Until FDA and society is ready to investigate the link between antidepressants and suicide and violence. We will keep finding ourselves asking the question why?
I was intimately involved helping get blackbox suicide warnings on the drugs in 2004 and 2006 after the death of my husband. He was given Zoloft for insomnia and hung himself 5 weeks after given the drug. He was not depressed or have history of depression. The only medication on was Zoloft. We also had a lawsuit to get documents out from under seal. The FDA, Pfizer and other drug companies have long known about risk.
Did you know Pfizer helped create a Zoloft Prosecutor Manual in 1993 to be used in cases where someone claimed a Zoloft defense?
Who knew there was a 1991 fda hearings on the link between the emergence of suicide and violence on Prozac? The FDA did nothing and virtually all members of fda committee got funding from companies making these drugs.
Of the nearly 410 psychiatric drug warnings today, 27 warn of violence, aggression, hostility, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation and 49 warn of self-harm or suicide/suicidal ideation.
Every time there is another mass shooting or high-profile murder/suicide, society keeps asking why and guns are often pinned as the culprit. It is high time that we seek to try understanding what may be behind these acts of violence in our communities. Could they be connected to the dangerous side effects associated with psychotropic drugs?
I am heartbroken for the families and fear for our society. We should all want to at least investigate because anyone of us could be the next sitting ducks.
These idiots imply cytisine doesn't last long enough? Wicked Pedophilia says "Cytisine has a short half-life of 4.8 hours." Varenicline has an elimination half-life of 24 hours! Take something that never wears off, even if only taken daily?
It caused memory loss after a very strange incidence! Left me wandering naked during a snowstorm down the street from my house. More to the story but don't want to post it. All I can say is thank god for a neighbor who heard my door slam and could see me wandering the streets. Gotme home safe.
That sounds a bit more than nicotinic, but who knows what being nicotined (varenicline is a high-affinity partial agonist for nAChRα4β2, a subtype of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) that leads to the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine) up for 48 hours straight might do.
If you see anything you believe needs to be changed in either of these I am happy to make them better. A big goal I have on here is to present topics I think are important for people to know in the best manner possible, but I (and my small team) can't possibly do that, so we try our best and then wait for outside help to do the rest.
Since I am not that smart, let's hear what other smart people have to say:
"Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.)
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 4 BC – 65 AD
“Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms”
- James Madison, considered the father of the US Constitution
"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."
- Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
“During World War II, six million Swiss had guns and six million Jews did not.”
- Author unknown
“…sort of like the people who repeat foolish slogans like "guns kill" – as though guns sprout little feet when no one is looking and run around shooting people all by themselves.”
- Doug Casey, financial columnist
“If you don’t have to give up your car because others drive drunk with theirs, then why do you have to give up your gun because others commit crimes with theirs?”
- Anonymous internet wag
“When a crime is committed, does the gun go to jail?”
“Let’s stop playing games. The problem is people, not guns. Our society suffers from a deficiency of personal responsibility – not from an excess of personal freedom.”
- Star Parker, African American writer and commentator
“The horrifying truth is this: we live now in a culture that not only does not respect life, but discards it like trash — not only at the beginning of life, but also at the end, and every place in between. What has happened to us?”
- Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra
“…we’re also going to make it clear that when a pig gets iced that’s a good thing, and that everyone who considers himself a revolutionary should be armed, should own a gun, should have a gun in his house.”
- Bill Ayers, leftist activist and confidant of gun control happy Barack Obama, in A Strategy
To Win, appearing in New Left Notes, September 12, 1969. Note: This quote is included
both show the hypocrisy of today’s anti-gun left, as well as expose them as the
purveyors of violence the left has always been. This in no wise implies support of Ayers,
and in fact this paper is utterly against what Ayers articulates here.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.'"
| - HL Mencken
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
“Blaming Newtown on guns is like blaming Chappaquiddick on the Oldsmobile.”
- Ben Crystal, Personal Liberty News
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
“When seconds count, the police are just minutes away”
- Retired Illinois state trooper to me, personal conversation
“Eliminate guns and they go to bombs, eliminate bombs and they move to poison or something else. Bad people are just bad people.”
From outside the USA, the obsession with being armed looks very odd. I live in the UK, and have been in many other countries where gun ownership is not considered necessary (except for farmers, hunters, game keepers etc. and they have special licences, and have inspected secure gun cabinets.) Criminals can get guns, of course, but usually kill each other, and the police can get armed back up quickly if necessary, and that's very unusual. We don't live in fear. There have been three tragic mass shootings in the UK in my life, and I'm 71. Just an observation.
At least a few years ago, when I did a 100 page paper on the subject. Again, with all due respect, you could only say something like this from a position of comfort, and at a time when your political freedoms still exist... to some extent. Were you in Pol Pot's Cambodia, Mao's China, Lenin's USSR, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, lawless narco-state Colombia, in Chicago where I live now, etc. you wouldn't feel these way, I guarantee you
Wikipedia – which is generally a co-opted Deep State mouthpiece – nevertheless noted, at least a few years ago: “If you were a Swiss man, you would be a soldier as well. Every able-bodied Swiss man must go to the army in Switzerland for 90 days (Rekrutenschule-Ecole de recrue) and then every 2 years until the age of 42, he must return for practice for 19 days. This allows the government to raise an army of 400,000 men, fully armed, within 24 hours, as every soldier has an assault gun in his house, complete with ammunition.” http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/swiss-business-guide/swiss-army.html “; moreover, “Each individual is required to keep his army issued personal weapon (the 5.56x45mm SIG 550 rifle for enlisted personnel or the SIG 510 rifle and/or the 9mm SIG-Sauer P220 semi-automatic pistol for officers, medical and postal personnel) at home with a specified personal retention quantity of government issued personal ammunition (50 rounds 5.56/48 rounds 9mm…)
Indeed, Thomas Sowell notes countries with stronger gun control laws than the US, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico (Mexico basically bans firearms completely, yet has a higher gun homicide rate than the US), have much higher murder rates, while there are many countries with high rates of gun ownership but low murder rates, such as Israel, New Zealand (note: New Zealand changed after the Christchurch massacre in 2019; but the facts remain that that was the only one) and Finland. In fact, in Mexico, the murder rate is 22.7 murders per 100,000, whereas the global average is ~7 homicides per 100,000, and the gun happy US is 4.8 murders per 100,000. http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-end-gun-debate-forever.html. That is correct - the US, which has the widest gun ownership in the world, is below the worldwide average in homicides. Of course, in the US, approximately 90 million legal owners of guns, owing 300 million firearms; murdered zero people last year. Contrast that with the approximately 170 million Prof. R.J. Rummel of Univ. of Hawaii, in his book Death by Government, says were killed in the last century, the majority of them after their governments disarmed them (Stéphane Courtois, author of the highly regarded Black Book of Communism estimates 94 million were murdered by Communists alone). An hour long, very sobering summary video documenting what happens when the population has their weapons removed can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDivHkQ2GSg&feature=player_embedded#t=8s Or perhaps one might wish to contrast this to the 32,000 people who lost their lives – including thousands of youth – in car accidents last year (see http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.pdf or http://www.nhtsa.gov/NCSA to get the latest exact figure). And for those of you who correctly answered the “cars are necessary, but guns are not” objection, a gold star, for indeed you are correct – but armed population, as the Founding Fathers repeatedly noted, is the sine qua non of a free country and a free population. “Free” as in - as historical records show – comparison to a country like the USSR, Cuba or China that end up murdering millions – including children (just google “Ukrainian Kulak” and look at the photos of millions of children who were murdered by Stalin’s government. As the saying goes, “Free men have guns; slaves do not
Very good post. With all due respect, however, you are simply incorrect. Might I direct you to Dr. John Lott's More Guns, Less Crime. Lott, Univ of Chicago, felt like you did, until he did the research, then changed his mind. Moreover, gun ownership is the final defense against tyranny. ALL dictators first disarmed their population, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc. Your liberties are already being taken from you in the UK. (I am a dual US/CAnadian citizen, and Canada is also down that path). And if you are like, many (maybe you are, maybe you aren't) people don't know, and don't care, about their liberties. That is, until it is too late. And then you are also disarmed.
You, dear lady, probably live a comfortable life is in comfortable, safe area. But I submit your life is NOT the life most people in the world live. And the number of crimes stopped by gun ownership literally number in the hundreds of thousands.
"Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.)
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 4 BC – 65 AD
“Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms”
- James Madison, considered the father of the US Constitution
"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."
- Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
“During World War II, six million Swiss had guns and six million Jews did not.”
- Author unknown
“…sort of like the people who repeat foolish slogans like "guns kill" – as though guns sprout little feet when no one is looking and run around shooting people all by themselves.”
- Doug Casey, financial columnist
“If you don’t have to give up your car because others drive drunk with theirs, then why do you have to give up your gun because others commit crimes with theirs?”
- Anonymous internet wag
“When a crime is committed, does the gun go to jail?”
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones told her father in a text message (only revealed after an open records request): “Chicago has strict gun laws as well, but that doesn’t deter gun violence.”
“Let’s stop playing games. The problem is people, not guns. Our society suffers from a deficiency of personal responsibility – not from an excess of personal freedom.”
- Star Parker, African American writer and commentator
“The horrifying truth is this: we live now in a culture that not only does not respect life, but discards it like trash — not only at the beginning of life, but also at the end, and every place in between. What has happened to us?”
- Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra
“…we’re also going to make it clear that when a pig gets iced that’s a good thing, and that everyone who considers himself a revolutionary should be armed, should own a gun, should have a gun in his house.”
- Bill Ayers, leftist activist and confidant of gun control happy Barack Obama, in A Strategy
To Win, appearing in New Left Notes, September 12, 1969. Note: This quote is included
both show the hypocrisy of today’s anti-gun left, as well as expose them as the
purveyors of violence the left has always been. This in no wise implies support of Ayers,
and in fact this paper is utterly against what Ayers articulates here.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.'"
| - HL Mencken
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
“Blaming Newtown on guns is like blaming Chappaquiddick on the Oldsmobile.”
- Ben Crystal, Personal Liberty News
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
“When seconds count, the police are just minutes away”
- Retired Illinois state trooper to me, personal conversation
“Eliminate guns and they go to bombs, eliminate bombs and they move to poison or something else. Bad people are just bad people.”
Dear lady :D , well young man! violence begets more violence. I'm very aware of our political position. In the end that's small stuff. What matters is our spiritual freedom, and no one can take that away.
It is ultimately hearts/minds that pull triggers or wield knives and if neuro-toxic drugs are given to people, then their brains are flooded with too much data and they will believe the lies inserted there.
I have heard you speak about your experience and I am so sorry about the tragic death of your husband. I admire you for devoting your time to working for change in order to try and prevent other families from suffering a tragedy.
Thanks and I am reminded of this tragedy and how much work there is left to do every time I get contacted by families to this day. The work is NOT finished and always said...No one should ever have to learn this information AFTER the fact like we did.
"We will keep finding ourselves asking the question why?"
If we are going to be scientific then before asking WHY we should probably first try to establish WHAT.
I say that because the official footage clearly shows the suspect wearing different shoes when entering the building compared to lying on the floor after being allegedly shot multiple times (with no visible wounds or blood). The different shoes are unmistakable and these images appeared in all mainstream sources.
So either (a) the footage was compiled from two separate events (b) the suspect decided to change footwear in the middle of a real shooting and brought a spare pair of shoes along for this purpose.
Personally, I have no idea what did (or did not) take place, but apparently the internet's comment sections are full of people who were actually there and witnessed it first hand.
William Walsh and colleagues studied 50 school shooters and concluded that 42 fit a particular pattern of metabolic disorder and psychiatric drug history. The 42 were in Walsh's category of "low folate depressives", which Walsh also describes as "overmethylators." SSRIs can be helpful for undermethylators, but they make overmethylators worse. The pattern Walsh saw was that each of these 42 kids had become depressed, and had been taken to a doctor and put on an SSRI. The depression didn't improve, so the kid was taken back to the doctor, who raised the dose of the SSRI. And then the kid went berserk and shot up a school.
Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain" is excellent if you want to understand Walsh's decades-long research on metabolic/biochemical factors in mental illness and his protocols for correcting brain chemistry using individualized programs of nutritional supplements. Unfortunately, he doesn't describe his school shooter study in the book.. He discusses it briefly in a presentation titled "Advanced Nutrient Therapies for Brain Disorders" which you can find at this youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHT3iN_jJfc
My SIL also has chronic, debilitating pain. She's on an ever-evolving cocktail of drugs, including Ambien. My brother had a major surgery a few years back, and she decided to go off the Ambien cold turkey, so she could he more focussed. I was there to help them. It wasn't pretty. She was out of control. Her pain doctor told her to never do that again.
I'm curious to know what tests can be performed to determine who is at higher risk of negative outcome from psych drugs. It's sounds like the doctor is talking about a MTHFR mutation, but I can't be sure.
Mutations in these genes is associated with autoimmune disease and thyroid disease, which are all over my extended family. It would be good to know who is at risk of dangerous complications. Personally,I would never take a psychiatric drug. I don't need them, and I think they're poison.
In the mid 90’s I had a young kid in my pharmacy who was in absolute agony. He was from out of town, and he had run out of Paxil two days prior. He was twitchy, sweaty, and in obvious abdominal distress. He looked like he was in opioid withdrawal, to be blunt. He asked me to call his doctor to get an emergency supply of Paxil. In Utah at the time, I could not help him on my own authority because he was not my established patient. So I called and called for him to no avail. Finally I got his physician and told him what I wanted. This ignoramus could have just said, “Yeah, give him ten to get him home” and we would all have been happier. Instead, he gave me a five-minute lecture on how Paxil had no withdrawal syndrome and I should not be practicing medicine without a license. I said, “So the question is, Can I dispense for your patient?” He just about screamed, “Go ahead, dammit!” I got his info and before I hung up, I said, “BTW doc, Paxil’s withdrawal syndrome is very well-documented. So maybe you should learn something about drugs before you prescribe them.” I was never, ever harsh with any healthcare professional, but this guy irked me.
Great comment. I wish this was rare, but I have heard many similar stories. The sad thing is at least now they tell doctors to listen to pharmacists because since their training focuses on that, they have more knowledge of the medications than the doctors often do...but despite that, stories like yours still repeat.
Holy crap! I was on Paxil for a couple years, then Effexor for ten. If I had known how hard it was to come off, I never would have started. I had to keep a few pills at work in case I forgot to take it before I left home. Sometimes I ran out, and I would go to the pharmacy near my house work and they’d give me one pill to get by. Otherwise I would not have been able to even drive home.
