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Alternative Mental Health News #57

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:05:27 -0400 (EDT)

 

The ALTERNATIVE MENTAL HEALTH News

 

A monthly newsletter brought to you by AlternativeMentalHealth.com

and Safe Harbor, a nonprofit corporation.

 

Issue 57, April 2005

 

In This Issue

 

Editor's Comment

 

Announcements

 

Safe Harbor's 2005 Medical Conference, June 4-5

 

PROF. JAMES CROXTON SPEAKS: SAFE HARBOR L.A. SUPPORT GROUP, MAY 11

 

Help Update Safe Harbor!

 

" GLYCEMIC INDEX " DIET RESOURCES ONLINE

 

PETITION TO IRISH MEDICINE BOARD

 

Articles

 

ADVOCATE GENERAL BLASTS " CODEX " ANTI-SUPPLEMENT LEGISLATION

 

TEXAS STUDY LINKS MERCURY POLLUTION TO AUTISM

 

EXERCISE FOUND EFFECTIVE AGAINST MILD DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY

 

UK PARLIAMENT MEMBERS SAY DRUG FIRMS CREATE " ILLS FOR EVERY PILL "

 

GRAPE SEED EXTRACT MAY HELP PREVENT DEMENTIA

 

STUDENTS PERFORM BETTER WITH ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION

The Editors

 

Dan Stradford, Editor

 

Alan Graham, Assistant Editor

 

SafeHarborProj

 

AlternativeMentalHealth.com

 

Editor's Comment

 

Possibly the greatest error in psychiatry today is the lack of

recognition of the physical causes of mental disorders. Millions of

people with treatable metabolic, dietary, medical, allergic, and other

physical disorders are labeled with mental illness when they are, in

fact, manifesting psychiatric symptoms solely or primarily from body

conditions.

 

The negative effect of this medical error on our society is almost

incalculable. The physical disorders go untreated and can thus worsen.

People suffer the stigma and debilitation of mental illness for life

when they may not have a brain disorder at all but a simple treatable

medical problem. Most are put on meds which cause further unwanted

physical and mental effects.

 

To help practitioners understand the mind-body connection, Safe Harbor

has created a new poster called The Great Pretenders: Medical Problems

That Can Look Like Mental Disorders. We hope to unveil it at our

upcoming medical conference, Non-Pharma IV, discussed below. It will

list virtually every physical cause of serious mental symptoms.

 

If you have not attended one of our Non-Pharma conferences before, you

are in for a real treat. It is an amazing weekend with people who

understand that mental disorders are treatable. We always get feedback

on how happy attendees are to be amongst presenters and attendees who

" get it, " who view mental health treatment with hope and optimism.

 

I hope to see you there!

Safe Harbor's 2005 Medical Conference, June 4-5

 

Announcing...

NON-PHARMA IV

 

Safe Harbor's Fourth Annual Medical Conference:

 

" Non-Pharmaceutical Approaches to Mental Disorders "

 

Open to the general public as well.

 

Join Safe Harbor and the nation's leading voices on safe, non-drug

treatments for the mentally unwell.

 

* When: Saturday, June 4, 2004, 8:30 AM to 6 PM; Sunday, June 5,

2004, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM

* Where: Glendale Hilton Hotel, Glendale, CA (just outside Los

Angeles). The Hilton is next to downtown Glendale with an array of

nearby shopping, restaurants, theaters, etc.

* Fees: Before May 19: $140 for both days (lunch not included)

After May 19: $170 (lunch not included)

* Day Rates Available

* 15 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) for physicians

($160 extra)

* 15 Continuing Educational Units (CEU) for California nurses,

LSCWs, and MFTs ($60 extra)

 

Register by phone - (323) 257-7338, email - SafeHarborProj

 

or online at: https://nt7.corpsite.com/secure_alternative/donation.htm

 

Seating is limited!

 

With nearly a dozen speakers, presentations will include:

 

Vitamin D and Mental Health: John Jacob Cannell, MD, Executive, Vitamin D Council, Psychiatrist, Atascadero State Hospital,

with little-known research on the pervasiveness of vitamin D deficiency.

 

The Crazy Makers: How Food Additives and Processed Foods Contribute

to the Rise in Mental Disorders: Carol Simontacchi, MS, CCN,

Nationally-renowned Author, Columnist, and Radio Host, speaking on the

hazards of modern-day fast foods.

