Psychiatric Meds 101: A Surprising Discovery

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Psychiatric Meds 101: A Surprising Discovery

By Shane “The People’s Chemist” Ellison

Author, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures

I may be a perfect candidate for psychiatry.

I ask questions with period marks to shorten conversations. I avoid

eye contact with strangers in fear (maybe it’s anxiety) that I might

learn too much about them. I secretly think that Metallica would be

making better music if they went back to bludgeoning themselves with

party drugs and alcohol, instead of “therapy.” I’m trying to master the

Law of Un-attraction to shield myself from a “real job,” small homes

and junky cars. And, I’m constantly giving my children advice, only to

give it to myself.

Psychiatry, can your drugs help me?

Perhaps these questions are what motivated me to pursue a career as

a drug design chemist, winning multiple awards for my work. Nothing

gets me more excited than drugs and how they affect the body (except my

wife’s abs). I’ve studied their molecular anatomy, risked life and limb

to mix and match explosive chemicals in a round bottom flask, and even

sold my soul to Big Pharma in exchange for a lab bench and chemical

hood.

During this time, I’ve made some surprising discoveries about

psychiatric meds, which include antidepressants, antipsychotics,

stimulants, and anti-anxiety drugs. Understanding what I’ve learned

will protect you from the flood of side effects that are now being

discovered at breakneck speeds, courtesy of the myriad of patients

being prescribed psychiatric drugs in the name of mental health.

Your Own Personal Hell

Antidepressants strive to increase the levels of a “coping” molecule

known as serotonin in the brain. It supposedly helps us find happiness

when it’s covered in an avalanche of nastiness. But, it’s never been

proven. Still, the drugs attempt to boost serotonin by “selectively”

stopping the “reuptake” among brain cells. This is where the whole SSRI

acronym came from—“selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.” It’s a

slick name, but a stupid idea. Nothing is selective in the body.

While trying to block the reuptake of serotonin, antidepressants can

also prevent its release and that of another brain compound known as

dopamine. The areas of the brain responsible for release and reuptake

of these neurotransmitters are so damn similar (after all, they work on

the same molecule) that an antidepressant drug isn’t smart enough to

understand which one it is supposed to work on. So it does what any

dumb drug would do, it blocks both. That’s why users usually carry a

glassy stare in their eye. Fully under the psychiatric spell, they’ve

tuned out.

Deep sadness, fear, anger and aggression can set in over time. By

removing serotonin and dopamine from the brain, long-term

antidepressant users can’t find or feel happiness. Instead, they may

become buried in the avalanche of nastiness. And if you can’t find or

feel happiness in life, what’s the point? What’s going to stop you from

snapping your own neck or spraying bullets on your classmates? Not much

when you live in your own personal antidepressant hell.

Think this is all opinion?

According to the FDA, antidepressants can cause suicidal

thoughts and behavior, worsening depression, anxiety, panic attacks,

insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity, aggression, psychotic

episodes and violence. Some even cause homicidal ideation according to

the manufacturers. Many long-term antidepressant users will

tell you they no longer feel normal emotions—they’re numb, like zombies.

But the side effects of these drugs aren’t limited to hijacking your

feelings and emotional state, causing violent and psychotic states.

Physical side effects occur too and include abnormal bleeding, birth

defects, heart attack, seizures and sudden death. Over one

hundred and seventy drug regulatory warnings and studies have been

issued on antidepressants, to sound the alarm on these side effects.

For Elephant Use Only

Psychiatrists prescribe antipsychotic meds such as Zyprexa and

Seroquel, for anything from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, delusional

disorder, psychotic depression, autism or anything else they can think

of, even “pervasive developmental disorder,” which is perfect for

boosting sales because it targets children who suffer from

irritability, aggression, and agitation. It’s a shame ‘cause these

drugs are good for nothing but sedating irate elephants, not curing

psychiatric disease.

According to a study published in Psychological Medicine, antipsychotic

drugs cause brains to shrink – they lessen brain matter and

volume. Originally designed for those deemed “schizophrenic,” the drug

companies came up with a brilliant marketing campaign to sell these

drugs to a much wider market—unsatisfied antidepressant users. You’ve

probably seen the ads—if your “depression medication” isn’t working,

then don’t blame the drug; you may just have bipolar disorder!

Once swallowed, antipsychotics sail through the blood stream where

they’re carried to the brain. Like a giant oil spill, antipsychotics

cover the brain in a medicinal slick, where brain wave transmission is

blocked. Users become devoid of normal brain activity. Motivation,

drive and feelings of reward are shunted. If psychiatry considers this

a “treatment,” they’re the crazy ones.

If you’ve ever seen someone who has suffered from the “spill”

courtesy of following doctors orders, you can’t mistake one of the most

common side effects, it’s called Akathisia.

