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I, Karl Loren, was for some time a radio talk show host. Dr. Robert Mendelssohn was my regular guest, two times per week. Mine was the ONLY regular radio program he graced with his presence. I knew him well, and respected greatly his views on psychiatry and Ritalin.
Dr. Thomas Szasz was also a friend. I have talked with him several times and helped arrange a seminar at which he spoke. There has probably been no more effective professional person to debunk psychiatry and Ritalin.
The schoolyard murders -- where students gun down students -- will almost always be traceable back to the fact that the killers had received psychiatric treatment (or counseling) and often had also received psychiatric drugs. These links are seldom publicized in the early days after a tragedy, but within a few more days the news finally gets out. Usually, then, it is too late to make much impact on the public.
Here is a story that appeared in the New York Times on May 22, 1999:
New York Times, 22 May 1999.
By DAVID FIRESTONE
T. J. Solomon, the 15-year-old accused in the shooting of six students at a suburban high school, broke into his stepfather's locked gun cabinet to get two weapons and then carried them aboard a school bus, the authorities said today.
Without mentioning the teen-ager by name, Sheriff Jeff T. Wigington of Rockdale County, where the shooting took place in Conyers on Thursday morning, said the attacker had strapped the rifle to his leg beneath a pair of baggy blue jeans.
A friend of T. J.'s family, who said he was authorized to speak on their behalf, said the boy had been under medical treatment for depression, and was taking Ritalin, which is often prescribed for hyperactivity or an attention deficit. The friend, who asked not to be identified, said T. J., whose given name is Thomas, was a trained marksman who often went hunting with his stepfather. Because of the boy's skills, the friend said, he may have deliberately shot to wound, rather than kill.
The image of a depressive, almost anonymous boy riding a yellow bus to school with his family's weapons seemed to deepen the sense of unreality that the shooting has created here. Although only one of the six victims suffered a serious injury, the incident has brought the Atlanta region unwillingly into the small fraternity of cities and towns that have experienced spasms of school violence. As The Atlanta Constitution's main headline read this morning: ''It Happened Here.''
With classes at Heritage High School closed for the day, parents, students and teachers clustered at churches and community centers, discussing the incident and how it would affect life around Conyers, a middle-class town 25 miles east of Atlanta. Several parents said everyone they knew had spent the evening analyzing the shooting and its meaning, particularly after the deadly attack last month in Littleton, Colo. ''This is where people move for the peace and quiet, and it's still that way,'' said Margaret Lilly, whose son Lee is a senior at the school.
''We don't want our kids to be imprisoned. What kind of country do we live in if our kids have to go through metal detectors? But it may come to that.''
With the exception of the students at Heritage, most children in the district went back to class today. Donald A. Peccia, the superintendent of the Rockdale County schools, said attendance was about 90 percent, slightly below normal. Classes at Heritage are to resume on Monday.
In the meantime, T. J. Solomon sat in a juvenile detention center for a second day today as investigators continued to search his family's home.
Although his parents, Robert and Mae Dean Daniele, have not made any public statement, they hired two of Atlanta's best-known criminal defense
lawyers, Edward T. M. Garland and Donald F. Samuel, to represent their son.
Neither lawyer would comment on the case today. A hearing is scheduled for Monday in the county's Superior Court, where the district attorney will try to persuade a judge that T. J. should be tried as an adult on charges of aggravated assault, cruelty to children and weapons violations.
A law-enforcement official said investigators searching the boy's house had found a printout from a Web site describing how to make bombs. The official noted that such material was easy to find on the Internet and that there was no evidence that T. J. had actually tried to make a bomb.
Neighbors and friends of T. J. had reported seeing about a dozen rifles in a display case in the basement of the family's house, and the sheriff said today that one of the doors to the case had been jimmied open and two weapons removed. But the family friend said today that the case had both an outer lock and a locking bar on the inside that secured the rifles. Mr. Daniele, a trucking executive, kept the keys at all times, the friend said, and did not know how the weapons could have been removed from the case.
