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American Psycho - Has The United States Lost Its Collective Mind?
Authored by Roberts Bridges, originaslly posted Op-Ed at RT.com,
Before attempting to shed some light on America’s mental condition, let’s open with a pop quiz question: What is the top-selling prescription drug in the US? Nope, it’s not Viagra, not Prozac, forget the Percocet. If you don't know, take a peek in the medicine cabinet because there’s a high chance it’s lurking in there, right behind that purple people eater. Yes, you got it. The top-selling drug in the Land of the Free and Disturbed is an antipsychotic, happily named Abilify.
Once again: The top-selling drug in America is an antipsychotic. Now some might say that’s mental.
“To be a top seller, a drug has to be expensive and also widely used,” Steven Reidbord M.D. wrote in Psychology Today. “Abilify is both. It’s the 14th most prescribed brand-name medication, and it retails for about $30 a pill. Annual sales are over $7 billion, nearly a billion more than the next runner-up.”
Let those numbers seep into your brain for a moment: $7.2 billion dollars. $30 per pill. Although that might make for some laugh-out-loud late-night comedy, these numbers are no laughing matter.
This on top of the latest statistic that shows prescription drug spending in the US exploded in 2014 to nearly $374 billion, a whopping 13.1 percent increase in growth, according to a new report from IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Aside from the fact that Americans are buying antipsychotic medication by the truckload, there’s another disturbing thing about Abilify: Nobody, not even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has any idea what makes it effective. According to the USPI label that accompanies each bottle: “The mechanism of action of aripiprazole... is unknown. However, the efficacy of aripiprazole could be mediated through a combination of partial agonist activity at D2 and 5-HT1A receptors and… etc, etc.”
In other words, millions of Americans are ingesting an antipsychotic drug that not even the scientific community can say exactly what makes it work. Is that not in itself the very definition of insanity?
So where is the uproar, the protest, the media hype over this battle for the great American brain? Behind the wall of silence, there have been a few courageous experts who have broken rank with their colleagues - not to mention the omnipotent pharmaceutical industry - to blow the whistle on the abuse of psychiatric drugs in America.
Professional backlash
Joanna Moncrieff, an academic and practicing psychiatrist, is a long-standing critic of psychiatric drug treatment. Her 2009 book, The Myth of the Chemical Cure, was short-listed for the 'Mind Book of the Year.' In it, Moncrieff “exposes the traditional view that psychiatric drugs correct chemical imbalances as a dangerous fraud.”
According to Moncrieff’s landmark study, psychiatric drugs 'work' by “creating abnormal brain states, which are often unpleasant and impair normal intellectual and emotional functions along with other harmful consequences.”
As Jay Michaelson noted in The Daily Beast, administering such a powerful drug like Abilify “makes sense for their primary use: anti-psychotics like aripiprazole are administered to seriously ill people like schizophrenics. Abilify is a close cousin of Thorazine. Yet, now it’s the most profitable drug in America.”
Indeed, the health risks associated with taking an antipsychotic drug like Abilify can make the cure look worse than the mental disease itself. In fact, the list of possible side-effects associated with America’s top-selling prescription drug makes for some uncomfortable reading.
Here is a description of one of the 13 serious side-effects connected to this “blockbuster” drug: “Uncontrollable movements of face, tongue, or other parts of body, as these may be signs of a serious condition called tardive dyskinesia (TD). TD may not go away, even if you stop taking ABILIFY. TD may also start after you stop taking ABILIFY.”
And here’s another potential for a Dr. Jekyll-type transformation into Mr. Hyde: “High fever, stiff muscles, confusion, sweating, changes in pulse, heart rate and blood pressure may be signs of a condition called neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), a rare and serious condition that can lead to death.”
And they charge $30 dollars per pill for this? 'Yes, the disease has been cured, Mrs. Smith, but too bad Mr. Smith is no longer with us!'
I was cynically waiting for Psychology Today to come out cheerleading for this exorbitant and potentially deadly antipsychotic drug, but instead Dr. Reidbord came down surprisingly hard not just on the drug, but on our national quest to find calm in a sea of prescription pills, as well as those relentless commercial forces that drive this warped behavior.
“What does it mean to live in the Age of Abilify,” Reidbord asked. “First, that we’re still looking for happiness and peace in a bottle of pills, costs and risks be damned. Second, that there’s nearly no end to the money the U.S. health care system will spend on problems that can be addressed more economically. And third, it’s a stark reminder that commercial interests seek to expand sales and profits whenever possible.”
Big Pharma makes a killing—literally: http://t.co/qVCSnQrqit #prescriptiondrugs #bigpharma #healthcare pic.twitter.com/UybZkRKZmZ
— Reid Jenner (@TrueDiagnosis) October 3, 2015
Ever since the introduction in the 1950s of the world’s first antipsychotic drug, Thorazine, and later with the antidepressant, Prozac, as well as hundreds of other generic knockoffs, the drug industry has been busy supplying the overstressed American consumer with the ‘magic bullet’ to cure whatever ails them.
Chemical-laced consumerism
The US pharmaceutical industry enjoys a rare privilege, not to mention advantage over the average, angst-riddled American consumer: With the exception of New Zealand, it is the only country that allows prescription medication ads to be aired on television 24/7.
Julie Ross of Forcechange.com organized a petition drive to ban prescription drug commercials, and her reason makes clear-headed sense: “Drug companies spend $4 billion a year advertising... In addition to making pill popping seem like a normal necessity, prescription drug ads usually feature newer medications that have not had long term studies performed on them.
"All too often, a drug is recalled years after it is introduced because it’s caused side effects ranging from hair loss to death.”
According to the Centers for Disease Controls, every day in America, 44 people die from overdose of prescription painkillers. The CDC blames the overdose surge on a “dramatic increase in the acceptance and use of prescription opioids for the treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain, such as back pain or osteoarthritis (The most common drugs involved in prescription overdose deaths include: Hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin), Oxycodone (e.g., OxyContin), Oxymorphone (e.g., Opana) and Methadone (especially when prescribed for pain).
In 2013, nearly two million Americans abused prescription painkillers. Each day, almost 7,000 people are treated in emergency rooms for abusing the medication. Has the unbearable weight of the capitalist, dog-eat-dog system gone to America's head, or is something else at play?
*Viewer discretion advised: Video contains mild profanity.
People who take painkillers can become addicted with just one prescription, according to the CDC website. And once addicted, start packing your bags for the nearest detox center because getting unhooked can takes months, maybe years, maybe never.
Although many prescription medications have worked miracles for millions of people, the “conundrum,” as Robert Whitaker, the author of “Anatomy of an Epidemic,” calls it, is that mental illness in American society is not showing any sign of going away. In fact, it is “skyrocketing.”
“We should expect that the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States, on a per-capita basis, would have declined over the past fifty years… Instead, as the psychopharmacology revolution has unfolded, the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States has skyrocketed.”
Most disturbing for Whitaker is that this “modern-day plague” of mental illness has “now spread to the nation’s children.”
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— Leila Andreu (@LeilaMovil) October 1, 2015
Despite a nationwide call for doctors to stop prescribing antipsychotic drugs for everything from schizophrenia to simple insomnia to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD] in children, Americans just continue with their doctor-supported drug binge.
At some point, one soberminded individual may be tempted to ask: Is turning the American populace – courtesy of the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry - into walking, talking chemical zombies, the very thing that the Pentagon is now preparing to battle?
This is no joke or conspiracy theory: As CNN reported, the US Defense Department has devised a coordinated plan “should a zombie apocalypse befall the country.”
“In an unclassified document titled “CONOP 8888,” officials from U.S. Strategic Command used the specter of a planet-wide attack by the walking dead as a training template for how to plan for real-life, large-scale operations, emergencies and catastrophes.”
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Maybe Carlin had it slightly wrong. You don't need to be asleep to believe in the American Dream. You need to be medicated.
The reason is that it is very hard to continue to be ass raped while remaining asleep. The medication is there to erase the memory and the pain, or so Bill Cosby once told me.
