Global alarm mounts: "Will anyone be normal?"

I would really have liked to have placed this on the living with mental illness forum, as I think that it applies to EVERYONE, but for the moment I will put it here as anything that rocks the boat of the church of psychiatry too much is likley to get removed.

It does however cover the topic of out of control disease mongering that has been steadily escalating in the field of psychiatry, in that its becoming so blatant it is at last getting the attention of some higher-ups.


original link: http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.se ... ormal.html




by karen franklin, phD
Global alarm mounts: "Will anyone be normal?"


What do some of the world's top mental health experts have in common with best-selling British author Sir Terry Pratchett, the former prime ministers of Australia and Norway, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s son, memoirist Mark Vonnegut? All are issuing calls of alarm over the DSM-5, the American Psychiatric Association's upcoming diagnostic manual, in a special issue of the Journal of Mental Health.

Due to their important public policy implications, the Journal is making the lineup of commentaries available to the public for free. In a press release, the Journal points out that the previous DSM revision led to a wave of false "epidemics" of such conditions as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autistic disorder, childhood bipolar disorders, and that the new edition may lead to more of the same.

"The publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is one of the most highly anticipated events in the mental health field," explains Managing Editor Daniel Falatko. "This is the first major rewrite of DSM in 16 years and history has warned us that even small changes to this manual can have extraordinary repercussions in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues."

The theme running throughout the special issue is widespread fears in the psychiatric community that the expansion of diagnostic guidelines will allow everyone to qualify for psychiatric disorders, which in turn will lead to greater prescription of psychiatric drugs, many of which have unpleasant and dangerous side effects.

At a joint briefing, mental health experts expressed particular fear over the proposed "psychosis risk syndrome" diagnosis, which could falsely label young people who may only have a small risk of developing an illness.

"It’s a bit like telling 10 people with a common cold that they are 'at risk for pneumonia syndrome' when only one is likely to get the disorder," said Dr. Til Wykes of the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London.

The free articles, some by psychiatric patients, include:


•Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis: towards DSM-5 by Til Wykes and Felicity Callard
•Are psychiatric diagnoses of psychosis scientific and useful? The case of schizophrenia by Jim Van Os
•Misdiagnosing normality: Psychiatry's failure to address the problem of false positive diagnoses of mental disorder in a changing professional environment by Jerome C. Wakefield
•DSM-V and the stigma of mental illness by Dror Ben-Zeev, Michael A. Young, and Patrick W. Corrigan
•Conceptualisation of mental disorder and its personal meanings by Derek Bolton
•Patients can diagnose too: How continuous self-assessment aids diagnosis of, and recovery from, depression by Peter C. Groot
•Diagnosing Clapham Junction syndrome by Terry Pratchett
•What my diagnosis means to me by Mike Shooter
•Depression and recovery by Sarah Mitchell
•Personal Reflections on Diagnosis by Mark Vonnegut
•On the impact of being diagnosed with schizophrenia by Frederick J. Frese
•Tackling Depression by Geoff Gallop
•Psyche, soma, and science studies: New directions in the sociology of mental health and illness by Martyn D. Pickersgill
Related news articles:

•Globe and Mail (UK): Mental health experts ask: Will anyone be normal? Binge eating, temper tantrums may become new diagnoses
•BBC News: Mental health: are we all sick now?

The DSM is used by the mental health industry, and other fields, to take away people’s human rights, drug them and to defame their character.

This site was a major protest to the DSM 5 http://dsm5sucks.com/ the info and links are A+

HaxX wrote:I would really have liked to have placed this on the living with mental illness forum, as I think that it applies to EVERYONE, but for the moment I will put it here as anything that rocks the boat of the church of psychiatry too much is likley to get removed.

Keep rocking the boat, every post online anywhere even if its read by only one person its worth it, it counts for one more person who knows the truth about the scam of psychiatry. The truth about psychiatry saved me from very possibly being one more person who was permanently disabled because doctors know how to put people on meds, but don’t know how to help people through discontinuation syndromes when people try to come off meds and label withdrawal effects "symptoms of the illness" as proof the person 'needs' the drugs instead.

I still read too many online posts from 'beginners' looking for the "right meds" getting worse and worse in the process as they spout off all the psychiatric mythology that is taught to them through "psycho-education" propaganda including the chemical imbalance drug pushing lie.

