October 5th is National Depression Screening Day. I'm already feeling depressed. But instead of reaching for a pill, I'm reaching for the truth about who is causing this alleged international epidemic. You can find out for yourself at http://www.signsofsuicide.org exactly who is behind National Depression Screening Day.
People do sometimes suffer from physical illnesses or spiritual distress, which causes the symptoms that are falsely termed "mental illness". That's what sanitariums were originally set up for - A small percentage of people do need this kind of help and should have the right kind of help. I have helped many people and many have helped me. There are groups that help others. Look at all of the volunteers on Sept. 11th, for example. Yet some groups actually pretend to provide help but actually do harm to others or take advantage of others for their own gain.
We've all been told from various sources that we must face life head-on. Well, it seems to be true. The truth shall set you free. But free from what? Ignorance. Keeping others ignorant throughout history has made them very easy to control.
All of us face daily stress. All of us have experienced feelings of depression at some point in time. You lose a pet, a job, a friend, a spouse or partner. It makes sense to feel sad under those circumstances. If you're human, you have human emotions and reactions to things. Just getting up in the morning and facing a workday can be stressful, especially with corporate downsizing, skyrocketing gas prices, our nation at war. Fear surrounds us with the constant bombardment of impending threats of terrorist orange alerts in our cities; fear that our children may be shot in public school, fear for our financial security and that of our children.
Do you feel depressed yet? Well, that's a good sign. You suffer from being human and alive with emotion. You should talk to your friends and family about how you feel and come up with ways to handle things in your lives so you all are happier. After all, you undoubtedly have many things right in your life. Have you looked at all of the right things about yourself lately? You must have done something right to be alive and still going.
Lesson Plan: Part One: I've been an educator. Today's lesson is in learning the truth about how you're being betrayed by psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. You may react with anger, grief, hostility. Good! You're human.
No one can deny that people suffer from spiritual or physical distress, but symptoms do not a mental illness make. In fact, studies done for the State of California in the early '80's showed that the majority of psychiatric symptoms were caused by underlying real physical illnesses that were never properly diagnosed.
Fact 1: The American Psychiatric Association votes on manufactured mental disorders at their annual convention, by a show of hands and by who can shout the loudest.
Fact 2: Dr. Steven Sharfstein, Psychiatrist and President of the American Psychiatric Association, was quoted in the National Journal in May 2006 as stating, "There is no laboratory test that establishes a specific diagnosis." Dr. Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard Medical School stated on the Today Show in June 2005, in response to a question about whether psychiatric drugs work by helping brain chemistry, he said, "Well, we don't know that. It's never been proven."
Fact 3: Psychotropic drugs cause chemical imbalances in the brain that are irreversible.
Fact 4: The Food and Drug Administration has ordered a "black box warning" on antidepressant drugs, stating they can cause suicidal thoughts, suicide, and violence. The listed side effects of many of these drugs include depression, headaches, hallucinations, and more.
Fact 5: The majority of public school shootings are perpetrated by students on psychotropic drugs.
Fact 6: Screening for Mental Health, Inc., the organizer of National Mental Health Screening Day, is funded by Lilly, Pfizer, Solvay, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth, Forest Labs, AstraZeneca, and GSK who all make psychotropic drugs. You can find this corporation's tax records at http://www.signsofsuicide.org
Fact 7: TeenScreen, a fraudulent suicide prevention program was started by Dr. David Shaffer, Psychiatrist and Executive Director of Columbia DISC Development Group (Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children). Shaffer has accepted money from Hoffman la Roche, Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline. His DISC group has accepted money from Pfizer, Roche, Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline. Shaffer's TeenScreen has also partnered with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), which is funded by Wyeth, Novartis, and Eli Lilly to name just a few. Go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html
Part Two: 1. If you, a child or family member are under the care of a psychiatrist or on any psychotropic medication, find a competent medical doctor for real medical help to safely get off of the drugs. Demand medical tests from a competent medical doctor and dentist to search out hidden diseases, infections, bacteria, environmental poisoning that may be causing you to feel depressed. Physically ill people feel depressed.
2. Decide that you want to live and be healthy and know that you are not alone and can get competent care.
Laura Doreson has over two decades of experience as a freelance private tutor, teacher, instructor and home school teacher. She has trained hundreds of professional educators, doctors, parents and children in how to read and study for application.
People such as yourself should go to the website http://www.margotkidder.com/a&e.shtml and read the her assesment of A&E and the people that don't understand mental diseases and don't care.
Part 2 is always done before a diagnosis can be performed which, if done correctly, is done by a group of QUALIFIED general practitioners, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, endocrinologists, internal medicine specialists and gastroenterologists. Then a diagnosis can begin to be determined and treatment starts. QUALIFIED psychiatrists would have their doctorate in general practice, psychology, enough neurology to pass the neurological board exams, psycho-pharmacology and understand what part of the brain is affected by various chemical neurotransmitters, endocrinology and how the glands and brain function together. Quality university programs are rare today. Good mentors are even more rare because of the push for a quick solution and a fast buck.
