Psychobabble, Profits, and Placebos: The Mental Health Hoax

If you are an intellectually curious, discriminating human being, you have discovered that this Substack entertains, edifies, enlightens, and encourages the endlessly efficacious emergence of critical thought. Wasn’t that clever of me? Yes, it was.

May 7th’s essay, on the recent admission by research scientists that ADHD is an unmitigated scam (that isn’t the word they used), was a good example. This week, I’m picking up where I left off.

WARNING! If you have been diagnosed with one of the 298 psychological maladies found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), and you believe your diagnosis entitles you to something, including sympathy, you might want to stop reading this essay right HERE because if you don’t, you might not want me at your next birthday party.

Okay, I’ve done my ethical duty. I warned you.