Posted by linkadge on July 17, 2005, at 17:02:42
In reply to Re: Dr. Breggin on Tom Cruise, ritalin and psychiatry., posted by Declan on July 17, 2005, at 15:40:58
I am ashamed that I have to admit that I agree with some of what Breggin said.
"I do know that psychiatrists often lie to patients to protect themselves and their drugs. My colleagues lie by saying the antidepressant merely “brought out” their mania, psychosis, violence or depression, rather than the drug caused it in the otherwise innocent victim. Jane Pauley thinks she is a victim of bipolar disorder when she sounds to me like a victim of psychiatry.
It’s no small matter to falsely inform a person that their drug-induced mania shows they have bipolar disorder. It results in a false diagnosis and a stigmatizing label (bipolar or manic-depressive disorder) that follows people for the rest of their lives. It leads to additional medications, often including antipsychotic drugs like Zyprexa and Risperdal that can cause lethal diabetes and pancreatitis, and tardive dyskinesia, a potentially disfiguring and disabling neurological disorder characterized by bizarre-looking abnormal movements."
It is so true. My mother is the product of antidepressant induced mania, and lies.
Now she's on AP's lithium, depakote etc.
10 years ago everyone was depressed, now everyone has bipolar disorder.
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