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The Eli Lilly defense is real and that has been in play for a long time. They hand these anti-depressants out like candy. They trust the Dr. giving it to them & do not question. But each person has to read about the medicine, read the side effects because each individual reacts differently to any kind of medication....many times the patient is better off with cognitive behavioral therapy before popping an anti-depressant in their mouth and thinking that will take everything away. It never does. You have to deal with the underlying cause. There are no magic pills.

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Nov 12, 2023·edited Nov 12, 2023

"There are no magic pills." Especially not for chronic illnesses.

There are some pills that work like magic, ironically they solve acute issues caused by the side-effects of taking a combination of antibiotics, anti-fungals, and/or meds for chronic illnesses.

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Imagine you are a TRILLION dollar predatory-industry and you spread so much manure, I mean money, that the U.S. congress grants/legislates you BLANKET IMMUNITY…just imagine the damage you could do.

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Blankets of manure lead to blanket immunity.

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I read a book back in 2001 which had compiled all of the "mass shooters" and the "gone postal" people up to that time. 9 out of 10 were either taking SSRIs, or they had recently stopped taking them, (withdrawals). Seems that suddenly stopping is even more dangerous. The remaining 10% had been seeing shrinks, so it appeared (but was not confirmed) that they too were most likely taking SSRIs.

The warning inserts for these "anti-depressants" mention "suicidal thoughts" and "aggression" as side effects. WHY does someone take a drug that can cause them to kill themselves, (and others) when they are DEPRESSED?

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Veterans are killing themselves at an alarming rate, despite many veterans being on SSRIs and SNRIs. I don't support Ramaswamy for president but he has the right idea about making some controversial controlled drugs available to veterans for treatment of PTSD. Similar drugs were used in the former Czechoslovakia for decades for treatment of neurotic disorders with great success. The US is decades behind higher IQ countries as usual. Increased access to Ketamine for suicidality and depression should also be prioritized. Many studies show positive effects commencing within only hours, as opposed to the weeks or months that SSRIs and SNRIs take to purportedly work.

Exclusive: Ramaswamy Eyes Enabling Access to Marijuana, DMT, MDMA for PTSD Treatment in Veterans Policy Plan

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/10/ramaswamy-eyes-expanding-access-dmt-mdma-treatment-veterans-ptsd/

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My mum was prescribed Valium in the 1970s. The reason for her anxiety and depression was my dad who was a gambler. The doctor prescribed this medication and she was in it until the day she died at 61. In fact it made her more anxious.

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When my mother was dying of cancer, her most emphatic request was to be given _no_ morphine.

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A large percentage of mass shooters are on SSRI's.

These dangerous drugs disconnect the persons main consciousness and demons can then step in. Tens of millions of Americans are on these meds.

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For those concerned about mental health, I urge people to follow https://www.youtube.com/@metabolicmind. Diet, lifestyle, and exercise are the best first medicines for all chronic illnesses, including mental illnesses.

If one is already on Big Pharma's meds for mental illness, then please find a competent doctor who can slooooowly ween you off of the drugs, since it can be extremely dangerous to stop taking them too quickly.

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Masking emotions with anti-depressants is not a CURE. Anti-depressants are intended to keep the user emotionally dependent on the drug so the pharmaceutical company can continue to take your money throughout the users life.

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One could argue that many big pharma drugs are deadly. They just don't want anyone to know it.

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"[It] is very questionable if for most people (excluding those with a metabolic type that responds to SSRIs) these drugs have any benefit beyond statistical artifacts created by biased corporate research."

That's exactly what meta-analyses that include subpoenaed big pharma data show.

SSRIs and SNRIs appear to work only for a small subgroup of depressed patients.

They can have a useful placebo effect. However, depression rarely remits on the first antidepressant prescribed. When it does remit it may not be because of the antidepressant but because of spontaneous recovery.

Physical exercise alone is as effective as, if not more effective than, SSRIs and SNRIs for mild to moderate depression, without the side effects.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy also can be ineffective and have side effects.

The late Hans Jurgen Eysenck, a secular Jewish refugee from Hitler who was hated by the left because of his reviews of research on race and IQ, showed in the UK that patients who were placed on waiting lists improved at the same rate as those who who had therapy.

He also showed that tea ladies in UK hospitals marginally outperformed 12 year trained psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

The late Albert Ellis, a secular Jewish psychotherapist in New York, started off as a marriage therapist and sex therapist using psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He concluded that it made things worse for couples and abandoned it.

Ellis looked to ancient Greco-Roman Stoic philosophy to create a new therapy in the 1950s that he initially called "rational therapy" and later "rational emotive behavior therapy" (REBT).

Ellis, who wrote over 100 books, was the second most influential psychotherapist of the 20th century, after Carl Rogers.

Ellis held that people disturb themselves through dismal philosophies of life based on "irrational evaluations." He termed the most common form "musturbation" or "demandingness."

Epictetus said: "Man is not disturbed by things but by the view he takes of them. Not things but opinions about things disturb men."

Ellis paraphrased Epictetus to state: "People are not disturbed by things but by the bullshit they tell themselves." He believed that humans are fallible, imperfect creatures, all of whom are crazy and quite f*cked in the head and who need to work hard to replace their irrational beliefs with rational ones.

Ellis held that Americans and others are brainwashed from an early age into dismal philosophies.

Jonathan Haidt and his coauthor in their article in The Atlantic in 2014 about the increasing rates of disturbance in American youth in recent years titled "The Coddling of the American Mind" concluded much the same thing.

Americans have been taught to think pathologically.

That causes much of their emotional disturbance and mental illness.

Much of the brainwashing occurs in educational institutions.

Problem Solving Therapy, Behavioral Activation and Compassion Focused Therapy owe much to REBT.

The most common psychotherapies in use in the West today, Cognitive Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, were plagiarized from Ellis' REBT by Aaron Beck and David Burns

Ellis didn't mind that his therapy was plagiarized . He said that the plagiarized therapy was still good therapy. It doesn't work for everyone but it works for a lot of people and it has none of the side effects of SSRIs and SNRIs.

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Nov 12, 2023·edited Nov 12, 2023

"tea ladies in UK hospitals" suddenly I am craving an authentic English afternoon tea or high tea, even though I am thoroughly enjoying being a keto diet for the past couple years. :-)

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With butter or double cream is still keto.

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At first I read “with butler“, and I thought the meal would taste just as good whether served by a butler or not. 😁

The more butter and cream the better.

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So what’s the answer? My husband has taken Zoloft for his out of control OCD & anxiety since 1993. Without it he is the meanest SOB you’ve ever encountered & impossible to live with. I’d love to wean him off but I’m afraid our 34yr marriage would be over.

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