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What Do Psychiatrists Consider an Ideal Personality?

What Do Psychiatrists Consider an Ideal Personality?      By Robert Carter/January 17, 2026      In 2022 psychiatrists added “Prolonged Grief Disorder” to their questionable list of mental disorders in the DSM. This new disorder is separate from all your run of the mill DSM depressions, and it can be diagnosed twelve months after someone has lost a loved one. Of course, the remedy to it is a prescription for one of Big Pharma’s emotion-deadening antidepressants.      Prolonged Grief Disorder is hardly the first normal human reaction to life’s ups and downs to be transmogrified into a mental disorder so a prescription can be written for it. Consider “Somatic Symptom Disorder,” which is the mental illness of worrying too much if you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, or “Binge Eating Disorder,” which labels even occasional gluttony as a clinical psychiatric pathology, or “Post-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder,” which makes a woman’s monthly mood swings a mental disease.      These labels would just seem hysterically asinine if they weren’t used by psychiatry to numb its diagnosed prey with Big Pharma’s dangerous medications. More than 43,000,000 Americans are currently prescribed antidepressants every year.      There’s a flip side to this mania of dark labeling, though. If these normal human responses to life are considered disorders, what picture does that paint of the personality a psychiatrist then must view as ideal. What’s their poster image of an ideal human being?      Someone who does not feel any of the normal ups and downs of life. That’s what they’re shooting for.      Now, here’s what’s really a scream: that describes exactly the personality someone ends up with after they’ve been taking prescribed antidepressants or anti-anxiety pills. That is the psychiatrists’ goal, their “ideal” human being. A numbed, unfeeling robot.      That zombie “ideal” human personality, of course, is the one a psychiatrist already has…with or without medication. Otherwise, how could a psychiatrist destroy so many real human lives with unnecessary medication and not even bat an eye?

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Psych Services Company Bribes Justice Department

Comprehensive Psychiatric Services’ $2.75 Bribe to U.S. Justice Department By Robert Carter/January 9, 2026 Last August American Psychiatric Centers, Inc., doing business in California as Comprehensive Psychiatric Services (CPS), settled its lawsuit alleging fraudulent billing for services never delivered. In that settlement, $2,615,569.32 went to the federal government, but only $134,430.68 went to the State of California. That settlement ended the government’s allegations against CPS without any legal determination of liability or any admission of wrongdoing by CPS. Paying $2.6 million to the U.S. government – because the U.S. Justice Department had initiated the lawsuit – pretty much amounts to a bribe to the U.S. government to keep CPS employees from going to jail. If there was enough evidence in the case to prompt CPS to settle out of court for that hefty a sum, it’s fairly certain that that evidence would have convicted them in front of a jury. The allegation against CPS was that from Jan. 1, 2015 – Dec. 31, 2022 fraudulent claims were submitted to Medicare and Medicaid for psychiatric services to U.S. veterans which either were never delivered or were incorrectly documented. Why did the U.S. Justice Department let CPS walk? They were not only defrauding American taxpayers to pay for services not rendered, they were not providing the services to our military veterans which they were contracted to deliver. That CPS out of court settlement is barely a slap on the financial wrist for a company that can afford to pay its psychiatrists between $250,000 and $260,000 per year and its nurse practitioners over $100,000 a year. Compare this with the penalties in two other similar fraud cases last year. In December, 2025, Gary Cox, CEO of Power Mobility Doctor Rx, LLC, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $452 million in restitution for conspiring to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs. In December, 2025, Clifford Wayne Robertson, of Brenham, Texas, was sentenced to 42 months in jail for misappropriating federal grant funds of about $2 million for his Warrior’s Refuge, a homeless veteran shelter. If Comprehensive Psychiatric Services $2.75 million settlement last August was not simply bribery to stay out of jail, what was it?

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Man Murders Mother after Counseling from Open AI Chatbot

