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Do Meds Cure Depression and Anxiety?

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“There is no valid evidence for the chemical imbalance theory of any mental illness.” Dr Kelly Brogan

WARNING. If you are currently taking any psychiatric medication withdrawal can be tricky and should be tapered gradually with careful clinical supervision and a support network. Peter Breggin addresses this topic extensively.[1] 

Joanna Moncrieff recently published an umbrella review of tens of thousands of subjects that failed to demonstrate that serotonin has anything to do with mood.[2]

On top of that industry, plays a dirty game…They can hide and manipulate data to gain approval for drugs.

Check out this:

Almost every single one of the positive studies are published. Only a fraction of the negative studies are published. The majority of negative studies are hidden, others are skewed as positive.

This is one of the many ways that we are led to believe – especially through direct to consumer advertising of prescription meds (DTC advertising is only permitted in 2 countries in the world) – that these medications actually work. Guess which country has the highest consumption of prescription drugs?

In 2006 a very important review was published called “Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?” The findings? “No evidence shows that antidepressants or any other drugs produce long-term elevation of mood or other effects that are particularly useful in treating depression.” [3]

AKA: There is no valid evidence for the chemical imbalance theory of any so-called mental illness.

Can you release anxiety and reclaim your health without the meds?

“It is a basic principle of pharmacotherapy that all drugs have beneficial and harmful effects.”[4]

“Unfortunately, in the balance between benefits and risks, it is an uncomfortable truth that most drugs do not work in most patients.”[4]

There has never been a human study that successfully links low serotonin levels and depression.

Joanna Moncrieff just came out with a very important review, summarizing a lot of this data, looking at: more analysis, cerebrospinal fluid, blood analysis, genetic markers.[2]

The findings?

There is no valid evidence for the chemical imbalance theory of any so-called mental illness. So if your brain sin’t broken, then what’s the problem?

Get to the root cause, and change your story, in a matter of weeks. Oh, and exercise could be one of the best treatments for depression, anxiety and distress. [5]

Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of over 40 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as ten grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.

1. Are all psychiatric drugs too unsafe to take? “Whenever possible, psychiatric drugs should be tapered and withdrawn either as an inpatient or as an outpatient with careful clinical supervision and a support network as described in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. Keep in mind that it is not only dangerous to take psychiatric drugs — it can be dangerous to withdraw from them. The safest solution is to avoid starting psychiatric drugs! It is time for a return to psychological, social and educational approaches to emotional suffering and impairment.” https://psych.breggin.com/are-all-psychiatric-drugs-too-unsafe-to-take/

2. The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence.: Moncrieff J, Cooper RE, Stockmann T, Amendola S, Hengartner MP, Horowitz MA. The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 20. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01661-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35854107. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35854107/

3. Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?

Moncrieff J, Cohen D (2006) Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?. PLOS Medicine 3(7): e240. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030240

4. Balancing Benefits and Harms. Godlee F. Balancing benefits and harms BMJ 2013; 346 :f3666 doi:10.1136/bmj.f3666 https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3666

5. Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews. Singh B, Olds T, Curtis R, et al. Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews. British Journal of Sports Medicine Published Online First: 16 February 2023. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2022-106195 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/03/02/bjsports-2022-106195

Just Trust the Science

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In this video Leemon McHenry, PhD, explains the realities of the fraudulent core of ghostwritten studies, captured legislators, revolving-door regulatory agencies, pay-to-play medical journals, and the “key opinion leaders” who lend their academic credentials to giant corporations…for a price. With every stage in the process seemingly structured for corruption, we can only wonder along with Professor McHenry: “Who’s looking out for scientific integrity?”

Can we trust the medical industry? Can we trust the drugs?

If your doctor is a good person, but firmly convinced that the medical journals he reads are reliable sources of information, you both may be led astray. His primary education regarding most drugs comes directly from the industry that makes them. He is similar to what Jesus described as “the blind guide leading the blind.”

Outsourcing our health to anyone is not really in our best interest. Blindly trusting ‘experts’ in any sphere is dangerous. In order to take responsibility for our health we have to get involved. If researching drugs seems too difficult for you, just aim for health and refuse most drugs unless absolutely essential. Most illnesses suffered today are actually caused by lifestyle factors.

Health is a reward for those who choose to reduce toxic exposure in food, water, air, thoughts, and medicine. Fast food, processed foods, tap water, media, and drugs all cause harm to both our brain and body. Reducing little by little will lead to long term lifestyle changes that will result in overall drastic benefits.

Making new choices for our health can be difficult. We have old habits to conquer and new things to learn.

Here is an extremely helpful talk by Barbara O’Neill describing how we can re-wire our brain and take the best care of our brain for an optimal life. Barbara has raised eight children and helped thousands of people understand how their body works with encouragement and help in making wiser choices that will result in better health. We have a worldwide epidemic of mental illness, dementia, and Alzheimer. Most people do not know that we have more power over our brain than we think we do.

Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. “By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of 40 years, and have five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as nine grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.“

Do children need mind altering drugs?

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Why Big Pharma loves Drugging Kids.

Do you know how many US children are being bombarded with psychiatric drugs?

Over 6 million children aged 0-17; Over 500,000 babies and toddlers aged 0-5.[1]

Data up to February 2020 reveals this is the number of children given prescription medications that WILL cause chemical imbalance in the brain, create addictions, and cause many other adverse side effects.

Are doctors getting our offspring hooked on addictive drugs at a far higher rate than the local drug dealers?

Why? Why are we drugging our children?

We can blame it on the medical industrial complex – children are an easy target for corporate profits.

We can blame it on doctors prescribing these medications.

We can blame it on insurance companies who reimburse for these medications.

We can blame it on agencies that receive government funding when children are prescribed these meds while in state custody.

We can blame it on parents who seek help and trust the system. Or parents that actually want an ‘instant fix’ to some behavior issues. Or parents that don’t discipline their children. Or parents struggling with their own addictions… So easy to blame the parents.

Or blame absent fathers.

Or we can blame teachers trying to control classroom behavior when all traditional measures of discipline are prohibited. Or an education system not designed to meet the needs and interests of children.

Some blame it on childbirth trauma. Or circumcision… Or vaccines…

We can blame it on media exposure of children. Babies from young ages are given screens as babysitters. Or, media pushing drugs to parents. Or, media creating anxiety amongst the entire population.

Stop Psych Drugging of Children

There are so many people we can blame. There are very few who want to take responsibility.

The blame game rarely helps us personally solve problems. I urge all parents to inform themselves. I’ve had so many friends over the years that trusted their doctors and followed the agenda, giving their children psychotropic drugs. Often one drug leads to another. Behavior problems are not usually magically solved with drugs. Often behavior is still an issue. Side effects become an additional and far more long lasting and complex issue to deal with. So many families wish they could go back and change their initial decisions regarding accepting the very first psychiatric drug for their child – no matter what condition it was prescribed for, there are alternatives.[2]

The Bay Area News Group spent four months documenting the alarming use of psychiatric medications in California’s foster care system — and the impact on thousands of vulnerable children who continue to suffer the consequences. From Los Angeles to the Bay Area to Humboldt County, reporter Karen de Sá and photographer Dai Sugano interviewed more than 175 people, including dozens of current and former foster youth who were frequently moved and heavily medicated by a system that struggled to manage their complicated childhoods. Now, there’s a growing call for change among former foster youth, psychiatrists, public health nurses and youth advocates. The stories of lost childhoods and remarkable resilience provide compelling lessons on how California can better address their trauma and stop “Drugging Our Kids.”

What can we do? Here are some random ideas that pop into my head:

  • For one thing, don’t just take drugs for any and every condition. Understand that the industry that makes all your handy quick fixes – both prescription and OTC – is the same one that is drugging our children. Why do we support them? Why not boycott all pharmaceuticals? Only take them when it’s a life or death situation…
  • Learn how to live a natural healthy lifestyle. Help and encourage others to live an active healthy lifestyle.
  • Disinvest in pharmaceutical companies. Put your money behind your strong passions. Check your investment portfolio. Are you profiting from the deliberate harm of children by corporations that push addictive harmful drugs on children???? Place your vote with your wallet.
  • Spread the word. This situation didn’t develop overnight. It’s been a slow creep over decades. We need to speak truth boldly. Most people have no idea and need to be informed on how the pharmaceutical industry is exploiting children.
  • What else? If you have ideas to add to my list, please share them in the comments below. I read every comment and LOVE to hear your input.

Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved. Blessed with a husband of nearly 40 years, five precious babies, I now get to delight as nine grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.

[1] 6,726,189 children aged 0-17 years including 530,169 from ages 0-5 years prescribed psychiatric drugs. Data was taken from the IQVia Total Patient Tracker Database for Year 2019, extracted February 2020. https://www.cchrint.org/…/children-on-psychiatric-drugs/

[2] The following article has links to many alternatives to drugging our children. https://www.cchrint.org/issues/childmentaldisorders/