| Not so long ago, the actor Tom Cruise
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| | foible or a peculiar penchant. This isn't
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| made a few pointed criticisms of
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| | to suggest that more extreme forms of
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| psychiatry on the Today Show and was
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| | aberrant behavior aren't an issue, it's
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| widely attacked for doing so. It seems
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| | just that the reach of psychiatry has
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| that anyone who speaks out publicly risks
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| | become rather like a huge drift net that
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| drawing the ire of the defenders of
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| | hauls in behavioral deviations in a
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| psychiatry. Hardly surprising. A great
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| | never-ending quest for new pathologies.
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| many families in the US and Canada have
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| | Cases can of course be made for
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| members who are receiving psychiatric
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| | medicating adults with severe behavioral
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| treatment, even if it happens to be one
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| | problems who are a danger to themselves
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| of the kids on a daily dose of Ritalin.
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| | and others. However the use of powerful
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| People who engage in criticism of the
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| | drugs to control children en masse is
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| profession are often accused of seeking
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| | worrisome.
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| revenge for negative experiences they
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| | Health professionals have suggested that
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| have had when under psychiatric care.
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| | diet could well be an important factor in
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| Their opinion is viewed as partisan and
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| | explaining the apparent increase in the
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| lacking in objectivity. So I should
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| | number of hyperactive children.
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| probably state at the outset, that I have
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| | Nutritional deficiencies can indeed give
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| never had any dealings with psychiatry
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| | rise to such behavior. Another factor
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| personally ... never been on any
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| | could be the child's domestic environment
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| psychiatric drugs ... and have nobody in
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| | - levels of anger and disruption to which
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| my immediate family who has been in
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| | the child is exposed.
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| psychiatric care. The criticisms laid out
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| | Psychiatry is often a short-cut and a
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| in this article are based on research and
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| | quick-fix that offers no real solution to
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| stem from a personal conviction that
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| | the root problem. Moreover this drugging
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| psychiatry as it is currently practiced,
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| | strategy will create its own set of
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| especially in relation to drug use, has
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| | problems in the future because once a
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| inherent dangers that should absolutely
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| | child's developmental processes have been
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| be addressed.
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| | interfered with like this, all bets are
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| Psychiatry is big business.The profession
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| | off with respect to long term outcomes.
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| is hand-in-glove with the pharmaceutical
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| | The APA provides a brief article that
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| industry and there are a great many
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| | supposedly clarifies the issue of how
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| connections, financial and professional,
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| | simple anti-social behavior shades into
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| that link the two bodies. Their combined
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| | dysfunction, and in most cases individual
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| lobbying power and influence is enormous.
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| | psychiatrists decide which labels to
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| They aren't likely to undertake
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| | apply in an ad hoc fashion based on such
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| substantive change in response to
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| | sketchy guidelines. It has become a bit
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| criticism when increasing numbers of
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| | of a medical sham, and they get away with
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| citizens are being funneled into their
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| | making it up as they go along because the
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| facilities and drug regimens, feeding the
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| | average person lacks both time, knowledge
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| ever-expanding cash cow that the industry
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| | and inclination to demand more detailed
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| and its subsidiaries has become.
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| | information.
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| Over six million children in the US are
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| | The ongoing invention of ever-new
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| on drugs that control the symptoms of
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| | disorders and accompanying labels, has
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| so-called Attention Deficit Disorder -
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| | more to do with money and social control,
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| ADD. There are millions of kids on
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| | than it has with health. The APA's
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| anti-depressant and anti-psychotic drugs.
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| | ever-expanding Diagnostic and Statistical
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| Despite the clinical hype surrounding
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| | Manual of Mental Disorders, has increased
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| these drugs, the actual clinical methods
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| | the scope of psychiatrists to label and
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| employed for diagnosis are bogus to
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| | drug people based on guidelines that fall
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| non-existent. For the most part the
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| | short of scientific standards.
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| average psychiatrist bases his/her
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| | In general terms, the criteria used by
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| clinical assessments on guidelines that
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| | psychiatry to gauge dysfunctional
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| support the preconceptions and prejudices
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| | behavior, relates to the ways in which
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| of the profession.
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| | individual behavior diverges from
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| There is absolutely no basis for
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| | majority, or communal behavior. While
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| describing ADD or ADHD as "a disease",
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| | psychiatrists don't like to view it this
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| because psychiatry cannot establish any
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| | way, the profession is in fact a powerful
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| clinical data that offers a clear
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| | tool of social control and has often been
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| biological cause for this behavior
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| | used against people who are regarded as a
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| across-the- board. Clinical jargon to
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| | threat to the status quo. Many
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| justify their efforts to render
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| | psychiatric patients for example believe
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| non-conformist behavior "pathological",
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| | they have been "pathologized" for simply
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| is a long way from proving ADD is a
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| | acting in a manner that is outside the
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| disease.
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| | norm.
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| In order to establish a scientific basis
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| | The clinical misrepresentations of
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| for labeling a behavioral trait "a
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| | psychiatry are most evident in
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| disease", you have to first observe the
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| | exaggerated descriptions of the efficacy
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| identical set of symptoms in others.
