Thank you for another great article. De-prescribing psychiatric medication is one of the services I offer in my practice. I’ve been in the medical system for over 20 years and the increase in the use of these drugs is mind blowing. I have seen children as young as 7 on these meds. The most suicidal people I have ever seen, were recently placed in these meds and prior to starting them, they were just depressed or anxious. It’s scary because it’s so expected to Rx these drugs that if you do not, you could be held liable for not following guideline. When I was applying for NP jobs, one of the questions I was asked during an interview for an urgent care was would I be willing to rx a ssri for a person who was depressed. My face couldn’t hide the disgust at that question I think. I didn’t get that job.
My 23-year-old son (who is undiagnosed but is likely mildly autistic) was on SSRIs (low dose bc we have been skeptical of pharmaceuticals for a long time) when he started having panic attacks in HS at 16 after a move to a new town. He had PAs every day so we felt we had to try something. None worked and they made him worse (he felt flat emotionally and still had the PAs). After 4 years of trying one after another, he stopped using them. He made it through college and was having less PAs. He did an internship in DC for a congressman, then worked in another job when he got back but he was struggling with more anxiety. Since January he has had a crazy number of PAs again and for the last 6 months has been unable to work due to his struggles. A month ago, he moved back in with us, and he now can’t leave the house bc of PAs—but he even has bad ones throughout the day in the house. He suddenly with no discernible trigger feels “shot up” with adrenaline and his body shakes and he moans and cries out for help. He feels like the ground is moving beneath him. His hands and feet often go numb—it’s like watching him be tortured. We don’t know if this is autistic burnout or panic disorder or a overly triggered nervous system, or a combo. SSRIs are not an option he/we would consider and we don’t even want to use any
pharmaceuticals unless completely necessary. Do you have any suggestions of how we can help him?
Besides checking out Dr. Bill Gray Homeopath two books that helped me with anxiety when I was very young long before my Ativan/SSRI fiasco were “peace from nervous suffering” by Claire Weekes and Abraham Low’s or Lowe’s book called “Will Training”. These are very old books :0).
“Hope and Help for Your Nerves” by Claire Weeks is a fantastic book and nearly overnight after reading it I went from having frequent panic attacks to none ever again. It was that dramatic of a transformation! I think a lot of the suffering regarding panic attacks can be avoided once fear of the unknown is removed from the equation and that’s what the book did for me. I hope it helps your son, too, Trina
“Hope and Help for Your Nerves” by Claire Weeks is a fantastic book and nearly overnight after reading it I went from having frequent panic attacks to none ever again. It was that dramatic of a transformation! I think a lot of the suffering regarding panic attacks can be avoided once fear of the unknown is removed from the equation and that’s what the book did for me. I hope it helps your son, too, Trina
I think he should try and work in a less stressful environment. Politics nowadays are very stressful for any person, the level of violence and aggression has gone too far. There is a therapy my sister has been doing that has given her remarkable results "The one Minute Cure" by Madison Cavanaugh, very hard to follow but seemingly very effective. Also there is Leucovorin that has helped many autistic people but unfortunately is not an standard cure for everyone but it's worth trying it may help him.
You might look into the level of EMF exposure in his environment, such as your house and the rooms where he stays (wi-fi, dirty electricity, electric fields, magnetic fields, even your microwave.) These are known to cause anxiety and heart palps, sweating etc etc.
Two actions are required to stop the cycle of over prescribing prescription drugs. Fraudulent medical research that manipulates statistics to hide the harm that the drug causes should be a criminal offense and prosecuted under criminal law. Second, most of the drugs with side effects, especially those that have blackbox warnings should be banned from the marketplace immediately.. I suspect 80% of all the prescription drugs would disappear and would crush big Pharma. They have been crushing the health of the American people long enough.
I agree wholeheartedly here. I wish more people listen to Thomas and myself as we both are pharmacist and can attest to the poisons of this petrochemicals.
Regarding depression, what’s interesting to note is that depression and anxiety are new diseases: didn’t exist 100 years ago. It’s time we come to terms with the fact that modern society is making us sick — and selling us poison under the guise of getting better.
Here’s some work on the comment above if anyones interested:
I'm pretty sure that anxiety is an important element of the human response to danger and has been important to the successful ongoing survival of humans. Maybe depression is a response to the realization that the current state of society presents fewer avenues to dealing with those things that make us anxious.
One psychologist I listen to, Dr. Doug Lisle, if I remember correctly, believes that depression is another way of describing the frustration of not achieving a goal. You don't take a pill for that, you figure out a better way to achieve the goal. Or change the goal.
Actually, not achieving a goal is something to be thankful for.
As Thomas Edison said, I believe, " I now know one thing more that doesn't work." And, the failure provides information that could help one to strike out on a path that one might take to reach one's goal.
One might think, " Thank you X for allowing me to be able to pursue my goal. I now see that I was wrong on some assumptions or theories and now realize that they need correcting. That information is very beneficial and I'm grateful for having been able to pick up on it............."
Additionally, I think so much information is thrown at us with the advent of the internet that we become anxious. As AMD said, humans do not like change, yet we are constantly faced with changing technology and must adapt or be left behind. It can be overwhelming.
Depression in the 1800's was called melancholia. The treatments were generally specialized diets, rest cures, and sometimes cold baths. Treatments could also include purges and other harsh methods because of the notion of unbalanced humors.
Although, as Mouzer stated, depression DID exist way back when, it simply had a different name (melancholia), similar to tuberculosis being called "consumption".
I do appreciate your optimism. But as long as a majority of members of Congress--our lawmakers--are willing and able to be bought off by the Pharma cabal I don't see how your two suggestions can come to fruition.
And how does anyone outside of Congress enact your two steps since Congress as a whole is already captured?
Also, since it seems too easy to set up a secret offshore account to hide one's bribes, how can we possibly prove they're being bought off, other than pointing out that they're not prosecuting the corruption?!
