Posted on 06/23/2007 5:01:28 PM PDT by neverdem
The Church of Scientology arranged that marriage, they have a lot of closeted gay types. That's why the Church has so much power over them, they know all their dirty little secrets.
There are many cases of whole families killed by a family member including self after starting to take these drugs. Lawsuit is filed...big Pharma settles with out of court multi million settlement with clause that requires them to keep their mouths shut.
That was a good movie. Simple and good
Thanks for the links.
What a bizarre lead sentence — talk about a reporter wearing his or her bias on her sleeve!
Good grief. Another Tom Cruise trying to play doctor?
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I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for some other Hollywierdo lefties like Baldwin or Clooney to blame something other than the "easy availability" of guns for the mayhem and bloodshed that IMHO Hollywood's ultra-violent films have had a big hand in inspiring in deranged young minds. In the first decade of the 20th century when the government began compiling reasonably accurate crime statistics there were no violent films being shown like those that are made today, and anyone old enough and well off enough to have four or five bucks to spend could buy a cheap but functional handgun or .22 rifle at almost any hardware store in America. But at that time the US murder rate per 100,000 population was about 1/10th of what it is now.
Some of that increase in murder and other violent crime is no doubt due to factors such as changing demographics, the breakdown of the traditional family, violent street gangs, and the absence of a father in so many homes. But it would be difficult to convince me that Hollywood hasn't played a significant role in that increase, particularly within the last 10 or twenty-odd years.
Thanks for the ping. Very interesting topic. My cousin was taking anti-depressants when he committed suicide. I thought that they were not good for him and often told him so. A couple of months after his death they came out with warning labels (not that it would have stopped him from taking them). I am still undecided as to the direct link, but in my cousin’s case at times he seemed detached from himself.
Thanks to all contributors to this thread.
he's entitled to it and psychotropics are overprescribed but some need them ....badly
Yeah its a shame though that many of the industry and media out there tell women that abortion is a normal and safe procedure and you wont suffer from its effects, thats the shame of it, because these women do suffer tremendously while the abortion industry counts the dough. In Christ
I have to agree with him. The pendulum has gone way too far to the side of drug the kids so they sit in class like zombies.....
Thanks for the ping!
I have been diagnosed with nodules on my throid. Have had the exact same symptoms for years and they were getting worse. Slooooooooow metabolism, hair falling out - ALL - EVERY ONE of the low thyroid symptoms. Went to our GP a couple of years ago and had the thyroid tests. Came back in the “normal” range. She gave me zoloft. I said I was not depressed. She said I could be and not know it. Gained weight and it did help me sleep - a lot. Tossed it after a year. This year I “googled” my symptoms and found a site called stopthethyroidmadness.com which said that even though results are in the normal range, you can still be hypo and have to be dosed based on symptoms and not ranges. Took the info I printed out to her and had the full range of tests done this time (which she didn’t do before) and low and behold, I had some high ranges this time. She ordered a sonogram “just to see what is happening” and I have nodules. She says she wanted to wait a month, re-sono, and see what it has done..... oh, yeah and give me an anti-depressant. Told her “darn” nurse (who relayed me all the info) that I wasn’t depressed and wouldn’t go on anti-depressants. Told her to refer me to the endocrinologist I found who was recommended by some people on that site. Have to wait until August 1st to see him but I can wait. She wanted to re-prescribe me the brand name drug again too, not generic. Makes me go “hmmmm, wonder why!”.
I was taking care of an elderly lady - 100 at the time - but in excellent health. She felt she needed something to help her sleep. The doc gave her Prozac!
The very first night, she had frightening hallucinations and flushed them - the pills, not the hallucinations, ;o) - I researched the possible side effects and, yep, hallucinations was one, ALONG with a warning not to prescribe to the elderly. If 100 ain’t “elderly”, what is?
A few years later, same thing with me. I was having trouble sleeping. “Prozac!” says the doc.
“But I'm not depressed. I just can’t get to sleep.”
“You can be depressed and not know it,” says doc. (Sound familiar?)
Hmmm - well, I figured this would be a chance for me to see just what Prozac was about. I took too - had nightmares and other side effects - flushed ‘em.
I then remembered that I had once taken melatonin and that it had worked. I have been taking it since and have no problem falling and staying asleep until morning - wake up with absolutely no side effects. That was 8 years ago.
And I have since found a doctor that doesn’t push drugs. I recommend that anyone/everyone should have the handy little paperback book “The Pill” - republished regularly to include new drugs, that give all the facts on prescription drugs.
Good gravy, just reading the myriad dire possible side effects that comes from the pharmacist with prescriptions is enough to scare the bejeebers out of you. If even ONE natural herb tablet or supplement had just one of those possible side effects, people would be jailed.
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