NYT: "Mental Health System" admits to making children worse
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Subject: NYT: "Mental Health System" admits to making children worse
Date: Feb 20, 2009 8:58 AM
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http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/is-there-no-place-on-earth/
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There ya have it. It's clear.
Everyone who deals with these morons-in-charge-of-crazy,
admits they have nothing to offer that improves things.
That would be because all psychotropics are brain
damaging and psychiatry isn't either medical or
scientific.
"The result of all this fractured, fragmented, chaotic or non-existent
care, said Christopher Bellonci, a psychiatrist who is the medical
director of the Walker School, a nonprofit residential treatment
program in Needham, Mass., is that children with psychiatric problems
get steadily worse, and eventually “fail up” through repeated trials
of medication and short-term hospitalizations until they can no longer
be kept at home. Getting these children into good treatment programs
requires “significant advocacy on the part of parents who have to be
extremely sophisticated,” he said. And the cost of those programs is
so great that, as was the case in Nebraska, some parents are actually
forced to make their children wards of the state in order to get the
child welfare system to pay for their care."
There ya have it.
"Fail-up" after "treatment."
In no other medical condition does this happen,
if we don't mention Lyme- a permanent brain
infection that yields up the likes of Multiple
Sclerosis, ALS, Bannwarth's Chronic Fatigue, cancer,
blood cancers, blood pseudocancers, autoimmune thyroid
dysorders, "Fibromyalgia" (the definition of which
100% matches "chronic neurologic Lyme," with the exception
that the FM "pressure points" test is a test for
*exaggerating* the nerve root ganglial inflammation
and is a way to prove "exaggerating Lyme") "bipolar
in children"
http://www.actionlyme.org/PsychMisdiagnoses.htm
or Lyme Rage (which is PTSD/TSD as a result of IDSA's
crimes) and Lyme-brain malpractice-treated monkeys
and everything in between and outside of the above.
Perhaps it is time to examine psychiatrists
instead of their failed-up victims.
Methinks, the esteemed housewife Judith Warner
didn't like my revelation about how the courts
are now going to have to provide real evidence
and real testimony, despite the USDOJ not liking
it as much as IDSociety.org didn't like the
CT Attorney General up their butts.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/8270a9efae9704ee?hl=en#
Reality is a threat to would be scholar housewives
who are incapable of answers themselves. That being
the thing about writers and "science writers"...
They don't know they're being used as a second
alimentary port for the Bigs.
People like Pam Weintraub doesn't know it when
she is being lied to by IDSA. She used to ask
*me* whether or not such and such from IDSA was
a tall tale. I hear now she, Weintraub continues,
un-fact-checked in spite of IDSociety.org being sued
by the AG over such LIES.
'Like this one, below, Warner, who has no ability to
fact check the social-engineering / social-psychiatric
bullshit. She has no Kool Aid Detector. No
laboratory to sort out psychiatry's brain scramble.
No inherent tools to verify premises.
So, I will restate:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/8270a9efae9704ee?hl=en#
Justice Department is not happy they will no longer
be able to rely on psychiatric bullshit and invented
"evidence" - like Park Dietz and the other perverts
in medicine:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
[The Religion of Me-and-Sex, as "social engineering."
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRITISH_PSYCHIATRY.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/AARON_RUSSO.htm
(Thou Shalt Drink the Kool-Aid of Sex-Worship and
Me-Worship, and then perpetrate this Dogma upon
the world by violence and call it "freedom!" and
"democracy!")]
Yesterday's NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/us/19forensics.html
The demands for reality from medical science are converging:
1) the monkey psychotropics-abuse, and 2) now crime labs are going
to be called to do the real science- prove their *methods*
and labs are scientifically validated and independent.
This is the end of psychiatry, which means the ALDF is
not going to be able to use that "tool" to abuse Lyme
victims.
As far as intent?
"But as useful as hypocrisy can be, it’s apparently not quite as basic
as the human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. Your mind can justify double standards, it seems, but in your
heart you know you’re wrong."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html
Psychiatry also settled that question.
As far as intent cross-indexed with immaturity and
the mitigation of brain damage from psychotropics?
The "courts" will now be *forced* to look at the scientific
evidence showing that all psychotropics are brain damaging.
"Real scientists are fiercely independent. That's the
*good* news..." - Anthony Fauci
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
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http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/is-there-no-place-on-earth/
February 19, 2009, 9:00 pm
Children in the Mental Health Void
Remember the Nebraska law meant to keep desperate new mothers from
abandoning their babies in dumpsters by offering them the possibility
of legal drop-off points at “safe havens” like hospitals?
As was widely reported last year, the law neglected to set an age
limit for dropped-off children, and eventually led to 36 children –
mostly between the ages of 13 and 17 – being left with state
authorities. Most of these children had serious mental health issues.
Some were handed over to the state by relatives who had no other way
of securing for them the heavy-duty psychiatric care they needed.
Seven of the children came from out of state, including one who’d been
driven 1,000 miles to Lincoln, Neb., from Smyrna, Ga.