As such, the fundamental block to success here is the allowing of offshore financial secrecy, e.g., as supported by Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Since a fundamental problem with money/currency is that virtually no one in/with power seems to think they have enough of it and will consequently, even if reluctantly, violate their morals/ethics/civic responsibilities to get more of it, even if illegally, if they believe they can continue to hide their deceit in doing so.
Begs the question: What is it to be an honorable human being, particularly if you're one who's been voted into leadership/governance roles by the people you're responsible to? Being honorable doesn't seem to be a sufficient motivator for most of them.
We need whistleblowers. But what would incentivize them?!
Your analysis says a lot! Maybe if we really had global warming the Caymans would disappear. Corrupting our thought leaders is a fine art form. How they sleep at night means if they do, they have no soul.
MIght work for awhile, but you're going after symptoms not the real problem. We're living in an immorally run world. Fraud removed will be replaced by new fraud until morality kicks in.
How do we get to moral ? By living and continuing to live morally and electing moral people into positions of power.
Good idea, but it is very rare to find anyone who is moral who can function within a political institution. I believe there are people who try to bring ethics and morality to their political positions, but they either succumb to the pressures from the corrupt majority, or quickly burn out from the Herculean attempt to "clean the stables".
I believe John Kennedy is on of the few who has found a way to hold onto his ethics and still function, although I am certain he would admit it is difficult for him to make a significant difference given the corrupt nature of government in general, even ours.
I haven't a clue how to effect a real change without scrapping what we have, or instituting a Constitutional amendment forcing short term limits, and an inability of politicians to become wealthy, at least while in office. Perhaps as some clerics did in ancient times - in these times by locking their finances prior to taking office, and not being allowed to purchase stocks, accept gratuities, etc.
"Was never meant to be a career", so true. I suggest -
1.Congress be scaled down in #'s 3.Backgrounds, financial and security clearances for all current and future citizens running for any govt. Office, once paper work filed to run (nurses have to be background checked, why not leaders of the States?;
4.Non citizens barred from holding govt office
5. Pharma to be held accountable and liable for their unscrupulous deeds, retro x 35 yrs, criminally and financially(truth about trial study results of all meds, come clean including CV19, NSAIDS, SSRI's, etc. If that means they go bellyup, room for new moral medication production manufacturing will replace the ones who monopolize, control, payoff media, govt. Et al.
6. Any political Rep. Who takes $ in and after office from NGO's, pharma, lobbyists, criminally prosecute!
7. Paper ballots, ID, ballot can be cross checked for legitimacy with the Ai central connected govt. Database now in place.
8. Pay for politicians, $190k a yr., no salary after office, max 2 terms, no working with ANY lobbyist group, NGO, FDA, CDC, CMS, after office. The Congress and House leaders work 10 months of each yr and no special insurance, they get what citizens get for health insurance options, same cost.
**That would be a good start to weed out power hungry, grifters from running for office.
What you say seems essentially true. But, trying to clean up things without also dealing with the cause is only a temporary solution. ( Remove the drug dealer and sooner or later another will take his/her place. ) The cause being a world run immorally and they symptoms include what you mention above. They are the result of living immorally - using the tools of fear, lying, corruption, war, stealing, etc........
What is needed is to elect more John Kennedys, to continue or begin to live morally and put moral people in office. Then, all our symptoms of being run immorally will melt away. Currently we are in a world run by zombies, actually. Beings who feed off of us. Thus, the fascination with zombie movies. LOL. Just a graphic way to get the point across. And it's true.
As John Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I am not a religious man, but I fully support the Judeo-Christian moral code, and know that we would not be in the sorry state we are now if it was followed by more people. Marx and the Communists who eventually followed him have a playbook for "fundamentally transforming" a country into a socialist, then communist, state. One of the first things they do is attack the moral structure of the country. That was a major part of what took place back in the '60s, and it has gotten so much worse since then that we now have a large number of people denying Biology 101 in service of destroying morality here, and the trans movement has created disturbed/deranged individuals who react to even simple criticism by killing people, many of whom were innocent of any antipathy towards them.
Interesting quote. Thank you. I'm not religious in the conventional sense either, but also am 100% with, " Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. " I'm currently of the opinion that as this World has been run on immorality to the point of it's being " normal ", that things will just get worse, not better, unless/until people start changing how they live until such become the majority. Otherwise, the immoral have the upper hand, as morality doesn't restrain them - just fear of being caught, which is how the immoral world functions, via fear. Notice how most, even the moral, gravitate towards solving symptoms via using fear - jail, fines, punishment, etc. . In other words working within the parameters of immorality ( It's normal. )
I agree with most of this, but how do you protect the innocent from harm if you allow those who harm others to continue without consequence. When, as we have seen much occurring recently, judges allow murderers, rapists, child molesters, etc. to return to the streets to kill, rape, molest again, you have accomplished nothing except to inform those scum that their behavior has been deemed acceptable (by the sick, progressive judges who enable them to hurt and kill more people, more children.
Jail, as well as prison, is meant to protect society by 1) informing the criminal his behavior will incur punishment, and 2) remove him from access to his victims for a period of time (prison vs jail). A child who has been raised without any punishment other than a "time out" often results in an unsocialized danger to the rest of us. (I am not condoning beatings or other such harsh treatment, but spankings, for example, worked admirably for many years, until Dr. Spock and other fools foisted their aberrant parenting ideas upon a gullible populace.)
Some would offer that it is a more interesting story when you consider some of the "funding" provided to Marx et al by certain members of an ethnic tribe.
Some would find you more reasonable if you ascribed it to certain individuals rather than showing your bias by blaming an entire race. Every race - including whichever is yours - contains bad individuals along with good. The race you are profaning has done much good for the human race, and in Israel continues to do so with medical, engineering, and other innovation that has benefitted the entire human race.
