J. Douglas Bremner
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 Developed in 1995 by a consortium of pharmaceutical-industry representatives, state mental-health facilities, and the University of Texas, TMAP recommends first-line use of patented medications for treatment of mental disorders in spite of the fact that there is no evidence that they are better than older medications. A program in Indiana modeled after TMAP, called TeenScreen, used passive screening, where schools were allowed to test children for mental disorders if the parents did not return a form to the school specifically asking them not to. |
Melody Petersen
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 Because mental disorders are rarely based on measurable physical symptoms, he said, they are "open to conceptual definition." Many of the growing number of psychiatric conditions listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, the primary reference for psychiatrists, were brought to light through funding by the pharmaceutical companies, Parry wrote. For example, few Americans had heard of an illness called panic disorder, he said, before Upjohn began marketing a drug called Xanax to treat it in the 1970s. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We have now a quarter of our nation -- depending on who you ask -- of Americans suffering from mental disorders. With all the discussion about mental health and mental disorders, there's no discussion whatsoever about the true causes of it. There's all this talk about treating everybody and how we should get everybody into "treatment," which means jobs. I say that mental disorders are not caused by a lack of drugs, so why would you think that adding drugs to someone's brain would eliminate these disorders? What are they really caused by? Well, they are caused by nutritional problems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: They found aggressive mental disorders, too.
Dr. Liers: Oh yes, the mental disorders and tuberculosis, you can see from that perspective it can happen amazingly fast. I think you can pull back if you start doing all these right things. You know from your own experience, and we know maybe when we were younger we did not do all the things that we know now, and we were not as healthy as we are now. The degree of improvement from one generation to another generation, or within a generation, is a little hard to know because the experiment is' going the wrong way. |
Charles Barber
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 It has been said that Spitzer was "more interested in including mental disorders than in excluding them." "Bob never met a new diagnosis that he didn't at least get interested in," said Allen Frances, a psychiatrist who worked closely with Spitzer on the DSM-III. "Anything, however against his own leanings that might be, was a new thing to play with, a new toy." Spitzer was a technician of diagnosis and loved to compose symptom lists, sometimes drawing them up on the spot.50 It should be noted that in his centrist approach, Spitzer also presided over many positive developments. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 It would appear that modern psychiatry has regressed back to the nineteenth century, when the predominant view of mental disorders was that they were either hereditary or due to brain disease. Freud had not yet introduced the idea that psychology, not physiology, was the important factor in mental disorders. So pervasive was the conventional view, however, that even Freud had trouble disavowing it. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Population for Mental Illness"), the president's New Freedom Commission Report of 2003 recommended that all children receive mandatory screening for mental disorders and that those who are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder should receive "state-of-the-art treatments" using "specific medications for specific conditions." The Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), which was developed while President Bush was governor of Texas, was cited as a model. |
| A program in Indiana modeled after TMAP, called TeenScreen, used passive screening, where schools were allowed to test children for mental disorders if the parents did not return a form to the school specifically asking them not to. This outraged many of the parents who did not feel they had provided consent.
The 2002 Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act also had a significant impact on how drugs are now tested and administered to children in this country. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| With all the discussion about mental health and mental disorders, there's no discussion whatsoever about the true causes of it. There's all this talk about treating everybody and how we should get everybody into "treatment," which means jobs. I say that mental disorders are not caused by a lack of drugs, so why would you think that adding drugs to someone's brain would eliminate these disorders? What are they really caused by? Well, they are caused by nutritional problems. They are caused by the consumption of hydrogenated oils, for one big thing. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In reality, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, no more than four million people are sufficiently impaired or distressed by their condition to warrant treatment. Inflated or not, Cohn and Wolfe's press campaign paid off. In the two years preceding Paxil's approval, fewer than fifty stories on social anxiety disorder had appeared in the popular press. Hardly anybody even knew what social anxiety was. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Tune the mind and body to a higher vibration as part of a treatment protocol for degenerative disease, emotional imbalance or mental disorders.
Amplify the power of intention through meditation or prayer.
