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Biotech / Medical : The Fraud of Biological Psychiatry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (88)	8/14/2000 1:07:00 PM
From: Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 444

The truth is that "normal" is subjective. Not entirely. Most people don't experience regular and prolonged suicidal desires. Most people don't commit suicide. Most people don't experience prolonged periods of being god-like. Most people don't regularly get angry for no real reason. Take a look at ndmda.org . To experience these things occasionally may be normal, but experiencing them regularly is some unique to those of us with manic-depression. And manic-depression is destructive - it can destroy a person's life. The source of the problem is the dude that wrote the program, not the computer. The source of my behavior, intellect, and emotions is me. Not my brain. Does that make sense? In a word, no. It's a demonstrable fact that altering the biochemistry of the brain effects intellect, emotions and behavior. All you've got to do is look at a drunk or a cocaine addict to see that. It's also fairly well established that schizophrenics, manic-depressives and people with other mental illnesses do not in general respond to any treatment other than medication. As a manic-depressive there is nothing I can consciously do, apart from taking my medication, to control my mood swings. There's also the odd fact that people who have suffered severe trauma to their brains have on occasion undergone significant personality changes. The medications used to treat epilepsy are also used to treat manic-depression. Tell me, do you think that epileptics should just control their own behavior and not use medication? If the brain isn't a factor in behavior, how is it that epilepsy, a disease of the brain, can cause convulsions, a aspect of behavior? Or, alternatively, if you can accept the need for medication in epilepsy - if you accept that to some extent behavior is influenced by the brain, why would you find it so difficult to believe that the brain influences emotion and intellect? Whether you believe that the self or soul or whatever is in the brain or is instead mediated by the brain it is indisputable that the brain exercises a significant amount of control of intellect, emotions and behavior.