Will take a act of Congress and will not happen because most of the Congress people benefit from the Big Pharma dole. Same reason vaccines are not properly managed.
Those TWO actions or solutions have never been rocket science either has it! Both "actions" have simply been coddled and enabled to continue for the obvious reasons...
Allopathic medicine is the pharmaceutical industry, doctors are trained by and paid by them just like horticulture is the face of the ‘acide corporations. The phrase “doctor of medicine” clearly denotes this as opposed to “Healer”.
I have RA and I have come to understand that the only treatment available to me addresses only the symptoms of this condition, aggressive, absolute suppression is allopathies only solution and yet there is a cause and its not a mystery either. But if nobody but biologists look there is nothing to find.
Every single RA sufferer ever tested for bacteria in their synovial fluids have a collection of some of the worst filamentous forming bacteria present. The same pathogenic bacteria that migrates from damaged guts and or crowns. The studies on this are out there yet I am repeatedly told that there is no knowing the reason I developed this autoimmune condition. The only tests ever done have to to establish that I have it and because of that there is no knowing how to switch my inflammatory response off and so there is no cure but to take methotrexate, which further damages my gut and maims all the embryos of every living thing my urine comes in contact with when it leaves the waste water plant.
This is not acceptable to me… every condition has a cause and thus a remedy. I know what happened in my body, my emotional state and my mind in the years preceding this diagnosis but not a single doctor nor rheumatologist thought to ask me.
I am not a medically trained professional but i can read and think and so I am working, through trail and error, on solving this problem for myself because I need a cure not a lifelong dependency on a cluster of diabolical pharmaceuticals so yes, to the points of your article, the entirety of allopathic medicine needs a hard, cold reassessment. 15 minute, monocular medicine must go, the notion of AI (almost intelligent) running medicine will fail because it cannot assess the nuances of being human.
The beginning of this article, discussing how curing something obliterates the business model and profit in that disease, is how I’ve viewed ‘cancer research’ for decades. I refuse to donate to it. It is my belief that if ever a cure for cancer is found, it will come from some obscure person not aligned with big pharma, and that big pharma will do everything in their power to destroy the cure.
Just as a personal aside, THIRTY years ago, my friend was given a specific chemo cocktail to fight his stomach cancer. It failed and he gassed away. TEN years ago, another friend was given the SAME chemo cocktail and she passed away. I wondered, what have they been doing with all these billions collected for cancer research, when they continue to give the same failed treatment???
there are numerous cures for cancer, almost all banned by the govt. One has to seek on his or her own. Budwig, Moerman, Huxsey, Bieler and plenty others based on food. I read about a certain medicine and a few radiation types, but don't remember details. Several doctors advise to wait and see! it seems some cancers disappear on their own.
From what I understand, the only thing that actually cures cancer is your own immune system. We have cancer cells in us every single day, that are destroyed by a working immune system.
that is probably right, and how it should be. but who has a well-working immune system nowadays, with all the jabs, the chemicals in food, water, air? I recently read that we carry all kinds of germs inside, and thankfully, most at least seem to have a functioning system. I think that is also, why healthy food and herbs can cure cancer.
I agree that SSRI medications have few or no true indications. Classic major depression is likely the only one, and this is a very rare disorder. Most people currently diagnosed with depression have "atypical depression," which is actually caused by the long-term neurotoxic effects of ultra-processed food. I call this disorder Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome: https://carbsyndrome.com/
Unfortunately, CARB syndrome was missed by the academic and medical professionals, leading to massive diagnostic and therapeutic confusion.
a change of diet does not make the doctor rich. nor pharma.
I was amazed to read about the dating services! how people are used, abused, mislead! I can easily understand that people go to these sites because I live in small town USA with close to no social life, except churches. And there are plenty of them, each with a few tens to a couple hundred participants. Good luck in finding a mate. And then this! Awful.
We've had the "Plandemic" and RFK Jr along with many others have been exposing just how unethical the medical/healthcare industry has been, yet people still treat the system as "The Scientific Authority!" I believe they have instilled in mothers, that the profession and industry can do no wrong and has your best interests). Schools and other institutions serve to reinforce the belief that (allopathic) medicine is the path to curing diseases. Then, also place fear in senior citizens, via the multitude of testing and elaborate names, to convince them must take meds. The saddest part is they convinced generations to be patients for life by giving them labels to carry ("I'm a diabetic," "I have Chrohn's disease," "I am -you fill in the blank"). The self-limiting labels do more than consume time and money, they make it easier for the system to later add on conditions...which of course requires new meds. Last, because life is complex and our lives are so busy, few take the time to do research or want the responsibility for their own health.
Tina Smith is cruel to say this after seeing this video if indeed she took the time to listen to these injured, intelligent, and brave people coming forward. No one is telling anyone to give up their meds, only to be told the truth of the potential side effects, side effects which have to be lived to be believed actually, but still important to be told of.
I was afraid at age 44 to even tell my Dr. about all of my side effects because I was scared he’d lock me up and give me more “treatment”. These souls who are younger than that have come forward. All blessings and healing to them.
One thing that stood out is that these folks were all hyper sensitive as children. I heard almost every day as a child, “ you’re too sensitive”. Maybe that’s a red flag that should be considered when thinking about brain medicating young people.
Thank-you for showing these dear
souls coming forward.
I pray and hope for them to fully recover themselves and realize they are not alone and that many of us believe them and do care. And I hope they can return to who they truly are as I was lucky enough to do many years ago.
I must be one of the lucky patients who wasn't harmed (much) by antidepressants. It's quite shocking to me to read these stories of psychosis and violence attributed to them. I was treated about 20 years ago for alcohol abuse and depression. A psychologist's diagnosis was that I was self-medicating with alcohol due to depression, and suggested I ask my MD for a prescription. I was prescribed a generic of Zoloft initially. I don't recall the reasoning, but at some point I was switched to a generic of Wellbutrin. I remained on an antidepressant for 5 years. I got sober and was feeling much better, so I asked my MD to wean me off. I had gained a great deal of weight, and felt that the drug was preventing me from addressing that issue. I had no difficulty stopping the drug, and eventually lost the weight. Fast forward a few years to Johann Hari's Lost Connections, in which he described his own depression and prescription drug use. I began to see that the benefit I gained from antidepressants may have been a placebo effect. Combined with removing the deleterious effects of alcohol**, I got better. I can't prove it, and it ultimately does not matter in my case. These days I'm just happy to be free of both! (**A year in a group therapy program probably had as much to do with my success. The mind is powerful, and changing the way you think is an important tool.)
I didn't dislike the drug, per se. I felt fine while taking it. I didn't like being dependent on a prescription drug, and I didn't like shopping the XXL section!
And I think it’s great you found your own way and it’s funny that having a horrid reaction taught me a lot about using my mind.
The mention of Wellbutrin reminded me of friends on it long ago and they always said, “well, it’s different”, because I always had a negative/fearful reaction to their use of it.
Just wanted to thank you for all you do. Some of this is over my head, but I still read it all and absorb as much as i can. Although I don't always have the ability to fully understand, articulate and explain things like this to other people, I still make a point to speak out ALL the time. I make sure to let people know that the system is flawed and that they are being lied to and manipulated by many of these powerful entities around us that focus solely on money and greed. I tell people what I truly think about government, the uniparty, Big Pharma, covid shots, cancer "treatments", wokeness, abortion, etc. I offer different viewpoints, information about alternatives therapies and refer people to your substack along with a small handful of others. I speak up even when it brings me more headaches and misery (at least in the short term). I also listen and accept that others do not have to agree with me. I maintain respectful relationships with people that have completely opposing views to mine. I do believe and agree that complacency is the biggest problem. Too many people go along to get along and live with their heads comfortably buried in the sand. I refuse to be one of those people. I applaud you and respect you greatly for doing what you do. It’s not the easy road, but for some of us, it’s the only road.
Thank you. I try to make a lot of this as simple as I can, but simultaneously hit a limit on that since a lot of the medical topics are quite complicated and dense.
There’s too much overlap between profits and survival in our societies to expect a transition away from it in our service industries. All we can shoot for is a better mix.
I broke my navicular bone a couple of weeks ago and am looking at surgery (screws). Frankly, hauling me around has been way worse. When my shoulders are aching from too much 'walking' - DMSO takes care of it rather quickly so now it sits on the table beside me. A couple of OTC ibuprofen here and there. I know post-surgery will be different, but from the description, I don't think the incision is going to be all that big, but I am keeping DMSO in mind just in case.
This is the bone that Michael Jordan broke back in 1985 (and was the impetus for the development of Air Jordans). Apparently, this bone is notoriously hard to heal as it is in an area of the foot with poor blood flow. I am in my third week of non-weight bearing and will be for another at least five to six and it's feels like its been a year. I was curious as to what his healing regime was - the surgery I am having didn't exist back then. Turns out he was NWB for six months with no idea what would happen. What I find interesting though is the advances made in 40 years of surgery, when it is demanded because so many high-end athletes risk careers with this type of injury and there is a lot of money sunk into these people. So, I am a beneficiary of that. BUT. Like pharma, imaging is a cash cow. I had both an X-ray and a CT scan. CT scans came out in the early 70s - over half a century ago and X-rays long before that. The bill to the insurance for the CT? $5700. Utter BS. There is NO WAY it costs that much. Even the X-ray charge was over $900. Please. Nothing but forced scarcity. They have shoved smartphones down our throats over the last decade each more powerful than the one that came before it. You can film a movie on it. Where's the Star Trek tricorder???
I'd like to have a conversation with the hospital chargemaster when this is over.
I started having neuropathic pain on my shin area about a month ago. No broken skin, no irritation, just pain when touched. After this continued for four weeks, I started applying a 70/30 mixture of DMSO to the area. Pain has decreased dramatically in one week. I expect full resolution with time. I am applying a fourth of a dropper to the area about three times a day.
I wish I could copy some of your text in order to send to my kids. They wouldn't spend the time to actually read the entire sub stack. Having spent my adult working career in healthcare, I have seen it all from the diagnostic technology (x-ray, ultrasound) arena. I have read everything you write and use DMSO daily for restorative function of stem cell injections. Many thanks
I agree, the article is lengthy and I was taught you should summarize your findings early on and then provide supporting details. I thought how would AI take this article and reduce to it a single page, or has AI been taught to "defend" big pharma and fake science?
I've noticed a real turn by many people to "soundbites" rather than information. I think that there are many things that require a deep dive, but folks these days seem to lean toward "tweets", texting abbreviations, and such because they don't want to invest the time in actually learning something.
I went back to school at 49 to get my RN degree, and a common complaint by young students in my classes was, "Don't tell us all this stuff. Just tell us what will be on the exam".
Life isn't always that simple. Nor are issues that we face these days, especially with health, food, and the maintenance of our individual rights in the face of government corruption and its "need" to control us.
Thank you for writing this comment Beverly. I was wondering if it is safe to use Dmso on almost daily basis, but it helps so well I have done it for almost a year now.
I ran around with Bodybuilders in the 1980s and several used DMSO back then for muscle soreness and I think some used it as a topical skin application to pull in certain steroids.
Thank you for another great article. De-prescribing psychiatric medication is one of the services I offer in my practice. I’ve been in the medical system for over 20 years and the increase in the use of these drugs is mind blowing. I have seen children as young as 7 on these meds. The most suicidal people I have ever seen, were recently placed in these meds and prior to starting them, they were just depressed or anxious. It’s scary because it’s so expected to Rx these drugs that if you do not, you could be held liable for not following guideline. When I was applying for NP jobs, one of the questions I was asked during an interview for an urgent care was would I be willing to rx a ssri for a person who was depressed. My face couldn’t hide the disgust at that question I think. I didn’t get that job.
My 23-year-old son (who is undiagnosed but is likely mildly autistic) was on SSRIs (low dose bc we have been skeptical of pharmaceuticals for a long time) when he started having panic attacks in HS at 16 after a move to a new town. He had PAs every day so we felt we had to try something. None worked and they made him worse (he felt flat emotionally and still had the PAs). After 4 years of trying one after another, he stopped using them. He made it through college and was having less PAs. He did an internship in DC for a congressman, then worked in another job when he got back but he was struggling with more anxiety. Since January he has had a crazy number of PAs again and for the last 6 months has been unable to work due to his struggles. A month ago, he moved back in with us, and he now can’t leave the house bc of PAs—but he even has bad ones throughout the day in the house. He suddenly with no discernible trigger feels “shot up” with adrenaline and his body shakes and he moans and cries out for help. He feels like the ground is moving beneath him. His hands and feet often go numb—it’s like watching him be tortured. We don’t know if this is autistic burnout or panic disorder or a overly triggered nervous system, or a combo. SSRIs are not an option he/we would consider and we don’t even want to use any
pharmaceuticals unless completely necessary. Do you have any suggestions of how we can help him?
Besides checking out Dr. Bill Gray Homeopath two books that helped me with anxiety when I was very young long before my Ativan/SSRI fiasco were “peace from nervous suffering” by Claire Weekes and Abraham Low’s or Lowe’s book called “Will Training”. These are very old books :0).
“Hope and Help for Your Nerves” by Claire Weeks is a fantastic book and nearly overnight after reading it I went from having frequent panic attacks to none ever again. It was that dramatic of a transformation! I think a lot of the suffering regarding panic attacks can be avoided once fear of the unknown is removed from the equation and that’s what the book did for me. I hope it helps your son, too, Trina
“Hope and Help for Your Nerves” by Claire Weeks is a fantastic book and nearly overnight after reading it I went from having frequent panic attacks to none ever again. It was that dramatic of a transformation! I think a lot of the suffering regarding panic attacks can be avoided once fear of the unknown is removed from the equation and that’s what the book did for me. I hope it helps your son, too, Trina
I think he should try and work in a less stressful environment. Politics nowadays are very stressful for any person, the level of violence and aggression has gone too far. There is a therapy my sister has been doing that has given her remarkable results "The one Minute Cure" by Madison Cavanaugh, very hard to follow but seemingly very effective. Also there is Leucovorin that has helped many autistic people but unfortunately is not an standard cure for everyone but it's worth trying it may help him.
You might look into the level of EMF exposure in his environment, such as your house and the rooms where he stays (wi-fi, dirty electricity, electric fields, magnetic fields, even your microwave.) These are known to cause anxiety and heart palps, sweating etc etc.
Two actions are required to stop the cycle of over prescribing prescription drugs. Fraudulent medical research that manipulates statistics to hide the harm that the drug causes should be a criminal offense and prosecuted under criminal law. Second, most of the drugs with side effects, especially those that have blackbox warnings should be banned from the marketplace immediately.. I suspect 80% of all the prescription drugs would disappear and would crush big Pharma. They have been crushing the health of the American people long enough.
I agree wholeheartedly here. I wish more people listen to Thomas and myself as we both are pharmacist and can attest to the poisons of this petrochemicals.
Regarding depression, what’s interesting to note is that depression and anxiety are new diseases: didn’t exist 100 years ago. It’s time we come to terms with the fact that modern society is making us sick — and selling us poison under the guise of getting better.
Here’s some work on the comment above if anyones interested:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-invisible-rainbow
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/our-mental-reality
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/society-operates-on-the-demise-of
I'm pretty sure that anxiety is an important element of the human response to danger and has been important to the successful ongoing survival of humans. Maybe depression is a response to the realization that the current state of society presents fewer avenues to dealing with those things that make us anxious.
One psychologist I listen to, Dr. Doug Lisle, if I remember correctly, believes that depression is another way of describing the frustration of not achieving a goal. You don't take a pill for that, you figure out a better way to achieve the goal. Or change the goal.
Actually, not achieving a goal is something to be thankful for.
As Thomas Edison said, I believe, " I now know one thing more that doesn't work." And, the failure provides information that could help one to strike out on a path that one might take to reach one's goal.
One might think, " Thank you X for allowing me to be able to pursue my goal. I now see that I was wrong on some assumptions or theories and now realize that they need correcting. That information is very beneficial and I'm grateful for having been able to pick up on it............."
Additionally, I think so much information is thrown at us with the advent of the internet that we become anxious. As AMD said, humans do not like change, yet we are constantly faced with changing technology and must adapt or be left behind. It can be overwhelming.
Depression in the 1800's was called melancholia. The treatments were generally specialized diets, rest cures, and sometimes cold baths. Treatments could also include purges and other harsh methods because of the notion of unbalanced humors.
Although, as Mouzer stated, depression DID exist way back when, it simply had a different name (melancholia), similar to tuberculosis being called "consumption".
I do appreciate your optimism. But as long as a majority of members of Congress--our lawmakers--are willing and able to be bought off by the Pharma cabal I don't see how your two suggestions can come to fruition.
And how does anyone outside of Congress enact your two steps since Congress as a whole is already captured?
Also, since it seems too easy to set up a secret offshore account to hide one's bribes, how can we possibly prove they're being bought off, other than pointing out that they're not prosecuting the corruption?!
As such, the fundamental block to success here is the allowing of offshore financial secrecy, e.g., as supported by Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Since a fundamental problem with money/currency is that virtually no one in/with power seems to think they have enough of it and will consequently, even if reluctantly, violate their morals/ethics/civic responsibilities to get more of it, even if illegally, if they believe they can continue to hide their deceit in doing so.
Begs the question: What is it to be an honorable human being, particularly if you're one who's been voted into leadership/governance roles by the people you're responsible to? Being honorable doesn't seem to be a sufficient motivator for most of them.
We need whistleblowers. But what would incentivize them?!
Your analysis says a lot! Maybe if we really had global warming the Caymans would disappear. Corrupting our thought leaders is a fine art form. How they sleep at night means if they do, they have no soul.
The love of money is the root of all evil
MIght work for awhile, but you're going after symptoms not the real problem. We're living in an immorally run world. Fraud removed will be replaced by new fraud until morality kicks in.
How do we get to moral ? By living and continuing to live morally and electing moral people into positions of power.
Good idea, but it is very rare to find anyone who is moral who can function within a political institution. I believe there are people who try to bring ethics and morality to their political positions, but they either succumb to the pressures from the corrupt majority, or quickly burn out from the Herculean attempt to "clean the stables".
I believe John Kennedy is on of the few who has found a way to hold onto his ethics and still function, although I am certain he would admit it is difficult for him to make a significant difference given the corrupt nature of government in general, even ours.
I haven't a clue how to effect a real change without scrapping what we have, or instituting a Constitutional amendment forcing short term limits, and an inability of politicians to become wealthy, at least while in office. Perhaps as some clerics did in ancient times - in these times by locking their finances prior to taking office, and not being allowed to purchase stocks, accept gratuities, etc.
Being in Congress was never meant to be a career.
"Was never meant to be a career", so true. I suggest -
1.Congress be scaled down in #'s 3.Backgrounds, financial and security clearances for all current and future citizens running for any govt. Office, once paper work filed to run (nurses have to be background checked, why not leaders of the States?;
4.Non citizens barred from holding govt office
5. Pharma to be held accountable and liable for their unscrupulous deeds, retro x 35 yrs, criminally and financially(truth about trial study results of all meds, come clean including CV19, NSAIDS, SSRI's, etc. If that means they go bellyup, room for new moral medication production manufacturing will replace the ones who monopolize, control, payoff media, govt. Et al.
6. Any political Rep. Who takes $ in and after office from NGO's, pharma, lobbyists, criminally prosecute!
7. Paper ballots, ID, ballot can be cross checked for legitimacy with the Ai central connected govt. Database now in place.
8. Pay for politicians, $190k a yr., no salary after office, max 2 terms, no working with ANY lobbyist group, NGO, FDA, CDC, CMS, after office. The Congress and House leaders work 10 months of each yr and no special insurance, they get what citizens get for health insurance options, same cost.
**That would be a good start to weed out power hungry, grifters from running for office.
What you say seems essentially true. But, trying to clean up things without also dealing with the cause is only a temporary solution. ( Remove the drug dealer and sooner or later another will take his/her place. ) The cause being a world run immorally and they symptoms include what you mention above. They are the result of living immorally - using the tools of fear, lying, corruption, war, stealing, etc........
What is needed is to elect more John Kennedys, to continue or begin to live morally and put moral people in office. Then, all our symptoms of being run immorally will melt away. Currently we are in a world run by zombies, actually. Beings who feed off of us. Thus, the fascination with zombie movies. LOL. Just a graphic way to get the point across. And it's true.
As John Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I am not a religious man, but I fully support the Judeo-Christian moral code, and know that we would not be in the sorry state we are now if it was followed by more people. Marx and the Communists who eventually followed him have a playbook for "fundamentally transforming" a country into a socialist, then communist, state. One of the first things they do is attack the moral structure of the country. That was a major part of what took place back in the '60s, and it has gotten so much worse since then that we now have a large number of people denying Biology 101 in service of destroying morality here, and the trans movement has created disturbed/deranged individuals who react to even simple criticism by killing people, many of whom were innocent of any antipathy towards them.
Interesting quote. Thank you. I'm not religious in the conventional sense either, but also am 100% with, " Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. " I'm currently of the opinion that as this World has been run on immorality to the point of it's being " normal ", that things will just get worse, not better, unless/until people start changing how they live until such become the majority. Otherwise, the immoral have the upper hand, as morality doesn't restrain them - just fear of being caught, which is how the immoral world functions, via fear. Notice how most, even the moral, gravitate towards solving symptoms via using fear - jail, fines, punishment, etc. . In other words working within the parameters of immorality ( It's normal. )
I agree with most of this, but how do you protect the innocent from harm if you allow those who harm others to continue without consequence. When, as we have seen much occurring recently, judges allow murderers, rapists, child molesters, etc. to return to the streets to kill, rape, molest again, you have accomplished nothing except to inform those scum that their behavior has been deemed acceptable (by the sick, progressive judges who enable them to hurt and kill more people, more children.
Jail, as well as prison, is meant to protect society by 1) informing the criminal his behavior will incur punishment, and 2) remove him from access to his victims for a period of time (prison vs jail). A child who has been raised without any punishment other than a "time out" often results in an unsocialized danger to the rest of us. (I am not condoning beatings or other such harsh treatment, but spankings, for example, worked admirably for many years, until Dr. Spock and other fools foisted their aberrant parenting ideas upon a gullible populace.)
Some would offer that it is a more interesting story when you consider some of the "funding" provided to Marx et al by certain members of an ethnic tribe.
Some would find you more reasonable if you ascribed it to certain individuals rather than showing your bias by blaming an entire race. Every race - including whichever is yours - contains bad individuals along with good. The race you are profaning has done much good for the human race, and in Israel continues to do so with medical, engineering, and other innovation that has benefitted the entire human race.
Thomas, there was talk about banning pharma from advertising on media. This would help as well.
Will take a act of Congress and will not happen because most of the Congress people benefit from the Big Pharma dole. Same reason vaccines are not properly managed.
Also laudenum, an opiate.
Those TWO actions or solutions have never been rocket science either has it! Both "actions" have simply been coddled and enabled to continue for the obvious reasons...
It’s not just SSRI’s.
