More nuggets from Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part I

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/4/Tracking-the-American-Epid-by--Pringle-100601-951.html

By

Evilyn Pringle,

excerpt:

Dr

Stefan Kruszewski, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard

Medical School, has seen many

patients who experienced one or more episodes of psychosis from

medications, illicit drug withdrawal, acute stress, metabolic

conditions, PTSD or other psychiatric diagnoses, "who recovered and did

not re-experience problems later in life."

In

his extensive clinical experience with psychotic individuals, "recovery

after psychosis has been the "norm," not the exception," he says

"More

significantly,

and somewhat contrary to the prevailing psychiatric

professional view," he notes, "the overwhelming majority of my clients

in who I observed this "norm' did NOT require psychiatric medicines to

sustain them."

"And, many of them who were prescribed antipsychotic

medications to "thwart' another psychotic episode fared somewhat worse

than those who were not prescribed any combination of antipsychotics

and mood stabilizers," he adds.

antipsychotics and mood stabilizers," he adds.

excerpt:

Dr Bratter is president and founder of the Dewey

Academy in Massachusetts, a residential, voluntary,

educational-treatment school for gifted but self-destructive

adolescents. This drug and medicine-free facility uses compassionate

psychotherapy.

Most students arrive at the Academy with multi DSM-IV labels to justify

prescribing psychotropic poisons and receiving third party payments,

Bratter says, and have been "raped by the pejorative psychiatric

cartel."

He calls the "Psychosis Risk Syndrome" criminal because "such a

diagnosis ignores the awesome toxic power of a negative self-fulfilling

prophesy which maximizes failure by perpetrating the unproven myth of

mental illness."

"There needs to be a class action against those who would endorse this

movement," he says, and Bratter would gladly testify on behalf of

children and adolescents who need to be protected from such a toxic and

damaging conspiracy.

Toxicology expert, Dr Lawrence Plumlee, is president of the Chemical

Sensitivities Disorders Association, and editor of, "The Environmental

Physician of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine."