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Comment on Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs by siobhan w

siobhan w — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:17:17 +0000

I used to be on several antidepressants. The doctor kept switching to try and get the right effect. It really felt like a crapshoot. What was bizarre to me at the time was how easy it was to start taking them. The doctor didn’t ask me any questions about my life circumstances. I told her I was moody and she wrote me a prescription. I had more suicidal thoughts on medications than off of them. I started to realize that I only felt better a few months after each new med and once I was used to it, I needed to switch because I felt depressed again. I didn’t feel like myself either. When I was taking Zoloft I was constantly having doubts about my relationship with God. I think meds dulled my spiritual senses. I got a book from the library by a man with the last name Breggin called Your Drug May Be Your Problem. It was very helpful. I had a hard time getting a doctor to be willing to help me get off the meds once I decided to. I had to go to a nutritionist. Since stopping them I have had my ups and downs but prayer, the bible, and a commitment to keep moving forward have helped me through each trial. I have found that herbs help without all the side effects. So does Same(pronounced “Sammy”) and L-Glutamine, also 5HTP, St. Johns Wort,and most important a diet change can make a world of difference.
I found that depression for me was a mindset. I needed my mind to be renewed. I read the bible and pray and slowly I am learning to think a better way.

Comment on Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs by hp

hp — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:45:25 +0000

It seems to me that a very good sign of a person being mentally stable is the manifestation, on a regular basis, of wit. A sense of humor, as it were.

Perhaps I was wrong. Wow! I can actually admit this!

Luckily I have no prescription to reach for, to help me cope, nor do I need a drink.

Thanks for mutton.

Comment on Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs by ANU News.net Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs

ANU News.net Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:57:46 +0000

[...] America the doped! We may have found why Americans sit on their rear-ends while Iceland, France, Greece, etc. etc. etc., are standing up to the abuses of their government and the bankers. We’re pumped full of mind control chemicals, courtesy of the medical establishment which has profited so handsomely from the same US Government that needs us to be kept sedated! Aldous Huxley, in his book “Brave New World” conceived of the lower classes kept permanently in a state of drug-induced stupor, to keep them controlled. http://www.psychiatricdrugs.net/health-risks-of-psychiatric-drugs.html [...]

Comment on Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs by georgesimpsun

georgesimpsun — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:44:46 +0000

More should be mentioned about the most dangerous of them all – the SSRI anti-depressants. These should be banned outright, but big Pharma would cry foul if the truth ever got out about drugs like Celexa and Prozac. Read Dr. Peter Breggins works on the anti-depressants.

Comment on Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs by WOLF

WOLF — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:43:30 +0000

SCHIZOPHRENIA – A Nonexistent Disease
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/

A comprehensive 12-part critique of psychiatry by Lawrence Stevens, J.D.:
Does Mental Illness Exist?
Schizophrenia: A Nonexistent Disease
The Myth of Biological Depression
Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery?
Psychiatry’s Electroconvulsive Shock Treatment – A Crime Against Humanity
The Brain Butchery Called Psychosurgery
The Case Against Psychotherapy
Unjustified Psychiatric Commitment in the USA
Is Involuntary Commitment for Mental Illness a Violation of Substantive Due Process?
Why Psychiatry Should Be Abolished as a Medical Specialty
Suicide: A Civil Right
Psychiatric Stigma Follows You Everywhere You Go for the Rest of Your Life

Comment on Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs by WOLF

WOLF — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:42:49 +0000

Psychiatric Drugs: Chemical Warfare on Humans
http://www.newstarget.com/011353.html
New psychiatric drugs have directly contributed to an alarming new epidemic of drug-induced mental illness. The very drugs prescribed by physicians to stabilize mental disorders in fact are inducing pathological changes in brain chemistry and triggering suicide, manic and psychotic episodes, convulsions, violence, diabetes, pancreatic failure, metabolic diseases, and premature death.

Comment on Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs by hp

hp — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:55:23 +0000

Hell, I’ve taken two major anxiety drugs for years now and have absolutely no dane bramage what so ever.

(I’m not even worried much about it)

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Comment on ELECTROSHOCKING ELDERLY PEOPLE: ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE by vicky

vicky — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:39 +0000

From 2003 to 2004 i had 60 shock treatments.At a surgery center in Loma Linda Ca.I was in my mid 40′s at the time.I regret ever having them.And they never helped anyway.The only thing they did was erase my memory,I remember almost nothing of my 2 children growing up!! I was not aware this would happen, i was told that i (might)have some memory loss but,was told it would eventually come back. Not true.I have been off all meds which i was on for 20 years and i was told i could never get off of them.I took all kinds of psych.drugs everyday for 20 years.Now i have T.D.And I’ve been off all the meds. for 3 years and never felt better.While on the meds. i gained 100 lbs. I’ve lost it with diet and exercise alone.I wish i had never had the shock treatments!!!

Comment on Psychiatric Drugs by Tamara

Tamara — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:26:53 +0000

Thanks for this information. really useful in my research. Other great research is available at this site I was just checking out… Citizens Commission on Human Rights website cchr.org. If you want to check out the Adverse Reactions to some of these drugs they have a searchable database here: http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/

Comment on ELECTROSHOCKING ELDERLY PEOPLE: ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE by doug

doug — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:59:53 +0000

I have been of a variety of potent psychiatric drugs for over 12 years. On my own, without consulting anyone I took myself off everything cold-turkey in November of 2009. Next week will be my sixth month of detox. I still have not had my normal sleep cycle return yet and I am still in the throws of detox. I am hoping that in 6 more months I will completely recover, but it has taken you 2.5 years so I don’t know. I was on a huge dose of Ritalin and an enormous dose of a nasty thing called lamictal. Before lamictal, I was on wellbutrin and paxil. I won’t bore you with all the details of how brutal my detox has been, just be aware that the fatigue, crippling depression and muscle tension are all part of the process of weaning myself off of the poison. Thor Nystrom wrote an article for Rolling Stone magazine called ‘To hell and back’. It is easy to find on the net if you type in the above info. His story gave me the courage to cold-turkey everything. I am a tennis and racquetball professional and words can’t describe how messed up my coordination and timing got when I was on this crap. I pray that I don’t have tardive dyskensia as my mouth and tongue always ‘feel’ weird, but getting better each day. There is an army of us out there, victims of the psyche system who are having the courage to regain our lives and tell our story. I hope to be one of the best combo tennis and racquetball players in the world for my age, and show everyone how I could only have this success OFF the drugs. I have played poorly for the past decade with a horribly tight back and with miserable coordination and balance. I am now fully convinced that all of these difficulties are the direct result of the ill-communicated side effects of the poison I ingested. Each day I slowly return to the real me, but new levels of detox and new horrors in terms of what was stolen from me emerge. I am a very happy person because even though I don’t really have a career or relationship, I was dead and I am slowly coming back to life and I will make sure the rest of my life is fully devoted to helping other people learn about the dangers and consequences of using these drugs and what they can do to a person.

Comment on ELECTROSHOCKING ELDERLY PEOPLE: ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE by Nicolaas Vegt

Nicolaas Vegt — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:19:00 +0000

Hi there,
I have been drugged for 23 years and got off the drugs safely with a professional retired ex operation theater nurse who had compassion on me as I could not even operate a cell phone at the time she discovered me. Moreover that I discovered her and I am a Canadian citizen living overseas. when are we going to be recognized victims in the courts as I am wanting closure to this abuse. It is very hard for me to rid myself of the daily reality of the horrors that I have suffered under the care of the System. It still is very much shoved under the carpet by the Canadian Government. It took me the better part of two and a half years to get of these horrible drugs and even my family wanted back then to keep me on it as they never knew anything about it and in my book that is also victimizing the family too, as they really did care for me as I went through difficult times back then and these drugs only compounded the problem for me. The withdrawal was one of the most excruciatingly painful thing that I have ever had to go through and it is not recognized by anyone who cares about abuse other than a few survivors of the same as there are millions that are out there I know who had the same horrors or worse as I did. I want someone to write me on this to address the compensation as I am really hoping that there is some of it out there and I am not getting any of the money at all. 23 years of my life is nothing to bock at.

I am not going away easily about this and be swept under the rug like trash as I don’t deserve to be treated like yesterday’s garbage.
Sincerely
Nicolaas Vegt

Comment on Prescription Drug Use and Abuse by Marie

Marie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:34:21 +0000

I just read the first couple of paragraphs and was distressed. The article begins by suggesting that problems with psychiatric prescriptions are attributed to client misuse instead of to those who write the prescriptions, namely, the psychiatrists.

