Please think about this information cited in a book about the denial of climate change in the community called:
'Don’t even think about it: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change':
In 1942, the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski gave
eye witness testimony to the Supreme Court judge Felix
Frankfurter of the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto and the
systematic murder of Polish Jews in the Belzec Concentration
Camp, listening to him, Frankfurter, himself a Jew, and
one of the outstanding legal minds of his generation replied,
“I must be frank. I am unable to believe him.” He added,
“I did not say this young man is lying. I said I am unable
to believe him. There is a difference.”
My father and all his family died there in 1942. Having survived what no one believed existed,
even after we came to Australia, I do not have the option of using denial when I see atrocity.
'Don’t even think about it: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change':
In 1942, the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski gave
eye witness testimony to the Supreme Court judge Felix
Frankfurter of the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto and the
systematic murder of Polish Jews in the Belzec Concentration
Camp, listening to him, Frankfurter, himself a Jew, and
one of the outstanding legal minds of his generation replied,
“I must be frank. I am unable to believe him.” He added,
“I did not say this young man is lying. I said I am unable
to believe him. There is a difference.”
My father and all his family died there in 1942. Having survived what no one believed existed,
even after we came to Australia, I do not have the option of using denial when I see atrocity.
The author, George Marshall asks:
What explains our ability to separate what we know from what we believe, to put aside the things that seem too painful to accept?
How is it possible, when presented with overwhelming evidence – even the evidence of our own eyes – that we can deliberately ignore something, while being entirely aware that this is what we are doing?
This inability to believe applies to everything else that is unthinkable, such as what we see in front of us; that we are causing depression, suicide, and death by the injudicious and careless use of psychiatric drugs in persons who are having normal human reactions to life stresses.
I have now met several hundred people who have suffered serious adverse drug reactions to psychiatric medications, who have become suicidal and violent, or have committed violence and homicide, and they all tell me that their treating doctors do not believe that this problem exists in them. I refer them to Judge Frankfurter's quote.
What explains our ability to separate what we know from what we believe, to put aside the things that seem too painful to accept?
How is it possible, when presented with overwhelming evidence – even the evidence of our own eyes – that we can deliberately ignore something, while being entirely aware that this is what we are doing?
This inability to believe applies to everything else that is unthinkable, such as what we see in front of us; that we are causing depression, suicide, and death by the injudicious and careless use of psychiatric drugs in persons who are having normal human reactions to life stresses.
I have now met several hundred people who have suffered serious adverse drug reactions to psychiatric medications, who have become suicidal and violent, or have committed violence and homicide, and they all tell me that their treating doctors do not believe that this problem exists in them. I refer them to Judge Frankfurter's quote.
Dr Lucire was a forensic psychiatrist for over fifty years, has a PhD in the History of Science and Medicine, and trained in pharmacogenetics at the Karolinska Instituet in Stockholm. She watched the practice of psychiatry change from a helping profession, to one which believes that there is a pill for every situation, and another to counteract its side effects. The one-size-fits-all model encourages family doctors to prescribe drugs whose side effects have not been disclosed to patients, which emphasizes drug therapy for the treatment of common everyday occurrences such as grief and bullying, and is used in populations, such as paediatric and geriatric, where the drugs have never been approved because they increase deaths.
Antidepressants are powerful, mind-altering substances, known to be ineffective in situational depression or common human unhappiness, where a relational and systemic approach to understanding and change in the whole context of the patient's life is indicated. Their widespread use as a cure-all panacea has led to the increasing numbers of misdiagnosed, non-recovering patients that Dr Lucire used to see in her practice, and to huge increases in suicides, violence, and homicides committed by people taking them.
Dr Lucire is committed to informing regulatory bodies and the public of the potentially harmful effects of poorly prescribed and monitored psychiatric drugs. Although psychiatric medications are portrayed as effective and safe by drug companies, scientific evidence shows that their use leads to worse outcomes in some genetically vulnerable patients, particularly when used for long periods, in combination with other drugs, and in large doses.
Dr Lucire does not take an anti-drug stance in her research, but understands the need for accurate diagnosis and close monitoring for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) by prescribers. She frequently finds that mainstream psychiatry takes ADRs to be an indication of mental illness. In the current model of "standard psychiatric practice", this situation is usually treated with increasing the dose of the drug that the patient cannot metabolise (and often adding another), leading to catastrophic non-recovery.
Antidepressants are powerful, mind-altering substances, known to be ineffective in situational depression or common human unhappiness, where a relational and systemic approach to understanding and change in the whole context of the patient's life is indicated. Their widespread use as a cure-all panacea has led to the increasing numbers of misdiagnosed, non-recovering patients that Dr Lucire used to see in her practice, and to huge increases in suicides, violence, and homicides committed by people taking them.
Dr Lucire is committed to informing regulatory bodies and the public of the potentially harmful effects of poorly prescribed and monitored psychiatric drugs. Although psychiatric medications are portrayed as effective and safe by drug companies, scientific evidence shows that their use leads to worse outcomes in some genetically vulnerable patients, particularly when used for long periods, in combination with other drugs, and in large doses.
Dr Lucire does not take an anti-drug stance in her research, but understands the need for accurate diagnosis and close monitoring for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) by prescribers. She frequently finds that mainstream psychiatry takes ADRs to be an indication of mental illness. In the current model of "standard psychiatric practice", this situation is usually treated with increasing the dose of the drug that the patient cannot metabolise (and often adding another), leading to catastrophic non-recovery.