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Reaching Out Is this a mental or physical condition?
As I read through the posts I realize the consequences of calling this disease a mental disorder. Syndromes are something they call a disease when they cant figure out what causes the disorder or they know but for political or economic reasons they choose not to legitimize the disease because of the political and monetary consequences. This is true for PTSD. Many veterans from the gulf war came back with symptoms similar to CFS and FM. Many developed cancer. Our government knew that if they found and documented the reasons behind this strange syndrome they would have to pay benefits. So what they did was create this PTSD so they wouldnt have to pay benefits to the vets for physical damage incurred during the gulf war. Call it a mental disorder and they are not entitled to fewer benefits. Many believe that these veterans were sick from the chemicals they were exposed to and the vaccinations. For example in the first gulf war only the British and Americans developed Gulf War Syndrome. All of our other allies were okay. According to Dr. Haley the clear and convincing culprit is the Thimersol in the vaccinations given to these veterans during the Gulf War. Will we ever get studies to confirm this? The answer is no because the NIH has defunded all research of Thimersol in an effort to protect the pharmaceutical companies for which they will have or have had financial connections.
Ask anyone who is going for disability if its better to have a physical cause or a mental cause of their disease and they will most definitely tell you a physical cause will get you inadequate benefits but better benefits than a mental illness will get you. So before we go and call a disease mental think twice as I believe we are being manipulated by greedy and corrupt politicians and for profit corporations.
Consider this regarding Lyme disease.
Sharon
US Government Admits Lyme Disease Is A Bioweapon
author: Lymerayja
The existence of the Lyme disease epidemic is officially covered up in the UK, its myriad presentations routinely misdiagnosed as everything from "M.E." to MS to hypochondria. This is the first admission by a US government body that the cause is an incapacitating biowar agent.
So, for the first time, a US government body admits that Lyme disease is a biological warfare agent. This is the reason that hundreds of thousands of men, women and children around the world have been left to rot with wrong diagnoses, or have had their Lyme disease acknowledged but been told that it is an "easily-treated" disease, given 3 weeks' antibiotics, then told to shove off when their symptoms carried on after that.
In Britain the existence of the epidemic is denied completely, and virtually no effort made to warn or educate the public about the dangers of ticks, which carry the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi.
The Borrelia genus has been a subject of biowar experimentation at least as far back as WW2, when the infamous Japanese Unit 731, which tortured and experimented on live prisoners, studied it.
The reality is, Lyme disease is for many a chronic, horrendous, incapacitating disease producing crippling fatigue, constant pain, loss of memory, possible paralysis, psychosis, blindness and even death.
It was an ideal biowar agent because it evades detection on routine tests, has an enormous range of different presentations, and can mimic everything from ADHD to multiple sclerosis to carpal tunnel syndrome to rheumatoid arthritis to chronic fatigue syndrome (M.E.) to lupus to schizophrenia. Enemy medical staff would never know what had hit them, nor even that ONE illness had hit their population, rather than an unexplained rise in dozens of known conditions.
Honest doctors and scientists who tried to treat or research Lyme disease according to ethical principles have been viciously persecuted by government-backed organisations in the US, Europe and elsewhere. Many specialists in the US were threatened with loss of their license or had anonymous, false allegations sent to the medical board, which tied them up in mountains of paperwork and legal fees...some were forced out of medicine or even driven to suicide.
Instead, medical disinfo agents, most of whom have a background in military/biowarfare units, such as Dr Allen Steere, Mark Klempner, Philip Baker, Edward McSweegan, David Dennis, Alan Barbour etc were enabled to assume top positions in Lyme research , CDC, NIH etc from where they issued false information , covering up the true seriousness and chronic nature of the disease, and comdemned untold numbers to a living hell.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/331695.shtml
As I read through the posts I realize the consequences of calling this disease a mental disorder. Syndromes are something they call a disease when they cant figure out what causes the disorder or they know but for political or economic reasons they choose not to legitimize the disease because of the political and monetary consequences. This is true for PTSD. Many veterans from the gulf war came back with symptoms similar to CFS and FM. Many developed cancer. Our government knew that if they found and documented the reasons behind this strange syndrome they would have to pay benefits. So what they did was create this PTSD so they wouldnt have to pay benefits to the vets for physical damage incurred during the gulf war. Call it a mental disorder and they are not entitled to fewer benefits. Many believe that these veterans were sick from the chemicals they were exposed to and the vaccinations. For example in the first gulf war only the British and Americans developed Gulf War Syndrome. All of our other allies were okay. According to Dr. Haley the clear and convincing culprit is the Thimersol in the vaccinations given to these veterans during the Gulf War. Will we ever get studies to confirm this? The answer is no because the NIH has defunded all research of Thimersol in an effort to protect the pharmaceutical companies for which they will have or have had financial connections.
Ask anyone who is going for disability if its better to have a physical cause or a mental cause of their disease and they will most definitely tell you a physical cause will get you inadequate benefits but better benefits than a mental illness will get you. So before we go and call a disease mental think twice as I believe we are being manipulated by greedy and corrupt politicians and for profit corporations.
Consider this regarding Lyme disease.
Sharon
US Government Admits Lyme Disease Is A Bioweapon
author: Lymerayja
The existence of the Lyme disease epidemic is officially covered up in the UK, its myriad presentations routinely misdiagnosed as everything from "M.E." to MS to hypochondria. This is the first admission by a US government body that the cause is an incapacitating biowar agent.
So, for the first time, a US government body admits that Lyme disease is a biological warfare agent. This is the reason that hundreds of thousands of men, women and children around the world have been left to rot with wrong diagnoses, or have had their Lyme disease acknowledged but been told that it is an "easily-treated" disease, given 3 weeks' antibiotics, then told to shove off when their symptoms carried on after that.
In Britain the existence of the epidemic is denied completely, and virtually no effort made to warn or educate the public about the dangers of ticks, which carry the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi.
The Borrelia genus has been a subject of biowar experimentation at least as far back as WW2, when the infamous Japanese Unit 731, which tortured and experimented on live prisoners, studied it.
The reality is, Lyme disease is for many a chronic, horrendous, incapacitating disease producing crippling fatigue, constant pain, loss of memory, possible paralysis, psychosis, blindness and even death.
It was an ideal biowar agent because it evades detection on routine tests, has an enormous range of different presentations, and can mimic everything from ADHD to multiple sclerosis to carpal tunnel syndrome to rheumatoid arthritis to chronic fatigue syndrome (M.E.) to lupus to schizophrenia. Enemy medical staff would never know what had hit them, nor even that ONE illness had hit their population, rather than an unexplained rise in dozens of known conditions.
Honest doctors and scientists who tried to treat or research Lyme disease according to ethical principles have been viciously persecuted by government-backed organisations in the US, Europe and elsewhere. Many specialists in the US were threatened with loss of their license or had anonymous, false allegations sent to the medical board, which tied them up in mountains of paperwork and legal fees...some were forced out of medicine or even driven to suicide.
Instead, medical disinfo agents, most of whom have a background in military/biowarfare units, such as Dr Allen Steere, Mark Klempner, Philip Baker, Edward McSweegan, David Dennis, Alan Barbour etc were enabled to assume top positions in Lyme research , CDC, NIH etc from where they issued false information , covering up the true seriousness and chronic nature of the disease, and comdemned untold numbers to a living hell.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/331695.shtml
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