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The American Medical Establishment Didn’t Discover A Mental Health Crisis, It Created One

Schools are a gateway for needlessly putting children on drugs.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American medical establishment has been working for over 100 years to fabricate a mental health crisis, but with contemporary perceptions of depression and sadness at all-time highs, coupled with prescription drug use run rampant, they may have created a real one.

An enormous amount of Americans are diagnosed with some form of mental illness, invariably leading them to be prescribed intense regimens of drugs that manufacturers and doctors claim will resolve the issues.

However, as many experts at the MAHA Institute’s Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit on Monday noted, outcomes for long-term use of common medications like Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) or benzodiazepines, are often more negative than the underlying reason patients were given them in the first place: increased suicidal ideation, more intense depression, a strong correlation with tendency toward violence (e.g. school shooters), and much more.

As Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said in his keynote address to the summit, a huge portion of Americans of all age groups are systematically placed on psychological drugs, while there is very little proven efficacy of such drugs, particularly over long periods.

But the job of some panelists at the summit was to find out how exactly American society got to the place where its populace was both overmedicalized and much worse off in terms of mental health outcomes.

One explanation became exceedingly clear: The American medical establishment has been attempting to describe the norms of human existence in highly medical and scientific terms, declaring that typical things like occasional sadness or rambunctiousness in young boys at school is actually a mental health concern or brain chemical imbalance.

Human Existence As Mental Illness

“We were bootlegging humanism,” David Cohen, Professor of Social Welfare and Associate Dean at the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School for Public Affairs, who specializes in the study of “psychoactive drugs across shifting boundaries of medical, recreational, and illicit uses,” said.

“They medicalize every challenge of human existence … every struggle, every developmental challenge, every moral dilemma, every obsession, every distraction, every misbehavior became a mental health concern to be treated by mental health professionals,” he said. “We were promoting sort of a technical fix to continue managing more social, legal, moral, ethical, religious problems in a different way.”

The push to start medicalizing mental health has been ongoing for the past 120 years, Cohen said, where at one point there was a concern for the small group of people who were being sent to asylums, but now the........

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