Mother of Five with a Brain Tumor Treated as Borderline Personality Disorder

MENTAL HEALTH CENTER'S PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS PROVEN WRONG BY BRAIN TUMOR
In 1996, mother-of-five Kathy Nisley of Mishawaka, Indiana, began to feel depressed following the birth of her twins (her fifth pregnancy). She went to Madison Center, a psychiatric facility, for treatment. From June 1996 to October 2003, she was labeled with "severe depression," then "bipolar," then "borderline personality disorder" and finally "post-traumatic stress disorder." Kathy was given psychotropic drugs in increasing doses and combinations that caused her to become psychotic. She ended up being hospitalized five times in a psychiatric ward. Her family witnessed her psychiatric drug-induced psychosis and self-mutilation. In November 2004, she experienced a grand mal seizure. A few days later, a neurosurgeon removed a tennis ball-sized meningioma (tumor) from her left frontal lobe. [pic1 , pic2] Her depression subsequently disappeared. Her surgeon estimated it to have been growing in her skull for between 10 and 15 years.

This article was originally published by the Citizens Commission for Human Rights International.

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A Lack of Sleep Can Cause Depression

My Personal Care Physician gave me a referral to Behavioral Health for Stress Reduction Workshops, because I was having a difficult time sleeping due to a stressful merger at work. When I arrived at Behavior Health the psychiatrists diagnosed me with Bipolar and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. They argued that depression and mania can cause a sleep disturbance. They however overlooked the opposite but equally valid argument that sleep deprivation can cause depression, anxiety and manic like symptoms, which does not necessarily make you Manic Depressive or Bipolar. Sleep deprivation can be caused my many other things, such as stress, poor sleep hygiene or in my case allergies and Restless Leg Syndrome. American are getting far less sleep than needed, this may contribute to the rise in “mental illness” diagnosis. I did an overnight sleep study and it was determined that I had Restless Leg Syndrome, a distant cousin to Parkinson disease; the doctors also noted that I had 15 allergy symptoms such as swelling, hives and gasping for air. After I was properly treated for my allergies the swelling and other symptoms went away. The Parkinson’s like tremors from the Restless Leg Syndrome also disappeared when the pressure on the nerves in my legs was relieved. I now sleep like a baby without medication and all of my “mental illness” symptoms disappeared.

I was never mentally ill and should not have been treated with psychotropic drugs. Complaints have been filed on my behalf by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International. After doing my own research I discovered that my situation is not an isolated incident. I am calling on all other psych patients and their loved ones to question their diagnosis and seek medical treatment looking for a real reason for their depression and anxiety. I made the error in believing because these psychiatrists were also MD’s and DO’s that meant that they were practicing medicine. This is WRONG, psychiatrists do not practice medicine they practice psychiatry. Ask to see test results that prove you are mentally ill. Ask for, NO DEMAND, a medical exam! Your life and your livelihood may depend on it.

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Hippocratic Oath - Modern Version

Hippocratic Oath—Modern Version


I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.


Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.

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