Prior to the Covid vaccinations, psychiatric medications were the mass prescribed medication that had the worst risk to benefit ratio on the market. In addition to rarely providing benefit to patients, there are a wide range of severe complications that commonly result from psychiatric medications. Likewise, I and many colleagues believe the widespread adoption of psychotropic drugs has distorted the cognition of the demographic of the country which frequently utilizes them (which to some extent stratifies by political orientation) and has created a wide range of detrimental shifts in our society.
I am grateful for your covering this topic. Yes, please keep going. It's so important, and you are correct that many people shut down and don't want to hear it.
I also want to add: there are psychological/psychiatric side effects from MANY medications; not only those which are prescribed for depression/anxiety/ADHD, but also other conditions singly prescribed, or in a drug cocktail with little-understood interactions. All thought of as "safe and effective," but one size does not fit all.
One example: prednisone can create feelings of paranoia. Another: "drowsiness" is a frequent side effect, but that also includes brain fog and feeling generally out of it.... can affect decision making and interactions with others may be misattributed.
Consider also the dosing, for an 83-pound teenage female getting the same adult dose as a 300-pound adult male. There is something very wrong in our medical system.
Bottom line: psychological side effects from many medications need to be considered by the population, and people need to be monitored carefully while on any medication, especially new ones, because anosognosia as a "side" side effect is more frequent than people may realize.
Statins induce depression, PPI's eliminate valuable nutrients from your diet & can also be mood destabilising. Flouroquinolone antibiotics can not only cripple your muscular system, but also induce mood effects. Sometimes I think that pharmaceutical companies want to ruin our mood so that we run to doctors and complain. Truly, only you can adjust your mood, all the pharmaceutical options are about numbing, which solves no problems.
I have thought this even about the vaccines (before Covid). Why would I a 120 pound female get the same dose as a 300 lb male? One size does not fit all, and yet we are told by white coats it's all good.
The liberal policies that do not allow our institutionalization of people with sever issues and only medicating them which makes the drug companies money but just adds to the problem while failing to address social issues like the lack of coping skills vs of just reaching for a pill are the problem not the presence of a gun or a knife ect. Why ask how some kid could do something like this when we supply them with violent games and moves is beyond dumb.
Institutionalisation is not the answer, either. Community based care - like the Quakers did in the 19th century - is a better options. The Quakers would run care homes - just regular homes with a garden - where they provided safety, meals, conversation, and light chores until the distress passed and the person was ready to be re-integrated into society.
Agree. This is highly relevant. It seems to me that what's happening is that a world-wide medical police state is attempting to install itself under the guise of "stay safe." There really are globalists (Klaus Schwab and company) and they really do want to monitor and manage everything, and the lever they're using is "medical necessity." Tyranny coming in through the back door of a medical police state. This is what Covid-19 was about, and this is what monkeypox or whatever the next pandemic ends up being will be about.
This is also what the pseudoscience of catastrophic CO2 warming is about: "necessary" measures will be used to "stay safe" from supposedly catastrophic warming. If the WHO can get a hold of CO2 warming and declare a world-wide "pandemic" of warming, then the globalists are halfway there.
About 10 years ago I went through a period of intermittent depression and was prescribed Paxil by a psychiatrist. Due to its ineffectiveness and unpleasant effects I weaned off of it fairly soon. Shortly thereafter a study from I believe Harvard showed SSRIs simply don’t work. What a great business model I thought and am not at all surprised that over 10% of people still take them. We have to consider just how many people continue to consume them year after year and how much this stunts the ability to think clearly. Probably enough for some to accept multiple doses of an experimental gene therapy proven to be both unsafe and ineffective.
By the way I was lucky enough to find help using the herb kratom which has brought relief to countless people suffering through many conditions... and has been targeted through a longstanding disinformation campaign by the FDA. If you’d like to learn more about this wonderful plant and the battle to keep it legal, check out https://www.americankratom.org/
William Walsh PhD gave a very good explanation for this. With individuals who have undermethylation causing depression, they do help. That however is not the case for the majority of individuals with depression, and when overmethylation is the issue, they instead become very dangerous to use. For all practical purposes patients are never tested for which category they fall into before they start them.
So try SAM-e or crucifer juice (Contains SMM - actually more effective, but gets recycled, if at all, to SAM-e. Drink (or chew) fresh as it rapidly develops stinky dimethylsulfide. Cooking destroys the SMM.), along with trimethylglycine (TMG/betaine - supplement or chenopod vegetables) and the B vitamins pyridoxine, folic acid, and cobalamin. Note SMM has only half the homocysteine risk of SAM-e.
As far as I can tell, SSRIs tend only to cause sick feelings such as headache, gut ache (fluoxetine), and flu-like symptoms (sudden citalopram withdrawal). (Ann Blake-Tracy blamed this on serotonism. I'm surprised you didn't name her in your write-up, since you share many points.)
Could you please check whether you and William Walsh have over- and undermethylation correctly assigned? Also, do inoculations (traditional vaccines, or the recent covid jabs) have an effect on metabolic methylation?
I was tested negative for that once, then the next doc confirmed "no you don't have that because I don't see that typical copper red shine in your hair".
I'd be very interested to hear about the 5 biotypes.
I took Prozac for a little while and it made me aggressive, so I stopped it. The shrinks all continued to try to shove it down my throat (luckily not literally), without bothering to read my notes, so I stopped them too. As useful as an iron liferaft.
Thanks, though the horrid HTML and javascript on his and related sites makes reading them very difficult. Odd, you and Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy (just on Lowell Nelson's weekly Defending State Sovereignty show ) obsess on the 20% folate deficiency type these SSRIs also work for. (If SSRIs make people homicidal, why not just use folate?) How'd they ever become popular, when undermethylation, for which they don't do a thing except make people taking them feel sick, is twice as prevalent?
I do not prescribe SSRIs, but this theory is important to understand to explain why SSRIs do work for some people who take them and will question why people insist they do not work when they clearly worked for those individuals.
Thought you would have looked up SAM-e (commercial trade name for S-adenosyl methionine, synthesized in Italy and sold as an antidepressant supplement, SMM would seem much easier to make, as well as safer and more effective - less stable?) and SMM (S-methylmethionine). Both contain the sulfonium ion, and are biological methylating agents. SMM occurs only in plants, crucifers (cabbage family) are highest. Cook them very lightly, if at all. If they stink, it's gone. (Most common reason people don't like cooked broccoli, Brussels sprouts, etc.) Cooking the malt stinks up beer.
Wow. What an amazing assistance this was. I learned a LOT. It is great "talking" to folks who truly want to help and care for others. Thank you!
Now, reading this and understanding a bit more, I conclude measuring the methylation degree in a person could be as important as the CBC, electrocardiogram, etc. IF, your intent is to treat the CAUSE and not just the symptom as far too many docs appear to be "about".
Basically you have to find a good integrative psychiatrist, and they will almost never be covered by insurance. The reason I focus on this issue is because the #1 thing psychiatrists do is treat depression and anxiety, yet they rarely if ever check for the underlying causes of those conditions, which is often extremely easy to do...rather they just prescribe a medication and send you out the door. It's very frustrating.
Also a key point I've tried to emphasize here is that vagal damage and CNS damage create psychiatric symptoms, yet they are typically viewed as purely psychogenic.
You are right that typical physicians have no idea that they could/should be looking “underneath” the symptoms for root causes. They falsely believe that they are doing their preventive care by giving the psych meds, and thereby preventing morbidity from untreated disease. They have forgotten, if ever they considered, that true prevention would be to correct the underlying issues and actually eliminate the need for meds.
You no doubt have looked at diet and environment, as you’ve been dealing w this for decades and sound very motivated.
In our personal family, we discovered that wheat, possibly corn, and most definitely cow’s milk make enormous changes to our mental well being. Eliminating these has not been the complete solution, but has helped enormously. Our child’s personality is strikingly different on milk vs off. 😓
I’m still working to figure out the underlying causes of this though. I’ve started to wonder about vaccine injury, and I am exploring detox and remediation for this.
I hope sincerely that the functional med dr can offer hope. I’ve been reading some things about homeopathy and would encourage your research in that type of medicine if the functional Dr isn’t able to help you fully.
God’s blessing and provision for you and your children. Hang in there and keep up the good work, mama.
How interesting. I’ve been trying to follow the Plant Paradox diet and Dr Gundry points out that the wheat, corn and milk negatively impact the GI tract. I know I feel better when I don’t eat them.
After a year dairy free and using digestive enzymes to help heal the gut, we tried raw cheese on April 1 (a Friday). By Wednesday we said “no more.” Although by Sunday and at the latest, Monday, I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to work out well.
Just in 48 hrs I observed worsening of his spelling. On Monday, math became a doozy (we homeschool, so I am keenly aware of how things work/aren’t working for him), and he was just generally unpleasant and uncooperative.
Poor kid. I’m sure that he was just as miserable as we were.
He has since referred to “milk poison.” 🤣 So, he must have really noticed a difference himself.
I suggest you read William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." And then consider locating one of the hundreds of doctors that Dr. Walsh has trained, and work with that person on your issues and your children's. (It's possible that your functional medicine doctor has trained with Dr. Walsh.)
Theresa- I too have suffered depression for over 30 years and early on made a half hearted attempt at suicide. I was on many of these pharma medicines. None were the the long term answer. Until I read, stumbled upon, a book written by Jack Dryfess (sp.) called "A Remarkable Medecine Has Been Overlooked". It is his research and personal experience with a old, off patent compound called Phenytoin that the drug companies have no interest in because they cannot patent it. It has changed my life. It would be wort an investigation.
I remember that guy! He was convinced phenytoin was the cure for everything. The problem with that though is that phenytoin is somewhat dangerous and not as effective as he thought. When people go down that line of thought process, it's important to do it with something natural because the toxicity risk is smaller
My grandmother was addicted to that stuff. Used it to treat partial absence epilepsy resulting from going through a windshield in 1931, since she was allergic to phenobarbital. I don't think she started on it until she'd had all her children. (It's teratogenic.)
ironically, my daughter claims she tried Kratom at the recommendation of her boyfriend and had a terrible response, including suicidal ideation. I guess that shows how different our individual response to these molecules can be.
My rule of thumb is there are no free lunches. Even with my 3 “go-to” mind palliatives - exercise, community, nature - there can be over or mis applications. The path to wellness is strewn with suffering and promises of short cuts. You must do the work. Learn to control your mind or it will control you. Humility, Compassion, Gratitude.
Interesting. Since I’ve been involved with the American Kratom Association for 6 years this is the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone having suicidal tendencies from taking it. While I certainly wouldn’t rule that out in your daughters case, for me it raises the question of possibility that what she used could have been contaminated. More often than not extremely bad effects are due to this. In fact just about every recorded overdose has occurred with product laced with all kinds of dangerous illegal street (or even fentanyl) drugs which unfortunately find their way into the market. Besides the AKA focusing on trying to keep it legal in all fifty states, there has been a lot of effort into making sure that what is sold is safe and pure by lobbying states to enact the GMP Standards Program which a growing number of wholesale vendors are adhering to.
Because this is such an uncommon report I’m going to ask around to see if anyone in the group has heard of similar instances and what could have possibly triggered such a response. While kratom delivers relief for many conditions, it’s not always effective especially for psychological conditions. But if there are dangerous reactions like your daughter’s occurring, it’s important for us to be aware of them. Thank you for calling my attention to this.
I'm a psychologist and I have a client who became addicted to it, needing larger and larger doses and taking it more and more frequently for "pain." She was also on psych meds, but started having side effects like chest pain and abnormally low heart rate. If you look up kratom "adverse effects" online, you will see that it can cause problems.
Yikes! Never heard of that but like you said we are all different, no such thing as one remedy cures all….Something the CDC, FDA, CANADA, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD SHOULD HEED
When I looked into learning about kratom some years ago, what I found scared me. As someone with no strong reason to try it, I think risks would outweigh benefits. But maybe for people in specific circumstances, the risk to benefit ratio looks very different. Certainly the fact that the FDA has targeted it speaks in its favor though 😀
As always it’s best to be careful about what you read especially when the source of the information comes from the FDA. Even the US DEA withdrew an emergency scheduling ban of kratom (much to the FDA’s dismay) in 2016 when they received 23 thousand public comments with 98.8 % of them positive. I’ve worked with the American Kratom Association for a few years. Our biggest effort to keep it safe and legal is to inform state and local governments and health boards of the real story (kratom is a harmless non addictive substance for all but a handful of users) and away from the lies and misinformation the FDA uses to stop anything that affects Pharma’s bottom line.
