IWillListen.org NAMI Launches “I Will Listen” Campaign

Will NAMI "The National Alliance on Mental Illness" listen to these kids ?

NAMI claims to be all “grassroots” but sais nothing about things like the drugging of foster children. Not a word.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/foster-kids-prescribed-psychotropic-drugs-heavy-duty-drug-treatments-neglect-2020-15077792

20/20: Generation Meds (Foster Children Being Over Medicated) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52edzID_CwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISFPJL66p4c#t=13

NAMI even pushes for the screening of all school children to get as many possible labelled and drugged !

Its time someone told you the truth about "NAMI".







NAMI is big pharmas marketing dept posing as "advocates" for the mentally ill. You can tell they are posers cause they hate human rights for people with mental illness , they never stand up for safe medications or speak out about drugs that are dangerous and sold by pharma with fraud, ever !

Why is that ? see http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Major_Foundation_and_Corporate_Support

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Call NAMI the pharma front group and tell them you were hurt by psychiatric treatment like so many are every day and see if they will listen.

See if they help you.

I just got an article up on my facebook page about the 'I will listen' campaign, from name, theyre saying they want to listen non judgementally to ppl with 'mi', but at the end of the article it declares

"We are for screening of all adults and all children!" "We can get this done!"

###$ them.

Devilock wrote:I just got an article up on my facebook page about the 'I will listen' campaign, from name, theyre saying they want to listen non judgementally to ppl with 'mi', but at the end of the article it declares

"We are for screening of all adults and all children!" "We can get this done!"

###$ them.

###$ them is right,

NAMI pHarma front group wants to screen ALL kids !

Foster kids are all "screened" for mental health as they go through the foster care system and look at the results,

In the states surveyed by the GAO, children in Massachusetts fared worst. Thirty-nine percent of the foster care children aged 0-17 on Medicaid were prescribed at least one psychiatric drug. By comparison, 10 percent of non-foster care children in Massachusetts were prescribed at least one psychotropic medication under Medicaid. It's serious enough when 10 percent of non-foster care children from our poorer communities are receiving psychiatric drugs; it's even more tragic when 39 percent of our most poor and abandoned children are being inundated with these drugs.

Other states in the GAO study had total numbers of foster care children on Medicaid being prescribed at least one psychiatric drug: Oregon -- 19.7 percent; Texas -- 32.2 percent; Florida -- 22 percent; and Michigan -- 21 percent. The statistics reported are eye-opening, and it is worthwhile to see the full GAO report. In Texas, for instance, 9.1 percent of foster care children aged 0-5 years old are on at least one psychiatric drug, and 58.2 percent of foster care children aged 13-17 years old are on at least one psychiatric drug. Massachussetts has 53.4 percent of foster care children aged 13-17 on at least one psychiatric drug, and almost 5 percent of foster children aged 0-5 are on at least one psychiatric drug.

Read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/foster-children_b_1149805.html

NAMI wants to hear from you! They say Your questions, comments and concerns are important to them.

You may also call their Information Helpline:
1 (800) 950-NAMI (6264)

Devilock wrote:I just got an article up on my facebook page about the 'I will listen' campaign, from name, theyre saying they want to listen non judgementally to ppl with 'mi', but at the end of the article it declares

"We are for screening of all adults and all children!" "We can get this done!"

###$ them.

###$ them again, here is more.

Parents should take a look at these "screening" questionairs that become part of the child's PERMANENT RECORD.

http://www.freementalhealthscreening.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/childadolescentpacketpdf.pdf

Look at the part in the form where the psychiatric FOREVER LABELS go.

"CHILDs PAST MENTAL HEALTH OR PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY"

NAMI sais "fight the stigma" wile pushing for the biggest program of stigmatization ever, psychiatric profiling in schools !

Caution about spam posts Copy_cat. If you want to post links, it's to be more of a discussion vs just randomly posting links and things from other websites.

Someone said somewhere that political correctness is a way of minimizing people. I don't know if that is so, but

I won't say the name because many people in this group are well meaning, but let us just say that this sounds like someone from my demographic doing this......These people think that if they can "understand" something and sublimate it, sanitize it and streamline it that society will be "free" and "everyone will be happy." They think utopia.


What this demographic cannot get and often will not understand is that the problems of poverty and the problems of the family are more important than mass drugging.

I'm not exactly sure what the answer is, and I struggle with these issues, but I know that "mass screening" is NOT the answer.

