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.
“The article defined “infants” being given these drugs are under 12 months of age. Who in their right mind would spank them?”
Never had a kid, I guess.
If they’d ban pharmaceutical ads on TV I could get through any show I watch in 10 minutes.
They promote a drug for everything and I’ve never seen so many made up three letter diseases.
I think some people may well have something wrong that affects their mood/thinking/well-being but don’t need psychotropic drugs. Doctors get a lot of their treatment info from drug sales reps. Most don’t spend a lot of time trying figure out why a patient may not be sick/depressed, etc. They are conditioned to just write a prescription. Many people may in fact have solvable mental health issues if, as the author mentioned, they changed their diet, exercised, got other likely undiagnosed medical problems addressed, learned better coping skills. I could go on, but the real need gor these drugs was created, just as the need for the Covid vaxx that doesn’t work was created. Money.
May be—not: may not be
No infant needs spanking.
Your answer is both.
You’d have to be on drugs to believe this story.
What you describe is indeed very common. My own mother, 20 years ago, her thyroid tanked. The doctor just put her on Prozac. After a few weeks, she went back to him demanding that he figure out the real problem. Eventually he did, but he didn’t even apologize for being so dismissive at first. He was just like, “Oh, it’s your thyroid.” He seemed irritated at having to do his job.
When people are indoctrinated with the thoughts that reality is a construct, morals and ethics are subjective and religious faith is but a primitive, antiquated, superstition-based belief system, people need some steadfast anchor for their lives, and the pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries are more than happy to fill the void people create for themselves.
Okay, fair enough. How would you know? One does *not* spank tiny babies. Not even back in the old days when spanking toddlers was considered normal.
Dr. Spock was still big when I was a toddler. My mother said the first time she spanked me it was with his book lol. It was a paperback, though — whew!
It’s crazy and sick to give babies psychotropic drugs. I can’t fathom it. I guess Prozac is the modern day Paregoric?
Why would you ever spank an infant? They cry sometimes you just don’t know the reason.
She might have had Borderline Personality Disorder, which means she had serious trouble with emotional regulation.
The rest are playing with fire and most will end up burned. They take Lexapro without any psychological treatment. The Lexapro alters the mind. If they are not careful, and many people are not careful, they alter their mind into irrationality or their spouse does it to them or they are both taking the pills.
I've seen the good, bad and ugly and the good is pretty rare. The end result is mind that is less and less able to tolerate stress, the stress eventually destroys the physical body which adds to the stress in a vicous cycle.
Of course they are happier, it's a drug that masks fear and anxiety. But what happens next? Either they confront and treat the fear and anxiety using the pill to help, or they don't. Most don't. They are on it for life, and it won't be a long life.
I see hundreds of pharmaceutical ads a day. Big pharma is evil. It wants to treat with meds ailments it invents. It wants to make hypochondriacs of us all. Stay off of all the meds you can. Eat clean. Exercise. Drink water.
If you drive the highways and interstates of America, you’d think the rate is higher.
Libertarians, please chime in about why removing enforceable societal norms is NOT making people crazy.
Question 2) How many babies in, say, Chad or Azerbaijan are on Prozac?
The autism explosion in this country is a direct result of the over-prescribing of antidepressants in women.
You're on to the right answer. Our families are much smaller, and people don't have enough experience with infants anymore. Maybe no experience at all. They think they have to do something chemical to stop the crying.
Possibly people don't know how to love babies anymore. They've never seen it in action. In past generations, we all knew how to soothe a crying baby because we saw so many of them in our daily life. Even a few decades ago I remember my young relatives being amazed that I just picked up a crying baby out of his stroller and gave him some love and attention to stop the crying.
The correct terminology is psycotrophic drugs.
Just as a matter of fact, what is the one thing every school shooter has in common?
The use of psycotrophic drugs.
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