Hi Lydia
I can't tell you how many people we hear from who have experienced challenges and tragedies so severe in their lives that they have been depressed to the point that they could see no way out beyond thoughts of suicide or taking so called anti-depressants.
The saddest thing is that the insurance companies would rather take the cheaper way out and pay for drugs than to get people into individual/family therapy and/or career counseling or both.
The FIRST bottom line is that there is so much profit and it's so much easier to push pills instead of taking time to work with the real issues people are dealing with that overworked and overregulated doctors *almost* have no choice but to do the fast and easy thing... write a script.
The SECOND bottom line is that the addictive nature of these happy pills makes it nearly impossible for a large percentage of people to get off them once they've been taking them for just a short time.
The THIRD bottom line is the side effects not the least of which inability to sleep (up to 1/3 of people), nausea (up to 1/3), total lack of energy (up to 1/5) and impotence. But of course all you have to do is take another drug for those things, right... each of which has it's own host of "side" effects.
The truth is there has never even been a test that measures a chemical imbalance in a person's brain or any other part of the body. Get it? There is no test. It's all voodoo. To me, that's like saying when you feel good after three or four drinks, you must have an alcohol imbalance. So drink up!
I can't tell you how many people we hear from who have experienced challenges and tragedies so severe in their lives that they have been depressed to the point that they could see no way out beyond thoughts of suicide or taking so called anti-depressants.
The saddest thing is that the insurance companies would rather take the cheaper way out and pay for drugs than to get people into individual/family therapy and/or career counseling or both.
The FIRST bottom line is that there is so much profit and it's so much easier to push pills instead of taking time to work with the real issues people are dealing with that overworked and overregulated doctors *almost* have no choice but to do the fast and easy thing... write a script.
The SECOND bottom line is that the addictive nature of these happy pills makes it nearly impossible for a large percentage of people to get off them once they've been taking them for just a short time.
The THIRD bottom line is the side effects not the least of which inability to sleep (up to 1/3 of people), nausea (up to 1/3), total lack of energy (up to 1/5) and impotence. But of course all you have to do is take another drug for those things, right... each of which has it's own host of "side" effects.
The truth is there has never even been a test that measures a chemical imbalance in a person's brain or any other part of the body. Get it? There is no test. It's all voodoo. To me, that's like saying when you feel good after three or four drinks, you must have an alcohol imbalance. So drink up!
One thing pills cannot and never will do is to make you change your core assumptions about yourself and about your life. They alter your chemistry. That is all. They cannot make you think differently about the things that happened to you.
I guarantee you that if I make you focus on what is wrong in your life...
If I get you to pay attention to the wrongs being done to you now and in the past...
If I get you thinking about how you've squandered your potential and all the great opportunities you've missed out on, I don't care what pill you are on...
You will still get depressed.
The way to a joy-filled, accomplished and fulfilled life is to:
- live a life on purpose
- do work you love to do (no matter how much or little you earn)
- be grateful for everything you have
- be a good friend to everyone and
- to not be so obsessed about what you don't have and what other people do have
Do the opposite and feel opposite and you will be frustrated, depressed and angry.
No matter what pill you are popping.
Amazing how the drug makers say that "you may have a chemical imbalance" even though they can't prove it one iota.
And it's funny how depression usually follows tragic events, either recently or in the past.
It is normal to feel down when things are not going well.
It does not mean you have suddenly become chemically altered and need chemicals dumped into you. Think about how wacky that sounds.
What it does show is that you are human and that you need to change what you pay attention to and what you think about what has happened to you or around you.
Help you cope, manage, see the light at the end of the tunnel and then to rise up above your challenges and even grab the brass ring of life.
Mike Brescia
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