 

Neurotoxicity of Fluoride in our Water: David Kennedy, DDS, past

president of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology

and world lecturer on the safety of dental materials, examines the

research on how fluoride and water fluoridation affect mental health.

 

The Role of Infection and Xenobiotics (Toxins) in Behavior Disorders:

Aristo Vojdani, PhD, immunology expert, author of over 90 scientific

papers, holder of 10 patents and CEO of Immunoscience Lab.

 

The Integrative Medicine Approach to Depression and Anxiety – With

Case Histories: Joseph Sciabbarrasi, MD, details his protocols in

treating depression and anxiety from a holistic perspective.

 

Is It Mental or Is It Dental? – Part 2 - How Mercury Fillings, Root

Canals, Temporo-Mandibular Joint (TMJ) Syndrome, and Other Dental

Issues Affect Mental Health: Raymond Silkman, DDS, practicing

holistic dentistry, orthodontics, and treatment of TMJ and related

disorders since 1992, returns to our conference by popular demand to

further discuss the relationship of dental problems and mental health.

 

The Importance of Methylation in Psychiatric Disorders: Nancy Mullan,

MD, nutritional psychiatrist, Safe Harbor medical advisor, reviews one

of the most critical nutritional biochemical cycles which, when

faulty, can contribute to autism, schizophrenia, depression, and

bipolar disorder.

 

Natural Treatments for Postpartum Depression: Nancy Lins, ND,

Hawaiian specialist in postpartum health, on the common physical

contributors to and nondrug solutions for the post-birth blues.

 

Can Visual Correction Improve Symptoms of ADHD, Anxiety, Depression,

Learning Disorders, and other Mental Symptomology? Herbert Solomon,

OD, presents his research spanning forty years on the remarkable

connection between vision and mental health and how visual correction

can improve it.

 

Safe Harbor's 2005 Recovery Panel: 6 people tell there personal

stories of recovery without drugs.

 

And MUCH, MUCH more...

 

(ACAM-approved. Provider approved by the California Board of

Registered Nursing, Provider Number 13857 for 15 contact hours –

Course meets the qualifications for 15 hours of continuing education

credit for MFT and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of

Behavioral Sciences – CA BBS Prov. No.: PC2516- No refunds after May 27.)

PROF. JAMES CROXTON SPEAKS: SAFE HARBOR L.A. SUPPORT GROUP, MAY 11

 

On Wednesday, May 11, Safe Harbor will hold it's monthly Los Angeles

support group featuring an hour of group discussion followed by a

presentation by one of our most popular speakers, Prof. James Croxton.

Prof. Croxton, who has taught nutritional mental health for over 30

years, will speak on brain nutrition with a focus on Vitamin B-12 and

tryptophan.

 

The meeting place will be at Glendale Adventist Medical Center.

 

Please RSVP to the Safe Harbor office at (626) 791-7868.

 

When: 7PM-9PM, Wednesday, May 11, 2005

 

Where: Glendale Adventist Medical Center Committee Room C 1509 Wilson

Terrace Glendale, California (Note: Parking lot is a maximum of $6 –

there is free street parking outside the lot.)

HELP UPDATE SAFE HARBOR!

 

If you have a new postal mailing or e-mail address, please send it to

wendy, so that we can keep our databases

current. We will be sending out the information on this year's fourth

annual medical conference (Non-Pharmaceutical Approaches to Mental

Disorders) soon, so don't miss out. Send us your updates. Thanks.

" GLYCEMIC INDEX " DIET AND FOOD-MOOD RESOURCES AVAILABLE ONLINE

 

Would you like to find out how the GI (Glycemic Index) Diet could help

your mental and emotional health and well-being, as well as being

effective for weight loss?

