We are now utterly entangled within a phase of capitalism that turns everything into a money making grift I’ve come to think of as neurocapitalism.
This is a world where a new neurodupe is minted every few seconds either by simply self labelling, or seeking out a label by paying a neurogrifter service a few hundred to be labelled and drugged after a 45 minute Teams call.
The NHS waiting lists are out of control because everyone and their dog are being encouraged to self identify with this exploding profit seeking industry. And yes, really dogs, I’m sure it won’t be long before we see a new batch of dog names, like Methyl or Riti short for Ritalin.
Just try clicking on one thing related to this neurofad and the algorithm will take you down a synaptic neurosaturated web of profit seeking, misleading and dangerously ignorant but highly profitable neurobollox.
A story will be weaved around you, changing the story of you, profoundly.
Its all now being driven by an ever growing army of neuropreneurs, helping to create quite the neurocult.
This DSM birthed/infused mindset turns entire personal histories into fake ah ha moments.
Helping us to obfuscate the disordered school or disordered work place and a range of other cultural disorders.
No, as usual, the problems and solutions exist purely between your ears, you are just ‘wired differently’ it was my ‘undiagnosed adhd or asd’ or the new uber cool blend of the two ‘auDHD’
These new neurofad lenses allow for a near total fantasy reconstruction of entire histories. Comments like
‘my childhood could be summarised as ‘how are you this smart, but this stupid?’
Closely followed by a remorseful reflections like ‘if only they new then, what they know now, what might have I become, but alas they just thought I was stupid and lazy’
Seemingly ignorant of the fact that the only thing ‘they’ did not know back then was how to successfully market and sell these erroneous labels and drugs.
But my oh my they certainly do now.
In the UK alone between 2023 and 2024 there was around an 18% increase in people being fed amphetamine derivatives including children. This rate of growth is accelerating year in year out to the point where drug companies simply cannot keep up with demand and we have seen drug supply shortages.
This is all now completely normalised and the entire family, parents, children and pet dogs can all get a label and take their amphetamines together. Huxley’s vision is materialising all around us.
Personally, as an adult, I think you ought to be able to take whatever drug you like. However if its a dangerous controlled substance on prescription then full informed consent is fundamental.
Sadly, informed consent simply does not exist in Psychiatry , no one is told the truth about these labels, or the drugs and most are clueless about the long and unbelievably ignorant and harmful history of Psychiatry and its so called ‘disorders’ and ‘treatments’
If you find taking a drug enhances your performance in some areas of life, then as an adult, knock yourself out. Some writers can only write after a few drinks, some use cannabis and every other drug under the sun is used by human beings - we are a drug taking species.
However, the idea that you are ‘treating’ ‘adhd’ with ‘medication’ is a profitable spoonful of corporate lies given to you by industry to make the amphetamines go down. Its all so safe and effective, just think of it like vitamins or Yoga for the mind.
The story is very different for children and I honestly think this era of Psychiatry will be looked back upon just like all its other eras as the worst most harmful one yet. At least in the past the brutal harms done by hacking into brains, inducing all sorts of spine snapping, horrific comas, blasting brains with electricity, inducing vomiting, spinning chairs and so much more as awful as it was, happened to relatively few people. Tens of thousands at most.
This latest dangerous, harmful, ignorant era is currently poisoning the bodies and brains of hundreds of millions of children and adults globally.
It will surely be looked back upon as mass corporate child abuse.
The idea of neurotypical is also pure fantasy, we are all completely different from one another, complete one offs.
If you aren’t already utterly consumed by the neuroduping and have not yet joined the neurocult, try these to begin building some informed consent and free yourselves from this profit seeking neurobollox.
Reasonable adjustments in the disordered school or disordered work place simply aren’t worth it and just act to ensure we don’t change or even see our cultural disorders and so the status quo is maintained.
This is a free version of a more detailed book - Sami is a psychiatrist working in the NHS in children’s team - his new book ‘searching for normal’ is also excellent and he’s written several others and has many talks and interviews online https://www.madinamerica.com/insane-medicine/
This is a useful recent series - written by a clinical psychologist in the NHS and an academic
Thanks for all that info. The stuff on Biederman has all been laundered, he was much worse than any of those articles indicate, and he had ten thousand enablers behind him.
