I do not think most Mental illness is a chemical imbalance, but the effects of a social inequality/tolerance of abuse problem.
Trauma or PSTD is a psychiatric injury.Once called "shell shock" and it was seen as weakness something to be ashamed of.
http://www.bullyonline.org/stress/ww1.htmWar is a racket that benefits a few people greatly, yet our culture still tolerates the systemic injury of young peoples minds and brains by tolerating the abusive dynamics that justify war.And state control tactics..
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htmStress if excessive past the point you can cope can and does injure people
http://www.tgorski.com/Terrorism/PTSD_effects_of_stress_on_the_brain_020121.htm#Study:%20Stress%20Takes%20Toll%20on%20Brainhttp://www.tgorski.com/Terrorism/PTSD_effects_of_stress_on_the_brain_020121.htm#Stress%20-%20Long-term%20Biopsychosocial%20Effectshttp://www.bullyonline.org/stress/ptsd.htmhttp://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/08/22/p19001Bipolar is one such"illness" touted to be caused by an invisible chemical imbalance.
There is no physical evidence of a chemical imbalance
Unlike diabetes where that physical chemical imbalance one can test for and see unlike certain mental illnesses that some claim are caused by invisable chemical imbalances,as the pharmaceutical industry tells us.
It is not a far stretch to consider "bipolar' might be another form of psychiatric injury.Just not recognized as such.
Here a person out of two people in the world who had 'bipolar symptoms' caused by brain injuries.
Brain injury has been shown to precipitate secondary bipolar affective disorders. Moreover, a few reports have shown some cases of rapid-cycling affective disorders after brain injury.
http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/40/5/448They used valproate to treat this person, but my point remains it was caused by an injury, not a 'chemical imbalance'.The thing that irks me about labeling mental illness as chemical imbalances is first a chemical imbalance implies it is no ones fault, that you are basically fucked up because of this imbalance which implies you were born "inferior" with a malfunctioning brain, or you are sick like a person with diabetes,so you must be kept on your psych drugs like a diabetic on insulin.
Diabetics do have a physical chemical imbalance their pancreas is malfunctioning,it can be tested and it's cause demonstrated.The mental illness chemical imbalance, is invisible.No tests exist to prove if you have this 'imbalance' or not, the diagnosis is based on vague criteria criteria that look at lot like trauma's aftereffects.. coincidence?"
The most devastating effects of traumatic brain injuries-
** depression, agitation and social withdrawal** -
are difficult to treat with medications, said Dr. Rohit Das, a Boston Medical Center neurologist who treats injured troops at the VA Boston Health care System."
http://www.ptsdforum.org/thread908.htmlSo what does the diagnostic criteria of manic depression look like?
http://www.seroquel.com/cbip/not/explore/bipolar-episodes.aspxThe diagnostic criteria for PSTD,
http://www.bullyonline.org/stress/ptsd.htm#DSM-IV%20Diagnostic%20criteriaStrikingly similar...if you just look at the behaviors one may observe without assuming a cause.
It's very easy to be misdiagnosed with all those symptoms looking so alike.I was misdiagnosed for years.
Here,PSTD looks like a concussion
http://www.ptsdforum.org/archive/index.php/t-908.htmlWhen it's all made the patients problem and it's blamed on those misbehaving chemicals , there is no social causes to address really, because it is now it's no ones fault. It is..,a version of the ideology of biologic/genetic determinism in this notion that if you have a chemical problem you will always be less than human.. So society need not change the way it relates to people and it can go on not confronting the toxic inequality and all the other quite fixable but too profitable situations like poverty and abuse ,and ignore the bad beliefs like biological determinism, eugenics, and the fiction called normalcy that will go on unquestioned and unchallenged..and the powers that be whether it corporation state or family tyrant that fuck us all over in a million ways will be secure in their 'entitlements' and to continue the abuse of power.