 

RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM THE FOOD AND MOOD PROJECT WEBSITE:

 

1. Back issue no. 1 of the project's newsletter contains key facts

about the Glycemic Index and mood:

 

http://www.foodandmood.org/pages/backissues.html

 

2. The Mind Meal, featuring:

 

* Wheat-free pasta with pesto sauce and oil-rich fish

* Avocado salad and seeds

* Fruit and oatcake dessert

* no wheat, no dairy:

 

http://www.foodandmood.org/pages/mindmeal1.html

 

" The Mind Meal is an excellent idea -- good, simple food that can help

you to feel different about life. I have found that eating regularly

enough to keep my sugar levels from dropping and choosing food that

isn't enormously processed does seem to keep me on a more even keel. "

-- Nigella Lawson (Top UK TV chef and columnist) in The Sunday Express

 

3. Order your copy of the Food and Mood Handbook and read Chapter 8,

" Emotional Roller-coaster Rides, " featuring a 10-point plan for

controlling blood sugar levels:

 

http://www.foodandmood.org/pages/handbook1.html

 

The Food and Mood Project: dietary self-help for emotional and mental

health. http://www.foodandmood.org Started in 1998 with a MIND

Millennium Award.

PETITION TO IRISH MEDICINE BOARD (you need not be Irish to sign)

 

Safe Harbor received the following from Dublin, Ireland:

 

I am an Emergency nurse in Cork University Hospital. I have launched a

public government petition to improve the way prescription drugs are

regulated in Ireland once licenced to trade. After losing my husband

to SSRIs-induced suicide when the dangerous adverse effects of these

drugs were not all made public as the pharmaceuticals withheld the

necessary safety information for financial gains causing harm as a

result. This present system needs to change.

 

Nothing is going to bring my husband back, but if only one family is

spared the devastation we had to go through, this petition would have

been well worth launching.

 

SSRIs can produce in patients exactly what they are supposed to treat.

The unproven " brain chemical imbalance " hypothesis regarding

depression is just that -- a hypothesis. Nobody knows the normal

levels of Serotonin in a live brain. No abnormality of serotonin in

depression has ever been demonstrated. Even if a biochemical imbalance

were found in some depressed patients, this would not necessarily mean

that it was the cause of the problem. This would be like saying that

someone whose headache is relieved by aspirin has an aspirin

deficiency. The term " anti-depressant " is misleading because it

implies a definitive treatment for a definitive condition, neither of

which is the case.

 

The Irish Medicine Board is failing to prevent and warn about

potential harm of drugs by acting upon the information promptly and

making it available to consumers and health care professionals. The

Irish Medicine Board is funded 100% by pharmaceuticals.

 

This petition calls for:

 

* Full publication of clinical trial data

* A central position for the experience of consumers in the

licensing and regulation of prescription drugs, including by taking

proper account of reports of adverse reactions by consumers

* Regulatory authorities to be free of influence of pharmaceutical

companies and to act in the public interest only.

 

www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/444384374

 

See also my article on The treatment of depression and the hidden

dangers of the SSRIs antidepressants:

 

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69076

 

-- Nuria O'Mahony

ADVOCATE GENERAL BLASTS " CODEX " ANTI-SUPPLEMENT LEGISLATION

 

Following a landmark challenge in the European Courts of Justice (ECJ)

brought by the Alliance for Natural Health and Nutri-Link Ltd. to the

controversial Food Supplements Directive, which effectively proposed

to ban 75% of vitamin and mineral forms, Advocate General Geelhoed,

the senior adviser to the ECJ, gave his Opinion in favor of the

Alliance's case.

 

What does this mean? That the chances of consumers being able to

continue using the natural food supplements they believe are

beneficial to their health are now greatly increased. There has been

uproar about the proposed EU ban, which we have been following in

recent issues of this ezine under the heading of " Codex Alimentarius "

-- legal codes related to food and food supplements.

 

In a statement released in Luxembourg April 5, the Advocate General

concluded that:

 

* The Food Supplements Directive infringes the principle of

proportionality because basic principles of Community law, such as the

requirements of legal protection, of legal certainty and of sound

administration have not properly been taken into account.

* It is therefore invalid under EU law.

 

It should be stressed that the Advocate General's pronouncement is not

a ruling. That will come from the ECJ judges, later - probably around

June. But in the vast majority of cases, the Court Judgment follows

the recommendations of the Advocate General.

 

If the Advocate General's recommendations are adopted, in effect, the

ban on vitamin and mineral forms not included on the EU's " Positive

list, " due to come into effect on 1 August 2005, will be declared

illegal. In essence, the positive list of allowable nutrient forms

will be deemed to be too narrow, too restrictive, and based on flawed

science.

