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Spätestens im September 1986 behandelte Erwachet! psychische Erkrankungen als eine Krankheit der Hirnchemie, beschrieb antipsychotische Medikamente als wirksame Behandlung und fragte: „Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts?“

Claim ID claim-attitudes-mental-illness-1986-diseaseConcerns 8. September 1986Spätere Neudeutung

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Spätere Neudeutung · 8. September 1986 Geprüft

Spätestens im September 1986 behandelte Erwachet! psychische Erkrankungen als eine Krankheit der Hirnchemie, beschrieb antipsychotische Medikamente als wirksame Behandlung und fragte: „Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts?“ Source: Awake!, 8. September 1986

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Awake!, “Mental Illness—Is There a Cure?”

8. September 1986 · pp.6-10 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts? Antipsychotic drugs are not addictive, do not make patients high, and are not taken for pleasure.”

Part of an issue-length treatment headed 'Taking the Mystery out of Mental Illness'. It follows a woman through electroshock therapy, hospitalisation and antipsychotic medication, quotes NIMH researchers, treats schizophrenia as a disease of brain chemistry, and cautions against 'sensational claims' for alternative treatments including orthomolecular psychiatry.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Awake!, Mental Illness—Is There a Cure?

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Full article read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the quoted paragraph on page 7.

Notes. Eleven years earlier the same publisher had told readers to scrutinise any treatment a psychiatrist recommended (Questions From Readers, 15 April 1975).

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-hlth-g-1986-0908-mental-illness-cure

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