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05/10/06
01:00:10 am, Categories: Voices,
901 words TeenScreen and Psychiatry - Pseudo-Science or Scam?
By: John Carey
Enron, WorldCom, TeenScreen. What do these groups have in common? They all have run huge scams on the public in their pursuit of power and the almighty dollar.
TeenScreen is based on the flawed pseudo-science of psychiatry. The
controversial screening program asks young people invasive questions about
their lives and their feelings, then compares the answers to lists of
symptoms from psychiatry's bible of "mental disorders", the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM IV).
The DSM has been thoroughly discredited, even by psychiatrists and other professionals. In an article entitled DSM: Diagnosing for Money and Power, Ofer Zur, Ph.D., and Nola Nordmarken, MFT, state that "The DSM is more a political document than a scientific one. Decisions regarding inclusion or exclusion of disorders are made by majority vote rather than by indisputable scientific data."
Recent media has exposed corruption in those psychiatric researchers who created the DSM IV. USA Today reported in April '06, "A majority of the medical experts who created the "bible" for diagnosing mental illness have undisclosed financial links to drugmakers". http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-04-19-conflicts-experts_x.htm
Psychiatry claims to have a science, but what do their leaders say? Rex Cowdry, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health in 1995 said, "We do not know the causes (of psychiatric disorders). We don't have methods of curing these illnesses yet." Norman Sartorius, president of the World Psychiatric Association, said in 1994, "The timewhen psychiatrists considered that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In the future, the mentally ill will have to learn to live with their illness."
If you go to a medical doctor with a broken arm, you would have pain in your arm and you might be irritable. A medical doctor uses these symptoms and an x-ray to confirm the problem, and after six weeks in a cast you are cured - at least until the next time you try out your child's skateboard.
The psychiatric approach is to VOTE on diseases. Stealing legitimacy from the medical community, they group symptoms and give them ominous and frightening names. From 1952-94, the DSM grew from 112 disorders/diseases to 374 by VOTING! After gay activist picketing in 1973, psychiatrists voted to remove the mental "disorder" known as homosexuality from DSM. Since there was no science in adding it, it was easy to remove.
Some of the other "scientific" diseases being foisted onto the public are "Caffeine-Related Disorder", "Mathematics Disorder" and "Sibling Rivalry Disorder." When I was mean to my brother, my mom punished me - she didn't know of today's "scientific method" - giving me a daily dose of Prozac.
We have all seen the fraudulent advertisements about chemical imbalances in the brain causing "mental illness". Drug companies are able to fool many people and gain business by falsely associating themselves with true medical science. There are chemical imbalances (known, provable, indisputable) in medicine. An example of a real chemical imbalance is Diabetes - a lab test shows too much sugar in the person's system. This imbalance is corrected by giving insulin, the exact hormone that is missing. This is science.
What about psychiatry's version? There is NO blood test. There is no Ritalin, Paxil or Prozac flowing through a normal child's brain. The entire THEORY of chemical imbalance is based on the subjective symptoms in DSM, and psychiatrists prescribe mind-altering drugs to MASK the symptoms. This is equivalent to a medical doctor never setting your broken arm, but giving you life-long doses of morphine to hide the pain.
Those who speak up and tell the truth, like Tom Cruise, are attacked because they reject the idea that chemical "imbalances" in the brain cause mental illness, and are quick to point out that no tests have ever proven that theory. George Orwell wrote, "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act". That line was written as part of an entertaining work of fiction, yet psychiatry has brought Mr. Orwell's chilling vision of the future into today's reality.
John Breeding, Ph.D., psychologist and author of The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses says, "Even the most ardent Ritalin/ADHD enthusiasts find absolutely no positive long term outcomes on anything in their research reviews.. The widespread drugging of these children is a fraud..."
