Is Psychiatry Scientific and Dangerous?
by Dr. James Howenstine, MD
When you look below the surface at the specialty of psychiatry what
you uncover is so ludicrous it is difficult to believe that it is really
true. Prominent psychiatrists from all over the world gather annually
for a meeting at which new diseases are invented. There are no objective
findings that establish the diagnosis of these diseases. These new diseases
are included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases.
Potential new diseases are discussed at these meetings and new diseases
are voted in or out by a show of hands.[1] Among the new diseases are
social anxiety disorder (everyone who is uncomfortable in a social setting
has this disease) and mathematics disease (anyone who has struggled over
a math problem has this disease). Gender identity disorder, passive-aggressive
disorder, disorder of written expression and sexual disorder are other
examples of invented diseases that will follow the individuals tagged
with these ridiculous diagnoses the remainder of their lives. Naturally
all these phony diseases have a psychoactive drug which supposedly ameliorates
this disease.
This is laughable but it has serious consequences. When a child is diagnosed
with depression the child is often placed on a potent SSRI drug. The manufacturer
of one of the leading SSRI drug knew for many years that the drug caused
loss of the ability to control violent behavior thus increasing violence
toward self (suicide) and others (mass murders). This information was
covered up because it would have hurt sales of the drug. Nearly every
teen involved in the Columbine and Red Lake mass murders was taking an
SSRI drug. There is a fundamental flaw in a nation more concerned about
sales of drugs than the welfare of it's children.
An annoyed teacher is allowed to make a diagnosis of Hyperactive Disease.
Hyperactive children are routinely given the very addictive drug Ritalin.
More than 15,000,000 children are taking Ritalin which is known to cause
zombie like behavior, suppressed appetite, weight loss, serious addiction
problems, retarded growth, paranoid symptoms, auditory and visual hallucinations
and insomnia. Public schools get financial rewards from the government
for increasing the number of students taking Ritalin and the number of
children completing vaccine programs. Following a nutritious diet restricted
in sugar content and colorants but replete with vitamins and minerals
goes a long way toward eliminating most cases of hyperactivity.
What is Teen Screen?
Big Pharma has formulated a program that will eventually enable all
citizens to be placed on psychoactive drugs. (Does this sound like Orwell's
1984?) Just as the indications for dangerous statin drugs get liberalized
annually so that more persons qualify to be placed on statin drugs there
are other programs steadily being used to increase the number of children
and adults taking unsafe psychoactive drugs for bogus psychiatric diagnosis.
One such program is Teen Screen.[2] Without parental knowledge children
are given questionnaires to fill out. The goal of Teen Screen is to do
a "suicide survey" on every teen in the USA. This has to be
a marketing tool by the pharmaceutical industry to increase the number
of persons using their products. The actual number of teen suicides is
quite low (less than 50 yearly out of 4,000,000 students in the state
of Florida), about equal to the number of persons struck by lightning.
These children will often be placed on SSRI type drugs which actually
do increase the risk of suicide. Among questions asked to 9 year olds
and older are these:
- Have you ever felt very nervous when you have to do things in front
of people?
- Have you ever worried before you were going to play a sport or game
or do some other activity?
- In the last 3 months have you thought of killing yourself?
- Are you still thinking about killing yourself?
- Have you ever tried to kill yourself?
Because there are no valid objective tests to establish a psychiatric
diagnosis the evaluating psychiatrist has to decide which disorder label
does an individual patient best fit into. Psychiatrists have been forced
to admit that drug therapies do not cure any of their disorders. Therefore
when one drug fails to help a bogus disease the dose must be increased
and then a second dangerous drug may need to be added. This dangerous
process is all often in the pursuit of a bogus disease.
