Paxil / Seroxat - What the moderator of the Withdrawal & Recovery group said about Rob Robinson

** Rob, you don't think the use of psychiatric drugs isnecessarily bad?? Have I missed something? Isn't Paxil a psychiatricdrug?What has happened that you won't take a stand now about these drugswhen you once did?Do you think it's just Paxil that's a problem? Well, it isn't.Drugs that alter brain structure in order to alter brain chemistry(most psychotropic drugs) are just another cash cow for thepharmaceutical industry. It has been accepted to not know themechanisms by which these drugs "work" (look at the clinicalpharmacology of any of them in the PDR). Because of this, drug makerscan make drugs for which they don't have to be accountable. Thepsychiatric classes of drugs are rife with drugs designed not forefficacy, but for profit.Have you not read Peter Breggin's books? Dr. Healey's? Whatabout Ann Tracy's book? John Abramson's? Dr. Glenmullin's? MarciaAngell, MD, former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal ofMedicine has a book titled "The Truth About the Drug Companies". Didyou read this one? How about the list of books on your very ownwebsite?http://paxilprotest.com/page31.htmlHow about the now regular exposes about the lies and deceits of thedrug industry? Have you read any of those? Do you not read the vastnumber of articles written every month about the shambles made ofpeople's lives by these drugs? The medical journals have even begunpublishing articles that cast a negative light on these drugs and/orthe drug industry? Did you miss those, Rob?The articles in the papers are only about those who committedheinous crimes while on these drugs. There are thousands more whowill never be the same after being seduced by the promise of relieffrom depression, anxiety, mania, and psychosis only to find that evenif they suffered only a few mild "side effects" (they're in theminority) they will never be able to connect emotionally again as theyonce did because of the chemical lobotomy they received from thesedrugs. Don't forget the physical damage caused by them (adrenalsystem, thyroid, circulatory system, hormonal system, etc.).What about all the people who struggle to stop taking these drugs?Most go through hell, some have to quit school, some have to leavetheir jobs. Some lose their spouses, some their children, some theirfriends. Some kill their spouses, children, or friends.How about the children? 30% of young people entering the moreexclusive colleges in the U.S. are on psychiatric drugs. Fully 50% ofthem are talking these drugs by their senior year.Infants are now being diagnosed with psychiatric disorders anddrugged. Most young children taking psychotropic drugs now are taking2,3, or 4 of them. This happens because the drugs don't work for whatwe are told they work for. Parents note their children are no better,and often worse and complain to their physicians. The physicians, whohave been lied to just as much as the lay public, mindlessly write foryet another drug to be added to the drug regime because when theyphone the pharmaceutical companies to tell them the drug is notworking as intended, they are told that the child has a"treatment-resistant illness and advise physicians to add a drug,often one of their own. They have no evidence that this combinationworks to resolve the child's "mental illness" but they don't need itbecause of people who can be so easily convinced that these drugs AREefficacious and it must be a problem with the patient if they don'twork.Here is an example of one of the latest excuses told bypharmaceutical companies to physicians when physicians, who arebeginning to doubt these drugs, seek their "expertise" in sorting outwhy the child (or adult) has not improved:TJ - aged 10. On psychotropic drugs since the age of 5. 1stdiagnosis -- ADHD. When the entire drug selection targeted for thisalleged disorder had been tried with poor results and TJ wasdeteriorating from having his young, developing brain assaulted byamphetamines, TJ was given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Gee,could it have been the rapid withdrawal from all the amphetamine-baseddrugs given to him that made his behavior and moods unpredictable?After being treated with more than 14 drugs, includinganti-psychotics, for this alleged disorder and being worse off thanever, TJ's "specialists" from a large, well respected psychiatrichospital in NY phoned one of the drug companies. They were told thatTJ's problem was that his "illness" was "progressive" and that's whythe drugs weren't working for him. A recommendation was made for achemical straitjacket of 5 drugs, 2 of which were anti-psychotics.This did the trick. TJ is so drugged he can no longer participate inschool, has seizures several times a day, is unable to complete asentence any time he tries to talk, and is often found in the yardsleeping on the ground while his siblings play around him. When hisparents question any of this, they are reassured that although this isa progressive illness and TJ will always be ill, the doctors will keeptrying until they find something that "works" for TJ. The parents gohome relieved, and glad that the doctors care so much and are takingsuch good care of TJ.There are hundreds of thousands of TJs out there today, Rob, not tomention all the adults. Do you think your comments helped or hurtthose who are trying to help them?Did they put something in the water in your hotel that's affectedyour memory, Rob? It makes absolutely no sense to me that you woulddefend psychiatric medicine the way you did when you had theopportunity to be heard.Frankly, I believe you are currently more of a liability than ahelp to the movement that wants psychiatry and drug companies to stopinjuring people with psychotropic drugs. Until you find again whatyou once knew and are willing to stand up and speak out about it, I,for one, am boycotting your website, and I am suggesting to the 530members of my psychotropic drug recovery group that they do so also.A most puzzled and disappointed,Catherine Creel(Withdrawal_and_Recovery)Entire articleProtest at GSK Criticizes Drughttp://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/12749439.htm