Scientology and The Myth of “The Myth of Mental Illness”

Scientology and The Myth of “The Myth of Mental Illness”

Australasian Science: The Myth of “The Myth of Mental Illness”

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The Myth of “The Myth of Mental Illness”

By Peter Bowditch

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He then went on with more CCHR nonsense, such as the claim that ADHD was invented in 1987 simply to create a need for Ritalin. Methylphenidate was patented in 1954, so inquiring minds might ask why it was invented 33 years before the condition it was supposed to treat.

We were eventually told that schizophrenia is just people hearing themselves think like everybody else, and that anorexia nervosa is just girls having conscious hunger strikes to get their own way and annoy their parents. By the end of the night we were hearing scary stories about government plans to drug all schoolchildren

CCHR would not be such a problem if the Scientology links were made obvious, because this might make other people think twice about dealing with them. On the other hand, it might not worry some people who deal with them. Alternative medicine supporters gleefully accept the CCHR’s attacks on drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac because this supports their shared ideology that there is no such thing as mental illness. It is no coincidence that altworld’s most “dangerous” chemicals are Ritalin, Prozac, fluoride, aspartame and mercury.

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Scientology and The Myth of “The Myth of Mental Illness”