Texting, Psych Meds, CRS, and Blood Sucking Leeches

Texting? As an Incurable Mental Illness?

Apparently it's in the pipe, scheduled for inclusion in Psychiatry's DSM-V.

Between 2004-2006 the FDA received reports attributing the Antidepressant Paxil/Seroxat as the prime causative agent in the death by suicide of 841 people, attempted suicide by another 495 people, and 54 people who were Treated to a dose of 'Mental Health' via this chemical agent, going off and MURDERING other people. How many of those responsible for poisoning those 841 people to DEATH and sending another 54 of them off [after Billing Them] to commit MURDERS, [based on Billable OPINIONS] have been brought to trial? Does anyone have the actual numbers?

But to be equitable; Let's suppose that You - Mr. or Ms. Patient - truly find the stuff to be a Bag Of Sunshine. You were down. Your boss was a jerk, [and still is] your love life sucked, and there was absolutely Nothing on TV. You had the Blues worse than Anybody's Ever had the blues.

So your Doctor set you up with these magic pills, and they Worked. And they're Still working, Beating Your Blues, because you don't Dare even Think about getting off them, because every time you Try to get off them, you get these horrible shocking pains, and these terrifying, overwhelming urges to join those other 841 SUICIDES, in the graveyard.

If the Behavioral Scientist who got you addicted to those Blues Busters had actually Told You about all those suicides and murders before that BS-er set you up for a lifetime of electric shocks and russian roulette, ..... to feed their Own face, well then, ..... we'd be as shocked as many of the people trying to get off of Paxil are.

Lately, we've been reading again and again that it's the Drug Cos. fault, because the Drug Cos. have been Misleading the bribe taking Physician/Psychiatrists about the safety and efficacy of their drugs/poisons, and those same Physician/Psychiatrists are so GD gullible, that they can't even smell sales horse s**t on a hot day from 10 feet downwind.

1: Why the Hell are the rest of us paying - through Drug Co. profits that are landing those Drug Cos. in Court left and right for Medicare and Medicaid Fraud - for those gullible Doctors continuing medical education? CME that's paid for by those same Drug Cos?

2: If those Doctors truly are that gullible: Why the Hell are they allowed to continue to practice medicine at all?

3: How many years of tax payer subsidized education at tax payer funded Universities does it take to become a Psychiatrist? And What in the Hell were they learning there in all those years, that left them expecting the Rest of us to buy Their line that they were completely bamboozled by a Drug Co. sales rep. and that somehow lets them off the hook?

But yet Psychiatrists expect us to believe that they are so brilliant that they are actually Psychic, and can See into another persons mind, using a computer tabulated diagnosis based partly on a check list checked off by a non-Psychiatrist in a Diagnostic Interview with someone they have Never met before, lasting all of 7 minutes.

Horse S**t ain't all this stinks of. In the 18th century such arrant poltroonery was told right to its face: "That It Stinks Cursed Strong Of The Hangman."


Phlebotomy and CRS

As recently as 1840 physicians ascribed all manner of real, physical ailments, or just plain old "Having The Blues" to the influence of bad blood, or too much blood. They applied leeches to the ailing patient to suck the blood out of them. Those blood suckers Themselves were for centuries referred to as leeches.

When someone fell ill the cry went out, "Send for a Leech!"

Wikipedia offers an introductory course under "Bloodletting"

"[Vivisectionist] William Harvey disproved the basis of the practice in 1628, and the introduction of scientific medicine, la méthode numérique, allowed Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis to demonstrate that phlebotomy was entirely ineffective in the treatment of pneumonia and various fevers in the 1830s. Nevertheless, in 1840 a lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians would still state that "blood-letting is a remedy which, when judiciously employed, it is hardly possible to estimate too highly" and Louis was dogged by the sanguinary Broussais, who could recommend leeches fifty at a time.

Bloodletting was used to treat almost every disease. One British medical text recommended bloodletting for acne, asthma, cancer, cholera, coma, convulsions, diabetes, epilepsy, gangrene, gout, herpes, indigestion, insanity, jaundice, leprosy, ophthalmia, plague, pneumonia, scurvy, smallpox, stroke, tetanus, tuberculosis, and for some one hundred other diseases. Bloodletting was even used to treat most forms of hemorrhaging such as nosebleed, excessive menstruation, or hemorrhoidal bleeding. Before surgery or at the onset of childbirth, blood was removed to prevent inflammation. Before amputation it was customary to remove a quantity of blood equal to the amount believed to circulate in the limb that was to be removed.[4]

"Leeches became especially popular in the early nineteenth century. Through the 1830s the French imported about forty million leeches a year for medical purposes, and in the next decade, England imported six million leeches a year from France alone. Through the early decades of the century, hundreds of millions of leeches were used by physicians throughout Europe.[5]

Example: One typical course of medical treatment began the morning of 13 July 1824. A French sergeant was stabbed through the chest while engaged in single combat; within minutes he fainted from loss of blood. Arriving at the local hospital he was immediately bled twenty ounces (570 ml) "to prevent inflammation". During the night he was bled another 24 ounces (680 ml). Early next morning the chief surgeon bled the patient another 10 ounces (285 ml); during the next 14 hours he was bled five more times. Medical attendants thus intentionally removed more than half of the patient's normal blood supply - in addition to the initial blood loss which caused the sergeant to faint. Bleedings continued over the next several days. By 29 July the wound had become inflamed. The physician applied 32 leeches to the most sensitive part of the wound. Over the next three days there were more bleedings and a total of 40 more leeches. The sergeant recovered and was discharged on 3 October. His physician wrote that "by the large quantity of blood lost, amounting to 170 ounces [nearly eleven pints] (4.8 liters), besides that drawn by the application of leeches [perhaps another two pints] (1.1 liter), the life of the patient was preserved". By ninteenth-century standards, thirteen pints of blood taken over the space of a month was a large but not an exceptional quantity. The medical literature of the period contains many similar accounts-some successful, some not.[6]

Bloodletting was also popular in the young United States of America, where Benjamin Rush (a signatory of the Declaration of Independence) saw the state of the arteries as the key to disease, recommending levels of blood-letting that were high, even for the time. George Washington was treated in this manner following a horseback riding accident: almost 4 pounds (1.7 litres) of blood was withdrawn, contributing to his death by throat infection in 1799."


APA Icon Benjamin Rush, Again?

And even before Harvey in 1628 Wiki tells of This absolutely astounding fellow.

Ibn al-Nafis, 1213CE-1288CE, "is most famous for being the first physician to describe the pulmonary circulation, and the capillary and coronary circulations, which form the basis of the circulatory system, for which he is considered the father of circulatory physiology and "the greatest physiologist of the Middle Ages."

George Washington, murdered, in 1799 by Blood Sucking Leeches, even after Ibn al-Nafis and William Harvey.

61 Million prescriptions for Antidepressants in 2001. There's so much of the stuff in our streams, lakes and ground water that the EPA has officially noted it as an Environmental Contaminant, ..... and Institutionalized Psychiatry Still can't SELL 'Incurable' condemnations and even More world wrecking Psych Meds fast enough.

Col. David Hackworth [Wiki] once quipped that the US Pentagon was always preparing to re-fight some previous war, and suffered from CRS [Can't Remember S**t] Syndrome.

Just how far into Real Science's rear view mirror Was this CRS afflicted Blood Sucking Leech Benjamin Rush charging?