The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is the American Psychiatric Association’s list of 374 named mental conditions that legitimize the prescription of psychotropic drugs to treat them. Big Pharma raked in over $20 billion in 2022 for sales of its dangerous medications.

     One would think that if someone had been “diagnosed” with one of these conditions, the remedy for it through a psychotropic drug would make sense. That’s what Big Pharma and psychiatry want the public to think.

     Most people do think that a “diagnosis” means finding the cause of a problem. That is, in fact, one of the definitions of “diagnose” per the Merriam-Webster dictionary: “investigation or analysis of the cause or nature of a condition, situation, or problem.”

     However, that’s the second definition listed. The first is “the art or act of identifying a disease from its signs and symptoms.” That definition is the one the American Psychiatric Association is using in the title of their manual.
The second definition is the one most people think is being used.

     “Analyzing the cause” of something — the second definition — is the way a mechanic diagnoses why your car won’t start on a cold damp morning. When he discovers it’s because your spark plugs are gummed up with decades of carbon and won’t fire properly, he replaces them and your car then starts just fine.

     When you are referred to a urologist because you are getting up five times a night to urinate, he discovers through laboratory tests and MRI’s that your prostate is five time larger than it’s supposed to be. That diagnosis – finding the cause – prompts him to then prescribe something that shrinks your prostate or in more severe cases he performs the surgery needed to fix the problem.

     Those 374 mental disorders listed in the DSM are not there because they have been “diagnosed” by finding their cause. They are there simply as a list of the symptoms associated with each named disorder.

     It’s merely an inventory…like an itemization of the socks in your dresser drawer listed by color, size and material.
Neither list tells you anything about where those items – socks or mental disorders — came from. Let alone how to get rid of them.

     The scam behind this “diagnostic” manual gets even worse than that.

     Those 374 disorders are, none of them — not one — based on any biological or organic cause discovered behind them. They have all been voted on for the most part by nine psychiatrists sitting around a table saying, “Yes, I’ve seen those symptoms. Let’s now call them Major Depressive Disorder.”

     Then Big Pharma can take in $18.5 billion in antidepressant sales, in 2023 alone, because of this “diagnosis”…which is not in fact a true diagnosis.