Infectious Diseases Frequently Cause Psychiatric Symptoms
This lack of any scientific method in diagnosing and treating patients
often makes psychiatrists a danger to patients visiting them. Very few
psychiatrists are aware that infectious diseases often cause psychiatric
symptoms. Infections that are well known to cause psychiatric symptoms
include pneumonia, urinary tract infection, sepsis, malaria, Legionaires
Disease, syphilis, Chlamydia, typhoid fever, diphtheria, HIV, rheumatic
fever and herpes.
Lyme Disease caused by the Borrelia burgdorfi spirochete can mimic every
disease in the Diagnostic Manual of Psychiatric Diseases. The ordinary
psychiatrist is very unlikely to consider the possibility of bacterial,
parasitic, fungi, yeast, mycoplasma infection when a patient has weakness,
fatigue and depression. Yet these symptoms may appear when the infectious
organisms release neurotoxins that interfere with hypothalamic function
resulting in hypothyroidism and adrenal insufficiency. Mothers who have
infection with Herpes Simplex Type 2 virus are 6 times more likely to
have a child who later becomes schizophrenic, than mothers without Herpes
2 infections. Acute infection with Toxoplasma Gondi can produce personality
changes and psychosis including delusions and auditory hallucinations.
Johns Hopkins virologist Robert Yolken and Psychiatry Professor Dr.
E. Fuller Torrey believe that toxoplasmosis is one of several infectious
agents that cause most cases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Mental
patients were found to have a 53.8% incidence of parasitic infections
in a 2 year study conducted in the University of Ancona, Italy involving
238 inpatient residents in 4 Italian psychiatric institutions.
In addition to the infections mimicking schizophrenia or maternal infections
during pregnancy that predispose children to become schizophrenic there
are many other patients with symptoms compatible with schizophrenia. What
are the factors producing these symptoms?
Schizophrenia
The generally accepted conventional medical concept about schizophrenia
is that the disease is caused by excessive levels of dopamine and that
decreasing the levels of dopamine improves patients with schizophrenia.
The evidence for high levels of dopamine is poor[3] and Parkinson's
Disease like symptoms appear when patients are treated for dopamine excess.
Since Parkinson's Disease is known to stem from a dopamine deficiency,
it is probable that drugs provoking these symptoms are creating a lack
of dopamine, not correcting an excess of dopamine.
Genetics must play a role in schizophrenia because 50% of patients have
a family member with the illness. There are four genetic disorders seen
with greater than normal frequency in schizophrenic patients. All four
of these genetic defects cause a higher than normal exposure to adrenochrome
(an adrenaline metabolite) or an abnormal sensitivity to the adverse effects
of adrenochrome. One of the genetic advantages of schizophrenia is an
unusual resistance to developing cancer particularly lung cancer.
There has been a striking rise in the frequency of schizophrenia since
the industrial revolution. The prevalence of insanity has risen sevenfold
between mid 18th century and mid 20th century. Genetic disease cannot
occur in epidemics. Therefore, industrial societies must have factors
that increase the body's production of adrenochrome or provoke the
body to create adrenochrome. Three such factors are stress, excess sugar
consumption and increased exposure to allergic substances.
Adrenochrome has hallucinogenic properties and is a potent neurotoxin
that damages the thyroid gland by antagonizing the hormone triiodothyronine.
Chronic schizophrenics have permanent thyroid gland damage. Adrenochrome
creates many free radicals, which produce oxidative stress. This eventually
wears out the antioxidant defense system producing deficiencies of glutathione
peroxidase, superoxide desmutase, and catalase.
Assuming that adrenochrome produces schizophrenia, eight valuable therapies
are suggested. Allergic reactions to the environment cause over-oxidation
of adrenaline. Therefore, measures to decrease allergic reactions from
environmental stressors will be beneficial.
Genetic and environmental screening can improve selection of therapies
that are likely to be helpful. Allergy testing to correct allergies decreases
adrenochrome production. A low sugar diet blocks the insulin spikes caused
by excess sugar. Absence of these spikes prevents the subsequent adrenaline
release caused by low blood sugar values. Schizophrenics oxidize the released
adrenaline from hypoglycemia and have worse symptoms.
