Psychiatry plays a big role in creating demand for products by fabricating new disorders to birth new profitable industries. Most famously, the “chemical imbalance” myth (now scientifically disproven) was fabricated by corporations who discovered molecules that happened to indirectly increase serotonin levels, among many other effects they have. The myth that depression occurs due to low serotonin levels was strategically created to sell drugs that came to be branded as “anti-depressants”.
The sinister demand side economics of psychiatry
The sinister demand side economics of psychiatry
The sinister demand side economics of psychiatry
Psychiatry plays a big role in creating demand for products by fabricating new disorders to birth new profitable industries. Most famously, the “chemical imbalance” myth (now scientifically disproven) was fabricated by corporations who discovered molecules that happened to indirectly increase serotonin levels, among many other effects they have. The myth that depression occurs due to low serotonin levels was strategically created to sell drugs that came to be branded as “anti-depressants”.