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"While people with severe mental illness account for more than half of the direct costs associated with all mental illness, only about a third of nimh research awards between 1997 to 2002 went to the study of serious mental illness. Furthermore, only 6 percent of all NTMH awards were designated for "clinically relevant" research for people with serious mental illness (research explicidy intended to improve the treatment and quality of care for people with such severe conditions). In giving serious mental illness short shrift, nimh poured its money into numerous areas of dubious value." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"If you want to learn more about the symptoms of and treatments for depression, the National Institute of Mental Health has an excellent and easy-to-read online brochure, currently available at www.nimh.nih.gov/ health/publications/depression/nimhdepression.pd. Depression is extraordinarily common, affecting one in five people.11 If you suspect depression, please seek the input of an experienced mental health practitioner. If you don't connect well with the first practitioner you find, find another one. And another! Be persistent." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Since the development of SSRIs, the diagnosis of depression has increased a thousandfold! The nimh estimates that in any given one year period, 9.5% of the population, or about 19 million American adults, suffer from a depressive illness. Rates are now similarly high for youth. Why so much depression? Why so much treatment with SSRIs? According to a British psychiatrist: "Reification of biomedical diagnosis acts as a 'justification' for the use of SSRIs in the treatment of childhood depression."53 If a treatment is available, physicians will find patients who suffer the disease!" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Ellen Leiben-luft of the nimh Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program. "This line of research might help us refine our definition of pediatric bipolar disorder," says nimh director Dr. Thomas Insel. "The researchers are following up with more imaging studies of children with bipolar spectrum disorders and healthy children who are at genetic risk for developing the disorder to see if they also have the same overactivation" of this particular area of the brain." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Room 8184 Bethesda, MD 20892-9663 866-615-NIMH (6464), 301-443-4513 TTY: 301-443-8431 www.nimh.nih.gov ¦ National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke PO Box 5801 Bethesda, MD 20824 800-352-9424, 301-496-5751 TTY: 301-468-5981 www. ninds. nih.gov ¦ National Institute on Aging Building 31, Room 5C27 31 Center Dr., MSC 2292 Bethesda, MD 20892 301-496-1752 www. nia.n ih.gov ¦ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9304 Bethesda, MD 20892-9304 301-443-3860 www.niaaa. nih.gov ¦ National Kidney Foundation 30 East 33rd St." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Size=L. -. National Institutes of Health. "Depression in Children and Adolescents." http://www .nimh.nih.gov/HealthInformation/depchildmenu.cfm. -. "Mental Health and the Family: Mental Health Statistics." http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/ factsheets/15.cfm. -. "Summary of Statistics Describing the Prevalence of Mental Disorders in America 2001." http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm. National Mental Health Association. "Children's Mental Health Statistics." http://www.nmha .org/children/prevent/stats.cfm. Omega-3 Information Service, http://www.omega-3info.com/research.htm." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"In giving serious mental illness short shrift, nimh poured its money into numerous areas of dubious value. While the agency declined reasonable proposals to study bipolar disorder in children, it chose to fund studies of self-esteem in college students. It declined to fund research on postpartum depression but supported work on the hearing processes of crickets. Mental illness is a low priority. In 1999, for each person afflicted by illness, the government spent twelve dollars on cervical cancer for every dollar spent on bipolar disorder." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"According to the nimh, schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. It accounts for about 25% of all first admissions to mental hospitals, and 50—60% of persons occupying beds in those hospitals at any given time. Approximately 1% of the U.S. population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime. People with the disease often suffer terrifying symptoms such as hearing internal voices, or believing that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. These symptoms leave sufferers fearful and withdrawn." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"According to an nimh position paper issued in 2006, "Although some atypical antipsychotic medications are modestly helpful for some patients, they are not effective for the majority of Alzheimer's patients with psychotic symptoms." Furthermore, it stated, "Good clinical practice requires that medical or environmental causes for Alzheimer's related agitation and aggression be ruled out and that behavioral interventions be considered before turning to antipsychotic medications." