There was an article in yesterday's newspaper that described the huge increase
in diagnosed cases of bipolar disorder among children in the last decade. The
number of cases has increased 40x, but fortunately most of those cases are
treatable with the latest and very expensive atypical antipsychotic drugs.

This sounds similar to the huge and rapid increase in ADHD cases around the
same time, another disorder treatable with expensive psychoactive medications.
Then I've been ranting on recently about the latest epidemic of autism that is
sweeping the country, though that disorder is typically treated with expensive
$500/hour psychological therapy than with $50 pills.

Anyway, the study the article refers to claims that heavy marketing is to blame
for the increase in antipsychotic treatment, and that up to half of all the
allegedly bipolar kids are misdiagnosed. I personally believe that the doctors
are getting kickbacks for prescribing the pills and that ordinary children are
being abused with chemicals in exchange for the doctor's new Hummer.

I have a degree in Psych, but I also developed ulcers. Back then
*everybody* knew that ulcers was caused by stress. I had private &
group therapy, but eventually got out of the clinical setting, and
became an auto machanic. It took major surgery to deal with my ulcers
cause they didnt know about the antibiotic treatment. But of course, I
kept my eye on the field.

With gradually increasing degrees of skepticism. A jungle shaman would
have as good results as most of the practioners you refer to from the
placebo effect. Altho they may know some herbs that would be even more
effective. Course, since you cant get a patent on an herb, nobody in
the US tests them.

The Chinese government performed scientific double blind tests on
about 1500 herbs, and the German Commision E monograph on herbs
reports on 380 scientific studies, finding scores of herbs with
genuine therapeutic value. The US has extensively tested one herb in
the name of public health: cannibis.

On 5 Sep, 22:57, Day Brown hughes.net> wrote:

On Sep 6, 6:06 am, "priority...@gmail.com" gmail.com>
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like poor people dont have stress? They dont have ulcers...