Posted on 11/18/2022 10:26:16 PM PST by TigerClaws
It has almost become trendy for women to talk about their battle with mental illness online. You immediately score sympathy points from people if you express how much you've been struggling with depression or anxiety. Because the rates of mental illness have been growing, along with the influence from Big Pharma, there are nearly 80 million Americans who are currently on psychiatric drugs.
Various celebrities are praised for speaking up about their mental health struggles, from Selena Gomez to Lena Dunham to Zayn Malik. Many of these celebrities have also been open about their use of psychiatric drugs in order to improve their lives. The goal for a long time has been to erase the so-called stigma when it comes to discussing mental health, and simultaneously it's become much more common to see people be honest about the medication they're taking. In fact, you probably know someone in your life who either is currently on medication or has been in the past. Data shows that there's a record-high number of Americans who are currently on psychiatric drugs, and it's astonishing to see the number of infants and children who are on them as well.
Nobody Is Talking about the Record-High Number of Americans on Psychiatric Drugs, Including Infants
According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, as of January 2021, there are 76,940,157 people on psychiatric drugs. These medications include antidepressants, antipsychotics, sleeping pills, minor tranquilizers, lithium, and more. You've probably heard the brand names such as Xanax, Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, etc. The graph shared by this organization breaks down the age groups of people who are on psychiatric drugs and it's shocking to see how many minors are taking them.
There are more than 85,000 infants under the age of 1 who are taking psychiatric drugs. That means there are some babies as young as 6 months old who are taking something like Prozac or Xanax. There are 138,822 kids between ages 2 and 3 on these medications, as well as 2,652,554 children between 6 and 12 years of age who are taking these drugs. The numbers only get more and more disturbing. 3,188,966 teenagers between 13 and 17 years of age are taking psychiatric drugs. The age bracket 18-24 boasts 5,535,171 people on medication.
The demographic with the highest number of people who are taking psychiatric medication are people between 25 and 44 years old. This number has reached 20,455,212 and it's only a few hundred thousand more than the amount of people between 45 and 64 years of age taking these medications. There are 19,114,040 seniors above the age of 65 who are taking these drugs as well.
Doctors are all too quick to write a prescription for psychiatric medication, often without really educating people on how they affect the mind and body. Side effects include feeling shaky and anxious, blurred vision, dizziness, gut disruption, loss of appetite, dry mouth, nausea, issues with sexual performance, headache, insomnia, and more. We've been led to believe that medications like SSRIs are a wonder drug for people who are struggling with something like depression, but in many cases they actually do more harm than good.
These numbers should make us nervous about the future of the United States. If there are this many people taking psychiatric drugs as of 2021, imagine what that number is today—and what it might be five years from now. Rather than throwing medication at patients who are struggling with their mental health (which is pushed by Big Pharma), medical providers should be helping people change their lifestyle and diet in order to naturally treat issues like depression and anxiety. News Culture Britney Spears Reveals Messages She Sent To Her Mother About Feeling Like Doctors Were "Trying To Kill" Her By Gina Florio Jul 25th 2022· 3 min read
britney spears Getty Pop princess Britney Spears was under a conservatorship for 13 years, and the whole world watched as she battled to break free from the chains of her father, who controlled her finances and everyday decisions. Now that she's independent, she's sharing details of her conservatorship and how it impacted her.
Britney suffered a public mental breakdown in 2008 after a year of strange behavior, such as shaving her head and attacking a photographer's car with an umbrella. She was placed under a 5150 hold in a psychiatric hospital for a mental health evaluation. Not long after, she was placed under a legal conservatorship with her father as her conservator. After she was able to break free from the 13-year conservatorship, she finally shared harrowing details about what she experienced. Britney Spears Reveals Messages She Sent to Her Mother about Feeling Like Doctors Were "Trying To Kill" Her
Britney's Instagram account has been an outlet for her ever since her conservatorship ended. She has posted many different things that detail her experience with her family; however, she usually deletes the posts later. She recently posted (and deleted) screenshots of text messages between her and her mother to show the pain she experienced when she was forced into a mental health facility against her will in 2019.
She told her mother that the doctor "wants to UP the seraquil," which is an antipsychotic drug used to treat bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other depressive disorders. Britney's messages are haphazard and riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, presumably because she was feeling ill from the medication.
"Seraquil I thought was a sleep aid but it's for bipolar and is WAAAAAY stronger than lithium," she texted her mom. "I literally feel all the sick medicine in my stomach... I feel like he's trying to kill me. I swear to god I do."
In the caption of the screenshot photos, Britney wrote, "Here are my text messages to my mom in that place 3 years ago... I show it because there was no response... When I got out, her words were 'You should have let me visit you and give you a hug.'"
Britney also shares text messages she sent to a friend, asking for help to get in touch with a new lawyer. Her friend never responded.
"I had nobody," Britney wrote in the caption. "My sister's text after not texting for 3 days was 'They're not gonna let you go so why are you fighting it...'" In other text messages she sent to her lawyer, she talked about wanting to live "an adventurous life" and "go on three vacations this year."
Britney hasn't shied away from exposing the treatment she received from her family during her conservatorship. She's already signed up to write a memoir detailing her conservatorship experience; the deal was signed for $15 million.
TV advertising of prescription drugs/infusions is America’s REAL “drug problem”.
Pharmakia BMK
“Record-High”
I see what you did there.
The US Southern border is secure.
Please sir, may I have another?
People must be drugged up to think they still live in democratic Republic with free and fair elections.
Well Wellbutrin has worked wonders for me for 13 years while NOTHING else (too many) did Anything.
But they do call it “the poor man’s coke” so that could be why :)
Why the **** would anyone give psychiatric drugs to an infant?
What is wrong with these parents?
What is wrong with these doctors?
[bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other depressive disorders]
I dated a girl several decades back, whom I believe was bipolar or perhaps had a split personality disorder.
It was freaking scary how much she’d change over a period of 20 minutes (some days). Jekyll and Hyde.
[TV advertising of prescription drugs/infusions is America’s REAL “drug problem”.]
I just saw a TV commercial about a new pill that will cure that....
(j/k)
Nearly 80 million of them voted for Pedo Pete, some of them more than once.
My thoughts exactly.
Sure ‘life is tough, but I do wonder how many people were on psych drugs during the Depression, or during WW2, particularly in Europe? How about the Civil War, or trying to live in a fort under siege?
I hate to break it to this forums steady line of one shoe size fits all
But some folks especially women
NEED LEXAPRO AND ARE HAPPIER ON IT!
“Why the **** would anyone give psychiatric drugs to an infant? What is wrong with these parents?”
Society tells them not to spank.
I have worked with some people that have serious mental problems. A few people were clearly sociopaths, while others had split personalities.
I don’t know what they do to people in the military but just about every person that I know that was in the military has mental problems. I have always wondered if people with mental problems are attracted to the military or they are made that way because of the military, or maybe both. Some former military can barely hold a job and many are homeless.
One of the biggest lessons of Covid is the extent to which the media, public health, big medicine, and many politicians are owned by Big Pharma. This is not a group that is particularly altruistic nor adherent to the Hippocratic oath.
Spank an infant? Anyone who would spank a little baby is sick.
The article defined “infants” being given these drugs are under 12 months of age. Who in their right mind would spank them?
I think most of us know that some folks really do need medication. We just suspect that doctors and pharmaceutical companies are financially motivated to get these drugs into people who do NOT need them.
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