How do you stop violent crime? What about increasing rates of
illiteracy, drug and sexual abuse?
For governments, the initial societal fix was to spend millions on
"experts" who claimed to have the answers to these problems. But when
the problems worsened, the experts said they needed billions, not
millions. And when the problems continued to worsen, the experts said
they needed more millions.
Epidemic
Today, according to these experts, we are facing a truly alarming
epidemic that is going to strike one out of every two people -- half
the population. It is, they say, the cause of society's problems. And
it is going to cost even more billions to resolve.
But wait a minute. This epidemic has apparently been escalating since
day one. After World War II, these same experts estimated that the
epidemic affected only one in 10; less than a decade later they stated
that one of out of every three people were suffering; and today, they
state that every other person is going to suffer from the consequences
of it. Why is it then, that literally billions of dollars in
government funding for research have failed to halt the epidemic? It
just keeps rolling remorselessly along, spreading further and wider,
in spite of the money, in spite of the research?
Could it be that these estimates aren't true? Could it be that they
represent nothing less than a camouflage funding pushed to not only
scare the government into keeping its faucet open, but to open it even
wider? It is a possibility worth examining. And one we examine in
this article.
Difficulties
The epidemic so alarmingly reported on is mental illness.
This does not mean that serious mental difficulties don't exist, that
people's hopes and dreams cannot be shattered or that their methods of
coping with this cannot fail. But it does mean that the situation has
been exaggerated for the sake of profit and at the expense of not only
the taxpayers and governments, but people lives.
This is fraud.
In legal terms, fraud involves intentional deception or deliberate
misrepresentation to secure money, rights, property or privilege. In
general terms, fraud is understood to mean dishonest dealings,
cheating or trickery, most often involving money. Logically then, if
the statistics are false, the perpetrators are guilty of committing
fraud to the tune of billions.
The obvious question of course, is how could such a massive fraud be
conducted without detection? The answer is simple. Psychiatry and
psychology actively sought and were given a monopoly over mental
health care by governments all around the world. They asserted
themselves as the "experts" and as nobody else actively sought
responsibility for the troubled and insane, it was with some relief
that the problem was handed over to them.
Unfortunately however, they were given the monopoly without
accountability.
If indeed the mental health situation is becoming worse, it must be
due to their failure to effectively resolve the problem. At thievery
least, they have proven themselves to be technically incompetent.
Furthermore, if they are knowingly incompetent yet claiming to be
effectively handling the problem, then by definition, they are guilty
of fraudulent conduct.
Disturbed
Charges of fraud are not new to psychiatry. Unsubstantiated claims of
special inner knowledge of the mind and behaviour, of being able to
cure the disturbed individual, of the denial of the harm inherent in
their treatments -- such things in any other field would lend
themselves to accusations of quackery. But psychiatrists have managed
to fend off such charges over the past decades by claiming that they
were based on uneducated opinion. Some acts of deception, however, are
not so easily defended.
Fraud encompasses the taking of something for the giving of nothing.
With enough independent individuals and groups who have the power and
determination to improve societal well-being seeing this for
themselves -- and willing to take the necessary action -- lives will
be saved, money will be saved, and the world will be saner that it has
been for more than 50 years.