ABC News, 5/11/12: "...Columbia University researchers found a
40-fold rise in office visits among youth diagnosed with bipolar
disorder between 1994-95 and 2002-3."
In 1995, a new wind began blowing across the psychiatric
landscape. The public wasn't aware of it. But among professionals, it
was big, very big:
Children, including the very young, could, for the first
time, legitimately be diagnosed with bipolar disease (aka manic
depression).
The impetus for this "revelation" was a 1995 report, "Is Your Child Bipolar?" written by two doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, Janet Wozniak and Joseph Biederman.
Biederman would go on to become the target of internal
investigations at Harvard and Mass General---did the pharmaceutical
money he took influence his judgment in deciding bipolar was a real
disorder among children? The charges against him were ultimately
reduced to a few light slaps on the wrist; he retained his prestigious
position.
But back in 1995, he and Wozniak, as the NY Times Magazine recounts (9/12/08,
"The Bipolar Puzzle"), arrived at an earthshaking conclusion
about children coming through their hospital clinic: a number of them
fit the description of "bipolar irritable manic."
It was a huge wow for the psychiatric profession. No one had
seriously insisted, with "convincing evidence," that very young kids
could develop bipolar.
But now, psychiatrists were going to pick up that ball and
run with it. Drug companies were going to develop and promote drugs
(very serious and toxic drugs, like Risperdal) to treat childhood
bipolar.
However, what the Times Magazine story mentions---but no one
pays attention to---is this: Every one of these original manic "bipolar
children" coming through Mass General, minus only one child, HAD ALREADY
BEEN DIAGNOSED with ADHD, Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder.
Boom.
What Biederman and Wozniak---and the rest of the psychiatric
profession---failed to realize, or didn't want to see, was: drugs given
to treat ADHD (e.g., Ritalin, Adderall) are versions of speed; and speed
causes, among other reactions, very irritable
hyper emotions, which are indistinguishable from "manic."
In other words, the obvious takeaway, which no one took away,
was that the "manic" symptoms of these kids were reactions to the prior
speed drugs prescribed for ADHD.
There was no bipolar.
In fact, and you can find this repeated in many press
reports, there are no lab tests for diagnosing bipolar. No blood tests,
no brain scans. It's all done by consulting menus of "indicative"
behaviors assembled by committees of psychiatrists. See,
for example, the National Institute of Mental Health, "Bipolar Disorder
in Children and Teens": "There are no blood tests or brain scans that
can diagnose bipolar disorder. Instead, the doctor will ask questions
about your child's mood and sleeping patterns.
The doctor will also ask about your child's energy and behavior..."
You can give young kids ADHD drugs like Ritalin or Adderall
and watch, in many cases, all the symptoms of so-called bipolar come to
life before your eyes. In the old days, people used to call this a speed
crash.
At first, speed can give a person a sense of clean fresh
energy and clarity. Then after taking it for a few days or a week or a
few weeks or a month (user reactions vary widely), the person begins to
come apart. He's sitting in a corner, in a puddle
of sadness, then he's very high energy ("manic") and yelling and
throwing things and cursing at people.
He's crashing.
This isn't a sophisticated situation. This is basic brain disruption.
Here's another drug sequence with the same outcome: ADHD
diagnosed, Adderall prescribed; child goes into a big funk and this is
diagnosed as depression; doctor prescribes Zoloft, which causes a few
high-flying "manic episodes." New diagnosis: bipolar.
Or a young toddler is fed formula that is largely synthetic,
and chemicals cause a severe series of reactions, which are labeled
"bipolar."
Or a child is given a series of vaccine shots containing
aluminum (a known neurotoxin), formaldehyde, and other injurious
chemicals, and as a result develops severe symptoms labeled "bipolar."
The drugs prescribed for bipolar are quite heavy and dangerous: Valproate, Lithium, Risperdal.
Adverse effects of Valproate include:
* acute, life-threatening, and even fatal liver toxicity;
* life-threatening inflammation of the pancreas;
* brain damage.
Adverse effects of Lithium include:
* intercranial pressure leading to blindness;
* peripheral circulatory collapse;
* stupor and coma.
Adverse effects of Risperdal include:
* serious impairment of cognitive function;
* fainting;
* restless muscles in neck or face, tremors (may be indicative of motor brain damage).
In January, 2002, psychiatrist and author Peter Breggin told
CBS News: "Psychiatry is out of control when it comes to drugging
children...The drug [Risperdal] has an effect. The effect is basically a
chemical lobotomy . . ."
And all this bipolar fakery started in 1995 when kids on psychiatric speed showed up at Mass General Hospital...
And here's the key paragraph from the New York Times Magazine
article, "The Bipolar Puzzle," 9/12/08, about that decisive moment in
time at Mass General: "...In an influential 1995 paper that began the
paradigm shift toward bipolar disorder within
child psychiatry, Janet Wozniak - the director of the pediatric
bipolar-disorder program at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-author
of
'Is Your Child Bipolar?' - working with the chief of pediatric
psychopharmacology, Joseph Biederman, revealed that 16 percent of the
children who came to the clinic met the D.S.M. criteria for mania [manic
symptoms]. This was shocking news; it was
widely believed until then that mania in children was extremely rare.
Wozniak reported that the children's mania most often took the form of
an irritable mood rather than an elevated one, and that the mood was
often chronic: the norm, rather than the exception.
All but one of the manic children in the study also suffered from
A.D.H.D."
It almost seems as if the author dropped in that last sentence as a clue to the whole scam.
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