Newsnight Goldacre Sigman BBC2 20090224

I love the way Ben scratches his head at 6:56! Tells you everything you need to know in a way...

That is a really bad news, Psychiatry involves medications that usually do more harm than good,
you can diagnose anyone with anything,
this is an arbitrary field.
society will be better off with cutting on sugars eating natural food and working on yourself
via sports/memory enhance techniques, meditation and many other fields who can help without drugging people with bad evil and addictive drugs with tons of side effects.
this is exactly where you don't want to go!

I think there is a need for a none commercial educational network that will involve all the help support lectures (live/archived and well organized)
including links to activities in real life.
ofcourse the media cause attention problems as it is not organized and filled with distracting commercialism and tricks on the mind.
you need to give kids the access for high quality games which involves logic imagination and culture.

The problem here is that Goldacre is not a scientist, he's a trick-cyclist. Ive never heard him bring the same level of scorn down on his psychiatric friends from Kings College Road, and their very controversial construct CFS/ME. This has become a dustbin diagnosis for lazy and/or incompetent GPs.

Dudes from video is so boring!
Fuck web I'm going to the pub.

Psychiatatic medicence like all medecince is based on peer reviwed evidnece, as are their treatments. Are you going to deny that their patients have a deasies or is it perfectly healfy to have paraniod delusions. the fact that chemical imbalances in the brain, when treated by physcaitric drugs reduce instances of parnoid delusion proves you are wrong. whether or not there is a biological test for mental illness (their is) is irelvant, a mental illness would logical manifest in behaviour.

The reason people with paranoid delusions improve with medication (in the short term) is because antipsychotics are SEDATIVES. As Dr Joanna Moncreiff points out in her book "the myth of the chemical cure", the drugs merely sedate the person rather than fix a so called "chemical imbalance".
I've had severe mental illness myself as well as paranoid delusions and it doesn't mean a disease was the cause.

Psychiatrists' papers are peer reviewed by other psychiatrists. Richard Horton the editor of The Lancet wrote, "But we know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong." It is not actually unethical for a psychiatrist to peer review his own work, if he considers himself to be the world's leading expert, or to peer review papers from other specialties.

You absolutely have no idea what you are talking about,
Chemical imbalance can happen to anyone, psychiatrists take people and make it a disease, instead of solving this and curing people, this is the most nasty field i have ever witnessed.
The medications themselves doesn't cause any chemical balance, the brain overrides them and there is damage, the best way to treat psychiatric problems would be via nutrition, lifestyle and andocrine system that is cannabinoids..

sorry its not the endocrine system
but the endocannabinoid system,
Imbalance is sometime due to poison, hormonal problems, stress, substance abuse - including nictotine, trauma etc etc, by cutting the brain circuits with a Dophamine blocker or Histamine or Serotonine or whatever you just play a nasty game where the brain cells are damaged and you create more problems, which could have been prevented with better help than this drug treatment.