http://www.iatrogenic.org/library/case.htmlhttp://www.ptsdforum.org/archive/index.php/t-1539.htmlhttp://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/10/why_so_many_us_psych.htmlhttp://www.mental-health-abuse.org/index.shtmlhttp://psychiatrized.org/Articles/psychTimes-KaiserCommentary.htmNami is an organization that pushes the"chemical imbalance bullshit big pharmacy was no longer permitted to claim on TV in their old drug ads for anti depressants.Nami infiltrates day programs,psych units,therapists and psychiatrists and psych survivor groups.
http://www.namipharma.org/http://www.drugs.com/forum/latest-drug-related-news/nami-whoring-shrinks-drug-industry-31685.htmlNami because of the slanted view of the pharmaceutical companies who own it,appeals to parents who do not want to be seen as maybe having a hand in causing their child's issues. These parents like all parents want to believe that they are good parents too. But also on the other hand it's well known abusive family dynamics are something every family that has abuse dynamics going on hides and desperately wants to deny exists. The state also wants to deny it's part in tolerating and perpetuating the social dynamics of abuse, poverty and the social problems that inequality creates ,with this mental illness situation.Authoritarian sides of the state want to deny psychiatric injury exists or even causes disability to the injured party .Because the state and corporation by it's very structure and function at heart is a bully but sees it'self as a parent/authority.
http://ponerology.blogspot.com/The state bullies young people into fighting the racket called war with poverty myths of heroism and deceptive advertising and when the young come back traumatized the state wants to blame the victim rather than get out of the war business.There are profits to be made and social controls to be gained off of silenced pain and misery of the wounded soul.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=war+is+a+racket&btnG=Google+Searchhttp://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/08/22/p19001http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htmOur society has a habit of tolerating and excusing abuse of it's less 'fortunate' and more vulnerable members including those injured by our social callousness and tolerance of abuse and the denial of this deadly dynamic.It confuses victim with the perpetrator and gives the perpetrator consideration they cannot be trusted to not exploit.It is far easier to do what the perpetrator demands which is simple silence and denial than to listen and take seriously the pain of the victims of abusers.Because to listen and take the victims seriously means we are responsible, for each others well being as much as we are responsible for our own.
Our actions and inactions when confronted with abuses of power.
http://www.ptsdforum.org/archive/index.php/t-1539.htmhttp://www.tgorski.com/Terrorism/PTSD%20&%20Moral%20Sanction%20020122.htmhttp://psychiatrized.org/Articles/SzaszCoercionasCure.htmAnd the tolerance of abuse the sanctioning of coercion and inequality causes problems in individuals which reflect the problems of society in how we relate to differences and our cohesiveness.and when society is sick it causes pain in the least able to cope with the sickness that oppresses us all .It might be great for those who profit off pain but for those in pain, it just hurts.It hurts sometimes until you can't endure the stress..than.....
http://www.qcsr.uq.edu.au/template/Resources/Social%20Capital/Social%20Capital_Intro.htmhttp://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/53/8/937Long ago,Insanity was synonymous with unfitness for liberty.
The control freaks in this world fear ,a sane society that has been dehumanized by being called insane and angry at being blamed for not being able to cope with living oppressed ,finding it's voice,
ttp://www.qcsr.uq.edu.au/template/Resources/Social%20Capital/Social%20Capital_Intro.htm
crying out for justice!
http://psychiatrized.org/Articles/NoncompliantMentalPatientManifesto.htmAnd fighting for it.
Find out if your shrink is a criminal...
http://www.psychcrime.org/psychcrimes/crimesearch3.aspmore...good stuff..
“First, what has been pathologized needs to be rehumanized. We need to reacquaint ourselves with those aspects of our humanity which - though not fitting neatly into the new world order - are in fact fully human. Next, we must rebel - a common sense rebellion.”Bruce Levine, A dissident shrink,one of my heroes...
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/issues/mental_health_index.htmhttp://www.ibiblio.org/rcip/vocabofrape.htmlhttp://welcomeworld.org/iHome.htmhttp://www.mindfreedom.org/http://writhesafely.wordpress.com/2006/05/26/dissident-psychiatry-for-a-craptaculous-society/
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