I am only teasing and looking to lighten the atmosphere a little, so dont take offense, I implore you! As for your line of thinking, well, Stan, I think you are right not just on the mental health front, but as regards the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. Who the hell ever heard of “restless leg syndrome” before Big Pharma had a pill to sell for it??? And you know what ELSE I noticed? About 7-10 years ago, Tourette’s was the diagnosis du jour for whiny, annoying children in my area. Suddenly there were classrooms with 10-15 children diagnosed with ” mild Tourette’s” and medicated to the eyeballs, with everyone else having “ADHD” and doped for that!!

Here are two things that I know: Tourette’s and ADHD are real neurolgical disorders and they are rare. They do NOT occur in such large numbers in one school population, much less five school populations! I kid you not, I know one mother who would periodically take her children–and she had three that were supposed to have mild Tourette’s–off all medications, saying she ‘was not going to give her children all that poison shit” and within two weeks would put them all back on it. Why? She was honest enough to say they were “really whiny and annoying and I am just not willing to deal with it.” I am not kidding.

What I have often wondered, is what effect does early onset puberty have on all these behaviors that we see in 9, 10 and 12 year olds these days? Puberty messes up the developing brain in a big way, anyone who has ever had the pleasure of raising an adolescent has seen this firsthand. It takes time, but it is a natural maturation process and if you can keep them alive, most come out on the other end intact. But this is a process that USED to happen at 12, 13, 14. I am 48, and in my generation the average age of menarche(first period) was 14. Now the average is I believe, 11!! What happens to that developing brain when the onset of puberty occurs at 8 or 9? My point is, it is a waste of time to try and teach 3rd graders Algebra, their brains are not developmentally ready for such a skill and they will not absorb it. So what happens to the 8 or 9 year old brain if it is not developmentally and neurologically ready for puberty, but improved nutrition, and God knows what in the milk and water, lead to that immature brain receiving the pituitary stimulus and onslaught of hormone activity several years early? Is early onset puberty being misdiagnosed as early onset bipolar disorder? I wonder.

There’s plenty of older people successfully living off meds and who have dumped their psych labels, look around the Internet.

What happens, is a person decides to take control of their life, and if meds are added at the same time as a plan of action, the person confuses pure self-determination to make it in life with medications….in fact, go off of the meds with the same determination to get your act together, and you’ll see even more clearly it was you not the meds influence who saw the light, but life is a learning lesson, and one has to learn by doing, experimenting, and trialing things. To each his own!

I sincere hope you have a different outcome but please don’t be surprised if you see the light like I did. I hope I am wrong because I don’t want anyone to have to do through psych med withdrawal. But I fear I will be.

AA

Oh yes, the radicalization of medicine constructed to include the entire human emotional condition. It really has become new religion of our time, and those believers don’t just stand by their pills, they go about proselytizing this ingrained marketing myth upon their children, and onto the whole world before them.

Doesn’t really matter that these pills are killing and maiming millions, destroying lives, tearing apart families, and work no better in than a placebo (nothing) in all reality; the religion of psychiatry/pharmacology is the chosen faith.

I’m sure those apostolic huge corporate drug makers making countless billions off users ignorance, will undoubtedly forgive your sins, and promise you ever lasting happiness until death do you part.

I glad you said “I think” it saved my life. In fact a mind altering drug does not save your life or anyone else; since at best it can only alter your brain chemistry and change your perceptions for either bad or good depending on how the pharmaceutical lotto balls fall.

Amazing that people are able to find “themselves” in a mind pill? So, I guess your saying before a mood stabilizer you were someone else entirely?

Don’t mean to pick on you personally, but I have heard this line a thousand times before, and it’s always great sounding until your pill stops working, or the side effects appear, some tragic life events stumbles in; then it’s back to the drug roller-coaster ride and the precarious search for self, looking everywhere but where it is, staring back at you in the mirror as it has always been.

No it’s not a tricky thing to do; it’s a dangerous, criminal, and abusive thing to do.

It’s pretty obvious by now for anyone that has been watching this phenomenon occur over the past couple of decades with any skeptical aptitude or questioning mind; that psychiatry and our society have been duped into believing in made up and created supposed diseases that do not exist and never have.

Has Manic/Depression aka bipolar been over diagnosed? Is Kermit green, the pope Irish, and the earth flat lol.. Do we really even have to ask this question at this juncture in the facade unveiling. Mental Illness and it’s all encompassing diagnostic gamesmanship has become a virtual cottage industry and a multi-billion dollar gold mind for marketing teams at huge pharmaceutical corporation that don’t give a flying duck about your health, as long as profits keep rolling in, and market share keeps increasing.

Of course with a society of suckers sitting on their couch reaching for easy fixes and pathetic excuses for every problem that comes along in life it’s easy pickings.

WC Fields had it nailed down when he said “a sucker comes along every minute”.