Posted on 08/12/2025 6:41:26 AM PDT by Heartlander
The psychiatric industry is no differ from a coven of witch doctors. They claim to treat something that is immaterial, that does not respond to material “remedies.”
It is a huge scam, and it is completely leftist.
Ain’t psychiatrists and psychologists great!
Psych med$ evolve so rapidly (thank you, big Pharma! /s) that Psychiatrists basically need to relearn their profession every six months.
Thank you for posting!
This explains a lot of what has happened in my extended family in the last half century.
This is exactly how my 24-year first marriage collapsed. I never thought it was the drugs she was on... makes total sense now... I’m happily remarried now to someone who isn’t on meds.
Very good post but I wish it had covered that more than just a marriage and family being ruined by a person on antidepressants..It includes/involves that person’s nuclear family and friends also. It’s a never ending battle to find or understand why someone is so illogical and impossible to get along with. You can see it happening right before your eyes and have to just roll with the punches. Suggest its the many MEDICATIONS prescribed and you’re in for a screaming fit or in old lingo - a “hissy” fit. So you stay quiet or stay away.
People think life is supposed to be a cake walk... down the old primrose path.
The ironic thing is, people actually DO have it fairly easy.
Survivors of the depression, and/or the world wars, actually know when they have it good.
For the rest of us, we whine and moan when something doesn’t come easy, or we are under a little bit of pressure.
Not REAL pressure, just the perceived variety.
So people spend a lot of money going to people who can write prescriptions. They’re pusher pimps. They aren’t idiots. They know why people are really there. To numb them down.
Calgon take me away!!!
People need to suck it up and embrace the troughs.
“The psychiatric industry is no differ from a coven of witch doctors. They claim to treat something that is immaterial, that does not respond to material “remedies.” It is a huge scam, and it is completely leftist.”
Very true, if your wife needs anti-depressants, then time for a new wife.
“people actually DO have it fairly easy”
Agreed.
Imagine your life with no electricity.
Once that is done...
It is time to grateful for all our blessings.
Throw out your SSRI’s and take psilocybin mushrooms instead. They are far superior at treating anxiety/depression. They will also make you live longer too.
Psilocybin Extends Life of Human Cells by 50% in Wild New Study
https://www.sciencealert.com/psilocybin-extends-life-of-human-cells-by-50-in-wild-new-study
People need to learn to cope with life’s storms without ingesting things that won’t make their problems go away. Our ancestors understood this without having to read think pieces like this. What happened to us?
Met women on psych meds at work..
Very dangerous people to work with.
Years of experience has shown me that some people are just crazy, men and women both.
How many more of us than me have observed these same effects happening to antidepressent takers over the years?
People on these drugs do become strange. Their thinking and behavior become weird and selfish, their brains badly rewired.
I worry more about the children of these parents.
It is true that most of the people on shrink’s couches are democraps. Maybe the drugs just exacerbate the mental illness already presnt.
Ping
After some devastating losses in my life, I became depressed, crippled with obsessive doom fears.
I tried prayer, counseling religious and psychological, prayer groups, support groups online and in person, exercise, diet, prayer, always prayer.
At last I tried anti-depressants. The first one had an instant bad effect on me. Intense fear for several hours, diarrhea like water. At least I knew it was the pill and I could wait it out.
The next one slowly slowly took effect. After a month or so, I was myself again. Not different, not leaving my family or empathy or beliefs, just able to live without obsessive fear and grief.
Frank Zappa said it best:
“Don’t expect friends, don’t expect fun, don’t expect a good life, don’t expect anything and if you get something, it’s a bonus.”
“here’s what makes my blood boil”
here’s what makes MY blood boil: Authors who don’t identify an acronym — especially at the beginning.
We have an elderly family friend who was put on several psych meds years ago; presumably lifestyle meds with no end date. They didn’t help, and so the psychiatrist increased the dosage to the maximum allowed. He lost the ability to manage his life, his self care became almost non-existent. so we helped him sell his house and move into “independent living,” if only to get him regular decent meals at his convenience.
He began losing his balance when walking, even with the assistance of a walker, and fell and broke his hip five months after moving to independent living. That became assisted living after a failed rehab stay after hip replacement. He continued to decline, living in a mental haze and being completely unable to walk or eliminate in the bathroom. He was in security briefs from then on.
I agreed to be his medical power of attorney since his immediate family was gone and no one else was available. I finally had enough 4 months ago and demanded he be taken off everything, even the dementia medication he was prescribed a year ago that didn’t seem to help one bit.
Today, he is lucid, able to stand and walk at limited distances, and is interested in self care, going to the bathroom by himself, changing his own clothes, and showing interest in things that he used to be immersed in.
It is night and day difference.
I feel like bringing a lawsuit against all the “doctors” who caused him years of misery with their easy “fix,” but I know they’re corruptly kept immune from liability for the harm they caused.
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