After reading "Adoption linked to suicide," I can't help but wonder about psychiatrists in general.
This article features yet another "brilliant" deduction by a mental-health professional. Douglas Gray, child psychiatrist, links suicidal tendencies in adopted children to genetic factors. How typical! Never once does he ponder the possibility that adopted children have suffered the loss of their parents and are therefore burdened with a tremendous emotional trauma.
This sort of reasoning is commonplace for the field of mental health. Take depression, for instance. We are constantly being told that depression is a chemical imbalance of the brain. That theory is quickly shot down, however, when one finds out that doctors and scientists have not yet been able to name and recognize all the chemicals present in the brain. So, if one doesn't even know how many chemicals are supposed to be in the brain, how can one know what the balance of those chemicals is supposed to be?
Depression and suicidal tendencies can result from numerous factors: emotional losses, great stress factors in one's life, serious physical problems such as brain tumors, cancer, thyroid imbalance (doctors can test for actual imbalances of that particular gland), grave nutritional deficiencies) etc.
So, folks, before you let a psychiatrist or psychologist diagnose you with yet another unproven mental illness and agree to swallow some mind-altering and highly addictive drugs, I suggest that you make an appointment with a reputable doctor trained in the physical arts and ask for a thorough medical checkup. Your well-being, even your life, could depend on it.
Jim Northrup
Draper