Here's a chance for all of you to do something useful...

[Sterling30]

Before this is deleted make sure you you copy the following info. And later after the administrators of this site do delete this subject, ask yourselves just how and why anyone can come to the defense of such barbarism against against the most innocent and defenceless in our society..



Some general info on ECT.. (That some respected community leaders here don't want you to see..)



www.breggin.com/electroshock.html



Move fast, this won't last long here..



This is the petition..



www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopshock (Please sign it..)



This is the latest update I've received from these truly decent and caring folks..



Thanks for stopping by Petition Spot to sign the petition to ban the use of shock (ect) on children by both public and private practitioners.



We are about to hit 400 signatures!



If you have not yet sent the link to your network, will you? It really helps.



www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopshock



The more people who sign on the more power the fasters will have at Bastille Days '06 to go the full 9 days without eating. Some of the members of the Mental Patients Liberation Alliance will be on a water fast during Bastille Days '06 to call attention to issues young people have to confront every day - from stigma and "mental health" screenings to pharmaceuticals, restraint, seclusion and shock.



Bastille Days are July 8- July 16 on the East Lawn of the State Capitol Building in Albany, NY. Join us for an hour or a week! (More information about Bastille Days below)



Please help get the word about this petition and event out by forwarding this e-mail to your network!



www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopshock



If you have any questions - let me know! Hope to see you there ~~10e



Lauren J. Tenney

Chair, Board of Directors

Mental Patients Liberation Alliance

victoriaataylor@aol.com

[daniel]

don't wory...they'd sooner delete my threads about self-promo...because that's the real hot topic!

[Damien Project]

www.jdrf.org

[Sterling30]

This is a good site to check out sometime soon, a site exposing the real forces behind the proposed govt, plan called "Teen Screen" to "test" 52 million American schooldchildren for suicidal tendencies, a stupid test that consists of a list of question that will qualify all of them for being labled with a non-existant disorder which according to data allready collected, will add 24% of the total as new patients for Big Pharma.



www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html



Procedure on Young Children



Step One



TeenScreen lures kids as young as 9 years old into doing the suicide survey by offering them free movie passes, food coupons, "I completed TeenScreen" stress balls and pizza parties, if they consent to the procedure.



One tactic TeenScreen officials use is to sell the child on the suicide survey first and after they have the child's agreement, they later contact parents.



TeenScreen Project Coordinator, Kathleen Cigich, was quoted as saying: "We found early on, though, that sending out letters directly to parents is prohibitively time consuming and gets a low response rate. We thought, why not go to students themselves and offer a $5 video store coupon to anyone who brings back a parental consent form within a two-day turnaround period. It works. Our response rate is extremely high."



TeenScreen also utilizes a "passive consent" form which requires no written parental approval. The passive consent form is sent home to parents and if they don't return it TeenScreen considers that the parents approve. TeenScreen officials favor passive consent because they say it boosts their chances of screening kids to 95% as opposed to the written parental consent technique. What if the child forgets to bring the consent form home? What happens if the parent is too busy to refuse in writing? They've consented in the eyes of TeenScreen personnel.



Step Two



The youngster is sat down and asked introverting questions such as:



Has there been a time when nothing was fun for you and you just weren't interested in anything?

Has there been a time when you felt you couldn't do anything well or that you weren't as good-looking or as smart as other people?

How often did your parents get annoyed or upset with you because of the way you were feeling or acting?

Have you often felt very nervous when you've had to do things in front of people?

Have you often worried a lot before you were going to play a sport or game or do some other activity?

Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year?

Are you still thinking of killing yourself?

Have you thought seriously about killing yourself?

Have you often thought about killing yourself??

Have you ever tried to kill yourself?



Step Three



Based on the answers the child gives to the above questions he is then shuffled off to a "clinician", who ponders the bogus label to use.



Social Phobia?



Panic Disorder?



Anxiety?



Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?



Active Suicide Ideation?



Passive Suicide Ideation?



Step Four



The "clinician" summarizes his report and comes up with an "impairment score".



Step Five



Based on how the child answered the "suicide survey", and which label the clinician conjured up and how the child did on his "impairment score" the child is then sent off for "treatment".



What treatment?

Drugs. A survey of recently trained child psychiatrists found the treatment for 9 out of 10 children consisted of drugging. (Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry 2002)



The "treatment" used on children with these bogus labels can be found here: Medication Guidelines



"Treatment" is the long term goal for TeenScreen according to their director, Laurie Flynn.

You can find the checklist used to label the child here: labeling checklist



(Read this BS..)



www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen_screening_information_form.pdf

Edited by: Sterling30 at: 7/2/06 7:33

[Sterling30]

Some more resources on ECT.



www.ect.org/resources/studies.html

[droolymutt]

Sterling?



In some ways I admire your caring about truly important issues.



Really. You seem to care. That's good.





In other ways I think you're a total nutcake, for the way you whine, criticize, and blabber - without actually doing or saying anything constructive.





Daniel? Shut the fukk up. This thread is not about you.







Wanna buy a free iPod?

[Sterling30]

Quote:

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In other ways I think you're a total nutcake, for the way you whine, criticize, and blabber - without actually doing or saying anything constructive.

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Like in the Heather Mills thread where I was trashing her??? Wait a minute, that wasn't me come to think of it, it was a few other people instead now wasn't it? And for defending her so I get blamed by the guilty for what they have done wrong as usual.., everytime..

[droolymutt]

Get a sense of humour, willya? Or get laid.....