When I decided to stop, by dr said I would have to go down to 37.5 mg and then stop. It was hell. I couldn’t do it! It was like I couldn’t string together 2 neurons to form a thought. Hell. And my dr suggested this was just in my head. Are doctors so brainwashed by pharma reps?!?
I was also not allowed to call it withdrawal. My dr always corrected me. “Discontinuation.”
Eventually I found an on-line chat room for getting off Effexor, where I learned the trick. You can open the capsules and take out some of the beads, to fine-tune the dose and make the decrease more gradual. Thank god. I shared this with my dr and he was utterly shocked to hear of such a thing.
I feel it’s a form of malpractice to start people on these drugs without clearly explaining how difficult it will be to come off.
These drugs should also never be prescribed to someone with bipolar, but my dr never asked me about that, or took a mental health family history. I don’t think many PCPs do this, and yet it is a known risk that SSRIs will set off a manic episode in someone with bipolar. I’ve seen it happen to someone close to me.
I have worked in the life insurance industry most of my career and have done a lot of field underwriting. SSRIs are prescribed like candy. No follow ups. No talk therapy. It is rather alarming. But a lot of people look for shortcuts because they don’t want to do the hard work. This applies to both medical professionals and patients, IMHO.
The proclivity to seek 'external' solutions for inner relational conflicts drives both the 'victims' and the 'quack' of the wish to gain status and captive revenue stream as the provider of solutions - protected and directed by regulatory capture and control.
The latter has become so disproportionate as to have become global regulatory capture of a broad spectrum dominance, over a captive population of groomed dependency.
The principle means of this in the usurping of medical service has been philanthropathy - not merely the more well known Rockefeller takeover of primary institutions to allopathic pharma based control systems, but the insider protection of dogma that the system runs on, namely the western bio-medical model, with regard to its almost exclusive focus on external causations for a classifiction of diseases assigned to its own bestiary of definitions, tests or biomarkers, interventions or treatment protocols, and further definition or framing of results as the development of disease, rather than disease of treatment.
Germ theory is recognisable dogma in that it runs as a protected or securitised narrative - along with it primary corollory; vaccinations.
Likewise cell theory - see Harold Hillman and Gilbert Ling.
Genetics is the tech that rules them all and in the darkness binds them, as it is the claim, and enforcement of a physical determinism wielded by elitist philanthropaths, as the capture of the defining of the underpinnings of life in such a way as to create and control predictive risk modelling set into media hype to drive the popular support or even demand for the 'treatments' and 'solutions' that the modelling and definitions are patently intended to deliver.
The mass mind is weaned from a family & community based self-sufficiency, to a corporately managed and groomed dependency on externally provided substitutions for life, for relational endeavour and growth of consciousness, so as to instead grow or adapt the unconsciousness of ever deeper abnegation of their living will, to a blind control system running a masked identity under promise to make you safe.
When inner conflicts are denied, evaded and masked over by investing in a panacea, the psychic elements of the issue have not gone away, but will manifest through the new arena without recognition, so as to set a pattern of masking defences and evasions that ripen to crisis of a fundamental decision; release the underlying beliefs that set the pattern of a self-evasion and open self-responsibility at the level of self-integrity that is within reach, or release the will to live as acquiescence to death in life and death instead of life.
When pain physical, mental and emotional is overwhelming, the ability to regain a grounded sense of one's being is blocked, so there is a time and place for suppression of symptoms within an active desire to heal. But healing has no (official) place in the western monopoly model. The ego (problem) is to be protected even unto sickness and death by treatment set in risk-models based on bent science. On false or partial definitions given exclusive priority, as the technologism of biology to a system it is now being fitted, conformed, sacrificed.
The hard work is hard because it is a real relationship that will meet the resistance of dogmatically invested identity in doctor and in patient.
Healing arises -as can be accepted - in the context of a real relationship.
Western biology suffers with science generally from overreaction against 'vitalism', psychism, religious and mythic cultural adaptations and spiritual integrity.
The blocked, denied and often demonised realm of our inner conscious experience and responsibility meets the 'devil' of a subjection to experience of powerlessness to chemical, & biotech controls set by 'caring' malice.
BUT - we are free to choose our own path and live our choices for our own reasons as our own experience. Even if such is choosing not to question societal defaults that lead into sickness and suffering. But while we can think, we have choice as to what we accept into our mind by acting from it. Even if a new habit takes persistence over time to release the old.
Yes...shortcuts, avoiding the hard work and burying the root causes are a significant part of this festering trauma of our current society. It is a mindset that keeps most from searching to be their own authority to dig out of the quagmire. It places their "care", or standard operating procedure, in someone elses' idea of what is good for them. When there is a realization that the results from this aren't good for them, perhaps the individual can retreat to find for themselves what is good for them and what is not; and then take that to society to help others.
Might I suggest also that the analytical mind can talk, analyze and/or justify how things are for years; but the subconscious and unconscious habit-mind are where much change can occur. Add in the coercion factors of social and regular media, propaganda and censorship; and there's a recipe for major cognitive dissonance and trauma, buried in layers like an onion.
Somatic massage and kinetic activities at the fascial level has the ability for tremendous release, like Fierce Yoga, Qigong/ Tai Chi and repetitive movements like running. Even mini trampolining is said to effect lymphatic drainage. Sound (music, singing, mantras, etc), light (near infrared and sunlight), and water (hot sauna/cold shower) are a few therapies that work at the quantum and biochemical/biophysical realms. Also, meditations to re-program a new habit-mind can be surprisingly effective.
Every little thing we can try to help each other get past the stuck-ness (look at all the coagulation vascular issues these days, especially with the jabs) and get flowing again to vitality, creativity and humanity is where my heart-mind says we should try, and keep trying, with love and compassion. Thank you, cgg, for this post. Thank you all for all the helpful comments. Thank you, A Midwestern Doctor, for your well-considered articles and this platform.
The professionals warned me I might turn dangerous without the drugs they prescribed. They kept threatening me. Reminding me I was mentally ill and needed "meds" forever or something awful would happen and I would be at fault.
They warned my family and former friends about how dangerous I was. Couldn't quit seizing and twitching. This made everyone angry and they accused me of "not taking your meds!" But my pills were causing it.
I grew so lonely and felt so horrible I wanted to commit suicide. It was awful.
That is dreadful and not surprising. In 2020 I became aware of how nasty and neuro-toxic big pharma meds were for people with mental issues let alone physical issues.
I only found out then that my mother has been prescribed Valium (UK) for depression in the 1960's a took several years to get off it. Her issues were related to how she had been treated by some on my father's side of the family and that was what need resolving.
20 years after the Paxil incident, I myself was put on Duloxetine (the profession of pharmacy had become unbearable, and I had to medically retire). Awhile later I tried an acceptable taper but I became quite ill. My beloved Queen used the exact same technique you describe to wean me over 8 weeks— she removed 7 of the tiny granules every 3 or 4 days. My prescriber was a highly-respected practitioner, but when I told him what I had to do he was nonplussed. “I’ve never heard of such a severe withdrawal”. I assured him it was quite awful.
Drug pushers given social acceptance limit their attention and responsibility.
But suicide is high in doctors. The elephant in the room isn't solved by following standard of care and pharma incentives to placate a patient seeking help or perspective for issues that trouble them, from someone entrusted with authority to tell them or make it better.
Effexor was a horrible experience and extremely difficult to discontinue. My new neighbor was on it too and had the same experiences. We had a buddy system when we tapered off. He described the brain zaps thusly:” picture a large bowl of spaghetti into which you take the air compressor hose with the blow-off wand immersed into the bowl. Now pulse the air blast– the big bouncing lifting and collapsing mass of spaghetti is your brain on Effexor.” I said, “That’s it!” At one point I spent a week in the local hospital’s mental health chalet owing to the demonic characteristics of that snri. I and my neighbor would discuss the affects so uncharacteristic of he or I. That was a very long time ago. A little later, I had my run-in with Pfzr circa 2004 with another drug. They managed to shut down the internet 1.0 forum community dedicated to victims of what they did to this particular drug. “No one has complained” they told the fda. We were gaslighted and then the independent site shut down without a trace. Completely scrubbed. I certainly learned something that day. You can imagine what I thought about an experimental injection from the same criminals! “Oh hell no!” was my initial reaction and remains so today.
FYI, my deep atypical depression started when I was a kid. So I do take help- diet, supplements, and Deprenyl. You have to know the drug, but garnered a profound improvement that no ssri could hope to pull off. If I’m not mistaken Deprenyl is the last drug approved in the US that didn’t come from a major pharmaceutical company. They’ve seen to that.
Brain zaps are a huge issue but I didn't include them in here because I thought it made the article too unfocused. I know numerous people who experienced this and I still not sure what causes it (I've thought this one over for a while). By any chance do you have a good article on the brain zap phenomena I could link to?
I’m sorry I don’t think I’ve actually read a scholarly article on the zap phenomenon. Will check my old backup drive. I’ve met several people over the years who had the same experience and the Brain Zap experience was always enthusiastically shared because it was so odd.
Also a problem with researching this is that this phenomenon is given different names, electric shocks, brain shivers, brain zaps.
I experienced them coming off lexapro, despite getting the liquid version so I could taper off more slowly and accurately, than with breaking up pills.
I was on a high dose of Effexor for about 5 years - which I regret deeply. I tapered too by counting beads! It just seemed logical. The whole thing was hell on earth. Sweats, brain zaps, body pain ( still a year later,) and I had mercurial rage also. I was raging so badly I smashed like 20 plates in my garage, screaming. ( luckily no one was home). It's been like 15 months off it, had a spiritual awakening, and finally at peace.
I would have said that as the brain/body is like a wet chemical battery, the electrical potential has been built up to high levels by the use of the neuro-toxic drugs.
As one comes off I suppose the electrical charge suddenly is triggered perhaps like the release of a static electrical charge.
Speaking of charges brain zaps is an anagram of 'banzais pr'! As banzai charges came in waves perhaps this makes some sense if the same is happening with brain zaps.
Neuro-toxins block nerve impulses so if suddenly taken away the effect is like releasing the lock/handle on a door and suddenly 'whoosh!'.
My "bipolar" went away after I went off the SSRI's that supposedly "unmasked" it years ago. They said I needed a cocktail--including the category of drugs that set me off--for life. "To treat the symptoms." All the "bipolar symptoms" were "side effects" of the drugs they pushed upon me for over 2 decades. :(
You have written some excellent articles on this before. My most hated "traditional" injection is the one for HPV (another invented illness), but here is the full schedule:
You are right to re-publish this piece as this is yet another taboo or non-investigated story at least among our Cracker Jack mainstream journalists. I would note that Tucker Carlson has bravely made the same points on a few of his shows. So maybe a few more people are starting to connect some dots. (Just like the epidemic of autism being caused by ... what? Something caused it.)
While autism probably has increased, I still wonder if it have any objective measure. Diagnosis seems so subjective and require such arcane training, I don't know what to make of it.
Forty-five years ago when I was first learning about autism, the autistic children I met were all severely affected. I was spending a lot of time with children who had a variety of brain-based developmental disorders (including kids with traumatic brain injuries, and kids with learning disabilities), and there was absolutely no possibility of misdiagnosing an autistic child as anything other than autistic. The autistic children's behavior was bizarre in quite distinctive ways.
Back then, the incidence of autism was said to be 1 in 10,000. If there were Asperger's Syndrome kids around or "high-functioning" autistic kids -- whatever you want to call them -- I think they must have been rare (1 in 300 maximum, and I think probably much less common than that).
When the mercury content of childhood vaccines was greatly reduced in the early 2000's, the "distribution" of autistic kids shifted away from the severe category, in the direction of moderate and mild. When parents started hearing that MMR vaccine caused some children to regress into autism, some parents started foregoing some vaccines and spreading the others out. Also, more parents heard about biomedical treatment of autism and sought it for their kids, or at least tried gluten-free/casein-free diets on their own. With these changes, the incidence of severe autism decreased further and (again) the incidence of moderately and mildly autistic kids increased. There was need for greater precision in diagnosis so that autistic kids could be distinguished from kids with learning disabilities and kids with attachment disorders or psychological trauma. There was also need for better assessments of children's functioning, in order to objectively determine how much progress autistic children made through various interventions (ABA, biomedical, etc.).
I don't know where you've gotten your impression that diagnosis of autism is subjective. (It does require arcane training). Let's look at the diagnostic process for a reasonably high-functioning teenager who's suspected of being autistic because of social "deficits" and some odd behaviors. The parents would fill out paperwork giving an outline of the child's medical and developmental history, and setting out their concerns about the child's functioning. A report from the child's school might be requested, and perhaps one from the child's doctor.
A neuropsychologist trained in autism diagnosis would administer a variety of neuropsych tests, taking perhaps 75 minutes, and engage the child in conversation to assess social skills and deficits. The mother would be asked to complete one or two extensive questionnaires about the child's history, development, and current functioning; the neuropsychologist would review this information and interview the mother to get clarification and further details where necessary. The neuropsychologist would also interview the father to get his perspective on the child's functioning.
For a younger child, the process would be much the same except that the neuropsych tests would be more elementary and the testing session briefer, and observation of the child's activity, play, and interaction with both familiar and unfamiliar people would be a major part of the evaluation.
The neuropsychologist would use the information gathered in this entire process to score the child on a long list of characteristics and capabilities which are organized into a number of major categories. The diagnosis of autism would require that the child meet clearly defined criteria. The end product of the assessment would be a long, detailed written report setting out the results and defending the diagnosis.
I hope what I've written here is helpful to you and brings you to a better understanding of diagnosis and objective measures of autism.
Wow, this sounds exceptional. How would a parent access this diagnostic evaluation for a child? I don't know about severe autism rates because I don't see them in my practice but I know that over the past few years there are increasing numbers of young people who come to me because they fear they are autistic and complain of one or more symptoms of it..
In California, the state's "Regional Centers" provide this type of diagnostic evaluation free of charge. A private-practice neuropsychologist in California would likely charge $5000-$6000 for a similar evaluation.
Anywhere in the U.S., my advice to someone looking for an evaluation would be to find an online autism support group in your area and join it, then ask the parents "What are the best options for getting an excellent evaluation of my child/teen/young adult?" This is also a good way to find the best treatment options in your area. Some parents of special needs kids become experts on these things...