Personally I’ve used kratom for 6 years without any problems or danger. To me it’s less threatening than a cup of coffee.
Not sure narcotic is accurate. It does not have negative motor skill affects like alcohol or opioids. Don't think it even makes anyone drowsy. And it surely doesn't make anyone violent.
I’ve volunteered with the American Kratom Association working with many people who use it. They are lovely folks for the most part. Several told me that without it they would have likely OD’d long ago.
So, Jeff. I have same last name. Live in Minnesota. small world.
Anyway, I searched on this Kratom and it appealed to me based on ability to promote sleep. Is it worth it($46/100 grams) to help with sleep? or if a little pill of Bendryl works, stick with that?!
Pretty Red - Schreiber eh? I cannot say much about kratom as a sleep aid since I’ve never taken it for that. In fact I usually have it in the morning with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice as a pick me up. But everyone has unique physical and mental systems and there are many people who claim they’ve found a particular strain that works as a sedative. As far as the cost goes I shop at Mitragaia.com where I can usually buy 1 kilo for $80 (and 20% extra discount paying with crypto). You can purchase a sampler of different strains and see if any will help. I take a very low dose, 1 tsp, for my needs. For sleep you’d probably need a Tbsp or more.
As a former insomniac who disliked sleep and anxiety medication as much as I did antidepressants, I’ve settled into a nightly regimen of melatonin, magnesium and CBD. Not only am I sleeping better but I go into some pretty wild vivid dreams.
I'm a psychologist and I have a client who became addicted to kratom. If it has helped you, I'm glad, but I don't want people to think it does not have adverse effects associated with it as well.
I’m sure that there are some people who get addicted to kratom. Participating in American Kratom Association hearings, I hear about these patients mostly prone to addiction who could easily get hooked on coffee, tobacco, or even Coca Cola all of which present more danger based on my understanding and experience. And they all happen to be legal. That same experience has shown me that most people don’t get addicted to kratom but take it responsibly and carefully. I’ve been taking it regularly for six years as have a number of my friends. None of us have had any problems with it other than its nasty flavor.
I really appreciate you covering this topic. My young adult daughter has been taking prozac for over two years. She started due to disabling fears created after being held at gunpoint. Though she seems to be doing better fear-wise, she refuses to consider stopping and her physician sees no problem with her taking indefinitely. What makes this harder is it appears that every single one of her friends is taking psychiatric meds for one thing or another, so in her world, this is perfectly normal. As a side note, she has also become obese. I have wondered if the drug has played a role.
I know that arguing with my daughter about this or showing her evidence of harms does no good. She believes what she wants to believe.
Curious if anyone has any ideas how we can help our loved ones consider stopping SSRIs when their own physicians are encouraging this and society leads them to believe they can't function without them.
Many psychiatric medication's are known for causing weight gain. I wish I had a good answer to the rest of your questions, but I don't. There is now an entire generation of individuals children placed on lifelong mind-altering psychiatric medications to support a predatory industry, and there are so many factors propping it up that unless they desire to stop the medication comes directly from your daughter, I can't think of anything that will be likely to change this for her. That all said, you might find it very useful to read the bookscited above (deadly psychiatry and organized denial) or another related but simpler book Mad in America.
Thanks, Doctor! I agree that the decision has to come from my daughter, but am trying to plant seeds -- gently and slowly -- into our conversations that might change her thinking. Another poster suggested this book, which suggests a nutrient approach to treating the brain. Wondering your opinion on this approach.
I am certain my daughter would not read it herself - at least not any time soon - but thought I might consider introducing some ideas to her if I think she might be open.
I read Mad in America, and a few other indictments of the psychiatric industry, so I am already convinced of the harms. The hard part is convincing others. I have many family members who are on all kinds of meds, including benzos. I try to talk about these issues very gently with them, but it seems they just don't want to hear it. The response is often something like, well all drugs have some bad side effects for SOME people, but it helps me. This is the same response I get when I talk about the risks of Covid jabs. They think side effects are rare and could never happen to them...and if these drugs and vaccines were so dangerous, they would never be on the market and this would be frontline news. Maddening!
Thank you again for being a voice of medical sanity and freely sharing your knowledge. I wish we had more like you!
Consider for example, if 9/10 people can cold turkey without issue but 1/10 can't, if I give that advice, I am directly responsible for what happens to that person. This is a perspective I have to keep in mind because of the position I am in and the ethical responsibilities I have.
I went through hell for a couple of weeks when a doctor tapered me off a neurotransmitter-modulating drug in 7 weeks instead of the recommended 10 weeks. The drug had been prescribed for a non-psychiatric purpose, but it made me emotionally flat and depressive so I asked to go off it. Halfway through the withdrawal I suddenly crashed into horrible de-realization and disorientation, and I could easily have panicked and become dangerous to myself and others.
So I totally support the position you're taking that you have to be cautious with every patient, in situations where you can't reliably predict who actually needs the cautious approach and who doesn't.
Dr. Peter Breggin's book "Talking Back to Prozac" goes into detail about withdrawal from SSRIs. Having gone through hell when a doctor tapered me off a neurotransmitter-modulating drug too fast, I say a slow, careful withdrawal supervised by a doctor who really knows what s/he's doing is the way to go.
The only drug my daughter takes is Prozac (unless she's not telling me!). I am confident she is not taking any anti-psychotics because years ago, she got very angry when she learned how they were being used off-label for all kinds of things and pushed on parents to treat children with autism. If she only took the time to understand this is similar to the push for using SSRIs, she'd be equally upset about that.
Brainwashed by doctors, but also society and a generation who was raised believing that every pain must be treated with a drug.
Unfortunately I have no control over her doctors and her medical decisions. as she is an adult and lives out of town. Right now, I am trying to have gentle conversations with her to consider alternatives, but she is steadfast in her belief that taking Prozac indefinitely is not a problem and if it were, her doctor would not keep prescribing it! People believe what they want to believe, and right now she desperately wants to believe that Prozac causes no problems and it is the answer to her pain. Before she started the meds, she was in a very bad place and is scared of those feelings returning. It's very hard to parent an adult, especially one whose decisions are not logical, but driven by fear.
One of the problems with Prozac is that it can causes personality changes. What I've heard, and seen, is that the person often develops a hostile, superior, I-don't-need-anybody attitude and neglects or breaks relationships with family members and friends. "Prozac divorces" are sometimes initiated by the Prozac-taking spouse but sometimes by their partner who says things like "She's not the same person I married...when she started taking that drug, she really changed..."
I suggest you get William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." Read it yourself and share it with your daughter. This book might interest her in nutritional treatment that would give her the same benefits as Prozac but without the side effects. Please note that withdrawal from psychiatric drugs has to be gradual and should be carefully supervised by a doctor experienced with the possible difficulties. Dr. Peter Breggins's book "Talking Back to Prozac" has good information about difficulties in withdrawal, but I wouldn't recommend this book for your daughter until she's read Walsh's book and understands that she has an excellent alternative to Prozac.
Thanks for the book recommendations, Kayla. I agree that my daughter is more likely to consider getting off Prozac if she has another alternative. I will read Walsh's book myself and try to have gentle conversations with her based on what I learned. It will be a tough sell. She has a bias against non-pharma remedies.
I'm familiar with Breggins' work through his website. Thanks for the reminder about his book.
My daughter lives out of town, but when she visits I don't see any concerning personality changes. She tells me the Prozac helps her not care as much and she doesn't feel as moody. She thinks this is a good thing. The biggest difference I see is tremendous weight gain, especially around her belly. She doesn't appear bothered by that, and I know that many of her friends are also very overweight, so it seems that her generation has normalized obesity, just like they have psychiatric meds and mental health diagnoses. Strange how when I was growing up in the 70s both were stigmatized.
It's good that you haven't seen the personality change I described; I'm glad to hear that. But "Prozac helps her not care as much" -- to me, this is very sad. The "fullness of life" is about caring very much...about particular people, places, things you choose to do with your time, issues you choose to get involved in, life goals.
It sounds like your daughter is developing insulin resistance and "metabolic syndrome." Here's another book you could read, and then share with her: "The Zone" by Barry Sears. Sears is a medical researcher with a strong family history of early death from heart disease; he developed the Zone Diet to save his own life and his brother's. It turns out the Zone Diet has many health benefits and the book does a good job explaining them.
One thing I don't think the book goes into is the fact that the Zone Diet has a nice "side effect" (after the first three weeks or so) of cheerful optimism. Another nice thing about the Zone Diet is that in the first two weeks, most people lose 5 to 15 pounds of "water weight" and start feeling significantly better. (After that, the weight loss typically slows to a healthy rate of 1 to 1.5 pounds per week.) Most people have a big boost in strength and energy at about three weeks, probably because of better mitochondrial function.
The Zone Diet looks complicated at first, but once you understand the principles of how to balance your "food blocks" and get a little practice, it's easy. Plus there are meal plans and recipes in "The Zone" and a couple of other subsequent books by Sears, "Mastering the Zone" (this one has updated food block charts, too) and "A Week in the Zone."
Good luck to you! I hope you're able to nudge your daughter onto a better track for health!
A final note -- For resolving the held-at-gunpoint trauma your daughter experienced, look into EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Good info and trained practitioners at EFTUniverse.com. EFT has an impressive record (including actual studies with veterans) of resolving PTSD.
Yes my generation looked down on overweight and everywhere you looked was an exercise video or diet pill. Anorexia era I call it because my teenage years were constantly worrying about being fat. I still have it ingrained in my head to this day. This younger generation isn't concerned too much with it--it seems. I don't know if that is good or bad
I'm a walking horrid example of why she shouldn't continue. Check out survivingantidepressants.org. THere are many many people really suffering trying to get off these drugs. I've been on just 1 for about 20 years and I've become physically ill and just through hell trying to taper off. I used to take it in the morning when I brushed my teeth.
My son is 33 yrs old now and I'm sad to say he has been on an antidepressant of some kind since he was 6 yrs old - mostly zoloft but has tried nearly every antidepressant on the market. He was never overweight as a small child --until he started taking them. When he turned 22, he was 100 lbs overweight. He never ate fast food or sweets, he worked doing janitorial jobs & detailing cars--plus walked but still gained weight. He started weaning off of the zoloft, & doxepin, he was on at that time. The weight literally melted off him when the meds stopped. Being heavy and overweight is what made him want off the meds. They weren't helping his anxiety & OCD and I knew they will make you gain weight no matter what you eat or how active you are. He lost a total of 110 lbs in about a year and a half. His depression, anxiety, and OCD was still bad and it made him angry alot. The root issues are still there when the meds stop and if it's never solved, the person either self medicates with something, or goes back to the Dr and they put them right back on the same crap. My son is back on Zoloft again and has gained 20 lbs back... He says it does help in the beginning, but after awhile it stops working. The Dr increases the dose because he doesn't know what else to do. It's like a vicious cycle.
It's a shame very little focus is given towards addressing the actual causes of depression. So many effective approaches have been developed over the years!
I have a suggestion for you: Read William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." Then give your son the book to read, and discuss it with him. Walsh and colleagues have carefully analyzed biochemical issues underlying mental health problems, and have worked out nutrient-based treatment protocols. Some of their patients are able, over time, to get off psychiatric drugs entirely and others are able to greatly reduce their doses. Walsh has trained hundreds of doctors in his methods, and the Walsh Research Institute website has a list of trained practitioners.
Just a few ideas. Slowly make her aware whenever she mentions her obesity, its not her fault, the drug does that. It does, I have seen it happen with two friends of mine. But as you suggested this may not work above subliminal level. Maybe it is better to never mention getting off the prozac. Kids often do the opposite of what you want.
Try to boost her self confidence in general. It is an addiction, which is often related to self confidence issues.
Lead by example, start eating healthy and taking care of your own body and mind. You are her role model.
My now 20 year old daughter started an ssri in fifth grade for anxiety and switched to an snri many years ago. I’m trying to get her to start tapering off. I believe it is hurting not helping. That is our summer goal - see what life is like without the drug.
Speaking from harsh personal experience here -- My opinion is that withdrawal from any psychiatric drug should be done slowly and carefully under the supervision of a doctor with lots of experience doing this. I also recommend William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." (I've written comments about this book and about my experience with withdrawal from a drug...I hope you'll check my comments out. I just wrote a few new ones...)
Wellbutrin can cause weight loss. One big problem with wellbutrin is that it can cause people to "zone out" - not quite have seizures but not be all there either. I didn't process that there was a car stopped in front of me even while talking to my daughter and rear ended the car. I understand this is fairly common. It is now paired with topomax sometimes for weight loss. Topomax is an anti-seizure medication, so it likely takes care of the zoning out problem. Proceed with extreme caution if you do proceed.
Bupropion is a weird cathinone (very close relative to amphetamine). I find it rather enigmatic. (As you may have gathered, I don't like brand names for drugs.)
Over one year ago, on April 1st, 2021, I found my daughters journal entry open on her bed and shockingly saw that she was planning suicide. Like a robot on autopilot, I called her counselor and drove her to the local hospital die children struggling with mental health. Many times in my past, I had already been there as I worked many years with children with behavioral and mental disabilities. My child had been suffering from severe depression since the onset of quarantine, which worsened upon her father abandoning me at the end of April 2020. I was able to carry my daughter through that initial time with lots of connection. Fast forward a few months. I began to get very sick with nausea and it spiraled into a daily occurrence that left me bed bound with my mom coming to help the weeks I had my three kids. My previous breast cancer treatment left me with a lot of health issues. Unfortunately, the need to tend to this coupled with the shocking realities that were surfacing in the world, greatly minimized my time with oldest. Without that constant support, she quickly spiraled down to this moment I found her journal entry. Within one day of beginning Zoloft in the hospital, I became the enemy. The one she could blame for all of her suffering. I couldn’t tell her the truth because my ex husband was 100% in support of the plandemic narrative. Anyhow, I agreed for her to stay with her father for a couple of weeks and that was a big mistake. When her depression did not let up, I questioned the drug as she began to self harm through cutting, which she never did pre-medication. I suggested that my ex take her off the drug and that it was the cause of her severe rage towards me as well as the self mutilation. He told me he’d “leave it to the experts” and took her back to the doctor who increased her medication. After another attempt at running away, a refusal to engage in therapy and false accusations of abuse towards me, that were dismissed by DSS, she was placed in wilderness therapy. After being there for three months, she was transferred to a therapeutic boarding school for teen girls aged 12-16. I remembered and found a test that a holistic psychiatrist gave her in the first grade that found a genetic defect that claimed that SSRIs would make her symptoms worse! I was excited and quickly sent it to the school psychiatrist, who, thankfully, agreed with the year and took her off the medication. My prayers were answered! In the following three months, she increasingly got better and showed signs of wanting to repair with me, but so much damage had taken place with her father alienating her from me. Nevertheless, she was roller skating daily, leading ukulele and singing classes, jumping for joy when they would go Rick climbing and expressing a lot of positive statements about her own healing and the prospect of our repair work. Then, I got an email from the school nurse saying that the psychiatrist wanted to start her on another medication. I looked it up...Pristiq...and was horrified! It is not even approved for children and there was a study done that proved it to be non ore effective than a placebo for children. In addition, the side effects include suicidal ideation and self harm. I asked the nurse to arrange a phone call with the doctor. That weekend, my ex emailed me several times asking me if I’d agreed to the medication. I told him I was waiting to talk By the following Monday, a claim arrived in the mail. My ex was suing me for temporary medical custody of my child. The trial was only an hour and I lost. I was not even given the opportunity to talk and the psychiatrist even expressed that it was a normal process that I took with wanting to ask some questions, but he did assure the judge that this drug was safe. He spoke about ten minutes about his expertise yet I was never asked about my expert perspective of my own child who I stayed at home with her whole life. Two days after beginning the new medication, an SNRI, she cut again. After going 3 1/2 months without. Now, she has cut five times. I have contacted the nurse and doctor again, written multiple letters to the staff and even did an interview with a local podcast to try to get my story heard and my rights restored, to no avail. My poor child continues to feel such angst and anxiety that it brings her relief to cut. The staff and doctor make excuses that her peers dysregulation is causing her to cut again, yet she did not do it at all for the 3 1/2 months she was off medication and on supplements that I provided. We are set to go to court again for permanent custody, including medical for all of my children. I was the primary caretaker of all of my children and mostly treated them naturally. My ex is wanting to vaccinate all of my children, not only with the Covid jab, but all the ones we jointly agreed to skip that are recommended by the CDC. I am a very loving mom and stayed home, putting my career to the side. Now, all of my rights, my identify, my job have been pulled from under me. That is nothing in comparison to the awful state of mind my child had been in since this quarantine, but even more since she has been put on medication. And my child is not the only one suffering. I hear it from everyone who has a teen. Even those whose own child is fairing well, that is not the case for their friends. My nephews best friend shit himself in the head. My niece is in counseling for depression. My dentists daughter has had three kids commit suicide this past year. And medication is NOT the answer. These children have NO hope and feel like they have no future.
Thank you for sharing this. I am going to have to cut this down and paraphrase it if it's quoted. It insidious that the solution to the lockdowns are the psyche meds.
I had to comment and say I am SO sorry for what has happened and is happening to you and your daughter/children. It hurts me to hear because I can relate to it. I've never understood how a person that was--at one time a soul mate, could cruelly turn our world upside down & devastate the children. Everything you thought you knew about them & who they are is a lie; & they act as if nothing you feel or care about matters.. I hope you get your children and your daughter gets feeling better again.. These past 2 years have torn families and friends apart like I haven't seen in a long time. I will be thinking of your story 🙏
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. It is unbelievable to me that anyone is still believing this narrative spewed our by MSM. One of my daughters was sick, again, this week and he texted me to tell me that he tested her for Covid! He has given her that test about a dozen times now and my kids keep getting sick when they are at his home. Then, when they come back to me I fill them up with supplements and give them MMS in mango juice to help counteract the spike proteins.
I would have to find the paperwork to see directly, but it specifically states SRRIs. So, the psych doc put her on an SNRI instead. I figure it has the same mechanism of action because the seratonin action is the same. I have never heard of the drug you prescribed but I had heard of ketamine, but afraid my ex will use that against me if I recommend it, since it’s not overly accepted in the psychiatric community. Thank you for your comment. ❤️
I don't get how someone could not get that a SSRI and SNRI were equivalent there; it's literally an example of someone not wanting to think. It's also quite possible there weren't many SNRIs yet on the market when the test was made.
I've had both and the SNRIs are far worse. It's like rocket fuel and the top of your head might blow off. SNRIs are as bad as crack. I would advise her doing lots of physical & mental exercise to try to work off all the excess energy, that otherwise finds its way into whatever problems one has and magnifies them. Sorry I don't know a better solution and so very sorry your family is having to endure this awful situation.
I relate to so much of what you said because of similar experience. I’m so sorry for what you are going through. The worse pain a human being can know is being a mother who can not protect her children. I’m praying for you and your children.
I feel your pain and I pray that you get all the custody of all your children! Is there a way to convince your husband that you are right and the "expert" is hurting your children? At least stop the current medication for a while to see the result possibly? Surely he wants the best for them too...?
I have tried to wake him up so many times and he just uses what I say right back at me. This is why he is suing me. He feels like I am mentally unstable because I disagree with CDC and believe the shots are poison.
All the pandemic propaganda has torn a lot of families apart and I've seen it split numerous couples. This is one such example. Previously, the only related president I ever saw was an occasional case of a mother not wanting to vaccinate her kids, but the father going to vaccinate them and the mother needing to go into hiding because the courts always sided with the parent who wanted to vaccinate (I think I also saw one or two cases of a dad doing this, but it was normally the mother). This is one reason why I always felt it was important to bring up the issue of vaccination and someone before you plan to have kids with them, very tough conversation.
We did agree to this before we had children as our children are unvaccinated for any of the childhood recommendations. Now, he wants to jab them with COVID and all the ones we skipped! So crazy!
Yep. Those are the words on the claim. Mentally unstable. This was all after breast cancer treatment when I was out into medical menopause with my first infusion at age 43.
You may have a shot of getting the psychiatrist to change what he is doing through complaining to the medical board since he is arguably violating standard of care (so you'd probably have a lawyer draft a letter explaining how he is, cite the harms that have bees caused to the child, ask for a cease and desist on it, and then if the psychiatrist doesn't budge, get the medical board involved). The amount of hassle the psychiatrist will have to deal with if the medical board gets involved will make it not worth the hassle to continue it and the medical board may do something if you can prove he is violating standard of care and potentially creating harm through doing so.
This is solid advice. Thank you. I’m unsure if that action would make things better or worse. My concern is that the judge knew this particular psychiatrist snd spoke very highly of him. If I go above him and through the medical board, it may strengthen my ex’s case against me if me being mentally unstable. I know I’m not and that it would be an act of courage but I will have to think about it. The school could easily support the psych doc and then I come out looking like an emotional and controlling mama. Already, my ex has temporary primary medical decision making because this judge felt that the psych doc was more of an expert than me.
I am more and more realizing how wicked the ways of the world are. I admit, I find within myself that impulse adverted to in this essay, to dismiss the possibility of SSRIs causing the kinds of damage chronicled, and to write off as conspiracy theory the execrable schemings, coverups and collusion presented here as conspiracy fact.
I had heard about this sort of thing before, from people I trust and respect, and I had as it were only been able to believe it by half, and temporarily, due to cognitive dissonance and an unwillingness to be flooded by horror. But these last two years have been enough of a bitter pill to salt my blood with sterner humors, and I can’t play the carefree and trusting child anymore. I might be so towards the Good Lord, but against this brood of vipers I must grow canny.
I find myself thinking back to how it went for me as a teen. Came a time I was evidently suffering from that most insipid of designations, depression, and I had been persuaded to seek, as the phrase has it, professional help. So I showed up at the HMO’s medical compound where it was promised I could see a mental health therapist.
Will people recognize at once where this is headed? The first thing she starts talking about is my chemical imbalance. This was the going phrase at the time: “chemical imbalance.” No one drew my blood, no one examined my life under a microscope; though I had undergone an EEG years before to receive a diagnosis of childhood epilepsy, no one now looked any more closely at my nervous system than they did at my soul. How could she know I had a chemical imbalance? Based solely on my acne?
From the word go this therapist was angry at me, she was utterly impatient with the passable teenage ‘tude I bristled with as psychic armor, and she castigated me for my interest in “all that Freudian stuff,” which the dreary world no longer believed in. (How compellingly would the witch archetype have been constellated if I’d let slip I was a nascent Jungian?)
Chemical imbalance was all the rage at the time. Sadly, even my own mother had internalized the doctrine: “But what if you have a chemical imbalance?” she’d say to me, concerned. Something had to be done.
But don’t you understand? I was a teenager at the time; I hadn’t matured and got my ish together yet. Moreover, I had enough aswirl in my fledgling psyche to confuse and confound anyone, and I wasn't sure what to do with it all: from parental divorce to social isolation; from questions about my sexuality, to questions about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Why must it have been an issue of chemical imbalance, and not a question of rites of passage, of patience, wise counsel, nourishment unto healing, a question of soul retrieval and the quest for God’s blessing?
Never eat what they offer or your brain will end up pickled in a jar in their dingy excuse for an underworld. I escaped being prescribed anything to rebalance my brain chemistry because I had enough piss and vinegar and good instincts to say no. I conveyed to my mother, who I am grateful to for respecting my decision and listening to me more carefully than the professional did, that the masters of hell would sooner establish a diversity, equity, and inclusion committee than I would return to that witch’s therapy hut.
Twenty-some years on, I’ve been through a lot of conscious movement and journaling practice, accessed more self-confidence, and been thoroughly convicted of God’s love for me. I suppose that was enough to give me the strength to decline the latest safe and effective elixir to be urged on me by all the world.
This world, it is a vale of tears and a den of iniquity. The best title for a book ever chosen was “Lamentations.”
But goodness exists also. I believe it, and have known it. I thank God. “Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation… And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who giveth joy to my youth.”
The chemical imbalance thing was never proven. It's just marketing BS someone came up with. I believe there has always been a light and a dark aspect to humans, and the more you can see one, the more you can see the other. Hopefully I was able to put this concept together in a coherent and provable manner so it was not just another "conspiracy theory"
God has blessed you with an unusual ability to weave words together in beautiful fashion to communicate with depth and passion. Thanks for sharing your story.
Erin, you have a rich vocabulary and an unusual way with words. Your writing is "a feast for a mind that loves language." I hope you're using your talent and skill to write more than comments on other people's substacks. Do you have a substack of your own? Any plans to publish a collection of essays or stories, or an autobiography?
All right, I will jump right into the deep water here...I have an idea for you. I've been thinking for a long time now that Anthony Fauci is "a tale that needs a Shakespeare to tell it." Perhaps the first act of the play could be Fauci in the Obama years. Second act, in the Trump years. Third act, in the Biden years. Fourth act, Fauci is a ghost reciting a soliloquy on an almost-dark stage surrounded by scattered dead bodies -- the culmination of bioweapon COVID and the depopulation-purposed snake-venom-laced "vaccines." Whoops, the depopulation plot and its unintended consequences were too successful and there's not a single human left alive on Planet Earth. But that's ok, because good old grandfatherly Anthony Fauci will explain everything to us, including all the lies he told along the way, and how they were "noble lies."
