Why Neogensis and Life Dynamix Wellness Specialization Wants Better Psychiatry and a Check on Pharmaceutical Lobbies the Way it is Harming Health and Life on Earth

Why Neogensis and Life Dynamix Wellness Specialization seek better and thus natural way for Psychiatry and more check on the Pharmaceutical Lobbies the Way it is Harming Health and Life on Earth is a discussion that we all can share. It is my person opinion as I view aim and vision of Life Dynamix.

We start with a great insight from the Thomas Stephen, an anti-psychiatrist activist seeking health and wellness for all:

Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced Saas); born April 15, 1920) is a psychiatrist and academic. Since 1990[1] he has been Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. He is well known for his books, The Myth of Mental Illness (1960) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1970) which set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.

His views on special treatment follow from classical liberal roots which are based on the principles that each person has the right to bodily and mental self-ownership and the right to be free from violence from others, although he criticized the "Free World" as well as the Communist states for its use of psychiatry and "drogophobia". He believes that suicide, the practice of medicine, use and sale of drugs and sexual relations should be private, contractual, and outside of state jurisdiction.

In 1973, the American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

His main arguments can be summarised as follows:

* The myth of mental illness: "Mental illness" is an expression, a metaphor that describes an offending, disturbing, shocking, or vexing conduct, action, or pattern of behavior, such as schizophrenia, as an "illness" or "disease". Szasz wrote: "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic."[7] While people behave and think in ways that are very disturbing, and that may resemble a disease process (pain, deterioration, response to various interventions), this does not mean they actually have a disease. To Szasz, disease can only mean something people "have," while behavior is what people "do". Diseases are "malfunctions of the human body, of the heart, the liver, the kidney, the brain" while "no behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That's not what diseases are" Szasz cites drapetomania as an example behavior which many in society did not approve of, being labeled and widely cited as a 'disease' and likewise with women who did not bow to men's will as having "hysteria"[8] Psychiatry actively obscures the difference between (mis)behavior and disease, in its quest to help or harm parties to conflicts. By calling certain people "diseased", psychiatry attempts to deny them responsibility as moral agents, in order to better control them.

Please read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

Mental health professionals define a mental disorder or mental illness as a pattern of behavior or function that renders a person abnormal on a scale of normal/abnormal based on subjective criteria and research (typically pharmaceutical funded research). To this end the DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders evolved. This is the official reference book for psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors and therapists.

Like the Scarlet Letter of the past, labels and diagnoses are used in legal, professional and social ways that rarely benefit the carrier of the label. Human beings are highly suggestible creatures, particularly when in the presence of someone granted considerable authority over them by society. Finding oneself in an "illness" system has naturally profoundly more demoralizing effect on the psyche then to find oneself in a "wellness" or "mental health" system which implies resolution, safety and security…something positive and natural.

Many cultures understand that deeply felt emotions do not imply a flawed human being, but one who requires support, guidance and especially sufficient time to recover their balance, power and wellness. Many cultures expect that life will throw them the proverbial "curve-ball" and their society, without condemning the person to the stigma of categorization, simply provide the emotional support needed, when needed until the person recovers his/her emotional equilibrium.

Read more at Suite101: Mental Illness and What's Wrong with the Term: Mental Disorder vs. Mental Health http://healthfieldmedicare.suite101.com/article.cf...

Psychiatric Disorders

mental disorders psychiatric disease adhd bipolar depression attention deficit disorderThe psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars a year in order to convince the public, legislators and the press that psychiatric disorders such as Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, etc., are medical diseases on par with verifiable medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Yet unlike real medical disease, there are no scientific tests to verify the medical existence of any psychiatric disorder. To counter this obvious flaw in their push to medicalize behaviors, the psychiatric industry will claim that there are certain medical conditions that do not have a verifiable test so this is why there isn’t one for “mental illness.” This is frankly a lame argument; Whereas there may be rare medical conditions that do not have a verifiable medical test, there are virtually no psychiatric disorders that can be verified medically as a physical abnormality/disease. Not one.

In fact the “brain scans” that have been pawned off as evidence that schizophrenia or depression are brain diseases, are simply bogus. Most have not been done on drug naive patients, meaning someone who has not been on psychiatric drugs such as antipsychotic drugs, documented to cause brain atrophy (shrinkage). Other brain scans have shown the brains of smaller children to show smaller brains in comparison to larger/older children and then claimed children with ADHD have smaller brains. None have been conclusively proven to verify mental disorders as abnormalities of the brain.
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The Difference Between a Medical Disease and a Psychiatric Disorder.

If there were such verifiable brain scans, or in fact any medical/scientific test that could show a physical/medical abnormality for any psychiatric disorder, the public would be getting such tests prior to being administered psychiatric drugs.

