Why so many Americans today are 'mentally ill'

World Net Daily ^ | 14 Aug 07 | David Kupelian

[SkyPilot]

"When I was lying in my bed that night, I couldn’t sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them."

You're reading the words of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, struggling to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability in his turbulent life. He was angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them.

"I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can’t do anything to stop it."

[AmericanMade1776]

Even too much aspirin or tylenol has side effects. We live in a culture where everyone wants to be medicated , and get an easy fix to their problems.

[Triggerhippie]

The Pharmaceutical companies and physcians who give these drugs to people should be locked up. Psychologist would rather give you a pill than talk to you.

Psychiatrists are the ones that tend to use pills. Psychologists are the ones who talk to you.

[tioga]

LOL, I was hemorrhaging once and they wanted to prescribe Prozac......I said NO WAY! Turns out I had endometriosis.

[bboop]

Tioga, that’s what I think. Demons/ Satan whispers those things. ‘Pharmakopia.’

[nuconvert]

“The premise of this article is that evil pharmacteutical companies are over-prescribing drugs that make sane people psychotic”

No. The article is about a loss of God in people’s lives

[50sDad]

My dear wife would occasionally hear in her head the voice of a "southern waitress". It was never more than fragments of words and was triggered non-specifically, usually when we were driving somewhere together. (Sort of like Charlie Brown's teacher..."Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...honey!") She came from a home where the father drank in her youth (although he was 31 years dry when she first noticed this odd phenomenon), her mother was a resentful codependent, her brother an intellectual that got out early, and her sister a hypocondriact.

We got some counseling, and over three years or so as we worked out issues on both sides, the voice stopped. I asked the doctor what the heck it meant, and he just shrugged. You know, raised on TV movies, you expect some amazing insight, some brilliant fact that will make it all make sense, and it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, it is just like RF interference from a computer...you deal with be real causes of the problem, and the symptoms go away.

[Lazamataz]

The Pharmaceutical companies and physcians who give these drugs to people should be locked up. Psychologist would rather give you a pill than talk to you.

In their defense, I'd rather give a pill than talk to MOST people.

[AmericanMade1776]

tioga wrote: LOL, I was hemorrhaging once and they wanted to prescribe Prozac......I said NO WAY! Turns out I had endometriosis.

Oh the Irony of it all!

[Lazamataz]

We live in a culture where everyone wants to be medicated , and get an easy fix to their problems.

I'm going to develop a prescription cure for this phenomenon.

[AmericanMade1776]

Triggerhippie wrote: Psychiatrists are the ones that tend to use pills. Psychologists are the ones who talk to you.

Not only the Psychiatrist take the dope, but there is a higher incidence of drug abuse among Pharmacist.

[tioga]

Another time I was having headaches and after repeated trips to the dentist for a possible abcessed tooth and the doctor for possible sinus infections......they were treating me like I was mentally ill.......I went to a ENT doc who finally tooks some xrays, a CAT scan and samples of my mucous (unpleasant experience) and HE proved I had a bad sinus infection and began treatment of it.....I had to have surgery to remove diseased sinus tissue and open up a passage into my left sinus. Thank God I told the docs no way was I imagining this kind of pain and stood my ground. Took me close to a year to prove it and get help though. My poor family was sick of me being sick.

[CDHart]

It is frightening - reminds one of the Exorcist.

Carolyn

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Pretty interesting read. As humans we feel emotional pain, experience physical symptoms because of our spiritual condition. We live in a society that denies God. Instead of turning people to the only source of true healing, our society prefers to “medicate” the symptoms. It is not surprising that this leads to other side effects like demonic oppression.

[BulletBobCo]

Why so many Americans today are 'mentally ill'?

Because they are Moonbat Democrats.

[mimaw]

Certainly would explain why dems control two houses of congress and view Hillary as a great leader.

[AmericanMade1776]

How many times to Doctors create health problems to take care of, just so they can increase their clientele? How many women have had their uterus removed unnecessarily? ...

Patients should listen to their doctors but also be informed about what they doctor is doing?

[tioga]

-he, he..........I had an endometrial ablation.........no monthly visitors for me for ten years now.......I love it.

[vietvet67]

All these pills related to lack of serotonin.

Natural means out there to boost its production.

[P.O.E.]

Heck, there are plenty of people who still have their Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers on their cars.

But seriously, what Pope was it that said something about one of the greatest ills to befall mankind in the 20th century was the lack of a “sense of sin”?