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His stand against the use of psychoactive pharmaceuticals is Scientology-derived, whether it is well-informed or not. It is the C of S' position, generally, that "psychiatric" drugs are more suppressors than helpers to the being within, and that "depression" is, to over-simplify somewhat, essentially a problem of the psyche, not a problem of chemistry; therefore to insist on its being chemical in nature is to worsen the situation by inserting a wrong diagnosis and adding to the myriad false data the being is already wrestling with.

Obviously, all this has some merit, as Frank Hamilton points out above, but to hold it as an absolutist position is, I think, a little too easy, for the reasons covered in Brooke SHields' piece.

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