Until it is officially recognized that the psychiatrists are writing addictive prescriptions for nonexistent maladies whose symptoms strangely manifest only after treatments begin, there will be no progress made in psychiatry.

There is a legal group that works on toxic substance abuse in the environment; there should be a similar group that encounters psychiatric malpractice with controlled substances that are at least as toxic as environmental hazards.

Comment on ELECTROSHOCKING ELDERLY PEOPLE: ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE by Elaine Renoire

Elaine Renoire — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:30:34 +0000

It just keeps getting worse for the elderly. No one wants to grow old, of course, but now it’s just plain scary!

The elderly are often forced into nursing homes against their will, their home and possessions sold (also against their will) and given psychotropic drugs to give the appearance of dementia when in fact they have been forced to wear a “chemical straightjacket”.

All this is done with the “blessing” of the court through unlawful and abusive guardianships, which are a national epidemic.

You think if you follow your attorney’s advice, plan for your old age by executing advance directives, you’ll be ok? Nope. What they don’t tell you is that lawless courts roll over advance directives every day – devestating families and bank accounts.

Anyone who becomes vulnerable is a target. The kicker is each of us will become vulnerable at some time in our lives.

Visit NASGA at http://www.StopGuardianAbuse.org and read victims’ stories for yourself.

Forewarned is forearmed!

Yours,
Elaine Renoire
NASGA

Comment on ELECTROSHOCKING ELDERLY PEOPLE: ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE by nurse

nurse — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:20:52 +0000

As a health care provider, I’ve witnessed ECT and followed case studies in the late 90′s and did a little research. Long term benefits were ineffective and side effects, particularly memory
loss was problematic for patients. The cases I followed and the
Psychiatric field at that time would only consider ECT for the chronically depressed who didn’t benefit from pharmocolgoy and thearpy
and would NEVER be administered without the expressed consent of
the patient.

Performing ECT on ‘wards’ via Probate court appointed guardianships violates the Patient’s Bill of Rights Act and Constitutional Rights. This practice brings Psychiatry and Probate Court/Guardianship to a new level of abuse. Lobotomizing the elderly and stealing their assets.

An ‘evil’ sickness has crept its way into a once free society.

Comment on Prescription Drug Use and Abuse by Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:37:59 +0000

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Comment on Adolescents at Risk: Illicit Drug Use by Adolescents at Risk: Illicit Drug Use

Adolescents at Risk: Illicit Drug Use — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:24:23 +0000

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Comment on Prescription Drug Use and Abuse by Mind Body Shop

Mind Body Shop — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:51:33 +0000

happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Comment on Prescription Drug Use and Abuse by Marianne Skolek

Marianne Skolek — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:46:22 +0000

I have been actively exposing Purdue Pharma (a $10 billion criminally convicted pharmaceutical company) and its 3 CEO’s Michael Friedman, Howard Udell and Paul Goldenheim for criminally marketing OxyContin. I have worked on this for 6 years. In July 2007, they were charged in Federal Court with marketing OxyContin to patients and physicians as less likely to be addictive or abused. They pled guilty and were sentenced. I testified against them in Federal Court and in front of the US Senate. Their actions have resulted in an epidemic of OxyContin addiction and death in every state in the country. My work now focuses on further action being taken against them and J. David Haddox, the gatekeeper of Purdue Pharma’s involvement in the criminal marketing of OxyContin. I am working with government agencies and the FDA to accomplish this next goal. Purdue Pharma has recently begun marketing OxyContin to pregnant women for pain. I have notified all Attorney Generals of this latest marketing ploy which will cause an epidemic of addiction and death to pregnant women and unborn babies. I have also filed a charge against Purdue Pharma with the FDA which they have advised me they are taking “very seriously” as well as notifying all Attorney Generals that I believe Purdue Pharma has violated their probation. We do not need further devastation of OxyContin by an out of control, greedy Purdue Pharma.

Marianne Skolek
Activist for Victims of OxyContin and
Purdue Pharma – a criminally convicted pharmaceu
tical company
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html?ex=1336536000&en=9cc24d9d766e92a6&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
I testified against Purdue Pharma before the U.S. Senate
http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=2905&wit_id=6612
908-285-1232
mskolek@aol.com
http://www.oxydeaths.com