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The real Horrors of how Electric Shock (ECT) "Works" 2007-02-24 00:35:00 I recently got a little description of this "treatment" and how it is meant to work and cure someone. Or maybe the word cure has been removed from the Psychiatric vocabulary. It's pretty disgusting, if you've got an upset stomach I would suggest you skip this post and go to the next one.Here's a brief description of the process - don't try this at home (nor in a hospital).1. The patient is injected with an anesthetic to block out pain and a muscle relaxant to shut down muscular activity and prevent spinal fractures.2. Electrodes are placed on the temples bilaterally (from one side of the brain to the other) or unilaterally (front to back on one side of the brain).3. A rubber gag is placed in the mouth to keep teeth from breaking or patients from biting their tongues.4. Between 180 and 480 volts of electricity are sent searing through the brain.5. To meet the brain’s demand for oxygen, blood flow to the brain can increase as much as 400%. Blood pressure can increase 200%. Under no Read more:Horrors
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And now for something completely different 2007-02-20 15:27:00 In a moment of total Pythonian Logic I sat down to blog today about some current event in the news. Something absolutely amazingly important. It was the type of information that would probably have changed the course of earth.But I got sidetracked today when I saw the blog of John Wood. After seeing this article I decided would scrap all the important things on my agenda and write about a totally unimportant issue.A fellow blogger has started an encyclopedia of Monty Python things. While I normally blog about Human Rights and the abuses of Psychiatry, the real deal with Global Warming and other issues - but now is the moment for somethingcompletelydifferent
.Go to John's blog and then click over to the Wikipeadia!This will be the end of any serious consideration for the wikipedia.I am sorry I lost that absolutely important information I had to blog about today - I guess you will never find out about it then.;-) Read more:something completely different
Global Warming - no skin off my nose 2007-02-09 19:30:00 Someone sent me this little story, when reading this post related Global
Warming on a familiar blog (ourearthlyrights.blogspot.com which I linked to earlier) I check out regularly I thought I would publish it and you can make your own decisions. This is a subject that many are writing about these days. I also found it on this site (johnalexwood.blogspot.com - and you should check out his article on Spamalot).A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There i Read more:Global Warming
Human Rights - also in the west? 2007-02-04 20:04:00 I read this blog called "The dark side of The Sun" on the recent media articles on one celebrity. I sometimes wonder how some of these tabloid papers view things like human rights.I was thinking it over the other day. And figured out how they get away with this sort of stuff.Journalist Bob thinks up some story that will be sensational. Bob has two email accounts. He sends himself an email from his Yahoo account under the name of Pete. FictionPete claims to be a great friend of a celebrity and says "I have inside information for you such and such" Journalist Bob now has "evidence" on the story and publishes is saving his home-made email in the files as the document.One takes Bob or the Newspaper to court and they pull up the "evidence" which is an email from FictionPete.That's my 5-cents - but I bet that's the way it goes.All in the name of a bit of money these giddy little people happily ruin lives. Cute isn't it. Read more:Rights
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Is Psychiatry for Sale? 2007-02-02 20:03:00 I just saw this very neat article on Psychiatry
. It's 9000 words so a bit to read but very informative and gives a neat view how Big Pharma is pulling the strings in the medical profession.Nice piece of research (better than me I must admit).It sort of puts the text to my earlier post with the cartoon, "could we up the dosage" in fact this is exactly what Psychiatry has become. A Big Pharma pusher - if you don't know what I am talking about you need to see the DVD I posted about earlier Psychiatry: An Industry of Death.
Could we up the dosage, doctor? I still have feelings 2007-01-26 22:29:00 Saw this cartoon - it's subtle enough to be quite funny!Patient says to his psychiatrist: Could we up the dosage? I still have feelings. By Alex GregoryID: 123559, Published in The New Yorker January 22, 2007
How to win any argument 2007-01-25 09:23:00 OK I’ll be frank. I dislike psychiatry and just about anything they do. I have seen the vegetables they make and nothing much they can say or do will make up for the millions of lives they ruin. So how to they get away with their crimes. Not too complex. 1. If you oppose a psychiatrist or their profession they challenge you with their diplomas and tell you you haven’t studied. 2. Anyone who tries to have a success (and often does much good) get’s labelled as a fake and they get their propaganda machine (well financed by Big Pharma) to chop them up into little bits. Grim? Yes I know but unfortunately true.PS: And when you show them that they don’t have any results = they say can’t possibly get results as they lack the funds. Nice one eh?
