Never stop psych meds without doctor supervision.
Psychiatry and big pharma spend billions of annual ad dollars to convince us that our life issues are “diseases.” They blanket the airwaves to such an extent that psych diagnostic terms have seeped into our everyday discourse. Everyone seems to have “OCD,” “ADHD,” “PTSD,” “GAD,” “MDD,” and so on.
The problem is that there’s never been a scientific study showing that mental distress is a “illness” at all. Not one. The entire psych diagnostic system is based on a pseudoscientific framework that was developed with no reference to peer-reviewed scientific studies. It’s simply an outgrowth of 9 psychiatrists’ “opinions.” They thought up the diagnoses and voted on them despite the fact that voting isn’t a scientific activity. The system uses faux criteria and metrics, and the diagnoses overlap to such an extent as to render them meaningless.
Furthermore, recent large scale meta-studies have debunked 70 years of false claims touting the “chemical imbalance” theory. The public has been duped into believing in this made-up science, and too many of us are still unaware of the elephant in the room—that there are no clinical diagnostic tests to show an “imbalance.” Mental health diagnosis is done purely through a questionnaire of arbitrary queries. There’s no diagnostic blood test, EEG, brain scan, or genetic test. Moreover, psych meds don’t target and fix a “brain disorder”; they mask one’s perception of distress, much in the same way alcohol, marijuana, stimulants, and depressants do.
As a psychologist working at a clinic in Switzerland, I discovered that with the right tools, even the most severe problems can be transformed. Psych meds are prescribed to the extent that clinicians lack the necessary skills for helping people process their painful states of mind. Sometimes folks need meds in a crisis, however, over the longterm, these drugs present well-documented, severe health risks. They also create dependency so that once a person begins taking them it’s very difficult to stop.
Depression, anxiety, attention deficit, mood swings, delusions, etc. are very real and painful problems that require in-depth therapeutic interventions but they’re not “diseases.” They’re potent processes of personal growth and transformation trying to happen. They cause pain, dysfunction, and even suicidality because they’re not properly processed.
This blog title’s quote is from Dr. Thomas Szasz. Here’s what he said:
“Nobody has yet measured, demonstrated, or created a test to show that somebody has a chemical imbalance in their brain. Period. When I went to medical school, there were only six or seven items in the manual, now there are over 300. You mean to tell me that there have been 294 diseases discovered in the last 60 years? In psychiatry alone? It’s a joke. It’s an epidemic of psychiatry that we’re dealing with. We don’t have an epidemic of mental illness, we have an epidemic of psychiatry.”
To learn how to process and transform your problems, listen to my podcast, The Dr. Zwig Show (available on all streaming services).
