Charlie Rose

jpke  08/23/2012 08:01 PM Report

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Mr (Charlie)Rose,

You've had a series on the brain, brain "science" and psychiatry with various guests discussing developments and "discoveries" in their field(s). How about doing a show (or even a series) on a growing number of groups and activists in the field of "mental health" and psychiatric reform? I (and a growing number of others) believe it would be of great public service to

broadcast in the "mainstream" media the views and work of individuals such as Peter Breggin, MD(author,psychiatrist), Jim Gottstein (atty, mental health activist), Robert Whitaker(psychiatric researcher and author), David Healy MD (author, psychiatrist), Ann Blake-Tracy(International Coalition for Drug Awareness), and others.

There is increasing, documented evidence on the harm done by the use of psychotropic drugs, and other psychiatric treatments (current and historically) which should be made more "public".

There are also mental health/ psychiatric consumer (and "insider expert") voices rising on issues related to: Informed consent, coercion, disclosure, misrepresentation, false claims, conflict of interest, corruption, ghostwriting, fraudulent practice, physical/mental abuse, and professional ethics and standards issues in the psychiatric and mental health field.

Your response would be appreciated.

Sincerely, Jim Keiser

PS: I'm adding the following statements (by others) for your consideration and comment:

RE. DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS: "The thing that bothers me the most about psychiatry (outside of the harm done by its so-called "treatments") is the fact that psychiatrists almost NEVER look for underlying medical disorders. They just use their "Bible," the DSM, which is merely a collection of symptoms that could be caused by MANY THINGS. By not using differential diagnosis, psychiatrists are failing to practice actual medicine. Joe Blow off the street, with no medical training, could come up with a diagnosis after listening to someone describe their symptoms once he has flipped through the pages of the DSM. If I can accomplish one thing (and I have no idea of how to do this), I would like to create a standard that forces psychiatrists to do a thorough battery of medical tests before any medications are prescribed or labels given."~unk

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STANDARD PRACTICE IN PSYCHIATRIC "DIAGNOSIS" AND TREATMENT (valid from my, and others' experiences):

"...Most people would agree that people need to (be) told accurate information about the validity of a diagnosis; including whether or not it is Biological in nature; or if this is a belief based on nothing more than a yet to be validated Hypothesis. Saying that a psychiatric diagnosis is a disease/chemical imbalance/neuro-biological in nature is a story told to 'bust the stigma' and to get people to take their meds; not because it is based on fact.

...Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent 'discoveries', e.g., in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain. ...

...Most people would agree that people need to given accurate, unbiased information about the drugs prescribed to them and their children. Most of us would agree it would be wrong to tell people that they in fact have a disease/chemical imbalance or a neuro-biological condition requiring drugs to treat it; when no imbalance, disease, defect or neuro-biological condition has been identified. These claims are being made without any physical, neurological or medical examination taking place. A conversation with the person and gathering information from others about their personal opinions and subjective observation of the patient or 'client' is not an examination; and even a consensus of informed opinions does not make the weakest of 'evidence' scientific or valid; it does not make the psychiatric diagnosis a medical condition either. ...

The fact is: no genetic condition, chemical imbalance, or neuro-biological pathology has been identified ever--in any human being alive or dead; that causes any mental illness, or psychiatric diagnosis. ...

...Failing to give people the very information which is necessary to protect their children and themselves is particularly heinous; despicable really, all things considered. ...

...For professionals to ignore their ethical duty to fully inform patients and parents of children about the nature of psychiatric diagnoses, about the potential for harm involved in taking psychiatric drugs is criminal; not just 'unethical.' It is, in reality fraud...

...This being the case, it is an unethical claim for any psychiatrist or mental health professional to make. It is dishonest, it is disrespectful and it is evidence of an utter lack of professional integrity. ...

...Many believe the drugs are treating a disease, because of the erroneous belief that doctors don't lie to patients. People take neurotoxic drugs believing that the drugs treat a brain disease they have. The drugs cause iatrogenic, or 'physician caused' diseases, neurological impairments, and can disable them; and even cause their untimely death. ...

...It is fraud. It is Standard Practice. It is criminal. "~from article in Systems of Care Yakima

Ricardo_Amaral  08/23/2012 10:09 AM Report

Gelles, if you have been reading my articles going back to over 10 years, then you know that I have been anti-war all along and I wish they stopped the killings in Syria and the other countries in the Middle East ASAP.

Over the years we have been discussing on Brazzil magazine and also at the Elite Trader forums the subject of war in the Middle East, Africa, and also in South America.

I just put together some reference and web links to some of my writings on the subject and I created a new blog:

Israel and World War III

http://israelandworldwariii.blogspot.com/

I hope you will enjoy reading and the videos about the subject of war.

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Gelles  08/23/2012 09:20 AM Report

The practice of war in recent memory in all non-Eskimo lands, especially in Europe and Asia, was murder of the young males and innocent bystanders on a wholesale scale. Nothing taking place on the Ice in North America compared with the meat grinders at work in WWI, WWII and their aftermath, because modern nations refused to enact economic bills of rights and output-based money (OBM) laws to establish full employment in fact.

Ryan and Romney and almost everyone else seem not to recognize the "Abundance" at hand to match supply to need and demand to supply, with OBM.

Singularity University (among other high tech endeavors) was founded by Diamandis and Kurzweil to rationalize global thought in matters of production, consumption and education.

Amaral and Gelles call on this audience to stop the societal-based murder of innocents to accommodate debt-based money in greater proportion to debt-free money than necessary.

If you are ignorant of this problem, get involved with http://www.whatisamericanmoney.com

Ricardo_Amaral  08/22/2012 10:14 PM Report

I have not watched any of the Brain series episodes, but there is a simple solution for "depression" all you have to do is vote for the Romney/Ryan Presidential ticket in 2012 - since these guys have a simple solution to deal with the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid problems in the United States.

Here is what means to vote for a Romney/Ryan Presidential ticket in 2012

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=eb99c6d3d520952ae956db79c7418f5e&threadid=247451&perpa ge=6&pagenumber=11

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