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IMPORTANT FACTS
1. It is a well-established
medical fact that undiagnosed and untreated physical disease creates the same
mental symptoms that psychiatry chooses to define as a �psychiatric disorder.�
2. There are humane alternatives
to the psychiatric monopoly. People in desperate circumstances must be provided
proper and effective
medical care.
3. Italy�s Dr. Giorgio
Antonucci provided non-drug treatment to patients that psychiatrists had labeled
as �dangerous� but who, with proper medical care and communication, were stable
and discharged from the hospital.
4. The use of physical
and mechanical restraints is an assault and should be outlawed.
CHAPTER
FOUR Restoring Basic Humanity
Dr. Sydney Walker III, a neurologist, psychiatrist and author of A Dose of
Sanity, scoffed at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
saying it had �led to the unnecessary drugging of millions � who could be diagnosed,
treated and cured without the use of toxic and potentially lethal medications.�
Charles B. Inlander, president of The People�s Medical Society, and his colleagues
wrote in Medicine on Trial , �People with real or alleged psychiatric
or behavioral disorders are being misdiagnosed �and harmed� to an astonishing
degree .... Many of them do not have psychiatric problems but exhibit physical
symptoms that may mimic mental conditions and so they are misdiagnosed, put
on drugs, put in institutions and sent into a limbo from which they may never
return.�
Researchers tell us: �The most common medically induced psychiatric symptoms
are apathy, anxiety, visual hallucinations, mood and personality changes, dementia,
depression, delusional thinking, sleep disorders (frequent or early morning
awaking), poor concentration, changed speech patterns, tachycardia [rapid heartbeat],
nocturia [excessive urination at night], tremulousness and confusion.�
�No single psychiatric symptom exists that cannot at times be caused or aggravated
by various physical illnesses,� researcher Erwin Koranyi reported in a Canadian
study.
The psychiatrist blatantly and continually chooses to ignore this evidence.
Nevertheless, it is a well-established fact that undiagnosed and untreated physical
disease creates the very same mental and physical symptoms that psychiatry chooses
to define as symptoms of untreated psychiatric conditions. The critical difference
is that correctly diagnosing and treating the physical condition cures the disease,
thereby automatically resolving the mental and physical symptoms. By contrast,
psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of supposed mental illness has never determined
the cause, therefore never cures the �illness� and�because it is hit and miss
at best� always worsens the symptoms, provided the treatment isn�t fatal.
There are humane alternatives to the psychiatric industry�s monopoly. People
in desperate circumstances must be provided proper and effective medicalcare.
Sound medical attention, good nutrition, a healthy, safe environment and activity
that promotes confidence, will do far more for a troubled person than repeated
drugging, shocks, violent restraints and other psychiatric abuses.
Mental health facilities should have non-psychiatric physicians on their staff
and be equipped with a full complement of diagnostic equipment to locate underlying
and undiagnosed physical conditions. Such correct diagnosis would prevent an
estimated 40% of psychiatric admissions.
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