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.
Consider that they have an alpha male to enable them to indulge being hystrionic instead of disciplining themselves. Imagine the women who do not have a strong male to anchor them, and how their lack of discipline and dependence on happy pills affects everyone around them.
There's just no getting around the dangers these drugs pose. Try not to be a cheerleader for drugging. Encourage weaning off under supervision, combined with clean diet, exercise, teetotaling, regular diagnostic tests, tests for food allergies, and some form of mental discipline, whether prayer, meditaion, yoga, karate... there's no excuse for avoiding full adult responsibility for oneself. How would they cope if you weren't there to lean on?
I'm speaking from bitter experience. I've had a lot of heartache in this life and many relatives and friends died young. After one colossal bereavement of a relative I had cared for over a period of years, I opted to take the happy pills. I quit my job in order to administer the estate along with a co-executor who was an in-law; whereupon the in-law stole $ six figures out from under my family— I was too artificially trusting and passive due the anti-depressant to take effective action in a timely way. That loss caused me to lose other critical opportunities because the funding intended for me due to my having cared for the deceased was gone; suing would have resulted in a break-even at best after the lawyer and accountant were paid.
I've had to deepen my faith and trust in God, especially in the dark times, because they are part of life, and nobody promised any of us a rose garden.
Yes. All I can say in the doctor's defense is that it was a small town, it was in the 90s, my mother was at that menopausal age, and our doctor was a coldhearted chauvinist who thought all women were hysterical idiots. Oh, he was such a jerk...
Yes. God first.
Every Millenial I know says they have some form of mental illness and can rattle off their medical condition from rote.
Every. Single. One.
Millenials can never just be sad. They have to be “suffering from depression”.
Millenials can never just be worried. They have to “suffer from anxiety”.
Millenials can never just be confused or having difficulty making a decision. They have to be “suffering from personality disorders”.
They have taken everything we have always normally experiences regarding lifes ups and downs and turned them into some form of psychiatric condition.
Everybody is a victim today. Everybody. SSDI is going to implode into insolvency with this group.
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Better check what percentage is your tax dollars at work.
Do an FOiA on medicaid in your state for how much madicaid payus for drugs for kids.
Folow the money... your tax d=$ via Medicaid.
My only psyche drugs are beer or wine after the sun goes down. But I like the tune -—”It’s gotta be 5 O’clock somewhere”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU&t=13s
BTTT!!!!
Joshua defined libertarianism on organization of the state of Israel. Choose whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
The first level of collectivism is the family. The Judeo Christian tradition is layer of an onion from there. Voluntay institutions of social control a one layer outside the famiy. These are the churchm, the PeeWee League.
Local government is the first layer of government. Most Libertarians say Self control is the first level of government. Family is the second level of governemtn.
Destruction of the family and local government is the goal of those who favor big central government in DC... or the Hague.
What is the libertarian plan for suppressing bolshevik revolution?
Pushing the leaders out of helicopters seems to violate the NAP. /s
From the beginning of my adult life choosing my own doctors, that has been my experience more often than not the several times when I had something seriously wrong—at least with the allopathic docs. In the past 20 years after multiple misdiagnoses and lost time and money, I've been trying to learn as much as I can about prevention: diet, exercise, vitamins and minerals, and how to avoid allergens and carcinogens. It's a world of knowledge the M.D.s fight against. I've had to prove the worth of supplementation over and over whenever I've had to move to a new primary physician, usually by going off supplements for six months shortly after hearing their routine denunciations and put-downs, and then showing them how my blood test scores compared with the ones when I was taking a vitamin/mineral regimen.
At the beginning of the plandemic I heard the raft of "safe and effective" propaganda from my doc, which I resisted; and about a year later after not having gotten either the vax or the Covid (thank God), I got pious advice from my doc to take Vitamin D, C and Zinc, which I had already been taking for 20 years—I had submitted a list of all my supplements when meeting my doc for the first time. She got mad when she realized, and didn't want to order a blood check of my latest Vitamin D levels because it was for her like a Democrat being forced to admit Trump had controlled fuel costs and kept us out of war—even though Vit D is not just about resisting Covid, but also resisting breast cancer and a load of other ailments. Then I got mad.
I'm really fed up with my Part D plan and am looking into changing so I can hope to get a better doctor. I really hope the government doesn't try to make the vax mandatory for government patients (Medicare, Obamacare, etc).
And PS, given the topic of this thread, I recall when looking back that every time I did have something seriously wrong (appendicitis, gallstones, a couple of other things requiring surgery), doctors first told me that what I needed were anti-depressants. The first two times I believed them and took the “mother’s little helpers”, with the delay before surgery resulting in a much worse condition and longer recovery than if they had done the correct diagnosis in the first place.
Truly, BigPharma has them utterly brainwashed and co-opted. I had relatives who were docs. They received dozens of gifts, wine, fruit baskets, luncheons, dinners, items of merchandise with the drug company’s logo on them, and travel to “medical conferences” in Las Vegas, Hawaii, etc. One of them said porn films were shown at one of those junkets in the 80s. The whole sales gimmick of sending these “drug reps” to fill the doc’s shelves with drug samples and to bribe them with gifts is scandalous. Don’t think that a lot of docs haven’t become hooked on opiods or benzodiazepines themselves by dipping into the drug samples. My one (married) drug-abusing physician relative was having an affair with a drug rep. Revolting.
Crazy exceptions don’t negate that lexapro works for many
Id bet my life plenty women on this forum take it especially post menopausal
The tendency here is to generalize and throw out the baby with the bathwater
Dealing with someone who takes it I’m very glad they do
Most nervous folks I know if they don’t grin and bear it drink or something
I prefer to see them on lexapro
Hear me now, believe me later. It’s free country.
And truly, it is an individual choice, which I respect.
Imagine if the pharmacy on Capitol Hill shut down for a month.
Imagine if teachers and administrators suddenly had no access to their own psych drugs. (I’m not talking about the ones students take, but I tell you, a sane teacher with a classroom full of kids whose meds have run out will need medication or a vacation within three days of that.
Of course Lexapro has made life better for many people. It has the potential to help people who can help themselves or get help from others. Help means therapy, activities, mental exercises, etc which result in an better ability to deal with stress. That can build into a possibility of tapering off the medication, although probably better just to stay on it or a lower dose.
What does Lexapro not do? It does not fix anything. It mostly masks anxiety. It slowly "rewires" the brain to the benefit or detriment of the patient depending on their other therapy writ large. Positive results will come from positive relationships and activities. Negative results from the opposite.
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