Yuri Brezmenov said that the main objective of the commie plan was to demoralize us. They have certainly succeeded in that. Could it be that psychoses easily flourish in an environment devoid of morality?
For me, that would be determined by who is setting the definition of psychosis and morality.
The devil wins by moving those goalposts back gradually, piecemeal, Overton Window style.
not only are the mechanisms of the anti-psychotics unknown but also those of the anti-depressants. still and all many seriously ill people are helped. the high price is mostly in the u.s. as other countries are not as owned by big pharma. that and big pharma doesn't want any cures. they want customers for life.
for at least a century no one knew exactly how small pox vaccine (cow pox) worked yet it was still worth using to keep millions from dying.
that said i will offer an anti-commercial: beware cymbalta. if you or someone you like is offered it, please read about it, its side effects and much, much worse, its withdrawal effects.
Anybody else wonder how many of these pill poppers are prudes who look down at alcohol?
Often the medications restrict any alcohol consumption, which handily pushes that competitor out of the way.
Just give the kids pot, this way the government can collect the taxes and keep it from the pharmaceutical industry, Oh wait, that what is happening now. Ok move along.
Paroxatine or Paxil is another vile antidepressant. Don't ever give this to teenagers there is a strong connection with youth suicide. The manufacturer Glaxo was fined 3 billion dollars for its promotion of this drug and a couple of others for promoting it for purposes other than it should be used.
I here there are lots of people who believe in "the economy", even though no one knows how that works either (of course there is no shortage of quacks who claim to know). Why wouldn't we believe in chemicals that have a demonstrated effect?
Nasty stuff, I will never voluntarily take antidepressants.
Lets see if this link works:
http://jimstonefreelance.com/testimony1.html
A couple of people that I know have taken antidepressants and they have no emotional responses to anything, they are like, well, zombies.
You don't suppose, nah.
"Has the unbearable weight of the capitalist, dog-eat-dog system gone to America's head, or is something else at play"
LOL a hundred years ago, when we actually had capitalism, we didn't have this extensive variety of psychotropic pharmacopeia. So the question must remain unanswered.
But, every single Democratic voter I know is quite mentally ill. Most are on meds of some sort.
The following is about ONE THIRD of the medication warnings for Abilify (plus my commentary). Are you absolutely sure you want to put this in your body? I mean why not just do a big 'ol boot of heroin instead? Couldn't be much worse.
Dizziness, lightheadedness, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, tiredness, excesssaliva/drooling, blurred vision, weight gain, constipation, headache, and trouble sleeping may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly. [And they'll tell you to just put up with the blood streaming out your ass, because if they take you off it and you go on a shooting spree at the local movie theatre, they'll be sued into oblivion. - NoDebt]
To reduce the risk of dizziness and lightheadedness, get up slowly when rising from a sitting or lying position. [How slowly? Like glacier-slow or like "I'm gonna be a little late for work" slow? -NoDebt]
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects. [Your doctor is part of the system. He does what he's told or he gets his ticket pulled. Just sayin'. -NoDebt]
Tell your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including: fainting, mental/mood changes (such as increased anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts), trouble swallowing, restlessness (especially in the legs), shaking (tremor), muscle spasm, mask-like expression of the face, seizures, signs of infection (such as fever, persistent sore throat). [What the fuck is a mask-like expression? I fake the shit out of my own emotional state every fucking day. How could I tell the difference? -NoDebt]
Link for the full poop:
http://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-64439/abilify-oral/details#side-effect...
(Please tell your doctor if you can't poop or can't stop pooping while using AbilifyTM)
How, in God's name, has civilization survived prior to this medical revolution?
This time in unique Ignatius,
The population curve has gone vertical and the urbanization process is accelerating full tilt. Humanity is entering a "Behavioral Sink" and what we are witnessing is just the very beginning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
;-D
OBTW: NoDebt, as a result of spine surgery in my mid 40s, I have taken up yoga. Hands down, it is the single most important decision I have made in the last quarter century. Physically I am good to go, and I cannot even begin to describe the benefits as far a coping with the issues of the 21st century...