Recently, The Omaha World-Herald acquired 10,000 pages of case files
concerning these children from the state’s Department of Health and
Human Services. They paint a portrait of desperation – of out-of-
control kids, overtaxed parents and guardians, and an overstretched
health care system – that really deserves more widespread national
notice.
Because even though the mentally ill “safe haven” children had extreme
needs, and some of their parents and guardians had extremely limited
capabilities (one grandmother said her charge had “demons inside of
him”; a mother who dumped her two teenagers in an emergency room said
they were “mouthy,” “too much work” and “need to be voted off the
island”), what their stories have to say about children’s mental
illness, parental limitations and the paucity of care available in our
country is altogether typical. They illustrate how a lack of good care
early on can create much bigger problems, for families and for
society, in the long run.
Their example also serves as a necessary corrective to the popular
view that children being labeled mentally ill today are just spirited
“Tom Sawyers” who don’t fit our society’s cookie-cutter norms, with
parents who are desperate to drug them into conformity.
The children abandoned in Nebraska had big-deal problems. An 11-year-
old boy, hearing voices since the third grade, had punched his fist
through a glass door and smeared another child with his feces; other
children had started fires, tortured pets, sexually abused younger
children and made murder and suicide threats. Some of the adults
charged with their care had problems, too, mental health issues that
made them incapable of properly seeking help. Some parents and
guardians had blocked earlier efforts by the state to provide care for
their children, by not taking their children to Medicaid-funded
therapy sessions or not picking up free psychiatric medications.
Others had tried hard to get help for their children; Matthew Hansen
and Karyn Spencer, reporters for The World-Herald, noted that the 29
Nebraska “safe-haven” children alone had received nearly $1.1 million
in state-financed mental health services. But these services “were not
provided in a coordinated and cohesive way,” Kathy Bigsby Moore,
executive director for the advocacy group Voices for Children in
Nebraska, told me. She reviewed the state case records and found that
some children received too little care too late and some, in desperate
straits, were spending months on waiting lists for spots to open in
residential treatment programs.
One Oklahoma woman who had been frustratedly trying to get her adopted
son into a residential treatment program phoned a Nebraska official
and threatened to bring the boy to his state unless she received help.
The boy was admitted to a psychiatric program almost immediately.
“Why on God’s green earth does it take all that to get help?” she
asked The World-Herald.
This problem of lack of access to care – and lack of access to truly
good care – is the real mental health “epidemic” affecting children in
our time.
Insurance companies will no longer pay for long-term inpatient care
for mentally ill children; as a result, psychiatric hospitals have
been steadily closing, and residential treatment programs for the most
difficult children, whose tuition is most often paid with public
funds, are packed.
And yet the care available for children at home with their parents is
severely lacking. Outside of big cities, where even under the best of
circumstances there can be a two- to three-month wait to see a child
psychiatrist, there is a severe shortage of children’s mental health
specialists.
In 1990, the Council on Graduate Medical Education estimated that by
2000, the United States would need 30,000 child psychiatrists; there
are now 7,000. Many rural areas have no child psychiatrists or
psychologists at all. Often, pediatricians end up providing mental
health care, but they aren’t trained for it and often aren’t
reimbursed for it by health insurance. The American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry is currently working with the American
Academy of Pediatrics to try to formalize ways to collaborate on
caring for children with mental health needs, but models for such
joint care are scarce. And doctors have no financial incentives to
talk to one another on the phone.
Programs that could help support mentally ill children and their
families – therapeutic after-school care, community-based outpatient
services, transitional care for children with chronic mental illness
who sometimes suffer dramatic flare-ups of symptoms that send them to
emergency rooms or to adult psych wards unequipped to help them – are
also very poorly developed around the country, and generally not
reimbursed by health insurance.
The result of all this fractured, fragmented, chaotic or non-existent
care, said Christopher Bellonci, a psychiatrist who is the medical
director of the Walker School, a nonprofit residential treatment
program in Needham, Mass., is that children with psychiatric problems
get steadily worse, and eventually “fail up” through repeated trials
of medication and short-term hospitalizations until they can no longer
be kept at home. Getting these children into good treatment programs
requires “significant advocacy on the part of parents who have to be
extremely sophisticated,” he said. And the cost of those programs is
so great that, as was the case in Nebraska, some parents are actually
forced to make their children wards of the state in order to get the
child welfare system to pay for their care.
“Parents who have not been abusive or neglectful are put in the
untenable situation of having to surrender custody,” Bellonci told me.
“It’s criminal, frankly.”
In Nebraska, where access to child mental health services is
particularly poor, child advocates had hoped that last year’s headline-
making child abandonments would shock lawmakers into spending more
money to develop better child mental health services. But that isn’t
happening.
So far, Moore says, the only legislation likely to win passage would
create a uniform state hotline and provide “navigators” to help
parents find mental health services for their children. There isn’t,
however, any increased funding for actual care. And without access to
services, she said, “We fear it’ll be a hotline and navigators to
nowhere.”
“Navigation to nowhere” perfectly sums up the experience of many
parents I have interviewed about their attempts to secure mental
health services for their children. As a country, it’s really in our
interest to provide them with a compass.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci