Great commentary, Charles. <Is society making you sick?> Well of course it is. <Does our focus on diseases--including the search for risk factors, cures and specific preventive answers--stop Americans from looking at what would really keep us well?> Yes. Of course. The answers to these simple questions appear so rather obvious. Yet there are those with 'radical consiousness' that can't seem to see the obvious. Now let me ask a question not posed. Is a sick person a happy person? Well once again the answer is obvious! No, a sick person is unhappy. A sick person is a depressed person. I raise this point, because so many don't want to see the obvious. A sick person is going to suffer from depression. A person suffering from a chronic disease state is not going to sing and dance with joy. And here is a hidden fact.... The majority of people that are depressed and being treated (or not being treated as the case may be) for depression, are in fact physically sick, also. And the majority of depressed people are elderly, because this is the population where chronic illness runs rampant. Most certainly this is the case in capitalist society. Most of the 'success' in modern capitalist medicine comes about from increasing the size of the chronically ill (and chronically depressed) population, that then can be offered 'treatment' (at a great price). In other words, capitalist medicine enlarges and creates depression. Any low level hospital employee involved in some level of nursing care, works in a sea of depression. Strangely enough, most doctors don't. That's the reason they can be so absolutely stupid about treating and recognizing depression, and in understanding related issues such as pain control. They pop into a room and out... sometimes in less than a second. They will want to 'treat', but they truly often don't understand. Is society making people sick, depressed, and psychotic? Once again, the answer is yes. Here, once again, the capitalist medical doctors can be the biggest fools. They want to push the idea that genes, 'predispositions' and 'chemical imbalances' are the cause of all psychosis and depression, as well as physical disease. They are the masters of pushing pills, making cuts on other peoples bodies, and shocking the head and heart. They collect a big fee by convincing people that this is in their best interests, AND..... that there is no other way. If you want to understand psychosis and depression, go to a medical journal or a doctor, right? No, wrong. Go to a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). And I say this in all seriousness. Who do you think is spending all the time with the person in a psychotic state, or who helping out the severely depressed? Well it's not the capitalist medical doctor, or medical academic. It's the 'lowly' nursing personnel. Here is another hidden fact. The majority of people undergoing psychotic episodes are the elderly. Put them in a hospital, or nursing home, and see them go. The capitalist medical doctor is not treating psychosis, he is creating it! But he's rarely there to watch the whole show. He's too important being the engineer of the human soul. Is society making you sick? Yes. And it's torturing the elderly, too. Making them 'go crazy', and making their lives totally depressing. There's a medical doctor heading their 'treatment team'. Tony Abdo _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
