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   From: pjbrass@uswest.net   
      
   Bipolar Disorder:  Epidemic Without a Disease.   
      
      
   *Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD, Neurologist, Child Neurologist   
      
   June 4, 2008   
      
   In the Newsweek cover story of May 26, 2008, Growing Up Bipolar, Mary   
   Carmichael describes yet another magical psychiatric epidemic.  In any   
   report of an epidemic there should be a description of the disease of   
   which the epidemic is comprised and mention of the test by which the   
   disease is diagnosed.  But nowhere is there mention of a physical   
   abnormality-gross (visible to the naked eye), microscopic or chemical,   
   to make it a disease.  Where is the proof that Max Blake, now ten, is   
   other than physically, medically normal?   
      
   Symptoms abound.  Max can't sleep.  Max is sad.  Max wants to kill   
   himself.  All serious symptoms to be sure, but entirely   
   subjective--not objective "signs," abnormalities, diseases.   
   Undaunted, Carmichael calls "bipolar" an "elusive disease" with a   
   grave prognosis: a "horror story," in which "terrible things happen."   
   But still no disease.   
      
   Next, we are told: "some doctors do not believe (bipolar) exists in   
   children."  But diagnosis is not a matter of belief.  If no   
   abnormality is demonstrated the diagnosis is "no evidence of   
   disease"-NED, or "no organic disease"-NOD.   
      
   Absent abnormalities, Carmichael, marshals more symptoms:  "These   
   babies are born screaming."   
      
   Next, seeking to overwhelm with epidemiology, Carmichael writes:   
   "800,000 children in the United States have been diagnosed."  "The   
   disease is hard to pin down."  Nor does repeating the word "disease"   
   make it so.   
      
   Parents are asked to chose from among the "many drugs" available even   
   though "it's unclear how they work."  How could it be otherwise   
   without a disease to treat.  No infection, cancer, or diabetes-all   
   diagnosable, all treatable. In psychiatry, drugs change emotions and   
   behaviors by damaging the normal brain, causing intoxication,   
   poisoning, abnormality-disease.   
      
   "The disease is hard to pin down."   
   "Its unclear how they (the drugs) work."  This is not medical science,   
   it is the "medical-speak" of "biological," psychiatry that is   
   deceptive, fraudulent, and intent on peddling drugs.  When, the   
   patient is known to be normal but is called "diseased" and is   
   "medicated," is that not poisoning?  Is it not assault and battery?   
   If the same patient dies, what is that called?   
      
   While false diagnostic labels alone may not make persons psychiatric   
   patients-in-perpetuity, drugs which cause chemical dependency and   
   conspicuous injury, such as Parkinson's syndrome or tardive dyskinesia   
   in a seven year-old, surely do.  Max's parents were told (1) "treat   
   (your) child and risk a bad outcome, or (2) "don't treat and risk a   
   worse one."  In either case, this message is surely to the liking of   
   the pharmaceutical industry which bankrolls it all.   
      
   Max and his parents have come to believe the "bipolar" fiction and to   
   play out their roles in it.  The main authors--perpetrators of this   
   and all of psychiatry's fictitious "diseases" are the DSM Committee of   
   the American Psychiatric Association and "researchers" at the National   
   Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).   
      
   For Max's mother: "There was one good thing about this strange   
   diagnosis, she thought: at least it meant she wasn't a bad mother."   
   Max and his parents all had roles to play.  Max's role is to be   
   "bipolar," a psychiatric patient-in-perpetuity.  Everything else would   
   take care of itself and psychiatry and Big Pharma would reap billions   
   a year.  And who knows, perhaps the 800,000 "bipolar" Max's Carmichael   
   says we have this year will become 1.5 to 2 million next year, which   
   many think it already is.   
      
   Harvard psychiatrists Joseph Biederman and Janet Wozniac were said to   
   have "described" pediatric bipolar disorder in 1995.  I have no doubt   
   that they "described" it but, as is the case with all of psychiatry's   
   "chemical imbalances" they have never proved that a single one is an   
   actual disease, as throughout the rest of medicine.   
      
   At 2 ½ years of age, Rebecca Riley of Hull, Massachusetts was   
   "diagnosed" ADHD and bipolar disorder, by child psychiatrist, Dr.   
   Kayoko Kifuji, and was put Clonidine, Depakote and Seroquel, the last   
   of which is a potent, poisonous, antipsychotic.  None had been   
   approved by the FDA for children so young.  Rebecca became like a   
   "floppy doll" and died December 13, 2006, at 4 years of age, not from   
   a psychiatric disease, because there is no such thing, but from the   
   very real, very toxic psychiatric drugs prescribed for her.   
   Incredibly, her parents sit in jail, charged with her murder.  Who   
   made it appear that Rebecca had two "diseases"?  Who convinced the   
   parents she did and that the medications prescribed were "treatments"   
   for them?  Countless hundreds if not thousands of children thus   
   diagnosed and drugged are dying, not from psychiatric diseases, but   
   from the one or several drugs prescribed for them as "treatment."   
   Between 1990 and 2000, 186 deaths from methylphenidate-Ritalin were   
   reported to the FDA-MedWatch program, a voluntary reporting program   
   the FDA itself, says detects no more than 1-10 percent of the actual   
   number.   
      
   Who is responsible for the murder of Rebecca Riley?  Who is   
   responsible for the thousands or tens of thousands of deaths from   
   prescribed psychiatric drugs for psychiatric "diseases" that do not   
   exist?   
      
      
   *Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD, Neurologist, Child Neurologist, Fellow,   
   American Academy of Neurology; Director of the March of Dimes-Birth   
   Defects Clinic of Western Michigan, 1967-1975.  He has discovered and   
   described real diseases including CHANDS:  The Curly   
   Hair-Ankyloblepharon-Nail Dysplasia Syndrome. The Clinical Delineation   
   of Birth Defects, Volume XII, 100, 1972 and is author of the book: THE   
   ADHD FRAUD -- How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children   
   http://www.Trafford.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)