[lbo-talk] jury duty/Real expertise

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun May 21 11:38:33 PDT 2006


Something really odd is going on... I am linked up with about a dozen families with teenage sons, of these four have sons that have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. This is a suspiciously high number.

Why is it all boys? Why is it such a high proportion?

I just don't believe it.

Joanna

Jim Devine wrote:


> Doctors
>
>> >don't create diseases that only they can cure.
>
>
> Bill Bartlett:
>
>> Psychiatrists do.
>
>
> that's true. My almost-16-year-old son ended up on many too many
> medications, which made things much worse. Now he's doing fine, with
> hardly any meds. (on meds: he couldn't and wouldn't read anything
> serious. off: he's reading up a storm.)
>
> Further, due to the psychiatrists' false fears of my son having
> schizophrenia or something like it, I read an excellent and
> authoritative book on the subject. Notable was the author's total
> unwillingness to apologize for the lobotomies and the like, his total
> unwillingness to express any kind of humility.
>
> "Our" psychiatrist is relatively humble, but has fallen for the give
> 'em pills, give 'em pills, give 'em pills philosophy...



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