Medical therapies using medication that quickly reduce the damaging
impact of adrenochrome are valuable. High dosage of niacin or niacinamide,
vitamin B1, riboflavin B2, and ubiquinone (CoQ 10) all lower excessive
adrenochrome levels with niacin seeming to be the most effective.
The adrenochrome antagonist, triidothyronine, is quite effective in
treating schizophrenia particularly when used in the first six months
of illness. All 80 schizophrenics with less than six months of symptoms
who were given 120 to 1200 mg of desiccated thyroid for 100 days recovered[4]
unless they stopped the thyroid therapy. Schizophrenics are very resistant
to thyroid medication and must be treated with high dosages.
Eating foods that contain tryptophane, which is converted into serotonin,
is worthwhile because serotonin antagonizes adrenochrome. Such foods include
beans, cod, pork, soybeans, and cheese. Be certain these foods do not
cause allergy.
All possible efforts to repair the antioxidant defense system are worthy.
Glutathione can be given intravenously and n-acetyl cysteine raises glutathione
levels.
Schizophrenics with MTHFR C677TT genetic dysfunction have excessive
levels of homocysteine and lack of methionine. These defects can be repaired
with folic acid, vitamin B12, pyridoxine, zinc, and trimethylglycine.
Homocysteine accelerates brain aging and plays an important role in causing
arteriosclerosis.
Brain atrophy may develop in chronic schizophrenia. These patients have
low levels of glutathione peroxidase. Supplementation with the four substances
needed by the body to create glutathione peroxidase (selenium, cysteine,
glutamine, and tryptophane along with intravenous glutathione) can be
of great value. The fish oil (eicosapentaenoic acid) also is able to reverse
brain atrophy and should be given.
The eighth vital step to help schizophrenics is restoration of their
self worth by helping them gain employment, respect and compassion.
Causes And Therapy Of Depression.
Ten percent of persons visiting physicians in the USA suffer from depression.
Many persons with depression have either undiagnosed hypothyroidism, are
lacking omega 3 fatty acids in their diet, or are deficient in vitamin
D. The RDA for vitamin D, at 400 IU daily, is set far below needed levels.
Everyone probably needs more than 800 IU daily, and persons with depression
or living far from the equator may benefit from 1200 IU or more daily.
Correction of any of these three common conditions may eliminate the depression.
Countries with the highest intake of fish have the lowest incidence
of depression. Less than 1% of Japanese, who average 140 pounds of fish
annually, have depression whereas 6% of persons in New Zealand are depressed
where they eat only forty pounds of fish annually. Fish contain abundant
omega 3 fatty acids. Countries with higher average fish consumption also
have lower rates of homicide, bipolar disorder, depression, and suicide.
What Is Avea?
Turmeric (curcumin) has long been used in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine
as an anti-inflammatory, to treat digestive disorders and liver problems
and for the treatment of skin diseases and wound healing. Curcumin stimulates
the production of bile and facilitates emptying of the gall bladder. In
animals curcumin protects the liver, has anti-tumor action, reduces inflammation
and fights some infections.
Avea is an extract from the root of Curcuma longa, commonly know as
turmeric. Nutramedix has a proprietary formulation of curcumin that is
more effective than conventional curcumin because of special extraction
and enhancement techniques.
The German Commission E reports that curcumin has no known contraindications,
no known side effects and no known interactions with other drugs. In May
2005, toxicology studies were completed on Avea at the University of Guayaquil,
Ecuador. No toxic effects were seen even when the animals were given doses
160,000 times the equivalent human dose.
Patients suffering from depression often report relief from depression
within a few hours to a few days after starting Avea. A 38 year old woman
had been seriously depressed for more than ten years despite therapy with
several different pharmaceutical drugs. When started on her first dose
of Avea she felt less depressed after thirty minutes. The depression was
gone in 24 hours but the therapy was continued.