>>>>[What the fuck is a mask-like expression?
Common w/Parkinson's.
IOW-expressionless.
Also common with Ebola. It pretty much means you are not all there...
;-D
And the kicker? Abilify is meant to *supplement* the use of antidepressants that the user is ALREADY TAKING:
https://www.abilify.com/abilify-for-depression.aspx
SO if you can't find that edge just taking Zoloft alone, well by God, Abilify is there to give you that little, extra shove!
(voice of Phil Hartman): Warning, taking Abilify(TM) as directed may or may not help with your depression. Possible side effects include, but are not limited to, the following: Whiskey Dick, Tennis Elbow, Catastrophic Flatulence, Dead Neighbor Syndrome, Acute Ennui, School Shootups, Loss of friends, Obesity, Anorexia, Loss of family, Black Helicopter Visits, Pizza Face,...
(Jump in, folks!)
, Hyper Promiscuity, Any number of STDs, Unemployment, Delusions of grandeur, Head Lice, Mystery Tattoos,...
If you experience self-cannibalism, call a doctor immediately. They taste better.
, Hair loss, Hair gain, Yeast Infection, Crotch Rot, Head Voices, Gangrene, Black Plague, White Plague, Multi-cultural Fatigue, Irritable Bung Syndrome, Angry Heart, Brain Revolt, Societal Revulsion,...
,Unwanted Pregnancy, Incarceration, Prison Wife, Prison Husband, New Strange Family, Hallucinations, Dengue Fever, Social Awkwardness, Gender Confusion,...
Kennel cough, hip dysplasia, heart worms, ear mites....
Social (Pragmatic) communication disorder, Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, Hoarding disorder, Caffeine withdrawal, Cannabis withdrawal, Excoriation (Skin-picking) disorder, Binge eating disorder, Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, Restless legs syndrome, Major neurocognitive disorder with Lewy body disease and mild neurocognitive disorder, Disinhibited social engagement disorder. Central sleep apnea and Sleep-related hypoventilation...
Standard Disclaimer: If you suffer from any of the above, try the all new reformulated mint-flavored Ubik. Guaranteed to put the pep back in your step. Contact your doctor if your pep lasts longer than 4 hours.
,Goiter, Gout, Cross Eye, Hot Flashes, Teenage Alzheimers, Bankruptcy,...
okee dokee...
whiskey dick - cure - 20mg X 2 Cialis tabs (oak hard woodie)
tennis elbow - cure - don't fuckin play tennis!
catastrophic Flatulence - pump up your priobotics with a pint of Greek yogurt and a shot(or more) of White Label George Dickel in the morn.
Dead neighbor syndrome - i don't know if they're dead but the stench finally faded away a coupla months ago.
Acute Ennui - who cares anyway?
School shootups - arm every kid that walks through the door in the morning.
Loss of Friends - can't lose what ya never had!
Obesity - Obese sheeple are the Majority in America, we rule.
Anorexia - the bright side, you save money on food
Loss of Family - they all said they'd be right back, 3 years ago...............
Black helicopter visits - my psychiatrist told me not to comment on that subject.
Pizza Face - ............what ever happened to burnin a big doobie and chuggin a 12 pack down, talkin bout all the pussy you were never gonna get, hangin pork, havin some fucking fun?............we are a drug controlled species, and the ONLY one who can save you on this earth is you.
Lots of big wins for the Frankfurt School lately.
Yes and no. I think there are multiple factions battling for ultimate control. Basically, fascist vs marxist vs mafia like elements with plenty of wannabe groups, mercenary types, and those who just follow orders, sir. Call them all cake and let them eat.
http://realitieswatch.com/10-creepy-illuminati-card-game-predicting-the-...
Even more widespread is the overconsumption of grains develeoped barely 40 years ago, with the attendant blood sugar spikes and dependence on "exorphins", narcotic like peptides that result from reactions between proteins in modern whest and our digestive juices.
I prey you are not refering to beer intake.
thanks for the pun.