Niall’s comment on the deification of the market reminds me of the chief psychiatrist at the mental hospital saying, about my son, “ we will make him a productive member of society“.
transferred to the patient who suffers increasing restraint and polypharmacy, because treatment and the system do not/cannot fail. The longer you stay in the system, the more pathologised you become.
We are now utterly entangled within a phase of capitalism that turns everything into a money making grift I’ve come to think of as neurocapitalism.
This is a world where a new neurodupe is minted every few seconds either by simply self labelling, or seeking out a label by paying a neurogrifter service a few hundred to be labelled and drugged after a 45 minute Teams call.
The NHS waiting lists are out of control because everyone and their dog are being encouraged to self identify with this exploding profit seeking industry. And yes, really dogs, I’m sure it won’t be long before we see a new batch of dog names, like Methyl or Riti short for Ritalin.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/dog-adhd-test-brain-disorder-b2827403.html
Just try clicking on one thing related to this neurofad and the algorithm will take you down a synaptic neurosaturated web of profit seeking, misleading and dangerously ignorant but highly profitable neurobollox.
A story will be weaved around you, changing the story of you, profoundly.
Its all now being driven by an ever growing army of neuropreneurs, helping to create quite the neurocult.
This DSM birthed/infused mindset turns entire personal histories into fake ah ha moments.
Helping us to obfuscate the disordered school or disordered work place and a range of other cultural disorders.
No, as usual, the problems and solutions exist purely between your ears, you are just ‘wired differently’ it was my ‘undiagnosed adhd or asd’ or the new uber cool blend of the two ‘auDHD’
These new neurofad lenses allow for a near total fantasy reconstruction of entire histories. Comments like
‘my childhood could be summarised as ‘how are you this smart, but this stupid?’
Closely followed by a remorseful reflections like ‘if only they new then, what they know now, what might have I become, but alas they just thought I was stupid and lazy’
Seemingly ignorant of the fact that the only thing ‘they’ did not know back then was how to successfully market and sell these erroneous labels and drugs.
But my oh my they certainly do now.
In the UK alone between 2023 and 2024 there was around an 18% increase in people being fed amphetamine derivatives including children. This rate of growth is accelerating year in year out to the point where drug companies simply cannot keep up with demand and we have seen drug supply shortages.
This is all now completely normalised and the entire family, parents, children and pet dogs can all get a label and take their amphetamines together. Huxley’s vision is materialising all around us.
Personally, as an adult, I think you ought to be able to take whatever drug you like. However if its a dangerous controlled substance on prescription then full informed consent is fundamental.
Sadly, informed consent simply does not exist in Psychiatry , no one is told the truth about these labels, or the drugs and most are clueless about the long and unbelievably ignorant and harmful history of Psychiatry and its so called ‘disorders’ and ‘treatments’
If you find taking a drug enhances your performance in some areas of life, then as an adult, knock yourself out. Some writers can only write after a few drinks, some use cannabis and every other drug under the sun is used by human beings - we are a drug taking species.
However, the idea that you are ‘treating’ ‘adhd’ with ‘medication’ is a profitable spoonful of corporate lies given to you by industry to make the amphetamines go down. Its all so safe and effective, just think of it like vitamins or Yoga for the mind.
The story is very different for children and I honestly think this era of Psychiatry will be looked back upon just like all its other eras as the worst most harmful one yet. At least in the past the brutal harms done by hacking into brains, inducing all sorts of spine snapping, horrific comas, blasting brains with electricity, inducing vomiting, spinning chairs and so much more as awful as it was, happened to relatively few people. Tens of thousands at most.
This latest dangerous, harmful, ignorant era is currently poisoning the bodies and brains of hundreds of millions of children and adults globally.
It will surely be looked back upon as mass corporate child abuse.
The idea of neurotypical is also pure fantasy, we are all completely different from one another, complete one offs.