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"See also the August 11 , 2004 nimh press release entitled Schizophrenia Gene Variant Linked to Risk Traits, retrieved on 9/10/2004 from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/press/prschiz-gene.cfm. 5. Barkley et al., 2002. For a response to the Statement, see Timimi et al., 2004. attention and inhibition are "nearly approaching the genetic contribution to human height." Finally, Barkley et al." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"I have found only one study that focused on these effects, an nimh research project that aimed at evaluating the rate of stimulant-induced obsessive-compulsive disorder in children.15 The findings were shocking: More than 50 percent of children treated with methylphenidate and amphetamine developed varying degrees of drug-induced obsessive-compulsive disorder. This incredibly high rate of drug-induced obsessive-compulsive disorder once again confirms the brain-disabling principle that the adverse effects are the very same effects that are being called therapeutic." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "More recently, a thirty-six-month-long multicenter study financed by nimh concluded that there were no demonstrable long-term positive effects from stimulant drugs.25 The same series of studies also reconfirmed that the drugs stunt growth.26 These results were recorded despite the extreme prodrug bias of the researchers. Why do doctors continue to prescribe these drugs and why do parents and teachers so often go along with it? Initially the suppressive effects of the drug on behavior seem like a relief to parents and teachers alike." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Few if any have done more to advocate stimulant medication for children than Peter Jensen, formerly at nimh and now at Columbia University. Nonetheless, in a widely read psychiatric textbook, Jensen and a coauthor describe the "zombie" effect sometimes caused in children by stimulant medication. They relate it to a "pinched, somber expression" and a "constriction" in feeling and spontaneity.14 They say that the effect is "harmless in itself but worrisome to parents, who can be reassured." Like most drug-induced impairments of the brain and mind, the zombie effect occurs along a continuum." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Some of the obsessive reactions in the nimh study were severe, for example, a child who raked leaves for seven straight hours and then waited for individual leaves to fall off the trees to rake some more. Typically, the stimulant-treated youngsters played their games or other activities in a compulsive, difficult-to-interrupt manner. In school activities, they would bear down hard enough on their pencils to tear their papers. They would repetitively erase and worry over insignificant details." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"According to nimh, "depression" is an illness that "involves the body, mood, and thoughts [which] affects the way a person eats and sleeps ... feels about oneself... and thinks about things." Depression is not the same as "a passing blue mood." Nor is it (recall the sociological concept of "sick role" which, in part, removes blame) "a sign of personal weakness." Without treatment, the disease and its consequences can be serious, but "appropriate treatment can help most people who suffer from depression." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Child and Adolescent Disorders Research Branch of the nimh, in which Jensen states that "NIMH does not have an official position on whether ADHD is a 'neurobiological' disorder."8 (In his own writings, Jensen uses the term "behavioral disorder.") It appears that nimh is not ready to accept CHADD's unequivocal statement of biological certainty. CHADD has become a powerful player in influencing the national perception of ADD and official policies on the condition." - Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.)

"Once again, as throughout 16 years of MRI brain scanning research, Castellanos and the nimh refused to do a valid study, the comparison of a group of ADHD-untreated to a truly matched group of normal controls. A truly matched control group could have been constituted, but was not." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "As we have shown in Chapter 7, the psychiatric research community, led by government researchers at the nimh, conspired to publish studies from 1986 to the present, showing, as they knew they would, Ritalin/amphetamine-induced brain atrophy, which they, in turn, referred to as being ADHD-caused, the long-sought proof that ADHD was a brain disease." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"In connection with the nimh degree courses in herbal medicine are available at a London University, and Exeter University. The Institute provides professional indemnity cover for its members, and is engaged in a series of clinical trials to evaluate traditional remedies. All members are required to adhere to a strict professional Code of Ethics and are entitled to carry after their names the letters of qualification: MNIMH or FNIMH. Members have a key role in preventative medicine and health promotion in their contribution to improvement of the nation's health." - Thomas Bartram, Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Guide (Get the book.)

