Just witnessed a family member blow up his family after a year on an NDRI for process addiction. Some of the side effects include excessive sweating, mania, the filters come off, leading to promiscuity, grandiosity, overconfidence, hostility, insomnia, unconcern for others, emotional detachment, etc...The drug is supposed to replace the dopamine hit from the process, theoretically removing the desire for an external hit. In reality, the drug results in an artificial high, leading to reckless behaviour and a personality restructuring. These psychiatrists should be in jail, just as heroin dealers are jailed when caught. Bupropion HCL is called the 'poor man's cocaine,' and it is prescribed regularly by dopey doctors.
" Damage the brain sufficiently and the depression lifts, not because the distress has been addressed, but because the capacity to experience it has been impaired.²"
Which is not to say you should take up boxing for it's brain damaging potential even though it is known that EXERCISE is a powerful tool in managing all sorts of mood disorders.
I recall long ago reading a book called "beyond Prozac" and remember concluding that unless you were ready for a straight jacket and a padded room EXCERCISE was probably the single most effective least dangerous treatment for depression and many related issues. Just my own personal opinion but I think many will agree that they'll push pills at you for every little thing and it is perhaps a good idea to resist. Permanent brain alterations for a temporary problem is not a good trade.
It also talked about bio feedback, training yourself to control your moods, particularly as it relates to anxiety control. Makes a lot of sense and better than poisoning yourself. At the very worst who's not going to feel better if they lose weight, look better and are fit?
Who knows, if you start looking good enough and feeling good enough you may find a significant other to break your heart and give you a reason to be depressed.
Oh yeah. Trying to have a positive attitude probably helps. They should tell you that when you start your exercise program.
"A person in distress sits across from a doctor. Fifteen minutes later they leave with a diagnosis and a prescription. They are told they have a chemical imbalance that the drug will correct. They may be told depression runs in families — that there is a genetic predisposition, a biological vulnerability they inherited."
People parrot the "chemical imbalance, genetic predisposition, runs in families" tripe as solid fact. These ideas seem to be cemented in to their minds. Propaganda has done its work well. This cannot be questioned.
Also, people love to go to the doctor and leave with a diagnosis and a prescription. If you live outside that practice, you are the one thought of as strange, weird, and not to be taken seriously.
And I love that phrase "drugs (or was it pharmaceuticals, whatever) cause the chronification of disease". It seems every pharmaceutical, and maybe supplements and vitamins, have flow on effects that most don't connect with them - that's my current opinion.
Yeah, if your wife, her husband is taking an SSRI, you better put the cutlery away at night. For you are effectively married to Mrs. or Mr. Norman Bates. Better get off the drugs, eat raw animal product, workout high intensity with weights take your Shilajit or Bee pollen , Breathe through your nose, only, and get good sleep
Psychopharmacology is a pernicious scam that has sullied Psychiatry, perhaps irreversibly. How many prescribers obtain truly informed consent? My guess is zero-to-none! 😳
My father is 77 and has never been on one med and never frequented the doctor. He recently went and said he was anxious about breathing from what he has diagnosed himself as copd. He walked out in minutes with hydroxazine and lexapro both to be started the same day. No regard to try the lesser and see how it goes first. Three weeks in and he says he has no effects. Next it will be the doctor upping the dose. Once the doctor says here is the "easy" cure in a pill, it is so hard to get people to see otherwise.
Just witnessed a family member blow up his family after a year on an NDRI for process addiction. Some of the side effects include excessive sweating, mania, the filters come off, leading to promiscuity, grandiosity, overconfidence, hostility, insomnia, unconcern for others, emotional detachment, etc...The drug is supposed to replace the dopamine hit from the process, theoretically removing the desire for an external hit. In reality, the drug results in an artificial high, leading to reckless behaviour and a personality restructuring. These psychiatrists should be in jail, just as heroin dealers are jailed when caught. Bupropion HCL is called the 'poor man's cocaine,' and it is prescribed regularly by dopey doctors.
Speaking from experience I can only agree. And ….it’s great to be free of these poisonous drugs. Not to mention free of those who prescribe them.
Life is really interesting - you will see.
" Damage the brain sufficiently and the depression lifts, not because the distress has been addressed, but because the capacity to experience it has been impaired.²"
Which is not to say you should take up boxing for it's brain damaging potential even though it is known that EXERCISE is a powerful tool in managing all sorts of mood disorders.
I recall long ago reading a book called "beyond Prozac" and remember concluding that unless you were ready for a straight jacket and a padded room EXCERCISE was probably the single most effective least dangerous treatment for depression and many related issues. Just my own personal opinion but I think many will agree that they'll push pills at you for every little thing and it is perhaps a good idea to resist. Permanent brain alterations for a temporary problem is not a good trade.
It also talked about bio feedback, training yourself to control your moods, particularly as it relates to anxiety control. Makes a lot of sense and better than poisoning yourself. At the very worst who's not going to feel better if they lose weight, look better and are fit?
Who knows, if you start looking good enough and feeling good enough you may find a significant other to break your heart and give you a reason to be depressed.
Oh yeah. Trying to have a positive attitude probably helps. They should tell you that when you start your exercise program.
"A person in distress sits across from a doctor. Fifteen minutes later they leave with a diagnosis and a prescription. They are told they have a chemical imbalance that the drug will correct. They may be told depression runs in families — that there is a genetic predisposition, a biological vulnerability they inherited."
People parrot the "chemical imbalance, genetic predisposition, runs in families" tripe as solid fact. These ideas seem to be cemented in to their minds. Propaganda has done its work well. This cannot be questioned.
Also, people love to go to the doctor and leave with a diagnosis and a prescription. If you live outside that practice, you are the one thought of as strange, weird, and not to be taken seriously.
And I love that phrase "drugs (or was it pharmaceuticals, whatever) cause the chronification of disease". It seems every pharmaceutical, and maybe supplements and vitamins, have flow on effects that most don't connect with them - that's my current opinion.
“Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs create them.” — Robert Whitaker
Another excellent post Unbekoming.
Blessings and appreciation from Sydney Australia.
Yeah, if your wife, her husband is taking an SSRI, you better put the cutlery away at night. For you are effectively married to Mrs. or Mr. Norman Bates. Better get off the drugs, eat raw animal product, workout high intensity with weights take your Shilajit or Bee pollen , Breathe through your nose, only, and get good sleep
I would suggest you do a book on Buteyko Breathing. Amazing stuff, that hasn’t gotten its due because it came out of the Soviet Union
Psychopharmacology is a pernicious scam that has sullied Psychiatry, perhaps irreversibly. How many prescribers obtain truly informed consent? My guess is zero-to-none! 😳
My father is 77 and has never been on one med and never frequented the doctor. He recently went and said he was anxious about breathing from what he has diagnosed himself as copd. He walked out in minutes with hydroxazine and lexapro both to be started the same day. No regard to try the lesser and see how it goes first. Three weeks in and he says he has no effects. Next it will be the doctor upping the dose. Once the doctor says here is the "easy" cure in a pill, it is so hard to get people to see otherwise.
I was very sad because I felt discriminated against at work and my GP thought I would benefit from anti-depressants. They destroyed my career. oops.