Psychiatrists gone wild: ‘psychosis risk syndrome’
Posted: July 22nd, 2010
Tonight’s show features two excellent interviews.
In the first half I am joined by Kim Cullen from the Citizens Committee on Human Rights to discuss the implications of ‘Australian of the Year’, Patrick McGorry’s plan for pre-drugging children with powerful psychotropic medication as a preventive treatment against mental illness.
Our discussion centers on a recent article authored by Jan Eastgate which gives insight into the impact of these policies in Australia.
As indicated in the following article from Psychology Today, this new medical label could lead to a staggering 90% misdiagnosis rate:
Even in the most expert of hands (ie in very highly selected research clinics), at least two of three people who get the diagnosis do not go on to become psychotic. Of great counterintuitive interest, the longer the research clinic operates the lower becomes its rate of correct identification. With time and spreading reputation, the clinic attracts increasingly heterogeneous referrals- so that it is more difficult to discriminate from among them those who are truly at risk for psychosis.
What would be the misidentification rate once the diagnosis became official and was applied in the real world? No one can say for sure, but two thirds is certainly a lower limit of misidentification. There are several reasons to believe that the ratio of wrong diagnoses would actually be much higher: 1)the raters in general practice would be much less expert than specialists in research clinics; 2) the “patients” would be closer to normal and harder to discriminate; and, 3)drug company marketing would influence parents and clinicians to be especially alert to any strangeness in teenagers. It has been estimated that the false positive rate would jump from about 70 percent in specialty clinics to about 90 percent in general practice. This means that as many as an astounding nine in ten individuals identified as “risk syndrome” would not really be at risk for developing psychosis.
- Psychology Today | 18 March 2010
In the second half of the show I am joined by Apollo sceptic and film maker Jarrah White.
Jarrah has made numerous short documentaries which are all posted on youtube. Jarrah claims that the Apollo Moon missions were faked, and he has compiled an impressive amount of evidence to this effect.
I leave final judgment on this topic to the discretion of our listeners!
Tonight’s show was highly enjoyable and I’m sure you’ll find it worthwhile listening.
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Posted: July 22nd, 2010 under Apollo Moon Missions, Big Pharma, Mass Medication, Mental Illness, Psychosis Risk Syndrome.
Comments
Comment from blackregiment
Time July 26, 2010 at 12:45 am
Although drugging kids haphazardly is wrong. I have to alert that the group that this Jim Cullen advocates may be a Scientology front. Google it yourself and see.
Comment from Torch8008
Time July 27, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Great podcast Kim. Get the truth out and keep the bastards honest.
Comment from Roger
Time July 27, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Good work Truth News Radio. Great information Kim. None of the drugs that are being prescribed to people under 18 years for depression or psychosis are approved by the TGA for use on children. Where is the duty of care from the psychiatrists? When will they be held accountable for the damage they are causing?
Comment from Magda
Time July 28, 2010 at 11:53 am
How can this man (Patrick Mcgorry) be given the “Australian of the Year” award??!!
Comment from Fred
Time August 2, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Magda, the same way Obama can be given the Nobel Peace prize for escalating war and destroying the rights of citizens.
Comment from Mark
Time August 5, 2010 at 8:44 pm
You’re playing right into the “conspiracy nut” stereotype by showing interest in the moon landing conspiracy theory.
I should RTFA as they say on Slashdot, but to me it seems like there is a lot more evidence that the moon landings did actually take place than that they didn’t.
This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder whether you do find conspiracy theories attractive Hereward, rather than cold hard facts (which can often point to a conspiracy).
Comment from Magda
Time October 19, 2010 at 9:38 am
blackregiment, Who cares whether it is a Scientology front or not?
They are letting us know about some thing which is very important!
Comment from angry dave
Time July 22, 2010 at 8:19 pm
whether Jarrah’s investigations turn out to prove the ‘landing’ did or didn’t happen is irrelevant compared to the fact that he is actually being a true investigative journalist in the hunt for the truth!
Thank God for people like him!
Do we ever see a true investigative journalist in our local mainstream media - NFWay!
Another reason to make it imperative to keep the NET free!!!