Reality of psychiatric think

In thinking about the experience of the family member pushed to drug a kid with brain altering chemicals after the kid had been molested, I re-realized the absurdity of psych think and how important it is to understand what they are really saying.

The bottom line of Big Pharma-driven psych theory is that chemical imbalances are the cause of mental "illnesses."

Not experience, not our decisions, not what we do, not our viewpoints of things, just chemical imbalances.

That is SO contrary to what the average person believes and the way the average person views the world that keeping it in place takes billions and billions of dollars of promotion and PR.

Here's what it means -- that none of the following are causes of anything:

1) If your wife runs off with your best friend and your feel devastated.

2) Your business fails and your feel disgraced and lost.

3) Your child dies in a horrible car accident.

4) You see your country alienating the entire world through an inability to think creatively and constructively.

If these or other things occur and you feel depressed, they are not the cause of feeling depressed, some chemical imbalance in your brain (which can't be verified objectively) is the cause.

That this is their view is obvious because the prescription to deal with any of the above is not to help you deal with the experience or the reality but is to drug you to to treat a mythical chemical imbalance.

No one in their right mind -- and without a huge vested interest -- would deny implicitly or overtly that those kinds of experiences might affect a person.

Of course any of those problem and a thousand more that could be named have an effect on people. It is obvious that the experience and reality of being human and being alive includes things that affect us mentally and emotionally.

Everyone knows and understands that.

The shrink is so incapable of helping a person with any of those things that he has moved to the point of denying they have any importance, opting to say instead that chemistry is all important.

No wonder it takes billions of PR dollars to try to make us think their way, to try to convince us that chemical imbalances are "real diseases" that should be legislated into existence (an actual effort on Big Pharma's part).

Strip away the "I'm smarter than you claptrap", the holy authority in which they wrap themselves, the complicated latin mumbo jumbo and you see that their view on life is so warped and foreign to common experience that it is unbelievable.