Christian T.

Kelly
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Mrs. Thomas
Mental Disorders Do not Exist
Rappoport, Jon. Mental disorders do not exist. Jon Rappoports Blog. Wordpress, 8 August
2012. Web. 17 March 2015.
Jon Rappoport, author of The Matrix Revealed and Exit from the Matrix and an investigative
reporter for thirty years, disagrees with the validity of the statement posed by many
psychologists that mental disorders are the result of chemical imbalances. Instead, he finds these
assumptions to be unsupported and unfounded. Without any scientific evidence, such as physical
tests, blood tests, urine tests, saliva tests, or any quantifying lab tests at that, the mental disorders
are just a set of described behaviors. The drugs prescribed by psychiatrists are crafted and
manufactured to get rid of said imbalances; however, if these imbalances are not accounted for
with scientific proof, then what are the drugs really doing? Rappoport adds that people are
entitled to feel how they want, but he wants one to think about what the difference is between
taking a drug and partaking in a ritualistic behavior. There is none, he believes. He also includes
that giving someone a label such as autism is not just or right and the label does not allude to an
actual condition. Rappoport outlines that mental disorders do not exist and the main claim of
there being a chemical imbalance is merely used to create an industry, one where profit and
fascist control is at the forefront (Rappoport, Jon).

Jon Rappoport, a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, approaches this article with a they say, I say
approach. He writes, Officially, all mental disorders are said to be chemical imbalances in the
brain. Not just any imbalances, but specific ones. This is assertion is unproven. There is no
evidence for it. The they say side focuses on how psychiatrists say there are chemical
imbalances in the brain, but he says the assertion is unproven and there is no evidence for it.
This approach paves the way for his thesis that all mental disorders are said to be chemical
imbalances in the brain (Rappoport, Jon). He supports this point by listening to and anticipating
the responses from psychiatrists and shooting them down immediately. He concludes the article
with a profound statement, The whole thrust of official psychiatry and its allies is to monopolize
their self-appointed territory and use all necessary means to eliminate the competition. This
approach has nothing to do with science. It has everything to do with profit and fascist control
(Rappoport, Jon).
Other quotes: By establishing a label like autism, medical drugs can be sold. Studies can be
funded. An industry can be created.
Yet, in courts and in doctors offices and at academic conferences and in the pages of
professional journals and in political gulags, the science of discrete and separate and definable
mental disorders is treated as settled, confirmed, verified, certain. That is a baldfaced lie.
Yes, people suffer in life, and they experience confusion and doubt. They have problems. They
have trouble with relationships. They feel sad. They feel all sorts of things. They feel pain. They
dont know how to move ahead with plans. They sometimes feel their lives are at an impasse.
Yes.

Analysis: This blog was a very easy read. This piece may be viewed as too opinionated or not
scholarly enough but it has just the right amount of conversational dialogue and research to be
considered a very good resource that will propel my inquiry question in the right direction. Even
though, this piece hones in on one side, being that mental illnesses do not exist because there is
no proof to support that chemical imbalances exist, it also offers why the flip side is wrong.
Offering the opposing side makes this a commendable article for people pursuing similar
questions on mental illnesses and whether or not they exist.