Was Lorna Wing's diagnostic process so complex? And can NMR assay 199Hg in the brain of a living person? Yeah, I know the Bryn Mawr city council doesn't like that term because they consider it part of Ronald Reagan's SDI (Star Wars program), so insisted on calling it magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). But is mercury detection sufficiently sensitive for it to be practical?
Are you familiar with Dr. Daniel Amen's work in neuro-imaging? This is an interesting measure.
Neurofeedback (digital) is another possible objective measure.
If you haven't read the chapter on autism in William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain", I think you'd find it interesting.
I'm 57. I don't remember hardly any kids when I was growing up who had the behaviors of kids "on the spectrum." You see it everywhere now. Something changed or caused this change.
On another substack a Dr was talking about having limited time with patients. My 10 year old niece tried to commit suicide twice since Covid. This hits me in the heart. Our whole health care system, education system needs to be revamped, along with our family values. Many children are latchkey, driven to activities, but not listened to.
The solution often now is lets medicate them. Really sad.
Media ignores problem and root issues because Big Tech is as protected as Big Pharma. I'd bet your niece spends a lot of time on tech and social media.
Which usually means antipsychotics (sometimes SSRIs) so they'll just shut up, get fat, develop diabetes, and die an early death. But hey, isn't dying an early death also the point of vaccines and quite a few other pharmaceuticals? It's the slave plantation mentality; as soon as slaves no longer have the capacity to work hard, they have a duty to die.
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The interesting part of Psychiatry is that it has no working paradigm, because the last one, "chemical imbalance in the brain," was refuted about three or four years ago (around the time when the "cholesterol" fraud was also exposed).
Still, psychiatrists possess the power to destroy lives as representatives of a fake "science."
My experience is direct. As a young man, I worked at a hospital for eight months. Much later, I volunteered at the psych dept at the local VA, I have also worked as a consultant for all kinds of doctors for over ten years, and I have helped out psychiatric patients at home for decades...
We can only Control What We can Control. If it comes down to a 1775 moment, Aim small, Miss small. We aren't going to live forever in these bodies, perhaps that's the Reality we wish to avoid. I'm humored by the old adage, "Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword" .... So???? I retort, Live by the Bedside, Die in the Bed. Same Result, Different Elan vital.
If people knew how their lives have been being stolen since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 or just simply realized what's awaiting them, they would rise up... Being dragged to a "Green Zone" is definitely worse than death.
I could never understand the mass shooting phenomenon in the US, when it is not the only society with plenty of guns. The Swiss army is a militia and almost all adult males have to compete National service, upon completion of which they take their assault rifle and ammunition to keep at home. This means most homes in Switzerland have an assault rifle, rounds and someone trained how to use them. Yet they do not get mass shootings. Thanks Doc for an explanation.
In northern Wisconsin during the 90’s we used to bring guns to school so we could go hunting after school before we went home for dinner. The problem we have with gun violence clearly isn’t caused by the number of or access to guns…
my uncle who passed away recently at 89 yrs old grew up in the Bronx NY went to high school there in the 1950s. A jewish kid in the Bronx. The high school had a marksmanship / rifle team. The practice range was in Yonkers. 15 + boys would bag their rifles and pack backpacks with ammo and ride the SUBWAY from the Bronx to Yonkers. Noone cared!
It's so sad that Americans seem to have been totally captured by the pharmaceutical industry - most everybody seems to take medications for things that were illnesses in the past. I suspect that the UK (where I am) is gradually following suite even though we can't access medicines in the same way due to the NHS controlling them. Sadly, the NHS is busy falling under the same spell as the US health providers. These pharma companies are like Sauron spreading their darkness and evil over the world.
I agree. There’s an increasing tendency to pathologize variations of normal, especially with kids. There is hardly a kid alive today who isn’t walking around with some diagnosis labeled to them. ADD, OCD, anxiety, misphonia, gender dysphoria, “on the spectrum” — the list keeps growing. And there’s a drug (or soon to be) for all of them!
According to the Bible we should love our enemies and pray for their salvation. This does not extend to systems or industries. I hate Big Pharma with a passion and pray it comes crashing down. As far as Albert Bourla the man--and others like him--may God have mercy on his soul and lead him to repent!
30 years ago I took antidepressants. I took Prozac and while taking it I was always tired and would stay awake long enough to run errands, clean house and prepare for the work week.
I complained to the doctor who put me on a different antidepressant (can't remember the name). I complained again and was switched to yet another. After a few weeks of taking the 3rd antidepressant I decided none of these drugs made a noticeable difference and the side effects such as chronic fatigue and weight gain were making me feel worse.
So the answer was I would just have to deal with depression. Only in the past few years have I read articles concluding these drugs have little to no benefit.
My fear is psychiatrists are complacent and prescribe these drugs rather than get to the heart of what is troubling a patient. Also they (along with the media, the government, the universities and medical institutions) are bribed by Big Pharma to do whatever maximizes profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
People in a conservancy (e.g. Britney Spears, Amanda Bynes) need proactive advocates. That means there should be a plan in place to help them get better and if goals are not met maybe it is time to get a new doctor and a new plan.
Why are there are so many psychiatrists, therapists, etc. and no one holds them to account for zero improvement in their patients?
We would not settle for that if we are treated for cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
My best guess is that since the industry has lobbied for prescribing psyche drugs to be the "standard of care" no one can ever be penalized for just doing that and nothing more.
This is a huge reason for why you need to pay cash to see psychiatrists out of pocked who do not just follow standard of care to satisfy insurance reinbursements.
Bingo. And even worse, their fear of getting sued causes them to send patients to the ER unnecessarily where additional mental (and financial) stress is piled on.
I was recently prescribed Gabapentin for a sudden,
relatively minor medical issue. The doc made it a point to tell me that it was “well tolerated,” after I told her of my experiences with BP meds and getting side effects from every one of them (Lisinopril-terrible cough; Losartan-nausea; Norvasc-massively swollen ankles). Picked up the prescription and lo and behold: the VERY FIRST SIDE EFFECT on the handout was that it could cause suicidal thoughts, aggression, depression, etc. Needless to say, I refused to take any of them and on my follow-up visit, I am telling her why.
My husband was prescribed Neurontin for pain from a neck injury. After reading some of the side effects, which were much like you describe for Gabapentin -- impulsivity, risk of suicide, risk of violence against others -- he called his neurosurgeon and said, "There's no way in hell I'm going to take this drug and subject my wife and child to this kind of risk. If this drug is the best you can offer, I'll just endure the pain."
Good for him, and all the best that he finds some other solution to his pain. It irritates me more and more that doctors just blithely prescribe meds unthinkingly. Maybe they’re not up on all the side effects or they figure that other patients have handled them well, but after my experiences with the BP meds (and statins ... another class of meds I refused to take), I’m just more than a little suspicious.
I had a 2 level neck fusion operation for arthritis in my spine 3 years ago. I had to have it b/c I was having pain that was not controlled with anything and I was having weakness in my arms. Sometimes surgery is curative. Our bodies wear out despite our best efforts to stay fit. I am very lean and fit and my spine is simply wearing out from 55 years of sports and martial arts and moving around. I tried gabapentin b/c i have some residual neuropathic pain in my dominant left arm. It caused me to feel tired, nauseous and put me in a bad mood.
I also seem to be be developing some essential hypertension. Im 5'8", 160 and very fit but alas our kidneys age and we somtime get hypertensive. I have a good paleo style diet. I sometimes eat too much choclate and things that are a little too salty.
I tried several different anti hypertensives and they make me dizzy. I have a low resting pulse.
If we had a free market in medicine we would have much better and more diverse treatments for all kinds of things.
Progress in medicine has stagnated b/c the whole system has been politized. The system does not serve the consumer anymore . its a giant corrupt cartelized mess. Like the military / arms industry and the banking industry.
Look at the progress in cell phones and computers. Why in that industry. Because there is no federal National institute of Cell phones. If there was such an agency, cell phones would cost $10,000 and most people would not be able to afford one without a government subsidy ( like medicare. We would have politicians grandstanding about cell and internet service like it was social security. Imagine if we had a national internet service and cell service with a giant agency to administer it.? All the politicians would demagogue and pander with promises of better faster internet and cell service for votes.
Actually, we do have much better and more diverse treatments for all kinds of things -- but you have to turn to the world of "alternative medicine" to find them. Here are a few examples: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment; Orthomolecular Medicine; Neuromodulation Techniques (Feinberg Method); NAET; Nutrition Response Testing; Naturopathy; Muldowney Protocol and Cusack Protocol for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome; Neurofeedback; Emotional Freedom Techniques (can be used for physical health issues as well as emotional/psychological issues); Rife treatment and related devices (for infectious diseases); ozone treatment of blood; Clinical Ecology; Walsh protocols for treatment of metabolic disorders underlying mental disorders; homeopathic diagnosis and treatment using sophisticated computerized systems; Vohl testing; Zone Diet; biological dentistry; Functional Medicine. (My family members have benefited from quite a few of these...)
no we dont have better treatments. The when one mixes science / medicine and politics one gets politics. The scientific method when applied to medicine yields tremendous results. Thats why politicians and authoritarians have been drawn to allopathic medicine and coopted it. Just like physics can be used to create nuclear energy but it can also be used to create a atomic bomb. People , in their anger and frustration have turned to nonsense pseudoscience garbage like osteopathic manipulation, and all the other quackery you mention. Homeopathy is garbage. Its completely ineffective. Its assumptions are based on nothing thats ever been proven to work. This is why the whole situation is so sad to me. The modern scientific method can yield tremendous results when applied honestly but because of the corruption of medicine by the involvement of government we end up with garbage like the stuff you are promoting. I have no doubt that if we can restore some integrity to the medical system orthomolecular medicine will be abandoned.
Well, you can hold on tight to "the scientific method" and refuse to acknowledge or explore any other way of learning about human bodies and brains . . . and any number of different approaches to helping people be healthy. It's your choice.
For myself, I've seen such nonsense and pseudoscientific garbage promulgated by "modern Western medicine" that I examine allopathic medicine's methods and treatment proposals with great caution and skepticism. I've learned to be open-minded and curious, acknowledging that there are vast areas of reality and knowledge that are beyond my current understanding.
I turn my back on "respectable" allopathic doctors who have little to offer except symptom suppression, or who declare "You have an incurable disease", or who proclaim "It's all in your head" -- and go looking for doctors who have the intelligence and creativity to seek new understandings and the guts to pioneer new treatment approaches.
To put it another way, I'm not interested in hanging out with losers. I want to search out pioneers and see what they're up to, and give their methods of treatment a good trial.
Not only do the meds make a person more psycho, but the underlying root cause is still there.
As far as I am concerned, separation from God is the root cause. Those seeking help for emotional problems should minimally, be in counseling if not seeking spiritual guidance/healing. Meds are absolutely disastrous as noted in the OP.
So, unaddressed emotional problems compounded with propaganda and poison chemicals leads us to this point.
Spiritual problems should be considered, but I think there are nearly universal states of nutritional deficit. If we can figure out that 80% of the people on the planet are deficient in Vit D for the purposes of warding off covid, then nutrients are one of the first things we should consider for dis-ease of most types.
Absolutely a contributing factor. I'm going to thump on my Bible one more time though.
Diligent study of the Word also teaches some basic "body is a temple" lessons that, when practiced, would likely address all but the most complex problems associated with nutritional deficiency.
At the same time, it improves one's discernment of right and wrong. The propaganda foisted upon us from government and advertising are major drivers in nutritional deficiency, as well as the "food-like products" manufactured for our consumption which are both nutritionally deficient and poisonous. When the scales fall from a person's eyes, everything gains more clarity. 😎
There was a study published Feb 2023 done in veteran population showing that vitamin D supplementation was associated with a 45% lower risk of suicide and self harm . Supplemented black veterans and veterans with vitamin D level 0-19 ng/ml were ~64% lower risk relative to controls ;HR 0.362. This is very impressive data and there is no mainstream headlines or 27 by 7 messaging from medical agencies ! If it was a high cost patent medication they would be shoving this information constantly to promote prescribing. Not to mention since we are all about “no discrimination “ in healthcare towards African American , if “ they” really cared you would think that the push to get vitamin D levels checked would be on so mainstream news and treatment guidelines. The big wig agencies and their websites state that there is insufficient evidence to recommend.... need more studies etc ... the same tactic that’s been used to discredit any treatment that interferes with their financial gains . As Dr Kory always says “ it’s never been about the data , it’s about an agenda !! Very sad times we are in for sure. We need to elevate ourselves spiritually to survive this chaos in a supposedly sacred profession and to watch it slowly deteriorate. Thank you and God bless you Midwestern doctor for all your genuine concern, discussions and heartfelt passions which is life support much needed at the moment for the field of medicine. Thank you, thank you , thank you .
Parallel economy is inevitable after the introduction of the CBDC. Only 70 million Americans live outside cities, and apparently wild animals are also injected with the graphene, which makes hunting questionable. Large-scale deportations can be expected, probably on FEMA buses, "in your protection."
Definitely a spiritual problem at its root, but I know even “non-spiritual” people have benefited greatly from a practice of gratitude. Not as a feeling (whether real or fake) but as an act. The feeling will follow the act. Dr. Andrew Huberman has some great commentaries about the neuroscience benefits of this.
Surprising and sad how many professing Christians were so scared of physical death that they canceled Resurrection Sunday. That says volumes about their faith and hope.
People without faith despair... Family "doctors" prescribe psychiatric toxins like candy these days... Still, there are other variables at play here, too.
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From my blog yesterday (I would also like to advocate for fish oil, though the dose is considerably higher than most people want to take, about 15 mL per day, one tablespoon of Carlson liquid fish oil, daily for a month seems to benefit anybody who will keep taking it, in my experience.)
Gardening definitely helps, too, partly by improving your microbiome. This meta analysis looked at over 1000 review papers.
Study Confirms Physical Exercise Should Be First Choice For Mental Health Treatment
Anxiety is the most common problem—and seems to be becoming more pronounced among children and younger adults—while depression poses the greatest burden to normal life function.
The Australian researchers discovered that exercise provided the best results when used for treating depression. More specifically, exercise was 150 percent more effective than pharmaceuticals or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
It was also better than psychological consultation or “talk therapy.” In fact, exercise was shown to reduce depressive symptoms by 42 to 60 percent, whereas talk therapy and pharmaceuticals only reduced symptoms between 22 percent and 37 percent.
Exercise was shown to be the best treatment for both anxiety and depression, even though pharmaceuticals are the most commonly recommended treatment for both.
