Monday, June 12, 2017

Michelle Carter Manslaughter Trial gets a Sane Psychiatric Defense

Dr. Peter Breggin a psychiatrist says Michelle Carter a Massachusetts woman who is charged with using text messages to encourage her boyfriend to kill himself when they were teenagers was on medication that impairs the ability to be empathetic.
She is charged with manslaughter in the 2014 suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III. Dr. Breggin shows that the psychiatric drug Prozac and now on Celexa. The psychiatric doctor says Celexa increases the yearning to commit suicide in teens. In the trial he showd how the brain reacts differently to psychiatric drugs in teens and young adults.
Prosecutors say the then-17-year-old Carter pressured her boyfriend Roy to take his own life through a torrent of text messages. Both teens were on psych drugs.
The real criminal behavior here is psychiatry and pharma drugs. Dr. Breggin moves against the drug pushing psych’s in disclosing just how lethal these drugs are. It is likely though another psychiatrist with an opposing view to Dr. Breggin may also testify. Psychiatry is never on the same page.
The defendant’s lawyers say argued that Roy had attempted suicide previously and made his own decision to take his own life.

The trial is still ongoing…

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