The friend said T. J. had no history of violence, but had been treated for depression over the last year as his grades had fallen. The parents got along well with their son, the friend said, arguing occasionally over his cigarette habit. Mr. Daniele often went hunting with his stepson and had enrolled him in several rifle classes, where he excelled, the friend said, bringing home several deer.
T. J. came close to shooting himself after wounding the other students, said Cecil T. Brinkley, the high school's vice principal, who disarmed him.
In an interview today, Mr. Brinkley said he ran out to the commons area after hearing the first shots and saw T. J. kneeling with the revolver in his mouth.
Mr. Brinkley said he walked slowly over to the teen-ager, who then pointed the gun at him. Mr. Brinkley repeatedly said ''Give me the gun,'' until the boy extended his hand with the pistol. ''I looked down and that was the first time I realized it was cocked,'' Mr. Brinkley said. ''I said, 'I need to unload this pistol.' It was all instinct. I didn't know what he'd done. I know you don't believe me, but I was just worried about getting the gun.''
Mr. Brinkley, who is 60 and has two grown children and six grandchildren, said T. J. grabbed him after letting go of the gun. ''He gave me the biggest bear hug and started shaking,'' Mr. Brinkley said. 'He said, 'I'm scared.' He wasn't crying, but his voice was very upset.''
Two of the six students who were shot were released from the hospital today after being treated for gunshot wounds to the legs and buttocks, joining two others who were released on Thursday. One student still had a bullet lodged in her knee today and was expected to go home in two or three days; another had a bullet in her intestine and could remain in the hospital for several more days.
The Fraud of Child Psychiatry, ADD/ADHD, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Ritalin.
"...This elementary fact makes the child psychiatrist one of the most dangerous enemies not only of children, but also of adults who care for the two precious and most vulnerable things in life - children and liberty. Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished." - Thomas Szasz M.D., Cruel Compassion."The pediatrician's wanton prescription of powerful drugs indoctrinates children from birth with the philosophy of 'a pill for every ill'."... "Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who turn to illegal drugs because they were taught at an early age that drugs can cure anything - including psychological and emotional conditions - that ails them. " - Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., How to Raise a Healthy Child...In Spite of Your Doctor.
A Dose of Sanity, by Sydney Walker III, M.D.
"A brilliant expose of the scandalous failure of modern psychiatry...If your doctor recommends Prozac, Xanax, Ritalin, or psychotherapy for your "mental" problems, read this book first. It just might save your life."
- Bernard Rimland, PhD., Director of the Autism Research InstituteIf you are currently being treated for depression, anxiety or panic disorder, attention deficit disorder, a sleeping disorder, or any of a wide array of common behavioral disorders, this book could save your life. If you are being given psychiatric SSRI drugs, prozac, paxil, Zoloft, love, flexor, serzone, anafranil, fenfluramine, fen-phen & redux, you must read this book.
In A Dose of Sanity, Sydney Walker III, M.D. takes us inside the big business of contemporary psychiatry and reveals how, by sacrificing sound medical principals in favor of labeling-by-convenience and brain-damaging quick-fixes like prozac, paxil, zoloft, luvox, effexor, serzone, anafranil, fenfluramine, fen-phen, redux, and ritalin, psychiatrists cause untold suffering and destroy the physical and mental health of millions of people.
Reading like a detective novel, A Dose of Sanity, tells the story of dozens of men and women, many of whom suffered needlessly for years, simply for lack of a sound medical diagnosis. You'll meet the concert musician whose lifelong bouts with "psychosis" were actually due to undiagnosed typhus; the widow who was treated for "panic attacks" that turned out to be a thyroid dysfunction; the "hyperactive" boy whose symptoms were caused by exposure to carbon monoxide; and many others saved by the intervention of Dr. Walker and like-minded colleagues.
The Myth of the A.D.D. Child, by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.
