Surprise, surprise. It turns out that antidepressants have been propped up by FRAUDULENT science. “Most clinical drug trials have found the effectiveness of antidepressants is ON PAR with placebo,” wrote Dr. Joseph Mercola. On the other hand: “Large-scale meta-analyses show that physical exercise is the most effective remedy — about
A HIIT--bent-over, mouth-breathing, all I've got kind of speed work, CrossFit-ish type of workout solves 99% of my problems.
I used to chew Copenhagen. I think tobacco, or nicotine, is likely the most effective anti-depressant medication available. Started chewing when I was in the 8th grade--finally stopped when I was 50. Used Zyn, Nic gum, and other nicotine devices for the next 2 years.
Wife learned that I was a liar about quitting...like any good drug addict, I lied about it.
Put her foot down. I stopped using nicotine completely one year ago.
Holy Mother of God!!! WRECKED! My BP skyrocketed. I could not sleep. I was completely unhinged. Anxiety owned me.
I never thought I was anxious until I gave up the nicotine. Holy sheeeeiiiitt was I wrong. My head is ALWAYS on a swivel. Dad died when I was 5. Had a dumb, fat, violent step dad. Bad guy. We would PANIC when he pulled into the driveway. Totally unpredictable.
Took about 120 days--and me calling the VA to say, "Uh, I have anxiety & depression...."
Once I admitted it, everything became easier to manage. I do not take any pills/drugs. Not for me. PT is my medicine. Hot/Cold exposure, meditation, journalling. Reflection.
Sadly only about 20% of Americans exercise. If we could get that to 50%, the use of drugs would drop significantly.
Yeah and now they probably have a billion people worldwide dependant on their antidepressant to get by or else they will go into withdrawals. Everyone needs to think long and hard before they or a loved one gets on one. Some will say only effexor is the hardest to get off of but I will tell you that most antidepressants are really hard to get off of. Especially if the doctor your seeing doesn't know anything about antidepressant withdrawal syndrome. The drug companies tell all the doctors how to wean people off the antidepressants or antipsychotics but it's the wrong way and a very painful way to wean people off their drugs. It's like jumping off a cliff for the brain to put it bluntly. Where as the weaning should be slow and steady. Everyone that's interested in this needs to look up Dr. Mark Horowitz(Outro.com) on YouTube and watch some of the podcasts and interviews on this very widespread worldwide problem. Also take a look at the subreddits, antidepressant withdrawal or antipsychiatry or antidepressants communities, to get a sense of the magnitude of this problem. It's a BIG problem in our world today and people need to be very aware of antidepressant withdrawal and that they are no better than PLACEBO.
This also hits home for me because my dear friend has been on many different kinds of antidepressants and was put on Effexor. That was 16 years ago and he still can't get off of it due to the horrible withdrawals like, brain zaps or electrical shock sensations in his brain and body that come on if he even misses a dose for one day. He desperately wants to get off and has been trying for atleast 14 years to get off the effexor because about the 2nd year of being on it he noticed that he was emotionally numbed out and couldn't hardly laugh anymore or feel anything. I can't imagine living like that. But apparently millions of people do every day of their lives. He has told me that he can't relate to people anymore because of it and it has affected his social and spiritual life in a very negative way. I can only comfort him and be there for him when he wants to talk about it. And of course I pray for him to one day find the right psychiatrist or doctor to wean him off the right way. I actually found Dr. Mark Horowitz for my friend and that led to him finding out about the Dr. Mark Horowitz Outro company where they are helping wean people off the right way and give them counseling. He is on the waiting list as it's not available in the US right now. I hope that if someone reads this that maybe they can create a company just like Outro to help people wean off their drugs the right way. The world definitely needs more companies like that for the billions of people that are stuck on their antidepressant and want to get off. Anyways thanks for reading my story and opinion on this terrible matter. Hopefully by spreading awareness people will start to say no to their PCP when the antidepressant question comes up and seek healthier alternative treatment options. 🙏✌️
I thank you Dr. Mercola for sharing this substack with the world to spread awareness.
It isn’t new news that antidepressant use does nothing to help those afflicted- but even though it’s been researched and found wanting, providers continue to prescribe the worthless pills.
Fraudulent science or no science at all? That describes 90% of big pharma drugs. Most clinical trials are data fudged, cut short, misinterpreted, misrepresented or downright faked. Without these regular deceptions, big pharma would go broke very quick because most of their drugs are fake and serve no purpose in creating a healthier human being.