Allopathic medicine is the pharmaceutical industry, doctors are trained by and paid by them just like horticulture is the face of the ‘acide corporations. The phrase “doctor of medicine” clearly denotes this as opposed to “Healer”.
I have RA and I have come to understand that the only treatment available to me addresses only the symptoms of this condition, aggressive, absolute suppression is allopathies only solution and yet there is a cause and its not a mystery either. But if nobody but biologists look there is nothing to find.
Every single RA sufferer ever tested for bacteria in their synovial fluids have a collection of some of the worst filamentous forming bacteria present. The same pathogenic bacteria that migrates from damaged guts and or crowns. The studies on this are out there yet I am repeatedly told that there is no knowing the reason I developed this autoimmune condition. The only tests ever done have to to establish that I have it and because of that there is no knowing how to switch my inflammatory response off and so there is no cure but to take methotrexate, which further damages my gut and maims all the embryos of every living thing my urine comes in contact with when it leaves the waste water plant.
This is not acceptable to me… every condition has a cause and thus a remedy. I know what happened in my body, my emotional state and my mind in the years preceding this diagnosis but not a single doctor nor rheumatologist thought to ask me.
I am not a medically trained professional but i can read and think and so I am working, through trail and error, on solving this problem for myself because I need a cure not a lifelong dependency on a cluster of diabolical pharmaceuticals so yes, to the points of your article, the entirety of allopathic medicine needs a hard, cold reassessment. 15 minute, monocular medicine must go, the notion of AI (almost intelligent) running medicine will fail because it cannot assess the nuances of being human.
The sooner the better!
Take a look at the borax conspiracy, it may help you.
The beginning of this article, discussing how curing something obliterates the business model and profit in that disease, is how I’ve viewed ‘cancer research’ for decades. I refuse to donate to it. It is my belief that if ever a cure for cancer is found, it will come from some obscure person not aligned with big pharma, and that big pharma will do everything in their power to destroy the cure.
That was one of the things I was thinking about while I wrote this
Just as a personal aside, THIRTY years ago, my friend was given a specific chemo cocktail to fight his stomach cancer. It failed and he gassed away. TEN years ago, another friend was given the SAME chemo cocktail and she passed away. I wondered, what have they been doing with all these billions collected for cancer research, when they continue to give the same failed treatment???
there are numerous cures for cancer, almost all banned by the govt. One has to seek on his or her own. Budwig, Moerman, Huxsey, Bieler and plenty others based on food. I read about a certain medicine and a few radiation types, but don't remember details. Several doctors advise to wait and see! it seems some cancers disappear on their own.
From what I understand, the only thing that actually cures cancer is your own immune system. We have cancer cells in us every single day, that are destroyed by a working immune system.
that is probably right, and how it should be. but who has a well-working immune system nowadays, with all the jabs, the chemicals in food, water, air? I recently read that we carry all kinds of germs inside, and thankfully, most at least seem to have a functioning system. I think that is also, why healthy food and herbs can cure cancer.
And have done so.
I agree that SSRI medications have few or no true indications. Classic major depression is likely the only one, and this is a very rare disorder. Most people currently diagnosed with depression have "atypical depression," which is actually caused by the long-term neurotoxic effects of ultra-processed food. I call this disorder Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome: https://carbsyndrome.com/
Unfortunately, CARB syndrome was missed by the academic and medical professionals, leading to massive diagnostic and therapeutic confusion.
a change of diet does not make the doctor rich. nor pharma.
I was amazed to read about the dating services! how people are used, abused, mislead! I can easily understand that people go to these sites because I live in small town USA with close to no social life, except churches. And there are plenty of them, each with a few tens to a couple hundred participants. Good luck in finding a mate. And then this! Awful.
We've had the "Plandemic" and RFK Jr along with many others have been exposing just how unethical the medical/healthcare industry has been, yet people still treat the system as "The Scientific Authority!" I believe they have instilled in mothers, that the profession and industry can do no wrong and has your best interests). Schools and other institutions serve to reinforce the belief that (allopathic) medicine is the path to curing diseases. Then, also place fear in senior citizens, via the multitude of testing and elaborate names, to convince them must take meds. The saddest part is they convinced generations to be patients for life by giving them labels to carry ("I'm a diabetic," "I have Chrohn's disease," "I am -you fill in the blank"). The self-limiting labels do more than consume time and money, they make it easier for the system to later add on conditions...which of course requires new meds. Last, because life is complex and our lives are so busy, few take the time to do research or want the responsibility for their own health.
Tina Smith is cruel to say this after seeing this video if indeed she took the time to listen to these injured, intelligent, and brave people coming forward. No one is telling anyone to give up their meds, only to be told the truth of the potential side effects, side effects which have to be lived to be believed actually, but still important to be told of.
I was afraid at age 44 to even tell my Dr. about all of my side effects because I was scared he’d lock me up and give me more “treatment”. These souls who are younger than that have come forward. All blessings and healing to them.
One thing that stood out is that these folks were all hyper sensitive as children. I heard almost every day as a child, “ you’re too sensitive”. Maybe that’s a red flag that should be considered when thinking about brain medicating young people.
Thank-you for showing these dear
souls coming forward.
I pray and hope for them to fully recover themselves and realize they are not alone and that many of us believe them and do care. And I hope they can return to who they truly are as I was lucky enough to do many years ago.
I weaned myself off of SSRI's. I feel better and less depressed. I can cry once again and the side effect of sexual disfunction is now gone.
Big issue is that the difficulty of weaning off varies person to person.
What do you think about the DMSO-Colliodal silver cancer protocol?
Yes, it took me about 5 months to wean off of the SSRI's.
