Body: | Mental Illness is just like any other disease!
"once objective biological signs are found, disorders stop being mental
illnesses and become medical illnesses. Epilepsy, general paresis, and
various medically caused cognitive disorders stand out as examples of the
conversion of mental into physical illness. Reflecting the essentialist
viewpoint, some have argued that the term mental illness should be
eliminated because so-called mental illnesses are all brain disorders."
(Guy A. Boysen, Ph. D. Psychologist, An Evaluation of the DSM Concept of
Mental Disorder)
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There is no difference between physical and mental illnesses...
and other Psychiatric Unicorns!
Introduction:
The reason the chemical psychiatry industry believes mental illness
are all biological in nature is the result of their atheistic/evolutionary
ideology, not scientific evidence.
Given that psychiatrists reject the existence of the Spirit of God,
they obviously view the idea that man has a spirit made in the image of
God, distinct from the physical body as a myth. This should trouble
Christians and clue them in on the battle that psychiatry has been raging
against Christianity for over 100 years.
The idea that there is no difference between physical and mental
illnesses has a long history in medicine. It dates back to the time of
Hippocrates and Galen:
"People abhor being baffled by the dangers that face them, which is why
they prefer false explanations to none and why we may fairly assert that
people have always "known" what causes diseases: demons, witches, the
breaking of taboo, the evil eye, wells poisoned by Jews, and, most
enduringly, humoral imbalances, as taught by Hippocrates and Galen.
Bizarre, unpredictable behaviors also baffle people and make them feel
endangered. Attributing such conduct to mental illnesses comforts them. It
is for this reason that people now "know" what causes mental diseases-bad
brains, bad genes, bad chemicals, bad societies, bad parents. The idea that
there are no mental diseases discomforts people and is therefore rejected."
(Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 38)
Sigmund Freud was powerful advocate that all mental illnesses had a
biological cause:
"In short, Charcot was not an innocent victim of scheming hysterics; he was
a knowing conspirator in one of the greatest medical hoaxes of the modern
age. ... Unquestionably, Charcot was one of the giants of late nineteenth
century French medicine and neurology. This status may be why psychiatrists
and psychiatric historians have failed to see that he was also a quack,
albeit a new kind of quack. The old quacks-such as Franz Mesmer and Mary
Baker Eddy-duped people into believing that fake cures were real cures. The
new quacks-such as Charcot and Freud-duped people into believing that fake
diseases were real diseases." (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas
Szasz, 2008 AD, p 42)
A. The myth that mental illness is a "just like any other disease":
1. "The radiologist does not need to gain the confidence of the
patient to diagnose a skull fracture, and the pathologist does not need to
gain the confidence of the corpse to make a postmortem diagnosis of death
owing to drowning. In contrast, the psychoanalyst needs to gain the
confidence of the patient to learn what ails him." (Psychiatry: The Science
of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 64)
"In the history of medicine certain kinds of illness ... have been
peculiarly baffling. I mean the sort of symptoms which are often popularly
spoken of as "hysterical" or "neurotic" or "mental." When there is
something organically wrong with the body, when it has been injured or
infected, medicine is at home. But in this other kind of illness, the
doctor cannot find anything physical to account for the disturbance. In
modern medicine the term psychogenic is used to cover this whole class of
abnormalities whose origin appears to be mental, as contrasted with the
more familiar organic illnesses in which the cause is physical." (Karin
Stephen, 1889-1953, The Wish to Fall Ill: A Study of Psychoanalysis and
Medicine, p 1)
"Psychiatry-a term I use here to include psychoanalysis, psychology,
and all the so-called mental health professions- is one the most important
institutions of modern societies. The institution rests squarely on the
postulate proposition that "mental illness is an illness like any other
illness." That proposition is a lie. This lie is what makes malingering-the
faking of disease-the great secret of psychiatry: a popular understanding
that faking illness is a form of deception (and often self-deception) would
destroy psychiatry. In this book I try to advance such understanding, and
the constructive destruction it entails, by expanding on my thesis, first
propounded more than a half century ago: the idea of mental illness and the
apparatus of modern psychiatry as a medical specialty rest on the
successful medicalization of malingering-that is, on the popular perception
of behaviors called "mental illnesses" as bona fide medical diseases."
(Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p x)
"Counterfeit art is forgery. Counterfeit testimony is perjury. But
counterfeit illness is illness, "mental illness," an illness officially
decreed "an illness like any other." The consequences of this
policy-economic, legal, medical, moral, philosophical, political, and
social-are momentous: counterfeit disability, counterfeit disease,
counterfeit doctoring, and the bureaucracies and industries administering,
adjudicating, and providing for them make up a substantial part of the
national economies of modern Western societies." (Psychiatry: The Science
of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 2)
5. "The core concept of psychiatry, mental illness qua medical
disease, and the profession of psychiatry as a medical specialty based on
it, rest on the medicalization of malingering. (Thomas Szasz, "Malingering:
'Diagnosis' or Social Condemnation?")"
6. I have tried to show that professionals in the mental health
field are, impostors, pretending to have expertise they cannot possess.
Being an expert about mental illnesses is like being an expert about ghosts
or unicorns. Not surprisingly, some or many mental health experts come to
feel like impostors, like frauds." (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas
Szasz, 2008 AD, p 109)
7. "All mental illness diagnosis' cannot be within the realm of
science because they are based 100 % on mere talk and external observation
of behavior. Without blood tests, actual DNA tests, or any physical
evidence of brain abnormalities, how could psychiatry be anything other
than pure quackery!
8. "I have long maintained that the phenomena conventionally
called "mental illnesses" are counterfeit illnesses authenticated as
genuine diseases by psychiatrists. The phenomenon, as we have seen, is not
unique to mental illness. ... Let us now reconsider the most instructive
model of mental illness as validated counterfeit illness-the
identification-validation of a forged masterpiece as an original
masterpiece by art experts. A forged masterpiece, authenticated as an
original, is valuable. Exposed as a forgery, it becomes a worthless fake."
(Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 84)
9. "once objective biological signs are found, disorders stop
being mental illnesses and become medical illnesses. Epilepsy, general
paresis, and various medically caused cognitive disorders stand out as
examples of the conversion of mental into physical illness. Reflecting the
essentialist viewpoint, some have argued that the term mental illness
should be eliminated because so-called mental illnesses are all brain
disorders." (Guy A. Boysen, Ph. D. Psychologist, An Evaluation of the DSM
Concept of Mental Disorder)
B. The media, politicians and the general public perpetrate the myth:
"Psychiatrists never miss an opportunity to proclaim that "mental illness
is like any other illness." This claim is supported by the medical
profession, the political class, and the media. Not surprisingly, people
regard psychiatrists as the foremost experts on mental illnesses.
Psychologists, regularly confused with psychiatrists, often share that
dubious distinction." (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008
AD, p 97)
Myth repeated by politicians: "Research in the last decade proves
that mental illnesses are diagnosable disorders of the brain." (White House
Fact Sheet on Myths and Facts about Mental Illness, 1999)
Myth repeated by politicians: "Mental illness can be accurately
diagnosed, successfully treated, just as physical illness." President
William Jefferson Clinton, 1999)
Myth repeated by politicians: "One of the most widely believed and
most damaging myths is that mental illness is not a physical disease.
Nothing could be further from the truth." (Tipper Gore, President Clinton's
mental health adviser, 1999)
Myth blurred by Surgeon General: This statement is correct, but the
untrained will confuse it as saying that things go wrong with the brain is
mental illness, when in fact he is referring to Parkinson's and
Alzheimer's: "Just as things go wrong with the heart and kidneys and liver,
so things go wrong with the brain." Surgeon General David Satcher, 1999)
Conclusion:
1. Mental illnesses are very different from any other disease.
2. If a biological cause of any mental illness has been
discovered, it stops being a "mental illness" and becomes a disease. Once
this happens it enters the realm of standard medical science treated by
Doctors of Medicine.
3. Mental illnesses, by definition have no biologic cause. But
since chemical psychiatrists reject the spirit of man as a myth, they have
no choice but to assign a biologic cause to mental illness.
a. They believe that given future advancements in medicine, the
biologic causes all mental illnesses will be discovered.
b. This echoes the hollow prediction of Darwin who expected
"missing links" between man and ape would be discovered "as science
advances" in the future.
c. Both Darwin and Freud were wrong.
d. In the 21st century no biologic cause of any mental illness
has been discovered.
4. Biopsychiatry should be extinct by 2050 AD.
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