Welcome to Orthomolecular.orghttp://orthomolecular.org/ ....................... amazing information going back decades of better medical treatments for depression, anxiety, viruses, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,
copied from the website home page..................
"Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which is Greek for "correct" or "right," and "molecule," which is the simplest structure that displays the characteristics of a compound. So it literally means the "right molecule."
Two-time Nobel Prize winner, and molecular biologist, Linus Pauling, Ph.D.,coined the term "Orthomolecular" in his 1968 article "Orthomolecular Psychiatry" in the journal "Science."
Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body."
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We are just incredibly amazed at the information out there on high dose vitamin c .... liposomal vitamin c .... keep alot on hand and use for all kinds of things even found a website ....... ivtogo.com 2 products that we have on hand in case an iv vitamin c is needed and we can't find a health practitioner to give it to us .......... This has become my favorite chart .......... to keep myself focused on the scale possible even though we stay down in the 6 -10 gram range so far. https://www.optimalc.com/images/cathcart-vitamin-c-dose-chart.jpg My husband came across a great interview from 2020 ........... the first 10 minutes are a great overview of the high dose vitamin c history / use in my opinion...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7NoUcktt58 The Power of Intravenous Vitamin C with Dr Ron Hunninghake
Lisa Tamati 9.84K subscribers Dr Ron Hunninghake is the Chief Medical Officer of the prestigious Riordan Institute in Witchita, Kansas.
In this episode Dr Ron explains the uses and mechanisms of action of Vitamin C both oral and intravenous Vitamin C and it's uses in cancer, sepsis, pneumonia, shingles, hepatitis to schizop..............
Also have loved the articles at www.orthomolecular.org select Library, select News Releases. Came across it in spring/summer 2020 and have just really appreciated the information since then and going back to 2005 ..... the articles on that list have been quite helpful.
Found it quite intriguing that Dr. Paul Marik's MATH+ (originally HAT treatment for sepsis) also uses iv vitamin c quite successfully even miraculously. Dr. Thomas Levy's books have also been quite helpful on this front.
Perhaps you might also be as fascinated as I am re: The Psyche in Chinese Medicine...various authors and titles... understanding the basics of Five Elements Theory and Acupuncture Meridians would help...it's Energy Medicine Biophysics at the Quantum Level.
More for people to consider on my bookshelf: Elisa Rossi's "Shen", Paul Rosen's "Heart Shock", CT Holman's "Treating Emotional Trauma with Chinese Medicine" , Dr. Bessel van der Kolk "The Body Keeps the Score", Dr. Gabor Mate "In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts" ,Ana Forrest's "Fierce Medicine" (Yoga), etc.
I believe, in the near future, we'll all be needed to help all those who were jabbed as they learn of the truth and their new status; they will be shocked in their hearts and kidneys with fear...Within my family, new Dx from the jab of microangiopathy: I tried my best to give scientific evidence to dissuade them from being jabbed; now 2 shots and 2 years later, thrombotic microangiopathy:" formation of thrombi in the arterioles and capillaries; proposed name for a syndrome that would include both thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome. "
I am wondering about frequency of physicians encountering this now.... increa
Two books every household should own are 1) The Orthomolecular Treatment Of Chronic Disease and 2) Doctor Yourself by Andrew Saul. And the Bible, so three.
As the Illinois State Rifle Asociation notes, the Sandy Hook CT. shooter, Adam Lanza, not only came from a divorced family, but was “apparently a mentally ill young person whose wealthy family insulated him from reality until he decided to create his own reality – at the expense of more than two dozen innocent people. Laurie Higgins in the Illinois Family Association concurred with this report, noting that Lanza’s father (as well as an older brother) left when Adam was 16, and remarried a few years later. Reportedly, Adam Lanza had no contact with his father or brother since 2010. How did this affect Adam, and why is this not part of the “national debate” on violence? Even more importantly, a few days after the shooting, it was reported that Adam Lanza was on a violence-linked anti-psychotic drug called Fanapt, as reported at http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-lanza-taking-antipsychotic-fanapt-2012-12 or http://naturalsociety.com/predictions-confirmed-shooter-adam-lanza-was-on-violence-linked-anti-psychotic-fanapt/. The Fanapt story was later retracted, but family friend of the Lanzas, Louise Tambascio, stated during an interview with 60 Minutes that “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/friends-newtown-gunmans-mother-home-schooled-son-kept-arsenal-of-guns/ Tambascio also told ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.” http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/friends-newtown-gunmans-mother-home-schooled-son-kept-arsenal-of-guns/ Lanza’s old babysitter, Ryan Kraft, also went on record as stating Lanza was taking medications of this sort early as age 10.
Yet a further analysis of the association of prescription drugs with violence and shootings, from Brandon Turbeville, is at http://www.thedailysheeple.com/psychiatric-drugs-school-violence-and-the-big-pharma-cover-up_012013, while internationally known psychiatrist Dr. David Healy agrees with the summary that these drugs cause violence – a Cliff Notes version of Healy’s sentiments is simply this: Psychotropic drugs “prescribed for school children cause violent behavior.” The non-Cliff Notes, detailed version of his rationale behind this may be found at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-psychiatrist-meds-behind-school-massacres/ Healy has a website, RxISK.org, that allows people to post personal experiences with SSRIs, and is a data repository open to the public.
If anyone is wondering why the US leads in school gun murders, perhaps you might want to explore the relationship between drugging our kids and violence. Note that not only are school gun murders up, but youth suicides are up dramatically was well. This shouldn’t be surprising, of course, as both are cut from the same cloth – disinhibition, messing with brain function, disturbing the level of self-control, and more. Granting that correlation is not causation, Dr. Bertram Karon from Michigan State Univ. notes the US has six times as many children on Ritalin, around four million, as any other country, and all of France only has 8,000 kids, in total, on Ritalin, while his home city of Lansing Michigan, alone, has around that many. In fact, the US accounts for around 90% of Ritalin prescriptions in the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujuDvwSOFto&sns=fb
We must fully consider the question of Todd Walker in his article, found at http://www.thedailysheeple.com/how-many-pills-until-pharmageddon_012013: “Can prescription drugs cause you to kill someone?” And the answer is “Absolutely”, per Dr. David Healy, author of Phamageddon.and quoted in the paragraph above. “Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret…Want to find out if the drugs you or a loved one are taking might cause violent behavior? Enter the name of the drug over at the Violence Zone. Even if it’s ‘just a pill’ to help you quit smoking, side effects can be deadly. Don’t expect to hear about this on major media outlets. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in keeping journalists in line.”
David Kupelian at WND also documents a horrifying number of shootings associated with psychotropic drugs at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-in-sandy-hook-reporting/, including not only Columbine killer Eric Harris, who was on Luvox, but also: Patrick Purdy, who killed five children and wounded 30 in 1989, who was on amitriptyline and Thorazine, Kip Kinkle, who killed his parents, and 22 other fellow students, who was on Prozac and Ritalin; the 1988 Winnetka, IL. shooting by Laurie Dann, who killed one and wounded six while taking Anafranil and lithium; the 1997 Paducah KY school shooting by Michael Carneal, who shot and killed three while on Ritalin; the 2005 Jeff Wiese shooting, which killed nine and wounded 5 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which occurred while Wiese was on Prozac; the 1989 shooting of 20 co-workers, killing nine, by Joseph Wesbecker in Louisville, KY, while he was on Prozac – and which Eli Lilly settled a lawsuit by survivors; a 1996 shooting of his father by Kurt Danysh while on Prozac; or the horrible case of a mother one town over from where I currently live, Naperville, IL., who killed all five of her children while on antidepressant Effexor. The case of the Virginia Tech murder of 32 people by Cho Seung-Hui may also have been prescription drug related, too, as Kupelian discusses in this article. As if further evidence were needed, the Luvox label itself states that 4% of children in one study went manic – out of control behavior.
To what degree is the “prozac-ing” and “ritalin-ing” of our young contributing to these shootings? As noted above, these prescriptions state on their warning labels that violent behavior is one possible outcome of taking their drugs. Yet, there is nary a peep from the media. Why? Jason Charles the Truth Alliance notes “At least fourteen recent school shootings were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. There have been 109 wounded and 58 killed. Of these 14, seven were seeing either a psychiatrist (five of them) or psychologist (two of them). It is not known whether or not the other half were seeing a psychiatrist, as it has not been published." Details of this issue are at CCHR, http://www.cchrint.org/school-shooters/ )
What I find so frustrating about these things is that everytime they happen, people get outraged about them but never put anything forward that actually deals with the root causes.
the root cause is the fact that tax money is used to finance medical research and that we have federal and even state level agencies doing this kind of research and paying for medical care. ALL of this has to go. No more CDC, NO more NIH. NO FDA. The agencies at the federal level particularly are total corrupt failures. They are completely corrupted and captured by pharma.
Not a cent of public tax money to medical research, public (government) health, medicare , social security etc...
The income tax and the fact that the dollar is a fiat current makes this all possible.
Until FDA and society is ready to investigate the link between antidepressants and suicide and violence. We will keep finding ourselves asking the question why?
I was intimately involved helping get blackbox suicide warnings on the drugs in 2004 and 2006 after the death of my husband. He was given Zoloft for insomnia and hung himself 5 weeks after given the drug. He was not depressed or have history of depression. The only medication on was Zoloft. We also had a lawsuit to get documents out from under seal. The FDA, Pfizer and other drug companies have long known about risk.
Did you know Pfizer helped create a Zoloft Prosecutor Manual in 1993 to be used in cases where someone claimed a Zoloft defense?
Who knew there was a 1991 fda hearings on the link between the emergence of suicide and violence on Prozac? The FDA did nothing and virtually all members of fda committee got funding from companies making these drugs.
Of the nearly 410 psychiatric drug warnings today, 27 warn of violence, aggression, hostility, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation and 49 warn of self-harm or suicide/suicidal ideation.
Every time there is another mass shooting or high-profile murder/suicide, society keeps asking why and guns are often pinned as the culprit. It is high time that we seek to try understanding what may be behind these acts of violence in our communities. Could they be connected to the dangerous side effects associated with psychotropic drugs?
I am heartbroken for the families and fear for our society. We should all want to at least investigate because anyone of us could be the next sitting ducks.
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Thank you for all the work you have done on this issue. By any chance do you have a copy of the Zoloft prosecutor manual?
I will pin this comment and add some of it to the article.
Yes I do. Healy put the scan on his website.
https://rxisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Zoloft-Prosecutor-Manual.pdf
Also I wrote about the violence issue here too. Also a good story on Chantix which has link to violence but the FDA removed the warning. Pfizer!
https://acceptablecollateraldamage.substack.com/p/guns-mental-health-and-drugs?utm_campaign=post
Thank you so much for sending it to me. It's been added to the article.
These idiots imply cytisine doesn't last long enough? Wicked Pedophilia says "Cytisine has a short half-life of 4.8 hours." Varenicline has an elimination half-life of 24 hours! Take something that never wears off, even if only taken daily?
Chantix almost got me!! Thank God I realized its harms and stopped immediately!! After on it 2 days!!
What did it do? Was this a nicotinic effect? Sounds like FDA, etc. tolerance of Pfizer have a long history.
It caused memory loss after a very strange incidence! Left me wandering naked during a snowstorm down the street from my house. More to the story but don't want to post it. All I can say is thank god for a neighbor who heard my door slam and could see me wandering the streets. Gotme home safe.
That sounds a bit more than nicotinic, but who knows what being nicotined (varenicline is a high-affinity partial agonist for nAChRα4β2, a subtype of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) that leads to the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine) up for 48 hours straight might do.
Also, after you've read the other half to this series, please let me know if there is anything important you believe I need to add to this.
Is it the one from year ago? Can you send me link?
This article. I revised it quite a bit since I published it.
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/how-the-fda-buried-the-dangers-of
If you see anything you believe needs to be changed in either of these I am happy to make them better. A big goal I have on here is to present topics I think are important for people to know in the best manner possible, but I (and my small team) can't possibly do that, so we try our best and then wait for outside help to do the rest.
Since I am not that smart, let's hear what other smart people have to say:
"Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.)
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 4 BC – 65 AD
“Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms”
- James Madison, considered the father of the US Constitution
"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."
- Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
“During World War II, six million Swiss had guns and six million Jews did not.”
- Author unknown
“…sort of like the people who repeat foolish slogans like "guns kill" – as though guns sprout little feet when no one is looking and run around shooting people all by themselves.”
- Doug Casey, financial columnist
“If you don’t have to give up your car because others drive drunk with theirs, then why do you have to give up your gun because others commit crimes with theirs?”
- Anonymous internet wag
“When a crime is committed, does the gun go to jail?”
- From BrotherJohn.com
“Let’s stop playing games. The problem is people, not guns. Our society suffers from a deficiency of personal responsibility – not from an excess of personal freedom.”
- Star Parker, African American writer and commentator
“The horrifying truth is this: we live now in a culture that not only does not respect life, but discards it like trash — not only at the beginning of life, but also at the end, and every place in between. What has happened to us?”
- Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra
“…we’re also going to make it clear that when a pig gets iced that’s a good thing, and that everyone who considers himself a revolutionary should be armed, should own a gun, should have a gun in his house.”
- Bill Ayers, leftist activist and confidant of gun control happy Barack Obama, in A Strategy
To Win, appearing in New Left Notes, September 12, 1969. Note: This quote is included
both show the hypocrisy of today’s anti-gun left, as well as expose them as the
purveyors of violence the left has always been. This in no wise implies support of Ayers,
and in fact this paper is utterly against what Ayers articulates here.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.'"
| - HL Mencken
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
“Blaming Newtown on guns is like blaming Chappaquiddick on the Oldsmobile.”
- Ben Crystal, Personal Liberty News
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
“When seconds count, the police are just minutes away”
- Retired Illinois state trooper to me, personal conversation
“Eliminate guns and they go to bombs, eliminate bombs and they move to poison or something else. Bad people are just bad people.”
- “David,” otherwise anonymous internet poster.
“The trigger is in the head, not the gun.”
- Michael Howell
You say you are not that smart, but you have the wisdom to recognize the truth. That is far more precious.
What I hate is the hypocrisy of those who wish to ban guns. They will happily sell or give arms to other countries at taxpayers expense.
They will also allow big pharma to poison the masses (at taxpayer expense).
While ' They' have armed security as well as celebs who preach against guns.
I just have fun being self-deprecating! :-) I actually have a couple grad degrees... but still, there are a LOT of people much smarter than I am.
And the rich ones hire bodyguards. With guns.
