Comments on: Psychiatry: An Industry of Death

By: acfns

acfns — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:57:00 +0000

I suspect the people who dismiss this film have not spent much time in the mental heath system or been on anti psychotic medication. I have been a patient (victim) in the mental health system for seven years. It is an iniquitas system. I am not mentally ill, I was targeted by a large corporation whose motives often were difficult to work out. I made the mistake of talking to a psychiatrist and was diagnosed within five minutes as being mentally ill. They’ve never proved anything I said was false because they can not. I was placed on anti psychotics which are supposed to cure you of your delusions, but they do not change your beliefs. Unlikely they will ever invent a drug that can change beliefs. What’s worse is that the drugs are poisonous to the human body, they harm you from the outset.

Research has been done that shows these drugs don’t work and that they cause brain damage.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/02/mythoftheantipsychotic
I was also told by my GP that they are also known to cause liver damage. This is what my experiences have been.

The drugs are supposed to revert a chemically imbalanced brain back to its correct state. If they do that then why would there be all the serious side effects that are associated with these drugs.

By: SanjaC

SanjaC — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:34:00 +0000

Wow! This film offers a huge amount of crap on a silver plate, decorated with dramatic effects. It looks like south park parody, and all info and data in it are soooooo f*cking wrong and misrepresented!

By: Robin Forward

Robin Forward — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:18:00 +0000

Wtf, why does the info on this doco say “promoting Fascism, racism and atheism”. Unlike fascism and racism being an atheist is not a bad thing.

By: Gregory Sorfleet

Gregory Sorfleet — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:18:00 +0000

are you okay man?

By: George Ebersole

George Ebersole — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:24:00 +0000

This film sounds more like an emotional outlet for those who’ve been through conditioning, as opposed to an actual examination of psychiatric techniques to alter behavior.

By: Ron-Ron

Ron-Ron — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:32:00 +0000

Please..You should have stopped thinking after your first comment. You were making sense, now you sound like what you claim “people” who made this doc. to be.

By: Scott Whitaker

Scott Whitaker — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:13:00 +0000

Well said Nathan! I agree wholeheartedly.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Nathan hit the nail on the head.. I have nothing to add.

By: Nathan Dempsey

Nathan Dempsey — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:29:00 +0000

Take everything bad in the world and call it psychiatry. Next, claim that Psychiatry is bad. This is guilt by association. Murder, delusion, torture, misinformation, corruption… these are problems of human weakness.

Francis Galton was not a psychiatrist. He did first put forth positive eugenics, encouraging smart/healthy/attractive people to breed. Negative eugenics, forced sterilization came later on and had nothing to do with Francis Galton. Negative Eugenics is a byproduct of human weakness and the stupid belief that our gene pool was becoming tainted. “Science” was abused as a method for exterminating undesirables. There are plenty of crazy bastards willing to legitimize their own agenda by calling it anything people can accept. If you call it Religion or Science or “Green” then it can slip right by our bullshit detector.

I’ve read The Bell Curve. It’s not a book about psychiatry. It does state that there are differences between groups. In linguistic and mathematical intelligence, lifespan, physical ability and so on. These are interesting facts that really have no baring on the individual and the reason is because the dispersion within groups is far more significant. In other words, skin colour or heritage are a poor predictor for anything because they are very small factors. The fear with these conclusions is that people are so willing to misapply them.

By: John

John — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:33:00 +0000

However, this film, overall, is pathetic nonsense spouted by people who are long on their opinionated, grossly uneducated, misinformed, deluded beliefs, and exceedingly short on facts and genuine evidence. I’ve seen a few informative and useful documentaries here on Top docs, but also many which are propaganda, misinformation, and pure seething hateful deluded manure. Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, for the most part, falls into the category of spectacularly stupid, deluded misinformation.

By: John

John — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:32:00 +0000

It’s true that we now have a huge problem with psychiatrists — they have opted out of psychotherapy in favor of meds, meds and more meds. Partly because pharmaceutical companies now give millions of dollars to medical schools for “research” (which med schools are now dependent on), and partly because they can make tons of many by seeing six patients an hour by peddling drugs as opposed to one patient an hour doing psychotherapy — that’s $600 per hour vs $100 per hour. That’s just too tempting for today’s new breed of callously unethical psychiatrists. Treatment effectiveness studies show, again and again, that clinical psychologists/clinical social workers have a much higher success rate, beyond the short term, than psychiatrists — because psychologists/social workers don’t push meds. Instead they help people develop skills needed to solve problems. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a pill that can solve a problem or help you develop a necessary skill. As well, APA, NASW, and many other research organizations say that only about 12% of mental health consumers need to be on meds. But nearly 100% of patients who see a psychiatrist are automatically put on meds – $$$$.

By: fasffeaf geamna

fasffeaf geamna — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:54:00 +0000

Ok this had some good info, but I had to dismiss a lot of their claims at the end of the film when they were trying to convince us that psychiatry caused 9/11… Save 90 minutes of your life by just coming to the realization that psychiatry has and is a joke that ***** already ****** up people.

By: John Longhurst

John Longhurst — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:54:00 +0000

While the historical parts may be true, and there have been those affected negatively by psychiatrists, to say that psychology and psychiatric treatment is wrong or evil or racist is complete nonsense. The positives must outweigh the negatives in all ways, and from the beginning until the mid 20th century that is the way it always was–until there stopped being negative consequences and psychologists and psychiatrists as a whole looked only at the beneficial ways to help individuals (that’s not to say some psychiatrists are not sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and are indeed prescribing things that are at times not needed, but what branch of anything in this world is not corrupt in some form?). This in the end is religious propaganda. Psychology takes hold of problems and solves them without the help of a “deity” or the blind faith required in order to lean on religion (which actually causes more confusion, more distress, and then even more problems than in the beginning). If you don’t trust one professional, go to another. Check every professional of every area you see and make sure you agree with their methods. You’ll find that most psychologists wish to help individuals, that most have no ties to corruption, and that most have far better understanding of human nature than any religion bound whacko out there–let alone anyone. It’s religion that actually causes the majority of the world’s problems–from giving people a pass on evil acts to the justification of condemning everyone from a homosexual to a prostitute to those who have abortions. It justifies murder, disgraceful acts at funerals, hides true health problems, creates hate, fantasy, and causes people to become even more psychotic. A Nobel Prize winner said that in a perfect non-religious world the good would do only good things and only the evil would do evil thing. Only in a world with religion will you have a good man doing evil things. The understatement of the year.

By: Lauren Smile

Lauren Smile — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:53:00 +0000

The narrator’s voice…wtf

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:45:00 +0000

There are many more docs on this subject that are done by non scientologists. The majority I’ve seen are actually done by psychiatrists and medical doctors themselves, along with a host of other real scientist. Psychiatrists will tell you exactly the same thing that was in this doc. It is the psychiatrist who is approached by the pharma companies & given large sums of money, trips to bermuda…etc to get ‘as many people on their drugs as possible’. As mentioned before, just research this real good & u will have a different opinion I promise. Peace!