Grains are good for ruminants, birds, and yeast..the kinds of yeast that make ethanol for DRINKING (not car engines you corn belt corruptocrats)
Yes, it's called 'grain brain'. Linked to what some call Type III Diabetes.
I believe a lot of dementia is caused by grain brain.
I understand oatmeal is rapidly closing the gap in terms of the number of cases diagnosed.
i figure if it is not labeled "organic" or "non-gmo" it most likely is a gmo food product ... i am very grateful i have a source of quality organic food near me... at discount prices ...
i used to sell organic breads @ Farmers Markets in California .... i was always stunned to hear how many parents were allowing the childs tastes to stay away from the organic breads for other breads that added sugar and gmo grains (although that realization was not very well understood then, the ancient days of the first Matrix & 2nd Matrix movies .... introducing needed concepts & visualizations to accompany them into our collective imaginations ...
there is an whole entire other world of appreciating the World, and there are viable paths toward a much more peaceful habitat for life on earth.
Love for all you ZHZeroHeads out there, we make the World Go Round, .... or, for the flip side., what levels our playing fields to infinity, or at least the antArctic :)_ that mysterious land that our Great Unsung Hero of what we remember to be the U.S.A., Colonel Byrd the Explorer Extraordinaire !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWHqooAJtM - AntARctic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWHqooAJtM - continues
Dwarf Wheat can be organically grown, and is not GMO, and yet it did not exist until agressive breeding methods used by Norman Borlaug and company handed it to farmers just a.few.decades ago.
Glutin pusher, right there.
The late great George Carlin...free thinker extraordinaire.
downvoters are probably ZeroNewbies
I love Carlin's stuff, I even saw him live in Vegas in 1992 at Ballys. He definitely saw the world as it is. One criticism for him though, he was a bit defeatist. So was Bukowski and I loved his stuff too. Bukowski's grave stone says simply "Don't Try".
Stll crazy after all these years...
Yes.
US progressed Sun is in Pisces now, drunk, drug, crazy, delusional.
And Neptune will conjunct and Saturn square that Sun in Pisces during all of 2016.
All chips are put on the table, bankruptcy, liquidation, deception, illusion, disillusion, despair, disconnect,
floods, tsunami, sink holes,bridges, marathon dancing, cults, earthquakes, river of tears,, all is lost.
Spiritual awakening, clear vision, torn veil, quest for redemption, devotion, paradise, coiling serpent, monster of the sea, hall of mirrors, liebestod
- marathon dancing ! Yes Chris Dakota, I like that one! :)
I'm the DJ
SO, THIS IS WHY WE NEED GUN CONTROL.
Because shot placemen t is critical to stopping a deranged psychotic drug user when the time comes.
Great plan medicate until there are mass shootings and suicides, then step0 up doages and add abilify. The you have real zombies then all you need is a sober UN forse to straighten things out. Soros is a smart guy.
Great plan medicate until there are mass shootings and suicides, then step0 up doages and add abilify. The you have real zombies then all you need is a sober UN forse to straighten things out. Soros is a smart guy.
Ill stick to the 'ol sticky icky. fucking psychos....on a more serious note, this cant end well.
Since we live in Newspeak Bizzaro Opposite Land, I'll just assume that anti-psychotics are really pro-psychotics and be done with it.
right - Big Pharma must be losing street cred, as with more and more looking like their products are to be involved with many of the spate of "shooting" events to occur in our post 9/11 united states ...because Sarah Silverman and Lady Gaga both made big front page news this week to the corporate tabloid mainstream market to admit to having big depression issues and how they have had success with therapy and big pharma drug "medications" ... for the impressionable, it's probably a major kick in the but to look up a big Pharma doctor and get some "medications" because, hey, Lady Gaga & funny-woman par Excellence, Sarah Silverman both suffered from that condition but to see relief within the Establishment drug distribution system, aka Big Pharma
When you try to go off of them they are definitely pro-psychotics.
If "they" really wanted a compliant and complacent populace, why don't they spend time and money making actual happy pills? Most people these days would pop them and go about their business. But anything like that is banned, whether pharma with its soft ban on benzos or the illegal narcotics that people enjoy.
