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FaceKhan:
Re: Psych Crime-Ginger Well scientologists are not the only ones that think Psychiatry is perpetrating a fraud. Biological Psychiatry (ie. the theory that chemical inbalances cause behavior problems and emotional problems) has never been proven in any empirical study. The symptoms of such diseases as ADD, ADHD, ODD (oppositional defiant disorder, TBS programs favorite), and CD are so vauge that they can easily be applied to anyone, especially teenagers and children. The problem with these diseases is that they have never been proven, yet the mental health establishment keeps making lists of symptoms. If a medical doctor thinks he has discovered a new disease, he has to know not only the symptoms but he must find a physical cause and do empirical research to prove it. Psychiatrists have simply made a list of symptoms and called it a disease even though they have never proven that a disease exists or has some physical cause, as would have to be necesary if medication were to be used in controlling it.   Slavish discipline makes a slavish temper... If severity carry'd to the
highest pitch does prevail, and works a cure upon the present unruly
distemper, it often brings in the room of it a worse and more dangerous
disease, by breaking the mind; and then, in the place of a disorderly young
fellow, you have a low spirited moap'd creature, who, however with his
unnatural sobriety he may please silly people, who commend tame unactive
children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble; yet at
last, will probably prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he
will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others... Beating them,
and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the
discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise,
good, and ingenuous men...
John Locke, 1692

jetandra30:
Re: Psych Crime-Ginger I agree.  By the way, Thomas S. Szasz has a section for Jeffrey Schaler on his web page: www.enabling.org/ia/szasz/schaler/

He was the speaker and author of "addiction is a choice" at the conference. I really liked the things he had to say.

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was about 12 or 13 years old.  My parents told my pediatrician that my grades were slipping (from solid A's to A's and B's) and it didn't take him more than 30 seconds to diagnose me with ADD and prescribe me with Ritalin.  Now I write computer code all day without the help of any  SSRI?s (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) like Ritalin, meth, Adderol or Cocaine. Fortunately, I was only on Ritalin for a few months.  Also, how does one differentiate between clinical depression and well, depression?  

Straight also had the knack to diagnose me in about 30 seconds.  True genius!! I believe there?s such thing as actual professionals in the psych industry, but there are also plenty of charlatans like Miller out there as well. There?s also mass over-diagnosis of supposed "diseases" and over-prescription of very powerful drugs and dangerous drugs.

FaceKhan:
Re: Psych Crime-Ginger Clinical or Major Depression are when you are depressed for a long period of time signifying that it is a disease-like problem whereas regular depression is short term unhappiness, like after a death in the family or something like that. When a psychiatrist or psychologist diagnoses depression, it is major depression or clinical depression, they are both the same. If your dog dies and you feel sad for a few weeks, that is regular mourning and being depressed. If you feel that way for several months and it is interfering with your life, then it is major depression.


Biological psychiatry would have you believe that clinical depression is the result of a chemical imbalance that can be treated with "chemical balancers", like prozac, but therapy is a much better way of treating it and personally I think that the chemical imbalance is produced  because you feel unhappy, since many emotions are chemical signals interpreted by your brain, and not the cause of the depression itself.  


There are definitely quality people in mental health, the problem is that parents and society in general often wants a quick fix for their or their kid's problems. If you want therapy, go to a psychologist or a licensed therapist/counselor, if you want medication, go to a psychiatrist. Parents often choose the latter and expect him to give their kid medication, and if he does not think that is the best thing to do, parents find another doctor who will prescribe the drugs. The same goes with residential programs, the real drug rehab programs don't generally take teenagers unless they are doing hard drugs and are addicted, parents want their kids off drugs, regardless of whether they are addicted or not so they take them to a place that will take anyone and they are often scams. Since there is usually no addiction, how can the program claim to treat anything.     Slavish discipline makes a slavish temper... If severity carry'd to the
highest pitch does prevail, and works a cure upon the present unruly
distemper, it often brings in the room of it a worse and more dangerous
disease, by breaking the mind; and then, in the place of a disorderly young
fellow, you have a low spirited moap'd creature, who, however with his
unnatural sobriety he may please silly people, who commend tame unactive
children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble; yet at
last, will probably prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he
will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others... Beating them,
and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the
discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise,
good, and ingenuous men...
John Locke, 1692

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