Involuntary movements, tics, jerks in the face and the entire body can

become permanent side effects for antipsychotic users.

Antipsychotics also cause obesity, diabetes, stroke, cardiac

events, respiratory problems, delusional thinking and psychosis. Drug

regulators from the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia,

New Zealand and South Africa warn that they can also lead to death.

I wouldn’t be surprised if psychiatrists considered this a cure…

Use This to Jump The Grand Canyon

If you’re going to attempt to jump your scooter over the Grand

Canyon, or ride your snowboard off Kilimanjaro, stimulants are great.

They flood the brain with dopamine and trigger an inhuman surge of

adrenaline, responsible for making you believe life is grand, despite

eminent death. Outside of that, you’re either a speed freak, a college

student trying to learn an entire semester of Biology 101 in 4 hours,

or a fifth grader “following doctor’s orders.”

Top stimulants being prescribed today are nothing more than a mix of

amphetamines packaged into trade names like Adderall, Dexedrine and

Ritalin. Street thugs sell it as meth, poor man’s cocaine, crystal,

ice, glass and speed. It’s no wonder kids are now abusing Ritalin,

Adderall and these drugs more than street drugs, they’re cheaper to get

and they’re “legal,” hence the term kiddie cocaine.

Even the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) categorizes

Ritalin in the Schedule ll category, meaning a high potential for

abuse—just like cocaine and morphine. All of them have the same effects

regardless of how they’re named: Central nervous system overload

leading to heart attack and/or heart failure. And kids are dropping

faster than Meth Heads at Raves…

I’m not exaggerating.

Eleven international drug regulatory agencies and our own

FDA has issued warnings that stimulants like Ritalin cause addiction,

depression, insomnia, drug dependence, mania, psychosis, heart

problems, stroke and sudden death.

Bash Your Head in with Anti-Anxiety Drugs

If you’re not man enough for a drug that could sedate an elephant

like antipsychotics, then psychiatrists will prescribe anti-anxiety

meds, particularly benzodiazepines. Choosing between the two is akin to

deciding whether or not you should be hit in the head with an aluminum

bat or a wooden one; anti-anxiety meds being the latter.

Discovered in the stinky chemistry labs of Hoffman La Roche in 1955,

anti-anxiety meds aim to trigger sleep receptors in the brain, just

slightly. So, rather than being riddled with anxiety, you are put to

sleep, halfway. It’s “treatment,” and psychiatrists have been

“practicing it for decades.” But, it has yet to work, because drugging

your problems away is more dangerous than anxiety. The use of

anti-anxiety meds is coupled with a host of nasty side effects such as

seizures, aggression and violence once the drug wears off. Hallucinations,

delusional thinking, confusion, abnormal behavior, hostility,

agitation, irritability, depression and suicidal thinking are all

possible outcomes according to Big Pharma’s heavily guarded research

papers.

Getting off the drugs could be harder than abandoning a heroin

addiction. Some have described withdrawal from “benzos” being akin to

pulling hundreds of fish hooks out of their skin, without anesthesia.

If you doubt their addictive nature, go to Google search and type in a

few of the leading anti-anxiety drugs like Klonopin or Xanax and here

is what you’ll find:

“Klonopin withdrawal” 1,860,000 results

“Xanax withdrawal” 1,980,000 results

Exposing Psychiatry: How to Get The Truth

In total, the side effects of psychiatric meds spread far and wide.

And most are hidden from patients and doctors alike. Fortunately, Citizens Commission on

Human Rights has solved this problem with a state-of-the-art

database that allows people to search through the adverse reaction

reports sent to the FDA on psychiatric drugs. It also provides

international drug regulatory agency warnings and studies published on

the side effects of the drugs.

So, can psychiatry help me? No. And that’s surprising because

psychiatric meds are some of the biggest selling drugs, poised to seal

the hopes and dreams of millions. Regardless of what mental state I

might be in (or anyone else for that matter), there is not a single

drug that cures, treats or solves the perceived problems of mental

health.

While people can suffer miserably from emotional or mental duress

that can hinder their lifestyle, the pseudo-science of psychiatry has

yet to solve any of these problems, and in fact only contributes to

poor health as seen by the wide array of side effects. Marketing

campaigns and ghostwritten medical journals are designed to obscure

these facts. But the psychiatric drug side

effect database courtesy of CCHR ensures that all patients have

access to the truth, to the documented facts, which could save their

life or that of a loved one.

About the Author

Shane Ellison holds a masters degree in organic chemistry and is the

author of Over-The-Counter Natural Cures. An award winning

chemist, he has been quoted by USA Today, Shape, Woman’s World,

as well as Women’s Health and appeared on Fox and NBC

as a natural medicine advocate. Sample his book free at www.thepeopleschemist.com