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

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (390)	10/5/2004 2:55:38 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 444

P.S.--I've got a good anecdote to share: Thanks to a very poor diagnosis, by a psycologist (who was, incredibly, able to write prescriptions) I once came close to suicide myself about 15 years ago. The medication made my temporary anxiety and depression even worse. But the pharma did not almost kill me, the lousy diagnosis did, right? I am guessing that a person in the pit of despair should not take halcion, and yet that is what I was prescribed to help to me sleep. Crazy stuff, and a damn close call.

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (390)	10/6/2004 7:02:47 PM
From: MoneyPenny	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 444

Somehow I found this thread...my husband died 9/11 of this year. The death certificate I received today says pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure but I know that the real cause lies with the psychiatric "cocktail" he had taken for 10 years that gradually robbed him of his essence andhis subsequent reliance on pain killers. There was no way for him to know that he was getting worse. 25 years of Xanax, the flavor of the month anti-depressant, the highest paying off label anti-spasmodic or similar drug crippled an otherwise intelligent man and made him into a permanent invalid and eventually killed him off. Amazingly I received calls from some of his physicians wanting me to "know" that none of their prescriptions could have possibly hastened his death. Mental health care in Florida is non-existent. There are no practicing psychiatrists on call in my community. There has to be a better way. Money Penny