The debate of psychiatry triggered by Tom Cruise on the Today Show, June 24, 2005, continued today, June 29, on the CNN Anderson Cooper 360 show. The main issue, undoubtedly is Cruise assertion that psychiatry is "pseudoscience" confirmed by Harvard psychiatrist, Joseph Glenmullen’s charge on the Today Show, June 27, 2005, that there is no such thing as a "chemical imbalance" of the brain, which virtually all psychiatrists and practitioners, otherwise, of "mental health" tell their patients they have—the "chemical imbalances" for which child psychiatrists (we learned from a 2002 survey) prescribe drugs—"chemical balancers" in 9 of every 10 children they see. What is the definition of a physician who drugs 9 or every 10 persons who comes through the door? General physicians including internists find an actual disease in no more than half to two third of patients. And here we have psychiatrists who diagnoses no objective abnormalities/disease, prescribing drugs for nine of every ten.

There is no doubt that psychiatrist Nada Stotland, speaking for the American Psychiatric Association was arguing that depression is an actual disease. The thing that is wrong with this picture is that all physicians go to medical school, study things normal, things abnormal (diseases), and how to tell the difference. This is the essence of what it means to be a physician. This is what sets physicians apart from laymen. Unless there is a gross abnormality (evident to the naked eye or palpable through the belly wall), a microscopic abnormality (tumor cells with abnormal chromosomes or bacteria seen) or a biochemical abnormality (such as PKU with elevated levels of phenylalanine in the blood and urine as in over a hundred inborn errors of body chemistry) there is no disease, and Stotland know it as do all psychiatrists of the APA who so pride themselves on being physicians.

They don’t use their medical/scientific education to be scientific practitioners but to speak medicalese and to speak, not scientifically but convincingly of the "chemical imbalances" they contrive and of the "chemical balancers"—drugs they will invariably prescribe. Theirs is a perversion both of medicine and science. Take away the illusory "disease" / "chemical imbalance" and in every instance one finds a normal human being with a real-life problem, never a disease, never a medical problem.

It was not a mistake that Dr. Stotland called depression a disease—it was a lie, just as it is every time a psychiatrist tells a patient their psychiatric problem is a chemical imbalance of the brain—a disease.

In the November 20, 2001 issue of Family Circle Magazine we find a 7 page "Special Advertising Feature" entitled "Family Mental Health." In advertising features, I expect a message from the manufacturer or salesman, and, I expect one with an industry spin, not one from professionals or scholars in the field, who should not be pitch-men.

In one mini-essay entitle "Unlocking the Brain’s Secrets", Richard K. Harding, President of the American Psychiatric Association—APA, leads off claiming:

"We now know that mental illnesses—such as depression or schizophrenia—are not "moral weaknesses" or "imagined" but real diseases caused by abnormalities of brain structure and imbalances of chemicals in the brain."

Such a sweeping claim from the then-president of the APA without a single citation to proof in the scientific literature.

Next we find Nada L. Stotland, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, and her essay "About Depression in Women:"

"Depression, the disease—often called "clinical depression—isn’t feeling "down" for an hour or a day when something disappointing happens."

"Depression is associated with changes in brain chemistry and tends to run in families. Circumstances play a major role for some people."

"More serious depression, or depression that is quickly getting worse, should be treated with medication. Antidepressants are not "uppers" and they have no effect on normal mood. They restore the brain chemistry to normal."

"No woman needs to suffer from this terrible disease."

Two of the seven pages of this special advertising feature are devoted to the Prozac-like antidepressant Paxil (generic name Paroxetine). In this material we encounter not only wondrous endorsements of the drug itself, but the claim that a disease exists, for which to prescribe it—GAD—Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Not enough just to "be" anxious any longer, now one "has" GAD! We are left to assume that someone from the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline has composed this tract, but it might, just as well have been a professor of psychiatry from some esteemed medical school, having crossed the professional-marketplace line for dollars, money, gold. And what a marketplace! The pitch continues:

"If you’re one of the 10 million people who live with uncontrollable worry, anxiety, muscle tension, irritability, restlessness, fatigue and sleep disturbances, for six months or more (FB: not 4.5 months, not 5 months), you could be suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The good news is that it’s treatable."

"Paxil, the most prescribed medication of its kind for generalized anxiety, works to correct the chemical imbalance believed to cause the disorder."

Dr. Timothy E. Wilens of Harvard, a leading ADHD "expert" wrote:

"The disorder is related to an inadequate supply of chemical messengers of the nerve cells in specific regions of the brain related to attention, activity inhibitions and mental operations."

Here again is the lie, the claim that behaviors in children with no demonstrable abnormalities are diseased/abnormal, that the need/required treatment/care—"chemical balancers" made by you know who, for their "chemical imbalances" found/diagnosed by you know who.

In an article about depression in Parade magazine, June 20, 2004, Surgeon General Richard Carmona stated: "Depression is not a weakness but a highly treatable medical disease." I wrote to him. I wrote him stating: "The Surgeon General owes the scientific truth about medical matters to the people of the US. Having said, quite explicitly, that "depression is not a weakness but a highly treatable medical disease," I ask you to send me the one or few citations from the medical literature that prove that this is fact, as you have stated, not theory. I got no such citation to the proof but a confession from Matthew V. Rudorfer, MD, of the NIMH confessing: , "Dr. Carmona’s statement that you quoted was somewhat telegraphic—for editorial rather than scientific reasons—and may have conveyed a sense of finality in terms of understanding depression that you are certainly right to question."

In an obtuse, roundabout way, what we have here is yet another confession that depression is not known to be a disease. What is clear is that they claim or try to claim, at every opportunity, that the psychiatric disorders are physical abnormalities within the body or brain, when none are, not a single one. This time we caught Nada Stotland, MD as a spokesperson for the APA in the web of her own "disease" lies.

Will we follow the lead of Tom Cruise who has rightly called them a pseudoscience. Will we follow the lead of psychiatrist, Joseph Glenmullen who has called their "chemical imbalances" of the brain, non-existent. Non-existent they are but millions of children are not "treated" but are poisoned pursuant to the "chemical imbalance" lie. And many of these millions have not just been lied to but have been coerced, their parents called negligent, threatened with the government hammer of CPS or have had their children literally sold into pharmacological slavery in the gulag that US foster care has begun.

Wake up Anderson—psychiatry is the subject of the day. Let the people see their fraudulent oppressor.