[Peter and Ginger Breggin substack] A sample of 1.5 million Danish people reveals two devastating findings: (1) at least 80% of the population will be diagnosed and/or medicated for "mental illness" in their lifetime on two or more occasions, and (2) they will end up with "subsequent" "long-term socioeconomic difficulties" "including lower income, unemployment, and increased likelihood to live alone and to be unmarried."1
Does this prove that mental illness ruins lives? No, when 80% or more of the population is treated as mentally ill, the concept has no meaning or relevance, except that it results in two powerfully disabling outcomes: (1) psychiatric drugs that universally disable the brain temporarily and too often permanently and (2) stigmatization and demoralization that undermine how the individual is viewed by himself and others.
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