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For over a decade, Alex Jones has been calling them ‘murder-suicide pills’.

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He's just a "conspiracy theorist".

It's all Putin's fault!

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Yes he happens to be right on this issue simply by sheer random chance, not by observation or the collection of facts or data. But even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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If it's just by random chance that he's right so frequently, then maybe I should ask him to pick out my next lottery numbers...

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exactly !! I'm interested also :)

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I love watching Alex and having him put up a clip of himself from years ago telling everyone this or that was going to happen as he is discussing what just happened. He is either a good researcher and puts the puzzle together well, or a precog, you know those psychics from "Minority Report". Well maybe he an insider and knows that way. Naaaaa...Alex is Alex and he is one smart host.

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Jul 7, 2022·edited Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Another excellent and timely post. The USA is way over-prescribed. Becoming dependent on Big Pharma to the detriment of both public and personal health.

For people interested in learning more about how many Americans are on prescription drugs, I do have a data breakdown here: "Americans are taking more and more prescriptions drugs. How much more? Let's see the data!" @ https://americanexile.substack.com/p/americans-are-taking-more-and-more

It does contain credible sources on among other things why antidepressants do not work as promised, but are now contaminating our water sources -- and our fish! A Midwestern Doctor [The Forgotten Side of Medicine] is one of my sources! But you can skip that and cut straight to the data dashboard, if you wish: https://rpubs.com/Thom_JH/polypharmacy_usa

All best!

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Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

John Ratey wrote Spark. A wonderful book. It’s a shame more people haven’t read it. It changed my view completely.

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Checking it out now. Looks like an excellent resource! Two works which seem similar that I treasure are The Barbell Prescription by Jonathon Sullivan, MD; and Longevity Simplified by Dr. Howard J. Luks (MD). Lifestyle medicine first and foremost. Eat clean, stay active, exercise. Thank you for the reference.

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I haven't read Sullivan, but I already know what's in it as I went back to the 'weight pile' when I had very painful bulging disks(L4,5,6) at the age of 41 twelve years ago. Regular squats have kept my back pain free and maintaining an elevated body strength has been highly therapeutic overall. Get to the gym! :-D

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Great work, and great news. Not that you need it, but I just finished up with a discussion of Sully and another new book which I think is good. "Why Strength Training is Fundamental to Health and to Preventing Cognitive Decline " @ https://americanexile.substack.com/p/why-strength-training-is-fundamental

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Jul 7, 2022·edited Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

I coined the term "White Knuckle Surviving Self" post psych med iatrogenic brain damage. Nobody, not a single doc or "expert", believed me and this lived experience is what saved me, a second time, from the deadly injection. It took 3 to 5 years to recover from 4 years on the poisons. It was by the grace of God that I survived. Here's a story that I would like to share and that came from an online support group called Surviving Antidepressants ~ Yesterday, the Devil whispered in my ear "You are not strong enough to survive the storm." Today, I whispered in the devils ear "I Am The Storm." ~ PS It's part of my hypothesis the psych meds are why so many are so severely cognitively dissonant right now. Big pharm and "their" devilish plans.

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I'm really glad you were able to get through such difficult times! :)

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Jul 8, 2022·edited Jul 8, 2022

I experienced a similar situation after being on cymbalta for 3 years. And said exactly the same thing - I survived it only by the grace of God! I never felt right, and could best describe my metal state as zombie-like. But when I started to have what is known as "brain zaps", I was truly freaked out! They're hard to describe but it feels like your brain is short circuiting. I retired from my job that I loved (5 years sooner than planned), found an online support group and began the tedious process of detoxing, with NO help at all from the doctor who prescribed that hellish drug. I share that experience often with the hope that it might keep even one person from going through that hell. That was 15 years ago and they're STILL prescribing that horrible stuff. Recently my granddaughter said that her doctor recommended it to her. Thank goodness we talked before she started it and I was able to steer her away from it.

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In addition to reading about it online, I have personal friends who have experienced the brain zaps.

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I'm very sorry for all your troubles. I think it's time we all become our own patient advocate, stop waiting for someone to save us. And if your doctor seems incompetent in one thing, they are likely incompetent in other things. It may be that their attitude is they just don't care. And you can't change someone's attitude in general.

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This is tragic and common.

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That is quite an interesting hypothesis. Do you mean the drugs create conditions that impair judgment or that if one is convinced he needs one pill to function effectively it is not a stretch to convince him he needs an injection similarly?

