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 From: LC@dinkerson.com 
  
 In article , kmoiarty35@shaw.ca says... 
 > 
 >Now, having clarified that point, let me also add that you are right about 
 >the Scientologists.  Scientologists are simply, anti-psychiatry (i.e. 
 >against the scientific/medical treatment of mental illness).  That's because 
 >it's a part of the wacky belief system they choose to put their personal 
 >faith in; that mental illness doesn't exist and that all mental issues can 
 >only be properly resolved by becoming a member of, and enrolling in, 
 >Scientology.  This being a free country and all, that would be fine except 
 >for the fact that these guys are an organized, highly mobilized and well 
 >funded army of fanatical zealots bent on assassinating the name of 
 >psychiatry by presenting as fact whatever calculated half-truths and fiction 
 >the largely psychiatrically-naive public is vulnerable to believe. 
  
 On the other hand, psychiatry is based on some pretty shakey ground.  SSRIs 
 seem to be nothing more than addictive substances that don't produce 
 euphoria. 
  People who use them find relief when they take their pill because they are 
 addicted to it.  That's why the literature on them says that they take a few 
 weeks to 'start working'.  What's actually happening in those three weeks is 
 the development of a dependency on the SSRI. 
  
 Scientology attacks psychiatry from a position which is more reprehensible 
 than 
 psychiatry, but that doesn't mean psychiatry is beyond reproach. 
  
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