SSRI’s Anti Depressant’s cause normal healthy depression to become long term and chronic?

A quick share today….

SSRI antidepressants implicated in causing long term depression http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/antidepressants-long-term-depression_b_1077185.html

Antidepressants Useless: FOIA Request Gets Data That Proves It | Gaia Health

As I’ve been saying, the next “Big Tobacoo” debacle….

Antidepressants Useless: FOIA Request Gets Data That Proves It | Gaia Health.

So now – please understand that when you feel worse if you try to go off these drugs is not because you are one of the unfortunates who really is “mentally ill” but that your body is physically addicted and now you must go through withdrawals.

Truth sets us free but sometimes it hurts.

Yes; we have been bamboozled.

Please share far and wide…via Antidepressants Useless: FOIA Request Gets Data That Proves It | Gaia Health.

UPDATE: please note that just because the FDA has the information that does not mean they will act on it or change anything. As in all things it is up to individuals to come to their own conclusions and create their own proactive plan to incorporate these changes. For more info please drop by one of my other resource Blogs and let me know if you have questions or need resources: www.proactiveplanning.org

Using Antidepressants, Suicidal Ideation and Homicidal Akathisia

One of my biggest beefs about psychotropic drugs is that when the side effects like insomnia, suicidal ideation, psychosis etc are reported to the doctors….this is often not used as evidence of a treatment “failure” but as evidence of “genetic defect” and symptoms that validate “diagnosis”.

Another share via the Mercola website today: Using Antidepressants May Send You into a Murderous Rage.

Antidepressants Among the Most Dangerous Drugs Available

The past few decades have been marked by a massive con job by the pharmaceutical industry. This deception has not only targeted you, the consumer, but also government agencies like the FDA and unsuspecting physicians who really believe they are helping their patients by prescribing antidepressants and other drugs.

These treatments have been marketed as safe and effective, when in reality, they are neither.

It appears that antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs also called neuroleptics may be among the MOST dangerous drugs of all.

Antidepressant drugs cause 40,000 deaths per year, yet theyre handed out like candy to adults and children alike.The very legitimacy of science and scientific literature has been seriously undermined by the corruption of the pharmaceutical industry, which is able to disguise their propaganda as a “scientific study,” then worm its way into a highly prized medical journals.

Time and again, brave whistleblowers have revealed the truth about “studies” that are outright fraudulent, aggressively advertised, and carefully concocted by drug makers in an effort to shamelessly deceive the public.

And thankfully, truth-seekers who have no ties to Big Pharma occasionally conduct and publish studies that reveal the truth about what these drugs are doing to people.

The study cited above is the latest example.

From Depressed to Homicidal: The “Miracles” of Modern PharmacyForensic psychiatrist Dr. Yolande Lucire and pharmacogeneticist Christopher Crotty found a significant association between genetics, metabolism of psychiatric drugs, and severe “homicidal akathisia.”

Akathisia is a medical term describing a condition of motor restlessness, marked by anxiety, agitation, jitteriness, or the sensation of “jumping out of ones skin” and the inability to sit quietly or sleep.

Akathisia is a common side effect of neuroleptic drugs.

Chronic sleeplessness itself can lead to a long list of physical and emotional symptoms

.It has long been known that many antidepressants cause akathisia, especially SSRIs selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a category that includes Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and other commonly prescribed antidepressants.

Some researchers and physicians believe that akathisia is the chief symptom that triggers impulsive violence in certain individuals who take antidepressant drugs.

This is thought to be an extreme form of akathisia.

Homicidal impulses and murderous behavior due to akathisia is now being called “homicidal akathisia.” (emphasis mine)

The akathisia issue first came into public view shortly after Prozac entered the marketplace in the mid-1980s, when reports of murder and suicide among patients taking Prozac were publicized by the media.

Since then, there have been thousands of reports of violent behavior by individuals taking antidepressant drugs.

There is even a website devoted to collecting and indexing these reports in a sortable database.

The site lists more than 4,800 cases, from murder-suicides to road rage to school shootings.

In spite of adamant denials by Prozac manufacturer Eli Lilly that the drug could not cause violent behavior, by early 1991 some 350 suicides by Prozac patients had been reported to the FDA.

Most of the patients were NOT suicidal prior to taking the pharmaceuticals, despite claims that the increased violence could be explained by the fact that patients prescribed these drugs represented a high-risk population to begin with, in which suicide rates were higher.

It was also observed that fixation with violence and death abatedwhen patients discontinued their antidepressants, further pointing the finger at drugs as the cause.

(emphasis mine)

via Using Antidepressants May Send You into a Murderous Rage.

A good resource for info on antidepressants is Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy at www.drugawareness.org

And Peter Lehmann on anti depressants and neuroleptics here

via Using Antidepressants May Send You into a Murderous Rage.

Neuroskeptic: The Real Story On That “Antidepressant Surge”

A good read on the increased prescriptions for psych drugs.

An excerpt:

Whats happened, clearly, is that doctors are just writing more prescriptions nowadays.So its misleading to say that theres been a spike in antidepressant prescriptions. Yes its technically true but it ignores the context. The truth is that we seem to be experiencing a cultural shift in our relationship to medications – perhaps evidence of the creeping medicalization of life although there are more prosaic explanations that need to be ruled out before we conclude that; this could be a bureaucratic change in the way prescriptions are counted.However, “Escalating Depression Crisis – Antidepressant Use Soars” is a better headline than “Possible Medicalization Gradually Continues For Sixth Year In Row”.The truth, sadly, has an inherent disadvantage in the battle for news coverage. If we find the truth boring, its easy for someone to come along and make up something attention grabbing. But the only easy way to make the truth more interesting is to make it, well, less true.

via Neuroskeptic: The Real Story On That “Antidepressant Surge”.

via Neuroskeptic: The Real Story On That “Antidepressant Surge”.

Karen Barth Menzies Antidepressant Press Conference

Yup.

Just like “Big Tobacco”.

“Evidence existed in the 1980′s”

via Karen Barth Menzies Antidepressant Press Conference – YouTube.

You can start the conversation by clicking on the red box that says “No Responses”

What’s your take on how this stuff is starting to come out about how America and the world have been mislead about these drugs?

via Karen Barth Menzies Antidepressant Press Conference – YouTube.

NUMB….The Truth About Antidepressants (Documentary)

From the home page of the documentary Numb, due out January 2012:

What happens when a suburban Dad who is tired of feeling numb decides to quit taking his antidepressants?

And he films the drastic effects on his physical and psychological well being.

NUMB also reveals starteling new information the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want you to know.

Vist the home page for the documentary coming out January 2012 here: via NUMB.

MY FIRST PROZAC PILL « International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry ISEPP Blog

First….if you are content with your life, your diagnosis, your prescriptions and your treatment plan – this post may not be for you. 

If you are curious or concerned about the issues related to long term use of psychotropic drugs and the long term disability and chronic – and extensive – increase of America’s very poor outcomes in “mental health” industry…You may find this post at least interesting and perhaps even enlightening…for sure, validating.

Regardless of your personal choices – this post reflects only one of millions whose life has been irreparably changed by falling into the arms of psychiatry and their “magic bullets”. 

When I, personally, “awoke” after a 15+ year journey into, through and out of America’s mental health system my first reaction was numbness.

Then confusion as I tried to piece the past nearly 20 years of my life together.

It was only after connecting with other survivors of (SEVERE) poly-pharmacy and mental health abuse and neglect online that I realized the horror of what had not just happened to me – but been done to me.

Carolyn Anderson shares her own experience in today’s post.

An excerpt by Carolyn:

I have often wondered what my life would have been like had I not swallowed my first Prozacpill. Now I am horrified to learn that twenty years of being prescribed antidepressants, mood stabilisers and antipsychotic drugs, several suicide attempts, numerous admissions to psychiatric hospital and ending up like a zombie…could have been avoided. Read the rest of this piece here: via MY FIRST PROZAC PILL « International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry ISEPP Blog.

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The book that opened the dialogue and let the cat out of the bag in 2010: Anatomy of an Epidemic by scientific (award winning) Journalist, Robert Whitaker

Thank you for reading, please consider sharing/liking:)

Always and forever in hope for that truth that sets us free,

Susan

KIP Central: News, information and resources for those learning to live beyond psychiatry.

New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression

Today a short post – minus commentary other than to say if you have not yet read the book Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker – when you do you will discover some amazing research and how we as a country have been misled. You can find Whitaker and his work at www.madinamerica.com. Tons of evidence for those who like evidence.

Another resource for some surprising statistics and evidence – Peter Lehmann at Peter Lehmann Publishing. Excellant reasearch went into his books that tell the story from views of those who have used and withdrawn from various psychotropic drugs.

Today’s breaking news from Dr. Peter Breggin at Huffington Post: Dr. Peter Breggin: New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression.

Thanks for reading, please consider sharing/liking/tweeting:)

In peace and hope always,

Susan

KIP Central: News, information and resources for those learning to live beyond psychiatry.

Dr. Peter Breggin: New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression

A quick post….read and follow Dr. Peter Breggin at the Huffington post.

Today….validates my own personal experience. I never had long term depression – until I took anti-depressants.

Read this piece here:Dr. Peter Breggin: New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression.

via Dr. Peter Breggin: New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression.

Always, always….there is a solution:)

Knowledge Is Power….

Susan

I Realized…Seasons are not a “Disorder”

Seasons Have a Purpose

This year as the clocks fall back with Daylight savings time I had a different view of how this change affected me.

In the past – I believed that I experienced “seasonal affective disorder”. And in doing so – I also believed there was nothing I could do about it to ease my “symptoms”; that something about ME was “disordered”.

This time, as the seasons began changing, instead of focusing on “symptoms” and the man made construct of this “diagnosis”…I began to look at myself and the world around me from the viewpoint of nature – vs man.

And I discovered that:

I have felt “off” these first couple of weeks following this time change. I was chronically early for appointments and feeling as though I needed to apologize for seeming a bit “off”. Isn’t that something how we have been trained and conditioned to feel as though something is “wrong” with us – that we need to apologize for something that is a natural response to having ones body clock yanked around twice a year?

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I also discovered that I was feeling sleepy about an hour before my normal “bedtime”. In other words…my body hadn’t changed, my sleep habits hadn’t changed. I was attempting to force myself to do something that did not come naturally and was experiencing the very normal “side effect” of that. My body and brain were telling me “its time for bed”.

The time on the face of the clock…that is another man made construct. A tool we use to synchronize our lives with the bigger world that needs to create false order vs following the natural order. “Time” and “clock” don’t exist in nature. In nature – there is only “now”. So it wasn’t my body – nature – that became disordered with this change but rather the change that I was attempting to force myself into that was creating a perceived disorder – where there was none before.

I was waking up “early” – about an hour to an hour and a half early – according to my clock anyway. The reality is that the clock was running behind my normal body clock. I was still getting sleepy and waking at the “right” time. Its not that I was developing insomnia – which in the past I might have complained to a doctor and agreed to take some sleep chemical to force my body – and brain – into this unnatural state of the change of clock time.

I began feeling quite discombobulated. My routine was off. I was finding it difficult to find my footing after waking an hour to an hour and a half “earlier” than my clock told me I was supposed to be waking. It wasn’t time for breakfast – and it wasn’t time to sleep. So – what time was it?

I found I was feeling irritiable and sensitive to things that came up and in themselves were no big deal but became a big deal. What I also discovered is that I was feeling less competent, less focused. It was difficult to get myself back on track.

And I realized was viewing this experience as something being “wrong” with me – not that I was having a normal reaction to a life experience that was outside of my normal daily routine and experience. An experience that I had no control over yet felt obligated to abide by. I was approaching this from the perspective that if I was feeling out of sorts – something was wrong with me – after all, the “fall back” has been going on for my lifetime.

And – in my lifetime instead of being taught to view this as a natural adjustment to this annual change I was taught to see this as something wrong with me from the inside out. I had been told, taught and conditioned to see this as evidence of a disease, a disorder and chemical imbalance – so its no wonder I was feeling discombobulated and sensitive.

So in the past weeks since this time change – instead of viewing this as a problem that needed to be fixed I slipped myself into the role of being The Observer.

And in doing so, I made some very interesting observations about myself, the idea of the man made construct of seeing these issues as evidence of some disease or disorder and instead reframed this to view the unnatural forcing of my body/brain clock to change and the disordered part of this experience.

And I have concluded – that it is possible to adapt to this change caused by man (DST) by not changing to adapt to it but adapting it to fit, compliment and work with my natural state. I will no longer try to force myself to adapt overnight to this change and will instead ride it out, go with it and listen to my body. Not forcing myself to stay up or to wake but rather will acknowledge and honor my physical wisdom; entering into my normal bedtime and waking as over time I allow my body and brain to adapt instead of thinking something is wrong with me because I was not able to adapt post haste.

I will no longer see this as something being wrong with me but rather will live in awe of my body and brains abilty to know when I need to rest and when I need to wake.

I will adjust my routine and schedule to accomodate my body and my brain – rather than requiring my body and brain to adjust to accomodate my schedule – literally overnight. I will honor my physical being with the wisdom that comes with becoming The Observer.

So armed with this new insight about my struggles with the change of seasons, I will be endevouring to view myself as having normal issues as my normal body/brain adjusts to this forced UNnatural change that comes each fall and stays through the winter.

I will instead maintain my routine. I will sleep when my body says sleep. I will wake when my body says wake. And I will view this season not as a disorder but as an opportunity to create natural order – in a very disordered world.

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Always, always in peace and hope,

Susan

KIP Central: News, information and resources for those learning to live beyond psychiatry.