Psychiatrists are responsible for creating an epidemic of brain damage from electro-shock "therapy," lobotomies (yes, they still do that) but mostly and more insidiously, from the "medications" they prescribe to people who are unaware of the damage they will suffer. The most brutal and barbaric application is in mental hospitals, where people are held prisoner and forced, often by injection, to take these toxic chemicals into their bodies. Not only do these drugs cause brain damage but over time dramatically change the very structure of the brain, shrinking the frontal lobes while grossly swelling other areas. Psychiatric drugs damage the heart, liver, eyes, skin - in fact, EVERY organ system in the body. They are cytotoxins; they damage living tissue on contact. These drugs are so toxic that psychiatric nurses in the 1950's and 60's wore rubber gloves to protect their skin while pouring Thorazine (the first phenothiazine), before universal infection control standards required sanitary gloves be worn by health care workers. (Todays disposable Latex gloves did not exist in the 1950's) The Physician's Desk Reference notes occasional "sudden, inexplicable death" in patients on neuroleptics. But it further infers that the deaths are due to other reasons. Does that mean that Schizophrenia can cause people to suddenly and "inexplicably" die? The drug companies make a lot of money from these drugs. SO much money that they are getting away with torture and murder. Political prisoners in Soviet Russia were tortured with "antipsychotic" phenothiazine drugs; given the SAME drugs and doses as people here in American mental hospitals. In Russia, it was torture. In America, it's "therapy." I call it B.S. The phenothiazine drugs are Dopamine antagonists - they decrease the amount and utilization of Dopamine in your brain. Dopamine is neccessary for a feeling of well-being. Blocking it causes distress and torture. The new "atypical" drugs such as Risperdal, first marketed in 1994, attack both Dopamine and Serotonin. Serotonin is released when you eat "comfort foods." TV commercials hawking antidepressants include low Serotonin "balance" as "one possible cause" of depression. The designer drug Ecstasy releases hugh amounts of Serotonin in the user's brain, which actually does produce a state of ecstasy. Over time the Serotonin receptors can "burn out" and the victim is left in a permanent, agonized state of depression. Risperdal and other "atypicals" block two major neurotransmitters that human beings need just to feel "OK." When we don't have enough Dopamine or Serotonin, we feel discomfort ranging from from restlessness to the agonizing anguish that typifies "Akathesia," a so-called "side-effect" that is in fact not a "side," but rather a MAIN effect of these drugs. Akathesia was first noted in the 1950's and 60's with the advent of the Phenothiazine drugs, the first neuoleptics. Psychiatrists do not acknowledge the anguish component of Akathesia, much less the agony. To do so would be admitting that they torture people. Phenothiazine, from which the phenothiazine drugs are derived is in fact an insecticide used to treat livestock parasites - dusted on to kill fleas and lice or given orally to kill intestinal worms - in the first half of the 20th Century. Look it up in any good dictionary such as Merriam-Websters. A group of French psychiatrists observed that farm workers exposed to phenothiazine often developed the restlessness, anguish and mania now known as Akathesia, while a small percentage of them developed "Psuedo-Parkinsonism," a zombie-like condition that the French doctors hoped to replicate in order to "pacify asylum inmates." The original purpose for developing these drugs was to isolate the parts of the phenothiazine molecule that turned people into compliant, easily handled "zombies." Only later did the notion of "treating" mental illness with these poisons develop. Thorazine, Haldol and other phenothiazine drugs have destroyed the lives of millions of innocent people. Later also it was found that the phenothiazines interferred with Dopamine in the brain, so psychiatrists started the myth that the drugs controlled mental ilness by addressing a "dopamine imbalance." Thus the psuedo-scientific term "chemical imbalance" brayed by every psychiatrist who prescribes these dangerous, toxic chemicals. Psuedo-Parkinsonism was later linked to Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS), an often fatal condition, a major symptom being extremely high fever often reaching or exceeding 107 degrees. By then, however neruroleptic drug production was in full, profitable gear. Hopelessness, despair, suicidal ideation and violent outbursts are all common "side-effects" of neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs. Tardive Akathesia occurs more often than the psychiatric community will admit. Tardive Akathesia is a permanent condition resulting from neroleptic-induced brain damage, just as in ecstasy abuse. Tardive Dykinesia also results from permanent brain damage inflicted by neuroleptics. Tardive Dyskinesia is a constant, uncontrollable movement of a limb(s) or facial muscles. When the facial muscles are affected, the victim often seems to be making bizarre faces. This paradoxically makes the patient look "crazy" and most uninformed people will just assume that the bizarre facial contortions are a symptom of mental illness, rather than a result of neuroleptic drug induced brain damage. Ever wonder why so many mental patients commit suicide? Wonder no more. Over 50% of all elderly nursing home residents are given neuroleptic drugs. Risperdal is used extensively on elderly people in nursing homes, even though the company that makes it says its HARMFUL to geriatric patients. Risperdal is in fact one of the favorite drugs used on our elderly in nursung homes. Risperdal Home Page CLICK HERE (The "Anti-Psychotic Drugs" are also called Major Tranquilizers, Neuroleptics or just "Psych Drugs.") The Physician's Desk Reference also notes "Paradoxical exacerbation of psychotic symptoms" caused by neuroleptic drugs. So then, the drugs that are suppossed to diminish psychosis can actually increase or even CAUSE phychosis! Often relatives of mental patients are told that their relative's sudden burst of total insanity was there all the time, but the "medication" just "brought it out." What if you or I were to shoot someone and then tell the police that "The wound was already there, but the bullet I shot him with just brought it out." If you have an elderly relative in a nursing home, fight like hell to keep them OFF psychiatric drugs, unless you want them to spend their final days screaming in agony. Don't accept any psycho-babble bullshit from some inept doctor who became a psychiatrist because he or she is too incompetant to practice REAL medicine. Remember, no matter what age your family members are: KEEP YOUR LOVED ONES OFF THIS CRAP! Risperdal is still a new toy, so they're prescribing it for autism and other developmental disorders. Often they lock up a teenager in a mental ward and slap on a diagnosis of "autistic" just to have an excuse to prescribe this harmful and dangerous toxin. Psychiatrists are forcing this stuff on children, teenagers, adults and elderly alike for the sole purpose of making easy money and justifying their existence. If psychiatrists don't prescribe this garbage, they don't make enough money. Ritilin is another brain-damaging drug that Tom Cruise spoke out about. Psychiatrists are committing the crime of forcing it on children. Psychiatry is an atrocity. Pychiatrists are committing crimes against humanity worthy of a mass Nuremberg-like prosecution. Yet they continue to get away with it, because of the vast amounts of money and power involved and because the public at large is unaware of what's going on. Check out Dr. Peter Breggin's website at http://www.breggin.com Dr. Breggin is a psychiatrist who regained his conscience and his soul by deciding to 'come clean' about what psychiatric drugs really do and what they DON'T do. Peter Breggin didn't write this, but I'm sure he would agree with it: A lengthy article from 2001 I agree with the author CLICK HERE