why aren't scientologists mad that dogs are given prozac?
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Because they don't care about animals.
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I totally disagree with animal testing. They do not only use unadoptable animals they use specially bred dogs, maily beagles. These animals have a miserable existence and some suffer abuse from the lab technicians if they don't tow the line i.e. allow blood to be taken from the vein in their necks without struggling. I have suffered a great deal of trauma from what I have experienced first hand of this practice. It's no good saying only necessary experiments can be done as this is just too ethically difficult to decide so a blanket 'permission' is given to the drugs companies. Each study uses about 50 dogs who only stay alive for 6 months and are then all euthanised. Some of the technicians find this funny....I have seen this! These animals respond to love .... I tried to give it to them....but it didn't save them, probably made it worse for them to accept the cruelty and suffering.
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Modern Americans have been conditioned that hunting and hunters are "bad" and that wild animals would be happy if just left alone. \n\nWhether or not this is an intentional conspiracy or not remains to be debated, but the fact that it's true is unarguable. \n\nThe truth is, animals are neither "happy" or "sad" and their harvesting by humans in the wild is part of NATURE that has been going on for millions of years. \n\nOne facet of this conditioning that fascinates the heck out of me is "anthropomorphism", that is, assigning human traits and characteristics to animals. It causes kids to grow up with a false and distorted view of animals and then to take ridiculous position like being "anti-hunter" and to joining terror groups like PETA.
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Bible has a lot of citations about "possessions by demons", and epileptics. I read about the greek doctors in Jesus time, used "beladona", and opium to relieve it. and if you read the "Thousand and one nights", the Arab stories told by princess Scheherezade, that mental illness were quite common and the affected were arrested and locked as animals.
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Because they don't recognize the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist. \n\nA psychiatrist is a medical doctor. He/she treats brain injuries, chemical dysfunctions, genetic anomalies of the brain. He/she can precribe medicine for brain disorders. Many have surgical certification and can operate on the brain to alleviate or remove the underlying physical cause of the mental dysfunction.\n\nA psychologist treats the effects of mental disease, the symptoms that don't seem to have a physical, biological cause. The neuroses, the anxieties, etc that plague so many people. This treatment can take years and years and lots and lots of your money.\n\nThe latter therapy is something Scientology would rather you take to them, as they want all that lovely money for themselves.
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Dogs can be trained to detect a wide variety of scents. Although most NARC dogs aren't trained to detect Shrooms specifically, you might come across some who are. Be careful out there.
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Well Prozac is a medicine used to treat depression.  It takes a while to work, since instead of being a direct medicine that would increase the amount of the neuro-transmitter that makes you happy, it is a medicine called a "re-uptake inhibitor" meaning that when the happy neuro-transmitter would normally leave the nerve endings, the Prozac medicine keeps the transmitter there, meaning that the next time your brain would send out a happy signal that it sends out a larger dose of happy.  The drug Klonopin is used to treat several types of seizures.  Prozac is not normally used for post-mortem or post-partem depression.
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This is what Scientologists ACTUALLY believe:\n\nXenu was an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecrafts resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes & blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together & stuck to the bodies of the living. The alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. L. Ron Hubbard (a science-fiction writer & the creator of Scientology) called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," & the advanced levels in Scientology place considerable emphasis on isolating them & neutralizing their ill effects.\n\nTo rid ourselves of "Body Thetans" & also “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become “clear”, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind”...... & we have to pay lots & lots & lots of money for “auditing” (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions) & to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”.  The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life.  They deny the reality of chemical imbalance & profound mental disturbance & accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).\n\nKabbalah literally means "receiving", in the sense of a "received tradition". Kabbalah esoterically interprets the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and classical Jewish texts (halakha and aggadah) and practices (mitzvot), as expressing a mystical doctrine concerning God's simultaneous immanence and transcendence, an attempted resolution to the ancient paradox of how the ultimate Being—"that which is not conceivable by thinking" (Isaac the Blind)—nevertheless comes to be known and experienced by the created world. Because of the interpretive liberties taken by kabbalistic thinkers, and the possible heresies to which they may easily lead, study of Kabbalah was traditionally restricted to a select few Rabbis and Torah scholars.\n\nJehovah's Witness believe that they must proselytize door to door to as many people as they possibly can in order to spread their "true" religion among the masses.  They believe practically every other religion in existence is "false" while theirs is "true".  They believe all holidays and birthdays to be either pagan in nature or inspired by false religion. They believe that the male is the final decider in all familial matters and that homosexuality is an abomination. They do not accept blood transfusions. They believe death is a state of nonexistence and that only a very few souls will make it to heaven.  They believe that no one is in heaven yet, and that when people DO go to heaven, there will only be 144,000 chosen.
