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From: Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown)
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Subject: LUPUS/DEPRESSION
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:05:08 GMT
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It was very moving to read of your experience in a psych hospital
ward where you observed that many people showed symptoms of immune
system dysfunction, symptoms siimilar to lupus.

I have worked for the past decade bringing this very fact to the
attention of health officials in canada, and in the Province of
ONtario, especially. The evidence is overwhelming in favour of the
general observation you have made, and the one thing that has kept
me going while dealing with somme of the thick and stupid people
who are put in positions where they have power over our lives is
the virtual certainty that some psych patients, who may be
experiencing extreme horrors, have undiagnosed sensitivities as the
cause, or a significant contributing factor in their illness.

Don't jumpt to conlcusions about all psych patients, though.  Some
of the symptoms you see may be sensitivity reactiois to toxic drugs
psych patients are given, and when you observe sensitivity
symptoms, do not assume all these people have lupus.

But you are right to be horrified at what has been happening, right
to express concern, and right if you want to help do something
about it.

Try to get a copy of the Ashford Report, from Nicholas Ashford at
MIT.  It outlines the state of the art of the argument in the
medical "profession" on this subjetc, and concludes that because
there is confusion, in any case where there is ambiguity
sensitivities should be ruled out first.  There are some very
important doctors in the United States who are heavily invested in
abusive positoins, and their desire to maintain their proessional
credibility is the biggest obnstacle in rescuing these poeple.

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