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RE: Psychology Addict # 22 | The Diagnosis of Mental Illness

There is no medical “mental illness test.” The 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. But unlike medical disease, there are no scientific tests to verify the medical existence of any psychiatric disorder. Despite decades of trying to prove mental disorders are biological brain conditions, due to chemical imbalances or genetic factors, psychiatry has failed to prove even one mental disorder is due to a faulty or “chemically imbalanced” brain. There are virtually no psychiatric disorders that can be verified medically as a physical abnormality/disease.

No medical test 1In fact the “brain scans” that have been pawned off as evidence that schizophrenia or depression are brain diseases, have been disproven as valid research. 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.

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.

No medical test 2This 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. Whereas real diseases are discovered in labs, psychiatric disorders are invented by committee and voted into existence.

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This is one passionate comment @muscleroast.com! Thank you for taking the time. I am most interested in reading further materials about all the statements you delivered here. Or, is this your opinion?

Because, whilst I do agree in part with what you point out, there appears to be a lack of thoughtfullness from your part towards people who do indeed suffer from PTSD (someone who has been sexually violated), or towards a person whose brain's neuroimaging indicate visual or auditory hallucination due to hyperactivity in certain aereas; or, finally towards someone who has been completely incapacitate as a result of MDD. You see, there was no committee voting for the existence to what happened in such cases.

There is a huge focus on medical/genetic/biological determiners in your opinion. However, one has to keep in mind that both social and psychological factors are important contributers to the development of mental distress as well.

I have PTSD :/

I see! I appreciate you letting me know very much :) thank you. I am going to follow you. In case you decide to write about it, I will be right there reading it!
All the best :)