{"id":107946,"date":"2014-02-14T20:42:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2014-02-14T20:42:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:42:04","slug":"mental-illness-is-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/mental-illness-is-the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental illness is the new normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Mental illness is the new normal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">by Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">February 14, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomorefakenews.com\/\">www.nomorefakenews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">The strategy is as old as the hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Show people an extreme example of something, and thereby convince them to accept a compromise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">In this case, parade before the public&#8212;along with assured pronouncements from \u201cmental health experts\u201d&#8212;images of James Holmes, Aaron Alexis, Adam Lanza, etc.&#8212;and say:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Look, these are people who committed unspeakable crimes because they were suffering from mental disorders, and we must do something about it&#8230;in fact, at least half of all Americans have some sort of mental disorder&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">It&#8217;s a nudge, a coax, a veiled threat, an invocation of fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Gee, maybe I have a mental disorder and I don&#8217;t even know it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">It softens up the population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">If you have a mental disorder, you should get diagnosed and treated. Otherwise, later on, you could go off the rails and commit a horrible act. It&#8217;s inconsiderate and dastardly to stay outside the psychiatric system.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">With 300 official labels of such disorders, a shrink (dealer) will be more than happy to stick a label on you, and prescribe you a toxic drug to start you out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Let&#8217;s try Ritalin&#8230; and oh, you&#8217;re feeling sad now because the drug made you crash?&#8230;no, that&#8217;s clinical depression&#8230;here, take Zoloft&#8230;oh, and now you&#8217;re going up and down?&#8230;that&#8217;s bipolar&#8230;here, do a little Valproate&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">You&#8217;re on your way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">But at least you&#8217;re not a James Holmes. Whew. Avoided that one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">And if DARPA or the National Institutes of Health says they&#8217;re breaking ground on a new brain-mapping project (only 750 trillion neurons to catalog and explain), you&#8217;re on their side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Well, sure, nothing harmful about more research, go to it, boys, and bring home the bacon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Even the idea of using this data trove to control the mind doesn&#8217;t sound bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Of course we need to control it. Look what happened at Sandy Hook when we didn&#8217;t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">The extreme advertisement at work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Never mind that there is no laboratory test for any of the 300 official mental disorders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Just a minor glitch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Never mind that all the prescribed psychiatric drugs are toxic and some actually cause violent behavior (suicide, homicide).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">You&#8217;re going to see more statements about \u201cleft untreated\u201d coming down the pipeline. As in: \u201cWe can now manage mental illness quite well. But early-stage onset, if left untreated, accumulates and grows into something far more dangerous. So we need people to recognize signs and symptoms in themselves and others (snitch culture based on nothing).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">And in case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, early onset can mean babies. That&#8217;s right. Diagnosis in younger and younger children is the trend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">You thought your two-year old was staring out the window because he was, well, staring out the window?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Not necessarily. He might be clinically depressed, in which case he&#8217;s a candidate for drugs that can make scrambled eggs out of his neurotransmitters. But it&#8217;s all in the service of science, and ensuring he doesn&#8217;t grow up to be a mass murderer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Yes, we have little Jimmy on Paxil. We as parents feel it&#8217;s the responsible thing to do. He&#8217;s&#8230;different these days, but our psychiatrist says he&#8217;s making progress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">You bet little Jimmy is different, and you&#8217;re going to find out what that means later on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">But don&#8217;t worry, be happy. The shrink will assure you the bizarre drug-induced behavior is actually the spontaneous emergence of another mental disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">And the State will stand firmly behind that shrink. Welcome to the medical industrial complex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29<sup>th<\/sup> District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at <span style=\"color:#000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomorefakenews.com\/\">www.nomorefakenews.com<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/category\/medical-fraud\/'>Medical Fraud<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/category\/psychiatry-fraud\/'>Psychiatry Fraud<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/5524\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/5524\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=jonrappoport.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9985341&#038;%23038;post=5524&#038;%23038;subd=jonrappoport&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental illness is the new normal by Jon Rappoport February 14, 2014 www.nomorefakenews.com The strategy is as old as the hills. 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