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To: frodolives
"I'm simply overwhelmed at the christian compassion that is expressed here. Sigh. So typical.

Face it, like Yates, here is an over religious, overcontrolling (the 8 year old can't play in his own neighborhood?), psychotic woman left in charge of helpless children. and Daddy SLEPT through this? Sure. Lock 'em both up. Medicate her and slap some sense into him."

Well, you could be right, but I don't see all that much to support that point of view, either. It's early days yet, and there's much of the story still to emerge. I suppose we'll find out more in the next few days.

I did do a search on Google, and discovered that many Assembly of God ministers advise against the use of psychiatric drugs. It's possible that this church was on which discouraged such use. It's also possible that the use of such drugs might well have saved the lives of these children.

Again, time will tell.
56 posted on 05/12/2003 1:55:56 PM PDT by MineralMan
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To: MineralMan
I did do a search on Google, and discovered that many Assembly of God ministers advise against the use of psychiatric drugs. It's possible that this church was on which discouraged such use. It's also possible that the use of such drugs might well have saved the lives of these children.

Yep.

There's a tremendous amount of stupidity floating around about antidepressants, and about other psychiatric drugs (and interesting that my old friend "Mabelkitty" as usual is insatiable in her desire to find idiotic positions to support). One interesting thing is that a fanatical crusade against psychiatric meds is a common element of fringe religious groups all the way from some fundie Christians to nutballs like the Scientologists.

I bet if you looked into the statistics, people on heart medication are far more likely to die of heart attacks.

Ergo, isn't it clear that heart medication causes heart attacks?

The rabid anti-antidepressant lobby follows this logic. Unfortunately, people with psychotic problems may not have those problems recognized early enough, and they'll be started off with antidepressants, do something violent and horrible, and the antidepressants will be blamed (when in reality the problem was the person should have been on powerful ANTIPSYCHOTIC drugs).

This woman is clearly insane, likely due to a chemical inbalance. She wasn't responsible for her actions.

People are very resistant to thinking about the chemical functioning of their brains. With a fundamental chemical problem like this your free will is gone.

She still needs to be locked up in a facility for the criminally insane for the rest of her life, though.

80 posted on 05/12/2003 3:55:14 PM PDT by John H K
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