Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And the way to get more people healthier is to push more drug ads, to mandate more vaccinations and require more "mental health screening" of schoolchildren, just in case they might need ADHD drugs.
Sound insane? It is. And don't believe for a minute that modern medicine is based on anything resembling real science. The science was abandoned decades ago. All that's left today is an empty shell of a medical system that claims to treat patients but really just uses them as profit-generating machines to enrich some of the wealthiest corporations in the world: the drug companies. |
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 Diabetes rates would plummet, mental health would greatly improve, birth defects would be sharply reduced and, most of all, the national health care bill would be slashed to a fraction of current costs.
And that, of course, is exactly why these ideas can never be allowed to pass. The profit-minded medical industry would lose billions. Hundreds of thousands of people who depend on the continuation of disease to provide job security would find themselves out of work. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The President's new Freedom Commission on mental health launched the notion of Teen Screen.
Mike: Which is mandatory mental health screening, right?
Dr. Baughman: Yes. I think Illinois already passed it and made it law. They are not asking parents whether or not they want their kids screened. This is Big Brother to the max. This is worse than anything Stalin could have imagined. This population had better wake up; the implications go far beyond the drugging of our normal school children.
Mike: That leads me to my final question: How does all of this ever end? How does this return to normal? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Imagine mandatory mental health screening for everyone, where the very act of questioning the sanity of such a program automatically qualifies you as suffering from a mental health disorder that demands "treatment" with psychotropic drugs. Refuse the treatment, and you will have a gun shoved in your face, a straight jacket slapped around your torso, and the drugs will be delivered intravenously while you remain in a state of complete mental incapacitation for as long as your insurance keeps paying (after which time you'll be left to die). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Similarly, the Bush Administration, through its so-called "New Freedom Initiative on Mental Health" hopes to impose mandatory mental health screening on all U.S. children -- a thinly-veiled attempt to boost Big Pharma profits even further by drugging millions of children with expensive psychotropic drugs, including amphetamines like Ritalin and antidepressant drugs known to promote suicidal behavior.
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The use of these tactics helps explain why critics of conventional medicine describe these times as, "The Dark Ages of medicine. |
Anne Harrington
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 Commissioned in the late 1940s by the World Health Organization to write a policy report on the effects of maternal deprivation on child health, he summed up his conclusions in 1951 in a highly influential report titled "Maternal Care and mental health." It pulled no punches: "prolonged deprivation of a young child of maternal care may have grave and far reaching effects on his character . . . similar in form ... to deprivation of vitamins in infancy. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 MENTAL ILLNESS in which we assess the concept and treatment of mental health, and imagine a world without psychiatry
At the turn of the millennium, Americans had their televisions tuned to the critically acclaimed series, The Sopranos. The protagonist, Tony, was a Mafia boss who on occasion murdered people—with considerable violence and little remorse. He had normal (which is to say problematic) relations with his teenage children. He loved his wife, though regularly cheated on her. He also—here the plot thickened—was being treated by a psychoanalyst.
What was Tony's problem? |
| Various other professions would probably expand their borders, particularly—one would speculate—in the areas of substance abuse and mental health.
We do not deny any of these possibilities, but neither do we consider them. We are interested, as it were, only in instantaneous change: here today, gone tomorrow.
Relevance. Finally, the reader might question the relevance of our thought experiment. What is proved? We set the experiment in motion, We go through the mental work of doing it. And then: so what? |
| The patient is initially absolved, at least in part, from blame and responsibility; the problem becomes one for the mental health professional to treat. However, the patient must follow the doctor's advice, or the consequences (familial, financial, or legal) might be perilous.
The practical impact of DSM on personal behavior, and on social, political, and economic policy can hardly be exaggerated, wrote Szasz. |
| In the same way, as we noted in our chapter on mental health, contemporary medicine conceptualizes the mind as the brain, another body part. When the mind (i.e., brain) breaks or deteriorates or is diseased, it must be treated by an appropriate specialist in the same mode (surgery, drugs, etc.) as would any body part that needs mending.
The problem is that the medical model cannot account for many of the "Believe-It-Or-Not" findings in this chapter. How can fake surgery "work," sometimes as well as the real procedure? How can "just" talking help women with terminal breast cancer live longer? |
| One psychiatrist critic offered two hypotheses to explain the growth of the DSM: that with advances in medical science, we can now "identify mental illnesses that were there all along, but went unrecognized" because of our "primitive knowledge"; alternatively, "we are witnessing the expansion of mental health professions, which label as mental disorders human behaviors that only four decades ago were considered either medical disorders or routine difficulties of ordinary life. |
Andreas Moritz
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 On a different note, the National Institutes of mental health recently concluded that it is essential that pregnant women have enough vitamin D to ensure proper development of their fetus's brain. It is equally important for the proper development of a child brain's to have enough vitamin D after it is born. Since the child doesn't get vitamin D from breast milk, the only natural way to obtain it is through sunlight, just as nature intended it. Even moderate sun exposure helps ensure proper brain development. |
| The mind/body connection will be discussed at great length at the beginning of this book because it forms an essential part of the endeavor to improve our physical and mental health.
The journey to develop a permanent state of health and vitality has very little to do with treating disease, Yet treating illness is the main focus of conventional medicine. True healing is about reestablishing the intimate connection that exists between a healthy body and mind. It would be foolish to try combating darkness in a room when all we need to do is to switch on the light. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 EMDR also has a wonderful nonprofit organization (EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program) that could well be described as a mental health equivalent of Doctors Without Borders. It's a global network of clinicians who travel anywhere there is a need to stop suffering and prevent the aftereffects of trauma and violence.