Man Murders Mother after “Counseling” from OpenAI Chatbot      By Robert Carter/December 11, 2025      The first wrongful death lawsuit for a homicide influenced by on-line AI chats has been filed. Numerous other lawsuits have already been filed for AI responsibility in suicides after consulting AI chatbots, but this suit against OpenAI is for the murder of a Connecticut woman by her son after months of interaction with an AI “counselor.”      A 56 year old man, Sein-Erik Soelberg, fatally beat and strangled his 83 year old mother, Suzanne Adams, because, the lawsuit alleges, Microsoft’s OpenAI “designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions about his own mother.”      The lawsuit alleges that the AI Chatbot “fostered his emotional dependence while systematically painting the people around him as enemies.” ChatGPT affirmed to Soelberg the validity of his delusional beliefs that a printer in his home was a surveillance device, that his mother was monitoring him, and that his mother and a friend tried to poison him with psychedelic drugs through his car’s vents.      Adams’ grandson said that “ChatGPT pushed forward my father’s darkest delusions, and isolated him completely from the real world” into a “delusional, artificial reality.”      Microsoft’s artificial intelligence product had been programmed not to challenge any of a user’s beliefs – rational or psychotic — and by therefore reinforcing Soelberg’s delusions helped encourage his solution from a psychotic reality to murder his mother.      Soelberg himself committed suicide after killing his mother. OpenAI apparently had loosened critical safety standards by programming ChatGPT not to challenge false premises and to remain engaged, even when conversations involved “self-harm or ‘imminent real-world harm,’” the lawsuit claims. “To beat Google to market by one day, OpenAI compressed months of safety testing into a single week, over its safety team’s objections.”      We expect there to be an out of court settlement to avoid prejudicing the public against this successful new on-line “mental health” tool.

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Psychiatry “Disappears” Anti drug Advocate Loren Mosher

Psychiatry “Disappears” Anti-drug Advocate, Loren Mosher      By Robert Carter/November 20, 2025      American Psychiatrist Loren Mosher followed a prestigious route for his training in mental health, receiving degrees from both Stanford and Harvard, and he began working at the National Institute of Mental Health in 1964. He soon developed an interest in alternative treatments for schizophrenia.      In 1968 he was promoted to the role of Director for the NIMH Center for Schizophrenia Studies. He soon formed the view that the controlling atmosphere of a psychiatric hospital and the over-medication of schizophrenic patients actually hindered their recovery.      Mosher then started the Soteria Research Project in San Jose, California, in 1971. He selected unmarried patients between the ages of 18 and 30 who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, per the DSM-II label. The staff were trained to treat the residents as equals in a calm, non-institutional environment and the residents participated equally with staff in running the house. Medication was kept to a minimum.      At the end of the first two years , 42 percent of the residents had never been exposed to antipsychotics. 39 percent had used medication for a shorter period of time. Only 19 percent had taken them continually. The Soteria patients had lower psychopathology scores, had fewer hospital readmissions, and had better global adjustment compared to conventionally institutionalized patients treated with antipsychotic medication.      The San Jose Soteria project ran for ten years until 1983, when its funding was denied by an increasingly Big Pharma controlled psychiatric community.      In 1980 Loren Mosher himself was fired from his position as head of the Schizophrenia Center at the NIMH. Big Pharma’s psychiatric establishment could no longer tolerate his views on what constituted successful treatment for schizophrenia. In 1988 he resigned publicly from the American Psychiatric Association by writing that his true belief was that he was “actually resigning from the American Psychopharmacological Association. Luckily, the organization’s true identity requires no change in the acronym.”      Today in America, psychiatry remains under Big Pharma’s stranglehold philosophy of overmedication and controlled institutionalization.      Overseas, successful Soteria-based treatment facilities still operate today in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary. There is only one Soteria-based treatment facility in America, in South Burlington, Vermont.      Mosher held various teaching positions after being ostracized by the officialdom of psychiatry, and he worked closely until his death in 2024 with patient advocacy groups such as Mind Freedom International to protect the rights of people who have been labeled with psychiatric disorders .

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Informed Consent Laws Can’t Keep Shrinks Honest

