1. Because psychiatrists frequently cause harm, permanent disabilities, death - death of the body-mind-spirit.
False. Medicine is used to heal, prevent disability, and prolong life.
2. Because psychiatrists frequently violate the Hippocratic Oath which orders all physicians "First Do No Harm."
False and irrelevant. The hippocratic oath has no legal or moral bearing for a number of reasons. All physicians violate the Hippocratic Oath out of necessity because the oath demands a physician refrain from using surgery, abortifacents, and a number of other essential, evidence-based procedures for the treatment of the patient.
3. Because psychiatrists patronize and disempower people, especially their patients.
False. Treating an illness *empowers* a person because they are now unburdened or less-burdened by pathology
4. Because psychiatry is not a medical science.
False. Medicine is evidence-based. It cannot exist independent of evidence or the scientific method.
5. Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent diagnostic tests,testable hypotheses, and cures for "schizophrenia" and all other types of alleged "mental illness" or "mental disorder".
False. A pseudo-scientific discipline cannot use evidence. Psychiatry is evidence-based and therefore should not be considered pseudo-science.
6. Because psychiatrists cannot accurately and reliably predict dangerousness, violence or any other type of human behaviour, yet make such claims as "expert witnesses", and with the media promote the "dangerous mental patient" myth/stereotype.
False. This is also evidence-based. Due to ethical restrictions, one cannot use RCTs to make these predictions. Despite using a lower tier of evidence, the process remains rooted in the scientific method
7. Because psychiatrists
have caused a worldwide epidemic of brain damage by promoting and prescribing brain-disabling treatments such as the neuroleptics, antidepressants, electroconvulsive brainwashing (electroshock), and psychosurgery lobotomy).
False. Neuroleptics, antidepressants, ECT, and lobotomy are used to *heal* the brain, nervous system, and improve the health of patients.
8. Because psychiatrists manufacture hundreds of "mental disorders" classified in its bible called "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (a modern witch-hunting manual); such "mental disorders" and "symptoms" are in fact negative, class-and-culturally-biased moral judgments for dissident ways of coping with personal problems and alternative ways of perceiving, interpreting or being in the world.
False. All disease names are inherently manufactured through the use of language. A syndrome, for example, is a constellation of symptoms. A heart attack or myocardial infarction is a decrease in blood supply to the heart sufficient to cause permanent cellular damage. This kind of pathology can easily be labeled using words in various languages. These are used for communication and make it very easy to convey an idea of what is happening to the patient.
9. Because psychiatrists, blinded by their medical model bias, fraudulently pathologize and label people's serious life or existential crises as "symptoms" of "mental illness" or "mental disorder" such as "schizophrenia", "bipolar affective disorder", and "personality disorder".
False. Fraud is not a part of medicine. Fraud is in the realm of crime, which is a separate discipline entirely.
10. Because psychiatrists compound this fraud by falsely claiming, without scientific proof, that these "mental disorders" are caused by a "biochemical imbalance" in the brain, genetic factors or "genetic predispositions", despite the fact that there are no genetic factors in "mental illness".
False. Genetic and lifestyle factors are confirmed via statistical methods to play a role in mental health.
11. Because psychiatrists frequently misinform their patients, families and the public by claiming that brain-disabling procedures such as the neurotoxins (e.g.,"antipsychotic medication" and "antidepressasnts"), electroconvulsive brainwashing (electroconvulsive therapy/"ECT"), psychosurgery (lobotomy) and other behaviour modification-mind control procedures are "safe, effective and lifesaving". The exact opposite is tragically true.
False. Misinforming the patient is not a part of medicine. Medicines used to treat patients are demonstrably effective and this is validated through statistical analysis of a control group VS a treatment group.
12. Because psychiatrists routinely deceive or lie to patients, prisoners, their families, and public.
False. A physician cannot deceive or lie to a patient, prisoner, their families, or the public.
13. Because psychiatrists routinely and willfully violate the medical-ethical principle of "informed consent" by misinforming or not informing their patients about the numerous toxic, disabling and frequently permanent effects of the neuroleptics such as memory loss, tardive dyskinesia, tardive psychosis, parkinsonism, dementia (all signs of brain damage), and death.
False. Informed consent is provided by the patient, not the physician. Whoever wrote this sentence does not understand the definition of informed consent.
14. Because psychiatrists routinely threaten, intimidate or coerce many patients - particularly women, children, the elderly, and prisoners - into consenting to health-threatening/brain-damag ing "treatment" such as the antidepressants, neuroleptics, electroconvulsive brainwashing, and hi-risk experiments.
False. Coercion cannot be used in the practice of medicine.
15. Because psychiatrists frequently fail to fully inform psychiatric inmates and prisoners about existing safe and humane, non-medical alternatives in the community such as survivor-controlled crisis centres, dropins, self-help or advocacy groups, diet, massage, wholistic medicine, affordable supportive housing, and jobs.
False. One's status as a prisoner has no relevance in the ethical delivery of care.
To summarize this, we now stand at 0/15 points in truthfulness. I give it an F-