IMPORTANT FACTS

1. The artist is superior to psychiatrists� materialistic and authoritarian �sciences� that can blunt the creative mind by redefining it as �madness.�

2. Usually the person giving out the broad, sweeping generalities about another is the one who fears they would perish if others become strong, bright or successful.

3. Psychiatrists chose to ignore what medical experts have been saying for years; for example, according to one Canadian study, �No single psychiatric symptom exists that cannot at times be caused or aggravated by various physical illnesses.�

4. People in desperate circumstances must be provided proper and effective care. Sound medical attention, good nutrition, and a healthy, safe environment will do wonders for a troubled person.

The entire activity of psychiatry with its drugs and shocks invalidates individuals. The true artist, like the incomparable Judy Garland, inspires the beauty in all of us. Psychiatry and psychology deny it.

CHAPTER SIX The World Needs Artists

The world needs its artists. Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe�s deaths were avoidable. Michael Hutchence, Kurt Cobain and Del Shannon�s suicides could have been prevented. Yet similar tragedies continue today because of ignorance about the methods, means and motivations of psychiatry and psychology.

So much in the public eye, an artist will attract negative interest as well. Certain people will likely enter the artist�s life and in different ways, manage to feed off his energy and creativity as an artist�in a parasitic relationship. This includes the �friend� or critic who covertly sees the artist or his work as something to belittle; the �friend� who advises: �You work too hard, why don�t you slow down?�; the director who comments after you�ve given your best shot at a scene, �Now, can we do it again and this time, try acting!�

Finding themselves in such a situation, artists should be wary of the �help� that may be offered. In comparing the lives of many artists who died tragically, there are similarities�their fears of failure, their naivet� in the face of manipulated careers, the stress of competition, physical difficulties, and more. The common thread through many of these stories is that the help these artists accepted betrayed them. That false �help� was psychiatry and psychology.

Though it cloaks itself in pseudoscientific jargon, psychiatry is not a science but a hoax. Whatever their claims, psychiatrists create unhappiness in many ways.

To those who ask, �What is the alternative?�, there is an answer: People in desperate circumstances must be provided proper non-psychiatric care. 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 and other psychiatric abuses.

Researchers report: �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.�

Further, �No single psychiatric symptom exists that cannot at times be caused or aggravated by various physical illnesses.�

Rest and food in a safe environment can help greatly.

These noninvasive means provide the mentally distressed person with a truly humane chance to make it through their difficulties.

The artist can be a powerful and greatly bene- ficial influence on society. Society in turn needs to take care of its artists. And artists need to take better care of themselves.

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