Summary
When it comes to antidepressant prescription drugs, the pharmaceutical
industry and FDA are jointly engaged in one of the most massive health
fraud coverups of the century. The level of distortion and outright
unethical behavior in which the drug companies and FDA have engaged in
order to profitably sell tens of millions of prescriptions of
antidepressant drugs each year has reached epic proportions.
To this
day, some FDA advisers continue to claim there is no scientific evidence
showing that antidepressant prescription drugs actually caused children
to engage in violent behavior or commit suicide. And yet the
pharmaceutical companies' own studies very likely reveal precisely that,
which is why those same companies have refused to make their data
public. And yet those companies were forced to admit in letters to
doctors in the UK that these prescription drugs were, in fact, linked to
violent and suicidal behavior among adolescents and that doctors should
no longer prescribe the drugs to children.
The ability of
antidepressant drugs to alter the behavior of children and cause them to
commit violent acts is so strong that it could not be hidden with even
the best efforts of drug company researchers, who engaged in all sorts
of subterfuge in order to skew the test results: such as disallowing
from the study children most likely to commit suicide in the first
place. Similarly, drug companies never publicized some of the more
famous examples of antidepressant drugs gone bad, such as when two high
school students in Columbine, Colorado opened fire on their classmates,
killing dozens. Both students were on antidepressant drugs at the time.
The list of suicides and the incidence of violent behavior by
children taking antidepressant drugs continues to grow, and yet both the
FDA and the manufacturers of these drugs continue to deny any link
whatsoever. Realize there is absolutely no scientific evidence showing
that these antidepressant drugs do anything at all to improve the mental
state of children taking them. There is simply no evidence of this,
despite all of the studies that have been paid for by drug companies in
an effort to find some tiny shred of positive news they could take to
the FDA as "proof" that these drugs were useful. If anything, the drug
companies' own clinical trials have only proven that antidepressant
drugs cause violent behavior and suicides, not that they improve the
mental state of children taking them.
All of this is a moot point
anyway, since mental depression is not caused by a brain chemical
imbalance in the first place. Imbalanced brain chemistry is simply the
resulting symptom of a deeper cause: nutritional imbalances, lack of
sunlight, and lack of physical fitness, primarily.
Healthful
nutritional habits that eliminate refined carbohydrates from the diet
(such as white flour, soft drinks and refined sugar) go a long way
towards eliminating negative states of mental health. Exposure to
health enhancing natural sunlight -- a healing practice known as
phototherapy or vibrational medicine -- further improves the overall
health and mental functioning of practically every human being. Add in
regular physical exercise that further balances brain chemistry, and you
have a simple 1-2-3 approach to reversing virtually every case of
depression in the country.
And yet the very idea that treating or
reversing clinical depression could be as easy as changing a person's
nutrition, exposure to healing sunlight, and physical exercise habits is
considered heresy by a most doctors and the vast majority of
psychiatrists. Why? Because if you admit that a patient can heal
themselves by altering their own dietary habits, you take away the power
from doctors and psychiatrists. Suddenly, the doctors are less
important, and they lose a degree of control and authority over the
lives of patients. Since most doctors and psychiatrists are so egoistic
to begin with, giving up this degree of control and authority over their
patients is something that's unthinkable, so they will resist it at
every turn, regardless of the state of the scientific data which clearly
shows, once again, that antidepressant drugs are of absolutely no use to
adolescents whatsoever.
Unfortunately, too many people turn to drugs
in search of a magic bullet solution that does not require them to take
the courageous step of owning their outcome. Too many people are
reluctant to take responsibility for the results caused by their own
actions, and they therefore resist making changes in their lifestyle
that would require effort or risk. It's easier to go to a doctor, give
them the power to solve your problems, and then take a magic pill once a
day for the rest of your life. That's the easy way out, it seems, but
in reality it is neither easy nor is it any way out: it doesn't address
the core problem at all, which is for most people nothing more
complicated than the fact that they aren't leading a healthy lifestyle
in the first place, and therefore they aren't happy about how they feel.
You can call it clinical depression, and certainly there are many
doctors and psychiatrists who would be happy to diagnose it as such, but
in fact it is nothing more than a person who is suffering from " Western
lifestyle disease" which promotes a high carbohydrate diet, irrational
fear of the sun, and avoidance of physical exercise.
Original source:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-02-03-antidepressant_x.htm
Details
WASHINGTON (AP) --- Parents and doctors need more explicit warnings
that some widely used antidepressants are suspected of sometimes causing
suicidal behavior in children and teenagers, scientific advisers told
the government.
That doesn't mean the drugs shouldn't ever be used in children, nor is
there actual proof yet that the suicide risk is real, advisers to the
Food and Drug Administration cautioned Monday as the agency opened
public hearings on a controversy sparked when Britain last year declared
most newer antidepressants unsuitable for use by depressed minors.
The FDA has approved only one, Prozac, to alleviate pediatric
depression.
"I doubt that pediatricians or family practitioners are aware of the
level of concern about this potential problem," said Dr. Norman Fost, a
University of Wisconsin pediatrician and bioethicist.
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