 

This would avoid the totally irrational situations that the Food

Supplements Directive would otherwise create. For example,

synthetically produced selenium would have been allowed on the

positive list, while the natural source found in Brazil nuts would

not; synthetic forms of Vitamin E (often used in " adverse " vitamin

studies reported in the media) would be allowed, but the natural, most

beneficial food forms would not.

 

" It is commendable that the EU Advocate General has seen through the

flawed science and law of the Food Supplements Directive and reached

his recommendations today, " said Dr. Robert Verkerk, Executive of the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH). " All that ANH is

campaigning and working cooperatively for is the right for consumers

to have access to safe natural healthcare and for legislation to be

based on good science and good law. This is a great day for the tens

of millions of people who believe passionately in the benefits of

natural, preventative healthcare. "

 

David C. Hinde, Solicitor and ANH Legal Director, added: " This is a

very significant opinion in a landmark case. What we want to see in

the EU is the Food Supplements Directive doing the job for which it

was created which is to provide a " safe harbor " for food supplements

so that they are not classified as drugs, and to promote their

availability across the EU. "

TEXAS STUDY LINKS MERCURY POLLUTION TO AUTISM

 

About 48 tons of mercury are released into the air annually in the

United States from hundreds of coal-burning plants. In their vicinity,

the incidence of autism is higher, according to a study published in

March by Claudia Miller, a professor at the University of Texas Health

Science Center in San Antonio.

 

Autism, a developmental disorder marked by communication and social

interaction problems, increased with proximity to these polluters.

" The main finding is that for every thousand pounds of environmentally

released mercury, we saw a 17 percent increase in autism rates, "

Miller told interviewers.

 

The study looked at Texas county-by-county levels of mercury emissions

recorded by the government and compared them to the rates of autism

and special education services in 1,200 Texas school districts.

 

" Autism has increased dramatically over the last decade or so and the

reasons for that have really stumped the medical community, " Miller

said. " Now we think that due to the rising exposures in pollutants

like mercury, they may be at the root of some of these cases. "

 

The Bush administration last month ordered power plants to cut mercury

pollution by 50 percent within 15 years, but environmentalists said

the action fell short of what was needed. Moreover, the EPA plans to

control mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by setting an

emission standard for mercury and then allowing plants to trade

emissions up to a certain cap. This " cap and trade " approach would

permit pollution " hot spots " in certain areas such as the Great Lakes

as long as they were offset by reduced emissions elsewhere.

 

In a page headlined " Clean Air Markets, " the EPA website stresses the

benefits of this " industry-friendly " approach which has been used to

curb acid rain and sulfur dioxide pollution in specific areas. Critics

point out that mercury is a potent neurotoxin and its emissions are

much more than an air quality issue. Allowance trading lends itself to

the buildup of pollution " hot spots " including -- in the case of

mercury -- the Great Lakes area.

 

http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/2724 tells us:

 

" Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants are most dangerous to

humans when they deposit in bodies of water. In an aquatic

environment, mercury is converted to the toxin methylmercury, which is

then absorbed by living tissue, particularly in fish. Humans generally

absorb mercury into their bloodstreams through consuming fish.

 

" High levels of mercury in the blood can cause irreversible

neurological damage. It is particularly dangerous for pregnant women

and children. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), 15.7 percent, or one in six, women of child-bearing

age has an unacceptably high level of methylmercury in their blood.

EPA predicts that about 630,000 children are born each year with

unsafe levels of mercury in their blood. The CDC study also found

greater levels of mercury in the bloodstreams of black and Mexican

Americans than in non-Hispanic white Americans. "

 

Some definitions from the EPA's own website:

 

* An emissions " cap " : a limit on the total amount of pollution

that can be emitted from all regulated sources (e.g., power plants);

the cap is set lower than historical emissions to cause reductions in

emissions.

* Allowance: an authorization to emit a fixed amount of a pollutant.

* Allowance trading: sources can buy or sell allowances on the

open market.

 

http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/trading/basics/

EXERCISE FOUND EFFECTIVE AGAINST MILD DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY

 

Attendance at group exercise classes can help reduce symptoms of

depression in elderly patients, a 2002 British study suggests.

 

Eighty-six patients using antidepressants, aged between 53 and 91

years old, were recruited from primary care and psychiatric services,

and by direct local advertisement, for the study carried out by

researchers at the University of Dundee.