Or maybe the Obama era needs to be a whole play (Anthony I),the Trump era another whole play (Anthony II), and the Biden era being a third play (Anthony III) with the soliloquy being the final act.
I know, I know, this is just too weird -- some who-knows-who in a substack telling you that you should write a Shakespearean play about Anthony Fauci. But I'm serious...I actually think you have the talent with language to take this on, perhaps by yourself, or perhaps with a co-author. You'd probably need a lot of factual input to realize the plot and its twists and turns. RFK Jr., Judy Mikowitz, Robert Malone...I bet people would be willing to contribute, to clue you in to the twists and turns they've witnessed, and to critique your work as it progresses...(think of the richness of the subplots)!
Please think it over. This work could be your masterpiece. It could wake up the sleepers of the world to fight back against Fauci and his puppets, and the puppet-masters who pull his strings.
I’m grateful that you reached out as you did, Kayla. I chuckled a little, reflecting that Providence perhaps really might intend that I do more with myself than write comments on other people’s substacks.
I happen to have a name picked out for a stack of my own, but right now I am not confident I’d have very much to put on it, so I have delayed opening it. Or, I think what I mean to say is that I recognize where I’d have to take my writing game if I determined to publish myself, and it has given me pause.
It’s one thing to dash off a comment on a flush of enthusiasm. But the essays I might like to attempt would require I put in sustained effort. They’d be _work_, you know. I’d have to research things, and spend time really getting to know the shape of my thought on certain questions before I have the joy of expressing myself.
There’s the fancy I could get by on delphic utterances formed without extensive conscious reflection, hoping it all gels as poesy, but I know the reality to be otherwise. And I question whether I have the intelligence, ability to focus, and originality to contribute things of value.
But perhaps I shall simply attempt it, knowing there’s value at least in spending time seeking greater clarity on the questions that occupy me.
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Ha! And I’d written that much before I came back and saw your edits elaborating a suggestion for a multi-act play. That’s a whole other thing again, and I shall have to sit with the suggestion a while and see what I can make of it.
In the early 90’s( can’t remember the exact year) I personally knew and was involved with the family of the 66 year old man you mentioned that stabbed his wife over 200 times then killed himself. We were all members of a small community church and we used to go to their house for Bible study. His children sued Eli Lilly ( not for the money , they became quite wealthy) but to have Prozac labeled with all these warnings .The saddest thing was that if they knew there was any chance this could happen when he stopped the drug ,they would have hired round the clock in home care to be sure he was doing ok. They had the means to do whatever it would have taken to be safe during that time but they just didn’t have the knowledge . It was the saddest time that will always be with me.
I’m sickened by the drugs and drug companies , it’s so far out of control now.
"The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of military firearms for the criminals to use. This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity, which would lead the American people to voluntarily disarm themselves by passing laws against firearms. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the antigun lobby. This plan is well under way, and so far is working perfectly. The middle class is begging the government to do away with the 2nd amendment."
Author's Note: "I have found that these events have indeed happened all over the country. In every instance that I have investigated — the incident at the women's school in Canada, the shopping center incident in Canada, the Stock- ton, California, massacre, and the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane — the shooters were all ex-mental patients or were current mental patients who were ALL ON THE DRUG PROZAC! This drug, when taken in certain doses, increases the serotonin level in the patient, causing extreme violence. Couple that with a posthypnotic suggestion or control through an electronic brain implant or microwave or E.L.F. intrusion and you get mass murder, ending in every case with the suicide of the perpetrator. Exhume the bodies of the murderers and check for a brain implant. I think you are going to be surprised. In every case the name of the murderer's doctor or mental treatment facility has been withheld. I believe we will be able to establish intelligence-com- munity connections and/or connections to known CIA experimental mind- control programs when we finally discover who these doctors of death really are."
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This happened with fireworks in the summer of 2020. Somehow there was mass distribution of them to the poor neighborhoods near me and went off every night for months. Good way to rile up the population already under lockdowns and hearing about BLM protests going on world wide. It’s ok to gather in large groups while protesting only. Ding dongs.
Thanks for the link. This book includes the "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" document which is the manual for WW3. A full reconstructed version with diagrams and introduction can be found at:
Recommended reading for anyone who seeks to understand the world we live in.
The document begins with:
"
Welcome Aboard
This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the "Quiet War", being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with "silent weapons".
This book contains an introductory description of this war, its strategies, and its weaponry.
Sadly, pharma advertising money is so much of the budget of news media that this will never trend as an issue. Thus nothing will ever be done about it. Politicians won't touch it unless it is on the news and they are forced to. Why risk losing pharma bucks and have backchannel sabotage worked against your campaign? Plus mass shootings really redound to the benefit of elites that want to disarm the populace so they can go "full aussie" and get camps ready for the next or next next disease hysteria. People who are aware of things like this and vaccine injury live in a shadow world. We can only protect ourselves and a close circle. My kids are going to hear a lot about NEVER consulting a psychiatrist.
I would like to add....the Bible DOES say that drugs (from the Greek pharmakia) are a gateway for demonic activity. You can ALWAYS see demons in the crazy eyes....they're looking right back at you! We are forgetting, or just don't believe at all, that the Bible is the owners manual for life. To add further, since God judges us by the intent our hearts, your life depending drugs aren't bad. Use discernment like everything else.
Don't overgeneralize. The Bible suggests use of some drugs, such as myrrh, and even wine. (Not to mention that horrid concoction in Moses' anointing oil.) Granted, raqah רקח apparently means spice.
Still overgeneralizing. How about specific references? Why, just damn those magi for giving Jesus' parents frankincense and myrrh! Must have been drug pushers from the East.
Apparently it means those sold. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pharmaceutical Since the myrrh and frankincense were gifted, perhaps not, but I bet they were also sold. I gotta pay when I want them. (I use myrrh dermatologically.) If you read my description, you'll see chemist; not purveyor or businessman. I also don't much favor Greek or Latin, though you'll occasionally see me cite Hebrew. "Drug" is Dutch, and refers to barrels of medicinals, which tended to get dragged around. The toxicological definition is anything altering metabolism other than food (air and water obviously also included).
I hadn't been aware the Creator's preferred language is Greek.
They're food? They don't get dragged around in casks? They have no effect on metabolic function? You have a third definition of "drug"? (Anything not a "natural supplement"?)
This sounds like an attempt to confuse and obfuscate to me. The definition of "drug" has nothing to do with the measures of metabolic function. Drugs may or may not have any effect on metabolism. Drugs are chemicals, mostly concocted in a laboratory and then tested on animals to see what they do, which is what determines what they are marketed for. Bottom line: drugs are chemical substances that have nothing to do with the complex substances God put into nature.
If you want to have a rational discussion of this topic, it is necessary to stay away from silly irrelevant definitions like "something that gets dragged around in casks."
Are sand and helium "drugs"? Clearly you don't consider opium to be a drug. You also refuse to consider the etymology of the word. You're a drug on this market, and I'm done with you.
Opium is being used as a STREET drug. It is poisonous just like jimsonweed, locoweed, marijuana, and others. Some plants are simply poisonous. I'm not including them in remedies because they are not remedies. Sand and helium are not drugs. They are natural substances. The etymology of a word is not the issue. How it is USED is the issue. Meanings of words change. DRUGS are the chemicals pharmaceutical companies manufacture. The etymology of the word "drug" is NOT AN ISSUE. I'm glad you are done with me because you don't make any sense, and I hate trying to have a civil discussion with people who aren't capable of it.
You work is extremely important, Doctor. Many of us are with you. PHARMA used the same bully tactics to mandate their pills as they did with the MRNA injections. Insurance companies would not pay unless the therapist referred his patient for meds. That had to be documented on the treatment plan with the bill.
Hypervaccination in babies, formula and SAD diet then, anphetamines during childhood, antidepressants in young teenagers and antipsychotics and opiates from them on.
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How about the complete madness of the entire population and it’s effect on kids? Perhaps he was also given this experimental DNA altering scam the government is forcing on everyone?
I was one of those kids screwed by psych drugs. I was given benzodiazepine sleeping meds since I was in elementary school and SSRI’s since I was in my mid-teenage years. Zero informed consent (and even if I had “informed consent” it wouldn’t have counted because I was only a child).
I am grateful for your covering this topic. Yes, please keep going. It's so important, and you are correct that many people shut down and don't want to hear it.
Thank you for taking time to write this article. It is excellent and very informative. Please continue with a second part.
I also want to add: there are psychological/psychiatric side effects from MANY medications; not only those which are prescribed for depression/anxiety/ADHD, but also other conditions singly prescribed, or in a drug cocktail with little-understood interactions. All thought of as "safe and effective," but one size does not fit all.
One example: prednisone can create feelings of paranoia. Another: "drowsiness" is a frequent side effect, but that also includes brain fog and feeling generally out of it.... can affect decision making and interactions with others may be misattributed.
Consider also the dosing, for an 83-pound teenage female getting the same adult dose as a 300-pound adult male. There is something very wrong in our medical system.
Bottom line: psychological side effects from many medications need to be considered by the population, and people need to be monitored carefully while on any medication, especially new ones, because anosognosia as a "side" side effect is more frequent than people may realize.
This is a big point that I am going to try to illustrate over the next two years.
Statins induce depression, PPI's eliminate valuable nutrients from your diet & can also be mood destabilising. Flouroquinolone antibiotics can not only cripple your muscular system, but also induce mood effects. Sometimes I think that pharmaceutical companies want to ruin our mood so that we run to doctors and complain. Truly, only you can adjust your mood, all the pharmaceutical options are about numbing, which solves no problems.
I have thought this even about the vaccines (before Covid). Why would I a 120 pound female get the same dose as a 300 lb male? One size does not fit all, and yet we are told by white coats it's all good.
The liberal policies that do not allow our institutionalization of people with sever issues and only medicating them which makes the drug companies money but just adds to the problem while failing to address social issues like the lack of coping skills vs of just reaching for a pill are the problem not the presence of a gun or a knife ect. Why ask how some kid could do something like this when we supply them with violent games and moves is beyond dumb.
Institutionalisation is not the answer, either. Community based care - like the Quakers did in the 19th century - is a better options. The Quakers would run care homes - just regular homes with a garden - where they provided safety, meals, conversation, and light chores until the distress passed and the person was ready to be re-integrated into society.
Agree. This is highly relevant. It seems to me that what's happening is that a world-wide medical police state is attempting to install itself under the guise of "stay safe." There really are globalists (Klaus Schwab and company) and they really do want to monitor and manage everything, and the lever they're using is "medical necessity." Tyranny coming in through the back door of a medical police state. This is what Covid-19 was about, and this is what monkeypox or whatever the next pandemic ends up being will be about.
This is also what the pseudoscience of catastrophic CO2 warming is about: "necessary" measures will be used to "stay safe" from supposedly catastrophic warming. If the WHO can get a hold of CO2 warming and declare a world-wide "pandemic" of warming, then the globalists are halfway there.
Anyhow, many thanks.
About 10 years ago I went through a period of intermittent depression and was prescribed Paxil by a psychiatrist. Due to its ineffectiveness and unpleasant effects I weaned off of it fairly soon. Shortly thereafter a study from I believe Harvard showed SSRIs simply don’t work. What a great business model I thought and am not at all surprised that over 10% of people still take them. We have to consider just how many people continue to consume them year after year and how much this stunts the ability to think clearly. Probably enough for some to accept multiple doses of an experimental gene therapy proven to be both unsafe and ineffective.
By the way I was lucky enough to find help using the herb kratom which has brought relief to countless people suffering through many conditions... and has been targeted through a longstanding disinformation campaign by the FDA. If you’d like to learn more about this wonderful plant and the battle to keep it legal, check out https://www.americankratom.org/
Thanks
Anecdotal reports suggest SSRIs work for about 20% of people taking them. That does not explain their apparent popularity. Reverse Russian roulette?
William Walsh PhD gave a very good explanation for this. With individuals who have undermethylation causing depression, they do help. That however is not the case for the majority of individuals with depression, and when overmethylation is the issue, they instead become very dangerous to use. For all practical purposes patients are never tested for which category they fall into before they start them.
So try SAM-e or crucifer juice (Contains SMM - actually more effective, but gets recycled, if at all, to SAM-e. Drink (or chew) fresh as it rapidly develops stinky dimethylsulfide. Cooking destroys the SMM.), along with trimethylglycine (TMG/betaine - supplement or chenopod vegetables) and the B vitamins pyridoxine, folic acid, and cobalamin. Note SMM has only half the homocysteine risk of SAM-e.
