Author name: Robert Carter

Home Caffeine Blog Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool October 1, 2025 – Robert Carter Coercion is defined as the act of “forcing or pressuring someone to do something against their will by using threats, intimidation, or force to compel a desired response.” Coercion undermines a your will to choose and forces you to act in ways you otherwise would not. Coercion is psychiatry’s stock in trade. It starts as soon as a person walks into a psychiatrist’s office and says she has been feeling nervous lately. “Oh, you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder…GAD,” the psychiatrist tells her. If the psychiatrist feels it’s a particularly bad anxiety case, he’ll label the person with “Panic Disorder.” If the person says she’s uncomfortable in social situations, she’ll be told she has “Social Anxiety Disorder.” That initial proclamation by a psychiatrist has such a forcefully persuasive effect because a psychiatrist is a doctor and is supposedly an authority on the mind. All those certificates on the walls of psychiatrists’ offices show how much authority they have. You have to accept what they say as the truth. Their authority itself adds force to their pronouncements…covert and subtle, perhaps, but force. You are therefore “forced” to accept what the psychiatrist says about you and your condition, no matter what that condition is. That’s your entry point onto the spectrum of coercion which psychiatry uses to nullify individuals through force. Perhaps

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Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us What? Antidepressants Don’t Work?   September 15, 2025 – Robert Carter      Since the 1980s, placebo-based clinical trials of people taking antidepressants show that 85% of the participants fared no better from taking the antidepressants than from taking the placebo. Many researchers also say that the “improvement” reported by the remaining 15% is statistically insignificant.      That’s because their self-reported “improvement” is only 2 points on a 52 point scale, not a high enough percentage to indicate the “effectiveness” the FDA looks for to approve the release of an antidepressant, assuming they have also deemed it “safe.”      The FDA’s Black Box warnings for antidepressants today include suicidal ideation and behavior as an alert to the danger of these drugs. Can that be considered “safe”? There are now other warnings, as well, of the dangers of trying too quickly to discontinue taking antidepressants because of higher risk of suicide when trying to go cold turkey off them.      Antidepressants cannot really be considered safe, can they?      Now a new meta-analysis of data from all previous clinical trials for antidepressants seems to confirm that they are not effective either.      The BMJ Journal has just published a Marc Stone study of 242 double-blind, placebo-controlled antidepressant trials from 1979 to 2016 involving 73,388 participants. Stone and his researchers confirmed the earlier findings of the statistically insignificant improvement of those taking antidepressants compared to those taking placebos.

Home Caffeine Blog New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD   September 9, 2025 – Robert Carter      A recent Stanford study published in the JAMA Network Open shows that over forty percent of those 3-5 year olds diagnosed with ADHD are rushed onto medication within thirty days afetr diagnosis. The first medically recommended treatment after an ADHD diagnosis for that age group is non-medicated behavioral counseling, not drugs.      Medication is only recommended if that behavioral therapy turns out to be ineffective for a child, yet in this study of 712,478 three to five year old children more than forty percent were prescribed medication within thirty days. That’s far too soon to assess the success of behavioral therapy, if any was even attempted.      1.4 percent of those seven hundred thousand children had been diagnosed with ADHD based to a large degree on answers from early screening procedures in primary care practices. A full 68 percent of all of those young children diagnosed with ADHD were eventually put on medication before they turned seven years old.      Two questions arise here. What prompts that many doctors to prescribe medication so quickly and to thereby go against their own profession’s recommendations for a non-pharmaceutical first line treatment? Second, is today’s screening process itself likely to lead to ADHD diagnoses because of what might be a limited attention span and a high activity levels of children that age is actually normal, and something they’ll grow out of, not signs of ADHD?      There is certainly a greater convenience for a doctor to simply prescribe a pill than to take the time to figure out an appropriate behavior

Home Caffeine Blog 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers…to Big Pharma’s Profit Advantage By Robert Carter/July 22, 2025 There is no clinical evidence that antidepressants are any better than a placebo for improving the lives of most of the millions of Americans who take them. There is also no physical evidence that there is any such thing as a chemical imbalance causing depression which would be “balanced” by the ingestion of pharmaceutical antidepressants. Those two facts are a threat to the Big Pharma drug conglomerate that is taking in $80 billion per year from antidepressant sales alone. Another threat is the 2019 report by UK doctors James Davies and John Read that showed that 56 percent of those taking antidepressants experience withdrawal effects when trying to stop taking them, and 46 percent of those experience “severe” effects. That fact makes it tough to deliver a convincing argument if one is delivering an informed consent form to someone who’s to be prescribed antidepressants. Those severe withdrawal symptoms aren’t going to attract many volunteers to take an antidepressant. Actually, that 2019 evidence did alert the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) to give more accurate information about antidepressant withdrawal side effects and how best to slowly taper down one’s withdrawal from them. Since then Big Pharma has ramped up its own campaign to divert attention from those dangerous side effects of antidepressant withdrawal. This July, 2025 the British Science Media Center, for instance — which is supported by donations from drug companies and from the British Pharmaceutical Industry — publicized a particularly egregious example of the distortions Big Pharma is willing to render to keep hidden the truth about antidepressant withdrawal. The “Incidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms,” written by prominent figures in British psychiatry, many from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, presents a falsely optimistic picture about antidepressant withdrawal symptoms. The authors don’t even dare call them “withdrawal symptoms.” Instead, they concocted the far more abstract  “discontinuation symptoms” phrase…as if changing the label will change the truth. The publication’s authors received so much money from drug companies that the

