Posted on 05/24/2024 11:09:27 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Almost one in four adults are being prescribed antidepressants, but this proliferation of pills is not only a waste of money but also prevents patients finding and addressing the real cause of their depression, writes Lucy Kenningham
I was 20 the first time I was prescribed antidepressants. I had gone to the doctors during January in rainy, miserable Manchester complaining of flu. Somehow, I came out of the appointment having been diagnosed with depression and prescribed a course of SSRIs. But in fact I didn’t have a mood disorder, and I didn’t need to go on medication.
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Having seen tons of video of the current state of the UK and reports of an older brother who makes regular times over there from the conditions I’ve seen and from what he tells me I’d be depressed too.
1 in 4.
So, Dr’s as a whole have determined 25% of the population is sufficiently mentally unstable they are presecribed drugs to alter their brain chemistry.
Or...the mentally and physically weak are preyed upon by the pharma industry for profit, spreading that cheese around to the Dr’s and politicians to keep it going, all paid with taxes paid by the same mentally and physically weak who can blame “mental illness” for their self-imposed setbacks & failures.
I’ll go with option 2.
[I know depression is a real sickness, like any other, but 25% of the population is proof of overprescribing to people who’d rather be drugged than muster the will to improve themselves]
Well over here we have add-on drugs to boost the anti-depressants that don’t work and another drug to help counter the side effects of all of the above. Ain’t life grand?
About twice as high as in the US:
A gram is always better than a damn...
The one safe and effective antidepressant is sunshine- vitamin D- which is not in abundance in Britain. The seemingly magical effective alternative is Vitamin D3 supplements. I have seen wonderful personality and attitude change in several manic depressive women just by going about in short sleeves in the summer and taking the supplement in the winter. The effect is immediate.
I take it this is about the British and not about the University of Kentucky.
Maybe now that Calipari is gone, they won’t need anti-depressants anymore.
I just wish we could start beating them in football again.
No truer words.
So called antidepressants were never more than a percent or two better than placebo. Placebos don’t make you shoot up the workplace or murder your own family or random strangers.
Believe it or not a couple hundred mgs of vitamin B1 a day will do far more for mental disturbance than any drug. You don’t get these vital nutrients any more in the industrialized food chain.
The AMA, FDA and drug companies have been very effective in fooling people into believing that vitamin therapy is snake oil. D3 along with Bs can be a life changer.
I had to look up Calipari (I don't follow basketball very much). Hadn't heard of him before even though he graduated from Clarion University of Pennsylvania where I taught for a year (but after he had graduated).
There’s a drug for everything in America and when diseases don’t exist, big pharma makes one up and has a drug for it.
I’m happy to say the wife and I don’t take any prescription drugs and we’ve been married 51 years.
99% are BS and antidepressants are high on that list.
Same here. But some people really do need meds. it’s a life saving thing.
But 1 in 4 Britons out of a total population of 66 million does seem kinda high but I’m not an expert.
God bless you for your good health. Myself and especially my wife would be long gone if it weren’t for the bp meds we need.
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