Head of Health Canada (FDA Canadian style) says Psychiatry is a Fraud

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According to Jon Rappoport......


Health Canada is the equivalent of the FDA in America.
Dr. Sharma is “responding on the Minister’s behalf”—the Health Minister of Canada, a post roughly comparable to the US Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Here is Dr. Sharma’s key passage:
“For mental/psychiatric disorders in general, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and ADHD, there are no confirmatory gross, microscopic or chemical abnormalities that have been validated for objective physical diagnosis.”
Dr. Sharma is readily admitting that the diagnosis of mental disorders has no basis in actual science.
There are no defining diagnostic tests.
That means: no blood tests, no urine tests, no hair tests, no brain scans, no genetic assays. Nothing.

http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/2-new-smoking-guns-psychiatry-is-a-complete-fraud/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlH9sV0lHU&feature=kp

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mii been seyinn similar ting

add adhd a joke

[kia027]

mii been seyinn similar ting

add adhd a joke

If it is a joke then what is the cause

Have you seen any true ADHD kids

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If it is a joke then what is the cause

Have you seen any true ADHD kids

Of course physical or emotional trauma plays a role but I believe...
The primary culprits are various forms of food dyes and food additives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofVlZhly6pg

The effect of artificial food colors (AFCs) on child behavior has been studied for more than 35 years, with accumulating evidence from imperfect studies. This article summarizes the history of this controversial topic and testimony to the 2011 Food and Drug Administration Food Advisory Committee convened to evaluate the current status of evidence regarding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Features of ADHD relevant to understanding the AFC literature are explained: ADHD is a quantitative diagnosis, like hypertension, and some individuals near the threshold may be pushed over it by a small symptom increment. The chronicity and pervasiveness make caregiver ratings the most valid measure, albeit subjective. Flaws in many studies include nonstandardized diagnosis, questionable sample selection, imperfect blinding, and nonstandardized outcome measures. Recent data suggest a small but significant deleterious effect of AFCs on children’s behavior that is not confined to those with diagnosable ADHD. AFCs appear to be more of a public health problem than an ADHD problem. AFCs are not a major cause of ADHD per se, but seem to affect children regardless of whether or not they have ADHD, and they may have an aggregated effect on classroom climate if most children in the class suffer a small behavioral decrement with additive or synergistic effects. Possible biological mechanisms with published evidence include the effects on nutrient levels, genetic vulnerability, and changes in electroencephalographic beta-band power. A table clarifying the Food and Drug Administration and international naming systems for AFCs, with cross-referencing, is provided.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441937/

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and when you eliminate the food dye and additives and the condition is still present?



as for the no brain scans used to determine mental illness that is not true. There have been trials for years.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/07/16/reading-the-brain-fda-approves-first-scan-for-diagnosing-adhd/

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When you get a cut and you are bleeding you don't need tests to determine that you are injured. You look at the symptoms - open wound, blood, pain, swelling etc - and you treat the symptoms so you can begin healing the wound. You will need to probe deeper if the person keeps getting wounded.

Similarly with many psychiatric conditions you look at the symptoms and you treat them. Psychiatry also probes a little deeper, for example, what causes these symptoms in this person? Heredity? Head injury? Birth defect? Trauma?

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and when you eliminate the food dye and additives and the condition is still present?



as for the no brain scans used to determine mental illness that is not true. There have been trials for years.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/07/1...agnosing-adhd/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4SFyWilyV0

A cursory ready of the article shows that it is a technology yet to be developed




It’s the first test to diagnose the behavioral disorder using brain wave patterns, but it won’t be the last. The idea of reading the brain’s activity for clues to mental illness is gaining ground.
As Roxanne Khamsi reported in TIME recently, researchers are learning enough about the signature patterns of normal, and abnormal brain activity that they believe it may be possible to diagnose mental illnesses ranging from depression, schizophrenia, autism and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by studying readouts of brain waves, much in the way they now rely on elecrocardiograms (EKGs) to diagnose heart problems.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Neba Health’s device for children aged six years to 17 years. It relies on electroencephalogram (EEG) readings, which track electrical impulses released by active nerves. The test lasts 20 minutes and records the frequency of impulses emitted every second. By studying the resulting wave pattern, doctors can determine with relative confidence whether the child has ADHD, which is characterized by difficulty concentrating and paying attention.
As Khamsi wrote, researchers are also investigating how more sophisticated brain imaging techniques, including functional MRI (fMRI) could also improve diagnosis of ADHD:

Other researchers have found evidence that such fMRI scans might also help diagnose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), schizophrenia and depression. In an experiment appearing in the forthcoming July issue of Psychiatry Research, Dr. Jonathan Posner of Columbia University and his colleagues looked at 22 children with ADHD who were not yet on medication and compared them with 20 youngsters around the same age without the disorder. Compared with the healthy children, those with ADHD had, on average, less coordinated brain activity between regions such as the prefrontal cortex, an area at the front of the brain thought to be involved in decisionmaking, and the caudate, a region located toward the base of the brain involved in controlling impulses. Such patterns could one day help identify children at highest risk of developing ADHD and provide them with behavioral or educational support to address symptoms early on, when such interventions might have the biggest impact.

It’s also possible that brain waves can inform treatment of mental illnesses:

“I am most interested in us[ing] resting-state fMRI to really examine the effects of treatment,” says Posner. He also published a paper in JAMA Psychiatry last spring showing that antidepressants successfully quieted hyperconnectivity in the brains of individuals with chronic depression.
That trial compared brain scans from 32 people with depression with those from 25 healthy counterparts and confirmed that the former group had more activity in what is known as the default mode network, a collection of disparate brain regions that makes up the baseline, or default level of brain activity necessary to keep a body functioning. When a person performs a mental task, this default network is suppressed. But in the depressed patients, this network was overactive, and that was associated with increased rumination — or overfixating on a thought that could contribute to depression.
The patients with depression were then given a 10-week course of either the antidepressant Cymbalta (duloxetine) or a placebo. At the end of the trial, patients who received the drug showed similar connectivity patterns to those seen in healthy individuals, but the depressed participants who received placebo did not. (The study received some funding support from the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, which markets Cymbalta.)

Experts say that advanced in brain imaging technology are making it possible to discern patterns of activity that could distinguish normal cognitive development from cases of autism, ADHD or other disorders. With autism in particular, having such a non-invasive way of identifying infants who are at risk may help them to avoid some of the condition’s more severe symptoms:

With autism, for example, doctors are “really desperate for a biological marker to help with diagnosis and [measuring] treatment response,” says Daniel Smith, senior director of discovery neuroscience at Autism Speaks. Currently, most children are diagnosed around the age of 2, when the behavioral symptoms of inattention and repetitive actions tend to emerge. More studies suggest, however, that intervening with behavioral therapy in children as young as 6 months old could reduce, or even normalize, some of the aberrant brain changes responsible for the disorder, so diagnosing the condition as early as possible could become critical.

Doctors don’t expect that such tests will serve as the only diagnostic tool for detecting complex mental health conditions such as ADHD — indeed, the FDA says the device should be used in combination with medical and psychological evaluations. But they could become an important way of improving diagnosis and identifying patients at earlier phases of their disease, when treatments may be more effective.

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When you get a cut and you are bleeding you don't need tests to determine that you are injured. You look at the symptoms - open wound, blood, pain, swelling etc - and you treat the symptoms so you can begin healing the wound. You will need to probe deeper if the person keeps getting wounded.

That's pretty straight forward given that we have a firm grasp of how to treat such types of wounds......what if you are presented with a case of a woman or man bleeding from the rectum? what then?

Similarly with many psychiatric conditions you look at the symptoms and you treat them. Psychiatry also probes a little deeper, for example, what causes these symptoms in this person? Heredity? Head injury? Birth defect? Trauma?

That's what they did to George Washington and bled him to death.