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The Edge Effect by Bruce Scali and Eric R. Braveman, M.D. has some current ideas on the various neurotransmitter systms in the brain how to diagnose problems with them and strengthen them. Dr. Braverman is one for whom S.S.R.I. drugs would be one option, part of the arsenal. 

The fix in Psychiatry, the Universities, the Media and the FDA is the problem. Drugs per se are not the problem.

They certainly knew about the importance of B-Vitamins for brain health in the 1970s. Yet psychiatry remained the sole province of Drugs, Shock and Psychosurgery from then upto now. In their published Official Medical Protocols for Diagnosis and Pharmaceutical Therapy, B-Vitamins, aminoacids, and neurological antioxidants were not ever added to the chemical treatments in their arsenal - in a Twilight Zone manipulation of reality only new patented drugs are spoken of as being relevent to this topic - and that is seen in articles from Ivy Leage sources such as Harvard (Motto: Veritas.)

The documentary Hurry Tomorrow (www richardcohenfilms.com/hurry_tomorrow.htm) filmed inside a Locked Ward in 1972 shows what Psychiatry is. 

David Ingleby's Critical Psychiatry describes Psychoanalysis for the Wealthy, Drugs and Shock for the Poor. Now what we have is Asylum Medicine for All.  The Asylum patients may have been deinstitutionlized... yet now we have Head Doctor and Nurse Ratched with all the country within their purview.

In We Become Silent narrated by Dame Judi Dench, we see the FDA Director asked why a dangerous drug was approved while a related non-dangerous, amino acid supplement Tryptophan (a Serotonin precursor) was banned. The director speaks about how the supplements are not certified safe - and then he stops the camera.

psychetruth Dr. Breeding  Laws are being pushed in the US and the UK which allow people to be institutionalized without having committed a crime. Are we headed to a totalitarian state? What's the role that big pharma is playing?

 

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The Mother's Act was slipped into to the Health Bill and so passed. This means many more pregnant women are to be drugged with chlorinated and fluorinated SSRI drugs which throw a monkey wrench into serotonin reuptake as their mode of action. Pregnant women will not receive more B-6 and DHA Omega 3 - medical science and human welfare are Not of interest to the crafters of this crime against humanity. More babies will be born dead or in need of immeiate open heart surgery. Women will be made suicidal and psychotic from the toxic drugging. Sales will increase and the nation will be weakened.

Though SSRI drugs have a place in treatment of adults whose serotonin systems are very feeble (analogous to Aricept for Alzheimer's) this is unrelated to the mass drugging campaign of the profiteers. MindFreedom's stance of wanting Psychiatry and NAMI to be nice and offer informed concent, choices, consummer voice, and alternatives is inadequate and unrealistic. The drug dealers have just spent 9 years and millions of dollars to lie and manipulate the Mother's Act into place -- showing zero human concience as to infants killed and maimed.

My letter to the Senate has excellent references to medical knowledge about post-partum dpression nd pregnacy. Such bonifide medical practice will have no place in the "Psychiatry" version being perpetrated.  http:// psychracket.blogspot.com  

Mother's medical need for Omega-3, Zinc, B-Vitamins and Vitamin C.

"The Boston Globe reports that 2/3 of children in state care in Massachusetts are being "treated" for mental illness with psychotropic drugs."{google - Teen Screen  BMJ  Jeanne Lenzer}

     "Soviet psychiatry was used primarily as a political tool to control dissident adults: psychotropic drugs were used to punish political dissidents and others the government deemed to be "troublemakers." American psychiatry is more ambitious than Soviet psychiatry ever was. US psychiatrists collaborate with government agencies by providing a seal of approval for involuntary "treatment" of persons loosely deemed to have a "mental disorder", or to be unruly. US psychiatrists also collaborate in the formulation of state-sponsored mental health policies--such as, "screening for mental illness"--initiatives which primarily target children.

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Peter Barry Chowka,  In the late 1800s the arts of healing and the practice of medicine were extremely diverse.  As many of you know, this democratic system came to a screeching halt shortly after the publication of the Flexner Report in 1910.

Drug agents are given to teens, elderly, pregnant and nursing women (See, Amy Phlo), etc. at the maximum volumn of sales. This requires the oppression of knowledge on how to scientifically treat.  Biochemical Science soared in the 1900s. Biochemical Individuality was published by Dr. Roger Williams in 1956. As with the Herbalists crushed by the Medical Monopoly now Rogers from a new standpoint told how each person's condition calls for tailored treatment using chemicals not foreign to the body. Their OWN doctors were now in effect recreating a health restorative approach. This no more fit in with their plans than had Herbal Medicine 50 years before.

In psychiatry the advance was named "Orthomolecular," chemical tests and treatments for chemical imbalances.  By 1970 it was a success -  the same time that "antipsychotic meds" (Vera Sharav antipsychotics) and Ritalin had demontrated the money in P$ychopharmacology. The APA created a (fake) independent Report which declared OrthoMed totally wrong, for all time.  (see, Hoffer Osmond Reply)

If Dr. Janet Wozniak insisted that infants have "the disease" of "Bipolar" yet instead of this being the pretext to drug children advised Vitamin C, Magnesium and Omega 3, then it would be a different world. Involuntary Treatment - if they used scientific Medicine instead of this ersatz drug syndicate travesty medicine then it would at least be involuntarily helping.   Dr. Judith Rapoport propagandizes on the Real "single" "diseases" of ADHD and Schizophrenia. (See - Kids yield brain clues Rapoport. Note: the scientific brain scans were years after drugging started) Vera Sharav writes, “Drug manufacturers are hardly the only ones to blame — American children are being victimized by a consortium of influential psychiatrists at prestigious academic institutions.”

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