Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin 210. The Mental Health Psyop: How Fear and Pharmaceuticals Create Lifelong Dependence
Dec 4, 2025
Dr. Roger McFillin, a clinical psychologist and advocate for non-medicalized mental health approaches, reveals a troubling narrative about the American mental health system. He critiques the chemical imbalance theory as a marketing invention, argues that common emotions are misclassified as disorders, and links ADHD diagnoses to environmental factors. McFillin also discusses how pharmaceutical interests shape treatment and create dependency, warning against quick fixes while emphasizing the need for spiritual and community-based healing.
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Get A Second Opinion Outside The System
- If you're concerned about psychiatric drugs, seek a second opinion focused on root causes and safe tapering protocols.
- Use services that avoid insurance records and offer integrated nutritional and behavioral support.
Medicalizing Normal Emotions Created Dependence
- Dr. Roger McFillin argues mass marketing of psychiatric drugs medicalized normal emotions to create fear and dependence.
- He links the 1997 FDA change allowing direct-to-consumer ads to a surge in prescriptions and cultural acceptance of the biomedical model.
Chemical Imbalance Theory Was Marketed, Not Proven
- The chemical imbalance theory emerged more from pharmaceutical marketing than conclusive science, McFillin asserts.
- Short trials and symptom checklists created an illusion of efficacy while promoting long-term customers.
