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Mass psychosis in the US
Al Jazeera ^ | July 12th 2011 | James Ridgeway

Posted on 07/13/2011 10:35:51 AM PDT by Cardhu

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How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs.
1 posted on 07/13/2011 10:35:52 AM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu

http://www.theonion.com/articles/pfizer-launches-zoloft-for-everything-ad-campaign,297/


2 posted on 07/13/2011 10:42:56 AM PDT by Salamander (You trap. You kill. You eat. That's what a good spider does.)
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To: Cardhu

well, I would love to see a detailed report by Al Jazeera detailing the psychosis of the Koran on humans.


3 posted on 07/13/2011 10:44:55 AM PDT by SIRTRIS
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To: Cardhu

Before anyone lets their doc put them on these crappy drugs, they need to look into physical reasons for mental problems-pernicious anemia or thyroid issues for example.

If depression is due to a physical ailment like that, all the anti-psychotic drugs in the world will not help it, IMO.

They will only worsen the initial problem and create even more through side effects.


4 posted on 07/13/2011 10:45:06 AM PDT by Califreak (I heard Reagan is back and this time he's Jewish...)
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To: Cardhu

My elderly aunt had Alzheimer’s and was psychotic. She was given anti-psychotic drugs. It changed her to a calm person, she didn’t know anything as a psychotic and that didn’t change with the drugs, she just became a much more peaceful person.

The drugs may be over prescribed but they have their place.


5 posted on 07/13/2011 10:48:23 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Cardhu

Michael Savage has observed that a large number of liberals take anti-psychotic drugs.

I would say this may be valid, based on the mis-statements and over-the-top lies, and behavior, of many Democratic politicians. Look at the rantings of, for example, Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Lee of Texas etc. etc. What else could explain this?


6 posted on 07/13/2011 10:55:36 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Cardhu

You’re believing the crap churned out by Al Jazeera? The article conflates anti-anxiety, anti-psychotic, ADD, and anti-depressants into the inaccurate catch-all, “anti-psychotic” and then claims we’re all on anti-psychotics.


7 posted on 07/13/2011 10:57:21 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Califreak

They’re not crappy when you need them. I’m bipolar and went through years of testing for this or that disease. When I finally found a doctor who specialized it brain chemistry and put me on meds that worked it was like someone turned a light on in my life. Those “crappy” drugs probably saved my life and definitely changed the quality of it. Don’t be so quick to judge.

Cindie


8 posted on 07/13/2011 11:00:59 AM PDT by gardencatz (Proud mom US Marine! It can't always be someone else's son.)
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To: Cardhu

Abilify can give young teens suicidal thoughts yet people still get prescribed with them. Adderall is the new ritalin.Adderall is taken by college kids like speed. It all started with the stop smoking anxiety pill and prozac.

It is sad.


9 posted on 07/13/2011 11:06:12 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Cardhu; All
" In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux."

When the Obamacare "database" is all "set up", think of all the people that will probably be denied their 2nd Amendment rights, just by "checking" the Obamacare database.

IMHO, Obamacare wasn't about "healthcare".

It WAS all about the "mandatory" database.

Think for a moment....why would the Marxists want your DOCTOR to ask you if you own any firearms??

It's a "two-fer" for the Marxists. You are in the database as owning a firearm, and it can then be checked against your "medications" to see if you can "legally" own one or broke Federal law which would then disqualify you for life.

Don't think that the "background check" is soon going to include the "Obamacare" database??

Keep it in mind the next time you think about asking the doc for something to make you feel "less depressed" and "sleep better".

10 posted on 07/13/2011 11:09:00 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Cardhu

I’m a practicing shrink. This article has the typical, quasi-fashionable anti-pharma, anti-psychiatry agenda behind it, and is slanted to serve that need. It is nonsense.

The truth is, there have been two stunning breakthroughs in psychopharmacology since the days of Thorazine and Elavil, the likes of which were all we had when I started practcing. Prozac, and all the second generation anti-depressants that followed, was the first one. Clozaril, and all the subsequent “atypical anti-psychotics” that followed, was the second. The latter category of meds have profound benefits for a wide range of disorders far beyond merely Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.

For those of us who are actually charged with the responsibility of relieving the suffering and incapacitation of mental illnesses - not just sitting around writing about it - these medicines have been a godsend, and overwhelmingly grateful patients agree.


11 posted on 07/13/2011 11:10:13 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: gardencatz

Not judging, only stressing the fact that these drugs are often unnecessarily prescribed.

I’m sure these drugs are a godsend to those who really need them.

FRegards.