Home Caffeine Blog ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us 50 th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest – A Lived Experience of Electroconvulsive Therapy for Moviegoers By Robert Carter/July 12, 2025 The Miloš Forman film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a 4K restoration re-release this July. It is the only modern movie besides Silence of the Lambs to ever win the “big five” at the Oscars: Academy Awards for best screenplay, director, actor, actress, and picture. Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of the effervescent rogue R. P. McMurphy delighted audiences, but also horrified them with one graphic two minute segment when he is given electroshock treatment. Nicholson had observed a number of electroshock sessions and their aftermath at the Oregon mental hospital where Cuckoo was filmed so that he could realistically show as a “lived experience” the horror he had observed. Consequently, his electroshock scene seems “real”…or if not real – it is a movie, after all – certainly truthful. Proponents of electroconvulsive “therapy” still would have you believe otherwise. “Of course, ECT today is nothing like that,” they say. “The patient is anesthetized and his body paralyzed so there is no pain. It is not punishment. Rather, it is proven to be the most effective treatment for those who have not benefitted from the more conventional psychiatric approach of pharmaceutical therapy.” Yes, today’s ECT recipients may not feel the pain. They are now paralyzed and anesthetized, but the violence of that 460 volt zap of electricity and the subsequent seizure is still realistically shown in Nicholson’s face during that two minute movie scene. Psychiatry’s blatantly false pronouncement that ECT is not harmful begs people to ignore what they’ve seen with their own eyes in that scene. The ongoing pie-in-the-sky pubic relations patter by psychiatry about the benefits of ECT ignores the fact that no valid, placebo based trial have ever shown ECT to be effective. However, many studies have shown it increases the risk of suicide, causes irreparable memory loss, and poses post-ECT cardiac conditions for too many of its recipients. The brutality of an electroshock session can now be a “lived experience” of ECT for moviegoers who now see the truth about the barbaric procedure, a truth which cannot be glossed over by any of psychiatry’s

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So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? 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Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? 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Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry By Robert Carter/August 10, 2025 Through the eighteen hundreds, man’s treatment of the disturbed – known then as the “mad” — consisted mostly of locking them up in dark institutional asylums. No one pretended that cured them, but it at least removed them from the world of “normal” people. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, however, the thought of helping these poor souls began to unfold, and  alienists – the doctors who treated those alienated from themselves and society – began to look for cures for “madness.” Two divergent schools of “help” immediately formed, one which believed the source of alienation was in the mind, the other thought the problem was with body. Freud was the first “mind guy” and his talk therapy began a school of treatment that continued through Jung down to modern talk therapists such as Adler, Maslow and Rogers. Emil Kraepelin was one of the first “body guys” and was an early proponent of what became the biological  psychiatry school that treats mental disorders as body based phenomena. In the late nineteen sixties a study was done in Chicago in which Rogers, Maslow, and another half dozen of the leading talk therapists of the time were filmed as they conducted their therapy sessions. Although each had different theoretical views of the mind and its ways of handling the difficulties of life, it was discovered that each of them practiced the same validating communication skills with their patients. They didn’t contradict their patients, they made sure they knew they were being heard, and they kept the focus on the patient speaking, not being spoken to. Compassionate silence that invited the patient to talk openly seemed to be the key to improving the condition of these “disturbed” folks, no matter the individual theoretical background of each practitioner. The body guys evolved a starkly different approach. They used physical force to “cure” their patients. Insulin coma therapy, trans-orbital leukotomies, frontal lobotomies, and electroshock therapy became the tools of their trade. They were able to experiment with these  brutal techniques because most of their patients were still locked away, out of sight, in the world’s mental institutions. It wasn’t until after World War II that these horrors began to be exposed exposed, and most of those horrific practices were ended. In the early nineteen-fifties, though, the FDA approved the first mind-numbing psychotropic medication, such as