A recent spate of TV ads points to a new public relations campaign by the psychopharmaceutical mental health industry masquerading as a public service in an attempt to downplay the disastrous side effects of psychiatric drugs.
The tag line is “TD is Manageable“; TD being Tardive Dyskinesia [tardive, “late appearing” and dyskinesia, “abnormal muscle movement”], in which the muscles of the face and body contort and spasm involuntarily.
It has been known for a long time that the use of antipsychotics and other psychiatric drugs, prescribed for so-called schizophrenia and other fraudulent psychiatric diagnoses, may lead to tardive dyskinesia which causes random muscle movements that a person can’t control, and in some cases are permanent and cannot be cured.
Some research has also shown that TD may precipitate cognitive impairment.
On Feb. 11, 2014, a Chicago jury awarded $1.5 million to an autistic child who developed a severe case of irreversible tardive dyskinesia while being treated by psychiatrists with Risperdal and then Zyprexa between 2002 and 2007.
Since there is no known cure for TD, this public relations campaign is designed to make people feel that it isn’t so bad after all when the body jerks around for no reason. The best they can suggest is to talk to your doctor about it, reduce stress, and oh! by the way! you can also take this new psychiatric drug Ingrezza (generic valbenazine).
So, we finally see that this PR campaign is not really a public service, it’s about selling more psychiatric drugs.
Ingrezza from Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. is believed to reduce dopamine release in the brain (they don’t really know how it “works”.)
The body must strictly regulate dopamine levels since both an excess and a deficiency can be problematic. Drugs which mess with dopamine play Russian roulette with your brain. And of course this drug has the usual range of adverse reactions, including akathisia (a movement disorder that makes it hard to stay still) which is just another form of TD.
The only real way to “manage” TD is not to get it in the first place by not taking any psychiatric drugs. Recognize that the real problem is that psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose life’s problems as an “illness”, and stigmatize unwanted behavior as “diseases,” so that they can make a buck selling drugs whose side effects make you a patient for life. Psychiatry’s stigmatizing labels, programs and treatments are harmful junk science; their diagnoses of “mental disorders” are a hoax — unscientific, fraudulent and harmful.