If you aren’t already utterly consumed by the neuroduping and have not yet joined the neurocult, try these to begin building some informed consent and free yourselves from this profit seeking neurobollox.
Reasonable adjustments in the disordered school or disordered work place simply aren’t worth it and just act to ensure we don’t change or even see our cultural disorders and so the status quo is maintained.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/doctor-who-broadened-autism-spectrum-sorry-for-over-diagnosis/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Unrecognised facts section here https://cepuk.org/unrecognised-facts/
This is a free version of a more detailed book - Sami is a psychiatrist working in the NHS in children’s team - his new book ‘searching for normal’ is also excellent and he’s written several others and has many talks and interviews online https://www.madinamerica.com/insane-medicine/
This is a useful recent series - written by a clinical psychologist in the NHS and an academic
https://www.madinamerica.com/neurodiversity-series/
This is a really easy to read, clear explanation about psychiatric diagnosis,
https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-psychiatric-diagnosis-second-edition
For a bit more of a technical take down of the construct of ‘adhd’ try these
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9871920/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35707639/
For an understanding of how the ‘adhd’ mess came to town try these
Obedience Pills by Patrick D Hahn https://rxisk.org/obedience-pills/
A Disease called Childhood: why adhd became and American epidemic by Marilyn Wedge,
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-016-0546-7
ADHD Nation by Alan Schwarz
ADHD is not an illness and Ritalin is not a cure: a comprehensive rebuttal of the (alleged) scientific consensus, by Yaakov Ophir
Really useful interview about the journey this mass labelling and drugging of children and adults has taken https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/01/kids-are-not-the-problem-an-interview-with-gretchen-lefever-watson/
https://mindfreedom.org/kb/ny-times-biederman-harvard/
https://ahrp.org/the-real-biederman-scandal/
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/05/adhd-money-trail/
https://magazine.theaca.net.au/articles/adhd-epidemics-the-marketing-of-adhd
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/adhd-not-diagnosis-warning-label-2025a1000kwu
https://magazine.theaca.net.au/articles/adhd-epidemics-the-marketing-of-adhd
https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/adhd-awareness-campaigns-lead-to-huge-jump-in-false-self-diagnoses/
https://substack.com/home/post/p-179740357?source=queue
https://ghaemi.substack.com/p/diagnostic-invalidity-of-adhd
https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/12/we-must-stop-the-adhd-prescribing-cascade-not-perpetuate-it/?unapproved=340801&moderation-hash=84d14a6fbcb1060eca974a0966a57054#comment-340801
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/3901/the-truth-about-the-drug-companies-by-marcia-angell-md/
https://hannahspier.substack.com/p/adhd-the-disorder-that-never-was
https://hannahspier.substack.com/p/53-audhd-when-psychiatry-becomes
https://drmcfillin.substack.com/p/is-the-psychiatric-drugging-of-children
https://whatwouldjesssay.substack.com/p/increasing-rates-of-adhd-diagnosis
https://drmcfillin.substack.com/p/the-story-that-makes-you-sick
https://drmcfillin.substack.com/p/congratulations-on-your-diagnosis
There is so much unmetabolised chemical crap from Psychiatric drugs being urinated out its affecting marine life, see below.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166445X23001571
And reading a some history is always useful:
Owen Whooley - On the Heels of Ignorance.
Andrew Scull - Desperate Remedies.
James Davies - Cracked.
https://perlanterna.com/
Thanks for all that info. The stuff on Biederman has all been laundered, he was much worse than any of those articles indicate, and he had ten thousand enablers behind him.
Very welcome, you do such important work. Any info you have on biederman gratefully received it's amazing how many are still unaware
Niall’s comment on the deification of the market reminds me of the chief psychiatrist at the mental hospital saying, about my son, “ we will make him a productive member of society“.
The failures of the system are
transferred to the patient who suffers increasing restraint and polypharmacy, because treatment and the system do not/cannot fail. The longer you stay in the system, the more pathologised you become.
“When education limits your imagination it’s called indoctrination “ Nikola Tesla