper than fabricated ‘psychoanalysis.’

Psychiatry became so successful that it can now ‘diagnose’ with certainty what ‘mental illness’ you will have forever (DSM IV). They will not tell you the sad implication of this. It proves they can label but not help anyone.

Unfortunately for bio-psychiatry, it ran into opposition when trying to ‘cure’ ‘crazy’ people. Still, the phony concept of ‘chemical imbalance in the brain’ is making psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry rich beyond their wildest dreams. But psychiatric ‘patients’ do protest this travesty.

‘Brain defects’ that made people’s brains wander turned out undetectable. Undeterred, they then called them ‘minimal brain defects,’ eventually settling on ‘attention deficit.’ All bogus ‘illness,’ ‘diagnosed’ on children refusing to unnaturally sit still in class for hours on end. Drugging them turned out most lucrative, but only for Big Pharma, of course—not for the kids. Who needs minds to wander? Profit just needs their obedience.

But the brain druggers had a new idea. Instead of going after the ‘crazy’ and the ‘mentally sick,’ let’s go after the wicked. A pill to ‘cure’ Nazis, who could be against that? When we convince the naïve masses this actually is doable, a pill to ‘restore love for all,’ they will also buy into all abnormalcy being ‘curable.’ Of course, there will never be a medicine against bigotry, a silver bullet to remove all baseless hate. But these callous wealth tappers are not into curing anyone. They are as ‘moral’ as the cigarette or weapon industry. They’re just looking for money. Your money. Buyer beware.

Full disclosure: If I were ever to be checked, I probably would be ‘diagnosed’ with ADHD. One of my greatest assets is my brain not just going linear. I’m a fetal survivor of Big Pharma, its wicked DES program. And I’m an incurable social activist and unlicensed, successful therapist.

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