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I would say both. Personally, I do believe that drugs impair judgement. (been on some anti-depressants in the past) - and I do believe that those that are conditioned to accept meds as the first 'go to' would also see preventative meds (ie vaccines) also as a go to. We are disconnected from our bodies. It's one of the reasons I like being an EFT practitioner - it helps to break down the fear, and cognitive dissonance ...

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I like that - meds = cognitive dissonance.

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“Antidepressants have warnings for both suicidal and homicidal ideation and the FDA warnings indicate those reactions to be at almost double the rate for those under the age of 25. That is not just killing yourself or someone else but having persistent ruminating thoughts of both suicide and homicide, along with the same persistent thoughts of various methods of killing – thoughts Eric complained of within only weeks after first being placed on Zoloft. Putting a gun in his hand is NOT what produced those thoughts, but a drug did, and the drugs even carry a warning that they can produce that!!

With only me and a couple of others working to gather these cases over the past two decades out of 70 school shootings we have had 68 school shooters on antidepressants … you know this has to be only the tip of the iceberg. Seems pretty simple math at this point!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpFoivbZH1o&feature=player_embedded

Dr Ann Blake Tracy

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A lot of people report psychotic breaks from SSRIs... :-(

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I am blown away by this. I consider myself fairly well informed and well read. I am clearly a little delusional. I know this is a different drug class but I took ambien and had sleep walking issues. I consider myself lucky to not have harmed myself or anyone else. That happened many years ago and caused me to distrust anything a company was advertising Thank you for this information I am late to the game.

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The biggest issue with those class of drugs is that they are highly addictive, so individuals gradually lose the ability to taper them. One of the lesser appreciated facts of Ambien is that it is a sedative rather than a sleep aid, so many individuals who take it do not have restorative sleep and overtime develop a variety of problems that would also occur with sleep deprivation.

First class of drugs is helpful for short-term psychiatric issues, but in almost all cases ends up being changed to a long-term approach which in most cases causes more harm than benefit. For more sensitive patients, they also notice a variety of problematic changes in their mind body and spirit when they are on the drugs.

That all said, I consider them to be much safer and more beneficial than SSRIs.

The sleep walking thing is really interesting, I've never heard of that previously and will need to think about it.

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My elderly aunt who lives alone used to take Ambien regularly. One morning, she was driving on the highway and according to witnesses was swerving for about a mile before she crashed into a jersey wall. Shockingly, no one was injured. But police saw an open container of cardboard wine at 10:00 am. Grocery receipt indicated she purchased the wine that morning. She has no memory of any of this.

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Thanks I believe one if the Kennedys had that issue back in the day; driving while asleep. My Sister had the same issue. I think it is a known side effect. I assumed that’s why the advertising in these products stopped.

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Yes, I remember the Kennedy episode from several years ago. At the time, I thought it was just a lame excuse. I did not realize the truth until it happened to my own family.

I used to operate under the assumption that waiting at least seven years after a drug was approved would give us enough time to judge true safety and efficacy. But now knowing how this information is being censored, I don't know what to believe about any drug anymore. We should all know by now that we can't blindly follow the advice of physicians or their corrupt medical organizations, how do we lay people judge safety? The only thing I know to do is to keep my body as healthy as possible and avoid medication unless absolutely necessary.

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I hear you. Avoid all medication, as the average drug as 100 side effects.

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Jul 7, 2022·edited Jul 7, 2022

Agreed. I won’t buy food or body care products that that has a lust of ingredients that is so long that I get bored.

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Thank you for covering this topic. Your statement here that they are highly addictive seems almost an understatement, but my understanding of addiction lacks scientific background. However, my experience with Cymbalta taught me that as your body gets accustomed the dose you're taking, you begin to have withdrawal effects because the monster is clamoring for more!

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It's a classic business model.

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In Oconomowoc Wi USA an orthopedic surgeon on Ambien got into his Cadillac SUV. He was traveling at high rate of speed not slowing down for controlled stop. He ran over a subcompact killing a mother and her two kids.

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You are not 'late', you may have missed the first call but there are many others who have yet to catch up. You're doing better than most, who still have blind faith in the pharmaceutical industry.

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So no truth in advertising? Smart aleck remark

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Jul 7, 2022·edited Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Regarding term "conspiracy theory ". Conspiracies happen ALL the time. Police, insurance adjusters, arson investigators etc all have to develop ideas that would fit known facts... they have to come up with theories of how these crimes, conspiracies happened. (Parents and teachers do this!,). Nothing inherently wrong with a conspiracy theory.