12 posted on 07/13/2011 11:15:35 AM PDT by Califreak (I heard Reagan is back and this time he's Jewish...)
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I’d almost argue the opposite.

Get yourself on whatever medication you need. Treat the illness, than try to cure it or find its cause.


13 posted on 07/13/2011 11:21:30 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Cardhu
Whoever said you are supposed to be happy all the time?

Shrinks and drug companies, that's who.

14 posted on 07/13/2011 11:25:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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To: Cardhu

I saw this whole Frontline a few years ago. Here’s a small portion of it on YouTube. It was a scary episode.

One poor kid had been on multiple drugs since he was four because he was hyper. As a teen he developed a permanent, uncontrollable head roll, but his family still had him on multiple meds.

The Wholesale Drugging of Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkwp-tDCWg

Here is the first video of the complete episode—it shows the boy with the headroll. The parents act like they are victims, and maybe they are, but they could have told the teachers early on to go pound sand. I know it’s hard when the system is working on you each day, but if the kids don’t have their parents, the system will gladly step in. For this boy it had life altering consequences.

Frontline -The Medicated Child 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48KnwKGV0Pw


15 posted on 07/13/2011 11:26:20 AM PDT by beaversmom
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16 posted on 07/13/2011 11:29:45 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Cardhu

These drugs are an absolute pestilence. The psychiatric knowledge base used to peddle them is the Same obnoxious, occultist based political garbage that filled the concentration camps in 1930’s Germany.

Freud has already been amply exposed as a complete fraud, so today Carl Jung is its Guru.

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=246&CFID=25198082&CFTOKEN=77368745

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/carl-jung-a-psychic-pyramid-seller-1355037.html

The industry is continually assuring the public that the drugs treat a biological condition underlying mental illness. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

There is no such thing as a measurable chemical imbalance in any human brain until After the drugs have created it. There is no genetic predisposition in Any person determining/controlling their thoughts or behaviors.

The drug makers bought 57 crooked Docs in the early 90s who formulated the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, a State Mandated Medication Menu, which has spread to every other State in the Union. Here’s the History in brief. Be patient, because the documents load slowly.

http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf

Johnson & Johnson were the ringleaders. The State of Texas is suing them for over a Billion Dollars in State Medicaid Fraud for their anitpsychotic Risperdal.

http://www.pharmalot.com/2011/03/lawsuit-over-jj-risperdal-marketing-can-proceed/

The drugs are in fact, a time release chemical lobotomy.

http://psychrights.org/states/alaska/CaseXX/3AN-08-493PS/JacksonOnNLtoxicity.pdf

They’re sold under the ruse of suicide prevention.

http://jannel.se/suicide.psychiatricdrugs.pdf

The psychiatric drug hustle, over the last Century, has Caused a 1000% Increase in the number of people needing permanent or semi-permanent institutionalization.

http://psychrights.org/articles/ehpppsychdrugepidemic(whitaker).pdf

Drugging Kids With No Verifiable Disease

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/drugging-kids-with-no-verifiable-disease-012.html

We are Lobotomizing our Children with this filth for diseases which don’t even exist. It has to stop.

If some scumbag, Govt or Private, tells you your kid has to be medicated with any Psych Drug for ADHD, your very next stop is a lawyer.

http://ablechild.org/


17 posted on 07/13/2011 11:39:13 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: dagogo redux

“For those of us who are actually charged with the responsibility of relieving the suffering and incapacitation of mental illnesses”

You First have a responsibility to Scientifically, Biologically Prove that any of your mental illnesses even Exist as anything other than an excuse to churn out Bills to Insurers.

“overwhelmingly grateful patients agree.”

Oh Really?

That’s why for Decades those “Overwhelmingly Grateful Patients” have been tossing Your Garbage Drugs into toilets and trashcans at every opportunity they can find.

http://bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/noncompliant.html

YOUR DRUGS, take 25 YEARS off of a person’s life. Do you tell them That when you prescribe them?


18 posted on 07/13/2011 11:48:41 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Cardhu

i’m guessing that the large increase in children being classified as disabled relates to the subsequent eligibility for SSI payments ?


19 posted on 07/13/2011 12:07:29 PM PDT by IWONDR
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To: beaversmom; To-Whose-Benefit?; All

excellent point, and good links in #15 and #17!

yes, many adults have truly benefitted, under good doctors.
yes, al-jazeera has an agenda.
but, overall they’re still better than the LA Times.
(and report some things, our MSM won’t.)

the massive drugging of our children, especially boys,
IS a problem!
and there has been plenty on FR about MANY women getting their children on drugs, to get extra disability money.
this is a real problem and has serious consequences in the future...


20 posted on 07/13/2011 12:07:48 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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