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 chemical imbalance theory has now become, to their benefit, a self-fulfilling prophecy, and their profits from  antidepressant sales remain staggeringly high.

     Psychiatrists and Big Pharma are happy to numb you from your troubles through taking  antidepressants – which is, of course, no cure at all – while they are also giving you the idea that you cannot actually heal.

     As Cathy Wield, doctor, former psychiatric patient, and author of Unshackled Mind, says in her recent interview with Jo Watson on Mad in America: “I was still heavily influenced by what the psychiatrists repeatedly told me, and thought I had come to accept that I would never fully recover from this very biological depression.”

     That’s the idea that’s so “harmful, injurious, and morally wrong.” That’s the evil.