psychiatry is nuts

Australian three-year-olds targeted for bogus psychiatric disorders such as sleeping with the light on     

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by: Mike Bundrant                                                                                                       `
(NaturalNews) The Australian government and the Australian Medical Association are targeting 27,000 three-year-olds for psychiatric treatment. A new government funded program seeks to treat normal preschool children to discover if they show "signs of mental illness."

What are the symptoms of mental illness in three-year-olds? Shyness, temper tantrums and needing to sleep with the light on. Yes, folks, I guess even monster in the closet is now a symptom of psychosis. The whole human race must need psychiatric medication.

To squelch concerns about mislabeling normal behavior and medicating the little ones with powerful drugs, Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton said the following:

''We have to be careful we don't medicalise normal behaviour and that's a real caution with children. There are genuine kids who need extra support to help them integrate into normal kindergartens and classrooms and a lot of the funding for that is driven by diagnoses so there's a perverse incentive to diagnose conditions like autism. There are kids who need it but we don't want to make normal kids abnormal."

But you are doing exactly that, Mr. Hambleton!

When people are evaluated by a family doctor, then referred to a psychiatrist to treat obviously normal behavior, I call it unnecessary medical treatment!

Others affiliated with the program suggest that they do not want to "slap diagnoses on three-year-olds" or prescribe "unnecessary" medication. They claim to merely want to have "more systematic ways of finding kids who are causing difficulties and do something about it.''

The mental health evaluation, though not compulsory, will form part of a check for developmental problems such as hearing, eyesight and allergies, with doctors to receive training before it is introduced in the next financial year.

In other words, there is a massive snow job going on. Anyone with a rational mind can see it.

They say the test is not compulsory, yet conduct it along with tests for allergies, hearing and eyesight, which are compulsory or seen as compulsory.

They claim they don't want to medicate children, rather to do something about the "difficulties" children cause. "Doing something" in this case means treatment by a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists prescribe medication for a living, folks!

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