The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging
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.
Well this is a propaganda film made by that org. So why would you think otherwise?
Funny how anyone who questions basic psychiatry and mental illness is immediately written off as a Scientologist.
This is riveting and rings true with my experience with these quacks since my divorce and Service Connected physical disabilities.
Absolute garbage and doing harm by spewing a lot of misinformation. They show little to no proof to what they claim. What they fail to say is that most psychiatrists warn you of the side effects and TELL YOU THAT DRUGS ARE NOT THE SOLUTION. You have to see a therapist and whatnot to overcome depression, anxiety, or whatever. YES there are corrupt psychiatrists, but what department doesnt? This documentary left a sour taste the moment they said social anxiety disorder didn't exist. Lexapro gave me such bad anxiety, I would vomit profusely if I had to go past my driveway. But I'm not going to sh*t on all fkng pills because I, ME, didn't react well to the drug. Everyone is different and will react differently! I was put of Gabapentin for my anxiety and zoloft for my depression and regularly saw a therapist and worked on my depression anxiety. It is much better now. But this documentary doesn't say how most psychiatrists will warn you that drugs wont solve your problems. They take snippets from people on the street, especially when they're talking about bipolar disorder, and of other interviews of others talking about drugs. No context on what they were saying. I do not trust that. My best friend's mother has extreme bipolar disorder and she goes f***ing berserk and ends up in jail and psych wards when she is not on her medications. Spreading lies like this is disgusting and is harmful to those who do not know better and actually have disorders that could be helped.
I heard that this was propaganda for scientology, and hell, it sure seems like this. Utter bs that doesnt give both sides, proof of what they're saying, and tests on random people that doesn't mean anything.
Scientology called me in as I was walking past that way and tried to sell me this book in Sydney in the city. I said no and I don't have any money on me so they took my chain with a cross and a star that I was wearing around my neck and they said they will give it back to me when I come back with the money and buy that book. I went back to them and asked them to give me back my chain with the star and the cross. They denied taking the chain with the cross and star off me and I never got my property back the scientologists stole off me. They even tried to sign me up to work for them for free that is without wages but I said no.
Not for the A.I.'d, rosy colored glassed, extremely naive,that does not believe they have entered a covert, chemical torture program for grant funding expedenitures. Welcome to Solzhintyns' Gulag open air Archipelglio.
How do I know this was made by Scientologists? Should I just go by David Miscarriage's (frightening moniker) word?
My state representatives received this DVD in the mail. I viewed it with one of them. This "documentary," made by one of the Church of Scientology's front organizations, is a boring, repetitious, and bizarre mix of highly selective information, rapid-fire mini-sound bites from people in the street repeating short phrases or single words (e.g. "bipolar" "Zoloft"), "experts" opinions, and ominously-colored and flashing graphs and numbers (e.g. millions of dollars) with portentous-sounding voice-overs. The message is that psychiatry is a mercenary hoax threatening everyone and that psychiatric medications have no good effects and kill lots of people. Since the film provides no research supporting claims made in the film and the "experts'" credentials — and even, in many cases, their actual positions regarding psychiatry — seemed dubious, I looked for facts online. I was saved considerable time because someone else had already checked all the presenters that could be found and had written them asking if they were aware of the nature of the film they appeared in, providing them with the minutes where their comments appeared so that they could check to see what was included in the film. Some seem to have responded. I found an extensive article by University of Texas bioethicist Dr. Howard Brody who appears often in the film. In his article he expresses his positive opinion of psychiatry and psychotropic medication and presents a clear and careful analysis of the entire film. I can't include the URL but it isn't hard to find. I also found a statement by a state representative from another state about how he narrowly escaped publicly endorsing Scientology's anti-psychiatry position, explaining, "They misled me." (not by this film, however). There may be a good documentary somewhere about the very real problems with the pharmaceutical industry: the profiteering, the way they advertise, conflicts of interest by professionals, etc., — but this isn't it. This video merely promotes Dr. Thomas Szasz's incorrect ideas from his half-century old book in complete ignorance of facts and sound subsequent research.
Absolute scientologist xenu tom cruise garbage, based on the fact that l ron hubbard was against science and medicine, therefore his brainwashed minions believe this crap.