As far as I can tell, SSRIs tend only to cause sick feelings such as headache, gut ache (fluoxetine), and flu-like symptoms (sudden citalopram withdrawal). (Ann Blake-Tracy blamed this on serotonism. I'm surprised you didn't name her in your write-up, since you share many points.)
Could you please check whether you and William Walsh have over- and undermethylation correctly assigned? Also, do inoculations (traditional vaccines, or the recent covid jabs) have an effect on metabolic methylation?
I would just read through what he has written on the 5 biotypes of depression if you want to learn more about this.
Copper overload (another one) is the one that comes up the most frequently for me.
Do you mean Wilson's disease here?
I was tested negative for that once, then the next doc confirmed "no you don't have that because I don't see that typical copper red shine in your hair".
I'd be very interested to hear about the 5 biotypes.
I took Prozac for a little while and it made me aggressive, so I stopped it. The shrinks all continued to try to shove it down my throat (luckily not literally), without bothering to read my notes, so I stopped them too. As useful as an iron liferaft.
Thanks, though the horrid HTML and javascript on his and related sites makes reading them very difficult. Odd, you and Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy (just on Lowell Nelson's weekly Defending State Sovereignty show ) obsess on the 20% folate deficiency type these SSRIs also work for. (If SSRIs make people homicidal, why not just use folate?) How'd they ever become popular, when undermethylation, for which they don't do a thing except make people taking them feel sick, is twice as prevalent?
I do not prescribe SSRIs, but this theory is important to understand to explain why SSRIs do work for some people who take them and will question why people insist they do not work when they clearly worked for those individuals.
Thought you would have looked up SAM-e (commercial trade name for S-adenosyl methionine, synthesized in Italy and sold as an antidepressant supplement, SMM would seem much easier to make, as well as safer and more effective - less stable?) and SMM (S-methylmethionine). Both contain the sulfonium ion, and are biological methylating agents. SMM occurs only in plants, crucifers (cabbage family) are highest. Cook them very lightly, if at all. If they stink, it's gone. (Most common reason people don't like cooked broccoli, Brussels sprouts, etc.) Cooking the malt stinks up beer.
For homocysteine the B vitamins pyridoxine (B6, about 25 mg per day), folic acid (about 1 mg per day), and cobalamin (B12, also 1 mg per day), and trimethylglycine/TMG/glycine-betaine. A friend takes a spoonful a day. He must have got that from some place like https://www.superfoods-scientific-research.com/natural-remedies/trimethylglycine-benefits.html which suggests 6 grams per day. Food table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylglycine#Nutrition
Doc, please provide quick summary of "methylation". thanks.
I found this. HTH. http://undermethylation.com/what-is-methylation/
Wow. What an amazing assistance this was. I learned a LOT. It is great "talking" to folks who truly want to help and care for others. Thank you!
Now, reading this and understanding a bit more, I conclude measuring the methylation degree in a person could be as important as the CBC, electrocardiogram, etc. IF, your intent is to treat the CAUSE and not just the symptom as far too many docs appear to be "about".
Thanks for this. How do you figure out whether one is undermethylated or overmethylated?
Walsh explains all of it, you can read through his stuff.
Hope AMD respond, but homocysteine level?
Interesting.
Is there a reliable test to determine whether someone suffers from undermethylation?
Yes. Walsh has some, functional medicine practicioners have a lot of other ones.
Homocysteine?
Also, accutane
https://yourplaneinfo.blogspot.com/2018/03/2002-tampa-cessna-172-crash.html
Accutane is a really problematic drug that will be covered in the future.
Basically you have to find a good integrative psychiatrist, and they will almost never be covered by insurance. The reason I focus on this issue is because the #1 thing psychiatrists do is treat depression and anxiety, yet they rarely if ever check for the underlying causes of those conditions, which is often extremely easy to do...rather they just prescribe a medication and send you out the door. It's very frustrating.
Also a key point I've tried to emphasize here is that vagal damage and CNS damage create psychiatric symptoms, yet they are typically viewed as purely psychogenic.
None come to mind off the top of my head. This was a topic that took me a long time to understand properly.
I remembered and posted two links below.
Awww, man, this sounds so hard, Teresa.
You are right that typical physicians have no idea that they could/should be looking “underneath” the symptoms for root causes. They falsely believe that they are doing their preventive care by giving the psych meds, and thereby preventing morbidity from untreated disease. They have forgotten, if ever they considered, that true prevention would be to correct the underlying issues and actually eliminate the need for meds.
You no doubt have looked at diet and environment, as you’ve been dealing w this for decades and sound very motivated.
In our personal family, we discovered that wheat, possibly corn, and most definitely cow’s milk make enormous changes to our mental well being. Eliminating these has not been the complete solution, but has helped enormously. Our child’s personality is strikingly different on milk vs off. 😓
I’m still working to figure out the underlying causes of this though. I’ve started to wonder about vaccine injury, and I am exploring detox and remediation for this.
I hope sincerely that the functional med dr can offer hope. I’ve been reading some things about homeopathy and would encourage your research in that type of medicine if the functional Dr isn’t able to help you fully.
God’s blessing and provision for you and your children. Hang in there and keep up the good work, mama.
How interesting. I’ve been trying to follow the Plant Paradox diet and Dr Gundry points out that the wheat, corn and milk negatively impact the GI tract. I know I feel better when I don’t eat them.
There are some people respond really well to this diet, and many others insist its a bunch of hogwash (ie. read through the comments on this article)
Have you tried the GAPS diet?
Copernicus, I’m interested in what you said about your child’s personality on milk vs. off. Does raw milk make any difference?
Well, no, for him, it does not.
After a year dairy free and using digestive enzymes to help heal the gut, we tried raw cheese on April 1 (a Friday). By Wednesday we said “no more.” Although by Sunday and at the latest, Monday, I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to work out well.
Just in 48 hrs I observed worsening of his spelling. On Monday, math became a doozy (we homeschool, so I am keenly aware of how things work/aren’t working for him), and he was just generally unpleasant and uncooperative.
Poor kid. I’m sure that he was just as miserable as we were.
He has since referred to “milk poison.” 🤣 So, he must have really noticed a difference himself.
May not be AMD's job, but do you know of good write-ups on wheat, milk, and eggs?
I suggest you read William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." And then consider locating one of the hundreds of doctors that Dr. Walsh has trained, and work with that person on your issues and your children's. (It's possible that your functional medicine doctor has trained with Dr. Walsh.)
A good friend of mine is a good friend of Walsh's so I've been exposed to his work for a long long time.
Theresa- I too have suffered depression for over 30 years and early on made a half hearted attempt at suicide. I was on many of these pharma medicines. None were the the long term answer. Until I read, stumbled upon, a book written by Jack Dryfess (sp.) called "A Remarkable Medecine Has Been Overlooked". It is his research and personal experience with a old, off patent compound called Phenytoin that the drug companies have no interest in because they cannot patent it. It has changed my life. It would be wort an investigation.
I remember that guy! He was convinced phenytoin was the cure for everything. The problem with that though is that phenytoin is somewhat dangerous and not as effective as he thought. When people go down that line of thought process, it's important to do it with something natural because the toxicity risk is smaller
My grandmother was addicted to that stuff. Used it to treat partial absence epilepsy resulting from going through a windshield in 1931, since she was allergic to phenobarbital. I don't think she started on it until she'd had all her children. (It's teratogenic.)
Due to the “Woke” times we live in Russian Roulette is now known as the Ukrainian Downtown Train.
Seriously?
Just being sarcastic
Thats why we check!
Placebo effect.
I use Kratom. It has been a godsend for me.
ironically, my daughter claims she tried Kratom at the recommendation of her boyfriend and had a terrible response, including suicidal ideation. I guess that shows how different our individual response to these molecules can be.
My rule of thumb is there are no free lunches. Even with my 3 “go-to” mind palliatives - exercise, community, nature - there can be over or mis applications. The path to wellness is strewn with suffering and promises of short cuts. You must do the work. Learn to control your mind or it will control you. Humility, Compassion, Gratitude.
Amen….gratitude is a great one! It leaves little room for self pity!😊
Interesting. Since I’ve been involved with the American Kratom Association for 6 years this is the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone having suicidal tendencies from taking it. While I certainly wouldn’t rule that out in your daughters case, for me it raises the question of possibility that what she used could have been contaminated. More often than not extremely bad effects are due to this. In fact just about every recorded overdose has occurred with product laced with all kinds of dangerous illegal street (or even fentanyl) drugs which unfortunately find their way into the market. Besides the AKA focusing on trying to keep it legal in all fifty states, there has been a lot of effort into making sure that what is sold is safe and pure by lobbying states to enact the GMP Standards Program which a growing number of wholesale vendors are adhering to.
Because this is such an uncommon report I’m going to ask around to see if anyone in the group has heard of similar instances and what could have possibly triggered such a response. While kratom delivers relief for many conditions, it’s not always effective especially for psychological conditions. But if there are dangerous reactions like your daughter’s occurring, it’s important for us to be aware of them. Thank you for calling my attention to this.
I'm a psychologist and I have a client who became addicted to it, needing larger and larger doses and taking it more and more frequently for "pain." She was also on psych meds, but started having side effects like chest pain and abnormally low heart rate. If you look up kratom "adverse effects" online, you will see that it can cause problems.
Yikes! Never heard of that but like you said we are all different, no such thing as one remedy cures all….Something the CDC, FDA, CANADA, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD SHOULD HEED
Is that a wild herb? Have not heard of it before.What is it used for?
The thing I've been astounded by is Wild Lettuce. It often is an extremely effective and safe sleeping and pain medicine and it grow all over the USA.
Is that the same as prickly lettuce? My yard's full of it. Beats Scotch thistle! (Could only wish it were milk thistle.)
just look up wild lettuce theres tons written on this. It used to be called opium lettuce.
Looks the same, though clearly has varieties.
Here is a good website - kratom is made from the leaves of a tree native to Southeast Asia. https://worldhealth.net/news/top-7-health-benefits-kratom-leaves/
When I looked into learning about kratom some years ago, what I found scared me. As someone with no strong reason to try it, I think risks would outweigh benefits. But maybe for people in specific circumstances, the risk to benefit ratio looks very different. Certainly the fact that the FDA has targeted it speaks in its favor though 😀
As always it’s best to be careful about what you read especially when the source of the information comes from the FDA. Even the US DEA withdrew an emergency scheduling ban of kratom (much to the FDA’s dismay) in 2016 when they received 23 thousand public comments with 98.8 % of them positive. I’ve worked with the American Kratom Association for a few years. Our biggest effort to keep it safe and legal is to inform state and local governments and health boards of the real story (kratom is a harmless non addictive substance for all but a handful of users) and away from the lies and misinformation the FDA uses to stop anything that affects Pharma’s bottom line.
Personally I’ve used kratom for 6 years without any problems or danger. To me it’s less threatening than a cup of coffee.
Yeah; in Viet Nam. Legal narcotic.
Not sure narcotic is accurate. It does not have negative motor skill affects like alcohol or opioids. Don't think it even makes anyone drowsy. And it surely doesn't make anyone violent.
I’ve volunteered with the American Kratom Association working with many people who use it. They are lovely folks for the most part. Several told me that without it they would have likely OD’d long ago.
So, Jeff. I have same last name. Live in Minnesota. small world.
Anyway, I searched on this Kratom and it appealed to me based on ability to promote sleep. Is it worth it($46/100 grams) to help with sleep? or if a little pill of Bendryl works, stick with that?!
What IS the main attraction?
Pretty Red - Schreiber eh? I cannot say much about kratom as a sleep aid since I’ve never taken it for that. In fact I usually have it in the morning with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice as a pick me up. But everyone has unique physical and mental systems and there are many people who claim they’ve found a particular strain that works as a sedative. As far as the cost goes I shop at Mitragaia.com where I can usually buy 1 kilo for $80 (and 20% extra discount paying with crypto). You can purchase a sampler of different strains and see if any will help. I take a very low dose, 1 tsp, for my needs. For sleep you’d probably need a Tbsp or more.
As a former insomniac who disliked sleep and anxiety medication as much as I did antidepressants, I’ve settled into a nightly regimen of melatonin, magnesium and CBD. Not only am I sleeping better but I go into some pretty wild vivid dreams.
I'm a psychologist and I have a client who became addicted to kratom. If it has helped you, I'm glad, but I don't want people to think it does not have adverse effects associated with it as well.
