Tag Archives: panic disorder

Dangerous doctors slipping through the cracks

It took the discovery of guns and grenades to suspend the license of a psychiatrist who some say should have come under scrutiny years earlier. One night a Crestwood police sergeant doing a routine building check noticed an open door to the office of psychiatrist Joel Carroll. Stepping inside the cluttered office, he discovered roaming cats, a Colt AR-15 assault rifle and other guns, ammunition, military-grade smoke grenades, sex toys, and pornography. “Well, for the lack of better terminology, we considered it a pigsty,” Sgt. Thomas Kaniewski testified about his April 2009 discovery. “It looked in complete disarray. We couldn’t believe that someone could actually conduct business in an office like that because of the conditions it was in.”

Psychotropic Drugs, Our Children and Our Pill-Crazed Society

Today, the use of psychoactive drugs by children (6-17) is all too common, relied on far too much and growing at an alarming rate. It all started in the ’70s. Memorialized in 1966 by the Rolling Stones’ “Mothers Little Helpers,” it was at that time that our society took the first steps at becoming “Pill Crazy.”

Truly a must-read article by psychiatrist Peter Breggin: The Huffington Post— The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Is there anything wrong with diagnosing ourselves or even accepting the mental health diagnoses of psychiatrists, family doctors, psychotherapists and other health professionals? Psychiatric diagnoses are seductive. They seem to give us important information about ourselves and our emotional ills. They provide a key to what psychiatric drug we may need. It seems rational and scientific. In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

LewRockwell.com – The Big Government-Big Pharma Complex: Disease Mongering for Fear and Profit

The documentary film, Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs is reviewed. The author states, “Perhaps a most disturbing trend brought up in the film is the wacky, wild world of ‘things just ain’t right’ disorders. Whether it’s ‘generalized anxiety disorder,’ ‘major depressive disorder,’ ‘panic disorder,’ ‘acute social phobia,’ or finally, the celebrated ‘social anxiety disorder,’ there’s a disorder to fit you and explain away your day-to-day problems.”