Released on = July 7, 2006, 7:57 am

Press Release Author = Citizens Commsission on Human Rights

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = The invention of "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" is
simply another ploy to include yet another bogus disorder in the psychiatric billing
bible.

Press Release Body = The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a psychiatric
watchdog group, says that a recent psychiatric study which claims people who express
"rage on the road" aren't responsible for their actions but are suffering from some
sort of nebulous mental disorder, is just another psychiatric myth. .

The group claims that the invention of "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" is simply
another ploy to include yet another bogus disorder in the psychiatric billing bible,
The Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental disorders and an attempt to get
more unearned millions from insurance companies and medical health plans.

For over a decade CCHR has called on governments to eliminate the DSM as a valid
diagnostic manual for insurance reimbursement, medical plan payments or for the
basis of any legislation or court testimony. "It is an unreliable,
pseudo-scientific document with enormous power to damage lives, while being used to
rake in $76 billion a year in international psychiatric drug sales," Said Brian
Beaumont, the president of the Vancouver Chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human
Rights.

Scores of new disorders are literally voted in with each new edition of the American
Psychiatric Association\'s Diagnostics and Statistical Manual. One of this manual\'s
main uses is billing insurance companies an bilking medical health plans. If the
syndrome is in the book, the label can be applied to a person, drugs administered,
and the insurance company billed.

Many people have been made to believe that invented psychiatric "disorders" as are
actual medical conditions based on chemical imbalances in the blood or brain.
However, there is no scientific evidence to support this. Psychiatric studies simply
find percentages of people who behave in certain ways. Then labels are given to the
behaviors and they\'re classified as diseases or mental disorders.

Beaumont said " The current manual contains some 370 made- up "mental disorders",
including such things as Sibling Rivalry Disorder, Mathematics Disorder, Caffeine
Related Disorder , Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder the latest term for PMS,
Attention Deficit Disorder and Expressive Writing Disorder to name a few. There
are enough disorders to label and drug every man woman and child on earth".

A recent study by Lisa Cosgrove, a psychologist from the University of
Massachusetts and Sheldon Krimsky, a Tuft University professor, documents how
pharmaceutical companies who manufacture drugs for "mental disorders" funded
psychiatrists who defined the disorders for the manual. One hundred percent of the
"experts" on DSM-IV panels overseeing so-called "mood disorders" (which includes
"depression") and "schizophrenia/psychotic disorders" were financially involved with
drug companies. These are the largest categories of psychiatric drugs in the world:
2004 sales of $20.3 billion for antidepressants and $14.4 billion for antipsychotic
drugs alone.

These labels are also used in the legal arena. A psychiatric label can be used to
deny you custody of your children, overrule your wishes in business or property
dealings or in your will. It can be used to hold you indefinitely in an institution
without your consent and without charges or trial, or force you to continue taking
drugs regardless of how they\'re affecting your life or well-being.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established by the Church of Scientology
to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

If you know anyone, including a child, who has been abused or harmed by a
psychiatrist call The Citizens Commission on Human Rights at 1 800 670 2247.
Complete confidentiality assured.




Web Site = http://www.cchr.org

Contact Details = Citizens Commission on Human Rights
401 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6B1L5
604-689-4417 hmanrights@lightspeed.ca