Thanks for this summary. It is becoming more and more difficult to find people who are not loaded on psychiatric drugs, too, in addition to various other substances. I now encounter stories of a lot of children, like age 9, who are placed on SSRIs and anxiety medications, which simply floors me. The medications cannot be removed from municipal water supplies once excreted, to my knowledge. Seriously, God help us all at this rate.
I personally put psychiatrists at the top of my “Doctors With No Integrity” List. I wonder how many lives have been ruined by psychiatry and their witch doctors.
Thanks for this review of Dr. Breggin’s book. He is one of the good guys.
A few words about Lithium. I came across Lithium when researching Parkinson’s disease.
Lithium is a dirty word now… from batteries to toxic mining to the prescription drug Lithium Carbonate. Lithium is one of those things we are warned to stay away from.
Lithium is a trace mineral absolutely necessary to the brain and our overall health. In areas where lithium occurs naturally in the soil, there is little or no violence, crime, homicide or suicide. Lithium is neuroprotective and actually increases gray matter. It is anti-aging. It is protective against toxic exposures. It is helpful against “Long Covid.”
Vitamins B9 and B12 do not work well without lithium.
It also helps significantly in neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. It helps ADHD, Lyme, headaches, glaucoma, fibromyalgia, and much more.
Dr. Michael Nehls has several articles on Substack about Lithium (as well as other very excellent articles.)
We are still in the dark ages when it comes to understanding and healing emotional and mental symptoms. I have family members who were thin, put on psychotropic medicines and within months became obese, not a coincidence. Psychiatric problems are a symptom of modern living, traumatic events, poor parenting where children are deprived of a sense of safety and emotional nourishment. There is no substitute for good parenting or living in harmony with nature. We are part of nature and have become increasingly isolated from our natural habitat. Peter Breggin couldn't be more correct in his application of an empathic perspective to healing.
I’m 58. A laundry list of autoimmune issues. Started after a bad booster and Lyme . On disability, the dr gaslit me for over a decade, and pushed antidepressants. I was on an anxiety medication and when I visited family for the holidays, the dr in Florida told me I had better wean off. He helped me more in one visit than years of appointments in upstate New York. Another time, I had scabies for months. Everyone would look at me from across the room and say It’s a psoriasis flare up. It was humiliating and painful.
When I met my integrative medicine doctor 8 years ago, he didn’t know how I was still standing. My thyroid was the lowest he’d ever seen. And a bunch of other issues. I’m truly thankful to be alive.
I've said for years the only way to get through grief and depression is to Go Through It! You can't bury or cover it up or fix it with drugs, ever. I lost a baby years ago due to placental abruption and was inconsolable so the doc gave me some valium to 'help me'. Well it worked and I was happy, smiling, and laughing until I realized I HAD A REASON TO BE DEPRESSED AND GRIEVING...and I tossed those pills in the garbage and just let myself feel my loss. I did the same when my best friend passed, when my mother died, when my husband died. It is normal to hurt and grieve deeply with loss, and for that pain to resurface at times throughout the rest of our lives. Grief and its depression is NOT linear, it ebbs and flows through life, and it shapes how we handle nearly everything in our lives.
I have some experience in this realm, being on and others I know being on, psycho drugs. Let's call them what they are. I once shutdown completely after a devastating blow. Catatonia set in, zero emotion, a stoic Indian chief I had become. A year off my life just disappeared.
I finally awoke. Threw all drugs in the trash one day, never weaned off, just dumpt them all.
Enter my neighbor, a complete psycho, been on psycho drugs since being a teenager. For my part I started reading to learn. She read dirty books, sick fiction books. And thought herself a genius. She got worse and worse right before my eyes and made it her mission in life to destroy me. And my family.
So there ya go. What more proof is needed. Been on this site for a bit. Do I seem crazy to y'all? I went cold turkey and survived quite well. My demented neighbor, on psycho drugs forever, who lost all kidney function and needed a transplant, is still as crazy as she's ever been, Not being able to draw me into her sick, pornographic lifestyle, she finally moved away. And peace prevailed.
The psychospiritual trauma is CAUSED BY PSYCHIATRY ITSELF! How to convert resilient, joyful creative people into NOTHING. It's all a demonic fraud, THE WHOLE THING.
If anyone is looking for an excellent psych I cannot recommend Roger McFillin enough. He is next-level good and his writing is excellent. People in the US who live near him are very, very lucky to have this guy: https://drmcfillin.substack.com/
Thanks for this summary. It is becoming more and more difficult to find people who are not loaded on psychiatric drugs, too, in addition to various other substances. I now encounter stories of a lot of children, like age 9, who are placed on SSRIs and anxiety medications, which simply floors me. The medications cannot be removed from municipal water supplies once excreted, to my knowledge. Seriously, God help us all at this rate.
I personally put psychiatrists at the top of my “Doctors With No Integrity” List. I wonder how many lives have been ruined by psychiatry and their witch doctors.
