Tony Zizza writes an excellent article about how a school in Colorado has banned tag on its playground, supposedly because “some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.” Tony says:

Ban ADHD drugs, not tag. That’s right. You would have to be a moron with a capital M if you do not realize that the emotional impact of tag on an elementary school student is a hell of a lot less severe than the emotional and physical impact ADHD drugs have on students whose minds and bodies are still - growing. Did you hear me? Still growing!

He’s right. Kids …

Here are some quotes from Dr. Michael Benjamin, a psychiatrist who’s been practicing for 38 years:

“As a Psychiatrist, I still do not know what our profession is trying to do. It seems we have a series of solutions and now we are trying to find the problems that they can solve….”

“There is no doubt in my mind that children that would not be given Ritalin by experts in the field are receiving it. No one can say with honesty and certainty what the effect of Ritalin use in juveniles will have on their brains as they age. Yet the …

World Net Daily has just published an excellent article entitled MANIA The shocking link between psychiatric drugs, suicide, violence and mass murder. Of course, this is nothing new to CCHR, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. In it they detail some of the many instances of psychiatric drugs causing homicidal ideation, particularly mentioning Effexor and Andrea Yates, who drowned her 5 children in a bathtub while under the effects of Effexor.

It’s not too surprising, when you stop and think about it. The purpose of psychiatric drugs is to create numbness and an incapacity to feel certain emotions. They want you numb …

Even the New York Times gets it right occasionally. Some enterprising reporter there has not yet received their indoctrination that psychiatrists can do no wrong. Here’s an article about Drug company money paid to psychiatrists. The gist is that psychiatrists who take the most money from drug companies making antipsychotic drugs are the ones that prescribe those same drugs to children the most often. The article is based on publicly available information in Minnesota.

David Kaiser, MD, (a psychiatrist) wrote an article in 1996 that makes the claim that “psychiatry has quite literally lost its mind”. Here’s the text of his article about biologic psychiatry and the problems with it.

This practicing psychiatrist comes right out and says the same thing that CCHR has been saying for some time: “I believe significant harm is being done to patients under the guise of modern psychiatric treatment.”

He oughta know.

Yes, I KNOW that’s mis-spelled. This cartoon from M.E. Cohen says it pretty well:

I get a weekly email from “Cecile”, called the Optimism Newsletter. It is unfailingly optimistic and I find myself looking forward to it every Friday after the weekly barrage of bad news from regular news sources. That and Randy Casingham’s “This is True” newsletter (in which Randy re-phrases news stories, adding his own hysterically funny punchlines), make up most of the “Good News” emails I get in a week.

Today Cecile quoted Will Durant:

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. …

A quote from Leonard Roy Frank caught my attention today:

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.

Mr. Frank is a survivor of forced Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT). ECT is a barbaric practice foisted off on the unsuspecting as if it were some kind of valid medical treatment; approximately 100,000 Americans every year are subjected to ECT.

For the last week or so, the Church of Scientology of Portland has been sponsoring a Volunteer Ministers‘ Cavalcade in Pioneer Square in Portland. They put up a huge yellow tent and spoke with anyone who wanted to talk. In one week they had about 4500 people go through the tent, looking at the exhibits, reading about solutions to drugs, illiteracy and personal problems, basically finding out about Scientology for themselves. The tent just shows the Scientology tools with which Scientologists are very familiar. (Drug Rehabilitation, Study Technology, and the Emotional Tone Scale, for example.)

Scientology sometimes gets hammered in …

This group MindFree.org has similar goals to CCHR. MindFree headquarters seems to be in Eugene, Oregon. Their leaders seem to be survivors of psychiatric repression. I like their tag line, “Mad Pride”. Psychiatric labeling has no basis in reality, those damaged by it could do worse than joining up with MindFree.org. Although I think for any really effective steps against psychiatry, you’d need to be a member of CCHR. It’s been CCHR that has gotten closed down hundreds of psych hospitals in the last decade. Their tireless documentation of and exposure of psychiatric abuse gets them my deep respect.