[transientsoul]

1 hour long documentary:

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure.
The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year.
And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making machine.
Before these drugs were introduced in the market, people who had these conditions would not have been given any drugs at all.
So it is the branding of a disease and it is the branding of a drug for a treatment of a disease that did not exist before the industry made the disease.

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Originally Posted by transientsoul

1 hour long documentary:
Before these drugs were introduced in the market, people who had these conditions would not have been given any drugs at all.
So it is the branding of a disease and it is the branding of a drug for a treatment of a disease that did not exist before the industry made the disease.

err... wait, which conditions?

Every single mental disorder/illness ever? At all?

Every one of them?
A social construct?

I beg to differ. Truly.
Whether in present American society or in early Feudal Japan, I'm pretty sure losing touch with reality or becoming so obsessively paranoid that you can't believe your own thoughts is a problem that leads to excessive dysfunction.

Also, they are not problems that people convinced me I had.
I was fairly certain they were issues myself.

You can't just take the whole of all people, make generalities and say "your experience doesn't count, its invalid, all of it is crap. It's fake, it's not real, it doesn't matter. All the things you THINK help, are a farce."

Look, transientsoul,
If you have had a bad experience, and some other people have, those are separate and distinct experiences from the many people who have been helped by medications.

I don't think any medication is a panacea.
Certainly not, and I really don't agree with anyone who does. I do agree the field of psychiatry could probably stand to get an overhaul. But just like pretty much any field that centers around profits, it generally does not have the welfare of the individual at the center of it's functioning.

I'm not sure why that comes as a shock.

But not all doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. are evil money grubbers.
Nor is every individual attempting to formulate a successful psychotropic medication.

That is just ludicrous.

***As a side note: You do you know what ACTUALLY happened before medication and adequate therapies? Ever hear of the term "bedlam"? As in "Within minutes there were so many people the room became complete bedlam!" ...you should look up the specific origin of that term.***