From outside the USA, the obsession with being armed looks very odd. I live in the UK, and have been in many other countries where gun ownership is not considered necessary (except for farmers, hunters, game keepers etc. and they have special licences, and have inspected secure gun cabinets.) Criminals can get guns, of course, but usually kill each other, and the police can get armed back up quickly if necessary, and that's very unusual. We don't live in fear. There have been three tragic mass shootings in the UK in my life, and I'm 71. Just an observation.
At least a few years ago, when I did a 100 page paper on the subject. Again, with all due respect, you could only say something like this from a position of comfort, and at a time when your political freedoms still exist... to some extent. Were you in Pol Pot's Cambodia, Mao's China, Lenin's USSR, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, lawless narco-state Colombia, in Chicago where I live now, etc. you wouldn't feel these way, I guarantee you
Wikipedia – which is generally a co-opted Deep State mouthpiece – nevertheless noted, at least a few years ago: “If you were a Swiss man, you would be a soldier as well. Every able-bodied Swiss man must go to the army in Switzerland for 90 days (Rekrutenschule-Ecole de recrue) and then every 2 years until the age of 42, he must return for practice for 19 days. This allows the government to raise an army of 400,000 men, fully armed, within 24 hours, as every soldier has an assault gun in his house, complete with ammunition.” http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/swiss-business-guide/swiss-army.html “; moreover, “Each individual is required to keep his army issued personal weapon (the 5.56x45mm SIG 550 rifle for enlisted personnel or the SIG 510 rifle and/or the 9mm SIG-Sauer P220 semi-automatic pistol for officers, medical and postal personnel) at home with a specified personal retention quantity of government issued personal ammunition (50 rounds 5.56/48 rounds 9mm…)
http://en/wikipedia.org/wiki/gun_politics_in_switzerland.” Switzerland which has had three times the gun ownership as, for example Germany, has also had a much lower murder rate. And statistics like this ring true throughout the world. A short 3 minute video is here, for those that wish to see a short report on the Swiss and their guns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WFUu7cfa7k&feature=player_embedded#t=22s
Indeed, Thomas Sowell notes countries with stronger gun control laws than the US, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico (Mexico basically bans firearms completely, yet has a higher gun homicide rate than the US), have much higher murder rates, while there are many countries with high rates of gun ownership but low murder rates, such as Israel, New Zealand (note: New Zealand changed after the Christchurch massacre in 2019; but the facts remain that that was the only one) and Finland. In fact, in Mexico, the murder rate is 22.7 murders per 100,000, whereas the global average is ~7 homicides per 100,000, and the gun happy US is 4.8 murders per 100,000. http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-end-gun-debate-forever.html. That is correct - the US, which has the widest gun ownership in the world, is below the worldwide average in homicides. Of course, in the US, approximately 90 million legal owners of guns, owing 300 million firearms; murdered zero people last year. Contrast that with the approximately 170 million Prof. R.J. Rummel of Univ. of Hawaii, in his book Death by Government, says were killed in the last century, the majority of them after their governments disarmed them (Stéphane Courtois, author of the highly regarded Black Book of Communism estimates 94 million were murdered by Communists alone). An hour long, very sobering summary video documenting what happens when the population has their weapons removed can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDivHkQ2GSg&feature=player_embedded#t=8s Or perhaps one might wish to contrast this to the 32,000 people who lost their lives – including thousands of youth – in car accidents last year (see http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.pdf or http://www.nhtsa.gov/NCSA to get the latest exact figure). And for those of you who correctly answered the “cars are necessary, but guns are not” objection, a gold star, for indeed you are correct – but armed population, as the Founding Fathers repeatedly noted, is the sine qua non of a free country and a free population. “Free” as in - as historical records show – comparison to a country like the USSR, Cuba or China that end up murdering millions – including children (just google “Ukrainian Kulak” and look at the photos of millions of children who were murdered by Stalin’s government. As the saying goes, “Free men have guns; slaves do not
Very good post. With all due respect, however, you are simply incorrect. Might I direct you to Dr. John Lott's More Guns, Less Crime. Lott, Univ of Chicago, felt like you did, until he did the research, then changed his mind. Moreover, gun ownership is the final defense against tyranny. ALL dictators first disarmed their population, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc. Your liberties are already being taken from you in the UK. (I am a dual US/CAnadian citizen, and Canada is also down that path). And if you are like, many (maybe you are, maybe you aren't) people don't know, and don't care, about their liberties. That is, until it is too late. And then you are also disarmed.
You, dear lady, probably live a comfortable life is in comfortable, safe area. But I submit your life is NOT the life most people in the world live. And the number of crimes stopped by gun ownership literally number in the hundreds of thousands.
"Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.)
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 4 BC – 65 AD
“Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms”
- James Madison, considered the father of the US Constitution
"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."
- Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
“During World War II, six million Swiss had guns and six million Jews did not.”
- Author unknown
“…sort of like the people who repeat foolish slogans like "guns kill" – as though guns sprout little feet when no one is looking and run around shooting people all by themselves.”
- Doug Casey, financial columnist
“If you don’t have to give up your car because others drive drunk with theirs, then why do you have to give up your gun because others commit crimes with theirs?”
- Anonymous internet wag
“When a crime is committed, does the gun go to jail?”
- From BrotherJohn.com
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones told her father in a text message (only revealed after an open records request): “Chicago has strict gun laws as well, but that doesn’t deter gun violence.”
“Let’s stop playing games. The problem is people, not guns. Our society suffers from a deficiency of personal responsibility – not from an excess of personal freedom.”
- Star Parker, African American writer and commentator
“The horrifying truth is this: we live now in a culture that not only does not respect life, but discards it like trash — not only at the beginning of life, but also at the end, and every place in between. What has happened to us?”
- Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra
“…we’re also going to make it clear that when a pig gets iced that’s a good thing, and that everyone who considers himself a revolutionary should be armed, should own a gun, should have a gun in his house.”
- Bill Ayers, leftist activist and confidant of gun control happy Barack Obama, in A Strategy
To Win, appearing in New Left Notes, September 12, 1969. Note: This quote is included
both show the hypocrisy of today’s anti-gun left, as well as expose them as the
purveyors of violence the left has always been. This in no wise implies support of Ayers,
and in fact this paper is utterly against what Ayers articulates here.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.'"
| - HL Mencken
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
“Blaming Newtown on guns is like blaming Chappaquiddick on the Oldsmobile.”
- Ben Crystal, Personal Liberty News
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
“When seconds count, the police are just minutes away”
- Retired Illinois state trooper to me, personal conversation
“Eliminate guns and they go to bombs, eliminate bombs and they move to poison or something else. Bad people are just bad people.”
- “David,” otherwise anonymous internet poster.
“The trigger is in the head, not the gun.”
- Michael Howell
Dear lady :D , well young man! violence begets more violence. I'm very aware of our political position. In the end that's small stuff. What matters is our spiritual freedom, and no one can take that away.
https://www.survivingantidepressants.org ~ an online support group.
They helped me.
Big pharma drugs are responsible for much of the crime and suicides that goes on. And they really don't care.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/vaccination-industry-in-a-nutshell/
It is ultimately hearts/minds that pull triggers or wield knives and if neuro-toxic drugs are given to people, then their brains are flooded with too much data and they will believe the lies inserted there.
I have heard you speak about your experience and I am so sorry about the tragic death of your husband. I admire you for devoting your time to working for change in order to try and prevent other families from suffering a tragedy.
Thanks and I am reminded of this tragedy and how much work there is left to do every time I get contacted by families to this day. The work is NOT finished and always said...No one should ever have to learn this information AFTER the fact like we did.
"We will keep finding ourselves asking the question why?"
If we are going to be scientific then before asking WHY we should probably first try to establish WHAT.
I say that because the official footage clearly shows the suspect wearing different shoes when entering the building compared to lying on the floor after being allegedly shot multiple times (with no visible wounds or blood). The different shoes are unmistakable and these images appeared in all mainstream sources.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/iAelRin0rrhA/
So either (a) the footage was compiled from two separate events (b) the suspect decided to change footwear in the middle of a real shooting and brought a spare pair of shoes along for this purpose.
Personally, I have no idea what did (or did not) take place, but apparently the internet's comment sections are full of people who were actually there and witnessed it first hand.
William Walsh and colleagues studied 50 school shooters and concluded that 42 fit a particular pattern of metabolic disorder and psychiatric drug history. The 42 were in Walsh's category of "low folate depressives", which Walsh also describes as "overmethylators." SSRIs can be helpful for undermethylators, but they make overmethylators worse. The pattern Walsh saw was that each of these 42 kids had become depressed, and had been taken to a doctor and put on an SSRI. The depression didn't improve, so the kid was taken back to the doctor, who raised the dose of the SSRI. And then the kid went berserk and shot up a school.
Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain" is excellent if you want to understand Walsh's decades-long research on metabolic/biochemical factors in mental illness and his protocols for correcting brain chemistry using individualized programs of nutritional supplements. Unfortunately, he doesn't describe his school shooter study in the book.. He discusses it briefly in a presentation titled "Advanced Nutrient Therapies for Brain Disorders" which you can find at this youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHT3iN_jJfc
Correct. I wish more people knew about this since it would be so easy to test for.
Could you describe the test(s)? My SIL has low folate and lost several pregnancies. She was found to have a MTHFR mutation.
Their website: https://www.walshinstitute.org/
Thanks for the link.
I read through the high-level explanation. It sounds very similar to the work of Dr. Daniel Amen. Have you ever seen him on PBS?
https://www.amenclinics.com
My SIL also has chronic, debilitating pain. She's on an ever-evolving cocktail of drugs, including Ambien. My brother had a major surgery a few years back, and she decided to go off the Ambien cold turkey, so she could he more focussed. I was there to help them. It wasn't pretty. She was out of control. Her pain doctor told her to never do that again.
On the Walsh Research Institute there are a list of doctors who've been trained in this methodology.
I'm curious to know what tests can be performed to determine who is at higher risk of negative outcome from psych drugs. It's sounds like the doctor is talking about a MTHFR mutation, but I can't be sure.
Mutations in these genes is associated with autoimmune disease and thyroid disease, which are all over my extended family. It would be good to know who is at risk of dangerous complications. Personally,I would never take a psychiatric drug. I don't need them, and I think they're poison.
https://www.amymyersmd.com/article/mthfr-mutation
In the mid 90’s I had a young kid in my pharmacy who was in absolute agony. He was from out of town, and he had run out of Paxil two days prior. He was twitchy, sweaty, and in obvious abdominal distress. He looked like he was in opioid withdrawal, to be blunt. He asked me to call his doctor to get an emergency supply of Paxil. In Utah at the time, I could not help him on my own authority because he was not my established patient. So I called and called for him to no avail. Finally I got his physician and told him what I wanted. This ignoramus could have just said, “Yeah, give him ten to get him home” and we would all have been happier. Instead, he gave me a five-minute lecture on how Paxil had no withdrawal syndrome and I should not be practicing medicine without a license. I said, “So the question is, Can I dispense for your patient?” He just about screamed, “Go ahead, dammit!” I got his info and before I hung up, I said, “BTW doc, Paxil’s withdrawal syndrome is very well-documented. So maybe you should learn something about drugs before you prescribe them.” I was never, ever harsh with any healthcare professional, but this guy irked me.
Great comment. I wish this was rare, but I have heard many similar stories. The sad thing is at least now they tell doctors to listen to pharmacists because since their training focuses on that, they have more knowledge of the medications than the doctors often do...but despite that, stories like yours still repeat.
Holy crap! I was on Paxil for a couple years, then Effexor for ten. If I had known how hard it was to come off, I never would have started. I had to keep a few pills at work in case I forgot to take it before I left home. Sometimes I ran out, and I would go to the pharmacy near my house work and they’d give me one pill to get by. Otherwise I would not have been able to even drive home.
When I decided to stop, by dr said I would have to go down to 37.5 mg and then stop. It was hell. I couldn’t do it! It was like I couldn’t string together 2 neurons to form a thought. Hell. And my dr suggested this was just in my head. Are doctors so brainwashed by pharma reps?!?
I was also not allowed to call it withdrawal. My dr always corrected me. “Discontinuation.”
Eventually I found an on-line chat room for getting off Effexor, where I learned the trick. You can open the capsules and take out some of the beads, to fine-tune the dose and make the decrease more gradual. Thank god. I shared this with my dr and he was utterly shocked to hear of such a thing.
I feel it’s a form of malpractice to start people on these drugs without clearly explaining how difficult it will be to come off.
These drugs should also never be prescribed to someone with bipolar, but my dr never asked me about that, or took a mental health family history. I don’t think many PCPs do this, and yet it is a known risk that SSRIs will set off a manic episode in someone with bipolar. I’ve seen it happen to someone close to me.
I have worked in the life insurance industry most of my career and have done a lot of field underwriting. SSRIs are prescribed like candy. No follow ups. No talk therapy. It is rather alarming. But a lot of people look for shortcuts because they don’t want to do the hard work. This applies to both medical professionals and patients, IMHO.
You've hit the nail on the head, and that is a large part of why I am trying to make people aware of this.
The proclivity to seek 'external' solutions for inner relational conflicts drives both the 'victims' and the 'quack' of the wish to gain status and captive revenue stream as the provider of solutions - protected and directed by regulatory capture and control.
The latter has become so disproportionate as to have become global regulatory capture of a broad spectrum dominance, over a captive population of groomed dependency.
The principle means of this in the usurping of medical service has been philanthropathy - not merely the more well known Rockefeller takeover of primary institutions to allopathic pharma based control systems, but the insider protection of dogma that the system runs on, namely the western bio-medical model, with regard to its almost exclusive focus on external causations for a classifiction of diseases assigned to its own bestiary of definitions, tests or biomarkers, interventions or treatment protocols, and further definition or framing of results as the development of disease, rather than disease of treatment.
Germ theory is recognisable dogma in that it runs as a protected or securitised narrative - along with it primary corollory; vaccinations.
Likewise cell theory - see Harold Hillman and Gilbert Ling.
Genetics is the tech that rules them all and in the darkness binds them, as it is the claim, and enforcement of a physical determinism wielded by elitist philanthropaths, as the capture of the defining of the underpinnings of life in such a way as to create and control predictive risk modelling set into media hype to drive the popular support or even demand for the 'treatments' and 'solutions' that the modelling and definitions are patently intended to deliver.
The mass mind is weaned from a family & community based self-sufficiency, to a corporately managed and groomed dependency on externally provided substitutions for life, for relational endeavour and growth of consciousness, so as to instead grow or adapt the unconsciousness of ever deeper abnegation of their living will, to a blind control system running a masked identity under promise to make you safe.
