Posted on 07/01/2005 9:47:55 AM PDT by quidnunc
I can attest to the effectiveness in ECT being used to combat my severe depression... I am bipolar. Without ECT, I more than likely would have committed suicide last winter. ECT combined with moodstabilizers and antidepressants has given me back my life. I must add, my patients' rights have always been intact. I have never been forced to receive any type of treatment. I've been in control of my health all along.
(Well KNOWN TO BE THE mark of an UNSTABLE MIND!)
LOL
I WANT TO BE CLEAR! HELP ME XENU!
I used to work in the field of mental health. I ran residential programs for the "boarderline intellectual functioning" and the "severely emotionally disturbed." I succeeded in getting all of the children (except two) off meds and they did far better than when they were on them.
Except I screwed up. I should have got the quote right: "A pox on both their houses."
This is about the only positive thing that can be said about the looney scientology cult.
Probably.
==Except I screwed up. I should have got the quote right: "A pox on both their houses."
I'm a little surprised that so many conservatives have etrusted their mental health to the government.
Having said that, Psychiatry is the Great Satan of Scientology. As early as 1955, L. Ron Hubbards attitude was already well formulated in a bulletin titled Psychiatrists, in which he wrote, One cannot cooperate with them any more than he can do business with Hitler. In 1982 Hubbard claimed that psychiatrists destroyed every great civilization to date and are hard at work on this one. Hubbards vilification of psychiatry is a chaotic litany of conspiracy theory paranoia that the Church has adopted as fact. They truly believe, as Hubbard did, that the majority of psychiatrists maim and kill their patients and, by record, in all history have only worsened mental conditions. After all, thats what they seem to be paid to do by the government.
Tom Cruise (or any Scientologist for that matter), has no choice but to vilify psychiatry. They're forbidden to seek any kind of mental treatment other than their own brand of "spiritual counseling." In fact anyone who has been treated by a psychiatrist or psychologist is potentially ineligible for Scientology processing. At the very least, such a person is required to submit to a "rundown" to undo the supposed harmful effects of conventional mental health treatment.
So when you ask a Scientologist what they would recommend to treat a mental disorder they are bound to one, and only one answer: Scientology.
Why didn't you say that in the first place, rather than spraying your posts with links to unknown sources? I am very glad you had great success in working with the children. I hope you continue to follow their progress, and publish your experiences in reputable journals.
I thought it was wabbit season...
I was under the impression that most women who are treated for things like Post Partum Depression (like Tom Cruise was discussing)were treated for it by their obstetricians. Not psychiatrists.
Seems to me that a lot of these things that people are being treated for are and are being prescribed for are being given to them by their general physicians. Mine prescribed Paxil for me for depression. No psychiatrist involved.
Helped me tremendously, BTW, Dr. Cruise.
Thomas Szasz is Founding Director of the CCHR Scientology Front
Surprise, surprise.
Greta? For real??
susie
You have to be mentally ill already to believe in Scientology, so there!
(Science-fiction, double feature, doctor X will build a creature, see androids fighting - Brad and Janet), and something on and on about the late night double feature, picture show, I wanna go and so does Tommy the Cruiser.
Gotta go find my bustier and high heels, bu-bye.
I beLIEVE!!!!
Yes.
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