These are typically translated into English as “sorcery,” “witchcraft,” or “sorcerer.” Ancient Greek uses of pharmakeia closely mirror the generic modern English word drugs ; the same Greek root word produced English terms such as pharmacy and pharmacist. Revelation 18:23
“And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; 👉for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”👈( A Strong Delusion is upon the world) Revelation 13 & 14💉🧬
I literally have to cite this study to my patients sometimes to convince them that I am privy to the fact that reuptake inhibitors are often unnecessary, in order to convince them to take the TCA (tricyclic antidepressant) I’m prescribing for their migraines or narcolepsy or neuropathic pain or insomnia. I have to argue that it’s not for their grumpy ‘tude, it’s for their neurological condition…. I wish this article would keep specifically to the science, as mutable as it may be, and say the study found that “reuptake inhibitors” are not more effective than exercise, not “antidepressants” in general… the rhetoric is misinformation.
Notably, Luvox and Prozac are excellent medications for numerous disorders that may preclude the depressive symptoms, such as OCD or generalized anxiety.
An honest benefit to harm analysis of these and pretty much every other drug or other medical product out there would yield results so damning that the people peddling them would all be put in prison.
Not a surprise. Tried several different antidepressants over the years but they never worked. Just messed with my libido. Exercise much more beneficial.
Manipulation through statistics. Bill Gates protocol has deceived the whole world. In Rev 18:23, God explains why He destroys Mystery Babylon, because they used sorcery (in the original Greek, sorcery means pharmakeia) to deceive ALL (not some, but ALL!) the nations. Now, what did pharmakeia mean then? And what does it mean now? Drugs and pharmacy are involved, but not by themselves. Trying to keep this short so not doing a deep dive here, but suffice it to say, for our generation alive today, here is the brief history. Pharmakeia began in Babylon with Nimrod (~3000BC), carried on to Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon (~600BC), then to Roman Empire (~200BC-300AD), then to China, Iran, and Western Europe thru secretive knowledge and written pharmacopoeia's (drug recipe books), then to the New World and expansion of Western Culture. These recipe books not only provided good intention medicines, but they also contained concoctions that produced hallucinations and allowed divinations (opening portals to the spirit world) which were abominations to God, they also contained recipes for poisoning enemies (ie, political opponents). The knowledge throughout empires was kept, for the most part, secretive to the public, and geared only for the qualified within the empire (Chaldean Mystery Religions in Babylon for instance). Whomever controls the knowledge, controls the peasant class, a trademark of empire structure. Now for our times, pharmakeia remains, but about 1910 it really took off after Rockefeller controlled the Western Oil futures. Chemical engineering jumped off the charts and synthetic engineering began. Through proxy, Rockefeller established control over medical and chemical science in higher education Universities. So from ~1915-1930'ish, Rockefeller medicine (aka Western Medicine) blossomed. In the very late 1700's through about 1880, medicine and apothecary shops were primarily Dr owned, practices grew and chemists were hired to make common drugs for the Dr's practice, kicking off a specialized chemistry and Pharmacy based off pharmakeia became a recognized profession in a sense until the first official Rx School began around 1895 with the Philadelphia school of Pharmacy. After the oil boom and Rockefeller Western Medicine merged, so to did the modern Pharmacy period kicked off. Because pharmakeia of ancient eras dealt mostly with natural plants and natural source materials, often certain areas could not grow specific plants or herbs and they dealt with what was available,which for some areas, really limited treatments. Since most pharmacopoeia's brought to the Western world we're based off what China and Iran/Macedonia offered was a particular favorite, a little plant called the Poppy produced an extract called opium. Perhaps you heard of it. Well, Brittain sure did, and a new trade route was established. This was far more lucrative than tea or coffee, they found they could control people, direct them, with this opium drug. It's impact today is worse now, you may have heard of other derivatives, morphine, oxycodone, Oxycontin for starters. Let's not forget our South America contribution that led an Atlanta based pharmacist who concocted a once benign beverage known as Coca(aine)-Cola (yes, it originally had cocaine in it).
Well.... I'll leave this brief history lesson here for now, it's quite a bit to ponder over since we've only scratched the surface of the 20th century. It gets much worse, calms down for awhile, then the madness takes over that puts us in the pharmaceutical quandary we face today, where we decide we want to take it as individuals, and what God is going to do with it within, my guesstimate, the next 7 years.
I know the Luvox that I take helps. Because I know my body, my symptoms, how was feeling both before and after, how I felt when I skipped taking it for up to 1 month.
A good run solves about 95% of my problems.
A HIIT--bent-over, mouth-breathing, all I've got kind of speed work, CrossFit-ish type of workout solves 99% of my problems.
