Posted on 08/06/2007 7:18:11 AM PDT by Lennyq
This thread was just fine until you arrived with your profanity ... they’re waiting for you over at DU; that’s more up your posting alley.
We try to use more substantive posts here.
Despite all the scientology discussion on this thread (of which I am a part!), I do agree with you. Kids are way over diagnosed and way over medicated and someday we may very well find out we did some serious harm to a lot of people with these psychotropic drugs applied to growing young bodies.
School shooters on Ritalin et al come to mind (is it underlying problems that get these kids to this point, or the drugs they were taking for them?)...oh, and hearing the side effects descriptors - there’s just something not right about taking an antidepressant that can make you suicidal. ;)
Iowa, thanks for confirming what I thought was the case. I have MS and I can tell you that I suffer very real depression as a part of my MS. The chemical changes that this author scoffs at have been documented and verified. If I remember right these have also been shown on PET scans.
There is no doubt that ADHD, BiPolar and other diseases/syndromes are overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed. Too many parents are persuaded that their child needs Ritalin or other drugs to function normally. And whoever prescibes such drugs to a 4 year old should be tarred and feathered.
We should not forget there is a legitimate reason to prescribe drugs that treat depression, anxiety and mania. This has already happened with pain relievers such as Oxycontin. The drug itself is seen as a overwhelming force of evil and anyone who takes it as the devil’s servant. Self indulgent, weak, addicted, a menance to Society. Trouble in River City. Must be time to start a marching band.
What is the sound of one hand quacking?
“... if this author doesn’t believe in biochemical brain diseases, what mechanism does he suggest for the behavior of people who have demonstrable mental illnesses? Bad spirits? Dementors? Karma?”
Why he tells them the wonders of auditing and the truth about XENU. We will not overcome these ills until we have freed or is it captured our Body Thetans. Didn’t you know that???. Please see www.xenu.net for insight into itisnotonebitscientificology.
You’re not fooling anybody.
HAIL XENU
I knew there was something wrong with my bipolar son by the time he was two. Nobody believed me (except my husband) until he was in kindergarten.
Get a life. Discuss the merits or not of the article, but I have no time or patience for the type of BS you are spewing.
http://www.breggin.com/Joemccarthylives.html
Do you work for Eli Lilly or have any other connection in that direction ? Affiliated with the Church of Psychiatry, are you ?
I was commenting on Clam Digger’s statement regarding the ignorance of those who deny the existence of ADD, ADHD and bipolar disorder. I don’t really care about the rest.
HAIL XENU
HAIL XENU
HAIL XENU
You just keep pouring out the profound ignorance, jerk. That’s not my blog.
Get a clue, dope, you look incredibly stupid and clearly have a serious psychological disorder.
hc, thanks for the compliment.
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