How Many Families Have Been Destroyed by Clergy Sex Abuse and Psychiatric Drugs?
A new TV miniseries was released earlier this month (June, 2024) titled: Six Schizophrenic Brothers. The documentary is based on the 2020 book by Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family", an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a midcentury American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The TV miniseries interviews several of the surviving family members, including two of the brothers who are still alive and are still being treated for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia, of course, is not a real disease. There are no lab tests one can take to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, or any other psychiatric disorder for that matter. It is simply a label applied to people who exhibit behavioral traits that are deemed as an "illness" that prohibits a person from acting "normally" in society. So if schizophrenia is the wrong diagnosis for what the Galvin family suffered, what caused the initial problem that led to the psychiatric drugging of six of the boys?