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"ADHD": Decoding Psychiatric Propaganda
Added: (Tue Sep 13 2005)
On September 11th, The Mirror ran an article entitled "The Scourge of ADHD", describing the "tell-tale signs" of what Psychiatry calls "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder". Such signs supposedly include "swearing", "constantly losing things" and "talking excessively".
The lack of research made into this subject is appalling and such an article, whether knowingly or not, simply forwards deceptive psychopharmaceutical industry propaganda.
"ADHD", like any other mental "illness" as defined by Psychiatry, is a label used to categorise individuals demonstrating certain personality and behavioural traits. Such traits are deemed by Psychiatry as unacceptable or abnormal and are thus termed as a "disorder". Diagnosis of a mental illness is purely subjective, despite psychiatric claims that ADHD is a medical disease or, as The Mirror put it, a "neurobiological condition thought to be caused by a lack of the chemical dopamine in the brain."
'For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test,' says neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman. 'Such as, but not limited to, a blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a 'mental disorder' is a physical disease.'
Baughman, from California, and Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, is one of an ever-growing number of campaigners fighting to expose the lies within the psychiatric industry. An adult & child neurologist of some 35 years, Dr. Baughman is vocal when coming up against misleading research or downright fraud palmed off as "science". 'They made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children, those which bother teachers and parents most, and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive--termed them a "disease". Twenty five years of research, not deserving of the term "research", has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease. Tragically--the "epidemic" having grown from 500 thousand in 1985 to between 5 and 7 million today--this remains the state of the "science" of ADHD.'
'The simple fact is that there is absolutely no reliable test that accurately distinguishes between children that are supposed to have "ADHD" and those that are not', agrees Dr. John Breeding, author of "The Wildest Colts Make The Best Horses". To counter the claim that ADHD is a valid medical condition that requires medical treatment, Breeding encourages parents to demand proof. Except there simply isn't any.
Elliot S. Valenstien, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan also agrees. 'Contrary to what is often claimed, no biochemical, anatomical, or functional signs have been found that reliably distinguish the brains of mental patients.'
'I am constantly amazed by how many patients who come to see me believe or want to believe that their difficulties are biologic and can be relieved by a pill,' says psychiatrist Dr. David Kaiser. 'This is despite the fact that modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness. However, this does not stop psychiatry from making essentially unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety disorders, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin, and that it is only a matter of time until all this is proven. This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naive and perhaps delusional.'
'Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry's orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign,' says Dr. Baughman.
Many seem to share his view including the late Dr. Loren Mosher, a noted psychiatrist and clinical professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and former Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health. Mosher famously resigned from the American Psychiatric Association in 1998 due to Psychiatry's growing "unholy alliance" with the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry.
'Psychiatry has become drug dependent (that is, devoted to pill pushing) at all levels - private practitioners, public system psychiatrists, university faculty and organizationally,' Mosher wrote before attacking the field as being mechanistic, reductionistic, tunnel-visioned and dehumanising.
What with the lack of scientific merit, the heavy emphasis on drug "treatments" that carry horrific, even fatal, side-effects and the fact that psychiatric and pharmaceutical groups blatantly lie as to the nature of mental health, it is fair to question why such a field is allowed to legally practice at all, let alone why it is supported so heavily by governments.
'Modern psychiatry has forgotten the Hippocratic principle,' Mosher once wrote. 'Above all, do no harm.'