IMPORTANT FACTS

1. A competent, non-psychiatric doctor who can find underlying physical conditions that can cause “psychiatric” symptoms, should conduct thorough physical exams.

2. According to medical experts, “hyperactive” behavior has many sources ranging from, but not limited to, allergies, food additives, environmental toxins, improper sleep and certain medications.

3. If a child is not learning or is behind in school, or can’t seem to concentrate, a competent tutor may be needed.

4. A child may also struggle because he or she is very creative or highly intelligent and is in need of greater stimulation.

CHAPTER SIX Taking Back Control

So far, this publication has shown you how psychiatrists and psychologists have invaded our once successful education systems and converted them into behavioral laboratories.

However, there are many courageous individuals who have succeeded in the face of this decay. Take the example of the young mother who had to fight to get her preschool son a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist when she suspected he had a hearing problem. The school nurse referred him instead to a psychologist, who labeled him as having “ADD” and needing a drug. The mother fought for four months to get the referral she wanted; eventually the specialist discovered the boy had a chronic case of fluid buildup and 35- decibel hearing loss as a result. Within a month the boy was in the hospital: a 15-minute surgery prevented what could have been a childhood spent on psychiatric drugs.

Another mother was called into the school principal’s office where a psychologist explained that her son’s brain had an inability to send signals correctly, which was why he couldn’t concentrate. Tim was put on Ritalin. He began to lose his appetite, have headaches and tire easily, yet it seemed impossible for him to sleep
at night. Tim pleaded that he didn’t want to depend on a pill and said, “I’m smart on my own, Mom.”

On the advice of a friend, the mother took her son to a doctor who practices alternative medicine. The doctor took Tim off the drugs, and began giving him nutrients and vitamins. He found that Tim had food allergies. With this corrected, Tim began to eat again and could fall asleep naturally. It was also discovered that Tim had been taught using the “Whole Word” method and, as such, didn’t understand what he had been reading in class. His mother purchased a “phonics game” for him, taught him grammar and, within a few months, his reading level increased from second to sixth grade level.

The parent can knowbest and can rightfully take control of the situation, ideas all too easily lost, in what is most often a David and Goliath struggle for parents and families.

These examples show that when we strip away the lies we can restore hope, and that there are inexpensive, non-invasive and productive alternatives to the expensive, enforced and unworkable labeling, drugging and other “solutions” of psychiatry.

It is a fact that undiagnosed, but treatable medical physical conditions often manifest as a “psychiatric symptom.”

Psychiatrist Dr. Sydney Walker’s book, The Hyperactivity Hoax, records a variety of reasons for hyperactive behavior: “Children with early-stage brain tumors can develop symptoms of hyperactivity or poor attention. So can lead- or pesticide-poisoned children. So can children with early-onset diabetes, heart disease, worms, viral or bacterial infections, malnutrition, head injuries, genetic disorders, allergies, mercury or manganese exposure, petit mal seizures, and hundreds—yes hundreds—of other minor, major, or even life-threatening medical problems. Yet all these children are labeled hyperactive or ADD.”

And according to a U.K. publication, Mental Illness Not All in the Mind , “The combination of any of the following: sub-optimum nutrition, exposure to antinutrients, overuse of sugar, stimulants and depressants and food allergies or intolerances—can be a very real contributor to mental and emotional health problems. The correction of these factors often results in substantial improvement.”

Thousands of children put on psychiatric drugs are simply “smart.” “They’re hyper not because their brains don’t work right, but because they spend most of the day waiting for slower students to catch up with them. These students are bored to tears, and people who are bored fidget, wiggle, scratch, stretch, and (especially if they are boys) start looking for ways to get into trouble,” said Dr. Walker.

Studies also show that tutoring leads to improvements in academic outcomes. If your child is not learning or is behind in school, or simply doesn’t enjoy his classes or can’t seem to concentrate, find a competent tutor who gets results. And let his teacher know you want him to fully understand his words, using a simple dictionary.

There is a world of difference between the art of identifying symptoms and the science of finding and treating causes. Psychiatrists specialize in cataloguing symptoms, work to convince us that the symptoms are causes, that their treatments work and then persist in treating the symptoms. As a result, many believe their propaganda that parents, poverty, crime, illiteracy, suicide, mental illness, etc., are some of the “causes” of our current youth problems.

But these are not causes, they are just symptoms; and at best, psychiatry’s inept meddling and treatments have brought about a worsening of every one of the “conditions” listed above. Blind to real causes, they remain blind to the consequences of their actions. And herein lies the most important truth concerning the plague of social problems characterizing our youth and general society today—the real cause of our current malaise is psychiatry itself.

The end goal of any society when addressing education must be to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level and, thus, the survival level of the society. This will only be achieved when psychiatry and psychology, their prying tests, their invasive and fraudulent “diagnoses” and their harmful drugs are removed from schools and children’s lives.

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