I used to chew Copenhagen. I think tobacco, or nicotine, is likely the most effective anti-depressant medication available. Started chewing when I was in the 8th grade--finally stopped when I was 50. Used Zyn, Nic gum, and other nicotine devices for the next 2 years.
Wife learned that I was a liar about quitting...like any good drug addict, I lied about it.
Put her foot down. I stopped using nicotine completely one year ago.
Holy Mother of God!!! WRECKED! My BP skyrocketed. I could not sleep. I was completely unhinged. Anxiety owned me.
I never thought I was anxious until I gave up the nicotine. Holy sheeeeiiiitt was I wrong. My head is ALWAYS on a swivel. Dad died when I was 5. Had a dumb, fat, violent step dad. Bad guy. We would PANIC when he pulled into the driveway. Totally unpredictable.
Took about 120 days--and me calling the VA to say, "Uh, I have anxiety & depression...."
Once I admitted it, everything became easier to manage. I do not take any pills/drugs. Not for me. PT is my medicine. Hot/Cold exposure, meditation, journalling. Reflection.
Sadly only about 20% of Americans exercise. If we could get that to 50%, the use of drugs would drop significantly.
bsn
Pharmageddon
My god we live in a corrupt world where money , greed, power, & pure evil seem to rule
Pharma fraud In order of fraud from greatest to least:
Covid and jabs
Statins
SSRIs
Yeah and now they probably have a billion people worldwide dependant on their antidepressant to get by or else they will go into withdrawals. Everyone needs to think long and hard before they or a loved one gets on one. Some will say only effexor is the hardest to get off of but I will tell you that most antidepressants are really hard to get off of. Especially if the doctor your seeing doesn't know anything about antidepressant withdrawal syndrome. The drug companies tell all the doctors how to wean people off the antidepressants or antipsychotics but it's the wrong way and a very painful way to wean people off their drugs. It's like jumping off a cliff for the brain to put it bluntly. Where as the weaning should be slow and steady. Everyone that's interested in this needs to look up Dr. Mark Horowitz(Outro.com) on YouTube and watch some of the podcasts and interviews on this very widespread worldwide problem. Also take a look at the subreddits, antidepressant withdrawal or antipsychiatry or antidepressants communities, to get a sense of the magnitude of this problem. It's a BIG problem in our world today and people need to be very aware of antidepressant withdrawal and that they are no better than PLACEBO.
This also hits home for me because my dear friend has been on many different kinds of antidepressants and was put on Effexor. That was 16 years ago and he still can't get off of it due to the horrible withdrawals like, brain zaps or electrical shock sensations in his brain and body that come on if he even misses a dose for one day. He desperately wants to get off and has been trying for atleast 14 years to get off the effexor because about the 2nd year of being on it he noticed that he was emotionally numbed out and couldn't hardly laugh anymore or feel anything. I can't imagine living like that. But apparently millions of people do every day of their lives. He has told me that he can't relate to people anymore because of it and it has affected his social and spiritual life in a very negative way. I can only comfort him and be there for him when he wants to talk about it. And of course I pray for him to one day find the right psychiatrist or doctor to wean him off the right way. I actually found Dr. Mark Horowitz for my friend and that led to him finding out about the Dr. Mark Horowitz Outro company where they are helping wean people off the right way and give them counseling. He is on the waiting list as it's not available in the US right now. I hope that if someone reads this that maybe they can create a company just like Outro to help people wean off their drugs the right way. The world definitely needs more companies like that for the billions of people that are stuck on their antidepressant and want to get off. Anyways thanks for reading my story and opinion on this terrible matter. Hopefully by spreading awareness people will start to say no to their PCP when the antidepressant question comes up and seek healthier alternative treatment options. 🙏✌️
I thank you Dr. Mercola for sharing this substack with the world to spread awareness.
It isn’t new news that antidepressant use does nothing to help those afflicted- but even though it’s been researched and found wanting, providers continue to prescribe the worthless pills.
Fraudulent science or no science at all? That describes 90% of big pharma drugs. Most clinical trials are data fudged, cut short, misinterpreted, misrepresented or downright faked. Without these regular deceptions, big pharma would go broke very quick because most of their drugs are fake and serve no purpose in creating a healthier human being.
These are typically translated into English as “sorcery,” “witchcraft,” or “sorcerer.” Ancient Greek uses of pharmakeia closely mirror the generic modern English word drugs ; the same Greek root word produced English terms such as pharmacy and pharmacist. Revelation 18:23
“And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; 👉for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”👈( A Strong Delusion is upon the world) Revelation 13 & 14💉🧬
Mercola nails it each and every day. When they attack him as ferociously as they do, you have all you need to know.
