Mind Alteration By Prescription
Antidepressants are advertised now as the legal version of opium – drugs that can make bad experiences disappear and restore euphoria – a realistic promise? Definitely not.
The term “depression” is descriptive and vague. I believe the whole concept of depression is flawed and needs to be revised. Since antidepressant drugs have become a big business, the promotion of “depression” as an illness, treatable with drugs has become a scandalous enterprise with little or no merit.
The cure for depression is to create better methods for dealing with the problems at hand. Antidepressant use has grown out-of-hand in America . Experts agree that depression involves much more than just “bad” brain chemistry. Serotonin is just one of many factors that may play a role in the disorder. New research points to other biological contributors to depression, including inflammation, elevated stress hormones, immune system suppression, abnormal activity in certain parts of the brain, nutritional deficiencies, and shrinking brain cells. And these are just the biological causes of depression. Social and psychological factors – such as loneliness, lack of exercise, poor diet, enviroment, and low self-esteem – also play an enormous role in depression.
Some antidepressants are just as addictive as heroin. They are also just as hard to get off of. The withdraw symptoms from certain antidepressants are similar to the process of withdrawing from any hard, illegal drug. Taking antidepressants can cause you to lose your appetite, reduce your sex drive, halt your creativity, etc. If you think you may have depression, don’t jump up too quickly and run to the nearest psychiatrist or doctor. Anti depressants are simply putting a mask on people’s depression. When you take the mask off, the depression is still there. In fact, when the mask is lifted, symptoms could be much worse than they were in the first place.
There is an abundance of healthier, more efficient alternatives that can map the pathology of why a person is depressed. Holistic and natural approaches to depression focus on curing depression completely. Rather than making a person dependant upon a medication that only “helps” them while they are on it. Few physicians make any effort to improve the patient’s overall chemistry and get to the core reasons of depression. Antidepressants are chemicals that are added to a dysfunctional chemical mix that caused dysfunction in the first place. When an anti depressant is added to the mix, it’s effects merge with other drugs such as alcohol, coffee, sugar or other predisposed genetic addictions. Many alternative cures for depression should be considerably more advertised to the public.
Depression is a complicated illness. For many people the simple treatment of counseling could be the cure. In my opinion; doctors can be seen as drug dealers and patients as their customers. The doctors are not completely to blame. The drug companies make billions if not trillions of dollars annually on just antidepressants alone. With that said, a drug company can alter the perception of drugs to consumers, doctors, and even the government. Don’t be fooled.
The cure for depression is to create better methods for dealing with the problems at hand. Antidepressant use has grown out-of-hand in America . Experts agree that depression involves much more than just “bad” brain chemistry. Serotonin is just one of many factors that may play a role in the disorder. New research points to other biological contributors to depression, including inflammation, elevated stress hormones, immune system suppression, abnormal activity in certain parts of the brain, nutritional deficiencies, and shrinking brain cells. And these are just the biological causes of depression. Social and psychological factors – such as loneliness, lack of exercise, poor diet, enviroment, and low self-esteem – also play an enormous role in depression.
Some antidepressants are just as addictive as heroin. They are also just as hard to get off of. The withdraw symptoms from certain antidepressants are similar to the process of withdrawing from any hard, illegal drug. Taking antidepressants can cause you to lose your appetite, reduce your sex drive, halt your creativity, etc. If you think you may have depression, don’t jump up too quickly and run to the nearest psychiatrist or doctor. Anti depressants are simply putting a mask on people’s depression. When you take the mask off, the depression is still there. In fact, when the mask is lifted, symptoms could be much worse than they were in the first place.
There is an abundance of healthier, more efficient alternatives that can map the pathology of why a person is depressed. Holistic and natural approaches to depression focus on curing depression completely. Rather than making a person dependant upon a medication that only “helps” them while they are on it. Few physicians make any effort to improve the patient’s overall chemistry and get to the core reasons of depression. Antidepressants are chemicals that are added to a dysfunctional chemical mix that caused dysfunction in the first place. When an anti depressant is added to the mix, it’s effects merge with other drugs such as alcohol, coffee, sugar or other predisposed genetic addictions. Many alternative cures for depression should be considerably more advertised to the public.
Depression is a complicated illness. For many people the simple treatment of counseling could be the cure. In my opinion; doctors can be seen as drug dealers and patients as their customers. The doctors are not completely to blame. The drug companies make billions if not trillions of dollars annually on just antidepressants alone. With that said, a drug company can alter the perception of drugs to consumers, doctors, and even the government. Don’t be fooled.
