I am quite informed - more than you could possibly know - but I take nothing at face value and little from those with an obvious agenda to loosen my wallet with half-lies, innuendos, and a religious belief antithetical to my own.
I haven't a clue or a care if you are indeed involved with the Church of Scientology, but you certainly use their talking points and raise the opinion of one of their consultants over those of the rest of the medical world.
Why am I on this thread? I wasn't aware I needed permission to be on any certain thread. I am learning as I read - learning quite a bit to be honest with you.
You think that this is about Scientology ? No, that was introduced by someone else who wished to throw a red herring. And no, I have no connection to scientology, nor have I ever had such. I am simply someone who is very concerned over any government’s or society’s use of psychiatry for behavior control.
You may as well say that anyone who does not ascribe to every practice of Western medicine has kooky beliefs with no validity. Sorry, you are wrong. I guess it confounds you that all the doctors were pushing HRT until last year, then they reversed course 180 deg and said it was bad for women. How did that square with your belief that your doctor is always right ?
Nor are these “beliefs” - I have asked several people to show me the science where doctors or researchers understand the optimum range and ratio of brain chemicals, and how to adjust them to eliminate problems. No one can - there is no such level of scientific understanding at this time. Is it coming ? Maybe, but it’s not there now no matter what psychiatry’d like you to believe.
You can do all the PET scans and MRIs and whatever other tests you want, but if you perform them on people who are not drug-naive and you don’t know what a “normal” brain looks like, then you have no settled science.
Additionally, what is normal ? Define that for me, please. If we look at the PET scans of 2 brains, can a researcher tell which one is abnormal, in what way, and the exact adjustment of which chemicals ? No, they can’t. Would Einstein or Bill Gates or John D. Rockefeller be considered “normal” or “abnormal” ? We simply do not have that information, and frankly I hope we never do.
Who do you want to play God to say this person is OK and this one needs to be “altered” ? Did you like it when Teri Schiavo was declared by a court to be killed because in current definition she was brain-dead, whereas we’ve had 2 cases since where people diagnosed by doctors with the same type of impairment came out of their comas ? Frankly, I don’t want to live in a society where doctors decide if you are normal or conforming. Do you ?
Why do you think that the environment is OK and people must be sliced and diced to fit that environment ? We are humans - we have or should have choices. That’s what individualism and self-responsibility are all about. Now that we have a nanny society, everybody gets to decide whether we are conforming. No thanks.
I don’t care whether you agree with me or not, nor am I shocked. The majority of people in this country believe what they are told without investigating anything on their own. It’s what we’re taught in school, after all - the teacher is always correct and don’t argue. Some of us never succumb.
I made reference to the controversy over human causes of global warming; the same thing applies here. All the liberals and socialists are busy telling us that there is a consensus on the science, when if we listen and look around and read alternative media, we know there is no such thing.
The same is true in medicine. Treatments for all kinds of illnesses and disorders change all the time because more is known every year. It’s just that in this case, like for global warming, the practices of psychiatry are not based on current science.