It is no small irony that many of those in scientology will eventually realise that they are in a cult, and requite psychiatric intervention, possibly institutionalisation for the good of society,
Thetans, you absolute knobheads....
I was rasied by these drugs. .
A very close friend of mine was taken to a hospital nearly 2 year ago in a ambulance, with cops. Why? a "friend" of his called the police and told them he was dangerous and possibly suicidal. He was on Prozac and per him started getting worse mentally, anxiety attacks, constant headaches. He was evaluated for 72 hours and kept for 2 more weeks, put on several psychotropic drugs. Now, 1 1/2 years later, he is physically worse, has mindsplitting headaches regularly, grew paranoid and ran into the street thinking someone was after him. I printed out the drugs he was on and the "side effects" and they all included increased depression, paranoia and headaches. The fact that when I bring up to other friends and even his doctor that these drugs are making him worse, I am looked at like I'm crazy. But it is abundantly clear that he has gotten mentally worse since being on these drugs. One thing is for sure here - he is insured and has lots of $$$ in the bank. So I conclude at least in this case, that he is being slowly driven to his death because he has money and certain psychiatrists and doctors are using legal means to get it. I say slowly, because if he is killed off right away, there's no continual income from him. Now this may all seem strikingly one sided and crazy, yet, it is happening right before our eyes. What to do?
I think the fact that "The Untold Story" documentary "does not exist" any longer tells a whole lot. It touched the nerve of Big Pharma. Don't want to get to much info out there. I've tried five anti-depressant meds in twenty years. The last and very last was Seroquel in approximately 2005. The first was Prozac in about 1988. Everything in between had the same affect. I wanted to die. It was as suicidal as i've ever been. The way they did help was that i realized I wasn't as depressed as i thought I was. This cow manure did a number on me. I've instructed my children that in the event i become unable to talk for myself they keep an eye on my meds and NO ANTI DEPRESSANTS!.....no anti psychotics. Have had a few of those as well. Big Pharma has alot of talking to do before Jesus thumps them downward. God bless the sick people that are simply a number.
I also know that the iron infusion caused it because I checked up on cosmofer and ferinject which is what I was given. Had I not been given these drugs I KNOW that I would not have had schizophrenia.
Hi I'm in Hampshire in England and I agree with the documentary. In 2007 I broke from an abusive partner and had cultural issues and it took me a couple of years to try get back on my feet as my problems def were not the norm. However the first thing my doc said was take drugs. Now I am a logical person and after 11 years of abuse you learn to try n deal with it but obviously I would have to adjust over time as I had list Everything, home family friends money business husband everything overnight. The doc was constantly pushing me to take drugs, and the more I met yhe doc the worse I felt as I felt I was being pushed into something I didn't want. 3 years in I saw a different doc same surgery female as I couldn't talk to a male about issue. She kept sending me for counciling and physical examinations by womens who were very rough and then the male doc who kept trying to push drugs on me told me I needed iron. y this time I was exhausted I took iron tablets and told him I was violently ill so he knew I was intolerant, instead he sent me for an iron infusion now each time I would go to doctors they kept fobbing me off ie one lady told me to look on the net for symptoms and would not examine me then another lady was physically abusive I told her she hurt me and she said I'm fine. So the stress understandably made me give up and say fine I'll take yhe infusion when I took the infusion I was violently ill and kept telling the doc that the iron made me sick both physically and mentally and that I have some other female problem going on. No one listened they kept telling me it's in my head.
In the end it was discovered I had endometriosis a problem with my overies so I was right but as I was being fobbed off I was stressed out by the doctors and got schizophrenia from the iron infusion. Of course speaking to my doctor he said I was suffering psychosis because of all the abuse from family. I know it was bought on by abuse from the doctors.
These people are not saying that mental illness do not exist! What they are saying is that there are way too much false diagnosis!
I was diagnosed critically depressed and anxious almost 2 years ago. Fortunately I had a very good psychiatrist who helped me and got me out without using medicine. If the first answer from your therapist or health professional is a pill, he's NOT doing a good job. Look elsewhere.