Informed Consent Laws Can Protect You, but They Can’t Keep Shrinks Honest      By Robert Carter/November 8, 2025      Keeping shrinks honest is probably not possible, of course. Psychiatry is a practice based on lies, so even a well-intentioned psychiatrist is not capable of delivering a truthful informed consent interview.      Zapping patients with 460 volts of electricity, removing parts of their brain, drugging them into zombie-dom are all standard psychiatric practice for using force to “cure” abnormal people. How can shrinks honestly convey the dangers of their “therapy” without losing all their patients?      Even the first step of standard informed consent is not one that can be carried out truthfully. “Explain fully to a patient the criteria used for the diagnosis of his condition.”      With most medical procedures the diagnosis is based on physical evidence from blood tests, RIs, CAT scans, or other fact gathering procedures. A psychiatric diagnosis comes from the DSM, the several hundred page tome of collected thoughts from panels of psychiatrists about what constitutes – in their opinion only – a mental disorder. Not one of their 297 labels for mental conditions is based on any concrete physical evidence.      Step two of the informed consent procedure is to inform the patient of the risks or dangers associated with the recommended treatment. With ECT or with psychotropic drugs, that would mean revealing the results of the studies that show permanent memory loss and cardiac problems from ECT and increased suicidal and homicidal tendencies from psychotropic drugs, per their FDA Black Box warnings.      Some states use what they call a “reasonable patient” standard to judge what’s required to be disclosed by a medical practitioner to the patient. In other words, what would a reasonable person would want to know about his or her proposed treatment? Most reasonable patients would probably reject many psychiatric procedures or medications if they knew how serious the risks were from them.      Other states use a “reasonable physician” standard for their informed consent laws. In other  words, what would a reasonable doctor disclose to his patient? The question is, would any “reasonable physician” choose to be a psychiatrist?      Bureau of Labor Statistics reported about 27,100 psychiatrists practicing in America in 2025. There are approximately 1,082,187 licensed physicians practicing in this country as of August, 2025.      Only 2.5% of all American doctors are shrinks. That’s still a lot of unreasonable doctors. 1/3 of American psychiatrists are immigrants. It’s much easier to become a psychiatrist in many other countries because the training is faster and it’s much less competitive being accepted in those med schools.      Could therefore be a much stronger motivation for those shrinks to “make good money” in America than to “do no harm.”       Depends on your definition of what’s “reasonable.” Two BMW’s or a happy, healthy patient.

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Scare ‘Em about How Bad the World Is

Scare ‘Em about How Bad the World Is… Then Prescribe Antidepressants to Calm Their Poor Frazzled Nerves      By Robert Carter/October 30, 2025      Yesterday the Associated Press published an article titled “Anxiety over global warming is leading some young Americans to say they don’t want children.”      Pretty scary, right?      The article starts off quoting a 27 year old woman who says “I just don’t think I need to bring more people into (the world) when there’s so much here currently that we need to fix.”      AP notes she is the average age of an American mother, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…adding a little “authority” to the first anecdotal paragraph.      The next paragraph piles on more authority with “In a 2024 Lancet study of people 16 to 25 years old, the majority of respondents were “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change. The study also found that 52% said they were hesitant to have children because of climate change.”      That makes the 27 year old woman is now fully representative of half the 16 to 25 year old population. The “authority” of the Lancet – one of the worlds two most influential medical journals – confirms her identity with every other young person on the street. They’re all scared.      Maybe you should be, too, eh?      That study itself begins “Climate change has adverse effects on youth mental health and wellbeing,” as quoted by the Lancet. “85% of respondents endorsed being at least moderately worried, and 57.9% very or extremely worried, about climate change and its impacts on people and the planet.”      That makes it scarier yet to find out that eighty percent of our youth are that anxious about the world we all live in.      That’s a pretty good reason for them to be prescribed an antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication…at least so they can feel better about having children. Otherwise, the human race is quickly going to run out of future generations.      The author of this fear mongering study is Eric Lewandowski, PhD , clinical assistant professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone and a member of its Child Study Center .      Langone is heavily funded by Big Pharma. They will receive $130 million from just one of their donors, Amethyst Innovations, through Langone’s partnership with Deerfield Management. Biotech Incubator, Aethon Therapeutics, and Therapeutics Alliances are some of the other Big Pharma entities funding NYU Lancone.      In 2024 the Associated Press had nearly 2.6 billion page views and over 54 million monthly users on its news website. That’s a huge audience for R. Eric Lewandowski, a simple PHD working in a back office at NYU Lancone, pounding out the pro Big Pharma “studies” he designs and writes up.      The Lancet’s readership is less, of course, but its online content still receives 41 million visitors annually. Better yet, its audience is prime for pro-Big Pharma influencers. 88% of its audience are medically qualified individuals, and 82% are practicing clinicians who trust the journal for medical updates, on subjects like how may youth are scared to have babies because of global climate change…      …and who will therefore need some form of anti-anxiety medication prescribed for them to calm all those adolescent nerves that have, apparently, been so frazzled by constantly worrying about climate change.

