One death at one Church of Scientology is hardly worthy of indictment, what is worthy are thousands of kids prescribed drugs for a mythical condition called ADHD. I think it should be called BPD (Bad Parenting Disease). Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't support the Church of Scientology but I can't help agreeing with their stance on psychiatry, I wish that mainstream churches would step up to the plate on the issue. It can be helpful in extreme cases but so much of psychiatry has become no better than snakeoil salesmen with degrees and white coats. The dangerous part is how quickly people submit to being diagnosed by questionair where all possible answers led to some degree of disease. We are talking about the same group of people who created the nonexisted condition called Homophobia yet we trust them with our minds and the minds of our children? I have seen the treatment of some of the people in mental wards where even mild cases of disorder are treated with medication and every complaint or resistance to medication becomes further indication of continued disease. Someday we will see the fruit of our blind faith in the witch doctors of the mind.
I'm sorry that you're so naive. What you don't understand is that their motives aren't "pure" and any kind of counseling or mental help may undo their programming.
Can you add anything, nully?
You mean like the free personality test?
Excuse me? Have you ever been around a child with severe ADHD? Met the parents? Hmmmmmm? I have a child (one out of 6 BTW) that suffers from severe ADHD. For your information I am NOT a bad parent. (And just in case you are wondering no he is not on medications and I do not take antidepressants.)
Now I know that you have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about! There may be some psychiatrists who are not the best at their professions, and some who over prescribe medications. That can be found in any profession, not just medicine. A whole lot goes into a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder. That is the reason family practitioners should refer patients to qualified psychiatrists for treatment if a short term prescription of an antidepressant does not return the person to his/her normal situation and feelings.
You have an agenda here and are saying very hurtful and ignorant things to set it up! There are many children who could not function in a regular classroom without medication for ADHD. Of course there are cases of misuse. There is misuse with anything if you look for it.
Do some real research before you try to use Bad Parenting Disease as the cause of these children's problems.