What Are Psychiatric Drugs?

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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

Dr. Chuck Ruby earned his Ph.D. in 1995 at Florida State University. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 20 years of military service as a criminal, counterintelligence, counterespionage special agent, and investigative psychologist in many capacities across the globe. Following his military career, Dr. Ruby has been a psychologist and coach in private practice.

Chuck's newest book is Smoke and Mirrors: How You Are Being Fooled About Mental Illness - An Insider's Warning to Consumers, which is available now!

Learn more about Chuck at chuckruby.com and about ISEPP at psychintegrity.org.

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