Film Premiere puts Spotlight on Sex Trafficking in USA 2007-01-18 14:26:00 Found this article, following my earlier posts on Human Rights I thought it is an intersting point.Human rights activists from Southern California will gather on Wednesday, January 17th to address the growing problem of human trafficking in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. A new docudrama that exposes trafficking in the US will be premiered followed by a panel discussion. The film, Cargo: Innocence Lost, by award-winning film director Michael Cory Davis, unveils the dark underworld of sex trafficking. Cargo provides an insight into this human tragedy through interviews with top officials on the subject, victims' advocates and some of the victims themselves. The film is interwoven with raw, intense narrative based on numerous true stories. The event, which will be held at the Garden Pavilion of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles, is co-organized by a number of Southern California groups, united in the fight against human trafficking Read more:Premiere
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"a lack of respect towards professionals working in psychiatry" 2007-01-11 10:31:00 I found this quote on the site of PsykiatriFonden - who is farily active these days on the PR front in Denmark. They even convinced the Crown Princess Mary to become a "protector" for their association.The most recent campaign they are running is "anyone who promotes that they can help stress is a fake." - now hold on, that means that they can do something about it? No they even say it themselves.Quote from PsykiatriFonden, a Politically-Neutral Advocacy Organisation for Mental IllnessThe perception of psychiatry and the role of the psychiatrist Despite improvements in the scientific understanding of mental health disorders and advances in their treatment, there is still a lack of respect
towards professionals working
in psychiatry. Our image in the general public, as well as in our own ranks, is not as good as it should be. The general public is sceptical and the media often carries stories about patients who are overdrugged, patients who receive insufficient psychotherapy and lack of
All in the name of progress... 2006-12-04 18:39:00 A friend of mine sent this to me - I thought it would be relevant. Trace back most of these changes and lo and behold, who or what do you find behind it? ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack. 1973: Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack. 2006: School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school. 1973: Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled. 2006: Pol ice called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students. 1973: J Read more:progress
Alaska Mental Health Act or the "Siberia Bill" - any similarities to UK Mental Health Bill? 2006-11-28 20:11:00 The “Siberia
Bill” was the final extension of a decade-long psychiatric effort to simplify commitment procedures, the bill specifically called for the establishment of a remote Alaska
n mental health facility and radically streamlined means of incarcerating inmates-hence the nickname “Siberia Bill” to remind the people of precisely what the plan comprised, i.e. an American Gulag. Eventually described by the Superior Court Judge as representing, “totalitarian government at its best” the bill proposed that “any health welfare or police officer who has reason to believe that an individual is mentally ill and therefore likely to injure himself or others if not immediately restrained” may transport that individual to a mental asylum for professional evaluation.There, “the prisoner” could be detained five days, or if judged mentally incompetent, “for the rest of his natural life.” No statement of probably cause was required, no issue of warrant was necessary, and no he Read more:Health
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More on the UK Mental Health Bill 2006-11-28 19:47:00 I gathered some quotes from articles on the UK Mental Health