 

Forty-three patients were randomized to attend 45-minute exercise

classes twice-weekly over ten weeks, while the remaining 43 controls

were asked to attend twice-weekly health education talks at the

university's teaching hospital.

 

After ten weeks, significantly more of the exercise group had achieved

a 30% decrease in their Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression scores

compared with controls (55% vs 33%).

 

Reporting the results in the British Journal of Psychiatry, lead

author Marion McMurdo and colleagues say that their study implies that

" time-limited, brief, structured group exercise sessions can be

associated with a modest improvement in depressive symptoms in a group

of patients for whom response to pharmacological treatment may be

limited. "

 

They conclude: " Our findings suggest that older people with poorly

responsive depressive disorder should be encouraged to attend group

exercise activities. "

 

(British Journal of Psychiatry 2002; 180: 411–415)

UK: PARLIAMENT MEMBERS SAY DRUG FIRMS CREATE " ILLS FOR EVERY PILL "

 

The multi-billion-pound pharmaceutical industry has turned the UK into

an over-medicated society that believes in a pill for every ill, a

House of Commons inquiry said in early April.

 

The MPs (Members of Pariament) heard evidence of " disease-mongering "

drug firms effectively inventing diseases for which they could then

sell treatments, with relatively normal behavior -- from mild

depression to low female sex drive -- re-labeled as conditions for

which drugs were supposedly necessary. Lord Warner, the health

minister responsible for medicines, admitted to the inquiry: " I have

some concerns that sometimes we do, as a society, wish to put labels

on things which are just part and parcel of the human condition. "

 

The seven-month inquiry follows complaints from patients' groups and

senior doctors that the interests of the industry are distorting

health care priorities. Prescriptions for Seroxat tripled after it was

licensed for mild depression, while The Observer revealed earlier this

year that it was being marketed to doctors as a treatment for

ill-defined " social anxiety disorders. "

 

Drug firms are banned from advertising directly to patients in

Britain, or offering bribes to doctors to prescribe a certain brand.

To get around this, they resort to generously funding medical

charities -- which, the inquiry heard, tends to make them its

" unwitting foot soldiers. "

 

One mental health charity, Depression Alliance, receives almost 80 per

cent of its funding from drugs companies, while Arthritis Care

received money from Merck Sharp and Dohme, maker of Vioxx.

 

Paul Flynn, the Labour MP who has campaigned to expose the influence

of the industry and gave evidence to the committee, said it deserved

an " absolute hammering " for its practices. " The whole of society has

been conditioned to believe that we are dependent on medicines. I have

had arthritis all my life and I haven't taken anything for it - I

believe in exercise, swimming and walking. "

 

The inquiry heard of drugs marketed to doctors in papers written for

medical journals ostensibly by independent experts which are, in fact,

ghostwritten by the firms, which pay academics to lend their names to

the reports. Dr. Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, disclosed he

had been effectively offered bribes to publish papers showing drugs in

a favorable light. He said firms offered to buy " hundreds of thousands

of reprints " -- up to half a million pounds in revenue for the

magazine - if their paper were accepted.

 

In November, The Observer revealed that Seroxat's manufacturer

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was trying to market the SSRI as a cure for

relatively mild forms of depression, despite the fact that the drug

has been linked to suicide. " The thrust was to move sales beyond the

$1 billion to the $2 billion mark by pushing it to people who were not

clinically depressed, " Professor David Healy told the select

committee, while Richard Brook, chief executive of Mind, the mental

health charity, told the MPs that the plan was " all about developing

new conditions for that drug. "

 

The Observer recently reported that British GPs have largely ignored

the advice of the Chief Medical Office that many depressed patients

should be prescribed exercise programs rather than pills.

GRAPE SEED EXTRACT MAY HELP PREVENT DEMENTIA

 

The popular supplement grape seed extract has received support from

research that found it affects proteins in healthy brains in ways that

could protect against age-related dementia.

 

" This is the first identification of specific molecules in mammalian

tissues that are changed in response to oral intake of complex dietary

supplements like grape seed extract, " says study senior author Helen

Kim of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

 

Using electrophoresis (a technique that separates charged molecules)

followed by mass spectrometry, Kim and colleagues analyzed protein

changes in the brains of rats fed a high but nontoxic amount of grape

seed extract in their diet.