Cate68 wrote:What this demographic cannot get and often will not understand is that the problems of poverty and the problems of the family are more important than mass drugging.

I think this is actually the opposite. They do believe that the issues of poverty and the family are more important than mass drugging.

They see how "mental illness" hurts and disrupts the family system and that often times those who are diagnosed with a mental illness live in poverty and without employment. In order to fix these two things their idea is to mass screen everyone as soon as possible to place as many interventions in place as soon as issues arise to help minimize the effects on the family and on poverty. The answer: mass screening=mass drugging!

Cate68 wrote:What this demographic cannot get and often will not understand is that the problems of poverty and the problems of the family are more important than mass drugging.

I started my response by searching for a psychiatric medication price list because when I was sort of having "problems of poverty and the problems of the family" my unwanted stay in the psych hospital cost $20,000 the cost of one month of the prescriptions I left with was over $ 2000 ! I was shocked thinking how in the world would I pay for this if I had any intention of being "medication compliant" a partial RX for $ 120 was enough to ween down and not suffer withdrawal insomnia.

NAMI is all about patient recruitment and retention, its a front for the pharma and psych industry thats all it is.

NAMI wants you to think taking someone who may well be "mentally ill" and spending $20,000 to lock them up and "treat" them followed by spending 100s or 1000s of dollars a month on brain disabling pills is going to make them "all better" and solve there family and money problems !

This link came up searching "psychiatric medication price list" as I looked to calculate how much money goes to psych-pharmas brain disabling treatments instead of really helping people.

"Should we not question whether behavioral/social support systems, non-drug therapies, psychotherapy and other possible treatments should be the first line of action, rather than reaching for a pill that will doom a patient to lifelong treatment with expensive and often dangerous medications? " http://www.rethinkingpsychiatry.org/wasting-the-taxpayers-medicaid-dollars-on-psychiatric-drugs/

I don't have all the answers but the billions spent on psych pharma to solve these problems with no results speaks for itself.

CC, I went to a baby shower with my friend who used to be a school teacher. The school district where she used to work is about to get federal intervention is something isn't done. The only other two districts that are bad are one in highly depressed area and where I live.

So, we discussed it and it turns out that the parents don't know what they are doing; the teachers are barely holding on and there isn't enough money for programs. One of every three children are drugged on ADHD medications. In YZC, the children are disorganized, needy and "wild." Most of the parents work blue collar jobs and are miserable. The reason for the mass drugging is due to the fact that a mass of children are being taken out of bad homes and placed in more chaos. These children feel abandoned, hurt and emotionally abused, and the drugs *quell* that supposedly. Rather than deal with each individual child, the DHS and the school systems are dealing with the "problem" with drugging. A high proportion of low income children recieve these medications, and many of these children are BOYS.

It has been proven that programs like Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Salvation Army activity camps greatly improve the well being of low income children.



Now, in one town there is a school where they have three teachers per classroom. This school works well.

The schools are in deep trouble. Recess is cut at school after school after school. The kids have subjects shoved down their throats...yea, like America is going to be just like Europe and Asia in academics...not until the idiots get the flouride out of the water and get a more caring community network for the children.

NAMI is very political, I've noticed. Long ago, I went through one of their "Facilitator" Weekends. They got onto my boy, then young, for strolling the grounds (he was like two years old) and then they got onto me for some things and it was just stupid. I never went back.

I dont' really know what the answer, is CC. I know that private schools are good for kids who have the ADHD diagnosis.

America has always been about assimilation, sublimation and streamlining. They want to standardize the behaviors of people in general. Big Pharma is just part of it.

Cate68 wrote:I dont' really know what the answer, is CC. I know that private schools are good for kids who have the ADHD diagnosis.

Thomas Edison
ADD Poster Child

EDISON.GIF (5974 bytes)Thomas Alvin Edison is cited more often than any other historical figure for exhibiting classic hyperactive ADD behavior. ADD and divergent thinking styles have even been dubbed "The Edison Trait."

What if edison went to today's school system ?

The State Department of Education gets monies from the Federal Government (Disability) under a program called "IDEA" for each child diagnosed with a disability. A disability could be ADD/ADHD, Bi-polar disorder, Depression or any of the other mental diagnoses.

Who profits: The State Department of Education, the mental health and counseling Industry, the Pharmaceutical company...

http://www.specialed.us/issues-eligibility/fedcrit.htm

Imagine that Thomas Edison one of history's great inventors labelled with a 'disability' and drugged under a program called "IDEA" !