Or drink a nice cold beer.. or blow a nice phat doobie...!



Either way... - lighten up, man...







Life's way too short to spend wallowing in misery and negativity....



As much misery as there is in the World, you can't spend ALL your time there. You'll go nuts. Like you.







Now where's my hug, you sexy thang, you...?

[HatefulMusic]

Dang it, where's my violin?

Theo

HatefulMusic.com

[Sterling30]

www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?TScreen





To: School Board Members and State and Federal Legislators

Whereas children as young as 9, who previously had not thought of the concept of suicide, are being asked invasive and leading questions by TeenScreen such as: Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year? Are you still thinking of killing yourself? Have you thought seriously about killing yourself? Have you often thought about killing yourself? Have you ever tried to kill yourself?" and kids are being lured into doing the suicide survey by TeenScreen's offers of free movie passes, food coupons, pizza parties and $50 mall gift certificates;



Whereas the goal of TeenScreen leaders is to screen every American child before they graduate from high school;



Whereas TeenScreen is based on the controversial and unscientific Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, written by psychiatrists with financial ties to drug companies and children screened by TeenScreen are not given valid medical testing such as brain scans, blood test, urine tests, X-Rays or any other valid medical tests to detect evidence of any possible physical abnormality that may be contributing to certain behavior;



Whereas, according to TeenScreen psychiatrist David Shaffer, mental disorders in the DSM were developed by psychiatrists "shouting out their opinions from all sides of the room and whoever shouted loudest tended to be heard. My own impression, coming straight from England, was it was more like a tobacco auction than a sort of conference." and according to Shaffer, TeenScreen "... does identify a whole bunch of kids who aren’t really suicidal, so you get a lot of false-positives. And that means if you’re running a large program at a school, you’re going to cripple the program because you’re going to have too many kids you have to do something about";



Whereas TeenScreen has screened children across the nation without written parental consent in violation of federal law and state laws and has screened children across the nation without fully informed consent and did not warn parents that after taking the TeenScreen suicide survey, certain children have been and will be labeled with false mental disorders, based upon the unscientific DSM and the "chemical imbalance of the brain" theory, which relies solely upon observation and for which no scientific or medical test exists;



Whereas a federal lawsuit has been filed against a school and psychiatric facility by the Rutherford Institute on behalf of parents who did not give permission for their child to be subjected to the TeenScreen suicide survey which resulted in a false diagnosis of a mental disorder;



Whereas an epidemic already exists with children using psychiatric drugs and will further skyrocket if children are referred to psychiatrists after screening. According to a survey of recently trained child psychiatrists it was found that treatment for 9 out of 10 children consisted of prescription drugs. (Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry 2002);



Whereas TeenScreen's leaders and advisory board members have ties to pharmaceutical companies and front groups for pharmaceutical companies;



Whereas antipsychotic drugs are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for children; the FDA's "black box warning" states antidepressants increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders; and drug safety experts have recommended additional "black box" warnings be placed on ADHD drugs: for the increased risk of stroke and heart attack;



Whereas potential recruits are ineligible for military service if they have taken Ritalin and other stimulants to treat the unscientific "disorder" called ADHD in the previous year;



Whereas most states have laws restricting the purchase of firearms based on an adjudication of mental illnesses or disorders, and mass screening of all American children for mental disorders will increase the number of persons labeled with a mental disorder, directly infringing upon the citizenry's right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the 2nd amendment;



Whereas TeenScreen only partners with and seeks to immediately refer students to "mental illness" practitioners and does not refer students to medical disciplines that could test for underlying health problems such as allergies, nutrition, toxicities and physical illnesses;



Whereas child suicides are very rare and have been on a decline for years; and even according to former TeenScreen director Rob Caruano, "suicides are so rare that you'd have to screen the whole country to see a difference in mortality between screened and unscreened students.";



Whereas many and various groups, individuals and legislators across a spectrum of political, religious, scientific and common sense views are opposed to screening for mental disorders in schools;



Whereas TeenScreen is very secretive about their suicide survey and refuses to allow parents to obtain a copy and is also very secretive about which schools they've convinced to use their suicide survey;



Whereas the United States Preventive Services Task Force reported in May of 2004:

There is no evidence that screening for suicide risk reduces suicide attempts or mortality,

There is limited evidence on the accuracy of screening tools to identify suicide risk,

There is insufficient evidence that treatment of those at high risk reduces suicide attempts or mortality;



Whereas Ned Calonge, the chairman of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, who is also the chief medical officer for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, was quoted in the June 16, 2006 Washington Post: "the panel would reach the same conclusion today... Whether or not we like to admit it, there are no interventions that have no harms... There is weak evidence that screening can distinguish people who will commit suicide from those who will not... And screening inevitably leads to treating some people who do not need it. Such interventions have consequences beyond side effects from drugs or other treatments... Unnecessary care drives up the cost of insurance, causing some people to lose coverage altogether.";



Whereas TeenScreen is an intrusion into the rearing of children and false psychiatric labels could embarrass students and cause turmoil at home;



Whereas many school districts have reservations about using TeenScreen because of liability and risk issues;



Whereas legislators in various states are proposing legislation to stop state and federal funding for screening of mental disorders in schools;



Whereas schools should be in the business of educating our children instead of probing each for unscientific mental disorders;



We, therefore, petition school board members and state and federal legislators to stop using the TeenScreen suicide survey and to adopt firm policy that will prevent the implementation of TeenScreen in the future.



Sincerely,



The Undersigned