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Access Denied: Victims of Prescribed Harm Are Abandoned by Psychiatry

Access Denied: Victims of Prescribed Harm Are Abandoned by Psychiatry
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The United States spends more money on healthcare than any other developed nation in the world. Yet, we have experienced an observable and exponential rise in poor mental health outcomes, disability rates, and suicide over the past several decades.
Robert Whitaker’s
Anatomy of An Epidemic provides the world with alarming statistics that cannot be ignored. The rise in the number of disabled mentally ill has been especially pronounced since 1987, the year that Prozac, the first of the “second-generation” psychiatric drugs, hit the market. The number of adults on SSI or SSDI due to mental illness has risen from 1.25 million in 1987 to more than 4 million today. ....

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Welcome to Planet Psychiatry - Mad In America

Welcome to Planet Psychiatry
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Editor’s Note: This piece is an edited excerpt from the author’s 2020 book, Butchered by Healthcare.
Most physicians view psychiatrists as somewhat feral animals. We suspect with some justification that many of their ideas are hot air. Unlike any other specialty, psychiatrists take care of people with normal labs and radiologic tests. They keep only patients with purely subjective problems. Psychiatrists pass patients with “organic” issues such as thyroid disease to others. These are the ones with identifiable physical signs, symptoms, and tests. Likewise, psychiatrists base treatment outcomes solely on their theories and observing patient behavior rather than on measurable, objective results. ....

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