People have been trained by CIA to use it as a term of denigration to silence those who rejected JFK assassination fairy tale. Sorry, CIA, I'm not playing your game on this one.

I have 2 conspiracy theories. One covid 19 mass depopulation scheme. Secret societies took over Vatican in October 1958.

But! They are actually 1 conspiracy theory since same secret societies are running both of them. Gotta have 1 world religion to usher in one world government

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Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

...Secret societies took over Vatican in October 1958....

Without even knowing that something like that had happened, I spent 2 decades trying to understand what was behind the Catholic Church. The trigger was related to events that had happened to the Clergy in other countries (ritualistic murders) and that the Vatican refused to investigate. I am not investigative journalist and never was, but I am a Curious and never believed anything I was told without proof.... The 2nd trigger was an article by an Italian journalist that revealed that all (I mean all) cardinals in the Vatican were 33rd degree masons. He listed them all and their respective lodges.

He's the one who revealed that Kissinger is a 33rd degree of the Italian P1 lodge.

Guess what happened to him? He was found dead and the Vatican did NOTHING to cleanse its house.

Then after years of research I met a friend that happened to be a devote Catholic (BTW -I am not religious), a retired diplomat... In 2 separate instances he revealed to me that he was a member of the Opus Dei (Vatican's secret service) and was always complaining about the Pope (John Paul II) being surrounded by Freemasons!!!

When reading online, it's more difficult to extract such information from others by osmosis. People's contact is very important in this case.

I have now validated that your 1958 "conspiracy theory" is a real Conspiracy.

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You're almost there. There are 2 churches. Catholic Church, 200k, scattered around the world. I will add links that shows the horror, but last bit has writing predicting this time.

Then there is Church of 1.2 billion, that occupies Vatican, our Cathedrals, vast majority of Church buildings, has a man in white play acting pope. Mistakenly called Catholic Church by almost everyone on planet earth

This 1.2b Church... sedevacantists call it Vatican II Church, Conciliar Church, Great apostasy Church.

It is in no way Catholic.

Look up 1948 Fulton Sheen prediction.... he NAILED it.... then fell for it

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...It is in no way Catholic....

Vatican = CINO => Catholic In Name Only!

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Correct. You got it. Frauds.

And Jesus has a few things coming: Triumph of Immaculate Heart of Mary, true Pope (great and Holy) and Great Catholic Monarch.

Fun times! Hold out and don't comply with these children of satan running depopulation scheme

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Don’t forget about the Jesuits….according to Pres John Adam’s…”The most nefarious evil group of men on the face of the earth!” No Roman Catholic could hold a gov office during the time of the 13 colonies in our country! Great documentary on the Jesuits and their oath is “A Lamp In The Dark!” by Adullam Films….Christian J Pinto…director!

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Francis = Brandon = Jesuit!!!

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The Catholic Church will be the ones to defeat NWO. We are extremely weakened... very little property.

Despised because of child rape scandal of 60s, when we had already lost Vatican

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The RCC and the Jesuits are behind the NWO and the WEF….they ruled the world in the past and want to rule again! Study true history if you can find it! It’s being rewritten since the 1920!

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I am part of 200k Catholic Church. We are terrified of NWO, furious, and working against it.

I bet you think Francis is Pope, abd Church he heads is Catholic Church

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Leaving aside Jesuits...

Catholic priests couldn't say Mass in some states even after USA born...

This country was founded by freemasons, who ultimately want to destroy society.

French revolution was about destroying Catholic monarchy and killing Catholic priests and Catholic faith

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This country was founded by bible believing Christians but was eventually infiltrated by Jesuit-Masons! For 600 years Rome (RCC) ruled Europe with an iron fist and slathered Bible believing Christian in the millions (57,000 French Hugonots in one day!)…before the reformation under..Luther…Tyndale…Huss and others! Rome started the counter-reformation under the order of the Jesuits! Still in full swing today! The French Revolution was a RC Jesuit Order orchestrated operation! All major wars are operations of the RC-Jesuit Order! The Rwandan genocide 1994 was inspired by Rome…several nuns and priests were arrested for their participation!

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On the killing of non Catholics...

The Catholic Church teaches that murder of innocents is grave matter that can land you in hell.

I notice you don't talk about Catholics killed by protestants... but that would ruin your story.

Are you one that says Rome and Roman Catholic Church are the same? If so, this is extremely bizarre and not historical

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Freemasons founded it, but some went to Protestant churches. Protestants reject Blessed Sacrament, all but 2 of the other Sacraments, special role of Blessed Virgin Mary, the fact that Jesus Christ established the Catholic Church.

