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This is scary and I am afraid we'll see more and more such things.

I am sure you all followed the situation of Jessica Pelletier, who was put into a psychiatric ward, because doctors wouldn't recognize her mitochondrial disease, even though she was previously diagnosed and treated for that. I think if it hadn't been for the media publicity -- such as Huckaby, she may have ended up like the poor guy in this article...

1 posted on 07/13/2014 11:33:56 PM PDT by Innovative
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Oops — it’s Justina Pelletier — I think the sister is Jessica.

Justina Pelletier Retells Hospital Horror Story: Forced to Stay but Told Her Rare Disease Was All in Her Head

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/29/Justina-Pelletier-Describes-Traumatic-Ordeal-Of-State-Keeping-Her-From-Parents


2 posted on 07/13/2014 11:35:34 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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media publicity -- such as Huckaby

The local media heat came from Howie Carr. Nobody in Mass politics pays attention to national media.

3 posted on 07/13/2014 11:39:23 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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Here is my theory: Doctors are too ready to prescribe meds to someone who is experiencing normal situational depression (death of a family member, loss of a job, etc.) They get them hooked on the pharmaceutical highway, and after that the person is forever messed up with or without the “meds” or worse.


4 posted on 07/13/2014 11:50:50 PM PDT by KJC1 (When you are dealing with the devil, the only answer is God.)
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It IS scary. A bureaucrat could determine you are mentally unfit, for example, if you do not celebrate homosexuality. Then you disappear.


5 posted on 07/13/2014 11:51:26 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro.)
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I’m surprised since so many have problems trying to get violent psychotics institutionalized


6 posted on 07/13/2014 11:53:16 PM PDT by RginTN
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More info:

http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/man-sues-regional-center-says-misdiagnosis-kept-him-locked-up/article_9b4857c6-fb5d-5759-8625-9aed42023d43.html


7 posted on 07/13/2014 11:53:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Confined 20 years to a mental facility DESPITE being cleared in criminal court, freed only after his lawyer could convince a head shrinker with a brain to READ THE F’N TRANSCRIPT instead of only the initial police report. OMG


13 posted on 07/14/2014 2:05:07 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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So Obama is apparently taking the same back medicine.


14 posted on 07/14/2014 2:17:07 AM PDT by maddog55 (A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.)
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The Business Socialist crowd (who supports government protecting business at any cost) will not like this....but this guy should sue the facility....and every person involved...until they are bankrupt


15 posted on 07/14/2014 2:29:55 AM PDT by DisorderOnBorder (They are Illegal Aliens...not immigrants)
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Well, at least he had free healthcare for 20 years. /s


19 posted on 07/14/2014 3:15:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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Where’s Yossarian?

If you say you’re not delusional, it proves your delusional.


20 posted on 07/14/2014 3:24:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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The shrink-doctors & psychologists are worse, on average, than ordinary MDs.


22 posted on 07/14/2014 4:29:19 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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The “patent” didn’t understand that he was a “cash cow” for that agency and his release would have impacted on their budget.

Nothing to see here....move along.


25 posted on 07/14/2014 5:14:26 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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