Psychiatrist Blows the Lid on Antidepressants

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Psychiatrist Blows The Lid On Antidepressants

 

 

Psychiatrist Blows

The Lid On Antidepressants

By Jon Rappoport

NoMoreFakeNews.com

5-27-5

 

 

For the past year, I've been receiving communications

from a practicing

American psychiatrist, who has an office in the

southeastern US. He

sees patients privately and also works at a large

hospital. Increasingly,

this man has been expressing doubts about the drugs he

has been

prescribing.

 

Now, he has blown the lid off his own profession, and

it appears he is

ready to switch careers or become an alternative

practitioner.

 

Here is an excerpt from our recent conversation:

 

Q: Why do you doubt the drugs?

 

A: They're toxic and injurious.

 

Q: Which ones?

 

A: All of them.

 

Q: And in particular?

 

A: The antidepressants. Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, and so

on. They are not

showing, on balance, good results, and patients have

been experiencing

adverse effects.

 

Q: Such as?

 

A: Sleeplessness, nightmares, erratic behavior, highs

and lows,

crashes, attempts to commit suicide, exacerbated

depression, violence,

dramatic personality changes.

 

Q: Why do you think this is happening?

 

A: To be honest, I don't know. But my sense is, in

general, that the

drugs interfere in unpredictable ways with various

neurotransmitter

systems. I also believe they can work extreme changes

in blood sugar levels

and electrolyte levels. You know, it's not hard to

create these effects

with chemicals. The body is not able to integrate them

in its normal

functioning. I would compare it to suddenly setting up

all sorts of

roadblocks and detours and forced lane changes on a

busy highway. You will

get big trouble.

 

Q: Have you tried to communicate your concerns to

colleagues and

medical groups?

 

A: For a short time, I did. But I was given the cold

shoulder. I got

the distinct feeling I was being treated like some

wayward child who had

his facts all wrong.

 

Q: Who do you blame for this drugging catastrophe?

 

A: At the moment, everybody. The doctors, the drug

companies, the FDA,

the psychiatric teaching institutions, even the press.

And at some

point, patients are going to have to take

responsibility and not follow the

orders of their doctors.

 

Q: Do you believe that doctors should cut back and

give the drugs to

some people and not others?

 

A: That sounds good, but there is no way to know what

effects the drugs

will cause in any given individual, especially as time

passes. Even in

the short term, I have seen some frightening things.

 

Q: Do you believe the profession of psychiatry has

made some kind of

overarching deal with the drug companies?

 

A: Yes. The drug companies are everywhere. They stick

their noses into

everyone's business.

 

Q: What lies about the drugs have you had to purge

from your own mind?

 

A: The main one is that they're some kind of miracle

breakthrough.

Another one is that I can rely on the judgments and

certifications of the

FDA. We're playing Russian Roulette out here. It's a

very dangerous

situation.

 

Q: Do you believe that some of the school shootings

have resulted from

children being on the antidepressants?

 

A: I didn't, until one day a sixteen-year-old patient

of mine showed up

for his appointment with a 9mm hand gun. Then I began

to comb back

through reports on a bunch of those shootings. I can

tell you, it focuses

the mind to see a young patient sitting across from

you---you've put him

on an antidepressant and now he's talking about " a new

day " and he

takes the gun out of his pocket and lays it on a table

next to him by the

Kleenex. You think to yourself, " I may have created a

killer and his

first victim could be me. " People want to outlaw all

guns. I'd start with

the drugs.

 

Q: How about the diagnosis of depression itself?

 

A: I've come to realize that you can't do an interview

with a patient

and then come out with a shorthand assessment. It's

wrong. It reduces

all sorts of problems down to a label, and then you

have your official

gateway into the drugs.

 

Q: Your colleagues think you're over-reacting?

 

A: I think I'm under-reacting. I think we have an

epidemic on our

hands, but it has nothing to do with mental disorders.

It has to do with the

chemicals we're facilitating.

 

Q: This boy with the gun---were you able to talk him

down?

 

A: I spent two hours with him that day. I told him he

was having a

reaction to the drug. At first, it made no sense to

him. He was on a manic

sort of ride. That really scared me---that I couldn't

make him see what

was happening to him. He was in the middle of an

episode and he

couldn't stand outside it. Finally, he eased up a

little. He began to weep in

my office. It wasn't really crying. Tears just ran

down his cheeks

while he was talking. He didn't seem to notice them.