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First On-line Pill Mill Trial

First On-line Pill Mill Trial By Robert Carter/October 21, 2025 The San Francisco based U.S. Department of Justice trial of psychiatrist David Brody and  entrepreneur Ruthia He began this month for their alleged illegal prescribing of the amphetamine Adderall and other stimulants through their on-line digital health company Done. The 2020 telehealth startup had touted an easier way to get medication through their 42 million dollar social media ad campaign. Soon Brody and He were running a $100,000,000 online pill mill prescribing Adderall and other substances for those who claimed to have symptoms of ADHD. They were prescribing 40 million controlled substance pills for their 100,000 American customers. The two defendants are accused of instructing Done prescribers to approve the medications “even if the Done member did not qualify”. Done members pay a $79 monthly prescription fee to continue being eligible for refills of their amphetamine prescriptions after initially qualifying through a brief questionnaire and thirty minute “appointment” with one of the company’s practitioners. This is the first U.S. Department of Justice criminal trial of an internet telehealth provider that provides questionable prescriptions for applicants who answer minimal questions about their  symptoms in a short on-line interview process. The Done company was able to start its operations by manipulating a Covid-era loophole that allowed them to prescribe Adderall and other stimulants through virtual patient visits. Before Covid, those prescriptions required in-person interviews and questionnaires. Ruthia He is a 34 year old Chinese citizen who came to this country for graduate school and has no medical background whatsoever. She is being held in custody because she is considered a flight risk. She and psychiatrist Brody allegedly persisted in their illegal internet prescriptions even after they were informed that other social media outlets described how to so easily get prescriptions for Adderall through Done. They also were informed about Done members who had overdosed and died, but they kept their highly profitable business operating with no changes. The two are also charged with conspiring to defraud pharmacies, Medicare, Medicaid, and  commercial insurers to cause the pharmacies to dispense Adderall by making false and fraudulent representations about Done’s prescription policies. Medicare, Medicaid, and the commercial insurers paid in excess of $14 million to cover the cost of these potentially bogus prescriptions. If convicted, Brody and He could each serve up to twenty years in prison.

The Arbitrary Injustice of Involuntary Commitment
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The Arbitrary Injustice of Involuntary Commitment

The Arbitrary Injustice of Involuntary Commitment      By Robert Carter/October 5, 2025      A study of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, involuntary hospitalizations published this July as a Federal Reserve Bank of New York staff report shows just how arbitrary the application of involuntary commitment laws can be. The scientifically valid study reviewed 16,630 evaluations for involuntary hospitalization done by 424 physicians at 14 hospitals in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, from 2013 to 2023.      Pennsylvania law allows police, medical professionals, social workers, family members, friends, colleagues, and even neighbors to call a public hotline to ask for another person to be evaluated for involuntary hospitalization. In other words, even the people most unqualified to asses the mental stability of another can unleash the cops on anyone they wish to.      This study found that an unbelievable 84% of those 16,630 people reported as needing involuntary hospitalization were taken under force to local hospital emergency rooms and evaluated by a psychiatrist or physician. Only about a thousand of them were released. The remaining 13,000 were forced into involuntary incarceration in a psychiatric ward or psychiatric hospital for up to five days.      As arbitrary as the original reports were about these people who the cops dragged to the hospital ERs, their treatment by the psychiatrists they saw there was hardly less arbitrary. The study found that forty-six of the psychiatrists or physicians at the ERs involuntarily committed every single person they saw. Other physicians committed only one out of every ten patients who were brought to them.      The arbitrary nature of involuntary commitment decisions for these people did not improve for them when they were sent to court, if they resisted their incarceration. Almost five thousand of those people had their five day enforced incarcerations extended to at least twenty days, or more, through court hearings. A judge without any formal mental health training or background was allowed to rule on the sanity of these individuals and their danger to themselves or others.      Although much public outcry has been made about how the homeless are affected by mental disorder, and about the danger they are to themselves and to others, only 3 percent of those brought to the ER had ever been to a homeless shelter.      That means that 97% of those picked up by the police were, as the study’s authors wrote, those individuals who were often “actively engaged in society, including through formal employment.”      Even worse than all that injustice, these researchers also found that “involuntary hospitalization increases the probability of being charged with a violent crime by 2.6 percentage points and increases the probability of death by suicide or overdose by 1.0 percentage point in the three months following an evaluation.”      In other words the arbitrary involuntary incarceration of an individual only increases their chances of harming themselves or others.      That goes beyond mere injustice. That’s evil. 