Thanks for this review of Dr. Breggin’s book. He is one of the good guys.
A few words about Lithium. I came across Lithium when researching Parkinson’s disease.
Lithium is a dirty word now… from batteries to toxic mining to the prescription drug Lithium Carbonate. Lithium is one of those things we are warned to stay away from.
Lithium is a trace mineral absolutely necessary to the brain and our overall health. In areas where lithium occurs naturally in the soil, there is little or no violence, crime, homicide or suicide. Lithium is neuroprotective and actually increases gray matter. It is anti-aging. It is protective against toxic exposures. It is helpful against “Long Covid.”
Vitamins B9 and B12 do not work well without lithium.
It also helps significantly in neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. It helps ADHD, Lyme, headaches, glaucoma, fibromyalgia, and much more.
Dr. Michael Nehls has several articles on Substack about Lithium (as well as other very excellent articles.)
https://michaelnehls.substack.com/p/lithium-the-essential-trace-element
https://substack.com/home/post/p-149962365
Others:
Dr. Andrew Huberman YT discusses Low Dose Lithium.
Dr. Thomas Guttuso YouTube and his book “The Promise of Lithium”
Dr. James M. Greenblatt “Nutritional Lithium - A Cinderella Story. The Untold Tale of a Mineral That Transforms Lives and Heals the Brain”
I like my brain. I’m trying to keep it.
Great comment, thanks Judy. What made you research Parkinson's?
We are still in the dark ages when it comes to understanding and healing emotional and mental symptoms. I have family members who were thin, put on psychotropic medicines and within months became obese, not a coincidence. Psychiatric problems are a symptom of modern living, traumatic events, poor parenting where children are deprived of a sense of safety and emotional nourishment. There is no substitute for good parenting or living in harmony with nature. We are part of nature and have become increasingly isolated from our natural habitat. Peter Breggin couldn't be more correct in his application of an empathic perspective to healing.
I’m 58. A laundry list of autoimmune issues. Started after a bad booster and Lyme . On disability, the dr gaslit me for over a decade, and pushed antidepressants. I was on an anxiety medication and when I visited family for the holidays, the dr in Florida told me I had better wean off. He helped me more in one visit than years of appointments in upstate New York. Another time, I had scabies for months. Everyone would look at me from across the room and say It’s a psoriasis flare up. It was humiliating and painful.
When I met my integrative medicine doctor 8 years ago, he didn’t know how I was still standing. My thyroid was the lowest he’d ever seen. And a bunch of other issues. I’m truly thankful to be alive.
Big Pharma butts in where they don’t belong purely to make money with no regard for the harms caused.
I've said for years the only way to get through grief and depression is to Go Through It! You can't bury or cover it up or fix it with drugs, ever. I lost a baby years ago due to placental abruption and was inconsolable so the doc gave me some valium to 'help me'. Well it worked and I was happy, smiling, and laughing until I realized I HAD A REASON TO BE DEPRESSED AND GRIEVING...and I tossed those pills in the garbage and just let myself feel my loss. I did the same when my best friend passed, when my mother died, when my husband died. It is normal to hurt and grieve deeply with loss, and for that pain to resurface at times throughout the rest of our lives. Grief and its depression is NOT linear, it ebbs and flows through life, and it shapes how we handle nearly everything in our lives.
I have some experience in this realm, being on and others I know being on, psycho drugs. Let's call them what they are. I once shutdown completely after a devastating blow. Catatonia set in, zero emotion, a stoic Indian chief I had become. A year off my life just disappeared.
I finally awoke. Threw all drugs in the trash one day, never weaned off, just dumpt them all.
Enter my neighbor, a complete psycho, been on psycho drugs since being a teenager. For my part I started reading to learn. She read dirty books, sick fiction books. And thought herself a genius. She got worse and worse right before my eyes and made it her mission in life to destroy me. And my family.
So there ya go. What more proof is needed. Been on this site for a bit. Do I seem crazy to y'all? I went cold turkey and survived quite well. My demented neighbor, on psycho drugs forever, who lost all kidney function and needed a transplant, is still as crazy as she's ever been, Not being able to draw me into her sick, pornographic lifestyle, she finally moved away. And peace prevailed.
No, you don't seem crazy.
Glad that neighbour is out of your life.
Takes a while to recover for sure.
Best wishes to you.
Cairn
Thank you.
The psychospiritual trauma is CAUSED BY PSYCHIATRY ITSELF! How to convert resilient, joyful creative people into NOTHING. It's all a demonic fraud, THE WHOLE THING.
I'm OK. I can't afford a psychiatrist:).
I have found that not being able to afford doctors has saved my family from much harm.
This is a candidate for quote of the year.
If anyone is looking for an excellent psych I cannot recommend Roger McFillin enough. He is next-level good and his writing is excellent. People in the US who live near him are very, very lucky to have this guy: https://drmcfillin.substack.com/