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| | of drugs and the tendency to minimize
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| Empirical research is then conducted in a
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| | information relating to negative
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| controlled setting in order to seek the
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| | side-effects. For example, claims that
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| cause - be it a toxin, virus or other
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| | drugs "cure" chemical imbalances is
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| pathogen. The remedy found doesn't merely
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| | inaccurate. More often than not they
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| mask the condition, but provides a cure.
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| | create a whole host of secondary symptoms
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| Psychiatric diagnostics not only fail to
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| | that mask the original condition. Just
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| meet scientific standards of inquiry, but
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| | because a person ceases to act-out and
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| the psychiatric drugs that have deluged
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| | becomes zombie-like and compliant, is not
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| our society offer no cure. They merely
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| | indicative of a cure.
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| mask symptoms and control people who have
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| | There is also a political/financial
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| been labeled as "schizophrenic",
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| | aspect to all of this that users of
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| "psychotic" or "hyper".
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| | psychiatry need to be aware of. The
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| It is unethical to mass label children as
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| | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
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| ADD or ADHD afflicted, and then proceed
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| | Mental Disorders isn't merely a user's
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| to drug these children into passive
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| | guide to the latest dysfunction, it is
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| compliance ... in some cases into a
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| | also a tool that enables psychiatrists
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| vegetative state. Such "troublesome" kids
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| | and pharmaceutical companies to line
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| were once called brats or rascals, and
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| | their pockets.
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| were often admired by their peers. Their
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| | DMS data was used to coerce insurance
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| highly individualistic behavior in times
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| | companies to come up with so-called "full
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| past wasn't viewed as a psychiatric
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| | coverage" that lists many of the
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| condition, but rather behavior that could
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| | debatable mental conditions cited by
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| potentially be channeled into prowess;
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| | psychiatry. There is no possible way you
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| enable them to show heroism on the
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| | can equate a genuine disease, say
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| battlefield or scale a high mountain.
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| | diabetes, with some phobia or quirk
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| If you look back at the childhood
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| | deemed to be "an illness", and yet in the
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| histories of a lot of the great action
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| | past insurance companies have been
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| figures of history, you will find that as
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| | required to cough up big bucks to cover
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| kids they often exhibited traits that got
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| | claims for all sorts of oddball
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| them into trouble. If these people had
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| | conditions that according to psychiatry,
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| been drugged when they were children,
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| | require treatment.
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| made compliant and passive-receptive, it
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| | Aside from these clinical and political
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| is extremely doubtful that they would
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| | considerations, the actual profession
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| have ever made their mark on history.
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| | itself has in-house problems. Everything
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| The truth behind this psychiatric
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| | from fraudulent billing schemes to abuse
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| labeling of children, is that our very
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| | of patients. It is estimated that in the
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| humanity and distinctiveness as
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| | US alone, some 150,000 women have been
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| individuals has become the target of a
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| | sexually exploited by psychiatrists.
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| profession that tries to pathologize
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| | Psychiatry is host to a lot of the above
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| every quirk and peculiarity, so as to
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| | problems because you have practitioners
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| come up with a label they can then front
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| | vested with a great deal of power working
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| as a new syndrome or disease. Needless to
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| | with vulnerable and suggestible people
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| say new syndromes will create the need
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| | who are easily manipulated. Even if only
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| for even more drugs and add to the
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| | a minority of psychiatrists engage in
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| growing wealth of the psych/pharma
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| | overt criminal activities, the damage
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| conglomerate.
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| | nonetheless has widely felt
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| The APA's Diagnostic and Statistical
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| | repercussions.
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| Manual of Mental Disorders, presents
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| | Organizations such as the Citizens
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| itself as scientific, when nothing could
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| | Commission on Human Rights and the World
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| be further from the truth. It basically
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| | Network of Users and Survivors of
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| compiles a list of conditions that they
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| | Psychiatry have pertinent stats and
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| try to typify as a lapse from some
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| | information relating to many of the
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| hypothetical mental health norm, and so
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| | issues raised in this article.
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| potentially a psychiatric condition
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| | Given the record of psychiatry and the
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| worthy of a new label.
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| | dangers it ironically poses to
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| The SMD has included "conditions" such as
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| | psychological and emotional health, it
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| ... feeling angry, difficulty with
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| | was frankly astounding that Tom Cruise
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| reading, bad handwriting, inability to do
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| | was made the target of so much criticism.
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| math, fear of flying, coffee phobia ...
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| | It is often the case that people react
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| in the list of potential disorders. They
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| | this way when they sense there is in fact
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| attempt to attach symptoms to these
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| | a problem, but have no inclination to
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| conditions, with the aim of coming up
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| | deal with it. The whistle blower in such
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| with yet more labels.
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| | a case will always come under attack
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| Human nature itself has become the
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| | because let's face it, given our crazy
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| stalking ground of a profession that
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| | world these days, people live with the
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| seeks to make money by discovering
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| | expectation that at some point they too
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| pathology, where formerly there was
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| | may need those meds one day.
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| simply an eccentric trait, a charming
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