bill. Interesting how few people agree with it. FROM: The IndependentThe Bill, if approved, will allow local authorities to force compulsory treatment on mental patients whether or not it is beneficial. Wide-spread use of proposed Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) could put severe restrictions on patients after they have been discharged from hospital as well as governing where they live and what medication they take.Paul Corry of Rethink. "Detention for reasons other than health benefit should be handled by non-health services."The Bill is the third attempt to reform existing legislation. Previous efforts failed after fierce opposition.http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2016145.eceFROM: YOUNG PEOPLE NOWThe mental health bill, which amends part of the Mental Health
Act 1983, would allow health services to detain mentally ill patients for treatment without their permission if they are perceived as a danger t
New Mental Health Bill in UK 2006-11-26 20:45:00 I just read about the new draft Mental Health
bill for UK. I read a part of the bill and this looks quite scary.Involuntary commitment now gets a new form. There is a new Tribunal to be made of minimum 3 people which will decide if someone gets put away or not. And they don't decide based on the problem the person has but rather based on the behaviour even if they don't know the cause.I stopped reading the rest after that.I was reminded of the book 1984 by Orwell, what if someone disagrees with the government. Well all it would take is for some psychiatrist to name that as a disorder and there we go.They already have some 400 disorders and more growing by the day. Everything can be construed as a disorder if one has a different view on the subject.It is the classical psychiatrist solution. Someone disagrees with them - they label him crazy, he gets locked up and they can continue with what they want to do.25 years ago Homosexuality was a disorder, now it isn't. What's the differenc
Man dead after storming German School 2006-11-20 15:46:00 Just read this article from Reuters. I am quoting a part of it here:EMSDETTEN, German
y (Reuters) - A masked man opened fire after storming
a school in the western German town of Emsdetten on Monday, wounding several students before he apparently committed suicide.Click here to view it.Almost all of these stories lead back to someone who had just come out of psychiatric care. And almost each one of the murderers are on psychiatric drugs.I don't thing this is an exception and we will probably find out soon.Something needs to be done about it.I was speaking to a friend of mine lately whose sister is a teacher in Belgium. The school had been ordered to advise their children to take drugs if they aren't doing good. One teacher objected to it and asked the Teachers Board if they were willing to take the same drugs that they are giving to the kids - surprise surprise, nobody was and all were terrified at the idea.They put off giving the drugs for a few weeks until they received an order tha Read more:School
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Documentary on DVD 2006-11-08 20:56:00 I just watched this DVD for the second time. I am not sure what to say... yuk or wow! The fact of the matter is that this is an eye-opener of the best kind.It is like a wake-up call. We have psychiatry creeping in on us every day and twisting some of the wildest viewpoints to "ok". OK well pretty much anyone knows instrinctively these guys are up to no-good. They success rate sort of proves it. But nobody really has the evidence to to show it.This DVD does the job.What we are looking at here is just like the Emperor's New Clothes, Psychiatry
goes around and pretends to be an authority on a subject they actually have no results in, and millions believe they have the answers but nobody dares to look at the results.Well see the DVD yourself, it is quite revealing.http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/14396 Read more:Documentary
Ritalin use in Denmark 2006-09-21 13:47:00 Check out this graph on the use of Ritalin in Denmark
.It is in Danish but you can see the statistics. It is odd how this is increasing ever since the pharmaceutical industry started implanting itself heavily in Copenhagen and what they now call "Medicon Valley".Have the students suddenly become bad or is someone getting in there is a marketing strategy. And the big question is - has the education improved?As they say in french, a suivre...
The Terror Doctors 2006-09-17 17:05:00 The TerrorDoctors
; Freedom Magazine publicationThis article I just re-read, it deserves its own post. Well written and revealing how the drug trade is sponsoring the Terrorists and how they really have nothing to do with Islam.So when people make statements like these - I wonder have they done their homework?