Dr Peter Breggin is considered one of the best concerning this topic.
https://breggin.com/
Click on upper tab "Psychiatric Topics".
Followed him for years as I witnessed disturbing trends in family and friends who innocently took 'the meds.' Breggin is a wealth of information.
I literally have to cite this study to my patients sometimes to convince them that I am privy to the fact that reuptake inhibitors are often unnecessary, in order to convince them to take the TCA (tricyclic antidepressant) I’m prescribing for their migraines or narcolepsy or neuropathic pain or insomnia. I have to argue that it’s not for their grumpy ‘tude, it’s for their neurological condition…. I wish this article would keep specifically to the science, as mutable as it may be, and say the study found that “reuptake inhibitors” are not more effective than exercise, not “antidepressants” in general… the rhetoric is misinformation.
Notably, Luvox and Prozac are excellent medications for numerous disorders that may preclude the depressive symptoms, such as OCD or generalized anxiety.
An honest benefit to harm analysis of these and pretty much every other drug or other medical product out there would yield results so damning that the people peddling them would all be put in prison.
Not a surprise. Tried several different antidepressants over the years but they never worked. Just messed with my libido. Exercise much more beneficial.
Manipulation through statistics. Bill Gates protocol has deceived the whole world. In Rev 18:23, God explains why He destroys Mystery Babylon, because they used sorcery (in the original Greek, sorcery means pharmakeia) to deceive ALL (not some, but ALL!) the nations. Now, what did pharmakeia mean then? And what does it mean now? Drugs and pharmacy are involved, but not by themselves. Trying to keep this short so not doing a deep dive here, but suffice it to say, for our generation alive today, here is the brief history. Pharmakeia began in Babylon with Nimrod (~3000BC), carried on to Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon (~600BC), then to Roman Empire (~200BC-300AD), then to China, Iran, and Western Europe thru secretive knowledge and written pharmacopoeia's (drug recipe books), then to the New World and expansion of Western Culture. These recipe books not only provided good intention medicines, but they also contained concoctions that produced hallucinations and allowed divinations (opening portals to the spirit world) which were abominations to God, they also contained recipes for poisoning enemies (ie, political opponents). The knowledge throughout empires was kept, for the most part, secretive to the public, and geared only for the qualified within the empire (Chaldean Mystery Religions in Babylon for instance). Whomever controls the knowledge, controls the peasant class, a trademark of empire structure. Now for our times, pharmakeia remains, but about 1910 it really took off after Rockefeller controlled the Western Oil futures. Chemical engineering jumped off the charts and synthetic engineering began. Through proxy, Rockefeller established control over medical and chemical science in higher education Universities. So from ~1915-1930'ish, Rockefeller medicine (aka Western Medicine) blossomed. In the very late 1700's through about 1880, medicine and apothecary shops were primarily Dr owned, practices grew and chemists were hired to make common drugs for the Dr's practice, kicking off a specialized chemistry and Pharmacy based off pharmakeia became a recognized profession in a sense until the first official Rx School began around 1895 with the Philadelphia school of Pharmacy. After the oil boom and Rockefeller Western Medicine merged, so to did the modern Pharmacy period kicked off. Because pharmakeia of ancient eras dealt mostly with natural plants and natural source materials, often certain areas could not grow specific plants or herbs and they dealt with what was available,which for some areas, really limited treatments. Since most pharmacopoeia's brought to the Western world we're based off what China and Iran/Macedonia offered was a particular favorite, a little plant called the Poppy produced an extract called opium. Perhaps you heard of it. Well, Brittain sure did, and a new trade route was established. This was far more lucrative than tea or coffee, they found they could control people, direct them, with this opium drug. It's impact today is worse now, you may have heard of other derivatives, morphine, oxycodone, Oxycontin for starters. Let's not forget our South America contribution that led an Atlanta based pharmacist who concocted a once benign beverage known as Coca(aine)-Cola (yes, it originally had cocaine in it).
Well.... I'll leave this brief history lesson here for now, it's quite a bit to ponder over since we've only scratched the surface of the 20th century. It gets much worse, calms down for awhile, then the madness takes over that puts us in the pharmaceutical quandary we face today, where we decide we want to take it as individuals, and what God is going to do with it within, my guesstimate, the next 7 years.
No doubt about it! Just another way to make big Pharma more powerful and richer!
I know the Luvox that I take helps. Because I know my body, my symptoms, how was feeling both before and after, how I felt when I skipped taking it for up to 1 month.