Ep.17 Psychiatric Drugs and Learned Helplessness with Dr. John C. Brady

Join me as I interview Dr. John C. Brady, forensic psychologist
and doctor of criminology. On this episode Dr. Brady dives into
his discoveries observing his clients’ use, abuse, and overuse of
psychiatric drugs. He has found that these drugs, rather than
making people whole, actually tend to disenfranchise people,
clouding their ability to heal on their own, and creating learned
helplessness instead of self-empowerment.


Treating diagnoses like anxiety and depression, as well as
deviant and criminal behaviors with a psychiatric drug only masks
the underlying cause behind the psychological condition. Masking
people’s condition with drugs hinders their ability to change,
their ability to feel good about themselves, and their ability to
be independent and fully-functioning. As a result, they often
become psychologically weaker and even more susceptible to the
very same impulses they were given the drugs to treat in the
first place.


The USA makes up somewhere around 4-5% of the world’s population,
yet Americans consume 85% of the world’s psychiatric drugs.
What’s worse, many of these drugs actually create mental
conditions that were not present in people before being
prescribed them. Dr. Brady puts it bluntly, Big Pharma is selling
diseases, not drugs. “An ill for every pill.” Pharmaceuticals
push people into a “medication solution” instead of teaching
self-reliance.


You can learn more about Dr. Brady’s work by visiting
johncbrady.com.