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.
“they suicided
or they moved to the woods.
or they were killed.”
Definitely so, but the rest of society wasn’t filled with mind-altering drugs.
(O.S. spoken very quickly) Side effects may include projectile vomiting with simultaneous explosive diarrhea.
There definitely is a place for psychiatric medications, judiciously prescribed and used as prescribed. Some of them have been real game changers for many patients. The profligate over-use of them is due in part to advertising, which you previously never saw on tv; overworked and undertrained doctors who lump everything into the anxiety/depression bag, because “we’ve got a pill for that,” and the general decay in the culture, which seeks instant gratification and relief, and will demand to get it with the last amount of effort necessary.
Soma, anyone?
Alcohol opium
I'm glad, because I've seen.
The country is f***ing insane.
So there’s that.
Wasn’t that a great movie? Started out as a school project of Lucas’s or something like that.
As soon as the people were off the drugs, they could see everything the way it really was. Lot of things can be like drugs, not just drugs themselves.
Thorazine wasn’t used before the fifties. It’s a terrible drug with lots of creepy side effects.
Yes I think that’s possible
Yes
Heh
Alcohol and the "sweet juice of the poppy" plus a bunch of other herbal drugs and various molds and fungi have been used since Year Dot.
Heck even the Bible talks about it.
Psalms 104 and Proverbs 31 are two places where alcohol is mentioned to "lighten the heart".
Everyone can’t fix themselves
My family is full of women who need it and I’m happy they take it
Hello! Good to see you back!
Read the article, FRiend. Some morons are giving psych drugs to infants. They're growing another crop of mass shooters.
It is one of the most common and least understood diseases out there. It literally robs people of the joy of living, and untreated can bring about much more serious illnesses or death; but the onset symptoms are subtle and look like many other conditions.
It's so common, yet with many variations in individuals; there's really no excuse for doctors not learning more about it, doing the proper tests and developing a good diagnosis and treatment plan.
Excellent. Also, have an active relationship with God. Pray and read the scriptures. Have a group of spiritual supporters. You're fortunate if some of them are family.
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