Chuck Ruby - Is Mental Illness A Myth - Part 2
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What Are Psychiatric Drugs?
Psychiatric drugs prevent the brain from doing what it naturally does, that we experience as an emotion. So if you don't feel emotions as much, or not at all, depending on the dosage you're getting, then you're not going to respond to that painful feeling. That's how, by the way, electro shock therapy and some other forms of psychiatric treatment, is to make the feeling itself. It's really human engineering. It's preventing you from feeling what it's like to be human. Now you don't complain about that, obviously. And we say, that's effective treatment. We're not treating anything. We're just prevented you from feeling. And feeling is where meaning
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