Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial by Peter C. Gotzsche

Author:Peter C. Gotzsche [Gotzsche, Peter C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9788771596243
Publisher: ArtPeople
Published: 2015-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

Danilo Terrida.

Toran Bradshaw.

Jake McGill Lynch.

Shane Clancy.

Stewart Dolin.

Candace Downing.

Cecily Bostock.

Woody Witczak and his wife Kim.

Four brave American women who fight to get the truth out about how dangerous SSRIs are. From left to right: Mathy Downing, Wendy Dolin, Sara Bostock and Kim Witczak. Los Angeles, November 2014.

7

Bipolar disorder

The prevalence of bipolar disorder, previously called manic depression, has increased dramatically. This epidemic has hit children particularly, where the prevalence rose 35-fold in just 20 years in the United States.1 The fact that doctors in America make this diagnosis in children 100 times more often than in the United Kingdom2 illustrates that it is usually a fake diagnosis in the United States. True mania in children is extremely rare and the explosion in bipolar is mainly caused by three things:

1) The diagnostic criteria have become much broader and any child with temper tantrums runs a risk of becoming diagnosed.

2) The US healthcare system often mandates more serious diagnoses in order to provide reimbursement, which fosters diagnostic upcoding.2

3) Increased use of psychiatric drugs and illegal drugs.

4) Mood swings are common in normal people, and the drug industry has skilfully used this fact to convince doctors that many people with depression are bipolar.3

This is a tragedy. Bipolar is often treated with antipsychotics, and, as noted in the last chapter, the rate of development of tardive dyskinesia is an alarming 5% per year.4 Even “mild” cases of eye blinking or grimacing can humiliate, stigmatise and isolate a child, and more severe cases may disable children with painful spasms in the neck and shoulders, abnormal posture and gait, or constant agitated body movements and a need to frantically pace.

Studies have found that between one-third and two-thirds of first episode bipolar patients had become emotionally unstable after they had used illegal drugs such as cocaine, marijuana and hallucinogens.1 Even the American Psychiatric Association has admitted that all antidepressant treatments, including electroshock, may provoke manic episodes. A US study of nearly 90,000 patients aged five to 29 years showed that those treated with antidepressants converted to bipolar at a rate of 7.7% per year, three times greater than for those not exposed to drugs, i.e. a drug-induced conversion rate of about 5% a year.5 This is not only an American phenomenon. A systematic review of trials in children and adolescents showed that 8% of people treated with antidepressants developed mania or hypomania on drug and only 0.2% on placebo.6 A systematic review including all ages also found an 8% rate.7 ADHD drugs can also induce bipolar disorder, as they are stimulants.

These studies show that there is only one important reason for the huge increase in the prevalence of bipolar disorder: doctors. It is an iatrogenic epidemic, and Whitaker has estimated that its prevalence is 250 times more common now than before the drug era.1 Iatrogenic mania leads to a lot of misery, including extramarital sexual affairs in people who would not normally have these impulses.8

Lithium became the magic bullet for mania and bipolar after a physician had reported his successful treatment of ten manic patients in 1949.

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