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.
Every Democrat I know is on some of these drugs. They have some break with reality about their expectations in life and interactions with humans. Democrat party is basically a death cult (Jim Jones style) where they believe they have to not breed to ‘save the planet.’ Therefore, they multiply through indoctrination (media, universities, etc.).
Most well-balanced folks are married, with faith, with kids leading productive lives. In other words, Republican voters.
“You’re on to the right answer.”
Thanks. And note that ‘spank’ is a very subjective term. I didn’t say ‘hit’ or ‘whack’ the kid at that age, because that is abuse and that is far more than necessary to get the kid’s attention when they’re very young. But people now are conditioned to conflate the terms. In one parenting book I saw, but didn’t read, I looked up the term “spank” in the index, and it said “see ‘child abuse’ “. So that’s what we have now.
In in my early parenting days, I was surprised by how light of a tap it took to get their attention when they were very young...it was almost like they knew the message it meant, even without any pain. Now, as they go older, it did take a bit more.
Anyway, I don’t mind bursting the bubbles of new-age parents who think Dr. Spock is smarter than their grandparents, as it’s good that people get more opinions on parenting than just what the Left feeds them.
They didn’t have psych drugs that far back. Thorazine was the only major one. Instead they used electric shock therapy, insulin shock therapy, prefrontal lobotomy and other efforts.
“Question 2) How many babies in, say, Chad or Azerbaijan are on Prozac?”
Likewise, how many babies in those countries were spanked when they acted up? Also, same for US, 100 years ago.
“Instead they used electric shock therapy, insulin shock therapy, prefrontal lobotomy and other efforts.”
I suspect on far fewer people, and then go back another 100 years and unless they had some tree bark or something as a pysch drug, people simply had to suck it up.
Agree, but in Afghanistan, they give babies opium:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/afghan.opium.kids/index.html
There used to be those little bottles of Paregoric. Some American mothers used it to make their babies stop crying or even just to make them go to sleep when they wanted them to sleep. Very convenient.
Almost? Women LOVE to talk about their illnesses. It's what they LIVE for.
I hope nobody here strikes little babies.
I though the Autism explosion might also be related to people waiting until later in life (30s instead of 20s) to have babies.
But you may be correct.
When my sons were younger, I told them that if, on a first date, the subject of her meds comes up, to wait five minutes, excuse yourself for the men’s room, go out the window, go home, take your name off the mailbox, change your phone number, and don’t go out for three months.
Never mind how I myself learned this lesson - but you can take it to the bank.
If you look at the mass shooters (the white ones that get all the attention), almost all of them were on these drugs.
Scientists have no idea the long-term effects of using psychotropic drugs. The stated risks per PDR of these drugs are suicidal and homicidal thoughts. Apparently, they can add “and actions” to the warnings.
One source on the topic:
It’s all good. Nobody spanking little babies :)
See posts #21 and #30
I think the problem is more the patients than the doctors.
The quality or education is really bad.
Many people would believe anything just because a doctor told him. They don’t have to do everything the doctors. They can reject stupid treatments and drugs that would make them crazy.
an older woman I knew, a nurse used to go to the bathroom and kitchen and examine all the meds.
Then make a decision whether she was staying the night (the permissive 70s)
probably borderline Personality disorder
There was a story out a couple of years ago that an advertising agency was hired to ‘create a need’ for one of these new drugs. “Life not perfect? Feeling sad about not accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior? Take this pill instead!”
Yes, the problem is that a ‘need’ is created by advertising. People lacking true joy in their life turn to doctors to give these drugs as a cure for their existential malaise.
Just like they’re now ‘creating the need’ for gender drugs. Figure out a profit center. Use media to manipulate the public into thinking they need something they don’t (puberty blockers and self-mutilation). Profit.
the first thing checked when a person is in a psych hosptial is their thyroid.
and with any mood disorder.
they suicided,
or they moved to the woods.
or they were killed.
get yourself off of that media.
Poisonous.
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