Children Need Love Not Medication

Children Need Love Not Medication

"Dr. Joseph Gold of McLean Hospital, director of Community Child Psychiatry
Services for Partners Health Care said "in recent weeks, the backups have
'dramatically increased' again." (Carey Goldberg, "Children face delays in
mental health care," Boston Globe, April 13, 2007)
"Joan Mikula, assistant commissioner of [...] the state Department of
Mental Health [said,] State officials and care providers are trying hard to
understand what is going wrong and how to fix it." What is wrong is the
arbitrary diagnoses of illness by the psychiatric industry. These licensed
professionals work on behalf of and with the support of the drug companies and
the hospital who thrive on more patients.
How many of the increased number of children diagnosed with mental illness
are really in need of hospitalization? If their parents and friends provided the
love and support is there any need for the professional friends and dispensers
of drugs?
When will this boondoggle known as psychiatry end so that taxpayer funds
can be directed to programs that provide help to vulnerable citizens instead of
the wealthy and politically connected elite psychiatric industry?

--
Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

Children face delays in mental health care
Shortage of beds, facilities leading to record backups
By Carey Goldberg,
Boston Globe Staff
April 13, 2007

The state's mental health system for children is clogged with some of its worst
backups in years, leading to long emergency room waits and a record number of
"stuck kids" who are deemed well enough to leave hospital units but have nowhere
to go.
The logjam tends to worsen in late winter and spring, when mental illness often
worsens. But it is particularly bad this year: in the latest count, state
monitors found 156 stuck children at the end of February, some 50 percent more
than the average number in recent years.
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