The tragedy of 66 million Americans on psychiatric medications

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I just saw the following video

Laura Delano: How Big Pharma Created the Mental Health Crisis

See the following:

Don't Tell Your Doctor You Are Depressed: Here's Why

SSRIs and School Shootings, FDA Corruption, and Why Everyone on Anti-Depressants Is Totally Unhappy

This Psychiatrist Says Chemical Imbalance is a LIE

20 Brutally Honest Truths About Psychiatry

95 percent of my patients wouldn’t be on medications if they would do these five things

STOP Getting Antidepressants From Your Family Doctor

According to the first video, 66 million Americans are on psychiatric medications. It is my suspicion that, at some time in their lives, most people have a bout with some kind of mental problem. The brain is a very sophisticated, complex, delicate, subtle organ. It has its mysteries. It can have its moods and shades of feeling. And life can be hard, difficult, stressful and give reason for great worries, fears and stresses. I had some mental problems that started with the pressures of my high school and college days and extended to the age of 25 or 30 — something I have discussed in different articles on this website. (I did not, however, have any problems that compared to those of the lady in the first video.) My problems arose due to some personal weaknesses, mental handicaps that I still have and was probably born with, and how I responded to them — the worries and insecurities they produced. And also a certain lack of general perspective, mental balance and general experience in life due to youth and stemming from a longstanding and extremely high focus on mathematics, physics, and technical subjects. That is how I see those problems now with the perspective of time. It is interesting to note that I have been completely void of all mental problems for the last 55 or 60 years. My mental health has been extremely robust and steady. I am almost always feeling very cheerful and optimistic and never low or down (in contrast to the depression and mental turmoil of my high school and college years). I have a wife that I love very dearly, a wife I have always gotten along with very well for the last 59 years, and this is part of it. This shows that such problems can resolve themselves with no external help. I have always been a loner with no one I was really close to except my family. I am not a gregarious kind of person. I am not some talker with a lot of friends. There has never been anyone that I would have considered discussing my problems with.

Although for many years my mind has been on a very even keel, I know from my younger years all of the many different moods and shades of feeling of which the mind is capable. Then I was a romantic dreamer. Now I am a hardened realist with no imagination at all. Before life was all feeling, atmosphere, color, dreams, music and imagination. Now it is all fact: black and white. Before I could have many moods. Now I have only one. Before my mind was about dreams, hopes, and fears. Now my mind is about knowledge, understanding, and calculated action. The mind is an amazing instrument.

I have never had a good opinion of psychiatrists or psychologists. I wouldn’t consider asking one for help or advice on anything. I believe the best help for this kind of problem lies within yourself. It is with this kind of problem as with investment advice: It is easy for a person with “no skin in ths game” to give advice. If the advice is bad, he doesn’t lose a thing. It is only you that loses.

At some point someone in the past did a study and came to the conclusion that mental problems come from some kind of chemical imbalance. The drug companies took this idea and ran with it and generated for themselves gigantic amounts of money (with 66 million Americans now using these drugs.) And American doctors were complicit in all this. The only people who paid were the 66 million people who were naive enough to be sucked into it.

I feel sure that mental problems have nothing to do with anything physical within the body (like chemical imbalances). These problems arise in the realm of the mind — in things like deeply rooted fears, insecurities, worries; lack of self-confidence; deep anger, hatred, jealousy, guilt; poor self-image versus healthy self-image; liking ourselves versus not liking ourselves; false things a person may tell himself and come to believe. A person has been feeling deeply depressed or deeply unhappy day after day for months. He doesn’t really understand why. He can’t put in words what it is that bothering him. He is feeling very anxious or stressed and doesn’t know why. What is the cause? A person did very poorly in school, got passed from one grade to the next and then to the next just not to wound his ego. He has tried many things in life and has failed at every thing he has tried. He has zero self-confidence. All of the continued failures over the years has an effect on his mind and spirit. What effect do such negative life experiences have on mind and spirit? The mind has its mysteries. We are talking about the mechanisms behind what makes us feel as we feel. etc.

I can conceive of fears, stresses, high desperation building up higher and higher in a person’s mind like steam in a pressure cooker — until finally the top blows off — the person’s mind goes amuck. Good mental health is about good, healthy attitudes about life, other people, and yourself. It is about a good, healthy understanding of life and yourself. About good mental balance and the right outlooks on things.

I think a lot of the stresses of life come from the kinds of situations facing many people, especially young people, who don’t have a good, secure job — like having to survive in an often very hard, cut-throat, competitive, dog-eat-dog world. Then if people live foolishly, make foolish decisions, perhaps squander their money, that only multiplies the size and number of their problems. And multiplies their stresses. Then if a person has not yet learned some of the basic and most important lessons of life — like the value of humility, avoiding argument and conflict, treating others politely and kindly — he just flounders deeper and deeper into the quicksands of life. Wrong conduct produces stresses and stresses create mental problems. I think most mental problems come from wrong attitudes, wrong values, wrong beliefs, wrong assumptions, wrong responses to situations. If you get yourself straightened out on these things, most mental problems will evaporate. Good mental health comes from the right way of looking at things. Knowing what things are important and what aren’t. I would say believing in God, having faith in God, is very important to mental health. Good mental health, I think, is closely connected with being worry-free and content with your situation.

Many people may make problems bigger than they are. I note that Jesus was a wanderer. He had no home.

Matt 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Many people of the world live in very primitive shelters. We may not need as much as we think we need.

People with mental problems become frustrated because they don’t understand what is causing their problem and feel like a fly caught in a spider’s web. They just don’t know how to get out of the hole they are in. They become desperate. And this desperation produces an added component to the problem. The best drugs can do is to help them forget their fears and worries. Drugs act like perhaps alcohol (I say this although I have no experience with alcohol.). They don’t resolve the basic problem.

I am a god-fearing person. When I experience a problem like this my first inclination is to look to God for help. We are dealing with mechanisms that no one understands. And the psychiatrists are the furthest from understanding them.

We are told that 66 million Americans are on psychiatric medications. That is shocking! That is a national catastrophe. What has happened here? First we have the drug companies who, for money, without conscience, have created a false narrative, the assertion that mental problems come from some kind of chemical imbalance (an assertion that any person with good common sense ought to immediately doubt). Then students in medical school are taught this false narrative and the basic assumption is reinforced in all kinds of medical studies that doctors read that show the effects of different drugs — but never address the possibility that the drugs are simply doping, drugging the person — akin to what alcohol does. The basic assumption that they are solving the basic problem is never questioned. Psychiatrists find this very questionable “cure” very convenient because they can treat all their patients very easily and quickly simply by prescribing some pills. In an age of a pill for every malady, how great it is! All this shows the kind of thing that can happen when you just believe what others say without thinking, questioning, doubting. And what another person will do to you without conscience. The medical students are too busy memorizing everything they are told to stop, think, question, doubt. Practicing doctors are too busy making money to think, question, doubt.

What I find shocking here is this great lesson: what people will do to their fellow humans without conscience just for money or because something is easy and convenient. How much do most people really care about their fellow man? Not much. That is why it is so important to think for yourself and not trust others.

11 Aug 2025