ABLECHILD: HHS Secretary Kennedy Targets Psychiatric Drug Links to Violence

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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ABLECHILD: HHS Secretary Kennedy Targets Psychiatric Drug Links to Violence | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. is challenging the longstanding narrative surrounding psychiatric drugs, questioning their role in mental health crises and potential links to violence. This critical examination raises important implications for public health policy.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[Hol]

Fantastic

 

[Margery]

Part of the problem is the Rx will cure it approach to medicine.

SSRI s HAVE a place, but in prescribing them there are risk factors that are being completely ignored in the easy write a Rx and get rid of the problem patient attitude of today's medicine.

Almost from the start it's been realized that certain groups should never be routinely prescribed SSRI's without constant monitoring. But did that stop Drs from prescribing them (or make them monitor their patient) ? Nope! The drug companies continue to downplay the risks while handing out samples to busy drs and reassuring them of the safety.

But the medical journals reported the increased risk to children and adolescents and men regardless. Risks- gambling, rage, suicide, and other risky behaviour is increased especially in those vulnerable groups. Women also show up with the risks, but it's ignored.

SSRI's can be used to help blunt the worst of actual depressions (they don't work on grief!) while other forms of therapy can be used ALONGSIDE to actually change the thought patterns (it's called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) that got the person to the point of suicide.

But what actually happens, is a busy dr prescribes the SSRI and hopes for the best. Sometimes it works and the person pulls out of the depression at least for a time. But sometimes it ends up on the evening news. Or the temporary relief from the depressive episode allows the person to complete a suicide.

I hate the thought of demonizing psychiatric meds because when used APPROPRIATELY with medical supervision (not just a Rx pad and a pen, but repeat visits with the dr and a therapist) they save lives.

Think about it. If you are dealing with a suicidal patient, and you can get them thru past the initial seek help stage, past the stage where they are at even higher risk of suicide because they feel better enough to actually follow thru, and finally into the place where the depression is lifting (and lets be blunt, these drugs DO WORK for that) then you have a living patient who can put some effort into CBT therapy and work at going off the SSRI. That SSRI buys time. Time to help them build better brain pathways.

Antipsychotics and drugs used to treat Bipolar disorder are equally lifesaving used appropriately.

In my case the antipsychotic my near relation takes every day means I don't have to look over my shoulder wondering when she'll show up with murder and mayhem in mind! Nor do the other members of her family. There isn't a CBT therapy on the planet that could have helped, but that antipsychotic she takes DOES!

Demonizing psychiatric drugs because of stupid prescribing practices isn't the answer. Increasing awareness of how to safely prescribe is a good start.

Maybe we got here because of poor diet, and decades of demonizing saturated fats inspite of the fact they make up the greatest part of our brains and neural tissues. Maybe because of pesticides and herbicides in our foods. Maybe because of the trash in processed foods that people eat a lot of nowadays. There's lots of reasons why people's brains get broken.

Sometimes it's not so easy just to fix the dietary aspects and hope for the best. SSRI's, antipsychotics, and drugs for Bipolar SAVE a lot more lives than they take, but there is a lot of room for improvement and medical awareness about the need to use them alongside CBT or other therapy.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

And sick people, who become homeless end up with even worse diets and more toxic exposures, so their sickness(es) get worse and worse and worse . . .

OTOH, my sibling can lead an almost-normal life, including holding down a good job, while on psych meds, but becomes totally psychotic, unable to take care of basic needs, not able to function safely and reasonably in society, loses job, ends up homeless, etc. when off psych meds, even on a clean diet.