A landmark study was released two days ago that definitively found that there is no chemical imbalance that causes depression. We also know that there is no chemical imbalance that causes any mental illness.
I’m on various psychiatry forums and I’ve been watching everyone’s response to this study coming out. What I have seen has deeply disturbed me. Almost all of the psychiatrists are saying “we never thought there was a chemical imbalance and we never told anyone that!”
I know for a fact that this is not true. I know because I have heard from thousands of patients who were told that by their psychiatrists and I know because I made that mistake myself.
In my traditional psychiatric training, I was taught that a chemical imbalance causes mental illness. And sadly, I believed this without ever looking at the actual evidence. I actually started patients on psychiatric medication and told them that I was treating their chemical imbalance that could not be cured and that they would have for the rest of their life.
And I am deeply and profoundly sorry for making that mistake.
Around 5 years ago, I finally woke up and actually looked at the data and realized that the chemical imbalance theory was a big pharma myth. I discovered that antidepressants are essentially no better than placebos and I came to understand how all psychiatric medications are neurotoxic
Looking back on all of the times I prescribed these neurotoxins and told innocent people they had a broken brain literally breaks my heart. I have cried many times and still grieve my participation in the systematic exploitation of human beings.
You see, I’m not afraid to admit that I make mistakes. And trust me, I have made many in my life.
It’s not about making mistakes, it’s about taking responsibility when you do.
Dear Dr. Campbell,
I am sure you have seen my name in your following. IMO, there is no apology necessary.
You acted upon what you were taught by an inhumane manufacturer. You were unknowingly prescribing harmful drugs, as so many others were.
The issue now, is for people, on these medications, to learn how to taper correctly.
I know this is one of your missions.
What I find horrifying, is that these millions of people will now need therapy to help them process that they have been “fooled” and betrayed by the placebo effect. This alone is departmental to one’s mental health.
This can lead to depression, anxiety, and even suicide.
The other part that is horrifying, is to see people suffer through terrible withdrawal symptoms, including but not limited to, Akathisia, which all could be reasons for suicidal tendencies and actions.
I am sixty years old and was taken off an AD because the company took it off the market. I was cold turkied. One year later and I am still experiencing issues related to this poison.
This is not about me anymore. This is about a world full of zombies.
As you know, it can take years and years to taper comfortably and never truly recover.
People are now being drug shamed, which again can cause depression, anxiety and suicide.
My purpose is to share my story and teach others to be their own advocates, to research, to ask questions.
People have been highly functional on these drugs.
The drug shaming has to stop.
I’m afraid these drugs will be discontinued and will create a whole other society of disabled zombies.
Please take my thoughts into consideration through your current teachings.
Thank you for your time,
Beth Hauser
Thank you SO MUCH for this! I absolutely agree with every word. We are in fact living in a world full of zombies. And many of them are even doctor zombies who are spellbound and turning their patients into zombies. I 100% agree about how we are traumatizing and disabling people. I speak with people from all over the world every day who have been harmed by these drugs. People who have been lied to and gaslit. People who are not severely traumatized by the system that was supposed to help them. It breaks my heart every day. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom!
could you kindly post ne name of the study or a link to it please?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0