Worldwide production of Ritalin went from 2.8 tons in 1990 to 15.3 tons in 1997. Are our children SIX TIMES more troubled? In Britain, the stimulant prescription rate for children increased 9200% between 1992 and 2000. Are their children now 9200% smarter and happier? No, but psychiatrists and drug companies are richer. This is what TeenScreen wants, more children under psychiatric treatment for subjective, unscientific "mental illnesses".
In today's world of merged companies and billion-dollar earnings, the psychiatrists have merged with the drug-companies. TeenScreen has a symbiotic relationship with both. With Madison Avenue marketing that sells the public a one-pill solution to everything that ails them, the psychiatrists are pulling off a scam that makes the former leaders of Enron seem like choirboys by comparison. Future generations might forgive them if they were selling cell-phones, broadband or the latest fashion, but not when they are falsely drugging millions of our school children with dangerous mind-altering drugs.
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May 10, 2006 John Carey has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science from Texas A&M, and has worked for a major oil company for over 20 years. As a humanitarian endeavor, he has researched extensively on the psychiatric drugging of children.
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05/11/06 @ 14:10 Robert Nau
Vice Chairman, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
National Advisory Council Members for Teenscreen
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
International Project on Suicide Prevention Strategies
http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=1
The key goals of the workshop were to examine the evidence pointing to the effectiveness of specific components in the various national plans and to identify specific measurable outcomes for national suicide prevention interventions.
The workshop featured individual presentations by participants within eight panels:
• Cultural Barriers to Suicide Prevention
• Creating Public Awareness of Depression as Treatable and Suicide as Preventable
• Educating Community Gatekeepers
• Reducing Access to Lethal Means and Methods of Self-Harm
• SCREENING PROGRAMS FOR IDENTIFYING SUICIDE RISK
• Physician Education Related to Recognizing and Treating Depression
• Improving Treatment of Depression and Other Disorders That Convey Suicide Risk
• Improving Portrayal of Suicide in the Media
Following this meeting, a DVD containing the presentations and summary recommendations was produced and distributed; workshop results have also been disseminated through an article published in the Oct. 26, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association....................
This phase of the work will culminate in a five-day workshop to be held in Hong Kong in November 2006. FUNDING FOR THE WORKSHOP IS BEING PROVIDED BY PFIZER INC. and the Suicide Prevention Association of Hong Kong.
Some of the Board of Directors
Cathryn M. Clary, M.D.
Pfizer Inc.
David Norton*
Johnson & Johnson
Harold Shlevin, Ph.D.
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS IN YOUTH: At a hearing held last year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to examine the possible link between antidepressants and increased suicide risk in youth, AFSP urged federal advisors to consider all aspects of this complex issue and to understand that untreated depression, not antidepressant medication, is a greater threat to life. Epidemiological data shows that the areas of the U.S. that have experienced the greatest increase in SSRI prescription rates have had the greatest drop in suicide rates in both youth and adults
["Without a national standard for capturing data on suicide attempts, local data sources lack the uniformity to compare states or communities." From the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at EDC (I found this in their own data banks!)]
— an observation inconsistent with the contention that the use of SSRIs increase suicide risk.
Since this hearing, the FDA directed manufacturers of antidepressant medications to revise the labeling on their products to include a "black box" warning that notifies healthcare providers and consumers about an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth being treated with these medications. AFSP continues to be concerned that such labeling, along with the misinformation on antidepressant safety that has been reported in the media, may decrease the use of these medications. AFSP supports the call for better
monitoring of patients taking these medications and better education of family members and caregivers as to the benefits of treatment, as well as how to identify any possible adverse effects.
Some of the
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT for The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
International Project on Suicide Prevention Strategies
Abbott Laboratories,
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company,
Cardinal Health Inc., drug inventors
Corbett Accel HealthCare Group, (pharma advertizing)
Eli Lilly and Co.,
Euro RSCG Life,
(Euro RSCG Life Interaction is a leading global interactive agency that focuses on serving pharmaceutical clients.)