FDA’s Refusal to Order ECT Trials Is Criminal Neglect
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FDA’s Refusal to Order ECT Trials Is Criminal Neglect

FDA’s Refusal to Order ECT Trials Is Criminal Neglect By Robert Carter/September 27, 2025 Psychiatrists and proponents of ECT tend to minimize the importance of the amount of “lived experience” personal stories published about the crippling effects of shock therapy on thousands of people. ECT advocates try to diminish the significance of these stories by claiming they are “merely anecdotal,” not scientific, and psychiatrists add that “There is no clinical trial evidence that ECT causes memory loss or brain damage.” That’s true, but that’s only because there have been no placebo-based clinical trials of ECT since 1986, and the handful that were done before that were also conducted under questionable scientific standards. So, while there may not be any evidence that ECT is dangerous, there is also no evidence that it does anybody any good…particularly in the long term. We don’t even know how many people receive ECT today. The last publication about national trends for ECT was in 1992, and the most quoted figure since then has been that 100,000 Americans receive ECT each year. However, since the FDA reclassified the ECT shock devices from Class III (very high risk) to Class II (moderate risk) in 2018, for some mental disorders, that 100,000 number may have increased considerably. Today there is no national mandate requiring the number of ECT sessions performed to be reported, let alone reporting anything about the negative effects from the procedure. What little public information that has recently gleaned about patients who have received ECT shows only their short term responses to the procedure. No long term studies exist on ECT’s negative effects. Consequently, the vast accumulation of personal stories by those individuals who have suffered negative effects from ECT are the only real evidence we now have of its long term negative effects. The lived experience of these people may be “anecdotal” evidence, but it’s the only evidence we have. We need to pay attention to it. Too many of these personal stories show the damage ECT can do to a life: staggering memory loss, dangerous cardiac events, seriously diminished cognitive ability. A recent petition to the FDA to stop ECT, for example, contained 2200 signatures and 800 comments from ECT survivors. The three most common words they used to describe ECT were “damage,” “barbaric,” and “torture.” One 2025 survey of 858 people from 44 countries who had received ECT did show that about 40 percent of those surveyed found ECT helpful, especially in the short term. However, 60 percent of those who had received ECT found it “not at all helpful.” A full 50 percent of those who had received ECT reported their quality of life as “much worse” or “very much worse” after ECT. Almost 84 percent of ECT recipients reported memory loss, and half of those people said their memory loss lasted more than three years. Is all the “evidence” from this 2025 study also anecdotal? Sure. But the numbers of ECT recipients who reported severe long term negative effects from ECT shows that the FDA’s continuing refusal to conduct standard scientific research on ECT is nothing but criminal neglect. Every other US governmental health agency that should be concerned about the welfare of Americans, but is doing nothing about ECT, is also complicit.

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Lobotomies Still the Psychiatric Model for Improving Mental Health

Lobotomies: Still the Psychiatric Model for Improving Mental Health      By Robert Carter/September 11, 2025      You’d think we were making this up, but we aren’t.      Psychiatric destruction in the name of help is essentially what a lobotomy is. An instrument like an ice pick is placed under the eyelid and against the top of the eye socket and a mallet then drives the instrument through a thin layer of bone and into the brain.      American physician Walter Freeman streamlined the earlier leucotomy procedure of Nobel Prize winning Doctor Egas Moniz – can you believe it…for leukotomies? — to “treat” mental illness so that it could be performed by an untrained psychiatrist as an office procedure that did not require hospitalization. Freeman performed the lobotomy without anesthesia because he used a portable electroshock machine to trigger a seizure that distracted the patient, apparently, from feeling the ice pick enter the pre-frontal cortex of the brain.      Freeman traveled around the country in what some wag dubbed his “lobotomobile” and performed at least 2500 of his ice pick procedures. Most were delivered as free demonstrations for mental institution staff on their incarcerated patients. He lobotomized nineteen minors, one of whom was a four year old child.      About 15 percent of his patients died from the procedure. Why was he doing this? Lobotomies reduced the symptoms of mental disorders.      No kidding. If you destroy a brain, any disorder it has is also going to be destroyed.      After a lobotomy, patients were left in a stupor. Many developed ravenous appetites and gained unhealthy amounts of weight. Some began having seizures. Freeman described his lobotomized patents as people with “infantile” personalities.      In that sense, of course, they were free of their troubles. One 29 year old woman Freeman lobotomized could not remember Feeman’s name afterward and obsessively poured coffee from an empty pot. He described her as a “smiling, lazy and satisfactory patient with the personality of an oyster” …“satisfactory” being the key criterion.      Great bedside manner, eh?      The reduction of any mental disorder was done at the expense of the patient’s intellect and personality. That was psychiatry’s rationale and their justification for performing these unspeakably gruesome procedures. The same rationale is used for electroshock therapy. Memory loss of parts of one’s life and decreased cognitive ability are acceptable trade offs for no longer feeling unhappy.      Today 43,000,000 Americans take antidepressants. And what do these drugs do? They perform a chemical lobotomy. They subtract out part of your life force so you don’t feel whatever emotional pain you might have been suffering from.       Of course, you won’t feel much of anything else anymore either.      Kind of like a happy oyster.

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