Keep rocking the psychiatric boat till it tips over and sinks taking all the lies with it.

they actually made normal out to be a symptom of schizophrenia believe it or not......any normal person will get agitated with a quack proposing a label and react badly to forced drugging....the patient might have trouble organising a verse to educate the quacks about their condition and wake them up to reality, so disorganised to some discription more like not making any sense to the programmed quacks who don't understand or will reject any differing information as a sign of schizophrenia... they just don't understand that a schizophrenic is still normal and has normal perceptions and understandings aswelll, they make the normal stuff out to be a symptom of schizophreni.....I am not wrong that it doesn't matter what diagnosis you have you'll get forced with antipsychotics as they are good to control people and make them passive and agreeable if one is fighting the system whether it is contradictory like ADHD theoretically or depression, if you are normal and don't want psychiatric treatment they will give you antipsychotics or take normal behaviours as a symptom of schizophrenia

MORE SO THE QUACKS PROVOKE a lot to say for some reason, anyone else get this? and then it seems disorganised coz I don't have full cognitive abiltiy from the drugs to creatively represent my ideas, so the drugs are causing the symptoms

[quote="Copy_Cat"]The truth about psychiatry saved me from very possibly being one more person who was permanently disabled because doctors know how to put people on meds, but don’t know how to help people through discontinuation syndromes when people try to come off meds and label withdrawal effects "symptoms of the illness" as proof the person 'needs' the drugs instead.

I still read too many online posts from 'beginners' looking for the "right meds" getting worse and worse in the process as they spout off all the psychiatric mythology that is taught to them through "psycho-education" propaganda including the chemical imbalance drug pushing lie. [quote]

This.

I can say with a certainty that if I had listened to and trusted my doctors I would be seriously sick or dead.
I am happy I have found people on this forum who have had the same kind of negative experiences that I have, and worse. That way I dont feel so alone and it loads my cannons to keep fighting for patients rights and better care for all.

HaxX wrote:I can say with a certainty that if I had listened to and trusted my doctors I would be seriously sick or dead.

Me too, seriously sick or dead. After all I went through getting clean from taking antidepressants, stimulants, clonopin and Zyprexa all at the same time and going into withdrawal hell many times in the process, I screwed up big time and made myself sick by drinking to much alcohol to the point I couldn't eat or fall asleep then made it worse by going to the hospital like I did when I had psych drug withdrawals. I never got any alcohol detox meds and before I knew it I was in psych being coerced under the standard threat of injection to start taking 800mg of seroquel, 200 mg of trileptal 3x a day and haldol. I never ever took trileptal (oxcarbazepine) in my life and wasn't starting that wicked stuff. 800mg of Seroquel would put me in a coma by itself. Haldol , God awful poison. It was a nightmare, but at least the forced injection never came as I continued to refuse that psych drug overdose in the name of self preservation. I was all ready to do what ever jail time I would likely get for assault for beating that doctors ass real bad outside the hospital if I did get injected by force (chemicaly raped) when it was all over. They wrote all over my chart "bipolar mixed" and "speech is rapid" to describe the normal reaction anyone would have to that wretched hospital and the abusive mistreatment and threats of chemical rape. To add insult to injury I was given a bill for this unwanted mistreatment.

Its so sad that the general public refers to what goes on behind the locked doors of psychiatry as "help". Over and over on the telephones in that place I heard other people pleading with there families "help me, get me out of here" but the families believed the quack doctors and all the mental health psycho-educational crap they read and saw on t.v all there lives so "patients" on the phones just got more and more upset as there cries for help were rejected by there clueless families.

HaxX wrote:I am happy I have found people on this forum who have had the same kind of negative experiences that I have, and worse. That way I dont feel so alone and it loads my cannons to keep fighting for patients rights and better care for all.

Me too, I spend time every day writing here and posting links to information (the truth about psychiatry) all over the net. The psychiatric industry is absolutely a plague on humanity. "Plague on humanity" that may sound kind of radical, but not only have I read the numbers of people who get sucked into the fraud of psychiatry and hurt by its treatments, 19 out of 20 people I meet that ever had any kind of psychiatric treatment have something bad to say or a major horror story about side effects, withdrawal reactions or abusive treatment. 19 out of 20.

Want to read a good page and see some numbers ? Check out:
The Psychopharmaceutical Industrial Complexhttp://pubrecord.org/nation/7955/psychopharmaceutical-industrial-complex/

My cannons are loaded too, every writing every post every link to the truth is shot at the industry when I press the submit button. Its sad cause the foot solders of the psych industry, therapists nurses and even some doctors think they are helping people and believing in that DSM "bible" and the fraud of biological psychiatry, but for those on top its just a major cash cow and they don't care how many get hurt.