Forest Laboratories Inc.,
GlaxoSmithKline,
Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc.,
Johnson & Johnson, ,
Organon Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
Pfizer Inc.,
Serologicals Corporation, (drug discovery,)
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN Of particular note are
recent gifts from Pfizer Inc.
NATIONAL DONORS
LIFESAVERS
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Education Development Center Inc.
Forest Laboratories Inc.
Pfizer Inc.
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
FOUNDERS
Abbott Laboratories
GlaxoSmithKline
Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc.
BENEFACTORS
Eli Lilly and Co.
PATRONS
Johnson & Johnson
Organon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Eli Lilly and Co.
SPONSORS
AFSP-Midwest/Chicago
APCO Worldwide
Avenue A/Razorfish
IDEX Corp.
IMS Health Inc.
Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Ethel Hansen
Janssen-Ortho-McNeil
Pharmaceuticals
Abbott Laboratories
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/(oszjmb455fhtd1fl2inwua45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,7,9;journal,12,17;linkingpublicationresults,1:102849,1
Archives of Suicide Research
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Issue: Volume 7, Number 3 / July-September 2003
Pages: 279 - 285
URL: Linking Options
DOI: 10.1080/13811110301555
Correlation Between Suicide Rate and Antidepressant Use in Slovenia
Robert Oravecz A1, Bala´zs Czigler A2, Franc Leskos?ek A3
A1 Psychiatric Hospital Ormoz Ormoz, Slovenia
A2 Budapest, Hungary
A3 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract:
Major descriptors of Slovenian suicide statistics are presented for the 13-year period ending in 1997. The purpose of the present study was to discover whether the introduction of antidepressant therapy influenced the Slovenian suicide dynamic. Collected national data on the rate of suicide and seasonal dispersion of suicide were compared with the prescription rates of antidepressives for the same period. No significant correlation between increased antidepressant prescriptions and decreased suicide rate were found. A possible decrease in the springtime suicide rate was observed. The Slovenian data, presented in a recent article, suggested some precaution toward descriptions of strong correlation between suicide and antidepressant therapy.
05/11/06 @ 14:20 This is from the TeenScreen web site
"The TeenScreen Program has never been affiliated with or funded by any pharmaceutical companies."
The TeenScreen Program is funded by private foundations, individuals and organizations that are committed to the early identification of mental illness in youth and the prevention of teen suicide.
They DO NOT TELL you that the foundations, individuals and organizations that fund them ARE FUNDED BY pharmaceutical companies! See last post
Robert Nau is the
Vice Chairman, of American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
and he is on the
National Advisory Council for Teenscreen
He is funded by
Abbott Laboratories,
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company,
Cardinal Health Inc., drug inventors
Corbett Accel HealthCare Group, (pharma advertizing)
Eli Lilly and Co.,
Euro RSCG Life,
(Euro RSCG Life Interaction is a leading global interactive agency that focuses on serving pharmaceutical clients.)
Forest Laboratories Inc.,
GlaxoSmithKline,
Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc.,
Johnson & Johnson, ,
Organon Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
Pfizer Inc.,
Serologicals Corporation, (drug discovery,)
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Pfizer Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Education Development Center Inc.
Forest Laboratories Inc.
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
GlaxoSmithKline
Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc.
Eli Lilly and Co.
Johnson & Johnson
Organon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
AFSP-Midwest/Chicago
APCO Worldwide
IDEX Corp.
IMS Health Inc.
Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Janssen-Ortho-McNeil
Pharmaceuticals
05/11/06 @ 15:15 05/13/06 @ 21:54 http://www.teenscreentruth.com/Teenscreen_Advisory_Board.htm
AND
http://www.signsofsuicide.org/funding.htm
It is part of their stated, planned, marketing program to capitalize on grieving families:
http://www.teenscreentruth.com/teenscreen_PR_firms.html
Absolutely disqusting!
05/14/06 @ 22:45 |
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