PSYCHIATRIC INFORMATION

While browsing the news today, I learned of a new side effect from psychiatric drugs like antidepressants (Prozac, Zoloft & Paxil), Zyprexa, Risperdal and other drugs prescribed for psychiatric reasons. That side effect is weight gain. Apparently, in some cases, drastic weight gain (to the tune of over 100 pounds). Yesterday, the New York Times has pointed this out in an article about some drugs causing weight gain.

While this is a minor side effect when compared to death, suicide and psychosis - I nonetheless thought I should point this out.

I recently came across this article stating that people were experiencing such powerful drug side effects from antidepressants (like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and others) that hundreds of thousands of Americans were being locked up in psychiatric institutions every year as a direct result of psychosis caused by the drugs themselves. So these drugs actually caused insanity instead of curing depression!

I was a little skeptical at first. So I did a some research of my own. Turns out, they were right: Psychiatric drug side effects are causing people to go insane. In fact, they are being effected so much that they are being sent to mental institutions for treatment.

I recently found this very informative article about a recent protest of the FDA’s handling of psychiatric drugs. The protest is over how the FDA seems to actually be working in the best interest of the drug companies instead of the public. I would say that I have to agree with them.

The amazing thing about this article is that it quotes over 20 real-life examples of families who’s lives have been torn apart by the suicide and violence that occurs after the use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs like Ritalin. Over and over the story is the same - someone starts taking these drugs and then commits horrible acts of violence on themselves, their families and often their own children.

I recently found a web page on the American Psychiatric Association website that discusses the mental “disease” of nicotine dependency. Long ago, having been a smoker - I took a little offense at this. How dare they label me with a psychiatric disorder! (At least I’m now a recovering Nicotine dependence sufferer).

Then upon reading further, I realized that the APA recommends that I should have taken a mind altering psychiatric medication (like Bupropion, Zyban or Wellbutrin) and counseling to cure my “disorder”. Huh, that’s amazing! I must have been a true scientific miracle, because I kicked the habit the good old fashioned way: Will power. I also had some help with making sure I had proper nutrition and took vitamins while I stopped, but none the less I somehow cured myself of this biological disease.

I just ran across this article written by Dr. Peter Breggin a renowned psychiatrist who often speaks out against the dangers of psychiatric drugging and electroshock.

In it Dr. Breggin says:

“Well, Tom, you said on TV things I’ve been saying in the media and in my books and scientific articles for three decades—but boy did you generate a lot more attention to the issues. Thanks!”

I’m glad to see that those in society who are educated and informed on these issues actually acknowledging Tom for taking the heat from the uninformed and biased media who want to go put their head in the sand while psychiatry continues drugging our children, mothers, grandparents and anyone else they can get their hands on.

How many more incidents like these have to occur before our government will act?

Tonight there is yet another senseless violent attack done by a person who had been taking psychiatric medications for depression. A Man in Brockton Mass. has shot another man four times at close range in front of dozens of witnesses, authorities said.

The victim’s baby girl was covered with blood but uninjured when police found her in a car seat on the floor of the vehicle.

The victim was in the process of getting his infant out of the car when the man, who recently began taking 2 different medications for depression, shot him.

In this recent news story it is reported that a 17 year old boy committed suicide while under the care of psychiatrists. Apparently he had been placed in the psychiatric ward for help and instead received a death sentence.

It’s no big surprise considering many psychiatric treatments have been proven to actually increase the risk of the patient committing suicide. It seems almost unreal that the people in charge of helping with mental health issues are actually making their patients worse, but none the less that is exactly what seems to be occurring.

Psychiatrists in Australia have a unique way of getting new patients. Apparently a loophole in Australian Immigration law permits them to forcibly commit some immigrants where over half of them are drugged with powerful mind altering psychiatric drugs.

Amnesty International is reporting that Australia’s mandatory detention continues to inflict psychological damage on detained immigrants. It cites the case of Peter Qasim, Australia’s longest-serving immigration detainee, who was committed to an Adelaide psychiatric hospital after almost seven years in detention.

Here is an interesting blog post on a morbid debate about whether to kill “feebleminded” children. I guess this is in an effort to preserve our species genetic purity.

In an article called ‘The problem of social control of the congenital defective: education, sterilization and euthanasia’, an argument was made that ‘defective’ or ‘feebleminded’ children, should be examined by a medical review board at the age of five and if so decided, be killed for the good of all society.

Take a guess where this article appeared: In Nazi propaganda during world war II? In some crazy racial supremacist’s magazine?

In this article published on American Daily the author discusses many of the points I often cover about psychiatric drugging in our educational system. He goes on to quote a blog post from Thomas Brewton who has an article by Pastor Harold W. Bolinger with personal hands on experience with the educational system pushing drugs on his son and causing great harm in the process.

I find it incredibly ironic that our modern educational system is very busy telling our children to “say no to drugs… but take your Ritalin.”