Keeps coming

False normalities of portrayed by this crap of article is ridiculous.

Over the years, self-help authors have bent themselves into a pop-psych pretzel trying to identify and cure a battery of seasonal ailments—from the midsummer doldrums to spring fever to back-to-school blahs. What surprises me is that, with all this credentialed attention paid to the emotional distresses that seem to come and go with the equinoxes, nowhere has there been a serious exploration of Thanksgiving-to-Christmastime angst.

Oh, sure, you've read the homespun tips for coping with the upcoming seasonal stress (e.g., relentless familial interaction, gift-giving anxiety, Bowl Game viewing selection). But where is a down-and-dirty checklist of those real turkey-to-mistletoe neuroses—you know, the ones that linger in the pit of your stomach like a lump of coal in the toe of a stocking?

Having celebrated 47 Christmases in my lifetime—18 of them as the youngest son in a Jewish family, 19 as a carefree agnostic and the past ten holed up in the guest room of my Episcopalian in-laws' house in Cleveland—I know a thing or two about how the yuletide brings out the fruitcake in all of us.

Deck the halls, America. Carefully.

This is followed up with 11 holiday neurosis about as convincing as any one of the DSM's.

Not so bad considerring it's totally a farse. But to clear up any misconceptions someone might have that these are fake but there are real ones, be assured there are not. Check the DSM on CCHR.org and watch this documentary.

What if..

Pfizer cuts off development on cholesterol drug after study finds unexpected number of deaths

Now what if their response to that was this:

Does this mean it will cost more? No? Ok. Fine, steady on with it then.

Can't image this happening? Think again.

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death

Chlorpromazine (Largactil® and Thorazine®)

Freedom also obtained declassified intelligence agency documents that reveal the drug Lehmann championed, chlorpromazine, was one of the substances tested under a top secret project in 1954.

Chlorpromazine brought a bonanza to Lehmann. After working in virtual obscurity, he found the doors wide open to hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants. While three people died under ghastly circumstances in just one of his published drug tests, involving eight individuals, Lehmann fattened off pharmaceutical funds and the intelligence sources that also supported the infamous "mind-control" psychiatrist Ewen Cameron. Lehmann's fellow psychiatrists bestowed upon him virtually every major North American psychiatric award.

In 1954, despite clear evidence of its destructiveness, Lehmann's "chemical lobotomy" was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. By 1964, some 50 million people around the world had taken the drug. Chlorpromazine's manufacturer saw its revenue double three times in 15 years.

It was not until the 1970's that psychaitrists were even inclined to give the side effects of the "chemical lobotomy" to anyone, such as extrapyramidal side effects and tardive dyskinesia.