This is fact: There are no genetic tests, no brain scans, blood tests, chemical imbalance tests or X-rays that can scientifically/medically prove that any psychiatric disorder is a medical condition. Period.

This is not to say that people don’t get depressed, troubled, or even sometimes act psychotic. For example, can soldiers returning from war experience extreme and often debilitating stress? Yes. It is something wrong with their brain? No. It’s the horrors of war. Can mothers become distraught after a joyous occasion such as the birth of a child? Yes. Is it a brain abnormality or mental disease? No. And is the most humane solution to put these people on drugs documented by international regulatory agencies to cause mania, psychosis, worsening depression, heart attack, stroke, sudden death? Or for new or nursing mothers to risk birth defects or damage to their infants from being prescribed such powerful drugs?

Please read more at: http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/

Mental Illness and The Brain - What's Wrong with Psychiatry?

Brainmentalillness Mental Illness and The Brain - What's Wrong with Psychiatry? Mental illness - is it biological or isn't? What do you think? I guess I'm a rebel at heart, someone who thinks outside of the box. I know in my own experience, having recovered 15 years from Borderline Personality Disorder, that along the way, on my journey, I had a psychiatrist tell me I wouldn't get better until they developed some pill - I didn't believe him. He wasn't correct. I fired him on the spot after that comment. That was 1987. That was before this notion now forwarded that everything mental illness is a "brain disorder". Professional in psychiatry are speaking out against the "status quo" of mental illness as a "brain disorder".

This point of view of mine, born out of my own experience with and recovery from BPD is definately not the popular thinking these days. However, it is important for me to continue to get this message out and to have people really think about this. Too many people are just believing that mental illness, generally, and Borderline Personality Disorder, specifically are "brain disorders". When one is not a psychiatrist it can feel like one does not have the right to say this. I'm over that now. This has to be challenged and I am very glad to see there are more professionals doing just that. This makes my forwarding my opinion and experience more credible in the face of what is an ever-proliferating blind acceptance, it seems to me, of BPD and mental illness being accepted as "brain disorders". There is a difference between realizing a role of biology in BPD and calling it a "brain disorder".

Please read more about it: http://borderlinepersonality.typepad.com/my_weblog...

Biopsychiatry – Pharma Funded Scam – NAMI?

Biopsychiatry is all the rage these days isn’t it? How have mental illnesses, like Borderline Personality Disorder, and so many others, suddenly become pathologized beyond belief with a new stigma – “brain disorder” – the message that implies the need for pharmaceuticals. A message that the National Association of Mental Health (NAMI) in the United States has forwarded. As if drugs are, or will someday be, the “cure”. As if drugs are the answer. Says who? Who do you believe?

The pharmaceutical industry influence on the psychiatric profession has been growing for sometime now. Is it a scam? Who is it designed to serve, really? In many ways this is a new stigma forwarded by drug companies out to make money. Conventional messages of organizations that mental illness is somehow this deep brain structure issue, brain disorder thing, suddenly, that requires drug treatment many believe to be the direct result of studies that have been funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

“Studies have shown that medical students and residents are susceptible to undue influence from pharmaceutical companies due to the companies involvement in medical school programs.” (Wikipedia)

“Antidepressants have been shown to have only a minimal effect, over that of a placebo, on patients. In an essay on advertisements for anti-depressants published in PLoS Medicine, social work academic Jeffrey Lacasse and neuroanatomist Jonathan Leo state that, despite this, the chemical imbalance theory is promoted by the medical industry as an explanation to depression and that their medicines correct the chemical imbalance. They also state that there is some evidence that both patients and professionals are influenced by the advertisements and patients may get prescribed medicines when other interventions are more suitable. In a further article they state that chemical imbalance has also been cited in media as an important cause of depression despite a lack of scientific literature that shows this causality.” (Wikipedia)

I found a video quite by accident. (Ah, but I am a believer that there really are no “accidents” I believe, however, that it is certainly worth watching. If nothing else, Dr. John Breeding, makes some very interesting points about what he calls, “Big Pharma Front Groups, NAMI? Psychiatry Mental Health” Consumers need to really think more about the influence of pharmaceutical companies and the funding they provide to some major mental health and other advocacy organizations whose messages may well be tailored to suit these funding sources.

View the video and read more at: http://borderlinepersonality.ca/blogbpd/2009/12/bi...

P.S.: As I have titled it: When Pharmaceutical and Other Lobbies, Agencies and Money Plant Resources are Opposed - It is Barking at the Wrong Door - It Gives Them More Power and Hold (or Control) Over Us. It is of a very little use to create any awareness as they are the big people, and we the common people are simply the puppets, who strike heads with walls (please break your wall, it may cost a lot of money to repair it!) and thus it gives new inventions and discoveries that snub anything that may create even a little change in the earning that is from local to national and international levels. However, it is just what we can do, share and feel that we have some outlet. How fool are we,but together as one, is not it.