June 25, 2007

Page Six as Lobbyist?

Page Six as Lobbyist?

Are the editors of Page Six doing PR for the drug companies and the
psychiatric industry? (Paula Froelich, "SECRET HELL OF OLYMPICS QUEEN," Page
Six, New York Post, June 23, 2007, page 10) On what evidence is the statement
"It turned out to be a chemical imbalance in her brain that caused her to
'become extremely lethargic
[...]'" based?
There is no such thing as a "chemical imbalance in the brain."
Psychiatrists do not do a chemical analysis of brain matter. They take
photographs. But even if they did scoop out brain matter and test it chemically
there is no standard for a chemical balance. This is a fantasy created by the
psychiatric industry and their mentors the drug companies to promote the false
notion that psychiatry is science based. It sounds good. It fools a lot of people.
But there is no science behind this nullity.
See also the efforts of civil rights activists from MindFreedom who
conducted a hunger strike to challenge the American Psychiatric Association to
provide evidence of their claim of a chemical imbalance. The APA could not
provide any. It is time to scrutinize these baseless claims of the boondoggle
called psychiatry, before everyone who has emotions and thoughts are medicated
into submission.

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

SECRET HELL OF OLYMPICS QUEEN
New York Post
Page Six
Paula Froelich
page 10

June 23, 2007 -- OLYMPICS skating legend Dorothy Hamill still has nightmares
about the tragic death of her ex-husband Dean Paul Martin - because, she reveals
for the first time, he crashed his plane minutes after learning she had secretly
married another man he'd warned her about.

"The wedding had been so impulsive that I hadn't had a chance to tell him
beforehand . . . I wanted to tell him in person - he deserved to hear it
straight from me. The fact that he had to hear it from somebody else, and
immediately before he was to command an F-4 in the air, haunts me to this day,"
Hamill says in her upcoming autobiography, "A Skating Life," due out this
October from Hyperion.

While there has never been any evidence that Martin crashed on purpose, Hamill
raises the possibility he was under extreme duress in his last moments. She says
she was told that as Martin waited for weather clearance on March 21, 1987, he
was asked by an acquaintance about her recent marriage to sports doctor Ken
Forsythe.

"He'd turned to her, his face in shock, and reacted incredulously, 'She did?' "
Hamill writes. Also haunting the athletic pixie was the warning Martin first
gave her after she started dating Forsythe. " 'He's no good Dorothy. Watch out
for this guy,"' she quotes Martin as telling her. She and Forsythe later
divorced, had a custody battle for their daughter, Alexandra, and were forced to
declare bankruptcy after some business ventures went bad.

"I was in the depth of a depression. I had hit rock bottom," Hamill writes. "I
kept up with [the antidepressant] Paxil, but I was supplementing it with glasses
of white wine. Not a good idea . . . To add to my misery, I started smoking." It
turned out to be a chemical imbalance in her brain that caused her to "become
extremely lethargic . . . sometimes so paralyzed I [didn't] want to get off the
couch."
[...]

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