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I was in Atlanta all day yesterday teaching a Seminar and visiting with some sick friends, so I missed the back and forth in the comments on the post about CABF’s name change [what’s in a name? that which we call a rose… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/font><\/strong>] except to approve them as dinged on my iPhone. While the fur flew a bit more than my liking, I decided that everyone involved was an adult and could take care of themselves. The things being expressed were heart-felt, driven by well-earned pain. This morning, I read back over those comments and all my own posts about the Childhood Bipolar issue [the table at the end of this post]. Two things came to my mind. <\/p>\n

I thought back to my own activist days – the Civil Rights Movement here in the South. It was one of the few times in my life that I felt sure I was right about something, and it was consuming. So in the mid-70’s when I got out of the Air Force and was looking for a place to settle down, I came home and we bought our first house in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood. Our social world became other couples who were doing the same thing, and they remain our closest friends to this day. We all were there to enroll our kids in the integrated public schools in the city and make them work, so were very active in school matters. Our other friends were mostly doctors drawn to Atlanta for other reasons. They were a liberal lot as a rule, but we watched them send their kids to private schools, one after another. I think they thought we were sacrificing our daughter’s education to our own ideology. We frankly thought they were copping out. But it wasn’t discussed much. I learned that when it comes to others’ children, walk very softly [by the way, all the kids did fine, mine included]. <\/p>\n

The second thing I thought after reading those comments is that I’m angry too – like in the movie Network<\/u>  – "We’re as mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore<\/font><\/strong>." I’m that kind of angry. <\/p>\n

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I’m not very mad at CABF or the The Balanced Mind Foundation or its parent members. They’re doing the same thing I was doing in the 70`s – being ombudsmen for their kids as best they can. I question some things, but not angrily – maybe the 2003 Guideline make me kind of mad [not much solid ground…<\/font><\/a><\/strong>, the other side…<\/font><\/a><\/strong>]. And I am mad at the Pharmaceutical Companies, but not Network<\/u> mad. They’ve stepped way over the line, but they’re liable and deserved to be whacked for what they’ve done. My Network<\/u> anger is for these people:<\/p>\n

\"Joseph\"Melissa\"Karen\"Janet\"Boris <\/p>\n

From my perspective, all that fur that was flying in the blog comments yesterday ultimately lands at their feet. Each person up there signed articles in our literature that were either ghost-written by pharmaceutical companies or so heavily influenced that they might as well have been. They let their need for academic success or just plain greed over-ride the medical ethic they swore to uphold. No one of them has a defense worth listening to. They get no credit for whatever good things they’ve done, or academic credential they have amassed. In my way of thinking, nothing neutralizes their level of bowing to pharmaceutical influence, whether for fame or for money. These aren’t mistakes or slip-ups. <\/p>\n

If you don’t know why I’m saying that, please read the posts below. If you think I’ve missed the mark, let me know… <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Blog Post<\/font><\/strong> <\/td>\nDate<\/font><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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busted… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n06\/08\/2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
an odd duck…<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n06\/20\/2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
retract study 329… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n05\/07\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gpp?… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n06\/16\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bipolar kids: not someone to jerk around…<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n06\/29\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bipolar kids: harvard for sale…<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n06\/29\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bipolar kids: harvard acts… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/01\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bipolar kids: an all too familiar lingo… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/02\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bipolar kids: biedermania and super angry\/grouchy\/cranky irritability…<\/font><\/a>    <\/font><\/strong><\/td>\n07\/03\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
watchful waiting<\/em>… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/05\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
say it straight… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/05\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
in tears and despair… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/06\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
not much solid ground.. <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/07\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
big money for a freshman… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/07\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
rotten stuff… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/07\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
the other side… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/08\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
conduct unbecoming… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/08\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
idiopathic behavior disorder… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/09\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
trial 93: a bad penny… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/10\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
trial 93: a very<\/u> bad penny… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/12\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
trial 93: a very<\/u> very<\/u> bad penny… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/12\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
tuning the quartet… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/22\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
about time… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n07\/26\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
no leg to stand on… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n08\/06\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3. when n=many<\/em>… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n08\/25\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
trembling earth,<\/font> mirrored water…<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n 09\/15\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ethical… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n09\/19\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ro·bust results before<\/u>… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n10\/07\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
what’s in a name? that which we call a rose… <\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n10\/12\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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