Most psychiatrists don't get to this level of competence today because of incompetence of the masses that don't have the time to bother with the physiological aspects of the human brain, just as teachers today create cogs for the work force that regurgitate answers and tell their students what to think, rather than teaching students how to problem solve and derive the answers and learn how to think. Current curriculum is managed misinformation and school's most important function is baby-sitting.
There are very serious neurological and endocrine diseases that were very well documented long before large pharmaceutical corporations existed with their "solution in a pill". Some of today's technology can identify that there is a problem in the brain using real time scans of electrical activity of the brain as well as cognition and perception tests that are much more advanced than the old ink blot test. Do you know a person that is schizophrenic, rapid bipolar, epileptic, severely affected with post traumatic stress, OCD, anorexic, bulimic, self mutilation...?
To some, visual reality can look like a Van Gough painting, visualize hallucinations while awake, hear suggestive voices from others or themselves, believe they can read minds over vast distances of several hundred miles. People that don't understand and show as little empathy for those that have these problems such as yourself should keep your thoughts on the subject to yourself.
Pharmaceutical companies have invaded universities, just as other corporate sponsorships have done and dumbed down what used to be an higher level of learning. Most are nothing more than the churned out cogs that they have been set out to become by the educational system in this country. A dietician at one time had to learn a great deal of organic chemistry and physiology of all of the tissue types in all of the organs and serve two years in an internship at qualified hospital. No dieticians today go through this today to get their piece of paper.
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Jim Reinhart (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 60 comments)
on Monday, October 2, 2006 at 5:49:25 PM
I notice that you didn't provide any proof or logic of your statement, just trying to through some mud and hope it sticks.
Maybe the days when psychiatrists can pretend to know everything while accomplishing nothing are over.
She's right. Maybe she didn't even carry it far enough. Do you realize that not one "mental illness" out of the 300+ in the DSM has been verified as an actual illness. Not one.
So we're left with a certainty that psychiatrists are good at listing and categorizing symptoms. Yet there is no science beyond that, and their treatments are dangerous and deadly. And you stand up for them? What do you have to gain?
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Gary L. Krupp (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Monday, October 2, 2006 at 9:06:54 PM
It is clear that there is a major difference in pushing pills by the medical community as a whole by people calling themselves physicians or psychiatrists that have no qualifications other than following procedure compared to the practice of medical specialists.
In psychiatry, professionals have identified the areas of the brain for perception, cognition and motor function as well as function of the glands and their chemical effects on behavior. For people that have never been to an institution of abnormal behavior or known a good friend that got sick with a behavioral or neuro-muscular disease the discussion would be pointless. It would be like trying to tell a person that has been blind all of their life and doesn't want to make the effort to when given the option, what the color purple looks like. There are many people with no empathy that like to sweep the major problems out of their sight so they don't have to think about what they are seeing, which is what was done in the original statement (institutions for spiritually diseased?).
I have seen a couple of high school friends that becomes schizophrenic in their early adulthood, watched a friend commit suicide because he was rapid bipolar, watched people go through a grand mal epileptic seizure and am living through one of these diseases for many years. I've visited the institutions where no one visits, I've spent several hundred hours in old people's critical care homes taking care of my family members and talking with others as their minds eventually no longer functioned and few ever visit, I've been to funerals of those that I loved that died in my arms that did not know who I was or didn't know who they were at the end of their life.
I've worked in medical insurance since '78. HIAA, ICD, CPT and DSM are quick and dirty guides for most diagnosis and procedures. The entire medical establishment are driven by these books and not just mental health. For people that want quick answers to feeling down, go to a pill pusher.
For people that are very seriously mentally ill, there are people that have had 12-16 years of medical schooling that are using real time brain scanning technology to see moving pictures of the electrical, heat and chemical activity during thought processes and muscular activity in the various parts of the brain and consistently identify people that are truly depressed vs. just having a few bad days. There are other functions performed such as identifying problem areas specific to memory and neuromuscular disorders. Entire research teams of specialists at qualified universities continue to make great advances and these also include Alzheimer's, post traumatic stress due to physical or situational induced injury, neuromuscular diseases, Lou Gehrig's disease as well as abnormal behavior.
Belittling the horrors of the depths of what goes on in the mind of the severely depressed, bipolar, PTSD, anorexia, Alzheimer's and other mental disorders is uncivilized behavior. It is easy to see how a bill like HR: 6166 could pass as once again, out of site, out of mind, regardless of the reality that most detainees that have been caught and tortured have been released. Over 18000 still remain in gulags around the world and almost all without charges.
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Jim Reinhart (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 60 comments)
on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 12:20:51 AM
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