He had almost stopped

being human. He was a...creature. He was on a mission

of some kind. His

view of the world had totally changed. In his mind

set, destruction was

the only course of action.

 

Q: And then?

 

A: He calmed down a little. I was afraid to ask him

for the gun. He

just picked it up and put it back in his pocket. After

he left, I called

his mother. She went home from her job and met him. I

had asked her to

call the police but she wouldn't. Later, she told me

she sat and talked

with him for a long time and then he handed over the

gun. It was a very

tense situation. I had her remove the bottle of pills

from her medicine

cabinet. Then I had to follow up. I weaned him slowly

from the drug. It

took two months. He finally sort of returned to being

the person he

was. Even then I wasn't sure he'd be okay. He was

definitely addicted to

the drug. Luckily, I didn't cut him off suddenly. He

might have killed

people during the withdrawal cycle.

 

Q: Did you continue to see this boy as a patient?

 

A: I did a nutritional assessment with the help of a

doctor who is very

good with that. We found the boy was having strange

reactions to

certain soft drinks that have speed-type boosters in

them. We gradually

weaned him off them. Then we discovered he was

reacting to dyes and other

chemicals in junk food. So we had to change his diet.

That wasn't easy.

 

Q: He was addicted in several ways to chemicals.

 

A: That's right. There was peer pressure for him to

keep eating junk.

All his friends did. They called him weird for going

off the food they

were eating every day. Finally, I discovered that,

five years before I

saw him, he'd been on Ritalin for a year. You know,

for ADHD. He'd been

driven into depression by that. He basically felt, at

eleven, that his

life was over. All paths and interests were closed to

him.

 

Q: How is he now?

 

A: Much better. But he's not all the way back.

 

Q: Do you think there is permanent brain damage?

 

A: I don't know. He's now living outside the US with

his father. I get

reports once in awhile.

 

Q: How does he feel about his own experience?

 

A: He wants it to be an example to other families.

 

Q: You didn't go into medicine to deal with this.

 

A: No. In school, my ideals were high. But I allowed

myself to be led

down the garden path. I fell for the sales pitch. I'm

telling you, this

is not a good situation. We are a society on the

brink. Something has

to be done.

 

Q: How do you feel about Bush's mental health

screening program for all

children?

 

A: All in all, it may turn out to be the worst thing

he's done as

president. It's just a tip of his hat to his

pharmaceutical supporters. But

the consequences---if this plan gets rolling---will be

devastating.

 

Q: Is there some underlying principle at work here?

Some paradigm that

everyone is accepting that is putting us into a bad

situation?

 

A: You know the answer to that. It's the combination

of easy diagnosis

plus the drug fix. The pill craze for everything. Take

a drug and

everything will work out. I see it as the classic

street-drug promotion.

Feel good. Take this drug and you'll feel different

and better. Combine

that with the basic immaturity of most people and you

have the interlock.

Why work out your problems and strive to have the life

you want when

you can arrive at the best destination with a pill?

I'd take this a step

further. If you stacked up all the tranquilizers and

antidepressants,

for adults, next to, say, marijuana, as a way of

dealing with stress,

I'd say that a very modest amount of a mild marijuana

would be more

successful than all those other drugs at the levels

they're normally

prescribed. If I were forced to recommend one or the

other, I'd go with the

marijuana. And I'd say the drug companies know this.

Which is one reason

why, in the US, the enforcement on marijuana has been

stepping up. But

again, you're always dealing with an individual. Each

person is

different. I've seen people who react very badly to

pot. It affects them like

a psychedelic.

 

Q: You're saying the science behind the

antidepressants is false.

 

A: Absolutely. Judging by the effects of the drugs, it

has to be. It

may sound good and proper. All the right words are

used. But I don't care

about that anymore. I go by results. My eyes have been

opened.

 

Q: Then why are the drug companies pushing these

drugs?

 

A: I'm not an expert to speak to about that. Certainly

there is the

profit motive. But I think there is also the myth of

progress.

 

Q: What do you mean?

 

A: That myth states that technology must keep making

advances. It's the

legend of forward motion. If technology is to be seen

as good, it has

to keep turning out better advances---otherwise

something is wrong. And

there can't be anything wrong.

