Are you really bi-polar?

I found the following comment by Ann Blake-Tracy on Facebook. I”m not sure which article she is referencing but the thing I wanted to point out to day is her excellent presentation of how pharma KNEW what they were doing when they created this massive explosion of “bi polar disorder”.

Thank you Ann Blake-Tracy for all you have done in past decades and your unfailing commitment to sharing these truths.

“I disagree with this article. I watched this all happen and warned that it was happening while watching it. This is real, not something increased with the change in criteria of Bipolar diagnosis.

They created this explosion in Bipolar with the SSRI antidepressants and they did so knowing exactly what they were doing….why would I say that?

Well first Lilly introduced Prozac and their next psych drug was what? Zyprexa – the first NEW ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATION. Pfizer introduced Zoloft several years after Prozac and then their next new psych drug was? That is right…Geodon, their NEW ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATION.

Initially even psychiatrists would not prescribe SSRIs because of their strong potential to produce mania. These companies KNEW what they were doing – getting the patient coming and going – first for depression and then for the adverse reaction of mania. (Keep in mind that these drugs cost double what the antidepressants that caused the Bipolar for which the new atypical antipsychotic was prescribed to cure.)

As the use of SSRIs skyrocketed among youth in the late 90′s, early 2000′s the rate of Bipolar diagnosis skyrocketed from 1996 – 2004 by 4000%!!!!!

Malcomb Bowers, et all, from Yale published a study in 2000 demonstrating that 11% of those in psych wards with a bipolar diagnosis obtained that diagnosis from going manic on an antidepressant. (This was the case of Osama Bin Laden’s son. You can find his case in our database of cases at http://www.ssristories.drugawareness.org)

They went on to say that MOST physicians do not recognize that the Bipolar is antidepressant-induced so they expected the real percent of those going bipolar as a result of the antidepressant inducing it was FAR HIGHER. This is what I covered in my 2006 FDA testimony if you would like to read that on our drugawareness.org site.

An ANTI-depressant (the opposite of a depressant) is a stimulant. Stimulants over stimulate the brain which is seizure activity.

Mania is a continuous series of mild seizures.

And that is what antidepressants produce. That is why I put out my DVD, “Bipolar, Shympolar!

Are you really Bipolar or misdiagnosed due to the use of or abrupt discontinuation of an antidepressant?”

Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,
International Coalition for Drug Awareness

You can find Ann’s work here: www.drugawareness.org

Benzo cover-up scandal could pave the way for large class action lawsuits

Reblogged from life lies waiting ...:

According to The Independent, a national newspaper in Great Britain,  the Medical Research Council (MRC) agreed in 1982 that there should be large-scale studies conducted to examine the effects of long-term benzodiazepine usage after a leading psychiatrist showed brain shrinkage in some patients similar to the effects of long-term alcohol usage. What the MRC appears to have done, instead of conducting the studies, is to mark the relevant documents “closed until 2014.”

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Murder by suicide. A little bit of me died too.

This is all to often the case for those who have been ensnared by the promise of “help” from psychiatry. I have personal experience with this as my own mother was tortured by psychiatry for ten years before she gave up in 1976 after attempting to unsuccessfully escape psychiatry and my abusive father who kept having her committed. It was this experience where I first started being brainwashed myself to ask for “help” and consider the idea that I could get “sick” like Mom did. I was fortunate – after sacrificing 15 years of my own life to the lies and the “chemical imbalance” that was caused by the drugs…I escaped with my life and now tell these stories that others might also find the light at the end of the tunnel – without having to die to get there.

In memory of my Mom and all the others who for one reason or another chose to escape by death.