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Euthanasia for mental health reasons, although far from hot, rising in...
13 people with psychiatric diagnoses had “assisted suicides” in the Netherlands last year. According to the story in Dutch News 13 psychiatric patients were helped to die last year. Failing at suicide...
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Iatrogenic Damage As Treatment
Despite attempts to dismiss and discredit his contribution, psychiatrist RD Laing’s position in the pantheon of twentieth century thinkers is relatively secure. I was reading recently where somebody...
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Undemonizing The Little Monsters
My view is that we simply shouldn’t saddle children with psychiatric labels. Why? The reasons are multiple. Labeled children grow up to be labeled adults, label A often comes with label B and label C...
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A Little Bit of Discretion, Please
Bad advice remains bad advice. Bad parents are gullible parents. Skepticism, given the amount of nonsense floating about in the world today, is a virtue. Are you dealing with Turbulent teens or mental...
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Mutants are taking over? Really? You think…
Psychiatry is full of it, and some of the latest “discoveries” in the field indicate just how full of it psychiatry happens to be. Take this report, New Genetic Mutations May Keep Some Mental Disorders...
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On The Need For Resisting Corporate Rule And Plutocracy
A radio interview with psychologist Michael Cornwall sent me to wikipedia to look up ‘glass ceiling‘ after he referred to his own mad experience as meeting such a ‘glass ceiling’ for late adolescents...
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Just Wait Until “Adult ADHD” Rates Catch Up
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rates are going up. Hardly a shocking finding. If you invent a disease, disease rates are likely to go up rather than down without an effective way to...
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Harmful Psychiatric Drug Use Highest In Southern States
The magazine is Health, and the article screams out, Psychiatric Drugs More Often Prescribed in the South. Living in a southern state, and knowing what this part of the country is like, this somewhat...
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The Current Crop Of Whoppers On Capitol Hill
The vote on a bill to restrict the Second Amendment rights of people in America is described as still “too close to call”. The story, as reported in FloridaToday.com, goes under the heading,...
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The Evolution Revolution
Forced treatment is the big secret in the mental health “care” world today. Once upon a time, not that long ago, there was only one form of mental health treatment available, and that was it. The...
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Crazy Is The Coming Psychiatric Police State
If you’ve been watching the news recently you should be able to see it coming. By it, I mean the Psychiatric Police State. The Psychiatric Police State is, partnering with Hollywood, President Obama’s...
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Reflections On The President’s Mental Health Conference From A Grateful...
President Barack Obama didn’t have a hare’s chance in hell of enacting legislation to ban assault rifles. He ran his second presidential election campaign on making a scapegoat out of people in the...
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Mental Health Treatment Is Not Gun Control
The drug industry mental health system propaganda machine is working overtime churning out statistics such as only 40 % of the people in need of mental health treatment are receiving it. These...
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Television Broadcaster ‘Off His Meds’?
NBC newscaster Brian Williams has been making irrational claims about Cleveland multiple kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro. Brian Williams suggested Ariel Castro had a “mental illness”. Could it be...
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A Disorder Is Manufactured
One of the most obvious and pervasive examples of the fraudulent medicalizing of everyday life can be seen in the pathologizing of childhood through the historically recent invention of the attention...
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Some Awarenesses We’d Do Better To Live Without
A local mental health, oops, wrong word. A local “mental illness” system advocacy group, the Mental Health Coalition of North Central Florida, is going to have their own little NAMIfied shindig. They...
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“Mental illness”, the belief
Among the major tenets of the Church of Biological Psychiatry is the belief, for there is no evidence supporting the claim, that what is commonly referred to as “mental illness” is an actual disease....
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The Adult Baby Sitting AKA Mental Health Treatment Business
Adult baby sitting is big business. It is a business that goes by the name of mental health treatment. For adult baby sitting to thrive there are three requirements: 1. that some adults are assumed...
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The Coming Plague
I have a friend who spends much of his time traveling in Asia. He is a psychiatric survivor, and he says he prefers Asia to the USA precisely because people are not going on and on about “mental...
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The Three Babbles of Mind Brain Research
Back in 1973, the late Dr. Thomas S. Szasz published a slim volume of aphorisms and sayings under the title The Second Sin. The title of this book referred a parable found in the Old Testament. This...
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