Medications for anxiety, depression and other mood issues-watch this movie before taking psychiatric drugs or giving one to your child.
Are psychiatric drugs safe and effective?
The use of medication to control mood and behavior continues to grow.
The market size for psychotropic drugs—pharmaceutical medications used to treat bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, psychosis and attention regulation—was $20.2 billion in 2022, and is expected to reach $37.2 billion by 2032.13 In 2019, 15.8 percent of Americans (approximately one in six) over age 18 took medication for a psychiatric disorder.14
When my son had depression, I was fearful that I would get reported to family services for refusing antidepressant medication for him. The doctor told me, “You have 3 months.” That was a terrifying time.
He was 15 years old, a month shy of 16, and I was aware of the drug side effects. Yet doctors seemed to ignore this and did not care.
They had no other answers.
Watch the Movie Below
This movie takes you through the lives of several young people and what happened to them when they went on antidepressants.
But what no one talks about is that many of these people see the doctor because they have anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues.
So what is the answer?
Allopathic medicine’s answer is drugs and talk therapy.
If you do not go that route, what are your options?
Listen to what one family in this documentary did to save their daughter. After the medications made her symptoms worsen, they went the alternative route and discovered an underlying cause for her behaviors that occurred before the drugs.
In this instance, they found out that their daughter had Lyme disease. Lyme disease has been called the greatest mimicker of all other diseases.
I recently also read that Lyme disease is a man-made disease. I have not gone down that rabbit hole yet, but if anyone knows more about Lyme as a man-made illness, please share!
If you or someone you know has a mental health issue, drugs may not be the answer, but doing nothing is not the answer either.
You need to do something!
It takes some digging and investigating, but the root of the mood symptoms can often be identified.
Not all mental health issues have endogenous root causes, but if you look, you find that many do.
Typically, there is not one root cause.
Dr. Fasano discusses the “three-legged stool” concept for autoimmune conditions to occur (genetics, an environmental trigger, increased intestinal permeability/gut dysbiosis).
I like this concept for other health issues as well.
For example, in my son’s case:
This was his” three-legged stool”:
Severe gluten sensitivity (tested negative for celiac and doctors said there is no such thing as gluten sensitivity;) Continuing to eat gluten with a sensitivity can lead to gut dysbiosis, increased intestinal permeability, nutrient malabsorption, and immune dysregulation)
He had a vaccine just before entering 10th grade (we switched from the pediatrician as he did not want to go to the “kids doctor,” so I let him go into the PCP without me, giving him his privacy for his mandatory sports physical: big mistake). They gave him a vaccine that his pediatrician declined since he was sick often. (I should have fought this harder since I never permitted them to give him a vaccine).
One month after the vaccine, he sustained a head injury in a hockey game.
Less than a month after the head injury, he showed signs of depression. I think if one of the above things I mentioned were not on that list, he would never have had depression.
If you read Forrest Maready’s book, The Crooked Smile, it makes sense how the adjuvants from a vaccine attach to WBCs and then travel with the WBCs to the site of inflammation (in this case, the adjuvants/heavy metals/toxins hitched a ride with the WBCs to the brain, the site of inflammation).
His gluten sensitivity and still eating wheat-based foods when not home set the stage for a weakened immune system and poor gut health, which impacts brain health.
I didn’t realize the connections until years later, but now it all makes sense. Allopathic doctors would not connect the three things I mentioned, and I would probably still be laughed at by allopathic professionals.
Even alternative doctors did not connect the dots and only addressed pieces.
In this case, what was needed was:
A gluten-free diet with whole food options, not GF packaged foods that also balance blood sugar (his fasting glucose on labs was in the very low 70s).
A gut healing protocol
A heavy metal detoxification protocol
Micronutrient testing and adding in supportive nutrients based on test results
Immune support
Movie on What Antidepressants Did to Their Children
If someone is struggling with a mental health issue, it would be ideal for them to look at alternative options before running straight to the drugs. Once on these medications, the side effects can be devastating, and the drugs are difficult to ever come off of.
Seeing a nutrition professional who understands mental health issues may be cheaper than weekly therapy sessions that can run over $200 for a 50-minute session.
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This is NOT information allopathic practitioners will share with you.
Substack - Surviving Heathcare - Dr. Robert Yoho - #276 and #246 with Dr Ken Stoller addresses Lyme Disease - maybe helpful. 😘