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CCHR BHM Casts Some Doubt Over Claim 1 in 10 Children Have Mental Disorder

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights Birmingham (CCHR), the organization I represent, can cast some doubt over the validity of this recent claim in the press that one in ten children suffer from a "mental disorder."



As professor of social welfare at UCLA Stuart A. Kirk states:

"Freud started this. He made us suspicious that any behavior was potentially rife with psychopathology. As a neurologist, he used the medical language of pathology to suggest that the demands of civilization on our fragile human nature were such as to make all of us somewhat neurotic."



Psychiatrists not only admit that they have no idea of what causes these supposed "diseases" they have no scientifically validated proof whatsoever that they even exist as discrete physical illnesses. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM) a text that lists 374 supposed mental disorders, along with it's companion, the World Health Organizations International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision, contains in it diagnostic criteria so vague, subjective and expansive that there is possibly not one person alive today who, using this as the standard, would escape being labeled mentally ill. Of course that makes for a whole lot more mental ill-health business for psychiatrists.



Professor Stuart A Kirk further states: "Because there are no biological tests, markers or known causes for most mental illnesses, who is counted as ill depends almost entirely on frequently changing checklists of behaviors that the DSM considers as symptoms of mental disorder. We keep getting higher estimates of mental disorders in part because the APA keeps adding new disorders and more behaviors to the manual.



Since 1979, for example, some of the new disorders and categories that have been added include panic disorder, caffeine-related disorder, expressive language disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, borderline personality disorder, gender identity disorder, tobacco dependence disorder, eating disorders, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, identity disorder, acute stress disorder, sleep disorders, nightmare disorder, rumination disorder, inhibited sexual desire disorders, disorder of written expression, premature ejaculation disorder, male erectile disorder and female sexual arousal disorder. If you don't see yourself on that list, don't fret, more are in the works for the next edition of the DSM".



Psychiatrists literally vote on what constitutes a mental illness or disorder by raising their hands at a conference. This explains why they cannot scientifically define what they treat.

Anyone who has been diagnosed with a "mental illness" that they don't agree with or wants to get more information about psychiatry's "manufacture of madness" should contact CCHR's abuse line on 0121 523 8185, all confidence will be protected.



Chris Wrapson (Volunteer)

Media Relations Officer

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Birmingham

07793 285 784 or 0121 523 8185

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