Which is true 1 or 2 ? The confusion is not helping people with mental illness. 1.) “We can manufacture enough diagnostic labels of normal variability of mood and thought that we can continually supply medication to you…But when it comes to manufacturing disease, nobody does it like psychiatry.” —Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Harvard trained Pennsylvania psychiatrist, 2004 “In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.” —Dr. Thomas Dorman, internist and member of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK, Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada ________________________________________________________ 2.) Celebrities with bipolar disorder also have an opportunity to raise awareness for the illness. Bipolar celebrities include: •Rosemary Clooney •Ray Davies, a musician who is openly bipolar •Richard Dreyfuss •Mel Gibson •Mathew Good •Macy Gray •Linda Hamilton •Sinéad OConnor •Jane Pauley •Jean-Claude Van Damme •Catherine Zeta-Jones
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 21:12:39 +0000
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