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Home Caffeine Blog 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments      By Robert Carter/June 10, 2025      For several years past we have been treating severe resistant depression with long periods of sleep treatment. We can now keep patients asleep or very drowsy for up to 3 months if necessary. During sleep treatment we also give them ECT,” wrote British psychiatrist William Sargant in the early 1950s. “We may be seeing here a new exciting beginning in psychiatry…”      Sargant adds, “Many patients unable to tolerate a long course of ECT can do so when anxiety is relieved by narcosis. What is so valuable is that they generally have no memory about the actual length of the treatment or the numbers of ECT used.”      In 1957 Sargant’s book Battle for the Mind was published and it became known as one of the first “manuals” on brainwashing.      Sargant’s work had already become known by psychiatrist Donald Cameron, who had been trying to “correct” schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the mind. He used ECT at thirty to forty times the usual voltage to do so, and he ran the CIA funded MKUltra mind control experiments at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute from 1957 to 1964.      Both Cameron and Sargant were proponents of those early “chemical balance” theories that considered mental illness a genetic disorder. Both psychiatrists claimed society needed to be cleansed of the mentally ill so they didn’t contaminate others by passing on their mental disorders to their children.       In his lecture entitled Dangerous Men and Women Cameron had said, “Get it understood how dangerous these damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves and above all, to our children, whose traits are taking form, and we shall find ways to put an end to them.” He was speaking about the Germans after WWII, but he also said that mental disorders were contagions and that anyone in any society could be infected by mental disorders. Hence, ECT was used to eliminate them.      Sargant, too, considered that mental illness was biologically based, and he advocated anyone with a mental disorder be treated early and quickly with ECT and heavy medication…and with deep sleep therapy for those who resisted those brutal treatments.      Today the FDA refuses to rule on the use of ECT because they say they don’t rule on “the practice of medicine.” They somehow consider

Home Caffeine Blog 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 Why Big Pharma Targets Women… besides Huge Profits, Of Course      By Robert Carter/May 25, 2025      The most recent CDC study of antidepressant use in America (2018) showed that about 14 percent of all Americans were prescribed antidepressants, but less than 9 percent of all American men were. However, 19 percent of all American women were, and an amazing 25 percent of older American women were prescribed antidepressants.      Is that just because U.S. Big Pharma mostly targets women with their antidepressant marketing, or is there another, less obvious factor?      Two thirds of all electroconvulsive treatments are given to women, as well. Why is that? Big Pharma makes no profit from ECT. There must be another factor involved here.      There is.      A psychiatric diagnosis is necessary for a woman to be prescribed antidepressants or to be given ECT. These diagnoses target women with a DSM label for their  “mental disorder.” Does that mean women are generically more unstable – more “hysterical,” to use the male-dominated Victorian Era term – than men?      Ironically, 80 percent of all psychiatrists are women. They may be the ones  writing the prescriptions, but they’re not the ones coming up with the DSM diagnostic categories.      The psychiatrists on the DSM committees are mostly guys. Female psychiatrists do not often end up in  leadership roles in that field. Instead, they predominate in academic fellowship and residency positions and in private practice.      None of the three hundred or so “mental disorders” listed in the DSM are based on any scientific evidence. There is no  “chemical imbalance,” nor any other proven physical cause, behind any of these diagnoses. They’re voted on by majority rule in the DSM committees, and so they are all, strictly speaking, merely opinions about symptoms that may or may not even have been directly observed.      Whose opinions?      Guys’ opinions.      Of course, Big Pharma does target women in their antidepressant marketing campaigns, but far worse, the whole psychiatric system of diagnosis is rigged from the get-go to pin women to the bulls-eyes of these “mental disorders.” Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

Home Caffeine Blog 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 The FDA Won’t Rule on ECT, But the Maker of the ECT Device Warns of Suicide and Death      By Robert Carter/May 12, 2025      Somatics, LLC, is one of two manufacturers of ECT devices in the US, and they issue a manual with each of their Thymatron IV ECT instruments. After a short, three paragraph introduction to its intended use and intended population, the manual immediately goes into“Safety Information.”     Their first warning?     “Various medical conditions are associated with substantially increased risk from ECT, including risk of death.”      Their second?     “ECT device use may be associated with disorientation, confusion, and memory problems.”      Their third warning includes:     “The long-term safety and effectiveness of ECT treatment has not been demonstrated, and long-term follow-up may be needed.”       And their fourth?     “Some patients who were suicidal before receiving ECT eventually committed suicide after receiving ECT, including after receiving ECT with a Thymatron® device.”      Quite a machine eh?      The FDA has not ruled for or against the delivery of ECT, but they have allowed these devices to be used on those diagnosed with catatonia or severe major depressive disorder. The FDA claims administering ECT is “the practice of medicine,” and they’d don’t rule on that.      The warnings in the Thymatron manual, however, give any prospective patient good reason to refuse ECT…if they were lucky enough to have been given the full Informed Consent briefing that is legally required. Anecdotal evidence suggests that doesn’t happen very often.      Why?      For one thing, a new Thymatron IV costs about four hundred bucks. You can get the deluxe model for $900, but the standard $419 version delivers more than enough of an electrical jolt — up to 460 volts – to induce at least a twenty second seizure in an anesthetized and paralyzed patient.      What can a psychiatrist charge for that five to ten minute procedure? $300 to $1000. A patient typically undergoes 6-12 of those procedures during their initial program of treatment.      That’s somewhere between about $2000 and $12,000 per patient from a four hundred dollar device. Most ECT patients have at least one more series of treatments, as well, because any effects from the first set are very short lived.      How many shocks can a Thymatron IV administer before it wears

