Posted on 07/11/2023 7:59:07 AM PDT by Twotone
These days, the antidote looks more like the poison than the cure. At least, that was the case for Kim Witczak’s husband who, while struggling with insomnia, was put on antidepressants. He ultimately lost himself and ended up committing suicide. Kim and Dr. Liz Mumper discuss the details, today, on ‘Good Morning CHD.’
Drugs that attempt to control mood and the expression of emotion are doomed to failure.
They change, suppress, or interfere with the body’s normal way of communicating its emotional state throughout the body.
Messing with that will give the appearance of a new mood, or a different emotional state. However the initial condition or event that triggered the emotion or mood is unchanged.
Psychiatry today has become the dispensation of mood-altering drugs to counter what is called a “chemical imbalance.”
I completely agree. The only thing that antidepressants do is to make it so that the person taking them doesn’t *care* about being depressed any more. While Undoubtedly, some numbers of patients have been helped, I believe the great majority. Just go along and then 1 day realize that they’re still just as depressed as ever, but now they are even more withdrawn from society and various positive influences, and just resume their depression.
Is all depression really depression or times in one’s life when they are meant to be more quiet, search deeper, and look to prayer? Maybe God didn’t intend for us to be always happy and content, if we were when would we turn to him for answers? Instead of working through these times, we medicate.
You could never be “happy” all the time, because that would become a baseline and wouldn’t feel “happy”. You need the downs and the average, so that you can experience the true feeling “happiness” from time to time.
The absence of depression is not the same as happiness.
Yes. There are so many things that could help an individual to alter their own mood, but we’re no longer encouraged in that direction. We go for the ‘easy fix’ & the results are too often tragic. And what’s so sad about this particular case is that it had nothing to do with depression.
Pfizer is a company that truly needs to be brought to its knees with lawsuits. And the FDA is no longer an agency that actually provides oversight. They are fully bought by Big Pharma. Time to do something about that, too.
10 years ago I read that taking antidepressants increases the risk of suicide. After going thru the Covid ‘plandemic’ I believe its highly possible the gov’t the results it wanted with antidepressants
I agree I always thought it is rather psycho to expect to be happy all the time.
Lots of things should cast your mood down. Your mom died? Your job is in jeopardy? Your friend is distant? You got a sudden large bill to pay? These are not happy things. It is inhuman not to be sad about these things.
Depression I guess is being inordinately sad or unable to be happy. I doubt medication of any kind is the permanent answer, here.
And perhaps crying and sleeping a lot have some healing properties? To a degree rather than fighting these things perhaps we should indulge them to a point.
I like how Frank Zappa put it:
“Don’t expect friends, don’t expect fun, don’t expect a good life, don’t expect anything, and then if you get something, it’s a bonus.”
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