Tag Archives: Mental Health

Depression and The Marketing of Madness

How did psychotropic drugs become the go-to treatment? Continue reading

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Human Rights in the Mental Health Care Industry

Here are some examples of psychiatric fraud and abuse. Continue reading

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Missouri child psychiatry project got federal grant

The current state of mental health care for children is mostly prescribing them harmful and addictive psychotropic drugs for fraudulent “mental illnesses.” Continue reading

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Are You Schizophrenic?

Schizophrenia is defined so vaguely that, in actuality, it is a term often applied to almost any kind of behavior of which the speaker disapproves. Continue reading

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Seriously, Is That Funny?

Seriously, Is That Funny? Continue reading

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Psychiatry and the Holidays

Psychiatry and the Holidays Continue reading

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Neurodiversity – The Latest Psychiatric Disability Trend

With so many different “mental disorders” and no real clues about curing them, psychiatrists needed a new all-encompassing word to describe them. They co-opted “neurodiversity” — diversity based on some neurological condition. Continue reading

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Tikkun Olam – Repair the World

Dating from rabbinic teachings circa 200 CE, the Hebrew phrase Tikkun Olam means “repair the world,” where it expressed a concern with public policy and societal change. In a wider sense it means to do something with the world that will … Continue reading

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Order versus Disorder

Shades of Your High School Physics Class You may have encountered this word before — entropy. Stick with us, we’re going to make it simple. Basically, without getting all scientific about it, the word means “the degree of disorder or … Continue reading

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Guilty of Bad Taste

And we don’t mean the “Bad Taste” 1987 science-fiction comedy horror splatter film about aliens harvesting humans for their intergalactic fast food franchise. We mean that something is in bad or poor taste when it exhibits poor judgment by being … Continue reading

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