Just a warning, that second link goes to Narconon's site. Narconon is the Church of Scientology's organization for drug treatment. While this particular article seems reasonably factual, do not trust any advice given on that site, or use any phone number found there.
Narconon is a front group for Scientology. It is a running gag that the police department in Bogota, Colombia, Los Angeles, USA or some small town is passing out the ‘Truth About Drugs’ leaflet written by L. Ron Hubbard.
Do any of the people that came up with this have any relationship with Scientology? I'm completely serious - Scientologists hate psychiatry and psychiatric drugs.
If there's no connection with those nutters, I'm very sorry for having raised the issue at all. But you gotta know these things before you can trust what you're reading.
I'm not saying this is a cult, but the Scientology office in my city has a sign out front advertising the same vague benefits that this website claims to offer.
Big Pharma and its partners in establishment psychiatry have smartly used Scientology to defuse criticism of their medications. I honestly believe that if Scientology weren't around, then our society could have a much more rational discussion about our drug-based paradigm of care.
Last week I posted a section [1] from Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an Epidemic about how Scientology was probably used to deflect attention from the ineffectiveness of commonly used drugs.
I don't know the teachings of The Way to Happyness, but they were written by L. Ron Hubbard, also known as the founder of the Church of Scientology. Please be careful not to cross your path with this cult. They have a well documented history of fraudulent behaviour. They drop the love bombhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing to lure people in emotional need.
That said, the book may offer good advice, regardless of its association to Hubbard's Church. I don't believe atsaloli had any ill intent.
Yeah this is Dianetics i.e. Scientology! I'm not supporting them at all, they are a cult, but the the original basis for Scientology was Dianetics and it's related to this.
As someone who had one psychiatrist and two psychologists in his family, and having been myself in (very effective) treatment years ago, every time I read nonsense like that I immediately smell malice, this also because the vast documentation I read about Scientology during the late 90s and early 2K, which for those living under a rock, are among the most prominent enemies of psychology and psychiatry. The above link are eye openers; this at first seems a rather different case from cult scammers, as the guy is rather a far right extremist with the same mindset of antivaxers and Q-anon conspiracy theorists, ie someone who should ask for treatment himself, but at the end of the day it's just another case of someone with mental troubles who hates professionals whose job is to cure those problems.
Thanks, injidup, for your interest! The site is about making the life of people with such type of illness less stressful as far as I could make it. Some people here agree that the place is very welcome and can be very supportive for people with such desorders. And the pitch is not the primary thing here. I mean the doctors interest is not the main thing here. And I don't know what Scientology exactly is.
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