Home Caffeine Blog 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 The Theory of Chemical Imbalance: Not Just False…Evil By Robert Carter/May 5, 2025 There is more than enough proof that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance that psychiatrists say causes a mental disorder. Dr. Joanna Moncrieff’s The Myth of the Chemical Cure credibly exposed Big  Pharma’s marketing lie that if you took a pill, you’d be less depressed because it was a chemical imbalance in your brain that was causing your depression. Other studies since then have reiterated the fact that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and the most recent studies show that taking antidepressants does little more for you, statistically speaking, than taking a placebo. The fact that the forty million Americans taking antidepressants every year have been hoodwinked by Big Pharma’s psychiatric lies is bad enough. They won’t get better because there is no chemical imbalance to put back into balance with a pill. Worse, being brainwashed into buying the chemical imbalance theory also prevents them from  thinking they can ever overcome their “depression.” If you accept the  psychiatrist’s idea that there is a biochemical mechanism in your own body which is causing your mental or emotional disorder, you have also taken into your mind the idea that you can do nothing about it. Only a pill can. You yourself are powerless. That “biological” cause means there’s nothing you can do about your  depression. In other words, you are merely a helpless victim. It’s that semi-subliminal message which is evil – Webster’s definition of evil: “harmful; injurious; morally wrong” — because it tells you that you can never be cured. As with most ideas, if you accept one part of that idea – the idea of a chemical imbalance — you end up accepting the other parts as well – that you’re powerless over your own well being. It’s one thing for a  psychiatrist to stigmatize you with the label of “bipolar” or “ADHD” or “schizophrenia,” but stigmatizing you with the label of “You are not able to be in control of your own well being” is far more destructive. It deters you from seeking help from one of the many other  alternative remedies available to you for help: talk therapy, meditation, yoga, nutrition, or any number of other alternative approaches to mental and emotional well being. Horribly enough, Big Pharma’s marketing message for the  psychiatrist’s

Home Caffeine Blog 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 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, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News 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 Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse 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 You Can’t Make Sense of Arguments for More ECT By Robert Carter/April 30, 2025 When the basic premises of a subject are whacky, it doesn’t take long to find oneself swimming in a  surreal sea of topsy-turvy values, priorities, and morality. The Penn State College of Medicine has just released a study that shows that  hospital patients who have undergone electroconvulsive therapy were hospitalized twice as long and had twice as high health care costs as patients who received non-ECT care for their depression or bipolar disorder. “Although ECT is an effective therapy for treatment-resistant depression, its high cost is a deterrent,” said the study author Edeanya Agbese. “If this therapy were delivered in an outpatient setting, it’s possible that the potential of reduced cost burdens to patients and insurers could increase utilization of ECT in the U.S.” Wonderful. We are off into the hazy la-la land created by the pro-ECT crowd. Frankly, ECT sessions are charged at $300 to $1000 per session these days, and the normal course of initial treatment consists of 6-12 sessions. How is anybody losing any money here anyway? More importantly, there have been no extensive studies of the overall effects from ECT for the last forty years, so no one knows for sure how harmful – okay, or how beneficial – this treatment is. We do know that running up to 460 volts through a person’s brain is horrific enough that their body has to be paralyzed and  anesthetized beforehand. We know also that every other doctor on the planet is trying to prevent seizures, not cause them. Add to that the large amount of anecdotal evidence of permanent memory loss and the known, post-ECT incidence of cardiac failure, and what are the chances, really, that this barbaric “therapy” has any positive value? Yet, Ms. Agbese is angling for even more ECT to be delivered to out-patients so that hospitals don’t lose money because private insurers refuse to pay for the increased costs of impatient ECT delivery. First, doesn’t the fact that patients take twice as long to recover from ECT as they do from other treatments for depression raise red flags about the amount of physical damage done by ECT? Second, the big downside here, per Ms. Agbese, is the lack of reimbursement to the hospital, not the apparent trauma of the ECT recipient. Third, a lot more of this horrific procedure