Pope tells Muslims he "deeply sorry" for crisis 2006-09-17 16:33:00 How did this happen? We're probably going through one of the most religously heated periods of history.How the muslims are being held responsible for almost all the violence in the world today is reminicent of how the Communists were being treated in the 1960s through to the fall of the Communist empire.So how does the Pope do a blunder like this?I found an article that could explain this here.It is a good read, there are a couple more in there that are interesting too. Such as this one on terror and violence, and where it really comes from. Read more:tells
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Invasion of Privacy? 2006-09-07 01:20:00 Saw this video on the Youth For Human Rights site (definitely worth a visit), which shows a great new view on The Right to Privacy
which I posted on earlier. This is not the usual "consipracy theory" they-are-coming-to-get-us kind of view. Click here to watch it.Nice new viewpoint, eh?Kind of easier to relate to how "more surveillance" could go wrong. What if the guys watching you are the same as those snatching the paper from the girl? Read more:Invasion
Danish Privacy laws issue 2006-09-06 20:23:00 I woke up this morning to hear that some 7 people were arrested in Denmark for plotting terrorist acts. Am sure glad they caught them.But added to that was a comment that maybe the Danish
parliament wants to increase surveillance in Denmark so it does not happen again.There was a neat comment from the former director of the Danish Investigative Police saying something like, we don't need to increase the surveillance as the recently foiled plot was an evidence that the current system is enough. I.e. Don't fix it if it isn't broken!Then there was a whole radio program on Danish Radio P3 following this about "I don't mind more surveillance, I've got nothing to hide" - well at least that is how it started.What a narrow minded view, I mean the massive surveillance is fine if everyone was totally honest and totally operating on the greater good. But are they?Someone should take some of the radio programs they make, edit it a bit and show them what a not-so-honest person could make out Read more:Privacy
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What part of 1984 did they not understand? 2007-03-05 23:59:00 I read this article here on on the US Army wanting to install cameras around the world.I think Engadget posted on something like this before about the UK having installed PA system to their CCTVs in the city.Look I really think the people behind this misunderstood the point behind the book 1984. It wasn't an instruction manual for how to run a good government. It was a satire and a view on how bad it can become in the future!No honestly, I doubt they misunderstood anything. But lest nobody read 1984 it's a great prediction of how sour the "total control government" can go.Eh - the right to privacy anyone? The Universal Declaration on Human Rights? It was meant help people not to put in a file cabinet in a basement at the bottom of a flight of broken stairs, locked in a disused lavatory with a sign "Beware of the Leopard". [from Douglas Adam's Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy]
What TeenScreen would prefer you didn't do 2007-03-12 20:33:00 I got this in an email from a friend. They got this quote from an email that TeenScreen sent about the people ANTI TeenScreen. Well if they would prefer you don't see it, then I prefer you do.Below is what TeenScreen does NOT want you to do as they elaborate here: http://dailykenoshan.com/images/news/ts/responding.pdfWrite Letters. To the local school board. To area school principals. To the local paper. To anyone who will listen.Attend Local Meetings. Express your opinions at local community forums, such as school board meetings or town hall meetings.Make Web Sites and Blogs. TeenScreen says: "information proliferated by these groups remains on their own Web sites and Web logs, or blogs. It is when members of your community find these sites that the information these groups disseminate becomes problematic." So you know what to do now...
Human Rights in UK? 2007-03-22 23:57:00 I picked this up from Engadget, I've posted on it before and it bears more mention.I'm If you're a regular reader of Engadget then you don't have to live in the UK to know that they loves 'em some surveillance technology. Last year, their Information Commissioner warned that the UK was running the risk of "sleep-walking into a surveillance society." Today, Jack Straw announced that the Commons' Home Affairs committee would be launching an inquiry into the growing use of surveillance. From the kingdom which gave us George Orwell and CCTV cameras with mics, speakers, and the intelligence to detect violent behavior and see through clothes, we're wondering if the move is already a tad too late. Of course, here in the US we shoot each other for game consoles so pick your poison. Read more:Rights
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Swisscom for Human Rights 2007-03-30 01:14:00 I just heard that Swisscom the Swiss Mobile Phone company are showing the Human Rights
Public Service announcements from YouthforHumanRights in their shops.That's pretty cool - using all those Gadgets for something good!A more positive note on some issues! Read more:Human Rights
