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Craze of the Mentally Ill Toys

Seeded on Wed Sep 8, 2010 1:49 PM EDT
Read ArticleArticle Source: The Sun Newspaper Online
health, today, mental-health, crimes, psychiatry, pharma, abuses, apa, wpa, conflicts-of-interest
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A TOYMAKER is hoping kids will go mad for his latest creation รณ a family of soft toys who all have psychiatric illnesses.
The toys, who suffer from conditions including bipolar disorder and acute depression, come with their own medical history, a referral letter and a treatment plan.

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take2la

The "psychiatrization" of children continues.

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Reply#1 - Wed Sep 8, 2010 1:50 PM EDT
take2la

Psychotropic Drugs, Our Children and Our Pill-Crazed Society

    #1.1 - Wed Sep 8, 2010 5:10 PM EDT
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    Whitney Sims

    This is sad....

      Reply#2 - Thu Sep 9, 2010 3:02 PM EDT
      Clarissa Urban

      Ok so at first i laughed at the idea of a alligator having a phobia of water. But really why make a toy that has abnormal problems and introduce them to kids? Give little sally the really depressed animal and see if it affects her mood! If nothing else you would confuse a little kid who does not understand an abnormal disorder.

        Reply#3 - Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:01 AM EDT
        take2la

        But really why make a toy that has abnormal problems and introduce them to kids?

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        Like candy cigarettes & high school credit cards, what they are really doing is making little consumers.

          #3.1 - Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:37 PM EDT
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          Ginger R Taylor

          Wow...we are teaching our children to laugh at people who suffer from mental health issues. Never okay to make fun of someone with a disability

            Reply#4 - Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:50 PM EDT
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