"To leave the reader to dig the abuse out of hundreds of pages is to invite the question, Why wouldn't this renowned nimh geneticist face the facts directly? It's no surprise that Rosenthal's most famous and influential accomplishment—the Danish adoption study of schizophrenia—also was grossly oversold to the profession and to the public.71 Twin Studies Twin studies are cited in every textbook I have ever used which addresses the issue of mental disorders. "The lifetime risk of developing schizophrenia varies with one's genetic relatedness to someone having this disorder." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"NIMH, SAD tends to be "a milder form of depression than that seen in a full-blown clinical depression," says Paul Gaist, program coordinator of the Seasonality Studies Program at nimh, "but it can still be quite devastating." SAD and light therapy (phototherapy) are so new that there are differing theories as to why the therapy works. nimh researchers believe the body is yearning for the full-spectrum rays of the sun, not obtainable from ordinary fluorescent bulbs." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"For more information about depression, — visit the National Institute of Mental Health Web site at www.nimh.nih.gov. Click on "Health Information," and then scroll down to "Depression." High-Tech Depression Fighter People who experience depression but are resistant to medication may find relief from vagus nervestimulation(VNS) therapy. The stimulator is a pacemaker-like device implanted in the chest and attached to the vagus nerve on the left side of the neck. It sends a regular pulse of electricity to stimulate mood-regulating regions of the brain." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Xavier Castellanos of the nimh confessed to me (FB) in a letter, ".. .we have not yet met the burden of demonstrating the specific pathophysiology that we believe underlies this condition." He was responding to a letter of mine where I asked him for proof that ADHD was a real disease. This was one of but a few truthful statements I have extracted from the leaders of psychiatry in a decade of putting the disease/no disease question to them. "We believe" he said, and that was their justification for "treating" the 4 million already diagnosed. Nasrallah, et al." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"This line of research might help us refine our definition of pediatric bipolar disorder," says nimh director Dr. Thomas Insel. "The researchers are following up with more imaging studies of children with bipolar spectrum disorders and healthy children who are at genetic risk for developing the disorder to see if they also have the same overactivation" of this particular area of the brain. Studying children who have bipolar disorder may provide valuable insights into the development and treatment of adult bipolar disorder, according to Leibenluft. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Child and Adolescent Disorders Research Branch of the nimh, in which Jensen states that "NIMH does not have an official position on whether ADHD is a 'neurobiological' disorder."8 (In his own writings, Jensen uses the term "behavioral disorder.") It appears that nimh is not ready to accept CHADD's unequivocal statement of biological certainty. CHADD has become a powerful player in influencing the national perception of ADD and official policies on the condition." - Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.)

"National Institute of Mental Health—www.nimh.nih.gov: Excellent resource on all aspect of mental health and illness. Chapter 8: Prescriptions for Other Conditions Books Alschuler, Lise, N.D., and Karolyn Gazelle. Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrated Approach for Treatment and Healing. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 2007. Hyla Cass, M.D., and Kathleen Barnes. 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Woman's Take-Charge Program to Correct Imbalances, Reclaim Energy, and Restore Weil-Being. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005. Labriola, Dan." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Moreover, nimh further adds on its website: "there is no known single cause of schizophrenia. Many diseases, such as heart disease, result from an interplay of genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors; this may be the case for schizophrenia as well. Scientists do not yet understand all of the factors necessary to produce schizophrenia, but all the tools of modern biomedical research are being used to search for genes, critical moments in brain development, and environmental factors that may lead to the illness." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Neither the APA, the nimh nor any other scientific/medical organization is capable of providing objective, confirmable data to support the claims that psychiatric diagnoses are abnormalities of the brain. The pharmaceutical companies openly admit they do not understand how the drugs work in the brain for the alleged brain abnormality, and the FDA has warned the public that an unknown percentage of the adolescent population taking these mind-altering drugs may experience self-harm and other violent behaviors." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

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