Posted on 02/24/2025 12:34:09 PM PST by CFW
Newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy, Jr., has been assigned the chair of the newly established Make America Healthy Again Commission and, apparently, antidepressants will finally get a much-needed review.
Specifically, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) long have been the antidepressant “treatment” of choice for numerous alleged mental disorders. That’s right…” alleged.” Let’s just get it straight at the beginning so there’s no mistake about what is and is not being “treated.”
There is no science to support any objective, confirmable abnormality, that is any psychiatric diagnosis. That does not mean that people do not experience depression, anxiety, high and lows, etc. It simply means that psychiatric diagnosing is completely subjective, making it difficult, if not impossible, to realistically “treat” a non-existing abnormality. What is being “treated” is a behavior, which is exactly what psychiatry studies…behaviors. Neurologists, not psychiatrists, study diseases (abnormalities) of the brain.
Now, having said that, long ago the “chemical imbalance” theory became the psycho/pharmaceutical answer as the cause behind most of the unwanted, bothersome, life-interrupting behaviors. The mantra was “your depression is due to a chemical imbalance.” You’re depressed? Take an SSRI. You’re anxious? Take an SSRI. On and on. SSRIs were the answer to happy land.
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I’ve been seeing posts of mRNA shots in pork, chicken, and cows.
it’s coming to a point where we cannot trust our food.
we need this issue addressed and stopped asap. very publicly.
Ok, fine.
WHEN THE HECK IS HE GOING TO DO SOMETHING TANGIBLE???!!!
Respectfully, I think Mr. Hoft is way off on this one.
Sorry I’m referring to his casual dismissal of mental health diagnoses.
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