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I first realized that official doctrine is unreliable when I kept hearing this business that, since mental illness is sometimes found coincident with a chemical "imbalance" in the brain that this chemical "imbalance" causes that mental illness. That was a bridge too far, because I happen to have a degree in biology. I knew that falsehood was no accident.

First, it isn't an "imbalance." It's a difference in the concentration ratio between two chemicals. That ratio is sometimes different in people with a mental illness. But it is probably caused by the mental illness, not the other way around. (For an explanation see Is NPD Caused by Chemical Imbalance?)

I can think of no good reason why the APA crowd keeps forgetting to mention that and stretching this research finding into proof that "chemical imbalances" in the brain cause mental illness.

Which conveniently proves also that DRUGS can cure or at least manage it $$$

See "Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry" (PDF) by Lisa Cosgrove in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

In any other branch of medicine, only an MD can diagnose, but not here, thanks to the "Dirty Dozen." Mere social workers can diagnose mental illness. (Which is probably why up to 94% of diagnoses are in error and agreement of diagnoses ranges from 9-60%.) Now they want these folks to be able to write prescriptions, too $$$

And they want to force health insurance companies to pay for ...
... treatments never proved safe or effective for ...  
... patients unreliably diagnosed with ...  
... diseases they have never proven exist ...  
... never established a cause of ...  
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$  

Not credibility.


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