[AlternativeAnswers] Re: Re RE getting off psychiatric drugs for bipolar





English is not my first language so don't mind the style and the spelling. i have a sister in law who was diagnosed as a teenager suffering from depression. they staredt to medicate her with powerful drugs. Soon she was diagnosed as schizophrenic, two years later she jumped from a window the day of her birthday and died. I don t trust psychiatrists that are now medicating toddler for bipolar disorder. They are a liability for society.

50 % of teens screened for depression are coming out with a diagnosis and a prescription for one to tree medication.( generally addictive )

Now they want to extend the screening to young future mother and the result will be similar. The only difference will be the drugging of the foetus. Ron Paul is the only politician opposing these new measures.

More than 90 % of people who go for to the first time to visit a psychiatrist come with a prescription AND a diagnosis.

Psychiatric so called " studies are flawed and in the majority of cases with conflicts of interest.
Academic physicians who hold senior faculty positions at prestigious medical centers, who have trained at the finest US medical schools, are found to have engaged in fraud and deception, shamelessly hawking products for companies that pay them.

Prestigious academic institutions are finding that faculty members in the department of psychiatry are becoming a liability–their misconduct and sometimes erratic behavior undermines the institution's reputation. the last example is William Weeks, MD a professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine is facing federal conflict of interest charges" involving contract between the Veterans Affairs department and Dartmouth.

The Dartmouth news reports that "The U.S. Attorney's office also filed an 11-count civil complaint against Weeks on Friday, including six counts of conflict of interest, four counts of false claims and one count of "breach of fiduciary duty."

Three years have elapsed since FDA medical officers reported the findings of their comprehensive review of clinical trial data at an FDA pediatric advisory committee hearing (March, 2006). The review included 49 randomized, controlled clinical trials in the pediatric development programs, as well as post -marketing adverse event reports (AERS). The evidence shows that hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms emerge in children prescribed every one of the ADHD drugs: In controlled trials, only children taking the drugs suffered treatment-emergent "Hallucinations involving visual and/or tactile sensations of insects, snakes, or worms…" whereas none of the children on placebo hallucinated or became psychotic.

Further underscoring that the drugs are to blame: Dr. Andrew Mosholder and colleagues report, that in 90% of the cases, "there was no reported history of a similar psychiatric condition." The authors note: "Patients and physicians should be aware that psychosis or mania arising during drug treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may represent adverse drug reactions."

SOURCE Hallucinations and Other Psychotic Symptoms Associated With the Use of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Drugs in Children.
Andrew D. Mosholder, MD, MPHa, Kate Gelperin, MD, MPHa, Tarek A. Hammad, MD, PhD, MSc, MSa, Kathleen Phelan, RPha, Rosemary Johann-Liang, MDb.

Harvard Psychiatrists Target 4-year old Children for Drug Trials

An example of crass commercialism: a Mass General Hospital advertisement (2001) posted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGkQdzU2DOk

Four-year old Rebecca Riley' was a casualty of psychiatric "treatment. Her death from a combination of prescribed toxic psychotropic drugs is a demonstration of medicine derailed from its legitimate therapeutic mission. http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/02/4-year-old-rebecca-riley-casualty-of.html

The public was shocked that when still a toddler–aged 28 months–Rebecca was "diagnosed" with both bipolar disorder and ADHD by a board certified psychiatrist.

i can go on and on .. You said that your livelihood is related to vitamins. Vitamins have s significant and evolving place in mainstream healthcare that I personally believe will empower patients and caregivers regarding some serious diseases. I am sure that you know the importance of Nutrition and mental health ?
the FDA approved last week a new drug that raise the level of suicide by several fold . we know

Psychiatric illness are not exclusively western diseases and you have many ways to deal with it. In Asia or i Africa the greatest attention will be focused on the Nutrition of the patient.Detox with herbs will be starting point... removing any processed food and chemical from the diet. Food allergies, adrenal glands exhaustion, hypoglycemia can triggers psychotics events so do many chemicals.

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Do you ever saw a psychologist or a psychiatrist teaching a patient how to see the difference between himself and his thoughts ? To train the patient to recognize the destructive pattern of the " monkey brain " jumping around all day long ?

It is how Buddhist monks cure mental problem; with Meditation , healthy nutrition and few herbs .They don't need barbaric electroshock and drugs to get the results ont he great majority of their patients.

