The masters in the dark rooms of Big Pharma know exactly how to conjure up mass fear hysteria so that the people clamor for “treatment.”
Like the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded arm of the medical industrial complex used to provide government-sanctioned legitimacy to a host fake “diseases” created in labs along with their cures: expensive pharmaceuticals and tests for diagnoses.
Whatever you may think of the current situation, there is another ongoing “plague” in the form of millions of children on brain-altering drugs to treat the created condition known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). More kids than ever are being prescribed medication for this bogus disorder, and more children than ever are overdosing on the drugs.
Like many purported “mental disorders” diagnosed by psychiatric quackery, it is based on nothing more than the fact that people exhibit “symptoms” observable by “experts and clinicians.” Yet it is no more valid a condition than was hysteria, which in 1880 was described by a French journalist as: “The illness of our age. Everywhere one rubs elbows with it.”
Invented problems
In the 19th century, tens of thousands of women were said to have suffered from hysteria, the symptoms of which included convulsive fits, facial tics, spinal irritation, sensitivity to touch and leg paralysis.
Even today, there is a lingering tendency for medical professionals to play into this. If you’re a woman and you go to your doctor and tell him you have fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, loss of libido, or unexplained hair loss, more often than not they are probably going to tell you you’re “depressed” and give you Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Paxil, Effexor or Zoloft.
That’s just the modern form of telling a woman she’s “hysterical” as far as I’m concerned.
And, like hysteria in the 1800s, ADHD is a fabricated disease that requires pharmaceutical intervention. Famed American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg — called by many the scientific father of ADHD — said so in a 2009 interview published in the German-language version of the magazine Der Speigel in 2012.
In a separate article published in the English-language version of the magazine, Harvard professor emeritus and New England Complex Systems Institute faculty member Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., echoed Eisenberg.
“Let’s go back 50 years. We have a 7-year-old child who is bored in school and disrupts classes. Back then, he was called lazy. Today, he is said to suffer from ADHD. That’s why the numbers have soared,” Kagan said. When asked by the magazine if he was saying the mental disorder was an invention, Kagan replied, “That’s correct; it is an invention. Every child who’s not doing well in school is sent to see a pediatrician, and the pediatrician says: ‘It’s ADHD; here’s Ritalin.’ In fact, 90 percent of these 5.4 million kids don’t have an abnormal dopamine metabolism. The problem is, if a drug is available to doctors, they’ll make the corresponding diagnosis.”
Widespread medication
Now one in 10 American 10-year-olds is estimated to “have” ADHD, and 75% of them are supposedly receiving “treatment” according to the CDC’s “facts.” The reason? Money! “It means more money for the pharmaceutical industry and more money for psychiatrists and people doing research,” Kagan said.
The American Psychiatric Association publishes a manual called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is used to determine which mental disorders are worthy of insurance reimbursement, legal standing and serious discussion in American life. But its diagnosis isn’t based on science. Like the prescribing physicians receiving kickbacks from Big Pharma for pushing its drugs on trusting and unsuspecting patients, DSM panel members are getting kickbacks for pushing phony mental disorders.
According to American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove and others, the financial ties between DSM and Big Pharma are scandalous. In a study published by Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Cosgrove and her team wrote: “Of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56%) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. One hundred percent of the members of the panels on ‘Mood Disorders’ and ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders’ had financial ties to drug companies. The leading categories of financial interest held by panel members were research funding (42%), consultancies (22%) and speakers bureau (16%)… The connections are especially strong in those diagnostic areas where drugs are the first line of treatment for mental disorders.”
The French alternative
But while a large percentage of American children are taking mood-altering drugs for created disorders — and shooting up in schools because of it — mental disorders like ADHD are almost non-existent in France.
French child psychiatrists view ADHD as a medical condition that has psychosocial and situational causes, according to Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. French doctors look at the child’s social situation and sometimes diet to find familial and nutritional causes of ADHD. There is also the French approach to raising children, as covered in Pamela Druckerman’s book, Bringing up Bébé.
From the time their children are born, French parents provide them with a firm cadre — the word means “frame” or “structure.” Children are not allowed, for example, to snack whenever they want. Mealtimes are at four specific times of the day. French children learn to wait patiently for meals, rather than eating snack foods whenever they feel like it. French babies, too, are expected to conform to limits set by parents and not by their crying selves. French parents let their babies “cry it out” if they are not sleeping through the night at the age of 4 months. French parents believe that hearing the word “no” rescues children from the “tyranny of their own desires.” And spanking, when used judiciously, is not considered child abuse in France.
Curiously, whether conscious or not, French parents are using the biblical method of raising children. It works, and it’s much safer and much less expensive than using pharmaceuticals to zombify our children.
Brains-food
Further, as Geoffrey Hosta wrote on the Foundation for Economic Education’s website, “Some scientists believe that kids with IQs in the top 5 to 10 percent of the population are especially at risk for ADHD misdiagnosis. Although there are no hard numbers, experts estimate that somewhere between one-third and one-half of intelligent kids diagnosed with ADHD are misdiagnosed. Even the manual used to diagnose ADHD warns doctors against confusing intelligence with ADHD.”
Also if one-third of our children weren’t eating fast food, it would also alleviate “symptoms” and help stop the plague — of prescribed drugs.
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who consumed diets of whole, hypoallergenic foods like rice, carrots, turkey and lettuce for four weeks experienced significantly reduced symptoms when compared to counterparts who ate what they wanted, according to research that was published in the journal The Lancet.
Why is this important? Because 30 percent of those told they have ADHD as kids are also estimated to have it as adults.
Therefore, if you are feeling at all anxious, unfocused, alternately fatigued and hyperactive or any of the supposed symptoms of ADHD, a simple regimen of cleaner foods, more oxygen to the brain via exercise, and realizing that you may simply have an active and intelligent mind that needs creative outlet will “cure” you where drugs never will.
Bob Livingston
