What they are not told is that this “illness” does not exist. Fred Baughman, M.D., a child neurologist of 25 years, investigated ADHD and other so-called learning disorders. Finding he was unable to validate them as a biological illness, Baughman asked several experts to direct him to any studies or reports which would confirm the claims.
Gene R. Haislip of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency replied that, “We are also unaware that ADHD has been validated as a biological/organic syndrome or disease.” Paul Lever, M.D., with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, “As yet no pathophysiology for the disorder has been delineated.” Even the DSM admits that there are “no laboratory tests that have been established as diagnostic” for ADHD. When no one, including the American Psychiatric Association itself, can validate the lie that ADHD is a biological “illness,” it is a deception of magnitude to promote it as such. And it is fraud to charge for “treatment” of an “illness” that does not exist.
Unfortunately, the same holds true with psychiatry’s other “illnesses.” Even the widely publicized and frequently “diagnosed” “biological/genetic illness,” schizophrenia, cannot be validated. One edition of the DSM said: “Even if it had tried, the committee could not establish agreement about what this disorder [schizophrenia] is; it could only agree on what to call it.” Americans are bombarded with advertisements advising them that they may suffer one of more of these illnesses but are in “denial” of this fact. When seen in conjunction with frequent headlines raving of a new biological breakthrough, many Americans are deceived into believing their normal activities and emotions are actually symptoms of one or more of these “illnesses.”
Tucked away in the text of the “biological breakthrough” articles is the disclaimer that this “discovery” is nothing more than a possible link which might lead to proof of the biological theory in the future the same promise psychiatry has made for 100 years.
Those who fall for the deception are not only defrauded, they are subjected to damaging “treatments” for a condition they do not have. These can include psychotropic drugs which cause a permanent, Parkinson-like damage to the nervous system; electric shock; or brain surgery. Each of these leave the individual worse than before he came to psychiatry for help.
Psychiatry’s $40,000,000,000 Fraud continued...
    
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