That came across; I just feel it needs to be said it explicitly.

I agree with you, but I think that sometimes the message can be a little too broad. A large percentage of people assume that it’s all just a matter of choosing to “buck up.” As I’m sure you know, that’s just not the case, there is a very valid role for anti-depressants and other Psychoactive drugs.

As someone who has several friends\relatives who genuinely need\needed those drugs, I always have to inject that into the conversation.

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That’s why you should be reading the Boston Globe…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/us/20psych.html?th&emc=th

This guy is a respected, tenured Harvard Child Psychiatrist, but basically a whore for money. People who diagnose pre-school children as ADD or Bi-Polar and then use psychotropics with them are really akin to the Nazi doctors and their infamous experiments. So as crazy as Scientology is, and it is, even the craziest groups sometimes accidentally stumble across good points.

Mithra be with you eternally!

So who knows, if Scientology lasts long enough, maybe morons will emprace it in larger numbers than those embracing the Catholic Church, Islam etc. I mean, it’s not as though Scientologists feel compelled to cut the tips of the son’s penis’s off as an offering to an all powerful God. Something like that might get them arrested or sued. It might make me think they were bat-shit crazy.

It’s not asthough Scientologists claim they can raise the dead, or turn wine and waffers in to actual flesh and blood as I eat it.

They deserve atleast as mush time as the Mormoms to hoodwink a few more people into believing they had bullit proof underwear, can bring all their material wealth into the next life where they will become gods themselves and inhabit other planets.

End communication, Xenu.

I would like the case better if the plaintiff’s decedent was a minor instead of an adult who could make decisions for himself. It’s big hurdle with most juries to overcome assumption of risk, and contributory negligence for an indirect act of negligence.

* The Cathoic Church has long held that if a decision has to made between saving a woman’s life or that of her baby during childbirth, the woman’s life will be the one sacrificed. One can only imagine how many women’s lives this has cost over the long history of that particular cult. Has this practice ever been tested by lawsuit?

* There have been numerous stories of Jehovah’s Witness followers withholding medical treatments resulting in deaths. Have there been lawsuits? What outcomes?

* People have died as a result of various religious ceremonies such as exorcisms, initialtion rites, etc. We’ve seen lawsuits when this involves military and juvenile delinquent boot camps, fraternity/sorority hazing, but I don’t recall how any verdicts came out on any religious-based claims.

I would alter and broaden Mike Spindell’s observation by saying that all religion is a scam, both emotional and financial. It can also be a dangerous or even life-threatening one.

However, There is over prescription of psychotropic and mood altering drugs in this country that is equally disturbing. While working in the Psychiatric field I saw many instances of beneficial effects of these medications. By the same token I saw many instances where they were prescribed by disengaged Psychiatrists, with little thought to the downside and adverse reactions occurring. So in this case while the source is questionable, the questions are reasonable.

I hope she wins her case, although legally speaking does she even have a chance? How can the church be blamed for what the father did and the son is 20 so dosent he have some responsibility for taking his meds?