Horizon(Scientific Documentary)

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• November 29th - 11:10amDavid Bachauer said...

  Rosenhan's paper simply showed that diagnosis in medicine depends in the first instance on patients telling the truth. Anyone can be operated upon for abdominal pain if they complain enough. It had no influence whatsoever on diagnostic practice and no satisfactory alternative to the general medical model has been formulated - it just happens that because the brain is the most complex organ of the body it is particularly difficult to look and quantify events in the wiring, so to speak, and therefore diagnosis can be more problematic than other physical medicine. By the way the programme above was awful ethically and scientifically.

• November 21st - 3:43pmRita DiCarlo said...

  There is no scientific test which can detect a pathology for any of the diagnoses on the "mental illness" list. Visit www.adhdfraud.com and www.mindfreedom.org and www.cchr.org and www.ctip.org. If it cannot be tested it cannot be diagnosed an illness and medications cannot be developed to treat it. So what do the medications do? The SSRIs inhibit the reuptake of Seratonin. They produce a chemical imbalance, they create 'disease', they produce hypoglycemia, diabetes, parkinsons, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, heart disease, and cause permanent damage to the brain. ECT ALWAYS causes damage, often creating permanent memory loss ie Wendy Funk in her book What Difference Does It Make? I was given one of those cocktails at th e age of 20. I can go to a movie and a week later forget everything about it! PERMANENT DAMAGE! And for what? Because someone isn't the perfect little person his/her parents want them to be? What's perfect? What's normal? There is only human and no two of us is alike!!!!!!!!!!!

• November 19th - 10:18pmmichael said...

  unfortunately the programme is very poor as it sets a false stage...5 individuals whose main goal is to avoid detection..aware of their illness.. having received treatment..stable..under strict assessment by 3 professionals....a i see its a very unrealistic sinario.... im very suprised at the weakness of this horizon programme

  an undercover discovery of the actual working of an acute psychiatric unit will truely show the lack of professioalim, the guessing games , mis diagnosises, tretments and the horrid use of cocktails of drugs to treat the unknown

• November 18th - 9:31pmJacqueline said...

  This programme is excellent in the aspect that it raises awareness about mental illness. I believe that this is very important for both sufferers of the various symptoms and carers who would like try and understand. My only concern is the diagnosis - which as mentioned by the professionals is serious process and not normally progressed in this way. However, one thought for today what is "normal"?

• November 12th - 8:34pmfiona smith said...

  i wanting to watch the programme on mental illness on Tuesday but missed it, i have a fourteen year old daughter with ocd very bad and has had therapy for six years, now we are going done the medication route, is there any way i can get to see this programme

• September 16th - 10:19pmRobin MacMillan said...

  An excellent programme marred by your presenter's inability to pronounce "nuclear" (she used the Bush version of nooky-lar) and constant use of "they" (3rd person plural) when she should have used "he2 93rd person singular). These are just sloppy mistakes and show a poor standard of production.

• February 27th - 3:18pmHugh Livesey said...

  Why is "Horizon" of 26/02/08 not on iPlayer?

• February 26th - 10:33pmFred Beach said...

  Horizon 26th Feb 2008

  Great programme, great presenter, and it produced the answers I would have expected, BUT! I was a bit miffed that professor regan added the anti-bac sprays to her shopping basket.

  As I expected there is nothing in any household that any family should be worried about, the bug that was found probably offered a very low chance of causing any harm, but i would argue that using these sprays reduces the levels of bacteria we need to be exposed to in order to maintain an efficient immune system.

  Hospitals efforts to kill bacteria have simply endangered our lives. Bacteria have been around far longer than any other life form and they know how to survive. Trying to kill them is pointless, it will just result in them mutating into a bacteria strain that will survive, and these un-natural bacterial strains are a massive threat to our safety.

  Strange Dettol claim to be able to kill MRSA when hospitals can't, mind you hospitals have to use extremely expensive cleaners to "try" and kill the bacteria they create.

  I would also argue that household sprays and air-fresheners damage the health of our children. They serve no real purpose.

  I remember a programme of maybe 10 years ago called "Eat Dirt" which highlighted how infants exposed to high numbers of bacteria / pollen etc, children who lived in natural (rural) surroundings had far fewer allergy's than tyown kids.

  These people are trading on fear, "your a bad parent if you don't spray every surface in your house" Just as these food claims are trading on our wish to safeguard our own and our childrens health.

  Bacteria are essential to life, our friends not our enemy. FB

• February 6th - 6:44pmSue said...

  Hi

  Is there any chance I could get a copy of this report? I am in Ireland and can't download from the horizon site BBC iPlayer?

• February 6th - 4:46pmAmanda Burree said...

  Would it be possible to buy the video/dvd of the horizon documentary on drugs.If so where from. Thanks Amanda

• February 6th - 2:25pmSarah Rapkin said...

  Hi

  Is it at all possible to purchase or have a copy of the above Documentary - Horizon - Scientific Documentary. We would be very interested in receiving information on purchasing this programme. Please could you advise, with kidn regards, Sarah

• January 23rd - 6:55pmN. Priestman said...

  Would be useful if someone investigated the effects of isolation and lack of stimulation on the elderly in this country. How many of those incarcerated with so-called 'dementia' are there as a result of this isolation (mind numbing boredom, fear, total lack of control etc) either in their own homes (care in the commmunity) or in 'care homes'. I would bet the vast majority and even the few genuine dementia cases are made much worse by the total lack of human interaction, visual, mental stimulation, exercise. Add to that inadequate health care and diet/nutrition. For some reason we are much more concerned about the welfare of our criminals than our elderly., who we treat much worse than our criminals in prison. On top of which we make much more effort to keep the criminals out of prison than we do our elderly out of their prisons (care homes)a life sentence with no hope of reprieve for which you have to pay. Says a lot for our priorities. But of course the elderly are cash cows for a large section of society, esp. the govt.

  While I am on how come there are independent, undercover assessors/secret shoppers for hotels, B & B's, restaurants, but nothing similar for care/nursing homes! which surely are much more important since once you are in you are in, no probation, no appeal, no human rights campaigners.