Enhance any spiritual practice through greater connection to self and spirit.
Tune specific body energy centers (or "chakras") to clear stagnation and encourage the flow of energy (or "chi").
Enhance and multiply the effectiveness of acupuncture or accupressure therapies.
Cleanse and "zap" the blood to eliminate viruses, bacteria and other pathogens. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| My main area of research has involved imaging the brain of patients who suffer from depression and other mental disorders. Several years ago I was contacted by the families of some young people who had killed themselves while taking a medication for acne called Accutane. They asked if brain imaging would show similar changes in the same area of the brain of all those who were so adversely affected by Accutane. I spoke with the company that made the drug about supporting research, but it wasn't interested. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 In fact, low blood levels of omega-3 EFAs have been associated with various mental disorders, including ADHD, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and depression. There are numerous published reports demonstrating the benefits of supplementation with individual or combination omega-3 EFAs for many of these mental disorders as well as borderline personality disorder, conduct disorder in children, and bipolar disorder. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Doctors treating children with mental disorders often do just that, prescribing psychotropic drugs for children for uses not approved by the FDA, in many cases cheered on by representatives of the companies that make the drugs that the doctors are prescribing.
A study of children in Tennessee's Managed Care program for Medicare showed that the number of prescriptions for antipsychotics doubled in a five-year period ending in 2001. During this time, one in every one hundred children became a new user of an antipsychotic. |
Charles Barber
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| The idea of this study was to see if there was a way to prevent two major mental disorders: schizophrenia and antisocial disorder. Antisocial disorder leads to a great deal of criminal behavior and is marked by aggression, impulsivity, and lack of remorse. The study began in 1972 and 1973 when the children were three years old. Children from two towns in Mauritius were assigned to two groups. One hundred children were placed in an experimental "enrichment program"; a control group of about 350 children received no additional services. |
| The World Health Organization's 2001 report noted that "patients with mental disorders can be very successful in helping themselves, and peer support has been important in a number of conditions for recovery."21
The peer movement, with its emphasis on peer providers who are now stable and who are reaching out to others who are less so, has been a central feature of a broader movement, the "recovery movement" in psychiatry. |
Bottom Line Health
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| DEFINING THE DISORDER
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), people who have IED overreact to certain situations with uncontrollable rage, experience a sense of relief during the angry outburst, and then feel remorse about their actions.
Because IED can first appear in childhood, Kessler wonders, "What would be the implications in the school years of finding these kids and getting them into treatment? Would it prevent later divorce, job loss, drug or alcohol addiction or legal problems? |
Eric R. Braverman
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 PSYCHOPAUSE
Worldwide studies of older adults have documented a 15 to 25 percent prevalence of serious mental disorders that first occur later in life. Organic mental disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and related dementias affect approximately 10 percent of persons older than sixty and as many as 50 percent of those older than eighty-five. While neuro-psychiatric conditions can occur at any age, the elderly have particularly high rates of alcohol and substance abuse, dysthymia and depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and personality disorders. |
Charles Barber
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| In 1948, a visiting Danish psychiatrist found that most of his American colleagues would not even discuss the possibility of genetic causes of mental disorders. Psychoanalysis had become the scientific religion of choice.28 (And beyond that, genetics, in the aftermath of Nazi experiments, had become a bad religion.) And now we are way back to Galton. When in doubt, genes are the cause.
But Aplysia has told us that in one stroke, we can do away of all these artificial distinctions. "Nature and nurture stand in reciprocity, not opposition," as Harvard psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg has written. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Current literature on phytotherapeutic drugs cite as indications for Indian hemp: painful disorders of the alimentary canal such as ulcers or cancer; respiratory disorders such as asthma, emphysema or chronic bronchitis; neuralgia, migraine; urinary tract disorders; mental disorders such as anxiety, neurasthenia or hysteria.
Efficacy has not been proven.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 He also found that patients with low-blood-sugar symptoms had been wrongly treated for such diverse conditions as hysteria, brain tumor, coronary thrombosis, epilepsy, mental disorders, gall bladder disease, appendicitis, asthma, allergies, ulcers, and alcoholism.