I must be one of the lucky patients who wasn't harmed (much) by antidepressants. It's quite shocking to me to read these stories of psychosis and violence attributed to them. I was treated about 20 years ago for alcohol abuse and depression. A psychologist's diagnosis was that I was self-medicating with alcohol due to depression, and suggested I ask my MD for a prescription. I was prescribed a generic of Zoloft initially. I don't recall the reasoning, but at some point I was switched to a generic of Wellbutrin. I remained on an antidepressant for 5 years. I got sober and was feeling much better, so I asked my MD to wean me off. I had gained a great deal of weight, and felt that the drug was preventing me from addressing that issue. I had no difficulty stopping the drug, and eventually lost the weight. Fast forward a few years to Johann Hari's Lost Connections, in which he described his own depression and prescription drug use. I began to see that the benefit I gained from antidepressants may have been a placebo effect. Combined with removing the deleterious effects of alcohol**, I got better. I can't prove it, and it ultimately does not matter in my case. These days I'm just happy to be free of both! (**A year in a group therapy program probably had as much to do with my success. The mind is powerful, and changing the way you think is an important tool.)
Good for you! 💕
It’s funny, I’ve had a few friends who liked Wellbutrin…
I didn't dislike the drug, per se. I felt fine while taking it. I didn't like being dependent on a prescription drug, and I didn't like shopping the XXL section!
I understand that.
And I think it’s great you found your own way and it’s funny that having a horrid reaction taught me a lot about using my mind.
The mention of Wellbutrin reminded me of friends on it long ago and they always said, “well, it’s different”, because I always had a negative/fearful reaction to their use of it.
Just wanted to thank you for all you do. Some of this is over my head, but I still read it all and absorb as much as i can. Although I don't always have the ability to fully understand, articulate and explain things like this to other people, I still make a point to speak out ALL the time. I make sure to let people know that the system is flawed and that they are being lied to and manipulated by many of these powerful entities around us that focus solely on money and greed. I tell people what I truly think about government, the uniparty, Big Pharma, covid shots, cancer "treatments", wokeness, abortion, etc. I offer different viewpoints, information about alternatives therapies and refer people to your substack along with a small handful of others. I speak up even when it brings me more headaches and misery (at least in the short term). I also listen and accept that others do not have to agree with me. I maintain respectful relationships with people that have completely opposing views to mine. I do believe and agree that complacency is the biggest problem. Too many people go along to get along and live with their heads comfortably buried in the sand. I refuse to be one of those people. I applaud you and respect you greatly for doing what you do. It’s not the easy road, but for some of us, it’s the only road.
Thank you. I try to make a lot of this as simple as I can, but simultaneously hit a limit on that since a lot of the medical topics are quite complicated and dense.
You do a great job of simplifying things enough to make the information approachable and useful!
There’s too much overlap between profits and survival in our societies to expect a transition away from it in our service industries. All we can shoot for is a better mix.
I broke my navicular bone a couple of weeks ago and am looking at surgery (screws). Frankly, hauling me around has been way worse. When my shoulders are aching from too much 'walking' - DMSO takes care of it rather quickly so now it sits on the table beside me. A couple of OTC ibuprofen here and there. I know post-surgery will be different, but from the description, I don't think the incision is going to be all that big, but I am keeping DMSO in mind just in case.
This is the bone that Michael Jordan broke back in 1985 (and was the impetus for the development of Air Jordans). Apparently, this bone is notoriously hard to heal as it is in an area of the foot with poor blood flow. I am in my third week of non-weight bearing and will be for another at least five to six and it's feels like its been a year. I was curious as to what his healing regime was - the surgery I am having didn't exist back then. Turns out he was NWB for six months with no idea what would happen. What I find interesting though is the advances made in 40 years of surgery, when it is demanded because so many high-end athletes risk careers with this type of injury and there is a lot of money sunk into these people. So, I am a beneficiary of that. BUT. Like pharma, imaging is a cash cow. I had both an X-ray and a CT scan. CT scans came out in the early 70s - over half a century ago and X-rays long before that. The bill to the insurance for the CT? $5700. Utter BS. There is NO WAY it costs that much. Even the X-ray charge was over $900. Please. Nothing but forced scarcity. They have shoved smartphones down our throats over the last decade each more powerful than the one that came before it. You can film a movie on it. Where's the Star Trek tricorder???
I'd like to have a conversation with the hospital chargemaster when this is over.
I started having neuropathic pain on my shin area about a month ago. No broken skin, no irritation, just pain when touched. After this continued for four weeks, I started applying a 70/30 mixture of DMSO to the area. Pain has decreased dramatically in one week. I expect full resolution with time. I am applying a fourth of a dropper to the area about three times a day.
Mark when you say 70-30 do you mean cut with water?
I wish I could copy some of your text in order to send to my kids. They wouldn't spend the time to actually read the entire sub stack. Having spent my adult working career in healthcare, I have seen it all from the diagnostic technology (x-ray, ultrasound) arena. I have read everything you write and use DMSO daily for restorative function of stem cell injections. Many thanks
I agree, the article is lengthy and I was taught you should summarize your findings early on and then provide supporting details. I thought how would AI take this article and reduce to it a single page, or has AI been taught to "defend" big pharma and fake science?
I've noticed a real turn by many people to "soundbites" rather than information. I think that there are many things that require a deep dive, but folks these days seem to lean toward "tweets", texting abbreviations, and such because they don't want to invest the time in actually learning something.
I went back to school at 49 to get my RN degree, and a common complaint by young students in my classes was, "Don't tell us all this stuff. Just tell us what will be on the exam".
Life isn't always that simple. Nor are issues that we face these days, especially with health, food, and the maintenance of our individual rights in the face of government corruption and its "need" to control us.
100%. The technology has rewired many brains to maintain an average 5-10 second attention span. Its very sad.
Thank you for writing this comment Beverly. I was wondering if it is safe to use Dmso on almost daily basis, but it helps so well I have done it for almost a year now.
Go RFK Jr.!
Another brave Kennedy being treated like garbage.
I ran around with Bodybuilders in the 1980s and several used DMSO back then for muscle soreness and I think some used it as a topical skin application to pull in certain steroids.