"10/16/2004: FDA Toughens Warning on Antidepressant Drugs: "Antidepressants increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children and adolescents," the warning begins." The warning is backwards. The drugs like Zoloft and Prozac don't increase suicidal thoughts; they decrease non-suicidal resolve by masking the person's brain functions ACROSS THE BOARD. And THAT IS WHY THE LITHIUM I TOOK WAS CAUSING ME TO HAVE BLACKOUTS in 2002. These psychoactive drugs "bleed over" into other areas of the brain, like the areas that control MOTOR FUNCTION, BREATHING, HEARTBEAT. The FDA is getting there, but they're also trying to avoid the Public beginning to realize WHAT A CRAP SHOOT IT IS TO TAKE MODERN MEDICINES."

[ don't increase suicidal thoughts; they decrease non-suicidal resolve ]

  

"THE REST OF THE STORY"? HANG ON !
another in the "Letters to Susan" series:   

Susan, I found this page about the Lithium-Serenity product: http://www.findserenitynow.com/product_info.html . There are some very interesting comments on that page. It looks like it uses a better delivery system that gets the Lithium past the stomach acids, achieves a better introduction into the brain cells where it does its work. It also says a person can take less Lithium since it doesn't raise the blood levels of Lithium as high. For all those people still getting sucked into this trap of downing pills to maintain a level of control over mood swings, it looks like a good product. I no longer endorse psychoactive drugs like this though because people have such varied body chemistries the idea of making "one size fits all" mind/mood control drugs is quite honestly fraught with danger. It is a chemical mindfield and the height of human ego to even try to control the mind with alchemist concoctions. It's a good Jobs Program tho and I'm sure many thousands of dedicated people are giving it the good old college try to try and help ease the recent mental illness increases in worldwide populations. The NY Times reported a month ago that even JAPANESE SOCIETY is now falling victim to mental illnesses they previously just have not had. It is a lucrative market. The Japanese resist introduction of these chemicals as being from outside the body and therefor somewhat EVIL. We Americans don't have that objection. We still want to trust doctors. The Truth if there is one is that the LONG TERM EFFECTS of these mood drugs is not understood by the scientific community. I understand it because I took the Lithium for over 13 years. Finally it nearly dissolved my brain, resulted in muscle twithching and memory blackouts. I was taking however 1200 mgs. a DAY as the blood tests said I needed that much. Serenity probably avoids that amount. My shrink was sloppy, said it didn't matter if I spread the dosage out or took it all at once, so I took all of it in the morning. Before people continue letting alchemists fix them, they might want to read this page: http://www.school-for-champions.com/health/fleming_food_mood.htm.

They make an interesting statement as to the TRUE CAUSE OF MOOD SWINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE: "dehydration is a major factor affecting mood swings". In the hustle bustle of our time, many many people forget to drink enough fluids... and many of us take all kinds of chemical diuretics to try and keep the waistline under control. Diuretics flush Potassium from our tissues, and lack of Potassium can cause the heart TO STOP BEATING. Depression isn't the worst result of our lifestyles. oops. We skirt death all the time by our ignorance of what we need for mental & physical health IN THE FIRST PLACE. Then when we do succumb to mental illnesses we turn to doctors who gives us CHEMICALS when we may just need more regular water intake... and vegetables because they trap water. Ingestion of questionable chemical concoctions should be a LAST RESORT THERAPY, but people buy into it because people have come to doubt their own body's marvelous ability to function. That page makes an observation of a very easy remedy: "Endorphins are natural tranquilizers which are released through chocolate consumption. It contains a chemical called phenylethylamine that is responsible for the endorphin response that is similar to the feelings experienced with a hug or being in love." So Susan, the bottom line is that our diets are killing us or our diet can raise our mood levels to proper levels to sustain our mental health. Taking these new meds should be used with accident victims like I was but it should be TEMPORARY. You see, the insidiousness and evilness of these drugs -and the REAL REASON DOCTORS PRESCRIBE THEM- is to cover their failure to give us what we need. After my accident I should have been slapped in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for several weeks. It would have gotten oxygen circulating past my crushed leg & ankle, and prevented the interruption of oxygen supply into my brain that CAUSED ME TO BECOME DEPRESSED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

My accident was a terrible couple of blows. I guess doctors expected me to become depressed therefore I got depressed. We all do that sometimes, getting what we expect to happen that then in fact HAPPENS. Duh!

People are being scammed to accept these expensive drugs
instead of being doctored, fed and watered properly.
End of Story.

MEDICAL HEALTH CARE?  

Susan, it's my understanding that Suzanne Somers has a book out that discusses how she was literally falling apart at the seams and how she recovered. I regret I haven't read it. Her "slant" is a lot about how our hormone production sloughs off with age. She tells about a comprehensive test you can ask most any doctor to order, then she says how to order a tailor-made replacement that works JUST FOR YOU. This is just another grizzly example of how we don't even have a healthcare system. We have a healthsick program that comes running in with a hacksaw after we're on our deathbed. If John Kerry gets elected I believe he's going to put the horse back in front of the cart on this NATIONWIDE FAILING THAT KEEPS THE DOCTOR'S ROSTERS FULL AND HOSPITAL BEDS FILLED.

Fortunately for you, you're a woman and doctor's will listen to you because they know if you don't you can cause holy armies of legal teror to rain down on them. Men don't have that, just as Chuck mentioned elsewhere how his doctor gave him a load of crap. I've been wading through this UP TO MY NECK NOW FOR A DECADE. My heart seized up 3 times in 2000 but I kept living by not going to the hospital. I laid on the couch and didn't move, reducing the load on my heart for 2-3 days. (3 days in the December attack.) Susan, AMERICANS ARE DYING. OUR DOCTORS ARE GIVING US 19TH CENTURY TREATMENTS, PRICE GOUGING US TO PAY FOR RESEARCH WE DON'T EVEN GET UNLESS WE GET ON OUR KNEES AND BEG LIKE A DOG. Look, I know

Bush is trying to divert people's attention from this domestic Armageddon, and Kerry is getting spammed as only running on domestic issues, but if we don't turn this river of death around soon the fleecing of Americans will be complete. Our spiral down personal levels of health is forcing all of us to SELF-MEDICATE WITH VITAMINS, MINERALS, ALCOHOL, DRUGS, all because our health professionals have let us swing like a sheet in the wind. YOU shouldn't be having to research your medical problems. There are things we call TESTS to determine exactly what you need, but our health people won't give them to you til you ask for them!

It's the death revolving door that is ignored by the Bush Administration.