"Dr. Harris pointed out that the cure for low blood glucose or hyper in-sulinism . . . was something so simple that nobody—not even the medical practitioners—could make any money out of it," William Dufty recounts in Sugar Blues.
"The remedy was self-government of the body. |
| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000, 191-209.
Drewnowski, Adam. "Taste and Food Preferences in Human Obesity." In Taste, Experience, and Feeding, edited by Elizabeth D. Capaldi with Terry L. Powley. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1990.
Dufty, William. Sugar Blues. New York: Warner Books, 1975.
Galic, M. A., and M. A. Persinger. "Voluminous Sucrose Consumption in Female Rats: Increased 'Nip-piness' During Periods of Sucrose Removal and Possible Oestrus Periodicity. |
| 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.
Pelchat, Marcia. "Of Human Bondage: Food Craving, Obsession, Compulsion, and Addiction." Physiology and Behavior 76 (2002): 347-52.
Rados, Carol. "FDA, EPA Revise Guidelines on Mercury in Fish." FDA, May-June 2004. http:// www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/304_fish.html. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It has a calming effect when applied as a poultice to the head in cases of mental disorders.
Edible Uses
Amla can be enjoyed as a fresh or dried fruit, stewed, or in sherbets, jelly, or jam. Green amla fruits can be pickled.
Other Uses
None known
Constituents
Bioflavonoids, niacin, calcium, vitamin C, vitamin E, gallic acid, ellagic acid, tannins, polyphenols; amla is about twenty times higher in vitamin C than oranges. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| It is also used for fever, as tonic for general debilities, for constipation, for feverish intestinal diseases, diseases of the liver, rheumatism, dropsy and as a sedative for nervous and mental disorders. It is used in Indian folk medicine for snake and insect bites, fever and diarrhea.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Rauwolfia is contraindicated in depression, ulceration, pheo-chromocytoma, pregnancy and lactation.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: No health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Treating mental disorders by removing organs
The individual who best demonstrates the madness of "modern" surgery is Henry Cotton, a 20th century surgeon who became convinced that mental disorders were primarily caused by infections. With this belief as his guiding philosophy, he literally dragged "kicking and screaming" patients into his surgery rooms where he removed vital organs as part of the "cure." He would remove a patient's colon, stomach, uterus, gallbladder, and even pull all their teeth. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Therefore, Vata imbalances are likely to show up as nervous disorders, including tremors, spasms, seizures, anxiety, depression and clinical mental disorders. Once Vata has returned to balance, such disorders, which otherwise may defy conventional treatment, often disappear spontaneously.
Vatas who are out of balance tend to worry a lot, even when there is really nothing to worry about. This may end up as insomnia, as well as constant restlessness and fearfulness. Fear, which is the Vata type's most typical emotion, affects his digestion and, particularly, the elimination of bodily waste. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 One psychiatrist critic offered two hypotheses to explain the growth of the DSM: that with advances in medical science, we can now "identify mental illnesses that were there all along, but went unrecognized" because of our "primitive knowledge"; alternatively, "we are witnessing the expansion of mental health professions, which label as mental disorders human behaviors that only four decades ago were considered either medical disorders or routine difficulties of ordinary life. |
| Three of the leading ten causes of disability (major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) are mental disorders. The most serious of these problem may lead to suicide. In the year 2000, about 29,000 Americans took their own lives. More than 90% of them suffered from a diagnosable mental disorder. Men commit suicide four times more often than women, however women attempt suicide 2-3 times as often as men.3
How accurate are these numbers? Establishing just how many people suffer from mental illness—that is, national estimates of prevalence—is problematic. |
| Each of the mental disorders," according to the editors is conceptualized as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome... associated with either a painful symptom (distress) or impairment in one or more areas of functioning (disability)____There is behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunction... the disturbance is not only in the relationship between the individual and society.15
The third edition gave considerable attention, previously absent, to the logic and actual process of diagnosis. Some categories were expanded. |
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