Saturday, January 9, 2010

Antidepressant Pills May Help Only Most Severe Cases


In late breaking news, Bloomberg News reports that from a recent study on antidepressant drugs, "The drugs had a “nonexistent to negligible” effect on patients with mild, moderate and severe symptoms, compared with those who took a placebo, according to a commonly used scale used to measure the disorder."
For the full article click here.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Postpartum Depression

Here is some vital data about the dangerous proposed Mothers Act from cchr.org. See the link for the full article.

"THE MOTHERS ACT: A VIOLATION OF INFORMED CONSENT

Pregnant woman The Melanie Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act, also known as the Mothers Act, is a federal bill named after Melanie Stokes, a woman who suffered emotional difficulties after giving birth and was subsequently prescribed a cocktail of intensely controversial psychiatric drugs including anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety, and anti-depressant drugs (documented by the US FDA to cause worsening depression, mania and suicidal ideation) before being subjected to electroshock treatment.

Melanie Stokes was in the mental health system, was prescribed drugs, was hospitalized, was subjected to the still barbaric practice of electroshock and then committed suicide. That is what the mental health industry did for a new mother named Melanie Stokes. It is incredible that a story such as this does not raise alarm bells within Congress on the negligence of prescribing cocktails of psychiatric drugs to new mothers, drugs documented by the US FDA and international drug regulatory agencies to cause worsening depression, depersonalization, mania, psychosis, suicidal and homicidal ideation. Conversely the bill before Congress entitled the "Mothers Act", which already passed the House of Representatives and is now before the Senate, will assuredly increase new mothers being prescribed these deadly drugs, the most common treatment for women diagnosed with postpartum depression...."

For the full article, go to http://www.cchr.org/mothers_act.html

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Successful Treatment


Check out this video of a patient who was successfully treated for depression with proper nutritional handling at HeathNow Medical Center. Click here. And check out this book, The Gluten Effect, at www.thegluteneffect.com.

Monday, February 2, 2009

A.D.D. Hoax

Here is an article I found on a website called The Natural Child:

"The Great A.D.D. Hoax
by David Keirsey
The reason I speak of a hoax in the case of "attention deficit disorder" is that there is no such "mental disorder" to "diagnose" and "treat." And the reason I speak of a great hoax is that the less competent medical practitioners use this phony "diagnosis" as a warrant to "treat" millions of school children (over 5,000,000) per year by intoxicating them with brain-disabling narcotics.

And make no mistake about the power of Ritalin to disable and eventually shrink the brain. It differs little in its destructive effects from cocaine and the amphetamines, and is fast becoming the drug of choice among addicts in high schools and colleges. Children in middle schools and high schools who are required to take Ritalin daily at school are now selling their pills to their friends who want to get a quick fix. Of late the victims of pill pushers are fast becoming pill pushers themselves!

Attention is a form of consciousness... and not something that can be observed. Medical practitioners have chosen the word "attention" as the key to one of 400 or so "mental disorders" they've listed in their "diagnostic manual." They say that some children don't "have" enough attention to succeed in school, and that it is wise to try to increase their attention with stimulant drugs. They say these children can't pay attention even if they try to....."

For the full article: http://www.naturalchild.com/guest/david_keirsey.html

Saturday, December 13, 2008

"Trouble in Prozac?"

From an article in Fortune Magazine: "(FORTUNE Magazine) – Can Prozac make you want to die? The idea seems strange, given that the drug and similar antidepressants are supposed to do just the opposite. Yet that is what Kimberly Witczak believes happened to her husband. " Read the whole article.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

St. John's Wort Again Proven Better than Antidepressant Drugs

Once again, the St. John's Wort herb has been clinically proven to be just as effective as antidepressant drugs for eliminating the symptoms of depression, yet without any negative side effects whatsoever. So why would anybody still use dangerous SSRI drugs if they could use safe, effective and affordable St. John's Wort instead? Because Big Pharma doesn't make money from herbs, of course...

Read the whole article.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Putting Pharma Profits before Public Safety

“...modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness...Patients [have] been diagnosed with 'chemical imbalances' despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”
—1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser

Also see the article: Commentary: Against Biologic Psychiatry by David Kaiser, M.D.