The psychiatric community as well as health and government officials have been pushing antidepressants on the people for years. Instead of addressing the underlying cause of such negative feelings, psychiatrists and medical representatives have been making you think that the only answer to depression is an antidepressant drug. However, the claims that antidepressants are the answer are completely false, but many will refuse to admit the truth to the public. Why? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that antipsychotics raked in over $14 billion in sales back in 2008.
Those pushing antidepressants would at least have an argument for their use if the drugs worked, but they aren't even effective. In fact, the pills have been shown to worsen depression. The Food and Drug Administration even admits that antidepressants are more than capable of causing suicidal thoughts and an increased risk of suicide. According to research concerning antidepressant trials, around 1 in 5 patients on popular Cymbalta and other related pharmaceuticals may actually feel worse than those given placebo pills. Despite the evidence linking popular antidepressants like Prozac to suicide, more than 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 12 are now taking antidepressants prescribed by their doctors.
Recently, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, data was requested and received showing that big pharma has known as along that the drugs don't work. After studying placebos for over 30 years, Irving Kirsch of Havard Medical School requested unpublished studies which show that antidepressants provide almost no benefit, while placebos prove effective. Seeing as placebos are almost always more or just as effective, the push for antidepressants is both useless and irresponsible.
Even if the drug were effective, as big pharma continues to claim, are the potential 100โฒs of negative side-effects worth the risk? In addition to experiencing the dizziness, mania, impotence, and suicidal thoughts, you may also be causing your arteries to thicken 400 percent faster than they normally would.
Instead of subjecting yourself to this harmful and unnecessary 'solution', explore all other options. Depression is often the result of a much deeper unresolved emotional scar. By engaging in a state of meditation, you may be able to unconsciously uncover the path to solving this issue. The feelings may also be the result of a state of denial regarding what things in your life are making you happy and unhappy. Truly recognizing what makes you feel a certain way empowers you to make the decisions in your life to exclude the bad and embrace the good.
While searching for the core reason, there are also dietary decisions to be made. Vitamin D, probiotics, and omega-3 fatty acids should all be considered to help fight depression. By incorporating super supplements like turmeric and living a healthy lifestyle, you will also be giving yourself greater health, empowerment, and accomplishment.
and discovered this. The drug company's own trials of Paxcil, for example, showed placebo to be at least as effective over time. No long term study of effect on humans had been undertaken. When I asked various doctors what was the long term plan for a patient on this particular version of SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and SNRIs (serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors), they gave a blank stare. When I followed up with the results of placebo vs. the drug, and no long term studies, I asked again, how long will the patient be using this drug. They all, to a man or woman, refused to even answer. Never mind that no proof is out there that these drugs do anything to solve depression, in fact, the pointers are that in the end they make it worse. The patients, however, don't complain, they are drugged up. I used to give as my example, the doctor who put the patient on Prozac asks at the one year appointment, how are you doing? The patient answers, much better, I feel good. The doctor asks how is your personal life? The patient answers, well, I divorced my husband, I couldn't stand how he squeezed the toothpaste tube any more, my kids all hate me and won't talk to me any more because I was starting rumors about them behind their backs, I got busted for shoplifting things I don't need to satisfy some crazy urge that started after I got on this drug, and I gambled my life savings away on $1 scratch off tickets. But I feel much better that my depression has lifted. The naysayers would say, well, those things happen to people who don't take anti-depressants, my answer is, well, yes, but not to people who didn't do those things ever before.
This is the mystery of pharma in the USA - no long term human effect studies are done, yet these drugs, and many more various kinds, are prescribed with no time limit in sight. Example: Lipitor. What is the deal, when does the patient stop needing it? Never? What is the long term effect? Is it worse than not taking it?
I visited a friend's house yesterday to help with a computer problem. He is basically the same age as me, and worked a job much like I did for years. He had a desk surface covered with medications, literally at least 20 medication bottles, all prescribed. I shook my head in wonder. This is the state of medicine in America, drugs. No other answer permitted. Don't change your diet, don't exercise, don't question what is in the water, food, etc. Just go with the program.