Dear Concerned Ontario Resident: If we allow Ontario Premier Wynne to eliminate natural therapies and holistic professionals through her unlawful legislation and unnecessary, expensive, tyrannical Regulatory Colleges, we will have only one choice in mental healthcare – the medical model. Here is the track record of the self-appointed medical supremacists she wants to sell our health and lives to (if you don't like your odds, please contribute at www.StopPsychotherapyTakevoer.ca): • Physicians are more than twice as likely as the general population to commit suicide; • Psychiatrists commit suicide at twice the rate of general physicians; • 1 in 4 psychologists consider suicide at least once, and 1 in 16 admit to attempted suicide at least one time; • of the physicians who committed suicide, 42% had been seeing a conventional mental health professional at the time of death; • since governments in North America have become involved in promoting mental healthcare and streaming children and adults alike to psychiatrists and psychologists for treatment, the suicide rate has doubled; • the conventional health system creates 4-5 times more drug addicts then street drug pushers; • the rates of addictions, depression, divorce and substance abuse are higher for conventional health care professions then the general population; • not a single mental illness diagnosis is supported by science, not one psychiatric drug has been independently shown to be safe and effective, and most psychiatric drugs cause liver and other organ damage and many come with black-box warnings for increased risk of suicide and homicide. All cause brain-damage; • not one of the 261 psychological theories have ever been shown to resolve emotional/mental illness situations; • daydreaming and an ‘obsession’ with eating healthy foods are to be designated mental illnesses; • conventional treatments for so-called mental illness have been proven to worsen outcomes, including causing major organ damage, permanent brain damage and dementia, epidemics of suicide, homicide and disability. Most veteran suicides were by those under psychiatric drug treatment, as is the case with youth suicide. 80% of incarcerated Canadian women are forced onto addictive psychiatric drugs and a high percentage of incarcerated men are maintained on addictive drugs; newborns by the thousands are now diagnosed with 'anxiety' and treated with unapproved psychiatric drugs, masking neglect, sexual and other abuse and preventing normal child development and expression; • a woman is statistically at greater risk of being raped while on a psychiatrist’s couch than while jogging alone at night through a city park; • in a British study of therapist-patient sexual contact among psychologists, 25 percent reported having treated a patient who had been sexually involved with another therapist. • a 2001 study reported that one out of twenty clients who had been sexually abused by their conventional therapist was a minor, the average age being 7 for girls and 12 for boys. The youngest child was three; • psychologists designed and oversaw the torture programs at Guantanamo Bay; • psychiatrists are working to bring permanently brain-damaging ‘electroshock therapy’ back into mental healthcare treatments; • iatrogenic illness is the leading cause of death and disability in America. Iatrogenic illness is any harm, intentional and unintentional, caused by conventional medical treatment. Currently, based on voluntary reporting by doctors, 1,000,000 people die annually in North America due to medical treatment. Many researchers have extrapolated that if adverse event reporting were made mandatory, as it is in most other industries, the rate of death caused by conventional medical treatment would be 8,000,000 per year…far in excess of Hitler’s rate of 6,000,000 in 4 years; • the overall incidence rate of adverse events of 7.5% in one study suggests that, of the almost 2.5 million annual hospital admissions in Canada similar to the type studied, about 185,000 are associated with an adverse event and close to 70,000 of these are preventable; • prescription drugs used as prescribed are the fourth leading cause of death in Canada – leading to approximately ten thousand deaths a year and causing 100,000 serious injuries. Yet 70% of these deaths are preventable. There is no history of harm done by any alternative treatment. If YOU agree that we must preserve holistic, energy and natural spiritual care alternatives for those who don’t like the odds, please check out www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca where you can contribute in multiple ways to our efforts to ensure we can all choose for ourselves. (Sources: Health Care Policy Studies, Sept 2009 ‘Unnatural Regulation: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy in Canada’ by Cynthia Ramsay, Fraser Institute) Harper Government Launches Plain Language Labelling Initiative to Improve Drug Safety for Canadians, June 2013 Press Release, Minister of Health; Medscape: Physicians are not Invincible: Rates of Psychosocial Problems Among Physicians: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410643_2 and Psychology Today: Why Shrinks Have Problems http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200909/why-shrinks-have-problems ; CCHR International http://www.cchr.org/cchr-reports/psychiatric-rape/introduction.html; CMAJ. 2004 May 25;170(11):1678-86. The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada by Baker GR et al)