Psychiatric Disease Mongering, inventing illness...

Disease mongering is a the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses, and promoting public awareness of such, in order to expand the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments, which may include psychiatry, pharmaceutical companies, physicians, and other professional or consumer organizations.


Gifts create both expectation and obligation. “The importance of developing loyalty through gifting cannot be overstated,” writes Michael Oldani, an anthropologist and former drug rep [26]. Pharmaceutical gifting, however, involves carefully calibrated generosity. High prescribers receive higher-end presents, for example, silk ties or golf bags. As Oldani states, “The essence of pharmaceutical gifting…is ‘bribes that aren't considered bribes’”

During training, I was told, when you're out to dinner with a doctor, “The physician is eating with a friend. You are eating with a client.” —Shahram Ahari

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/inf ... ed.0040150

The Fight against Disease Mongering: Generating Knowledge for Action

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/inf ... ed.0030191

They don't exactly "create" illnesses. The categorize people, influence people, and make people ill. They are sort of like witches. They put little "spells" on people. I'm using this term lightly because they are scarier than the witches we read about in books as children! They don't exactly speak english if you pay attention to the way they speak. They "blab" on and on about "self-love" and other jargon. They are basically incredibly narcisstic people who plan on getting to the top. They have broken far away from the medical tradition of actually "helping" people.

It is all about control.
It is the teachers though that create the illness and force diagnosis on people.
They create the problem.
The psychiatrists and pharms are giving the easy cure for the illusion. It is only opportunism.
At the root of the problem is bad education, first from the parents and then off to the school.
Basically a lack of social responsibility.

"I understand that a DSM-IV diagnostic label has been assigned to me, based on my doctor's (and perhaps also on other people's) subjective judgment of my speech, manner, and behavior during our meeting, which lasted approximately _____ minutes. I am aware that I will never be able to remove this diagnosis, or any other that will be added in the future, from my medical record.

I understand that although my doctor says that I am sick or that I have a treatable illness or disease, he or she is just using a figure of speech and cannot establish, with any test or procedure known to medical science that I in fact "have" the "illness" implied by the diagnostic label."

Quoted from:
A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment*

http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/polof ... onsent.htm