A Safer Route

Holistic psychiatrists like Hyla Cass, MD, believe that mental illness can be treated with nutrition, exercise, and supplements. If you are interested in finding alternative, non-drug approaches to mental health problems, visit: www.alternative medicine.com
or Cass also recommends www.alternativementalhealth.com

The best-known legal case against TeenScreen involves Chelsea Rhoades of Mishawaka, Indiana. Chelsea, then 15, was TeenScreened without her parents' knowledge or consent. She was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder "based on her responses that she liked to clean and didn't like to party too much," according to a press release from the Rutherford Institute, which represents Chelsea's parents in suing TeenScreen for encroachment on parental rights.
Despite the clamor over its methods and intent, Teen Screen is thriving, with 460 screening sites in 42 states as of late 2005.

A cure worse than the disease?

what makes this more than just a story about influence-peddling to boost profits, of course, is the harm psychiatric drugs can do to the intended users, in this case, our nation's children. Consider the so -called atypical anti psychotics, a group of newer, pricey drugs created to suppress psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.
"Atypical" refers to the industry's claim that these medications have nearly eliminated the risk for Parkinsonian and "tardive" side effects. the drugs the a typical were designed to replace were notorious for causing brain damage after prolonged use. That damage could lead to movement disorders like the tremors, flat emotional expression, and shuffling gate seen in patients with parkinson's disease. It could also bring on tardive dyskinesia, or abnormal movements of the mouth and tongue, tardive dementia, or permanent harm to memory, judgment and the ability to plan, and even tardive psychosis, meaning that the psychotic symptoms themselves become irreversible.