Medication Nation

Officially Premiers June 2, 2009

Dr. Jack Gallagher is a radically unorthodox psychiatrist who becomes Director of Mental Health Services at Wharton Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. He takes on patients battling unknown, misunderstood, and often misdiagnosed psychiatric conditions.

Gallagher has developed a mysterious ability to get into the minds of his patients and see the way they see reality, allowing him to uncover what might be the keys to their long-term recoveries. This perspective leads Gallagher to offer strange treatments for his patients. These treatments threaten to break the hypersensitive environment of the hospital and generate serious conflicts with his boss Nora, who had a relationship with Jack previously.

Jack has to deal not only with his patients but also with Veronica, an ambitious and sexy psychiatrist who is his rival in the hospital, and Carl, an attending with a pristine image but who hides a deep hate for Jack. In addition, Arturo is a junior resident addicted to women, and Chloe is a young doctor whose sexual orientation makes her immune to Arturo’s moves on her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_(TV_series)

http://www.fox.com/mental/

http://shockdoc.tv/trailer.html

Please keep in mind that this video covers modern electro-shock therapy, and it appears not to endorse or oppose it's usage. This is just the trailer to the film. I would not suggest anyone ever consider this treatment, but I will provide the video as a source for information.

About SHOCK:
Shock is a look at one of the most controversial treatments in medical history - electroconvulsive therapy, also known as ECT or “shock therapy.” Through candid and intimate interviews with patients, doctors, and other experts, the film explores the myths, mysteries, and realities surrounding electroconvulsive therapy, a medical procedure used, most effectively, in treating severe clinical depression. ECT works by inducing seizures in a patient through electrical impulses to the brain. How and why it works is still a medical mystery, but in a growing number of psychiatric cases where drug therapies are ineffective or risky, it is the only treatment that helps.

One such case is Kitty Dukakis, wife of the three-term Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. For over 20 years, Kitty battled her severe depression with every medication and treatment available. But it wasn’t until she tried electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, that she began getting her life back for good. Ms. Dukakis as the centerpiece of this story will share her personal and emotional struggles with depression, her decision to try ECT as a last resort, and her feelings about and experiences with the procedure.

The purpose and effectiveness of ECT, and the controversies surrounding it, are told from the point of view of patients who have undergone the treatment, as well as doctors, critics, cultural historians, and other experts. Its shameful past, its promising future, its damaging effects and near-miraculous benefits are all explored, leaving the viewer to ultimately decide the value of this controversial treatment.

Please TAKE NOTE that throughout the videos the terminology used to describe individuals who subscribe to mental health treatments is "CONSUMERS". They use it so casually it's almost like watching a commercial for food.

CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME!

TREATMENT TREATMENT TREATMENT!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/TeenScreenDemo

Legislator Lambasts Mental Screening

"It is difficult to draw clear boundaries between phenomena that are part of normal development and others that are abnormal." - Mark Olson (R) MN

"False positives result in more drugs ... the psychotropic drugs that are often used have been associated with many mass shootings in our schools..." - Mark Olson (R) MN

We have better answers. Let's stop putting kids in chemical straight jackets." - Mark Olson (R) MN

Indiana Commission on Mental Health

TeenScreen Opposed in Fresno School Board

Mother Speaks Out Against TeenScreen

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http://www.youtube.com/user/SFJane

http://www.truehope.com/

Tony Stephan, and his wife a mother of a large Mormon family suffers from Bipolar I for years before committing suicide. Later her children take on similar symptoms. Her son Joseph is prescribed Lithium.

Tony and an associate decide to experiment with a dietary supplement they had made for Joseph, which would give him all needed vitamins and nutrients. He stopped his Lithium prescription, and went solo on the supplements. The same symptoms of depression and psychosis began to attack his sister Autumn in early adulthood. She was convinced to take the supplements as well, and recovered.

They begin to share the supplement with groups of people for free. TrueHope, a corporation that produces the product EMPower+ begins. Development of the product advances. Controversy and criticism ensues.

Tony and David try to pursue scientific research into the effects of EMPower+.

http://www.youtube.com/user/bipolarorwakingup

Here's a little new age diddy on bipolar. Take it for whatever it's worth, it is an alternative viewpoint of mental consciousness, and the primitive way in which consciousness is evaluated and punished by current psychiatric practices.

Produced by bipolarORwakingUP

Also see: www.newlightbeings.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Flhk67O-Yw

Peter Ashenden has been diagnosed with several mental illnesses. He was institutionalized and given no hope for recovery. In August 2007, he was the keynote speaker at the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network summer conference. This video highlights some of the most powerful statements in his speech.

This video is produced by Rayne's World: http://raynesworld.blogspot.com/

Well-respected consumer advocate Peter Ashenden will assume leadership on an interim basis of the nation’s leading consumer-led mental health organization, the Depression and Bipolar Alliance (DBSA), on September 1, 2008.

A documentary film directed and narrated by Adam Curtis, a renowned British documentary film maker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

The Birth of modern Psychiatry: Part 1 of 4

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