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| Two separate studies have indicated an elimination of the diagnosis of PTSD in
The EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) is a nonprofit organization that has been described as a kind of mental health equivalent of Doctors Without Borders. It's a global network of clinicians who travel anywhere there is a need to stop suffering and prevent the aftereffects of trauma and violence. Its trauma recovery network coordinates clinicians to treat victims and emergency service workers after such crises as Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks. (See Recommended Resources, page 333. |
Charles Barber
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 About 40 percent of mental health visits are for depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control.22 As perhaps America's most influential academic psychologist, Martin Seligman, has stated: "If you're born around World War I, in your lifetime the prevalence of depression is about 1 percent. If you're born around World War II the lifetime prevalence of depressions seemed to be about 5 percent. If you were born starting in the 1960s, the lifetime prevalence seemed to be between 10 percent and 15 percent, and this is with lives incomplete. |
Anne Harrington
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| In 1984, the mental health Association of Onondaga County in Syracuse, New York, launched a public education campaign called "Friends can be good medicine."26 Self magazine reviewed the evidence for the health benefits of social support in 1998, asking its readers "Have You Hugged Your Immune System Today?"27 And in his best-selling book from 2000, Bowling Alone, political scientist Robert Putnam put the choices to his readers this way: "As a rough rule of thumb, if you belong to no groups but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year in half. |
Charles Barber
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| In the GM ad, which appeared during the Super Bowl broadcast, an assembly-line robot hurls itself off a bridge after committing an error; in the Washington Mutual spot, despondent bankers are poised to jump off a building; and in the VW ad, a man is about to jump off a ledge until he learns that he can buy a new VW for under $17,000. mental health advocacy groups and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention found the material offensive and wrote public letters to the corporations. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 For over 20 years as an integrative psychiatrist, she has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques in the treatment of addiction and other mental health problems. One of her guiding principles is to "look first for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms." The root of all our actions is the result of chemical reactions within the brain. In her book, Natural Highs, she provides detailed insight into how the brain works and the chemical effects that both influence and are influenced by our lifestyle choices.
It's a bit of complicated business, but here's how it works. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| This vast internal ecosystem (referred to by many researchers as "human intestinal flora") dramatically influences and even directs each person's state of health and well-being, including our physical and mental health and metabolism. Hundreds of distinct species of microorganisms inhabit the various regions of the complete digestive system (from the mouth through the intestinal tract). Their population (over 100 trillion) can actually exceed the number of cells in the entire body! |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Hoffer A: mental health Regained. Toronto, ON: International Schizophrenia Foundation, 2007.
PYROLURIA
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Pyroluria appears to be a medical condition that is indicative, not of a specific illness, but rather of high levels of oxidative stress.1 Pyroluria is identified by an excess of pyrroles in human urine and occurs most frequently in schizophrenics, although it is commonly seen in other illnesses, including ADHD, autism, alcoholism, and depression. |
| He defined orthomolecular psychiatry as "the achievement and preservation of mental health by varying concentrations in the human body of substances that are normally present, such as vitamins. It is part of a broader subject, orthomolecular medicine, an important part because the functioning of the brain is probably more sensitively dependent in its molecular composition and structure than is the functioning of other organs. |
| King County spent more than $900 million on mental health the following year in 2001. According to the first mandated report,6 this was spent on treating 7,831 mental patients, mainly schizophrenics and patients with major depression during the year. Of these 6,949 (88.7%) showed no change, 597 displayed some improvement, 285 (4%) regressed, and four (0.05%) recovered. Put another way, if you suffered from schizophrenia, major depression, or other mental illness in King County during 2001, your chance of a full recovery was less than one in one thousand. |
| County mental health System Achieves Almost No Recoveries. ezine@alterna-tivemenalhealth.com
12 Hawkins DR. The prevention of tardive dyskinesia with high dosage vitamins of 58,000 patients. Journal Orthomolecular Medicine 1986;1:24-26.
13 Auslander LA and Jeste DV Sustained remission of schizophrenia among community-dwelling older patients. Am Journal Psychiarry 2004;161:1490-93.
J4 Horrobin D, Jenkins K, Bennett S, and Vankar GK. Eicosapentaenoic acid and arachidonic acid. Collaboration and not antagonism is the key to biologic understanding. Prostaglandins. |
| These doctors quickly became very enthusiastic, and niacin started to be used on an increasing scale to help alcoholics regain their physical and mental health.
Dr R.E Smith, the medical director of a hospital in Detroit that specialized in the treatment of alcoholics, began to promote niacin for treating alcoholism.8'^. The response rate of patients treated with vitamin B-3 was very high, as shown in the following summary of his results. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mental health is a genuine problem for psychiatrists
Although IED, ADHD and many other so-called diseases are consensus hallucinations, the obvious question is: Are there genuine mental health disorders?
Sure there are. And the behavior of modern psychiatrists probably demonstrates several such genuine disorders. What kind of doctor would exploit patients for his own financial gain, cursing them with the label of some fictitious disease and using the power of placebo against them? Psych doctors, that's who. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Serotonin, the "relaxing" neurotransmitter, is out of balance in many mental health disturbances, such as depression, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Interesting, then, that inositol has been used— albeit in small studies—with good results in treating all three of these disorders. One study in 1996 showed a significant improvement in OCD patients when they were given 18 g of inositol a day. |
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