The brain is a physical part of your body just like any other. If you have back pain, or muscle aches, yes you can take a pill to help the pain but you don't cure the problem. You would want to go see a physical therapist or else to help it cure. It's the same thing with your brain. If your brain is ill, you can follow a good therapy and fix the problem.
Now, sometimes there are no answers to a problem and drugs are needed. I admit to that. But it shouldn't be the number one answer to any mental illness.
Thank you so very much for posting this video. As one that their life and everything has been totally destroyed by these drugs I hope people start taking seriously the bad that these drugs do to people and not much good. Never ever worth it never......
This is sickening. I've had psychiatrists nearly save my life. I assure you depression is a very real and deadly illness that is not just something "everyone deals with".
mental illness is real there are ppl suffering from all kinds of it this documentary is crazy !
This documentary has serious technical problems of stopping periodically!
Yes, people do have troubles and yes, there are solutions but drugs that change the brains wiring is not the solution. a true solution does not create other problems. Imagine having the problem of your car not running right and then you bring it in to a "professional" mechanic and then getting it back with another problem.... That wouldn't work for you so you bring it back and they try to fix that but now you get it back with that problem and a new one, once again, now your angry and you don't want to pay for it. That's whats happening in the psych community. Churches, friends, just listening helps more than these drugs and that is for the majority of people, the others may need more help but that is for another forum.
Facts are facts. Sounds like anyone that says this video is bias doesn't understand what a fact IS. Unfortunatly the truth can be hard to swallow. And hard to confront but one still should not confuse facts and truth with opinion and theory. You don't "agree to disagree" when it comes to fact and truth.
WORST documentary I have EVER watched! So biased!!!! and these "DOCTORS" keep contradicting themselves!!!! WTF
My father killed himself after struggling with depression after 22 years. His third depression came when his drug stopped working but this time, he decided it wasn't worth it to keep looking for help. He was prescribed meds without ever being prescribed therapy, lifestyle changes and coping mechanisms. I'm a yoga instructor, Chinese medical practitioner in the making and believer in healthy diets, except cues, community involvement and talking out ones problems. My father is the second in his side of the family to successfully kill himself. At least 5 on his side have tried that I know of. Depression can be alleviated and controlled but there are no quick fixes. Psychotropic drug use is an evil pandemic out of control.
Wow, I love how everyone here is saying mental disorders don't exist. I agree that these mental symptoms shouldn't be dubbed "diseases" because they aren't; they are simply a way of brain functioning, but I will honestly say that Prozac and Xanax have saved my life when coupled with therapy over the last five years. These drugs are not meant to be taken over a lifetime, but too many people think that way and it gives these helpful drugs a bad name. Drugs didn't make me attempt suicide in seventh grade. Drugs didn't make me self harm for seven years. Drugs didn't make me have mental symptoms of severe depression for over a decade. Drugs didn't make me have attention problems. Drugs didn't make me impulsive or anxious or obsessively pick at my skin. They didn't and I know that for a fact because I had all of these symptoms and issues prior to attempting suicide a second time. It wasn't until then that I did get on anti-depressants. And you know what? They have helped me in so many ways and I am alive in part because of them. Not just them, of course. But, they are there to clear the fog so you can see the path to a new life of thinking and coping. Like guns, these drugs are only dangerous when used improperly. And for those of you saying mental disorders like depression and anxiety and ADD/ADHD and OCD and whatever don't exist? They do. No, they aren't diseases, but they exist. Just like a cold, these "diseases" are just names for a set of symptoms. They're caused by the type of brain functioning any given person has. Yes, the medical world uses this word "disease" loosely to make money, but that's like blaming McDonald's for making you fat because they made you over eat in order to get money. Stop blaming the system because even if it is largely due to the system, the public have a big part in it too.
I suffer from chronic pain. Where I live now the doctors won't prescribe any narcotics due to my usage of an herbal supplement even though that allows me the greatest pain relief and functionality. Although this wasn't an issue in the previous 2 states I've lived in there is a common denominator in my situation. All doctors I've seen for pain treatment, whether pain management or primary care, attempted to prescribe antidepressants or SSRI drugs even though they are the only class of drugs I've had an allergic reaction to......