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Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us No Chemical Imbalance? Maybe No Physical Cause At All to Mental “Disorders”      By Robert Carter/April 22, 2025      For decades researchers have found no physical evidence of any chemical imbalance in the brain underlying any mental disorder, no matter how hard they looked. Yes, Big Pharma has been promoting that myth so you’d buy their antidepressants, but that’s just so they can make  money, not so they can cure you.      Now scientists are looking even deeper into the brain for a physical cause behind dementia, autism, and other mental “disorders,” as labeled by psychiatry’s DSM.      An international team of 150 researchers have probed microscopically into a piece of a mouse brain no larger than a poppy seed and have mapped a network of synaptic pathways for 500 million of the tiniest little neural transfers, the journal Nature reports this month.      First, one team at Baylor College of Medicine had a bio-engineered mouse watch short videos of sci-fi movies, animated clips, and video sports moments while they recorded the brain neurons they’d treated with a special gene to glow so the synaptic activity could be recorded.      Next, scientists at the Allen Institute sliced that tiny piece of brain into 25,000 minute layers and took one hundred million high resolutions photos of those sections.      Finally, scientists at Princeton University used AI to color each of those synaptic “wires” so they could easily be identified. This microscopic mouse brain wiring, if laid out end to end, would stretch some three miles. The resultant 3D multi-colored imagery allows scientists to see how these synaptic transfers vary as a mouse watches a movie.      Researchers hope that they will now be able to tell normal from abnormal synaptic responses and from that distinction identify “some kind of abnormal pattern of connectivity that gives rise to a disorder,” Princeton neuroscientist and computer scientist Sebastian Seung said.      Really?      How could anyone  possibly say that the reaction of a mouse watching one movie is abnormal compared to its watching another movie?      Even more importantly, that abnormal pattern that they will decide “gives rise to a disorder,” based on this physical evidence, is a purely subjective evaluation of what’s normal or abnormal.      No matter at what microscopic nano-level a brain is dissected, there will only ever be an objective description of

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Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us What if This Is the Real Reason ECT appears to “Work”?      By Robert Carter/April 13, 2025      Since the earliest days of ECT, there have only been eleven studies to measure the effect of ECT against a placebo group on its target audience, the depressed. Amazingly, the most recent of those studies took place way back in 1985.      The studies showed that while some patients did show some improvement right after the initial ECT session, few showed long term improvement. Many, however, showed significant memory loss, and died because of cardiac arrest.      Could it be that the psychiatric community and the FDA have had no real interest for the lasts forty years in seeing what data surfaces about the actual efficiency and safety of ECT as measured by a properly run trial?      The Royal College of Psychiatrists today  maintains that “death caused by ECT is extremely rare,” and the American Psychiatric Association reports only one death per 10,000 ECT recipients. However, that statistic increases significantly when you factor in that each patient is given ECT an average of ten times. More recent studies have shown that death from a “major adverse cardiac event”  occurs for one in every fifty ECT patients.      Much of the objective and anecdotal evidence available points to the mental and physical dangers of passing up to 460 volts through a patient’s brain, but  psychiatric authorities hang on to their opinion that any of those negative effects from ECT are outweighed by that initial boost in a patient feeling better for a short time.      But what if that initial boost in emotional  improvement did not come from the ECT itself?      The authors of a new, placebo controlled study of the effects of ECT note that “It could very well be that the primary therapeutic agent is the psychological meaning of the treatment to the patient … The influence of the unusual amount of care and attention which all receive could be studied further.”      In other words, patients improve only because of the extraordinary attention and care they receive surrounding the ECT treatment, not because the ECT itself.      Perhaps because of the observable brutality of the ECT procedure, the hospital aides, nurses, anesthesiologists and the doctors attending ECT patients may give them even greater kindness and care

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Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us “First, Do No Harm” …Unless You’re a Psychiatrist Making a Hundred Dollars a Minute      By Robert Carter/April 7, 2025      About ten years ago the American Medical Association Journal of Medicine published an article entitled “The Ethics of Electroconvulsive Therapy.” It is still pertinent. There is no new information about the effectiveness or the safety of ECT, and the FDA has still not approved the use of any ECT device.      “First, do no harm.”      The article starts off with this well known ethical precept of the healing profession, and the authors then go on to list all the known harmful effects of ECT which make it  impossible for any  psychiatrist in good  conscience to prescribe this brutal therapy to anyone.      Only when there is no alternative treatment available or when a treatment is administered solely to save a life can it be ethical to administer a medical procedure that does harm. There are alternative benign treatments available instead of ECT, the authors show, and they point out that ECT has never been shown to actually save a life by its application in a dire situation.      The authors note the numerous, non-harmful alternative behavioral treatments available which work with a patient’s consciousness, personal strengths, and social network. Too often ECT is given, they say, merely because of doctors’ unfamiliarity with non-biological interventions or with their frustration that their patients are not recovering quickly enough.      The authors also mention the revenue stream that can be an incentive for  institutions offering ECT sessions.      They point out that the electrical induction of a seizure from ECT (by running up to 460 volts through an anesthetized patient’s brain) frequently leads to “an acute organic brain syndrome  characterized by amnesia, apathy, and euphoria” and they conclude that ECT is not safe. It produces  degrees of memory loss and of other adverse effects on cognition “in nearly everyone who receives it.” These symptoms last for weeks or months after their last treatment. ECT is not safe.      Nor is it effective. Eighty-four percent of patients relapse within the first six months after they’ve had ECT administered to them. There is also no decrease in suicides from its use, per studies, and some increase in suicide rates might actually follow ECT.      Authors Loren Mosher, MD and David

