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Delayed Motherhood and Depression

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Updated and Verified: March 17, 2025 (News page records significant changes.)

This page contains nonpartisan evidence-based science and education about her metabolism, specifically about Delayed Motherhood and Depression. All factual points are fully referenced, with citations to either or both (a) leading scholars and experts in relevant fields, and (b) data and analysis in leading peer-reviewed academic publications in relevant fields.

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Stigma Arbitrary, Unscientific - and Harmful to Her Metabolism

Delayed Motherhood And Depression is a psychiatric diagnosis of mental-illness by the ideology of psychiatry, which is a form of slavery. Also, psychiatry is entirely arbitrary and subjective. To decide on a psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatrists and other clinicians rely completely on arbitrary measures based on their own intuition and subjective judgment, according leading psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Insel.1 Thus, psychiatric diagnoses, and the mental-illnesses that they allegedly treat, are unscientific social inventions with no basis in objective reality - biologic or otherwise. According to leading psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), diagnoses for mental-illness are simply social stigmatization.2 One of the best-established psychosocial pathogenic vectors is that stigma harms her metabolism. One example is how weight-stigma is often counterproductive.3 Therefore, it is reasonable to infer that the stigma of psychiatry generally tends to harm her metabolism.

Psychiatry: Big (Arbitrary, Unscientific) Business

Leading clinicians have presented evidence and analysis that would reasonably suggest that the millionaires and billionaires of the psychiatry industry (the psychiatry-government-complex) have made mountains of money by echoing various vague, unhelpful, arbitrary, intuitive, subjective, socially invented, unscientific - abusive - psychiatric diagnoses.4-8

Delayed Motherhood And Depression: An Example of Psychiatry's Arbitrary and Unscientific Metabolic Harm

Delayed Motherhood And Depression is one example of the metabolic harm that routinely arises by the arbitrary and unscientific ideology of psychiatry. Instead of the unscientific term Delayed Motherhood and Depression, one can use the simple, helpful, reasonable, and accurate term sadness.9 Thus, analysis of sadness suffices when considering psychiatry's unscientific, ideological, and abusive diagnosis of Delayed Motherhood and Depression.

Criteria to Diagnose Delayed Motherhood And Depression

It may seem ridiculous to distill supposed Delayed Motherhood and Depression as sadness. Yet, one need only consider some of the unscientific, arbitrary, and abusive criteria to diagnose Delayed Motherhood and Depression, according to the ideology of psychiatry:

Obviously, only an unscientific control-freak would use the above criteria to stigmatize a person as having a mental disorder. Equally obvious is that Delayed Motherhood and Depression, as defined by the ideologues of psychiatry who define it, amounts to nothing scientific at all: just the arbitrary and abusive stigmatization of women and girls who supposedly suffer from the mental illness of sadness. And again: stigma routinely harms her metabolism.3

Evaluating Credibility: Psychiatrists Who Diagnose Supposed Delayed Motherhood And Depression - Are Routinely Suicidal

One would hardly trust a scrawny or obese chef, nor trust a baby sitter whose siblings hate her - because by their works, we know them. Much less can one reasonably trust an ideology whose miserable leaders routinely kill themselves. Psychiatry is just such an ideology. Indeed, the ideology of psychiatry has an ongoing epidemic of suicide - among the psychiatrists, themselves.10 Obviously, no good counseling about how to live and act could ever come from someone who cannot even nearly manage their own life. Thus, it is reasonable to dismiss suicidal psychiatrists as unreasonable, unhelpful - and dangerous.

Summary of Delayed Motherhood And Depression's Metabolic Harms

Delayed Motherhood And Depression is a psychiatric diagnosis of supposed mental illness. As indicated above: to decide on a psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatrists and other clinicians rely completely on arbitrary measures based on their own intuition and subjective judgment.1-2,4-8 Thus, Delayed Motherhood and Depression is an unscientific and abusive social stigma with no basis in objective reality - biologic or otherwise. And abusive stigma routinely harms her metabolism.3

The Long and Doomed Search for the Biomarkers

As described above, the various stigmas of psychiatry have no biologic basis nor any other objective basis. Still, psychiatry is a darling of the government-academia-complex, which directs immense taxes yearly to confine research to the topics and magnitudes that justify and perpetuate the government-academia-complex and its machinations. One machination is the search for biomarkers or any other objective evidence whatsoever for the various stigmas of psychiatry. Following is an example of the long and permanent tax-funding for the impotent and doomed search for biomarkers to prove the scam diagnosis stigma of schizophrenia. The analysis can be reasonably generalized to any other psychiatric stigma: they are all subjective and yet fraudulently presented as biologically based.

No Biomarkers for So-called Schizophrenia – Nor Even Valid Ways to Test for Potential Biomarkers

Researchers are constantly searching for evidence of biomarkers for so-called schizophrenia.11 Many of these researchers routinely cut corners and fabricate supposed biomarkers that are "underpowered or have ill-defined or non-stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria,"11 p. 8 while few longitudinal studies even seek to establish clinical validity of potential biomarkers for so-called schizophrenia.11 These ignored and avoided steps are not advanced or complicated aspects of clinical research: these are the basic and obvious foundations of any legitimate clinical research: biomarkers must precede claims of a biologic basis; tests must be clinically valid, that is, shown to measure what they supposedly measure. Meanwhile, about a decade ago, the journal Schizophrenia Research reported that "there are currently no established validated biomarkers for treatment efficacy or patient stratification in schizophrenia."11 p. 9 Meanwhile, that is clearly a lie aimed at misleading readers into believing that the lack of biomarkers relates only to treatment efficacy or patient stratification. However, as the researchers knew or should have known: there are no biomarkers – at all – for the psychiatric stigma of so-called schizophrenia.

Paid to Grasp at Straws and Flail and Fraud

In the many years since the journal Schizophrenia Research half-honestly reported that there are no biomarkers for so-called schizophrenia,11 the well-paid research into the fraud of schizophrenia continues: with well-paid researchers dutifully pretending an ability to prove the doomed fraud of schizophrenia – by pretending to research biomarkers for schizophrenia:

Indeed, the desperation and fraud surrounding the search for schizophrenia biomarkers continues26 – and the search is so awkward and unscientific that the researchers have resorted to pretending that the psychiatric stigma of schizophrenia may be explained by "anomalies in language"28 or shown through a "acoustic and temporal analysis of speech"29 – or by stigmatizing normal people with the limp, vague, and subjective concept of "cognitive inflexibility".30 Some just beg the question and groundlessly assume biomarkers – then set to work comparing the many pretended biomarkers.31 Others vaguely mythologize "metabolite biomarkers" for schizophrenia32: the logical fallacy that correlation implies causation.

Yet, the fact remains: despite the psychiatry-government-complex and the government-academia-complex forcing massive focus on a doomed search: no biologic or otherwise objective evidence ever has – nor ever will – prove psychiatry's endless stigmas against normal people.

Addendum: Delayed Motherhood Causes Supposed Depression

Studies show that delayed motherhood statistically causes cancer4 - and that cancer statistically causes suicidality5: a most insidious form of sadness.6 Thus, one can logically infer the following: (a) that delayed motherhood statistically causes the sadness that some people choose to call depression, and (b) that cancer is one of the metabolic mechanisms that statistically causes the sadness.

References

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