When inner conflicts are denied, evaded and masked over by investing in a panacea, the psychic elements of the issue have not gone away, but will manifest through the new arena without recognition, so as to set a pattern of masking defences and evasions that ripen to crisis of a fundamental decision; release the underlying beliefs that set the pattern of a self-evasion and open self-responsibility at the level of self-integrity that is within reach, or release the will to live as acquiescence to death in life and death instead of life.
When pain physical, mental and emotional is overwhelming, the ability to regain a grounded sense of one's being is blocked, so there is a time and place for suppression of symptoms within an active desire to heal. But healing has no (official) place in the western monopoly model. The ego (problem) is to be protected even unto sickness and death by treatment set in risk-models based on bent science. On false or partial definitions given exclusive priority, as the technologism of biology to a system it is now being fitted, conformed, sacrificed.
The hard work is hard because it is a real relationship that will meet the resistance of dogmatically invested identity in doctor and in patient.
Healing arises -as can be accepted - in the context of a real relationship.
Western biology suffers with science generally from overreaction against 'vitalism', psychism, religious and mythic cultural adaptations and spiritual integrity.
The blocked, denied and often demonised realm of our inner conscious experience and responsibility meets the 'devil' of a subjection to experience of powerlessness to chemical, & biotech controls set by 'caring' malice.
BUT - we are free to choose our own path and live our choices for our own reasons as our own experience. Even if such is choosing not to question societal defaults that lead into sickness and suffering. But while we can think, we have choice as to what we accept into our mind by acting from it. Even if a new habit takes persistence over time to release the old.
A very good comment and summary of the matter. I have made a note for reference. Thank you very much.
Yes...shortcuts, avoiding the hard work and burying the root causes are a significant part of this festering trauma of our current society. It is a mindset that keeps most from searching to be their own authority to dig out of the quagmire. It places their "care", or standard operating procedure, in someone elses' idea of what is good for them. When there is a realization that the results from this aren't good for them, perhaps the individual can retreat to find for themselves what is good for them and what is not; and then take that to society to help others.
Might I suggest also that the analytical mind can talk, analyze and/or justify how things are for years; but the subconscious and unconscious habit-mind are where much change can occur. Add in the coercion factors of social and regular media, propaganda and censorship; and there's a recipe for major cognitive dissonance and trauma, buried in layers like an onion.
Somatic massage and kinetic activities at the fascial level has the ability for tremendous release, like Fierce Yoga, Qigong/ Tai Chi and repetitive movements like running. Even mini trampolining is said to effect lymphatic drainage. Sound (music, singing, mantras, etc), light (near infrared and sunlight), and water (hot sauna/cold shower) are a few therapies that work at the quantum and biochemical/biophysical realms. Also, meditations to re-program a new habit-mind can be surprisingly effective.
Every little thing we can try to help each other get past the stuck-ness (look at all the coagulation vascular issues these days, especially with the jabs) and get flowing again to vitality, creativity and humanity is where my heart-mind says we should try, and keep trying, with love and compassion. Thank you, cgg, for this post. Thank you all for all the helpful comments. Thank you, A Midwestern Doctor, for your well-considered articles and this platform.
Yes!
Great works as guides,
by Debbie Ford, Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss,
and many others on this subject...
The professionals warned me I might turn dangerous without the drugs they prescribed. They kept threatening me. Reminding me I was mentally ill and needed "meds" forever or something awful would happen and I would be at fault.
They warned my family and former friends about how dangerous I was. Couldn't quit seizing and twitching. This made everyone angry and they accused me of "not taking your meds!" But my pills were causing it.
I grew so lonely and felt so horrible I wanted to commit suicide. It was awful.
That is dreadful and not surprising. In 2020 I became aware of how nasty and neuro-toxic big pharma meds were for people with mental issues let alone physical issues.
I only found out then that my mother has been prescribed Valium (UK) for depression in the 1960's a took several years to get off it. Her issues were related to how she had been treated by some on my father's side of the family and that was what need resolving.
yes they are massively over used and over prescribed.
20 years after the Paxil incident, I myself was put on Duloxetine (the profession of pharmacy had become unbearable, and I had to medically retire). Awhile later I tried an acceptable taper but I became quite ill. My beloved Queen used the exact same technique you describe to wean me over 8 weeks— she removed 7 of the tiny granules every 3 or 4 days. My prescriber was a highly-respected practitioner, but when I told him what I had to do he was nonplussed. “I’ve never heard of such a severe withdrawal”. I assured him it was quite awful.
I really wish people were warned about this beforehand.
Drug pushers given social acceptance limit their attention and responsibility.
But suicide is high in doctors. The elephant in the room isn't solved by following standard of care and pharma incentives to placate a patient seeking help or perspective for issues that trouble them, from someone entrusted with authority to tell them or make it better.
Hi! I added your comment to the article.
https://gwenolsen.com/book-reviews/
Effexor was a horrible experience and extremely difficult to discontinue. My new neighbor was on it too and had the same experiences. We had a buddy system when we tapered off. He described the brain zaps thusly:” picture a large bowl of spaghetti into which you take the air compressor hose with the blow-off wand immersed into the bowl. Now pulse the air blast– the big bouncing lifting and collapsing mass of spaghetti is your brain on Effexor.” I said, “That’s it!” At one point I spent a week in the local hospital’s mental health chalet owing to the demonic characteristics of that snri. I and my neighbor would discuss the affects so uncharacteristic of he or I. That was a very long time ago. A little later, I had my run-in with Pfzr circa 2004 with another drug. They managed to shut down the internet 1.0 forum community dedicated to victims of what they did to this particular drug. “No one has complained” they told the fda. We were gaslighted and then the independent site shut down without a trace. Completely scrubbed. I certainly learned something that day. You can imagine what I thought about an experimental injection from the same criminals! “Oh hell no!” was my initial reaction and remains so today.
FYI, my deep atypical depression started when I was a kid. So I do take help- diet, supplements, and Deprenyl. You have to know the drug, but garnered a profound improvement that no ssri could hope to pull off. If I’m not mistaken Deprenyl is the last drug approved in the US that didn’t come from a major pharmaceutical company. They’ve seen to that.
Brain zaps are a huge issue but I didn't include them in here because I thought it made the article too unfocused. I know numerous people who experienced this and I still not sure what causes it (I've thought this one over for a while). By any chance do you have a good article on the brain zap phenomena I could link to?
I’m sorry I don’t think I’ve actually read a scholarly article on the zap phenomenon. Will check my old backup drive. I’ve met several people over the years who had the same experience and the Brain Zap experience was always enthusiastically shared because it was so odd.
Edit: there’s this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30605268/
Also a problem with researching this is that this phenomenon is given different names, electric shocks, brain shivers, brain zaps.
I experienced them coming off lexapro, despite getting the liquid version so I could taper off more slowly and accurately, than with breaking up pills.
https://www.health.com/condition/depression/brain-zaps
I was on a high dose of Effexor for about 5 years - which I regret deeply. I tapered too by counting beads! It just seemed logical. The whole thing was hell on earth. Sweats, brain zaps, body pain ( still a year later,) and I had mercurial rage also. I was raging so badly I smashed like 20 plates in my garage, screaming. ( luckily no one was home). It's been like 15 months off it, had a spiritual awakening, and finally at peace.
I would have said that as the brain/body is like a wet chemical battery, the electrical potential has been built up to high levels by the use of the neuro-toxic drugs.
As one comes off I suppose the electrical charge suddenly is triggered perhaps like the release of a static electrical charge.
Speaking of charges brain zaps is an anagram of 'banzais pr'! As banzai charges came in waves perhaps this makes some sense if the same is happening with brain zaps.
Neuro-toxins block nerve impulses so if suddenly taken away the effect is like releasing the lock/handle on a door and suddenly 'whoosh!'.
My "bipolar" went away after I went off the SSRI's that supposedly "unmasked" it years ago. They said I needed a cocktail--including the category of drugs that set me off--for life. "To treat the symptoms." All the "bipolar symptoms" were "side effects" of the drugs they pushed upon me for over 2 decades. :(
Check out ex-pharma rep Gwen Olsen...she got out and became a whistle-blower after her niece set herself on fire which on these types of meds.
*while on
Pharmaceuticals are all about malpractice. Bizarrely it's in the name 'Pharmaceutical'.
'Uh a malpractice' is an anagram.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/pharmaceuticals-whats-in-them/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/vaccination-industry-in-a-nutshell/
I had to do the same withdrawal trick you did only with Cymbalta. Took me over 6 months but I did it!!!
https://gwenolsen.com/book-reviews/
So if the young man killed because of withdrawal would the doctor have been libel ?
Along with vaccines and statins, SSRI's are another big pharma criminal fraud.
And one of the most harmful ones on the market.
You have written some excellent articles on this before. My most hated "traditional" injection is the one for HPV (another invented illness), but here is the full schedule:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html
The fraud, of course, runs a lot deeper, and it's good that the Good Doctor is also here to point out how.
The following is only a taste of it:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-bermuda-triangle-of-medications
Exactly. In the End, these perpetrators will have hell to pay.
You are right to re-publish this piece as this is yet another taboo or non-investigated story at least among our Cracker Jack mainstream journalists. I would note that Tucker Carlson has bravely made the same points on a few of his shows. So maybe a few more people are starting to connect some dots. (Just like the epidemic of autism being caused by ... what? Something caused it.)
Thank you. That's in the cue too.
While autism probably has increased, I still wonder if it have any objective measure. Diagnosis seems so subjective and require such arcane training, I don't know what to make of it.
RFK Jr. has spoken in depth about this. There was hard evidence of vaccines causing autism until the CDC had the data destroyed.
The movie “Vaxxed” tells the story
Forty-five years ago when I was first learning about autism, the autistic children I met were all severely affected. I was spending a lot of time with children who had a variety of brain-based developmental disorders (including kids with traumatic brain injuries, and kids with learning disabilities), and there was absolutely no possibility of misdiagnosing an autistic child as anything other than autistic. The autistic children's behavior was bizarre in quite distinctive ways.
Back then, the incidence of autism was said to be 1 in 10,000. If there were Asperger's Syndrome kids around or "high-functioning" autistic kids -- whatever you want to call them -- I think they must have been rare (1 in 300 maximum, and I think probably much less common than that).
When the mercury content of childhood vaccines was greatly reduced in the early 2000's, the "distribution" of autistic kids shifted away from the severe category, in the direction of moderate and mild. When parents started hearing that MMR vaccine caused some children to regress into autism, some parents started foregoing some vaccines and spreading the others out. Also, more parents heard about biomedical treatment of autism and sought it for their kids, or at least tried gluten-free/casein-free diets on their own. With these changes, the incidence of severe autism decreased further and (again) the incidence of moderately and mildly autistic kids increased. There was need for greater precision in diagnosis so that autistic kids could be distinguished from kids with learning disabilities and kids with attachment disorders or psychological trauma. There was also need for better assessments of children's functioning, in order to objectively determine how much progress autistic children made through various interventions (ABA, biomedical, etc.).
I don't know where you've gotten your impression that diagnosis of autism is subjective. (It does require arcane training). Let's look at the diagnostic process for a reasonably high-functioning teenager who's suspected of being autistic because of social "deficits" and some odd behaviors. The parents would fill out paperwork giving an outline of the child's medical and developmental history, and setting out their concerns about the child's functioning. A report from the child's school might be requested, and perhaps one from the child's doctor.
A neuropsychologist trained in autism diagnosis would administer a variety of neuropsych tests, taking perhaps 75 minutes, and engage the child in conversation to assess social skills and deficits. The mother would be asked to complete one or two extensive questionnaires about the child's history, development, and current functioning; the neuropsychologist would review this information and interview the mother to get clarification and further details where necessary. The neuropsychologist would also interview the father to get his perspective on the child's functioning.
For a younger child, the process would be much the same except that the neuropsych tests would be more elementary and the testing session briefer, and observation of the child's activity, play, and interaction with both familiar and unfamiliar people would be a major part of the evaluation.
The neuropsychologist would use the information gathered in this entire process to score the child on a long list of characteristics and capabilities which are organized into a number of major categories. The diagnosis of autism would require that the child meet clearly defined criteria. The end product of the assessment would be a long, detailed written report setting out the results and defending the diagnosis.
I hope what I've written here is helpful to you and brings you to a better understanding of diagnosis and objective measures of autism.
Wow, this sounds exceptional. How would a parent access this diagnostic evaluation for a child? I don't know about severe autism rates because I don't see them in my practice but I know that over the past few years there are increasing numbers of young people who come to me because they fear they are autistic and complain of one or more symptoms of it..
In California, the state's "Regional Centers" provide this type of diagnostic evaluation free of charge. A private-practice neuropsychologist in California would likely charge $5000-$6000 for a similar evaluation.
Anywhere in the U.S., my advice to someone looking for an evaluation would be to find an online autism support group in your area and join it, then ask the parents "What are the best options for getting an excellent evaluation of my child/teen/young adult?" This is also a good way to find the best treatment options in your area. Some parents of special needs kids become experts on these things...
Was Lorna Wing's diagnostic process so complex? And can NMR assay 199Hg in the brain of a living person? Yeah, I know the Bryn Mawr city council doesn't like that term because they consider it part of Ronald Reagan's SDI (Star Wars program), so insisted on calling it magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). But is mercury detection sufficiently sensitive for it to be practical?
Sorry, I don't know the answers to your questions.
Mercury NMR may be a bit esoteric, though an objective measure of risk of brain damage would be very helpful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna_Wing
Are you familiar with Dr. Daniel Amen's work in neuro-imaging? This is an interesting measure.
Neurofeedback (digital) is another possible objective measure.
If you haven't read the chapter on autism in William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain", I think you'd find it interesting.
I believe it has significantly increased including the severe types that are not a consequence of a more liberal diagnosis criteria.
I'm 57. I don't remember hardly any kids when I was growing up who had the behaviors of kids "on the spectrum." You see it everywhere now. Something changed or caused this change.
On another substack a Dr was talking about having limited time with patients. My 10 year old niece tried to commit suicide twice since Covid. This hits me in the heart. Our whole health care system, education system needs to be revamped, along with our family values. Many children are latchkey, driven to activities, but not listened to.
The solution often now is lets medicate them. Really sad.
Correct; that is one of the main reasons I am focusing on this topic here.
Media ignores problem and root issues because Big Tech is as protected as Big Pharma. I'd bet your niece spends a lot of time on tech and social media.