Teenscreen - if you're not sure ... just label them suicidal 2007-03-31 01:31:00 This came in on an email I got about Teenscreen. I hear some others have already adopted the teen screen model in some countries and made it mandatory. It is just like George Orwell's 1984 (yes I know I mentioned that before) - but really. I just don't get it like teenagers are committing suicide and throwing themselves out of the window all over the place? Not really - actually why don't we ask the psychiatric profession to supply the rest of society with helmets to protect themselves from the suicidal teenagers?Jokes aside (actually if we did that people would see how stupid this program really is) it's like finding one problem and then adjusting the whole population to fit the minute possibility that all others are in the same category.And in any case anything that checks for problems as a systematic check will eventually drive people nutty. There's got to be some evidence or an indication before the checks move in. The Vacin dillema is just one of the same.Star Tribune TEENSC
Could Virginia Tech Massacre have been prevented? 2007-04-18 18:30:00 Watchdog Says Psychiatrists and Mental Health Industry Have Known Since 1991 That Their Drugs Can Cause Violence and Suicide In 1991 CCHR brought Evidence before the FDAClick here to watch 7 minute video of 1991 FDA hearingCho Seung-Hui May Be 9th School Shooter Under Influence of Psychiatric Drugs -- Documented to Cause Homicidal Ideation, Suicide, Psychosis, Mania and Hostility In the wake of yesterday's shooting rampage at Virginia
Tech by gunman Cho Seung-Hui, state legislators, civic and human rights activists are asking why Congress has failed to investigate the link between psychiatric drugs and school violence, given the high rate of psychiatric drug use by the shooters. According to breaking news from investigators at Virginia Tech, Cho may have taken depression drugs—documented by the Food and Drug Administration to cause suicidal behavior, mania, psychosis, hallucinations, hostility and “homicidal ideation.?If Cho Seung-Hui’s psychiatric drug use is confirm
How many School shootings are Psychotropic drug users? 2007-04-20 10:10:00 I promised I would look into this and I am still doing it. There is more information to be gotten and I will get it and post it here.What I have found so far is that 8 out of the last 11 School
Shootings are by kids on Psychotropic drug, i.e. antidrepressants.But the only reason there are 3 which "aren't" is because we can't access their files.More to come on this.What's the one thing these killers have in common? Psychiatric drugs. Read more:users
The story behind Cho 2007-04-21 16:52:00 I just read this article, it's great. It's not just the Psychiatric drugs that cause these problem - it is the psychiatric system. If someone has been "in treatment" and then turns around to murder 32 people then something is really wrong.by Dr. Peter Breggin - Read the original article here.Focusing on Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho as a disturbed mental patient has led media analysts to ponder how he could have been more readily identified by the mental health system. But Cho is not someone who slipped beneath the psychiatric radar. Instead, he was frequently detected as a large object on the screen.On separate occasions, he was involuntarily hospitalized, sent for psychological evaluation, and referred to the university counseling center. Consistent with getting him more psychiatric "help," experts have also opined on how he might have benefited from medication. These are all the wrong lessons. The mental health system was fully alert to Cho's existence and to serious Read more:story
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Cho was just one in 1500 2007-04-25 10:14:00 Someone put a comment on one of the posts I made about the number of School shooters that are on Psychiatric drugs and linked to this site. I checked out the site and while I knew these antidepressants are bad news, I wasn't aware that anyone had documented it to such a degree. Here are more than 1500 stories of antidepressant related violence. And we're not talking shouting when talk violence, no here are murderers and more. It's amazing that with all this - nobody does anything to take them off the market. There are real solutions to problems of life and none of them involve drugs or electro-shocks or lobotomies. Click here for a good bunch of real solutions. And click here for more facts on the harm Psychiatry does daily.Check out these stories for yourself.SSRI StoriesThis website is a collection of 1500+ news stories with the full media article available, mainly criminal in nature, that have appeared in the media or that were part of FDA testimony in either 1991, 2004 or 2006,
RFID chips, BBC reporters and Human Rights ... 2007-05-14 19:53:00 I was looking through some earlier Engadget blogs on RFID lately and remembered one of them about a company that had invented an RFID tattoo to track cows - and then someone mentions that this could also be used for the armed services. The tattoo is readable up to 4 feet away. Only for cattle now but the company wants to get this to military personel second. It's sort of scary how we're moving into a control society where every move is being tracked. And how many people watch it happen and think that it's inevitable. I know as I've wondered sometimes myself what could be done about it.Something can always be done about it. That's my motto - I'm a Scientologist and I believe in that. As I'm in the subject of human rights I thought I would write a little blurb.I was looking at the news recently and it's amazing how human rights like Freedom of Press get perverted into "Freedom to lie and twist the truth". I've lived Scientology for some 12-15 years now and I look at the stuff t Read more:Rights
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