OT:About pharmaceutical companies...

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , " qiuser " <qiuser wrote:

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> They've already begun to do this, `medicalizing' change of life

> symptoms such as menopause for one.

 

I highly recommend all 3 pages of this book review:

 

Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of

Mental Disorders. - book review

 

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0377/is_134/ai_53551869

 

And I highly recommend reading the book for insight into what a

growth industry this is. The original DSM back in the 1950s listed I

believe around 50 different mental illnesses. The current version

lists I believe just under 400. Everything and anything is made out

to be a mental illness, including liking to take hot baths. Never

mind that taking hot baths is one of the ways some people with

arthritis relieve pain or that people with abnormally low body

temperatures sometimes can only warm up by taking hot baths.

 

The writer of this book review emphasizes the political-social

aspects of the problem. I see the problem primarily as one of greed,

profits, and control. The more things that are made out to be mental

illnesses, the more drugs that get prescribed, and the greater the

profits of the pharmaceutical industry - the biggest drug companies

in particular.

 

What a lot of people don't realize is that the pharmaceutical

industry contributes heavily to the APA (American Psychiatric

Association). This is part of the reason why the model for treating

mental illness in the US relies so heavily on drug treatment. It's

also part of the reason why more and more things are made out to be

mental illnesses.

 

For more info on the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry

and the APA, check out the book Toxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin,

MD. Also check out his website. It's an eyeopener, especially in

regards to the increased diagnosing of ADHD and the dangers of

ritalin and similar drugs.

 

There is a lot of fraud in the psychiatric and the pharmaceutical

industries. One of the few humorous examples is the psychiatrist who

diagnosed a woman as having Multiple Personality Disorder, and then

tried to bill her insurance company for group therapy instead of the

less lucrative billing for a single patient.