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Whilst the exact mechanisms are unknown it is generally thought that drugs such as Prozac (known as SSRIs or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) work by blocking the action of a protein in the brain that normally transports serotonin out of the synapses, the spaces between brain cells. With the transporter protein blocked, serotonin lingers in the synapses, and that can have a positive effect on mood.\n\nIt should be noted, however, that Wellbutrin, despite being in the class of SSRIs, is pharmacologically different and works in a slightly different way. Again, however, the exact mechanisms are unknown.\n\nThe underlying principle behind its workability is actually no different than any other drug used to alter mood, be it prescription or recreational. It alters the natural chemical operation of the brain to induce a false state that suppresses the underlying trauma or psychological condition. It does not cure anything. In fact, recent studies show that not only are such drugs harmful, they can induce amplified feelings of violence, rage and even suicidal thoughts. \n\nAs to their actual workability (efficacy), a wealth of studies undertaken show that they really aren't as effective as people are led to believe. Psychologist Irving Kirsch and his co-authors analyzed all of the data submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of the six most widely prescribed antidepressants between 1987 and 1999. They found that approximately 80% of the response to the medications was duplicated in placebo control groups. They believe the difference between the patient's response to medication and response to placebo was small enough to be considered clinically meaningless.\n\n--\nDecoding Psychiatric Propaganda\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters
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Hasn't anyone told them that plants have feelings too?And the savagry of animals attacking those plants..,dogs defacating on grass and peeing on trees..,I hear my grass screaming everytime fufu does a poo poo in my yard.\n\nHas anyone told Peta that the leather sandals they wear or the leather belt or the leather wallet are made from cowhides?They killed a cow just to wear a belt?Lmao
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it's suppose to help you feel better but it takes time. chemical imbalance is a hard thing to fix and people are miserable because of it. suicidal thoughts and depression are just a way for your brain to try to figure out the best possible solution to get out of the feeling. instead of taking Prozac, try instead St. John's Wort.  it's more natural because it's a weed so you have less man-made crap in your system. and St. John's works faster because it is natural your body can "soak" it up better.  I was on Prozac 15 years ago and found that I only felt "blah" so I didn't take them for long.  the St. John's you feel better and don't get the "blah" existence going.
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I think they offer the perfect solution to one of society's more pressing moral problems.\n\nHuntingdon Life Sciences and its associated companies are constantly under attack for their use of animals in scientific research. Obviously, the experiments conducted on the animals, while essential to medical and scientific research, are often painful and result in the death of the animal. Another problem is that, while guinea pigs, chimpanzees or dogs share certain physical and biochemical similarities with humans, they aren't exactly the same.\n\nStreet beggars fill the gap admirably. Physically and biochemically they are identical to human beings, without actually being human. There are plenty of them and there is absolutely no reason to care about what happens to them. If we finish experimenting with one and dispose of it afterwards, we can just go and get another one. There are plenty to go around.\n\nThough it's of no concern, this also gives their life some purpose, in that they will save a chimpanzee or a rat from having to suffer. This is certainly of far, far greater value to society than their current role.
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Honeybear pretty much said my answer.\n\nIf a dog is suffering, and there is no hope for recovery, people decide to put the amimal to sleep, to end its suffering.  The dog does not get a choice.\n\nIf a human is suffering, and has no hope for recovery, why can't they decide to end their own suffering?  Why do people say they should continue to suffer?\n\nPerhaps the reason people need "assisted suicide" is to be sure they do it right.  They might not take enough pills, they might miss "the right spot" with the gunn, etc, survive the attempt, and end up worse.
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Her and the Dog, have mad wonderful strides in their life. They have overcame drug habits themselves to make their life a better one. I sometimes think that their program is staged though. As for would I do I find her atrractive ,I dont think so.
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No. I am not a scientologist but I have friends who are. The difference between it and Christianity couldn't be more vast; however, they both espouse living by the Golden Rule.
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Scientologists are either the believers, or those old hands who realize it's a scam and they are in it to fleece the newcomers. The believers are not insane in the sense that they are "crazy", "psychotic" or whatever. They are desperate for answers to questions that have begged for answers for millenia. Most of these questions boil down to, "Why does life hurt sometimes?" or "Why am I here?". They see a few nuggets of common sense in Scientology, and being desperate for answers, they get conned into accepting the whole load of faulty thinking that comprised L. Ron's philosophy on life. Then they get conned into the space-aliens-as-gods thing or whatever weird nonsense Scientology says to its members. So, yes- I think lots of them are kinda brainwashed, and for the vast majority of Scientologists it's not insanity that gets them to embrace the e-meter.
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Well Just a mom. You're having a cranky day aren't you. There is bad Psychiatry and there is bad Religion. Somebody in Med school and Seminary had to make the C's and D's. I think it is a little over the top to think that either Psychiatry or Religion is bad. I think it makes more sense to believe that I have a bad Psychiatrist or I have a bad Minister. A lot of people have better lives and believe that they have greater freedom because of the impact of Psychiatry or Religion on their lives. Not all of them are stupid. There are some people smarter than either of us who are solidly convinced that both Psychiatry and Relgion are real and that they can be complimentary. You have to decide what you believe and be prepared to deal with how your beliefs serve you or fail you.