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   From: atlramona@gmail.com   
      
   pwaltblitz@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > My cousin was diagnosed as a schizophrenic.   
      
   So if one of my cousin's and one of my husband's. I also associate with   
   a diagnosed schizophrenic. All are treated outpatient, with medications   
   and are able to function to some extent in life.  Without medication   
   there would be zero quality of life.  My husband's cousin was treated   
   with a medication that allowed him to even hold a job.  Unfortunately   
   the medication was banned and without the medication his quality of life   
     deteriorated but is still better than the option of no medication.   
      
     He's been in group homes   
   > for the last 30 years totally drugged out of his mind by psychiatrists   
   > who use these people to access Medicare insurance funds.   
      
   Take him to your house and remove him from the drugs and see the   
   alternative.  Oh wait, you aren't doing that so you already understand   
   that the option chosen is already the BETTER option based on severity of   
   the disease.   
      
     If you want to   
   > see how destructive psychiatry is visit one of these group homes.   
      
   It's the brain disorder that is destructive, not the psychiatry.  It's   
   about as logical as saying that insulin is bad because people lose their   
   limbs to diabetes. Sorry, it's the disease that is bad and at this point   
   in time science does not hav a cure for schizophrenia, but only   
   treatment just as with diabetes.   
      
     The   
   > "patients" shuffle around totally a burden to themselves and   
   > society.   
      
   You suggest that theirs is a life not worth living??  I for one disagree   
   with you and know many others that would also disagree with such a   
   heinous statement.   
      
   The only one benefiting is the psychiatrist who has found a   
   > way to extort tax dollars from the public by using these poor people.   
      
   Wrong!  The people that deal regularly with these people often feel   
   blessed to have them in their lives, even if you consider them a "life   
   not worth living."   
      
   > Go look for yourself if you don't believe me. Ask your self why no   
   > one is every cured by psychiatry   
   False statement.   
      
   just drugged   
   People are not always medicated when they see a psychiatrist.  Surely   
   you should know this!   
      
   or brutally electric   
   > shocked (ECT)   
   Perhaps you are not familiar with how ect is performed.  It would appear   
   you do not based on your writing.   
      
     (they did this to my cousin) by the psychiatrist till   
   > they just sit still and stare into space.   
   The disease made him that way and psychiatry attempted ot get him "out."   
     Unfortunately just as with simple bacterial infection, sometimes   
   people are lost.   
      
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