The Myth of the A.D.D. Child exposes the mislabeling of millions of children as A.D.D./A.D.H.D., and the use of powerful mind-altering drugs such as Ritalin in treating children's hyperactivity. Not long ago, children who behaved in certain ways were called "bundles of energy", "daydreamers," or "fireballs." Now they're considered "hyperactive," "distractible," or "impulsive"-victims of the ubiquitous Attention Deficit Disorder. Tragically, such labeling can follow a child through life. Worse, the mind-altering drugs prescribed for A.D.D./A.D.H.D. are unnecessary-and they are harmful.
By tackling the root causes of a child's attention and behavior problems - rather than masking the symptoms with drugs - parents can help their children begin to experience fundamentally positive changes in their lives.
The Myth of the Hyperactive Child & Other Means of Child Control, By Peter Schrag and Diane Divoky
Millions of children have been "diagnosed" as "hyperactive" or having "attention deficit disorder" and millions are now taking brain-damaging amphetamine-type medication, in many cases by order of school officials. Millions of other children have been labeled predelinquent, found to have "deviant" tendencies, or said to exhibit "maladaptive behavior." Can these illnesses be in fact so widespread, or is this a new way the schools have found to deal with healthy children who seem, to parents or teachers, to present some form of difficulty?
This meticulously documented book covers all aspects of the rapidly spreading ideology of "early intervention," demonstrates how common problems become medical ones, and exposes the shoddy research that underlies those practices. Examining the "scientific" literature as well as searching out the underlying causes of this new and frightening trend, Peter Schrag and Diane Divoky document in telling detail the ways in which old-fashioned punishment and control are being replaced by new forms of medical and social treatment, teaching the younger generation that it must trust the state and its new "science" to define and manage the ways it grows up. The information and ideas they examine are critically important and profoundly disturbing.
Psychiatry - The Ultimate Betrayal, By Bruce Wiseman for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights
There are reasons why today's high school graduate cannot read, why our elderly are dying prematurely, why racial conflict persists and families are shattering. Something penetrated every aspect of our lives -- our schools, our courts, our homes - doing so without most of us even knowing it. Authoritative and compelling, Psychiatry - The Ultimate Betrayal unmasks those who have betrayed in the name of help. It tracks the destructive bent compelling psychiatry, right from its historical beginnings. It lays bare psychiatry's web of influence, but most importantly lays out a plan of action we must take to survive as a society.
Toxic Psychiatry, by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
In Toxic Psychiatry, Peter R. Breggin, M.D. exposes the hype and false promises surrounding psychiatry, and shows how dangerous and brain-damaging psychiatric drugs are. He demonstrates that: psychiatric drugs such as ssri's, prozac, paxil, zoloft, luvox, effexor, serzone, anafranil, fenfluramine, fen-phen and redux are spreading an epidemic of long-term, permanent brain damage; that mental illnesses have actually never been proven to be genetic or even physical in origin, and that millions of Americans are being incorrectly labeled with medical diagnosis and treated with mind altering drugs, rather than being patiently listened to, understood, and helped.
"Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics. Breggin addresses this self-serving pseudoscience head-on." - Loren Mosher, M.D., Former Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia, The National Institute of Mental Health.
Other Sites
International Advocates for Health Freedom
The Merrow Report - Attention Deficit Disorder
Rising Use of Ritalin on Teens Sinks Plans for Military Career
Yahoo: Health: Alternative Medicine
Yahoo: Business and Economy: Companies: Health: Alternative
Yahoo: Business and Economy: Companies: Books: Health: Titles: Alternative Medicine
Pseudoscience and Psychobabble Page
John M. Friedberg, M.D., Board Certified Neurologist
Support Coalition&Dendron News
Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
United States Drug Enforcement Administration
Training Children To Be Drug Addicts
Important note: When trying to withdraw from many psychiatric drugs, patients can develop serious and even life-threatening emotional and physical reactions. It is dangerous not only to start taking psychiatric drugs, but also it can be dangerous to stop taking them. Withdrawal from psychiatric drugs should be done gradually and under medical and clinical supervision.
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