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> Do you have bi-polar disorder or do you have an immediate family member who suffers? In my opinion, if either you or a loved one suffers from BPAD, you would know that it is a complex, devastating problem with multiple risk factors, initiators, symptoms, etc. Suggesting that any simple answer exists is incorrect.
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> The vitamin and diet regimen you recommend may have a benefit to a portion of those who suffer. Regarding the article below, it reads like an agenda engineered backward to create a desired position. The facts may be correct, but the practices and "ethics" being questioned are fairly common across all drug research, especially with many of the research superstars and pundits. The same perspective could be taken on various forms of cancer, endocrine, metabolic...almost any highly-researched, financially lucrative disease state you can't "see" or "feel" as a third party. Again, consider cancer drugs. While the position might look good on paper when a human being isn't directly involved, it has little practical application.
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> Additionally, the increase in diagnosis and treatment requires patient/caregiver participation. Economic modeling can demonstrate that continued/increased usage of any protocol will likely only take place if there is a demonstrable benefit. In this case, temporary relief/reduction of a common significant healthcare problem. Call it bi-polar or whatever. The continuum of mood disorders is wide and deep so the name of the disease and the solution for an individual is constantly changing based on body chemistry, external factors, etc. Vitamins are just one brick in a very large pyramid. The pyramid is the solution, not the brick.
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> The observation that common medications used to treat a BPAD patient will render the patient "dumbed-down". In some cases this is correct. However, if one is confronted with the disease as a patient or a caregiver, what relevance does this fact have as anything other than an observation? The sky is blue. If the sky were on fire, it would still be a sky, but many more people would suffer under a sky of fire.
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> I love vitamins, in fact my livelihood is related to vitamins. Vitamins have s significant and evolving place in mainstream healthcare that I personally believe will empower patients and caregivers regarding some serious diseases. At this point, I have not seen any compelling information nor talked to any BPAD sufferers who can rely on vitamins to relieve either BPAD or an existential crisis.
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> --- In AlternativeAnswers@yahoogroups.com, shaman urban <shaman_urban@> wrote:
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> > Your son is probably not a bi-polar but probably an healthy teenager with all the existentialist and hormonal turmoil of a regular child is age.
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> > How to get a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder?
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> > Harvard medics ‘concealed drug firm cash’
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> > By Guy Adams from the Independant
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> > Harvard University is at the centre of an academic and political scandal after three prominent members of its psychiatry department were accused of breaking conflict-of-interest rules by failing to declare millions of dollars in consulting fees from drugs manufacturers.
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> > An investigation by Senator Charles E Grassley uncovered evidence that Dr Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist who helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines, neglected to tell university officials that he had earned at least $1.6m (£810,000) from pharmaceutical companies that make them.
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> > Two of Dr Biederman’s colleagues, Dr Timothy E Wilens and Dr Thomas Spencer, also allegedly violated federal and academic rules by concealing outside income from the drugs industry of $1.6m and $1m respectively. Senator Grassley, a Republican, had discovered that data about consulting fees disclosed by the academics differed sharply from payment information held by drugs companies.
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> > In one example, Dr Biederman, whose work is held responsible for a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, claimed in an annual report to the university that he received no income from Johnson & Johnson in 2001. When Senator Grassley queried this figure, he confessed to receiving $3,500. The company says Dr Biederman was paid $58,169 that year, a discrepancy that remained unexplained last night.
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> > The relationship between the Harvard academics and drug companies is highly controversial because their research has advocated the use of previously unapproved psychiatric medicines in children. The university began a formal investigation yesterday into their outside earnings.
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> > “The information released by Senator Grassley suggests that, in certain instances, each doctor may have failed to disclose outside information … that should have been referred,” read a statement by the university published by The New York Times, which revealed details of the affair.
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> > Dr Biederman said he took conflict of interest policies very seriously, adding: “My interests are solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and objective study.” Dr Wilens and Dr Spencer said they thought they had complied with the rules.
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> > Your son can switch to SAME and Multi vitamins with an healthy organic diet avoiding all chemicals and processed food.
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> > For more on the underworld of flawed psychiatric researches ;
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> > http://www.jmbblog.com/another-psychiatrist-busted-for-conflict-of-interest/
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> > 1. Disposable Children Mini Serie / Drugging Todder
> > http://www.jmbblog.com/disposable-children-mini-serie-adhd-drugs/
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