 

Q: It's like a hectic race.

 

A: Yes. If you stop, you might fall down. Secrets

might be exposed.

Shortcomings might show up. So you have to keep

pushing. You have to keep

saying you're doing better and better. I'm sure you

can see where this

gets you. You make new mistakes to cover up old

mistakes. You become

careless. You lie. You hire promotion people to tout

your work. You keep

the whole thing rolling forward, no matter what.

That's where we are.

 

Q: And you were carried on that wave.

 

A: For many years. But now I've stopped.

 

Q: Is it uncomfortable?

 

A: Not so much anymore. But at first I was very upset

and angry. I was

blaming everyone but myself. I felt like I was in

chains, that my whole

education and career were at stake. And I was my

career. What else did

I have? Getting off the boat was quite difficult. I

had every advantage

this society has to offer. I was---

 

Q: The expert.

 

A: Yes. That's a powerful feeling. People come to you

with questions

and you have the answers. If you don't, then you're

thrown down in the

pit with everyone else. Part of being a doctor is

being above the pit,

out of the problem. You're the solution. You don't

want to fall. And the

only thing that keeps you from falling is what you've

learned. Your

knowledge. When you see that that's based on lies, you

don't know what to

do. It's like being a priest and realizing that

everyone gets to the

far shore by his own means. You don't want to let go

of the doctrine that

put you on the pulpit.

 

Q: So what would a new paradigm look like?

 

A: For mental health? We have to get rid of all the

old

classsifications and disorders. We have to let all

that sink into oblivion. That was

wrong. That was largely fantasy.

 

Q: It was a story.

 

A: We told it, and now we have to stop telling it.

Because we've ended

up intervening in people's lives in a very pernicious

way.

 

Q: Part of the story necessitated that kind of

intervention.

 

A: Yes. And, not to take myself off the hook, but

people want that kind

of story, as you say. They want that " expert story. "

They want someone

else to come in and tell them what to do and what to

think and what

drug to take.

 

Q: Why do you think that is?

 

A: Because people have taken the easy path. They have

opted for what I

would call a flat version of reality. If they started

adding dimensions

on their own---

 

Q: They would be forced to tell their own story.

 

A: In the terms you're using, yes. That's what would

happen.

 

Q: And how would society look then?

 

A: Much different. Much more risky, perhaps, but much

more alive.

Psychology and psychiatry don't allow for that kind of

outcome. All mental

disorders are constructs. They're named by committees,

as I'm sure you

know. They're a form of centralized pattern. In this

context, the word

" shrink " is very appropriate. That's what we've been

doing. Shrinking

down the perception of what reality and the mind are

all about.

 

Q: Can you imagine what would happen if the lid were

taken off?

 

A: I work with that idea every day now.

 

Q: And how does it look?

 

A: More and more appealing.

 

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[Guest guest]

YAY!!! APPLAUSE FOR KELLY!!! And for this doctor, too!

I work with mental health patients in two different

jobs. I have an autistic, AD/HD son who took Ritalin

for 11 years, before I took him off of it and put him

on a metabolic nutritional protocol. The results were

immediate and dramatic. My son now promotes that same

nutrition in an effeort to get more kids off drugs!

Thank you, Kelly for posting this. This story is so

important!

 

Blessings,

Renee

--- " Kelly W. " <kellykebby wrote:

 

> Psychiatrist Blows The Lid On

> Antidepressants

>

>

> Psychiatrist Blows

> The Lid On Antidepressants

> By Jon Rappoport

> NoMoreFakeNews.com

> 5-27-5

>

>

> For the past year, I've been receiving

> communications

> from a practicing

> American psychiatrist, who has an office in the

> southeastern US. He

> sees patients privately and also works at a large

> hospital. Increasingly,

> this man has been expressing doubts about the drugs

> he

> has been

> prescribing.

>

> Now, he has blown the lid off his own profession,

> and

> it appears he is

> ready to switch careers or become an alternative

> practitioner.

>

> Here is an excerpt from our recent conversation:

>

> Q: Why do you doubt the drugs?

>

> A: They're toxic and injurious.

>

> Q: Which ones?

>

> A: All of them.

>

> Q: And in particular?

>

> A: The antidepressants. Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, and

> so

> on. They are not

> showing, on balance, good results, and patients have

> been experiencing

> adverse effects.