To be Christian is to be Catholic.

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Yes…that’s the issue that Bible believing Christians were murdered over…refusing the RC mass! Rome called for the murder of BB Christians because they refused transubstantiation…the belief that a RC priest (a mere sinful man) has power to bring…Christ the Creator… down from Heaven and re-sacrifice Him over and over again on millions of alters…which militates against Christ’s own words…”It is finished!” meaning ( no repetitious sacrifice can add anything to His finished work). and Hebrews 9:12-14 which clearly says Christ entered ONCE and for all…with His own blood…into the Holy of holies for the sins of man! Transubstantiation militates against… the ONCE FOR ALL work of Christ Jesus… on the cross! It is directly opposed to the good news of the Gospel and the scripture!

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At 10:44 the predictions begin. I know families driving 6, 7 hours one way to go to Mass Not in union with Francis.

A lady who Gets on an airplane 4x a year to get sacraments...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9tio92eXhp4

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Nancy and Paul Pelosi

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Unsure what this is in reference to. Nancy, Ted Kennedy, Biden etc ain't Catholic.

Proof: if a person deny 1 Catholic teaching you're not Catholic.

They and others can refer to themselves as Catholic.... they ain't.

There is one thing on the menu: Take it or leave it.

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The Pelosis’ took a trip last week to the Vatican (private jet), after the husband (Paul), crashed the car and got a DUI.

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I'd get kicked out of the Vatican.

One of my t shirt:

John Paul II:

Not Catholic

Not Pope

NOT SAINT

Not great ...

These people atr. Vermin .

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So, I love Catholic Church. I don't do this to complain... but the question a person who realizes this: why is Catholic Church going thru this?

Because God is jealous God.

Maccabeanuprising on YouTube

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Yes

The corruption and collusion (for profit and power) has been going on for decades in multiple realms…

the sickening of people …is an industry.

Our water

Our food supply

Vaccines

Medications

The book- Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality

The medical assault of the American brain is a very interesting read, if you haven’t read it yet.

The author, Coulter, suggests a connection between neurological damage and the present high level of criminality in American society.

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Oh, I read references to that book but never the original source. Thank you for sharing it.

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Why so many kids are needing SSRI’s to begin with …

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Thank you for bringing this issue out into the open and explaining so clearly. Both Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson are doing heroic work -- they saved so many lives during the Covid- and Pharma-captured era, educating anyone who would listen. Ingraham repeatedly spoke (and still speaks) with Drs. Peter McCullough, Harvey Risch, and Jay Bhattacharya, saving countless people from death-by-shot and death-by-COVID.

My doctor prescribed SSRIs for lifelong anxiety. I was reluctant to take them and turned down his offers at least twice. He reassured me the side effects were overblown and the SSRIs would make me feel better. So I finally took his advice, but asked if he would help me get off them if I decided they weren't for me. He said he would.

I did feel better for a while (placebo affect?), but later I noticed many physical side effects occurring and felt "something" was wrong. By then, I had completely lost faith in this doctor, who told me the COVID shots were "safe and effective" and REFUSED to consider information I sent him from AAPS and AFLDS about my concerns. He actually berated me for sending this information.

I therefore had no choice but to wean myself off the SSRIs. I researched carefully and found a good resource. Using the chart provided in that article, I very gradually and successfully reduced the dose over many months until I was SSRI and side effect free.

Fortunately, I wasn't violent, but perhaps that's because I'm a Medicare-age female.

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Congratulations to you for being astute enough to challenge what your doctor was saying to you! I find it SO frustrating that most people "check their brain at the door" before entering a doctor's office and blindly follow whatever they are told. Taking the steps to wean yourself off SSRIs is huge and you should be very proud!

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Thank you so much for your kind words!

I was raised by a Mom who thought doctors were gods. My multi-vaxxed sister (a lawyer who represented medicine, nursing, and pharmacology for a state university and is married to a university pharmacologist) believes as well. My brother (who, sadly, got the shots but no more boosters) is a life-long asthmatic who never goes to doctors.

I now ask questions and have selected an independent, subscription-only, no-insurance-taking doctor who also asks questions and listens to answers. Still, I keep my visits to a minimum and focus on healthy exercise, eating, and supplements (but not enough sleep).

Nature? Nurture? Both? Neither? Who knows? But we all must use the brains we were given. Sadly, education systems are designed to discourage critical thinking.