The dosage of Avea is ten to twelve drops three or four times daily.
Patients who respond rapidly to Avea should remain on this therapy for
one to two months to allow the body to reset neurochemical balances in
the brain. Patients who have been taking SSRI drugs should slowly taper
off SSRI therapy over many weeks if they wish to terminate SSRI therapy.
What Is The Future For Psychiatry?
My hope is that many persons will be able to avoid the use of the dangerous,
poorly researched drugs provided by the pharmaceutical industry for use
in psychiatric conditions. Safe effective natural therapies are available
to treat schizophrenia and depression. Natural therapies will never become
widely used because of the pharmaceutical industry's control over the
media and their full support by US government agencies(FDA, NIH,).
Psychiatry is a complete fraud and the problems caused by the drugs
used(gastrointestinal bleeding, tardive dyskinesia, etc.) by these practitioners
have, as usual, been covered up or ignored. Making money for drug companies
has taken precedence over careful scientific research searching for truth
in the interests of piling up bigger profits for an enormously wealthy
industry.
At this time psychiatry is a very valuable asset for the pharmaceutical
industry. Psychiatrists are busy writing prescriptions for drugs all day
long. The prospects for the future are even brighter, as more and more
Americans of all age brackets are recruited by programs aimed at having
every living man, woman and child taking a psychoactive drug daily.
Why do the insurance companies pay for worthless pharmaceutical prescriptions
while refusing to pay for curative natural therapies? Why should Big Pharma
bother to waste money doing careful scientific research when flawed dangerous
drugs are not exposed by a watch dog media and there is no government
agency the least bit concerned about the health of the American people.
Remember 90% of us are useless eaters that are targeted for removal by
the elitists running the world.
The list of unexposed health scams is mind boggling (GMO foods, mercury
amalgams, dangerous root canals millions done annually, chemotherapy drugs
and radiation to treat malignancies, widespread use of transfats in cooking,
worthless soil thanks to government mandated nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus
fertilizer which omits sulfur a key nutrient, chlorine and fluoride in
drinking water, mandated dangerous vaccines for children, statin drugs
to lower cholesterol, bypass surgery, aspartame, suppression of heparin
burn therapy, ignoring Dr. Abram Hoffer's safe effective therapies for
schizophrenia, etc.). These problems are typical of those occurring when
a totalitarian government has taken complete control over a country. Truth
has become irrelevant.
Last fall I took a vacation to visit intelligent relatives and friends.
In my luggage were many copies of an article carefully documenting the
irrefutable scientific facts proving that 9/11 was an inside job. Not
a single one of these relatives and friends believed this article. The
US media has done its usual superb job of selling 9/11. Joseph Goebbels
has to be green with envy if he is receiving this type of information.
The world is currently locked in a titanic struggle between good and evil.
The Bible warns us that the end times would be marked by deception and
apostasy. We must all do as good a job as possible trying to avoid fraudulent
operations. Staying out of the dangerous drug pushing psychiatrist's office
is a good place to start.
Footnotes:
1, Whitaker, Julian Fraudulent Medicine Health & Healing September
2006 Vol 16, No.9 pg 3-6
2, Kramer , Ken Crazy Makers Big Pharma Involved In Stealth Agenda With
School Districts To Screen Teenagers For Mental Illnesses Without Parental
Approval Crusader Dec/Jan 2005/2006 pg 5-6
3, Issa, F., et al A multidimensional approach to analysis of cerebro
spinal fluid biogenic amines in schizophrenia: 1. Comparisons with healthy
control subjects and neuroleptic-treated/untreated pairs analysis. Psychiatry
Research, 52(3), 237-249
4, Danziger, cited by Hoffer, A. (2001). Thyroid and schizophrenia. Journal
of Orthomolecular Medicine, 16(4), 205-212
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