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   "Malcolm"  wrote in message   
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   > In article , Houzenfutz   
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   > >news:1114809622.690572.26520@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   > >> Freedom Fighter is jealous of ex-mayor!   
   > >>   
   > >> Crime fighters fight against crime.   
   > >> Fire fighters fight against fire.   
   > >> Freedom Fighter fights against freedom.   
   > >>   
   > >> We have just seen another comic installment of another one of Freedom   
   > >> Fighter's prozac induced posts on why he thinks the ex-mayor of New   
   > >> York City is secretly bugging his bathroom. Freedom Fighter is insane   
   > >> with jealous rage that the ex-mayor is famous, and Freedom Fighter   
   > >> never will be. Freedom Fighter feels that if a couple of people read   
   > >> his propaganda on usenet, that it will elevate him to the status of a   
   > >> Hitler like person.   
   > >>   
   > >> But actually, because Freedom Fighter thinks that he, Freedom Fighter,   
   > >> is from another planet, he feels that the ex-mayor is actually one of   
   > >> the "MEN IN BLACK" that is keeping an eye on him.   
   > >>   
   > >> Maybe the doctors at Bellview Mental Hospital could change Freedom   
   > >> Fighter's medication to that stuff for treating malaria. Then we could   
   > >> see some really funny posts from Freedom Fighter as he flips between   
   > >> crazy and insane.   
   > >   
   > >Very funny, except people do not go to mental hospitals for political or   
   > >religious viewpoints.   
   > >   
   > >A person goes into a mental hospital to get bed rest and sleeping   
   medication   
   > >if the person goes 3 or 4 days straight with no sleep. That is what a   
   mental   
   > >illness is. It is basically prolonged sleep loss and extreme   
   > >over-exhaustion.   
   > >   
   > No, that is merely one, relatively minor, type of mental illness. There   
   > are others which don't involve sleep loss or any kind of tiredness   
   > whatsoever.   
   >   
   > >By law, a mental health facility has nothing to do with a person's   
   religious   
   > >viewpoints, political viewpoints or culture.  A mental hospital is not a   
   > >place for criminals. There are no policemen at a mental hospital.It is   
   > >simply a place with a bed where a person can rest up, take lithium   
   carbonate   
   > >and sleeping medication, and recover..   
   > >   
   > But only from the illness you describe. Lithium carbonate is no good for   
   > treating, e.g., schizophrenia.   
      
      
   Well, there is no set criteria under the law for schizophrenia diagnoses to   
   be made. It is a diagnosis that can be given by a psychiatrist to anyone for   
   any reason, or for no reason. Under American law, a psychiatrist can   
   diagnose any person in a mental health facility with schizophrenia. Often   
   this is downgraded to manic depression, then to simple depression as the   
   person recovers and is able to go home. Lithium carbonate is proven to be   
   the most effective drug in helping people recover.   
      
   Schizophrenia is supposed to be a more serious form of manic depression. All   
   of these conditions involve extreme sleep loss, where the person went 3 or 4   
   days straight with no sleep. Schizophrenia, however, also means the person   
   went without food for many days straight, while manic depression means the   
   person was eating, but just went without sleep for 3 or 4 days straight.   
      
   Schizophrenia is a diagnosis given to practically anyone for very few   
   reasons. Under American law, no evidence is required for a person to be   
   diagnosed with schizophrenia. No medical tests are required for the   
   schizophrenia diagnosis, nor for any psychiatric diagnoses to be made. Under   
   American law, there is no behavior a person must first engage in to be   
   diagnosed with schizophrenia, nor must the person say anything crazy or   
   "nutty" that doesn't make sense. Psychiatric diagnoses have absolutely   
   nothing with crime or with breaking the law. In fact, statistics show a   
   person suffering from a mental illness (meaning the person has gone 3 or 4   
   days straight without sleep) is less likely to break the law than the   
   average citizen.   
      
   Most psychiatric diagnoses in use today are ambiguous, poorly defined and do   
   not require any criteria in order to be made, which is why they have no   
   meaning anymore. Some psychiatrists avoid making the schizophrenia diagnosis   
   because it can be confusing. When they do, they usually downgrade it to   
   manic depression when the person stabilizes. Lithium carbonate is shown to   
   be the best effective drug to use to help stabilize a person who has gone 3   
   or 4 days straight with no sleep (manic depression or schizophrenia). The   
   so-called schizophrenia drugs like Haladol are proven to show very poor   
   results, which is why more families are asking the psychiatrist who treats   
   their family member to prescribe Lithium carbonate. If the psychiatrist   
   disagrees, the family says they don't want that psychiatrist anymore to   
   treat their relative, and they get a new psychiatrist who will prescribe   
   lithium carbonate. The American psychiatry field is a very broad field with   
   many different theories and suggested methods for treating extreme sleep   
   loss, which they call mental illness.   
      
   It's also important to remember that by law, all mental illnesses are   
   considered temporary. For example, if a person spent a few weeks in a mental   
   health facility many years ago and received a manic depression diagnosis,   
   the government doesn't accept that diagnosis as a current diagnosis should   
   that person file for disability or social security payments. Rather, the   
   government will set up an appointment for that person to see their own   
   psychiatrist who will make a diagnosis and decision as to whether that   
   person is disabled and should receive disability payments. Most psychiatry   
   practices in America are privately owned and privately run, with no rules   
   set down by the American government. However, when a person files for   
   disability and claims some mental illness, the government requires that   
   person to see a psychiatrist that is government run, and these psychiatrists   
   usually say the person has no mental illness and has only minor problems.   
      
   Soon, new psychiatric diagnoses that are more clearly defined, which require   
   factual evidence in order to be made, will come into use. These new   
   diagnoses will be less confusing and they will replace the old ambiguous   
   diagnoses in use today. This is because the old diagnoses have no meaning   
      
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