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Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us How to Evaluate ECT? Let’s Try Common Sense      By Robert Carter/March 22, 2025      There are many studies that have been done over the years about ECT. Some have been used to argue in favor of its use while others have been used to show it is only a destructive procedure. Much of this research, on either side, is too questionable to be trusted. Worse, it bogs people down in relatively unimportant minutiae about ECT. It distracts.      A common sense viewpoint about ECT can easily be obtained, however, just by looking at three key, uncontested facts.      First, ECT emits electric shocks up to 460 volts to a human brain, but only after injecting a person with the paralyzing drug used at electrocutions (so that vertebrae are not broken and teeth are not crushed from the electroshock). Before the paralytic drug is administered, an anesthetic is given to the person so he or, more likely, she cannot feel the pain of body paralysis. And before that, a gel or paste is applied underneath the electrodes so that the patient’s skin is not burned by the intense electricity passing through it.      Second, the reason this brutal shock is being administered to a person in the first place is to induce a grand mal seizure that will last at least twenty seconds. This protocol is based on the questionable psychiatric theory that a strong enough seizure can help cure various mental disorders.      Every other doctor on the planet, of course, is doing all they can to prevent seizures. Third, the FDA has never approved any electroshock device. It has only “cleared” them.      That means it has only spent around 20 hours investigating the devices, not the 1200 hours usually spent reviewing all the scientific data regarding their safety and effectiveness which only then can lead to a product’s “approval” by the FDA.      Of course, at $300 to $1000 per ECT session, and a standard initial ECT program consisting of between 5 and 15 treatments, with often another 10 to 20 maintenance treatments per year, it may never happen that the FDA — mostly funded by the Big Pharma/psychiatry folks – will ever take it upon themselves to look into the actual safety or effectiveness of ECT.      That’s their brand of common sense.      Follow the money. Comments are moderated. You must be

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Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia”      By Robert Carter/March 17, 2025      The term “schizophrenia” (literally, split mind) was first coined in 1908 by the Swiss racist psychiatrist, Paul Eugen Bleuler. He described what he claimed were the specific symptoms of what in the nineteenth century had been known simply as “madness.”      He further claimed that a person had “schizophrenic genes.” In other words, schizophrenia was  hereditary. Hence, he advocated the eugenic sterilization of people diagnosed with  schizophrenia so that a race would not deteriorate from those he called “mental and physical cripples.”      This new diagnostic term of schizophrenia was nothing more than a description of observed symptoms. His claim that it came from a genetic disease was made with no physical or objective proof, but by labeling schizophrenia genetic, it was made a medical disease as well as an incurable one and therefore beyond any mental or physical help.      Using Bleulal’s gene-based diagnosis of  schizophrenia, the Nazi regime began holding “hereditary health courts” that authorized the  sterilization of more than 400,000 Germans between 1934 and 1939 after they had been labeled “mentally ill.”      Soon psychiatrists developed the physical brutality of insulin coma therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and pre-frontal lobotomies to “treat” schizophrenia.  Their justification that schizophrenia is a “potentially incurable physical disease” prompted these therapies that the United Nations has now deemed “torture.”      By the nineteen-fifties these cruel practices were replaced by antidepressants and psychotropic  medication to “treat” schizophrenia and its three hu ndred or so derivative disorders now described in the Diagnostic and  Statistical Manuals of Mental Disorders.      The word “diagnostic,” by the way, refers only to “The process of identifying a disease, condition, or injury from its signs and  symptoms.” To identify means simply “to say what something is.” In other words, all these mental disorders, which stem from Bleulel’s original diagnostic term “schizophrenia,” are merely descriptions of what symptoms have been  observed in someone who is “mad.”      No one has been able to find a genetic or biological cause behind any of them. Another school of mental health practitioners, however, has suggested that the described symptoms of schizophrenia are cultural, not biological, and they have attributed these mental conditions to the inability of some individuals to cope satisfactorily with a