I’m sure that there are some people who get addicted to kratom. Participating in American Kratom Association hearings, I hear about these patients mostly prone to addiction who could easily get hooked on coffee, tobacco, or even Coca Cola all of which present more danger based on my understanding and experience. And they all happen to be legal. That same experience has shown me that most people don’t get addicted to kratom but take it responsibly and carefully. I’ve been taking it regularly for six years as have a number of my friends. None of us have had any problems with it other than its nasty flavor.
I really appreciate you covering this topic. My young adult daughter has been taking prozac for over two years. She started due to disabling fears created after being held at gunpoint. Though she seems to be doing better fear-wise, she refuses to consider stopping and her physician sees no problem with her taking indefinitely. What makes this harder is it appears that every single one of her friends is taking psychiatric meds for one thing or another, so in her world, this is perfectly normal. As a side note, she has also become obese. I have wondered if the drug has played a role.
I know that arguing with my daughter about this or showing her evidence of harms does no good. She believes what she wants to believe.
Curious if anyone has any ideas how we can help our loved ones consider stopping SSRIs when their own physicians are encouraging this and society leads them to believe they can't function without them.
Many psychiatric medication's are known for causing weight gain. I wish I had a good answer to the rest of your questions, but I don't. There is now an entire generation of individuals children placed on lifelong mind-altering psychiatric medications to support a predatory industry, and there are so many factors propping it up that unless they desire to stop the medication comes directly from your daughter, I can't think of anything that will be likely to change this for her. That all said, you might find it very useful to read the bookscited above (deadly psychiatry and organized denial) or another related but simpler book Mad in America.
Thanks, Doctor! I agree that the decision has to come from my daughter, but am trying to plant seeds -- gently and slowly -- into our conversations that might change her thinking. Another poster suggested this book, which suggests a nutrient approach to treating the brain. Wondering your opinion on this approach.
https://www.amazon.com/Nutrient-Power-Heal-Biochemistry-Brain/dp/1626361282/ref=sr_1_1?crid=13WNUL9C2O4OO&keywords=Nutrient+Power%3A+Heal+Your+Biochemistry+and+Heal+Your+Brain&qid=1653735641&sprefix=n%2Caps%2C325&sr=8-1
I am certain my daughter would not read it herself - at least not any time soon - but thought I might consider introducing some ideas to her if I think she might be open.
I read Mad in America, and a few other indictments of the psychiatric industry, so I am already convinced of the harms. The hard part is convincing others. I have many family members who are on all kinds of meds, including benzos. I try to talk about these issues very gently with them, but it seems they just don't want to hear it. The response is often something like, well all drugs have some bad side effects for SOME people, but it helps me. This is the same response I get when I talk about the risks of Covid jabs. They think side effects are rare and could never happen to them...and if these drugs and vaccines were so dangerous, they would never be on the market and this would be frontline news. Maddening!
Thank you again for being a voice of medical sanity and freely sharing your knowledge. I wish we had more like you!
I know some tricks for helping with stopping SSRIs, but this is a complex enough subject that I cannon give any advice beyond:
1) Do not stop suddenly
2) Work with a psychiatrist who has experience in this area
Virtually anything else I say will work in some cases and not in others, and because they won't work in some cases, I can't suggest those options.
Check out Breggin's books on detoxing from psych meds
Someone told me long ago to start Prozac . He was no doctor, just took it himself and thought I smoked too much pot.
I'll stick to the pot
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The only med I can suggest for folks is occasionally a melatonin.
Helped me with Flubah.
Sorry your daughter sounds like she got lost.
We all have shitty lives to overcome the challenge of, to be living.
I don't know if you show her my opine here?
One would want to be free of prescription drug dependence.
When my mom died I had to discard hundreds of pill bottles littering her house. So sad
I went to talk to her doctor, who was too busy writing scripts to see me.
I wanted to know why she died, but when I saw his waiting room full of folks waiting for their script I understood.
Remember she must very slowly cut back and not stop suddenly.
It can take years to get off the drugs, but do it if possible please, careful, and live.
Pray to God
I don't know about taking it for 2 years, but cutting Prozac back slowly isn't generally necessary. (Other SSRIs yes.)
While granted not food (as tryptophan is), I'm not sure I'd consider melatonin to fully qualify as a drug as it's a metabolite.
I wonder if Leila L's daughter was on anything else. Antipsychotics notoriously cause weight gain.
It completely varies person to person.
Consider for example, if 9/10 people can cold turkey without issue but 1/10 can't, if I give that advice, I am directly responsible for what happens to that person. This is a perspective I have to keep in mind because of the position I am in and the ethical responsibilities I have.
I went through hell for a couple of weeks when a doctor tapered me off a neurotransmitter-modulating drug in 7 weeks instead of the recommended 10 weeks. The drug had been prescribed for a non-psychiatric purpose, but it made me emotionally flat and depressive so I asked to go off it. Halfway through the withdrawal I suddenly crashed into horrible de-realization and disorientation, and I could easily have panicked and become dangerous to myself and others.
So I totally support the position you're taking that you have to be cautious with every patient, in situations where you can't reliably predict who actually needs the cautious approach and who doesn't.
melatonin is also anti- viral and I have it from more than one source it is good for treating covid
Bryan Ardis DC explains this benefit of melatonin, and its benefit in treating COVID-19 "vaccine" injuries, in his interview by Mike Adams.
Dr. Peter Breggin's book "Talking Back to Prozac" goes into detail about withdrawal from SSRIs. Having gone through hell when a doctor tapered me off a neurotransmitter-modulating drug too fast, I say a slow, careful withdrawal supervised by a doctor who really knows what s/he's doing is the way to go.
The only drug my daughter takes is Prozac (unless she's not telling me!). I am confident she is not taking any anti-psychotics because years ago, she got very angry when she learned how they were being used off-label for all kinds of things and pushed on parents to treat children with autism. If she only took the time to understand this is similar to the push for using SSRIs, she'd be equally upset about that.
Induced metabolic syndrome is the official remedy for autism.
Captured and brainwashed by the doctors.All you can do is try and reason with her or change doctors
Brainwashed by doctors, but also society and a generation who was raised believing that every pain must be treated with a drug.
Unfortunately I have no control over her doctors and her medical decisions. as she is an adult and lives out of town. Right now, I am trying to have gentle conversations with her to consider alternatives, but she is steadfast in her belief that taking Prozac indefinitely is not a problem and if it were, her doctor would not keep prescribing it! People believe what they want to believe, and right now she desperately wants to believe that Prozac causes no problems and it is the answer to her pain. Before she started the meds, she was in a very bad place and is scared of those feelings returning. It's very hard to parent an adult, especially one whose decisions are not logical, but driven by fear.
One of the problems with Prozac is that it can causes personality changes. What I've heard, and seen, is that the person often develops a hostile, superior, I-don't-need-anybody attitude and neglects or breaks relationships with family members and friends. "Prozac divorces" are sometimes initiated by the Prozac-taking spouse but sometimes by their partner who says things like "She's not the same person I married...when she started taking that drug, she really changed..."
I suggest you get William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." Read it yourself and share it with your daughter. This book might interest her in nutritional treatment that would give her the same benefits as Prozac but without the side effects. Please note that withdrawal from psychiatric drugs has to be gradual and should be carefully supervised by a doctor experienced with the possible difficulties. Dr. Peter Breggins's book "Talking Back to Prozac" has good information about difficulties in withdrawal, but I wouldn't recommend this book for your daughter until she's read Walsh's book and understands that she has an excellent alternative to Prozac.
Thanks for the book recommendations, Kayla. I agree that my daughter is more likely to consider getting off Prozac if she has another alternative. I will read Walsh's book myself and try to have gentle conversations with her based on what I learned. It will be a tough sell. She has a bias against non-pharma remedies.
I'm familiar with Breggins' work through his website. Thanks for the reminder about his book.
My daughter lives out of town, but when she visits I don't see any concerning personality changes. She tells me the Prozac helps her not care as much and she doesn't feel as moody. She thinks this is a good thing. The biggest difference I see is tremendous weight gain, especially around her belly. She doesn't appear bothered by that, and I know that many of her friends are also very overweight, so it seems that her generation has normalized obesity, just like they have psychiatric meds and mental health diagnoses. Strange how when I was growing up in the 70s both were stigmatized.
It's good that you haven't seen the personality change I described; I'm glad to hear that. But "Prozac helps her not care as much" -- to me, this is very sad. The "fullness of life" is about caring very much...about particular people, places, things you choose to do with your time, issues you choose to get involved in, life goals.
It sounds like your daughter is developing insulin resistance and "metabolic syndrome." Here's another book you could read, and then share with her: "The Zone" by Barry Sears. Sears is a medical researcher with a strong family history of early death from heart disease; he developed the Zone Diet to save his own life and his brother's. It turns out the Zone Diet has many health benefits and the book does a good job explaining them.
One thing I don't think the book goes into is the fact that the Zone Diet has a nice "side effect" (after the first three weeks or so) of cheerful optimism. Another nice thing about the Zone Diet is that in the first two weeks, most people lose 5 to 15 pounds of "water weight" and start feeling significantly better. (After that, the weight loss typically slows to a healthy rate of 1 to 1.5 pounds per week.) Most people have a big boost in strength and energy at about three weeks, probably because of better mitochondrial function.
The Zone Diet looks complicated at first, but once you understand the principles of how to balance your "food blocks" and get a little practice, it's easy. Plus there are meal plans and recipes in "The Zone" and a couple of other subsequent books by Sears, "Mastering the Zone" (this one has updated food block charts, too) and "A Week in the Zone."
Good luck to you! I hope you're able to nudge your daughter onto a better track for health!
Want to lose weight and feel better? Five words: eat less fat, walk more.
A final note -- For resolving the held-at-gunpoint trauma your daughter experienced, look into EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Good info and trained practitioners at EFTUniverse.com. EFT has an impressive record (including actual studies with veterans) of resolving PTSD.
EMDR tends to work better. I use other approaches, but of the well known ones, I've seen EMDR get better results than EFT for these types of issues.
Yes my generation looked down on overweight and everywhere you looked was an exercise video or diet pill. Anorexia era I call it because my teenage years were constantly worrying about being fat. I still have it ingrained in my head to this day. This younger generation isn't concerned too much with it--it seems. I don't know if that is good or bad
I view the obesity as a symptom of mitochondrial dysfunction and a highly unnatural food supply.
I'm a walking horrid example of why she shouldn't continue. Check out survivingantidepressants.org. THere are many many people really suffering trying to get off these drugs. I've been on just 1 for about 20 years and I've become physically ill and just through hell trying to taper off. I used to take it in the morning when I brushed my teeth.
Best of luck to you.May you succeed in all your endevers
Thank you.
My son is 33 yrs old now and I'm sad to say he has been on an antidepressant of some kind since he was 6 yrs old - mostly zoloft but has tried nearly every antidepressant on the market. He was never overweight as a small child --until he started taking them. When he turned 22, he was 100 lbs overweight. He never ate fast food or sweets, he worked doing janitorial jobs & detailing cars--plus walked but still gained weight. He started weaning off of the zoloft, & doxepin, he was on at that time. The weight literally melted off him when the meds stopped. Being heavy and overweight is what made him want off the meds. They weren't helping his anxiety & OCD and I knew they will make you gain weight no matter what you eat or how active you are. He lost a total of 110 lbs in about a year and a half. His depression, anxiety, and OCD was still bad and it made him angry alot. The root issues are still there when the meds stop and if it's never solved, the person either self medicates with something, or goes back to the Dr and they put them right back on the same crap. My son is back on Zoloft again and has gained 20 lbs back... He says it does help in the beginning, but after awhile it stops working. The Dr increases the dose because he doesn't know what else to do. It's like a vicious cycle.
It's a shame very little focus is given towards addressing the actual causes of depression. So many effective approaches have been developed over the years!
He will have to find something else that stops the depression.
I wasn't depressed for decades, by keeping my self busy I'd say.
Last few weeks with no work I have gotten rather depressed again and am having to fight that again for first time in decades.
There's no easy answer.
Tell him....
This too shall pass.
AA is a good 12 step program but not directly applicable.
Sometimes depression will win.
Our circumstances don't get better while we are depressed, but I don't know how to change mine, and hence the depression.
Sorry .
I have a suggestion for you: Read William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." Then give your son the book to read, and discuss it with him. Walsh and colleagues have carefully analyzed biochemical issues underlying mental health problems, and have worked out nutrient-based treatment protocols. Some of their patients are able, over time, to get off psychiatric drugs entirely and others are able to greatly reduce their doses. Walsh has trained hundreds of doctors in his methods, and the Walsh Research Institute website has a list of trained practitioners.
