Proof that Scientology's claims about vitamins curing mental problems are fake?
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Here's a website that takes a very close, critical look at Narcanon, the Scientology "drug rehab" front group:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/narconon/inde...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/the...
Scientology isn't the only group that advocate vitamins for mental health. A multivitamin a day is very often part of the regimen at Mental Hospitals. A serious vitamin definciency can cause mental illness. Vitamin B 12 is one of the most important for mental health. What a good place to start it is to work on optiminal physical health to combat mental illness. A good exercise program doing sports or activities that the patient will enjoy is also important. When a patient is engaged in working for his or her own best physical health, then it is easier to introduce balanced life habits and planning for healthy goals in the mental health area that will be effective. Optimal health means getting the body, the mind, and the heart or soul all working together for the goal of the healthiest, most productive and worthwhile life possible. Also social integration, working together with others for common goals is important to mental health.
It is as wrong to neglect physical health in the battle against mental illness as it is to neglect possitive mental attitude and emotional aspects of physical illness. Today there are many mental illnesses that are caused by drug abuse. These drugs erode both physical and mental health and reach the mind through the body. Being clean and sober is the first step for many mental patients. Staying clean and sober is helped by good nutrition and physical fitness, along with reaching for goals of all aspects of a healthy life.
If Scientology is one sided or too limited, (I don't have a detailed knowledge of their theories) it can only be because there are so many people who are not responding to treatment for mental illness. These people and their families have a right, a freedom, in America to try other ways to get to good health. For some people vitamins and positive mental attitude and goal setting may be the path to success and there may be some people who have achieved this through Scientology even if the rest of us are sceptical of what we hear about this group.
In what Scientology book did you see that vitamins were offered a cure for mental illness?
I've been studying Scientology for 16 years and never saw that.
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To reply to the post below this - Tom Cruise is NOT Scientology. He's simply a famous person who happens to be a Scientologist. And when people ask him about Scientology, or his opinion on other matters, he answers them.
His viewpoint on vitamins does not, however, necessarily reflect anything Hubbard ever stated regarding vitamins. If you want to claim that Scientology teaches that vitamins cure mental illnesses, you're going to have to point me to the book or books by Hubbard that state this.
Because in all my years of Scientology, I've just never seen this. And Scientologists study the works of L. Ron Hubbard - not Tom Cruise. Although, personally, I do enjoy his movies. ;)
Doesn't the FACEMAN of Scientology shun (antidepressants)pills? I thinks vitamins might be pills, but my evil twin says milk duds might work. There are a bunch of them at that farm with the goats!
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