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"In fact, of 500 patients coming to the doctor with a new medical complaint, half had physical illness alone with no additional psychiatric problem, 20 percent had physical complaints plus pretty obvious underlying psychiatric disorders (but which were not the reason for the patient's visit), and the rest had psychiatric disorders that were the primary reason for the visit or that were consequences of the primary physical illness. In other words, there was a disconnect between patients and doctors." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The whole idea of supplying a precursor to build up a neurotransmitter that is in short supply is a fruitful approach to treating psychiatric disorders and should, in my opinion," concluded Dr. Atkins, "be considered before the use of nonphysiologic psychotropic drugs, which have more potential for toxicity." Acupuncturists also have had a great deal of success with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In some situations, their treatment has proven to be more effective than medication." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Finally, it has several specific, rational physical treatments, such as dietary control and medication, including insulin replacement. psychiatric disorders meet none of these criteria. They have no biological markers, no known physical causes, and no rational physical treatments. Ironically, doctors who treat diabetes show much more concern for the feelings, attitudes, and self-determination of their patients than psychiatrists who treat mental problems. Without exception, experts in diabetes emphasize changing lifestyle as central to the treatment." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "MARKETING MYTH: psychiatric disorders ARE DISEASES LIKE DIABETES COMPARING "MENTAL DISORDERS" like anxiety, depression, and mania to diabetes, as is often done, is false and misleading. Diabetes has all of the hallmarks of a real disease, including many biological markers, such as an elevated fasting blood sugar. It has known biological causes, such as reduced insulin production and reduced cellular capacity to utilize insulin. Finally, it has several specific, rational physical treatments, such as dietary control and medication, including insulin replacement." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "People in maniclike states can be very convincing, especially to observers unsophisticated about identifying psychiatric disorders. Even in the throes of a drug-induced manic state, Frank remained a highly intelligent and charismatic doctor. But if Frank was so emotionally disturbed, how was he able to plan such an elaborate story in his own defense? As described earlier in the chapter, people undergoing maniclike reactions often make and implement elaborate plans." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"For example, hypohidrosis and anhidrosis—which can affect small or large areas of the body—can be a reaction to a number of medications, especially antihistamines or the drugs used to treat excessive sweatangina, psychiatric disorders, and tify us, according to a recent study in muscle cramps can cause these Austria. The researchers also found that nonexistent sweating can be evidence of damage to sweat glands from burns and other injuries, as well as various skin diseases." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"But now CBT is the most empirically validated psychotherapy in the world—about four hundred outcome trials have shown its efficacy for a broad range of psychiatric disorders, as well as for medical disorders with psychological components.2 The trick is absolute directness. One of the "cardinal" questions of CBT, according to Judy Beck, Aaron's daughter, who now runs the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia, is simply: "What was just going through your mind?" - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"This was one of the first vitamins ever to be employed against psychiatric disorders, and has proven to be extremely helpful in treating autism. Dr. Bernard Rimland has reviewed twenty-two studies of B-6 use in autism, and twenty-one of the studies showed positive outcomes. Among the therapeutic effects of B-6 are the following: • Improvement in methionine metabolism. Methionine is an important factor in methylation. • Relief from seizures, particularly those triggered in part by an excess of the amino acid glutamate, or by a deficiency of the neurotransmitter GABA." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Data such as these make it clear that medically unexplained symptoms and major psychiatric disorders such as depression often go hand in hand. For psychiatrists, these studies may seem to indicate that the physical symptoms—pain, fatigue, and others— are nothing more than an extension of the "real" problem: depression. Unable to express the underlying psychiatric disorder, this reasoning goes, the patient creates somatic complaints instead. Psychologists call this unique personality characteristic alexithymia." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Advocates of psychiatric drugs are forever claiming that these psychoactive chemicals save society untold millions of dollars by successfully treating psychiatric disorders. Their claims are wholly self-serving and speculative. It is even difficult and often impossible to show that psychiatric drugs are helpful in carefully controlled clinical trials, let alone in real-life clinical practice or on a societal scale." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Depression and certain other psychiatric disorders are themselves associated with increases in the risk of suicide. Patients of all ages who are started on antidepressant therapy should be monitored appropriately and observed closely. Families and caregivers should discuss with the doctor any observation of worsening of depression symptoms, suicidal thinking and behavior, or unusual changes in behavior. PROZAC is approved for use in pediatric patients (children and adolescents) with MDD or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). WHAT SHOULD I TALK TO MY DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST ABOUT?" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In some people, the phantom odors may signal schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders. In these cases, the sufferers are likely to have visual and auditory hallucinations or other serious psychiatric signs as well. Like hypersensitivity to smell, phantom odors, dysosmia, and ca-cosmia can be normal signs of pregnancy. But if you're not pregnant, they may signal epilepsy. Indeed, some people experience an odor aura just before a seizure. Interestingly, distorted or odd odors, as well as phantom odors, also can be signs of a certain type of epilepsy in which no seizures occur." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"I believe that if we had more humanistic counseling, classes in how to deal with life issues, and better support systems around these issues, we would not need the pharmaceutical-medical model that claim these are psychiatric disorders that require treatment. Writer Peggy Ramundo is quite correct when she says that the general public usually associates Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with "hyperactive boys hanging from the light fixtures, running their parents and their teachers ragged." However, as she explains as coauthor of book You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Depression and other psychiatric disorders can have significant consequences if not appropriately treated. Antidepressant medications benefit many patients, but it is important that doctors and patients are aware of the risks." People currently prescribed antidepressant medications should not stop taking them. Those who have concerns should notify their health care providers. The proposed labeling changes apply to the entire category of antidepressants." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Kendler, professor of human genetics and psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University, wrote, "We have hunted for big, simple neurochemical explanations for psychiatric disorders and have not found them." Scientists have also failed to tie attention deficit disorders in children to an imbalance of brain chemicals. At a 1998 meeting organized by the federal government, a group of top scientists in the field concluded that there were "no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction." Similarly, Dr. William B." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "He says he has come to believe that the psychiatrists who wrote the DSM are "making us all crazy" by their continual expansion of behaviors they defined as psychiatric disorders. In an essay in 2005, Dr. Kirk wrote that psychiatrists now see signs of a mental disorder in children when they "are deceitful, break rules, can't sit still or wait in lines, have trouble with math, don't pay attention to details, don't listen, don't like to do homework or lose their school assignments or pencils, or speak out of turn." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Central Nervous System There is evidence that patients with celiac disease have increased rates of both neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Their associations are not always clear: Some symptoms can be attributed to nutritional deficiencies; others perhaps related to autoimmunity; and many are hypothesized to be due to yet-unproven pathways by which gluten may cross the blood-brain barrier and interact with endogenous neurotransmitter receptors." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group and Dietetics in Developmental and psychiatric disorders, American Dietetic Association. 52. Bujold, C. R. (2006). Validation of a Parent Completed Nutrition Screening Questionnaire for Children with Special Health Care Needs (thesis), University of Washington. (1994). 53. Pacific West MCH Distance Learning Network. (2005). Self-study modules: "Nutrition for Children with Special Health Care Needs," Module 3: Feeding Skills, and Group-study modules: "Nutrition for Children with Special Health Care Needs"(www.pacificwestmch.org). 54." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Mood-Stabilizing Agents Mood-stabilizing agents are used conventionally in the treatment of epilepsy, but they may also be effective in the stabilization of mood in patients with psychiatric disorders, especially patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive disorder) is a condition that affects more than 2 million Americans. People who have this illness tend to experience extreme mood swings, along with other specific symptoms and behaviors. These mood swings, or "episodes," can take three forms: manic episodes, depressive episodes, or "mixed" episodes." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Only forty years ago, psychiatric disorders were overwhelmingly considered a product of bad mothering, poor adjustment, repressed sexuality, and poor attachments to others. Not genes and chemicals, but nurture and environmental explanations of mental predicaments ruled the day. And until quite recently, biological psychiatry was often seen as totalitarian and ruthless in its oppressive force. If one didn't comply with the rules of society or rules of the wards, one was shocked into compliance—or, at the very least emasculated. (Think A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Psychiatric Disorders: Vitamin B-12 is involved in the synthesis of serotonin, and serotonin dysfunction is associated with many psychiatric disorders. Another conceivable benefit from supplementing with vitamin B12 is the resulting increase in the amount of vitamin B-12 that would gain entrance into the central nervous system (CNS). In a study involving 13 patients (29-50 years of age) with neurasthenia (characterized by profound fatigue, depression, and anxiety), the vitamin B-12 levels were assessed in both the serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Geomagnetic disturbance also seemed to correlate with increases in general psychiatric disorders.19 Even those already suffering from mental illness get more agitated during magnetically stormy days. Persinger grew intrigued by a possible relationship between geomagnetic fluctuations in the Earth and the timing of epileptic seizures, after his neu-roscientist colleague Todd Murphy, who had temporal-lobe epilepsy as a child, disclosed that he often had out-of-body experiences while having a seizure." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"A slim little volume in 1980 that listed 226 diag-nosable conditions, the manual had swelled to a weighty tome by 1994 and included 365 psychiatric disorders. As new conditions are added to the manual and the diagnostic criteria for those that already exist are expanded, the number of Americans who are diagnosed as mentally ill—and treated for it—continues to grow." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"And psychiatrists are starting to treat depression and psychiatric disorders with antidiabetic drugs like Actos!17 These drugs lower blood sugar, lower insulin, and reduce inflammation. But sugar is not the only thing that creates inflammation. I want to highlight one more important factor in brain malfunction. Hidden food allergies.This is a much more controversial area. Do You Have Brain Allergies? What is food for some may be poison for others. titus lucretius carus, A.D." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"On September 14, 2004, FDA's advisory committee voted 18 to 5 to require manufacturers of antidepressants to include the following black box warning on those products: Antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in short-term studies in children and adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders. Anyone considering the use of [Drug Name] or any other antidepressant in a child or adolescent must balance this risk with the clinical need." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"A mercury-containing powder called calomel was given to babies for teething pains in the 1940s and caused pink disease (a syndrome that included cognitive and psychiatric disorders that mimicked autism). Incidentally, calomel has been used since the early days of American history as a remedy for many diseases. It is what led to President Andrew Jackson's insanity.3" Most of us used a topical disinfectant called Mercurochrome (which was silently banned by the FDA in 1998 because it was no longer considered safe due to its mercury content) for all our wounds when we were young. • ?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"But it's hard to imagine that the incredible increase in psychiatric prescriptions for teenagers and children is due entirely to an epidemic of psychiatric disorders, that some combination of bad parenting, bad genes, and bad videos has created an entire nation of screwed-up kids. We're also in the midst of an epidemic of diagnoses, in which children who exhibit behavior that is even mildly out of the norm are labeled and treated, along with the kids who are truly mentally ill. The question is, why are we now so quick to diagnose mental illness?" - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety are expensive.5 They are among the top five most costly medical conditions, including heart disease, cancer, trauma, and lung disorders. The cost to our health-care system exceeds $200 billion a year, which is over 12 percent of total health-care spending.6 • * Alzheimer's disease will affect 30 percent (and some experts say 50 percent) of people over eighty-five years old, which is the fastest-growing segment of the population. It will affect 16 million people by 2050. -; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a label we now give 8." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "If you think this isn't a serious problem or it only affects a few people, think again. •r psychiatric disorders affect 26 percent of our adult population or more than 60 million Americans. ??More than 20 percent of children have some type of psychiatric disorder.3 4 • ?More than 40 million people have anxiety. ??More than 20 million people have depression. One in ten Americans takes an antidepressant. The use of antidepressants has tripled in the last decade. ??In 2006, expenditures on antidepressants soared to over $1.9 billion. • ;?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

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