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Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Too funny - I was also raised by a Mom who thought doctors were gods and my sister feels the same - I can't tell you all of the health issues her and her family have!. Like you, I, nor anyone in my family, go to the doctor often and also only go to an independent, no insurance doctor when absolutely necessary, generally just for school health forms.

Critical thinking is absolutely discouraged. I wish more people would wake up and realize they need to own their health and never, ever outsource that ownership to doctors/big pharama who, quite literally, have a goal to maximize profit per patient.

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You are definitely a kindred spirit!

I do think some people are starting to wake up, thanks to people speaking out. We just have to keep shaking the shoulders of those still asleep until they DO wake up. (Those who don’t may suddenly die in their sleep, and we don’t want that!)

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Thank you MWD for your dedication to exposing SSRIs. I've been a fan of Dr Ann Blake Tracy for more than twenty years. http://www.drugawareness.org/ssri-nightmares/school-shootings/

I think she pioneered awareness around this issue. This is a great time to be alive with doctors like you writing about the extreme and frequent dangers of SSRIs and getting over 50,000 views! And finally this heinous criminal enterprise has gotten television exposure. Wow. Thank you for letting those of us who don't own a TV know and posting the links.

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It's especially surprising given that this is an anonymous platform, I only know a few major authors on substack personally and I've only been on here for four months. I think we have just hit a time in and the culture where people finally want the truth.

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Truth was emerging in 2017 and the powers put a stop to us on Twitter, You Tube, Amazon, and others. Substack has created a new opportunity.

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Very thankful for you truthseekers 🫶🏻

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Stay away from Pharmaceuticals if at all possible… look for nutraceuticals that can replace these poisons…

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Good advice! I'm 61 years old, take no pharmaceuticals, I am a cancer survivor (by avoiding doctors) eat a Plant based diet and feel like I'm 30.

Drugs kill, Plants heal!

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I’m going to use that if you don’t mind… “drugs kill, plants heal!“ 😁😁😁🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Not at all

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Every close friend or partner I have known to go on antidepressants has displayed extreme personality changes, specifically an marked increase in insensitive and selfish behavior. I don’t know if it’s causative, but I’ve read that many antidepressants are known to cause ‘emotional blunting’.

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I tried to explain some of this in the first part of the series. What you are describing is a combination of "activating syndromes" and the depersonalization or disassociation that occurs on the drugs.

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This could be the most meaningful, essential, and impactful article I've ever read, for the times we're in, the problems we're experiencing... Add to it that we're causing kids to question fundamental things like GENDER, that we're constantly preaching to them that THE PLANET IS DYING, and we're shooting them up with AN EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE and it's not looking good for our kids, is it? Divorce, emptiness, and absence of God and spirituality... social media... they're suffering, God bless them. They're absolutely suffering!

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Thank you. I am going to try to get to those topics as time allows.

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Right. This article is part of the spiritual awakening that will stimulate the transformation in this Fourth Turning.

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Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

a.mw.dr, Great article series highlighting serious weaknesses in how medicine is practiced in America. Hats off to you, Carlson, and Ingraham for speaking out and informing on this important, but mostly ignored, topic.

Don’t think this and other self-created disasters by the drug makers and their regulators will ever be remedied until those involved in the incompetence and malpractice underlying them are held personally liable, both financially and criminally.

Drug makers will continue to be happy to pay massive fines as longs as this results in much larger profits, and none of those responsible are ruined financially or go to prison. Same for the drug regulators who enabled them by violating federal law -- Administrative Procedure Act, National Research Act, Belmont Report, etc.

Hope those with influence, like yourself, will be able to convince some lawyers to go after the individuals involved, because ruining even one of them financially or criminally will help create fear in the others as a deterrent.

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I still remember that Newsweek cover with Prozac on it. Must've been 1988 or so. "A Breakthrough Drug for Depression" Wonder how much Eli-Lily paid for that cover story!

https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/styles/article-inline-half/public/blogs/5203/2011/09/74919-65372.jpg

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So much much of the news these days is PR :/

I wrote this on the topic a while back:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/who-remembers-freedom-fries

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Prozac is well-known to cause problems in people under 18 and is generally not given to them. However there are exceptions and some prescribers sometimes give it to kids. It seems like a fairly risky drug.

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Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

My sister was almost destroyed after 20 years on antidepressants. After two serious suicide attempts, she decided to quit all antidepressants 10 years ago. She has been functional and happier since. What happened to her was a crime.

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So what was wrong with her in the beginning if she didn't need meds?

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They often prescribe them when there is not a good justification to.

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She was diagnosed as manic-depressive. She considers that a false diagnosis.

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