 

The researchers found that the direction of changes for several

proteins were opposite those in diseased brain tissue, which Kim says

means that the supplement could " protect against potentially

pathologic changes that eventually lead to dementias. "

 

Since the studies were carried out in relatively young adult rats that

weren't aged or diseased, the findings suggest that grape seed extract

and similar supplements could have a protective effect before the

onset of age-related disease.

 

While grape seed extract is thought to derive some of its health

benefits from its high content of highly antioxidant polyphenolic

compounds, Kim says that the molecular basis of the antioxidant

activities in target tissues has just begun to be studied.

 

The research is reported in the Journal of Agricultural and Food

Chemistry.

STUDENTS PERFORM BETTER WITH ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION

 

Dietary zinc supplementation (20 mg daily) helped seventh graders

perform better in school in a 10-week study reported at the

Experimental Biology 2005 meeting in San Diego, California (April 2-6,

2005).

 

In the study of 209 seventh graders who were not zinc deficient, those

who consumed 4 ounces of fruit juice supplemented with 20 mg of zinc

gluconate daily reduced their reaction time on a visual memory test by

12%, compared with 6% for students who received a placebo. They also

had more correct answers on a word recognition test (9% vs 3%) and

scored better on a task requiring sustained attention and vigilance

(6% vs 1%).

 

Students given only 10 mg supplemental zinc daily, the current RDA for

this age group, did not experience the same benefits. However, if the

results of the new study are confirmed, both the RDA and the criteria

for zinc deficiency should be reviewed.

 

Given that the test population was not zinc deficient by current

standards, even more dramatic results may be possible in a markedly

zinc deficient group, if the supplementation were adequate to offset

the deficiency.

 

" Zinc supplementation has been shown to be related to motor,

cognitive, and psychosocial function in older women and young children

in the first and second grade, but this is the first study of its

effects in adolescents, " study author Dr. James G. Penland told

Reuters Health.

 

" Adolescence is a critical period of rapid growth physically,

emotionally and mentally. That coupled with the fact that zinc is one

of the nutrients that adolescents do not consume in recommended

amounts led us to this study, " he added.

 

Supplemental zinc did not appear to improve motor or psychosocial

functioning in the current study, but conduct problems did increase by

10% in girls receiving placebo.

 

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About Safe Harbor

 

Safe Harbor was founded in 1998 in the wake of growing public

dissatisfaction with the unwanted effects of orthodox psychiatric

treatments such as medication and shock therapy.

 

Seeking to satisfy the desire for safer, more effective treatments,

Safe Harbor is dedicated to educating the public, the medical

profession, and government officials on research and treatments that,

minimally, do no harm and, optimally, cure the causes of severe mental

symptoms. Our primary thrust is education on the medical causes of

severe mental symptoms and the use of nutritional and other natural

treatments.

About AlternativeMental

Health.com

 

ALTERNATIVEMENTALHEALTH.COM is the world's largest website devoted

exclusively to alternative mental health treatments. It includes a

directory of over 300 physicians, nutritionists, experts,

organizations, and facilities around the U.S. that offer or promote

safe, alternative treatments for severe mental symptoms. Many of the

physicians listed do in-depth examinations to find the physical causes

behind mental problems.

 

Also included on the site is an array of articles on topics ranging

from the medical causes of schizophrenia to the effects of toxic

metals on mental health.

 

Special AlternativeMentalHealth.com T-shirts and bumper stickers are

available at our online store.

 

A bookstore page lists top books that cover many areas of alternative

treatments with titles like Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and

Other Common Mental Disorders and No More Ritalin.

 

AlternativeMentalHealth.com has been created to educate the public,

practitioners, and government officials on the medical conditions that

create " mental illness " and the many safe resources available for

addressing and often curing severe mental symptoms.

Contact Us

 

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Safe Harbor Boston

 

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Tulsa, Oklahoma 74137

 

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phone: 918-271-2327

 

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Kondhwa

 

Pune, India 411 048

 

(0091) 020-26837644 or

 

wamhc

 

Safe Harbor Oman

 

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Muscat

 

Sultanate of Oman

 

Phone: (968) 99292979

 

Fax: (968) 24493417

 

Email: topmedics

 

 

 

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