Yes, she has spent time on tech and social media. The family has monitored her more now.
Even seeing families in restaurants- so many are on their devices and not having family quality time.
Your comment is so true. Big Tech & Media needs to be changed also. They should be working for us!
Take care!
It's so sad.
Which usually means antipsychotics (sometimes SSRIs) so they'll just shut up, get fat, develop diabetes, and die an early death. But hey, isn't dying an early death also the point of vaccines and quite a few other pharmaceuticals? It's the slave plantation mentality; as soon as slaves no longer have the capacity to work hard, they have a duty to die.
Keep your slaves scared, stupid, and sick and they will never revolt or leave the plantation, comrade.
I think that you may be referring to the impoverished mentality no matter what your melanin says.
You are right, no one hears our youth. We all seem so broken.
Ex-colleague here... methinks communism and health mix like mRNA and diesel.
The covidscam was not the first scam, evidently, rather one among many although pivotal. And won’t be the last. Buckle up!
Absolutely!
The interesting part of Psychiatry is that it has no working paradigm, because the last one, "chemical imbalance in the brain," was refuted about three or four years ago (around the time when the "cholesterol" fraud was also exposed).
Still, psychiatrists possess the power to destroy lives as representatives of a fake "science."
I am very happy people are finally realizing this.
The problem is, nothing seems to be possible do do about it. In Canada, "deniers" are subjected to "treatment":
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/in-canada-if-you-refuse-to-be-injected
Medical staff is subjected to mandatory "re-education":
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/canada-isnt-finished-yet-or-is-it
It's important to not get black pilled.
My experience is direct. As a young man, I worked at a hospital for eight months. Much later, I volunteered at the psych dept at the local VA, I have also worked as a consultant for all kinds of doctors for over ten years, and I have helped out psychiatric patients at home for decades...
Hi Ray, It's the Old General again.....
https://www.cchr.org/about-us/what-is-cchr.html
That looks great, but who is going to enforce anything, when all power has been hijacked?
We can only Control What We can Control. If it comes down to a 1775 moment, Aim small, Miss small. We aren't going to live forever in these bodies, perhaps that's the Reality we wish to avoid. I'm humored by the old adage, "Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword" .... So???? I retort, Live by the Bedside, Die in the Bed. Same Result, Different Elan vital.
If people knew how their lives have been being stolen since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 or just simply realized what's awaiting them, they would rise up... Being dragged to a "Green Zone" is definitely worse than death.
You nailed it, again!
"That looks great, but who is going to enforce anything, when all power has been hijacked?"
And not only that but no entity cold even begin to deal with all the criminal behavior going on.
I've been parroting the same thing over and over,
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/how-far-can-you-expect-the-globalist
but somehow, people are still falling for the psyop of false hope, while being exterminated in any way you and I can or cannot imagine...
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/bioweapons
"...people are still falling for the psyop of false hope..." And every other psyop that comes along.
Me? I gave up worrying many decades ago. Now I mostly laugh at the inanity as well as the insanity of the bulk of it.
I would have laughed, too, at all the stupid muzzled faces all over the place, but I couldn't. It took enough effort just not to wear one.
These days, my wife barks in stores, when she notices someone in a muzzle, and I join her. :)
I could never understand the mass shooting phenomenon in the US, when it is not the only society with plenty of guns. The Swiss army is a militia and almost all adult males have to compete National service, upon completion of which they take their assault rifle and ammunition to keep at home. This means most homes in Switzerland have an assault rifle, rounds and someone trained how to use them. Yet they do not get mass shootings. Thanks Doc for an explanation.
I think Switzerland's model is very good and so much could be said about it, but I'm trying to keep this substack focused on medical issues.
In northern Wisconsin during the 90’s we used to bring guns to school so we could go hunting after school before we went home for dinner. The problem we have with gun violence clearly isn’t caused by the number of or access to guns…
my uncle who passed away recently at 89 yrs old grew up in the Bronx NY went to high school there in the 1950s. A jewish kid in the Bronx. The high school had a marksmanship / rifle team. The practice range was in Yonkers. 15 + boys would bag their rifles and pack backpacks with ammo and ride the SUBWAY from the Bronx to Yonkers. Noone cared!
Imagine that today.
Not every mass shooting is what they tell us it is so we have to proceed with caution.
It's so sad that Americans seem to have been totally captured by the pharmaceutical industry - most everybody seems to take medications for things that were illnesses in the past. I suspect that the UK (where I am) is gradually following suite even though we can't access medicines in the same way due to the NHS controlling them. Sadly, the NHS is busy falling under the same spell as the US health providers. These pharma companies are like Sauron spreading their darkness and evil over the world.
Because medicine is so profitable, these things are almost innevitable.
I agree. There’s an increasing tendency to pathologize variations of normal, especially with kids. There is hardly a kid alive today who isn’t walking around with some diagnosis labeled to them. ADD, OCD, anxiety, misphonia, gender dysphoria, “on the spectrum” — the list keeps growing. And there’s a drug (or soon to be) for all of them!
#wheresfrodo
According to the Bible we should love our enemies and pray for their salvation. This does not extend to systems or industries. I hate Big Pharma with a passion and pray it comes crashing down. As far as Albert Bourla the man--and others like him--may God have mercy on his soul and lead him to repent!
30 years ago I took antidepressants. I took Prozac and while taking it I was always tired and would stay awake long enough to run errands, clean house and prepare for the work week.
I complained to the doctor who put me on a different antidepressant (can't remember the name). I complained again and was switched to yet another. After a few weeks of taking the 3rd antidepressant I decided none of these drugs made a noticeable difference and the side effects such as chronic fatigue and weight gain were making me feel worse.
So the answer was I would just have to deal with depression. Only in the past few years have I read articles concluding these drugs have little to no benefit.
My fear is psychiatrists are complacent and prescribe these drugs rather than get to the heart of what is troubling a patient. Also they (along with the media, the government, the universities and medical institutions) are bribed by Big Pharma to do whatever maximizes profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
People in a conservancy (e.g. Britney Spears, Amanda Bynes) need proactive advocates. That means there should be a plan in place to help them get better and if goals are not met maybe it is time to get a new doctor and a new plan.
Why are there are so many psychiatrists, therapists, etc. and no one holds them to account for zero improvement in their patients?
We would not settle for that if we are treated for cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
My best guess is that since the industry has lobbied for prescribing psyche drugs to be the "standard of care" no one can ever be penalized for just doing that and nothing more.
This is a huge reason for why you need to pay cash to see psychiatrists out of pocked who do not just follow standard of care to satisfy insurance reinbursements.
It sounds like you made a good recovery without medication, you sound like a very together person. So glad you made it. Thank you for contributing.
Bingo. And even worse, their fear of getting sued causes them to send patients to the ER unnecessarily where additional mental (and financial) stress is piled on.
I was recently prescribed Gabapentin for a sudden,
relatively minor medical issue. The doc made it a point to tell me that it was “well tolerated,” after I told her of my experiences with BP meds and getting side effects from every one of them (Lisinopril-terrible cough; Losartan-nausea; Norvasc-massively swollen ankles). Picked up the prescription and lo and behold: the VERY FIRST SIDE EFFECT on the handout was that it could cause suicidal thoughts, aggression, depression, etc. Needless to say, I refused to take any of them and on my follow-up visit, I am telling her why.
Sad but common story.
My husband was prescribed Neurontin for pain from a neck injury. After reading some of the side effects, which were much like you describe for Gabapentin -- impulsivity, risk of suicide, risk of violence against others -- he called his neurosurgeon and said, "There's no way in hell I'm going to take this drug and subject my wife and child to this kind of risk. If this drug is the best you can offer, I'll just endure the pain."
Good for him, and all the best that he finds some other solution to his pain. It irritates me more and more that doctors just blithely prescribe meds unthinkingly. Maybe they’re not up on all the side effects or they figure that other patients have handled them well, but after my experiences with the BP meds (and statins ... another class of meds I refused to take), I’m just more than a little suspicious.
I had a 2 level neck fusion operation for arthritis in my spine 3 years ago. I had to have it b/c I was having pain that was not controlled with anything and I was having weakness in my arms. Sometimes surgery is curative. Our bodies wear out despite our best efforts to stay fit. I am very lean and fit and my spine is simply wearing out from 55 years of sports and martial arts and moving around. I tried gabapentin b/c i have some residual neuropathic pain in my dominant left arm. It caused me to feel tired, nauseous and put me in a bad mood.
I also seem to be be developing some essential hypertension. Im 5'8", 160 and very fit but alas our kidneys age and we somtime get hypertensive. I have a good paleo style diet. I sometimes eat too much choclate and things that are a little too salty.
I tried several different anti hypertensives and they make me dizzy. I have a low resting pulse.
If we had a free market in medicine we would have much better and more diverse treatments for all kinds of things.
Progress in medicine has stagnated b/c the whole system has been politized. The system does not serve the consumer anymore . its a giant corrupt cartelized mess. Like the military / arms industry and the banking industry.
Look at the progress in cell phones and computers. Why in that industry. Because there is no federal National institute of Cell phones. If there was such an agency, cell phones would cost $10,000 and most people would not be able to afford one without a government subsidy ( like medicare. We would have politicians grandstanding about cell and internet service like it was social security. Imagine if we had a national internet service and cell service with a giant agency to administer it.? All the politicians would demagogue and pander with promises of better faster internet and cell service for votes.
Actually, we do have much better and more diverse treatments for all kinds of things -- but you have to turn to the world of "alternative medicine" to find them. Here are a few examples: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment; Orthomolecular Medicine; Neuromodulation Techniques (Feinberg Method); NAET; Nutrition Response Testing; Naturopathy; Muldowney Protocol and Cusack Protocol for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome; Neurofeedback; Emotional Freedom Techniques (can be used for physical health issues as well as emotional/psychological issues); Rife treatment and related devices (for infectious diseases); ozone treatment of blood; Clinical Ecology; Walsh protocols for treatment of metabolic disorders underlying mental disorders; homeopathic diagnosis and treatment using sophisticated computerized systems; Vohl testing; Zone Diet; biological dentistry; Functional Medicine. (My family members have benefited from quite a few of these...)
I need to keep track of you! All things Naturopathic? I wish I could find a Vetrinarian!
no we dont have better treatments. The when one mixes science / medicine and politics one gets politics. The scientific method when applied to medicine yields tremendous results. Thats why politicians and authoritarians have been drawn to allopathic medicine and coopted it. Just like physics can be used to create nuclear energy but it can also be used to create a atomic bomb. People , in their anger and frustration have turned to nonsense pseudoscience garbage like osteopathic manipulation, and all the other quackery you mention. Homeopathy is garbage. Its completely ineffective. Its assumptions are based on nothing thats ever been proven to work. This is why the whole situation is so sad to me. The modern scientific method can yield tremendous results when applied honestly but because of the corruption of medicine by the involvement of government we end up with garbage like the stuff you are promoting. I have no doubt that if we can restore some integrity to the medical system orthomolecular medicine will be abandoned.
Well, you can hold on tight to "the scientific method" and refuse to acknowledge or explore any other way of learning about human bodies and brains . . . and any number of different approaches to helping people be healthy. It's your choice.
For myself, I've seen such nonsense and pseudoscientific garbage promulgated by "modern Western medicine" that I examine allopathic medicine's methods and treatment proposals with great caution and skepticism. I've learned to be open-minded and curious, acknowledging that there are vast areas of reality and knowledge that are beyond my current understanding.
I turn my back on "respectable" allopathic doctors who have little to offer except symptom suppression, or who declare "You have an incurable disease", or who proclaim "It's all in your head" -- and go looking for doctors who have the intelligence and creativity to seek new understandings and the guts to pioneer new treatment approaches.
To put it another way, I'm not interested in hanging out with losers. I want to search out pioneers and see what they're up to, and give their methods of treatment a good trial.
But hey, what you do is up to you. Good luck!
I had TERRIBLE nightmares with Gabapentin. I won’t go anywhere near that medicine ever again.
Not only do the meds make a person more psycho, but the underlying root cause is still there.
As far as I am concerned, separation from God is the root cause. Those seeking help for emotional problems should minimally, be in counseling if not seeking spiritual guidance/healing. Meds are absolutely disastrous as noted in the OP.
So, unaddressed emotional problems compounded with propaganda and poison chemicals leads us to this point.
I also believe that is a key issue. Because people are existentially lost and disconnected, the human mind and sprit is much less healthy now.
Spiritual problems should be considered, but I think there are nearly universal states of nutritional deficit. If we can figure out that 80% of the people on the planet are deficient in Vit D for the purposes of warding off covid, then nutrients are one of the first things we should consider for dis-ease of most types.
I have seen a lot of remarkable changes in mental health occur for people who addressed nutritional deficiences.
Dr. Georgia Eade has some great presentations on improving mental health with nutrition.
Absolutely a contributing factor. I'm going to thump on my Bible one more time though.
Diligent study of the Word also teaches some basic "body is a temple" lessons that, when practiced, would likely address all but the most complex problems associated with nutritional deficiency.
At the same time, it improves one's discernment of right and wrong. The propaganda foisted upon us from government and advertising are major drivers in nutritional deficiency, as well as the "food-like products" manufactured for our consumption which are both nutritionally deficient and poisonous. When the scales fall from a person's eyes, everything gains more clarity. 😎
Perfect! Well said! Thank you.
There was a study published Feb 2023 done in veteran population showing that vitamin D supplementation was associated with a 45% lower risk of suicide and self harm . Supplemented black veterans and veterans with vitamin D level 0-19 ng/ml were ~64% lower risk relative to controls ;HR 0.362. This is very impressive data and there is no mainstream headlines or 27 by 7 messaging from medical agencies ! If it was a high cost patent medication they would be shoving this information constantly to promote prescribing. Not to mention since we are all about “no discrimination “ in healthcare towards African American , if “ they” really cared you would think that the push to get vitamin D levels checked would be on so mainstream news and treatment guidelines. The big wig agencies and their websites state that there is insufficient evidence to recommend.... need more studies etc ... the same tactic that’s been used to discredit any treatment that interferes with their financial gains . As Dr Kory always says “ it’s never been about the data , it’s about an agenda !! Very sad times we are in for sure. We need to elevate ourselves spiritually to survive this chaos in a supposedly sacred profession and to watch it slowly deteriorate. Thank you and God bless you Midwestern doctor for all your genuine concern, discussions and heartfelt passions which is life support much needed at the moment for the field of medicine. Thank you, thank you , thank you .
Dr Lustig’s plainspoken book, Metabolical , opened my eyes to big food & big pharma !
I'm not sure if you've explored Linus Pauling's work in orthomolecular medicine, but there sure seem to be some people helped with this approach.
I'm sorry but there's nothing profound or meaningful in inserting a hyphen that doesn't belong into the word "disease."
Please see psychiatryredefined.org per my post below for biochem genetic root causes which should be sought as well by any physician.
It looks great, but what could it accomplish these days?
A step towards #ParallelEconomy especially for those who cling to secular belief systems.
Parallel economy is inevitable after the introduction of the CBDC. Only 70 million Americans live outside cities, and apparently wild animals are also injected with the graphene, which makes hunting questionable. Large-scale deportations can be expected, probably on FEMA buses, "in your protection."
Definitely a spiritual problem at its root, but I know even “non-spiritual” people have benefited greatly from a practice of gratitude. Not as a feeling (whether real or fake) but as an act. The feeling will follow the act. Dr. Andrew Huberman has some great commentaries about the neuroscience benefits of this.
Holistic approaches are always better then eating poison.
Bottom line: separation from God is death. Some of us can get pain and suffering in the here and now, but always in the hereafter.
Separation from God was the root cause for becoming greatly fearful of Covid and begging for the vax.
Surprising and sad how many professing Christians were so scared of physical death that they canceled Resurrection Sunday. That says volumes about their faith and hope.
People without faith despair... Family "doctors" prescribe psychiatric toxins like candy these days... Still, there are other variables at play here, too.
Like what? Red tide, botulinum, aflatoxin, trichothecene mycotoxin? I thought we were mostly discussing SYNTHETIC pharmaceuticals.
What is exactly your question?
Why did you specifically mention "psychiatric toxins"? Are there any? Moldy brain? Who prescribes THAT?
I was talking about the toxic chemicals that irreversibly alters brain chemistry. What difference do the details make?
Because you wrote psychiatrically toxic natural products.
From my blog yesterday (I would also like to advocate for fish oil, though the dose is considerably higher than most people want to take, about 15 mL per day, one tablespoon of Carlson liquid fish oil, daily for a month seems to benefit anybody who will keep taking it, in my experience.)
Gardening definitely helps, too, partly by improving your microbiome. This meta analysis looked at over 1000 review papers.
Study Confirms Physical Exercise Should Be First Choice For Mental Health Treatment
Anxiety is the most common problem—and seems to be becoming more pronounced among children and younger adults—while depression poses the greatest burden to normal life function.
The Australian researchers discovered that exercise provided the best results when used for treating depression. More specifically, exercise was 150 percent more effective than pharmaceuticals or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
It was also better than psychological consultation or “talk therapy.” In fact, exercise was shown to reduce depressive symptoms by 42 to 60 percent, whereas talk therapy and pharmaceuticals only reduced symptoms between 22 percent and 37 percent.
Exercise was shown to be the best treatment for both anxiety and depression, even though pharmaceuticals are the most commonly recommended treatment for both.
Every kind of exercise worked.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/study-confirms-physical-exercise-should-be-first-choice-mental-health-treatment
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The Medical Industrial Complex cares about billing, not your health and plenty have paid dearly.
Welcome to Orthomolecular.org http://orthomolecular.org/ ....................... amazing information going back decades of better medical treatments for depression, anxiety, viruses, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,
copied from the website home page..................
"Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which is Greek for "correct" or "right," and "molecule," which is the simplest structure that displays the characteristics of a compound. So it literally means the "right molecule."
Two-time Nobel Prize winner, and molecular biologist, Linus Pauling, Ph.D.,coined the term "Orthomolecular" in his 1968 article "Orthomolecular Psychiatry" in the journal "Science."
Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body."
It's a great field I hope to have time to write about in the future.
I am eager to read more...
We are just incredibly amazed at the information out there on high dose vitamin c .... liposomal vitamin c .... keep alot on hand and use for all kinds of things even found a website ....... ivtogo.com 2 products that we have on hand in case an iv vitamin c is needed and we can't find a health practitioner to give it to us .......... This has become my favorite chart .......... to keep myself focused on the scale possible even though we stay down in the 6 -10 gram range so far. https://www.optimalc.com/images/cathcart-vitamin-c-dose-chart.jpg My husband came across a great interview from 2020 ........... the first 10 minutes are a great overview of the high dose vitamin c history / use in my opinion...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7NoUcktt58 The Power of Intravenous Vitamin C with Dr Ron Hunninghake
Lisa Tamati 9.84K subscribers Dr Ron Hunninghake is the Chief Medical Officer of the prestigious Riordan Institute in Witchita, Kansas.
In this episode Dr Ron explains the uses and mechanisms of action of Vitamin C both oral and intravenous Vitamin C and it's uses in cancer, sepsis, pneumonia, shingles, hepatitis to schizop..............
Also have loved the articles at www.orthomolecular.org select Library, select News Releases. Came across it in spring/summer 2020 and have just really appreciated the information since then and going back to 2005 ..... the articles on that list have been quite helpful.
Found it quite intriguing that Dr. Paul Marik's MATH+ (originally HAT treatment for sepsis) also uses iv vitamin c quite successfully even miraculously. Dr. Thomas Levy's books have also been quite helpful on this front.
IV Vitamin C is awesome!
Yes! Also, Linus Pauling co-authored a book with Psychiatrist Dr. David R. Hawkins called "Orthomolecular Psychiatry and Schizophrenia": https://www.amazon.sg/Orthomolecular-Psychiatry-Schizophrenia-David-Hawkins/dp/0716708981
..I love the work of Dr. Hawkins as well as Linus Pauling (the only person to ever earn (solely, without sharing) the Nobel Prize 3x ...
Also, Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin has made significant contributions in this field: https://breggin.com/Books
I loved that book!
Perhaps you might also be as fascinated as I am re: The Psyche in Chinese Medicine...various authors and titles... understanding the basics of Five Elements Theory and Acupuncture Meridians would help...it's Energy Medicine Biophysics at the Quantum Level.
I read that book years ago!
More for people to consider on my bookshelf: Elisa Rossi's "Shen", Paul Rosen's "Heart Shock", CT Holman's "Treating Emotional Trauma with Chinese Medicine" , Dr. Bessel van der Kolk "The Body Keeps the Score", Dr. Gabor Mate "In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts" ,Ana Forrest's "Fierce Medicine" (Yoga), etc.
I believe, in the near future, we'll all be needed to help all those who were jabbed as they learn of the truth and their new status; they will be shocked in their hearts and kidneys with fear...Within my family, new Dx from the jab of microangiopathy: I tried my best to give scientific evidence to dissuade them from being jabbed; now 2 shots and 2 years later, thrombotic microangiopathy:" formation of thrombi in the arterioles and capillaries; proposed name for a syndrome that would include both thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome. "
I am wondering about frequency of physicians encountering this now.... increa
Yes, Dr. Breggin has written and talked about the dangers of psychotropics and electric shocks for decades. We have much to thank him for.
Two books every household should own are 1) The Orthomolecular Treatment Of Chronic Disease and 2) Doctor Yourself by Andrew Saul. And the Bible, so three.
Yes!
Love it
Look up the Weston A. Price Foundation. Food as medicine.
I love their work!
Yes, absolutely agree! ...On that wavelength over 50 years now; growing my own food and herbs; never a need for pHARMa PSYCHO-tropics....Good on you!
As the Illinois State Rifle Asociation notes, the Sandy Hook CT. shooter, Adam Lanza, not only came from a divorced family, but was “apparently a mentally ill young person whose wealthy family insulated him from reality until he decided to create his own reality – at the expense of more than two dozen innocent people. Laurie Higgins in the Illinois Family Association concurred with this report, noting that Lanza’s father (as well as an older brother) left when Adam was 16, and remarried a few years later. Reportedly, Adam Lanza had no contact with his father or brother since 2010. How did this affect Adam, and why is this not part of the “national debate” on violence? Even more importantly, a few days after the shooting, it was reported that Adam Lanza was on a violence-linked anti-psychotic drug called Fanapt, as reported at http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-lanza-taking-antipsychotic-fanapt-2012-12 or http://naturalsociety.com/predictions-confirmed-shooter-adam-lanza-was-on-violence-linked-anti-psychotic-fanapt/. The Fanapt story was later retracted, but family friend of the Lanzas, Louise Tambascio, stated during an interview with 60 Minutes that “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/friends-newtown-gunmans-mother-home-schooled-son-kept-arsenal-of-guns/ Tambascio also told ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.” http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/friends-newtown-gunmans-mother-home-schooled-son-kept-arsenal-of-guns/ Lanza’s old babysitter, Ryan Kraft, also went on record as stating Lanza was taking medications of this sort early as age 10.
Maybe it’s time we had a national discussion about his cronies and lobbyists in Big Pharma, who seem to push kids into the latest drug du jour at the drop of a hat? Or doesn’t that fit his political agenda and his “never let a crisis go to waste” attitude? It is already on the labels themselves that drugs, like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Ritalin are causing people to commit violent acts (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QheBbuC5UU&feature=player_embedded#t=91s where a number of reputable psychiatrists comment on this issue). Read the documentation in the drug packages, or online, yourself – it’s right there in black and white. The top ten psychiatric prescription drugs linked to violence – as listed by Time Magazine - in a Jan. 7th, 2011 article at http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/07/top-ten-legal-drugs-linked-to-violence/#ixzz2FNH7YyEl - are the antidepressant/anti-anxiety drugs desvenlafaxine (Pristiq), venlafaxine (Effexor), fluvoxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), sleep aid Halcion, ADHD drug Strattera, several brands of amphetamines used to treat ADHD, the anti-malarial Lariam, and the anti-smoking medication Chantix. See also http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/07/top-ten-legal-drugs-linked-to-violence/#ixzz2G16Hp6aG. Of course James Holmes in the Colorado massacre was also on psychotropic drugs, including a generic version of Zoloft called Sertraline, as well as clonazepam see http://www.naturalnews.com/039796_James_Holmes_psychiatric_drugs_antidepressants.html or http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-james-holmes-documents-20130405,0,6067279.story.)
Yet a further analysis of the association of prescription drugs with violence and shootings, from Brandon Turbeville, is at http://www.thedailysheeple.com/psychiatric-drugs-school-violence-and-the-big-pharma-cover-up_012013, while internationally known psychiatrist Dr. David Healy agrees with the summary that these drugs cause violence – a Cliff Notes version of Healy’s sentiments is simply this: Psychotropic drugs “prescribed for school children cause violent behavior.” The non-Cliff Notes, detailed version of his rationale behind this may be found at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-psychiatrist-meds-behind-school-massacres/ Healy has a website, RxISK.org, that allows people to post personal experiences with SSRIs, and is a data repository open to the public.
If anyone is wondering why the US leads in school gun murders, perhaps you might want to explore the relationship between drugging our kids and violence. Note that not only are school gun murders up, but youth suicides are up dramatically was well. This shouldn’t be surprising, of course, as both are cut from the same cloth – disinhibition, messing with brain function, disturbing the level of self-control, and more. Granting that correlation is not causation, Dr. Bertram Karon from Michigan State Univ. notes the US has six times as many children on Ritalin, around four million, as any other country, and all of France only has 8,000 kids, in total, on Ritalin, while his home city of Lansing Michigan, alone, has around that many. In fact, the US accounts for around 90% of Ritalin prescriptions in the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujuDvwSOFto&sns=fb
We must fully consider the question of Todd Walker in his article, found at http://www.thedailysheeple.com/how-many-pills-until-pharmageddon_012013: “Can prescription drugs cause you to kill someone?” And the answer is “Absolutely”, per Dr. David Healy, author of Phamageddon.and quoted in the paragraph above. “Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret…Want to find out if the drugs you or a loved one are taking might cause violent behavior? Enter the name of the drug over at the Violence Zone. Even if it’s ‘just a pill’ to help you quit smoking, side effects can be deadly. Don’t expect to hear about this on major media outlets. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in keeping journalists in line.”
David Kupelian at WND also documents a horrifying number of shootings associated with psychotropic drugs at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-in-sandy-hook-reporting/, including not only Columbine killer Eric Harris, who was on Luvox, but also: Patrick Purdy, who killed five children and wounded 30 in 1989, who was on amitriptyline and Thorazine, Kip Kinkle, who killed his parents, and 22 other fellow students, who was on Prozac and Ritalin; the 1988 Winnetka, IL. shooting by Laurie Dann, who killed one and wounded six while taking Anafranil and lithium; the 1997 Paducah KY school shooting by Michael Carneal, who shot and killed three while on Ritalin; the 2005 Jeff Wiese shooting, which killed nine and wounded 5 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which occurred while Wiese was on Prozac; the 1989 shooting of 20 co-workers, killing nine, by Joseph Wesbecker in Louisville, KY, while he was on Prozac – and which Eli Lilly settled a lawsuit by survivors; a 1996 shooting of his father by Kurt Danysh while on Prozac; or the horrible case of a mother one town over from where I currently live, Naperville, IL., who killed all five of her children while on antidepressant Effexor. The case of the Virginia Tech murder of 32 people by Cho Seung-Hui may also have been prescription drug related, too, as Kupelian discusses in this article. As if further evidence were needed, the Luvox label itself states that 4% of children in one study went manic – out of control behavior.
To what degree is the “prozac-ing” and “ritalin-ing” of our young contributing to these shootings? As noted above, these prescriptions state on their warning labels that violent behavior is one possible outcome of taking their drugs. Yet, there is nary a peep from the media. Why? Jason Charles the Truth Alliance notes “At least fourteen recent school shootings were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. There have been 109 wounded and 58 killed. Of these 14, seven were seeing either a psychiatrist (five of them) or psychologist (two of them). It is not known whether or not the other half were seeing a psychiatrist, as it has not been published." Details of this issue are at CCHR, http://www.cchrint.org/school-shooters/ )
What I find so frustrating about these things is that everytime they happen, people get outraged about them but never put anything forward that actually deals with the root causes.
the root cause is the fact that tax money is used to finance medical research and that we have federal and even state level agencies doing this kind of research and paying for medical care. ALL of this has to go. No more CDC, NO more NIH. NO FDA. The agencies at the federal level particularly are total corrupt failures. They are completely corrupted and captured by pharma.
Not a cent of public tax money to medical research, public (government) health, medicare , social security etc...
The income tax and the fact that the dollar is a fiat current makes this all possible.
ROOT CAUSE:
income tax and fiat money
Thank you for taking the time to post all this.