Just a few ideas. Slowly make her aware whenever she mentions her obesity, its not her fault, the drug does that. It does, I have seen it happen with two friends of mine. But as you suggested this may not work above subliminal level. Maybe it is better to never mention getting off the prozac. Kids often do the opposite of what you want.
Try to boost her self confidence in general. It is an addiction, which is often related to self confidence issues.
Lead by example, start eating healthy and taking care of your own body and mind. You are her role model.
My now 20 year old daughter started an ssri in fifth grade for anxiety and switched to an snri many years ago. I’m trying to get her to start tapering off. I believe it is hurting not helping. That is our summer goal - see what life is like without the drug.
Speaking from harsh personal experience here -- My opinion is that withdrawal from any psychiatric drug should be done slowly and carefully under the supervision of a doctor with lots of experience doing this. I also recommend William Walsh's book "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain." (I've written comments about this book and about my experience with withdrawal from a drug...I hope you'll check my comments out. I just wrote a few new ones...)
Wellbutrin can cause weight loss. One big problem with wellbutrin is that it can cause people to "zone out" - not quite have seizures but not be all there either. I didn't process that there was a car stopped in front of me even while talking to my daughter and rear ended the car. I understand this is fairly common. It is now paired with topomax sometimes for weight loss. Topomax is an anti-seizure medication, so it likely takes care of the zoning out problem. Proceed with extreme caution if you do proceed.
One student I mentored had to drop out of her training because of psychiatric damage the Wellbutrin caused.
Bupropion is a weird cathinone (very close relative to amphetamine). I find it rather enigmatic. (As you may have gathered, I don't like brand names for drugs.)
Over one year ago, on April 1st, 2021, I found my daughters journal entry open on her bed and shockingly saw that she was planning suicide. Like a robot on autopilot, I called her counselor and drove her to the local hospital die children struggling with mental health. Many times in my past, I had already been there as I worked many years with children with behavioral and mental disabilities. My child had been suffering from severe depression since the onset of quarantine, which worsened upon her father abandoning me at the end of April 2020. I was able to carry my daughter through that initial time with lots of connection. Fast forward a few months. I began to get very sick with nausea and it spiraled into a daily occurrence that left me bed bound with my mom coming to help the weeks I had my three kids. My previous breast cancer treatment left me with a lot of health issues. Unfortunately, the need to tend to this coupled with the shocking realities that were surfacing in the world, greatly minimized my time with oldest. Without that constant support, she quickly spiraled down to this moment I found her journal entry. Within one day of beginning Zoloft in the hospital, I became the enemy. The one she could blame for all of her suffering. I couldn’t tell her the truth because my ex husband was 100% in support of the plandemic narrative. Anyhow, I agreed for her to stay with her father for a couple of weeks and that was a big mistake. When her depression did not let up, I questioned the drug as she began to self harm through cutting, which she never did pre-medication. I suggested that my ex take her off the drug and that it was the cause of her severe rage towards me as well as the self mutilation. He told me he’d “leave it to the experts” and took her back to the doctor who increased her medication. After another attempt at running away, a refusal to engage in therapy and false accusations of abuse towards me, that were dismissed by DSS, she was placed in wilderness therapy. After being there for three months, she was transferred to a therapeutic boarding school for teen girls aged 12-16. I remembered and found a test that a holistic psychiatrist gave her in the first grade that found a genetic defect that claimed that SSRIs would make her symptoms worse! I was excited and quickly sent it to the school psychiatrist, who, thankfully, agreed with the year and took her off the medication. My prayers were answered! In the following three months, she increasingly got better and showed signs of wanting to repair with me, but so much damage had taken place with her father alienating her from me. Nevertheless, she was roller skating daily, leading ukulele and singing classes, jumping for joy when they would go Rick climbing and expressing a lot of positive statements about her own healing and the prospect of our repair work. Then, I got an email from the school nurse saying that the psychiatrist wanted to start her on another medication. I looked it up...Pristiq...and was horrified! It is not even approved for children and there was a study done that proved it to be non ore effective than a placebo for children. In addition, the side effects include suicidal ideation and self harm. I asked the nurse to arrange a phone call with the doctor. That weekend, my ex emailed me several times asking me if I’d agreed to the medication. I told him I was waiting to talk By the following Monday, a claim arrived in the mail. My ex was suing me for temporary medical custody of my child. The trial was only an hour and I lost. I was not even given the opportunity to talk and the psychiatrist even expressed that it was a normal process that I took with wanting to ask some questions, but he did assure the judge that this drug was safe. He spoke about ten minutes about his expertise yet I was never asked about my expert perspective of my own child who I stayed at home with her whole life. Two days after beginning the new medication, an SNRI, she cut again. After going 3 1/2 months without. Now, she has cut five times. I have contacted the nurse and doctor again, written multiple letters to the staff and even did an interview with a local podcast to try to get my story heard and my rights restored, to no avail. My poor child continues to feel such angst and anxiety that it brings her relief to cut. The staff and doctor make excuses that her peers dysregulation is causing her to cut again, yet she did not do it at all for the 3 1/2 months she was off medication and on supplements that I provided. We are set to go to court again for permanent custody, including medical for all of my children. I was the primary caretaker of all of my children and mostly treated them naturally. My ex is wanting to vaccinate all of my children, not only with the Covid jab, but all the ones we jointly agreed to skip that are recommended by the CDC. I am a very loving mom and stayed home, putting my career to the side. Now, all of my rights, my identify, my job have been pulled from under me. That is nothing in comparison to the awful state of mind my child had been in since this quarantine, but even more since she has been put on medication. And my child is not the only one suffering. I hear it from everyone who has a teen. Even those whose own child is fairing well, that is not the case for their friends. My nephews best friend shit himself in the head. My niece is in counseling for depression. My dentists daughter has had three kids commit suicide this past year. And medication is NOT the answer. These children have NO hope and feel like they have no future.
Thank you for sharing this. I am going to have to cut this down and paraphrase it if it's quoted. It insidious that the solution to the lockdowns are the psyche meds.
I had to comment and say I am SO sorry for what has happened and is happening to you and your daughter/children. It hurts me to hear because I can relate to it. I've never understood how a person that was--at one time a soul mate, could cruelly turn our world upside down & devastate the children. Everything you thought you knew about them & who they are is a lie; & they act as if nothing you feel or care about matters.. I hope you get your children and your daughter gets feeling better again.. These past 2 years have torn families and friends apart like I haven't seen in a long time. I will be thinking of your story 🙏
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. It is unbelievable to me that anyone is still believing this narrative spewed our by MSM. One of my daughters was sick, again, this week and he texted me to tell me that he tested her for Covid! He has given her that test about a dozen times now and my kids keep getting sick when they are at his home. Then, when they come back to me I fill them up with supplements and give them MMS in mango juice to help counteract the spike proteins.
Hi! Wanted to see if there were any updates to your daughter’s situation. Sending you many positive thoughts.
My heart goes out to you with the ordeal you are going through.
Anita, do you know the name of the genetic defect? Antidepressants seemed to make me worse when I tried them for a few months.
I have been getting a lot of relief from scopolamine, etc. Also, ketamine is supposed to work similarly, but I have never tried it.
Good luck with your daughter.
I would have to find the paperwork to see directly, but it specifically states SRRIs. So, the psych doc put her on an SNRI instead. I figure it has the same mechanism of action because the seratonin action is the same. I have never heard of the drug you prescribed but I had heard of ketamine, but afraid my ex will use that against me if I recommend it, since it’s not overly accepted in the psychiatric community. Thank you for your comment. ❤️
I don't get how someone could not get that a SSRI and SNRI were equivalent there; it's literally an example of someone not wanting to think. It's also quite possible there weren't many SNRIs yet on the market when the test was made.
I thought if that too, but surely an SNRI has the same seratonin action as an SRRI but it also has the norepinephrine component.
I've had both and the SNRIs are far worse. It's like rocket fuel and the top of your head might blow off. SNRIs are as bad as crack. I would advise her doing lots of physical & mental exercise to try to work off all the excess energy, that otherwise finds its way into whatever problems one has and magnifies them. Sorry I don't know a better solution and so very sorry your family is having to endure this awful situation.
This is part of why I tried to explain the mechanism of SSRIs, SNRIs and cocaine in the post.
Anita,
I relate to so much of what you said because of similar experience. I’m so sorry for what you are going through. The worse pain a human being can know is being a mother who can not protect her children. I’m praying for you and your children.
I feel your pain and I pray that you get all the custody of all your children! Is there a way to convince your husband that you are right and the "expert" is hurting your children? At least stop the current medication for a while to see the result possibly? Surely he wants the best for them too...?
I have tried to wake him up so many times and he just uses what I say right back at me. This is why he is suing me. He feels like I am mentally unstable because I disagree with CDC and believe the shots are poison.
All the pandemic propaganda has torn a lot of families apart and I've seen it split numerous couples. This is one such example. Previously, the only related president I ever saw was an occasional case of a mother not wanting to vaccinate her kids, but the father going to vaccinate them and the mother needing to go into hiding because the courts always sided with the parent who wanted to vaccinate (I think I also saw one or two cases of a dad doing this, but it was normally the mother). This is one reason why I always felt it was important to bring up the issue of vaccination and someone before you plan to have kids with them, very tough conversation.
We did agree to this before we had children as our children are unvaccinated for any of the childhood recommendations. Now, he wants to jab them with COVID and all the ones we skipped! So crazy!
I don't like how man always uses mental unstable to label women... This is so ridiculous...
Yep. Those are the words on the claim. Mentally unstable. This was all after breast cancer treatment when I was out into medical menopause with my first infusion at age 43.
You may have a shot of getting the psychiatrist to change what he is doing through complaining to the medical board since he is arguably violating standard of care (so you'd probably have a lawyer draft a letter explaining how he is, cite the harms that have bees caused to the child, ask for a cease and desist on it, and then if the psychiatrist doesn't budge, get the medical board involved). The amount of hassle the psychiatrist will have to deal with if the medical board gets involved will make it not worth the hassle to continue it and the medical board may do something if you can prove he is violating standard of care and potentially creating harm through doing so.
This is solid advice. Thank you. I’m unsure if that action would make things better or worse. My concern is that the judge knew this particular psychiatrist snd spoke very highly of him. If I go above him and through the medical board, it may strengthen my ex’s case against me if me being mentally unstable. I know I’m not and that it would be an act of courage but I will have to think about it. The school could easily support the psych doc and then I come out looking like an emotional and controlling mama. Already, my ex has temporary primary medical decision making because this judge felt that the psych doc was more of an expert than me.
I am more and more realizing how wicked the ways of the world are. I admit, I find within myself that impulse adverted to in this essay, to dismiss the possibility of SSRIs causing the kinds of damage chronicled, and to write off as conspiracy theory the execrable schemings, coverups and collusion presented here as conspiracy fact.
I had heard about this sort of thing before, from people I trust and respect, and I had as it were only been able to believe it by half, and temporarily, due to cognitive dissonance and an unwillingness to be flooded by horror. But these last two years have been enough of a bitter pill to salt my blood with sterner humors, and I can’t play the carefree and trusting child anymore. I might be so towards the Good Lord, but against this brood of vipers I must grow canny.
I find myself thinking back to how it went for me as a teen. Came a time I was evidently suffering from that most insipid of designations, depression, and I had been persuaded to seek, as the phrase has it, professional help. So I showed up at the HMO’s medical compound where it was promised I could see a mental health therapist.
Will people recognize at once where this is headed? The first thing she starts talking about is my chemical imbalance. This was the going phrase at the time: “chemical imbalance.” No one drew my blood, no one examined my life under a microscope; though I had undergone an EEG years before to receive a diagnosis of childhood epilepsy, no one now looked any more closely at my nervous system than they did at my soul. How could she know I had a chemical imbalance? Based solely on my acne?
From the word go this therapist was angry at me, she was utterly impatient with the passable teenage ‘tude I bristled with as psychic armor, and she castigated me for my interest in “all that Freudian stuff,” which the dreary world no longer believed in. (How compellingly would the witch archetype have been constellated if I’d let slip I was a nascent Jungian?)
Chemical imbalance was all the rage at the time. Sadly, even my own mother had internalized the doctrine: “But what if you have a chemical imbalance?” she’d say to me, concerned. Something had to be done.
But don’t you understand? I was a teenager at the time; I hadn’t matured and got my ish together yet. Moreover, I had enough aswirl in my fledgling psyche to confuse and confound anyone, and I wasn't sure what to do with it all: from parental divorce to social isolation; from questions about my sexuality, to questions about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Why must it have been an issue of chemical imbalance, and not a question of rites of passage, of patience, wise counsel, nourishment unto healing, a question of soul retrieval and the quest for God’s blessing?
Never eat what they offer or your brain will end up pickled in a jar in their dingy excuse for an underworld. I escaped being prescribed anything to rebalance my brain chemistry because I had enough piss and vinegar and good instincts to say no. I conveyed to my mother, who I am grateful to for respecting my decision and listening to me more carefully than the professional did, that the masters of hell would sooner establish a diversity, equity, and inclusion committee than I would return to that witch’s therapy hut.
Twenty-some years on, I’ve been through a lot of conscious movement and journaling practice, accessed more self-confidence, and been thoroughly convicted of God’s love for me. I suppose that was enough to give me the strength to decline the latest safe and effective elixir to be urged on me by all the world.
This world, it is a vale of tears and a den of iniquity. The best title for a book ever chosen was “Lamentations.”
But goodness exists also. I believe it, and have known it. I thank God. “Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation… And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who giveth joy to my youth.”
The chemical imbalance thing was never proven. It's just marketing BS someone came up with. I believe there has always been a light and a dark aspect to humans, and the more you can see one, the more you can see the other. Hopefully I was able to put this concept together in a coherent and provable manner so it was not just another "conspiracy theory"
God has blessed you with an unusual ability to weave words together in beautiful fashion to communicate with depth and passion. Thanks for sharing your story.
Thank you for the kind reply. You're welcome.
I second Copernicus-- in spades! WELL said!
God Bless You.
Erin, you have a rich vocabulary and an unusual way with words. Your writing is "a feast for a mind that loves language." I hope you're using your talent and skill to write more than comments on other people's substacks. Do you have a substack of your own? Any plans to publish a collection of essays or stories, or an autobiography?
All right, I will jump right into the deep water here...I have an idea for you. I've been thinking for a long time now that Anthony Fauci is "a tale that needs a Shakespeare to tell it." Perhaps the first act of the play could be Fauci in the Obama years. Second act, in the Trump years. Third act, in the Biden years. Fourth act, Fauci is a ghost reciting a soliloquy on an almost-dark stage surrounded by scattered dead bodies -- the culmination of bioweapon COVID and the depopulation-purposed snake-venom-laced "vaccines." Whoops, the depopulation plot and its unintended consequences were too successful and there's not a single human left alive on Planet Earth. But that's ok, because good old grandfatherly Anthony Fauci will explain everything to us, including all the lies he told along the way, and how they were "noble lies."
Or maybe the Obama era needs to be a whole play (Anthony I),the Trump era another whole play (Anthony II), and the Biden era being a third play (Anthony III) with the soliloquy being the final act.
I know, I know, this is just too weird -- some who-knows-who in a substack telling you that you should write a Shakespearean play about Anthony Fauci. But I'm serious...I actually think you have the talent with language to take this on, perhaps by yourself, or perhaps with a co-author. You'd probably need a lot of factual input to realize the plot and its twists and turns. RFK Jr., Judy Mikowitz, Robert Malone...I bet people would be willing to contribute, to clue you in to the twists and turns they've witnessed, and to critique your work as it progresses...(think of the richness of the subplots)!
Please think it over. This work could be your masterpiece. It could wake up the sleepers of the world to fight back against Fauci and his puppets, and the puppet-masters who pull his strings.
I’m grateful that you reached out as you did, Kayla. I chuckled a little, reflecting that Providence perhaps really might intend that I do more with myself than write comments on other people’s substacks.
I happen to have a name picked out for a stack of my own, but right now I am not confident I’d have very much to put on it, so I have delayed opening it. Or, I think what I mean to say is that I recognize where I’d have to take my writing game if I determined to publish myself, and it has given me pause.
It’s one thing to dash off a comment on a flush of enthusiasm. But the essays I might like to attempt would require I put in sustained effort. They’d be _work_, you know. I’d have to research things, and spend time really getting to know the shape of my thought on certain questions before I have the joy of expressing myself.
There’s the fancy I could get by on delphic utterances formed without extensive conscious reflection, hoping it all gels as poesy, but I know the reality to be otherwise. And I question whether I have the intelligence, ability to focus, and originality to contribute things of value.
But perhaps I shall simply attempt it, knowing there’s value at least in spending time seeking greater clarity on the questions that occupy me.
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Ha! And I’d written that much before I came back and saw your edits elaborating a suggestion for a multi-act play. That’s a whole other thing again, and I shall have to sit with the suggestion a while and see what I can make of it.
What a marvellous comment! You're a great writer
In the early 90’s( can’t remember the exact year) I personally knew and was involved with the family of the 66 year old man you mentioned that stabbed his wife over 200 times then killed himself. We were all members of a small community church and we used to go to their house for Bible study. His children sued Eli Lilly ( not for the money , they became quite wealthy) but to have Prozac labeled with all these warnings .The saddest thing was that if they knew there was any chance this could happen when he stopped the drug ,they would have hired round the clock in home care to be sure he was doing ok. They had the means to do whatever it would have taken to be safe during that time but they just didn’t have the knowledge . It was the saddest time that will always be with me.
I’m sickened by the drugs and drug companies , it’s so far out of control now.
May I quote you in the article?
Yes…
Done! Thank you. Your comment adds an important dimension to this.
From "Behold a Pale Horse" by William Cooper (1991)
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"The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of military firearms for the criminals to use. This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity, which would lead the American people to voluntarily disarm themselves by passing laws against firearms. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the antigun lobby. This plan is well under way, and so far is working perfectly. The middle class is begging the government to do away with the 2nd amendment."
Author's Note: "I have found that these events have indeed happened all over the country. In every instance that I have investigated — the incident at the women's school in Canada, the shopping center incident in Canada, the Stock- ton, California, massacre, and the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane — the shooters were all ex-mental patients or were current mental patients who were ALL ON THE DRUG PROZAC! This drug, when taken in certain doses, increases the serotonin level in the patient, causing extreme violence. Couple that with a posthypnotic suggestion or control through an electronic brain implant or microwave or E.L.F. intrusion and you get mass murder, ending in every case with the suicide of the perpetrator. Exhume the bodies of the murderers and check for a brain implant. I think you are going to be surprised. In every case the name of the murderer's doctor or mental treatment facility has been withheld. I believe we will be able to establish intelligence-com- munity connections and/or connections to known CIA experimental mind- control programs when we finally discover who these doctors of death really are."
This happened with fireworks in the summer of 2020. Somehow there was mass distribution of them to the poor neighborhoods near me and went off every night for months. Good way to rile up the population already under lockdowns and hearing about BLM protests going on world wide. It’s ok to gather in large groups while protesting only. Ding dongs.
Divide and Conquer... Works incredibly well. Also tortures the non-human animals. What lovely Masters we are supposed to worship...
Animal getting traumatized by fireworks is a huge issue people really don't appreciate :*(
People in the midwest love their fireworks.
as they do where I live on Reunion Island, the official word from the government is fireworks are illegal but tolerated.
Yeah, they do. My woke sister lost her dog because of fireworks.
They make fireworks without the noise... few people seem to care about the other animals... sad. They bother me, if they're close enough!
Thanks for the link. This book includes the "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" document which is the manual for WW3. A full reconstructed version with diagrams and introduction can be found at:
https://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml
Recommended reading for anyone who seeks to understand the world we live in.
The document begins with:
"
Welcome Aboard
This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the "Quiet War", being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with "silent weapons".
This book contains an introductory description of this war, its strategies, and its weaponry.
"
Thanks for that. It really does explain what they're up to, as we can see the results all around us, just as they say in the manual.
Word.
Thanks for this--couldn't agree more. Doctors hand SSRIs out like candy.
Sadly, pharma advertising money is so much of the budget of news media that this will never trend as an issue. Thus nothing will ever be done about it. Politicians won't touch it unless it is on the news and they are forced to. Why risk losing pharma bucks and have backchannel sabotage worked against your campaign? Plus mass shootings really redound to the benefit of elites that want to disarm the populace so they can go "full aussie" and get camps ready for the next or next next disease hysteria. People who are aware of things like this and vaccine injury live in a shadow world. We can only protect ourselves and a close circle. My kids are going to hear a lot about NEVER consulting a psychiatrist.
Bingo.
certainly
I would like to add....the Bible DOES say that drugs (from the Greek pharmakia) are a gateway for demonic activity. You can ALWAYS see demons in the crazy eyes....they're looking right back at you! We are forgetting, or just don't believe at all, that the Bible is the owners manual for life. To add further, since God judges us by the intent our hearts, your life depending drugs aren't bad. Use discernment like everything else.
The bible is a control mechanism just as the drugs are...use discernment
Predominantly Hilkiah's doing.
Don't overgeneralize. The Bible suggests use of some drugs, such as myrrh, and even wine. (Not to mention that horrid concoction in Moses' anointing oil.) Granted, raqah רקח apparently means spice.
The Bible says what it says. Take it up with God.....He wrote it. Since He created EVERYTHING, I'd expect He's the authority.
god had nothing to do with bible...purely man-made...all are the same stories from previous civilizations
How incredibly sad.😖
Still overgeneralizing. How about specific references? Why, just damn those magi for giving Jesus' parents frankincense and myrrh! Must have been drug pushers from the East.
Look up what pharmaceuticals are. Dont think you'll find myrrh. Or frankincense. Hence my point. Sorry your not a fan of your Creator.
frankincense & myrrh are fragrances... still used today in perfumes.
I love frankincense! It's also can be a safe helpful alternative to ibuprofen.
Apparently it means those sold. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pharmaceutical Since the myrrh and frankincense were gifted, perhaps not, but I bet they were also sold. I gotta pay when I want them. (I use myrrh dermatologically.) If you read my description, you'll see chemist; not purveyor or businessman. I also don't much favor Greek or Latin, though you'll occasionally see me cite Hebrew. "Drug" is Dutch, and refers to barrels of medicinals, which tended to get dragged around. The toxicological definition is anything altering metabolism other than food (air and water obviously also included).
I hadn't been aware the Creator's preferred language is Greek.
Myrrh and wine are not drugs. They are God's remedies. They are natural supplements.
They're food? They don't get dragged around in casks? They have no effect on metabolic function? You have a third definition of "drug"? (Anything not a "natural supplement"?)
This sounds like an attempt to confuse and obfuscate to me. The definition of "drug" has nothing to do with the measures of metabolic function. Drugs may or may not have any effect on metabolism. Drugs are chemicals, mostly concocted in a laboratory and then tested on animals to see what they do, which is what determines what they are marketed for. Bottom line: drugs are chemical substances that have nothing to do with the complex substances God put into nature.
If you want to have a rational discussion of this topic, it is necessary to stay away from silly irrelevant definitions like "something that gets dragged around in casks."
Are sand and helium "drugs"? Clearly you don't consider opium to be a drug. You also refuse to consider the etymology of the word. You're a drug on this market, and I'm done with you.
Opium is being used as a STREET drug. It is poisonous just like jimsonweed, locoweed, marijuana, and others. Some plants are simply poisonous. I'm not including them in remedies because they are not remedies. Sand and helium are not drugs. They are natural substances. The etymology of a word is not the issue. How it is USED is the issue. Meanings of words change. DRUGS are the chemicals pharmaceutical companies manufacture. The etymology of the word "drug" is NOT AN ISSUE. I'm glad you are done with me because you don't make any sense, and I hate trying to have a civil discussion with people who aren't capable of it.
Fantastic writing and discussion. Thank you.
Thanks for another significant increment to my education.
this was hard to read but very much appreciated.
You work is extremely important, Doctor. Many of us are with you. PHARMA used the same bully tactics to mandate their pills as they did with the MRNA injections. Insurance companies would not pay unless the therapist referred his patient for meds. That had to be documented on the treatment plan with the bill.
I can't help but wonder if the insurance companies have always been a part of the cabal.
Hypervaccination in babies, formula and SAD diet then, anphetamines during childhood, antidepressants in young teenagers and antipsychotics and opiates from them on.
Birth control pill are probably the most important link in this process. Gardasil often also plays a huge role.
I second the request to explain the role of birth control pills!
It's on the todo list!
Please would you explain what role birth control pills and Gardasil play in that vicious circle?
Thank You in advance!!!!!
How about the complete madness of the entire population and it’s effect on kids? Perhaps he was also given this experimental DNA altering scam the government is forcing on everyone?
I was one of those kids screwed by psych drugs. I was given benzodiazepine sleeping meds since I was in elementary school and SSRI’s since I was in my mid-teenage years. Zero informed consent (and even if I had “informed consent” it wouldn’t have counted because I was only a child).
I’m so sorry. Truly.
Excellent article....many thanks