RE: Depression: A Mental Illness
I am sorry but I don't agree with you in many areas. Unless you are a medical professional, your opinion does NOT have valid points.
I have been practicing medicine in several clinics for a little over 10 years now.
First of all, depression is a state of mind and NOT any form of mental illness at all. It is a cycle in life and with time and proper support such as love, ANYONE can overcome depression. Depression is also aggravated by a negative environment.
Second, many times depression can be cured with proper counseling, vitamins, acupuncture, medicinal herbs or any of these combinations. My medical colleagues and I have successfully treated many cases just using vitamins and counseling.
You don't need dangerous prescription drugs like SSRI to treat depression. Pharmaceutical companies want you to believe it is a mental illness so they can sell you drugs that is highly addictive and difficult to get off with serious withdrawal symptoms. This is labeled in our medical books about 15 years ago. Sadly some of these side effects are being removed in the newer medical books to hide the truth.
Once you are on drugs like SSRI, it is very difficult to get off of them because of the side effects, which includes psychosis (hallucinations) and suicidal tendencies.
From my medical professional experience, it is SSRI that is making these people unstable and aggravating the depression. Some of these victims have also have homicidal tendencies and when you are on SSRI, it makes you even more likely to carry out their negative thoughts.
90% of the high school mass shootings are due to SSRI. The first incident was Columbine High School in the 1990's. This has long been covered up.
Michael Moore did a documentary to reveal this. There has been many lawsuits against the SSRI in the Columbine incident. The lawyer that represented the victims of the family is John W. DeCamp.
I suggest everyone to do their own research and not take my word for it.
Hi @greenbeans! Nice to meet you. Thank you for your opinions. Actually I'm not promoting drugs to be the first line of depression treatment. This post is mainly explain about the drugs commonly used in depression. Compare to other drugs of choice, SSRI is more preferable. I don't deny the importance of psychosocial and emotional support in people facing depression. After all, environment and surrounding people are the main reason of depression.
SSRI should be completely eliminated in treatment of Depression. It doesn't work and the side effects are very dangerous. It causes hallucination and difficult to get off of.
Its good to know people have the knowledge to see through all the side effects these Anti-Depressant pills does to a human being... in the long term, it just makes things worse for the person and can't stop taking it. Its sad and mainly the anti-depression pills are mainly used in America and rarely at all in any other places. Depression should be treated naturally like having a community that tries to help the person conquer depression. Asking the victim question on their part of the story and try to give useful advice on making their lives better. Natural help, not artificial pills the media wants you to believe. I will never take those pills in my life!
Hear hear! 👍