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Big Pharma is one of the largest and most profitable businesses in America, and in order to sell their chemical goods to allegedly

treat the mind psyche, pharmaceutical companies must convince society that people's mental

and behavioral problems are caused by their bodily chemicals.

An epidemic of mental illness has spread across the modern world.

According to the National Institute for Mental Health,

25% of all American adults suffer from at least one mental illness, as do 15% of all children.

Many in the field of psychiatry claim that psychiatric drugs are the most effective tool we have

to counter this epidemic, and as a result, these drugs are heavily prescribed in the Western world.

In this series of videos, we explore the lies and propaganda that are used to justify the use of psychiatric drugs,

and we expose the deep corruption that exists at the heart of the unholy alliance of modern

psychiatry in Big Pharma.

In this first video, we expose the big lie that supports the millions of psychiatric drug

prescriptions written each year, and the billions of dollars of profits that pharmaceutical

companies earn from their sales.

This lie is that chemical or neurotransmitter imbalances are a primary cause of mental illness,

and that taking psychiatric drugs corrects for these imbalances.

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth.

And if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma.

In the late 19th century, psychiatry suffered low status among the medical professions.

There were few generally agreed upon treatments for mental illness, and while medical doctors

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