>

> Q: Such as?

>

> A: Sleeplessness, nightmares, erratic behavior,

> highs

> and lows,

> crashes, attempts to commit suicide, exacerbated

> depression, violence,

> dramatic personality changes.

>

> Q: Why do you think this is happening?

>

> A: To be honest, I don't know. But my sense is, in

> general, that the

> drugs interfere in unpredictable ways with various

> neurotransmitter

> systems. I also believe they can work extreme

> changes

> in blood sugar levels

> and electrolyte levels. You know, it's not hard to

> create these effects

> with chemicals. The body is not able to integrate

> them

> in its normal

> functioning. I would compare it to suddenly setting

> up

> all sorts of

> roadblocks and detours and forced lane changes on a

> busy highway. You will

> get big trouble.

>

> Q: Have you tried to communicate your concerns to

> colleagues and

> medical groups?

>

> A: For a short time, I did. But I was given the cold

> shoulder. I got

> the distinct feeling I was being treated like some

> wayward child who had

> his facts all wrong.

>

> Q: Who do you blame for this drugging catastrophe?

>

> A: At the moment, everybody. The doctors, the drug

> companies, the FDA,

> the psychiatric teaching institutions, even the

> press.

> And at some

> point, patients are going to have to take

> responsibility and not follow the

> orders of their doctors.

>

> Q: Do you believe that doctors should cut back and

> give the drugs to

> some people and not others?

>

> A: That sounds good, but there is no way to know

> what

> effects the drugs

> will cause in any given individual, especially as

> time

> passes. Even in

> the short term, I have seen some frightening things.

>

>

> Q: Do you believe the profession of psychiatry has

> made some kind of

> overarching deal with the drug companies?

>

> A: Yes. The drug companies are everywhere. They

> stick

> their noses into

> everyone's business.

>

> Q: What lies about the drugs have you had to purge

> from your own mind?

>

> A: The main one is that they're some kind of miracle

> breakthrough.

> Another one is that I can rely on the judgments and

> certifications of the

> FDA. We're playing Russian Roulette out here. It's a

> very dangerous

> situation.

>

> Q: Do you believe that some of the school shootings

> have resulted from

> children being on the antidepressants?

>

> A: I didn't, until one day a sixteen-year-old

> patient

> of mine showed up

> for his appointment with a 9mm hand gun. Then I

> began

> to comb back

> through reports on a bunch of those shootings. I can

> tell you, it focuses

> the mind to see a young patient sitting across from

> you---you've put him

> on an antidepressant and now he's talking about " a

> new

> day " and he

> takes the gun out of his pocket and lays it on a

> table

> next to him by the

> Kleenex. You think to yourself, " I may have created

> a

> killer and his

> first victim could be me. " People want to outlaw all

> guns. I'd start with

> the drugs.

>

> Q: How about the diagnosis of depression itself?

>

> A: I've come to realize that you can't do an

> interview

> with a patient

> and then come out with a shorthand assessment. It's

> wrong. It reduces

> all sorts of problems down to a label, and then you

> have your official

> gateway into the drugs.

>

> Q: Your colleagues think you're over-reacting?

>

> A: I think I'm under-reacting. I think we have an

> epidemic on our

> hands, but it has nothing to do with mental

> disorders.

> It has to do with the

> chemicals we're facilitating.

>

> Q: This boy with the gun---were you able to talk him

> down?

>

> A: I spent two hours with him that day. I told him

> he

> was having a

> reaction to the drug. At first, it made no sense to

> him. He was on a manic

> sort of ride. That really scared me---that I

> couldn't

> make him see what

> was happening to him. He was in the middle of an

> episode and he

> couldn't stand outside it. Finally, he eased up a

> little. He began to weep in

> my office. It wasn't really crying. Tears just ran

> down his cheeks

> while he was talking. He didn't seem to notice them.

> He had almost stopped

> being human. He was a...creature. He was on a

> mission

> of some kind. His

>

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[Guest guest]

Thank you Renee. I like the articles I find on my

lists. Kel

 

 

--- Renee Judkins <msfitnes01 wrote:

 

> YAY!!! APPLAUSE FOR KELLY!!! And for this doctor,

> too!

> I work with mental health patients in two different

> jobs. I have an autistic, AD/HD son who took Ritalin

>