Instead we have these weird drugs that make people jittery and unstable. Wonder why that is.
They want tax donkeys, not vegetables. Prozac and Xanax gets them off the couch and into the work force where they can lift bales and tote barges, with smiles on their faces.
Drive a little drunk and you land in jail.
They do, it's called Wellibutrin
It's a dopamine drip which is like a low level constant molly trance
Frightening...
Full disclosure: I am a recovering psychologist.
Seriously, I was educated, trained, several years of clinical experience, etc...quit in 1984.
The entire field is based upon an unsound, illogical, failed paradigm.
Today thirty years after I quit the field, nothing much has changed. In fact, it looks worse to me from the outside.
Even economics looks better...wait, no, maybe that is going a bit too far. Psychologists generally mean well...
What I can't figure out is why many psychologists discourage drinking. It's much cheaper and more effective than most pharmaceuticals.
You can't figure out why?
Doctors of every stripe are inundated with sales calls from Big Pharma reps- there are perks and financial rewards for prescribing Big Pharma's poison pills.
No financial rewards for telling their patients that beer, wine and liquor have been used for thousands of years with no ill effects in moderation.
Booze is big business for psychologists. Seriously, alcohol treatment is *huge*. The more bars the better as far as the money end is concerned.
Psychologists often have a worldview based upon a kind of medical model and I think that is more the issue...
Also the alcohol business brings in higher sales taxes too for local cities.
Antabuse...
...Perhaps because those who drink more, consume fewer expensive prescription pharmaceuticals? Just a guess...
Well, there's a strong correlation between drinking and going to prison. That could be the root of the discouragement.
Not that anyone wants to ban drinking, but come on. Statistically, more rapes, violence, and crime occur while people are blacked-out stupid than when they're sober.
Sometimes, the cure is worse than the disease. This applies to booze and anti-psychotics.
I drink wine virtually every day but just a small glass or two before dinner. Never more. Psychologists might discourage drinking for a number of reasons: Alcohol is, of course, lethal for people who cannot control their drinking. Beyond that, alcohol can, especially after an extended period of habitual use, seriously worsen psychological issues such as depression, anxiety and insomnia. Moreover, it often interacts dangerously with prescription drugs prescribed by the medical profession to treat various psychiatric problems. Moderation is the key, with booze, but moderation is the first to go.
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you..." F.Scott Fitzgerald
Edit: Cheers...
It's all a zio-overlay. Stay away from anything zio-laced and you'll be fine.
In a capitalist society, if the financial markets go mad sooner or later everything else goes mad. Everything above is symptomatic, not causal.
Short answer... no. America is not a collective like those tired, shitty, old nations overseas.
Kill your TV then consider killing your internet.
If the shit really kicks off, we will probably all be meeting in the street sans internet anyhow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA2371iADS0 I loved the tune.
I wonder how many Abilified shooters there have been thus far?
A good start, but
In 2013, nearly two million Americans abused prescription painkillers
fails to mention that nanny-states such as California now don't even allow any prescription of OxyContin anymore even to patients with chronic, cancer pain,
and instead forces everyone to use bad alternatives laced with Tylenol, so an overuse definitely kills you due to kidney failure.
. . . and instead forces everyone to use bad alternatives laced with Tylenol, so an overuse definitely kills you due to kidney failure.
You make a good point about CA's fucked up rules for pain killers but actually Tylenol is toxic to the liver, not the kidneys. That's why it is bad news to take Tylenol after consuming alchohol. Motrin (ibuprofen) is the OTC pain medicine that is toxic to the kidneys.
Sorry, mixed that up.
Thanks for setting it straight!
Liver, kidneys.... it all tastes the same with beans and a chianti.
. . . psychiatric drugs 'work' by “creating abnormal brain states, which are often unpleasant and impair normal intellectual and emotional functions along with other harmful consequences.”
And these drugs have nothing to do with all the "mass shootings" over the last few years, right?
"Much of the problem may be connected to the breakdown of the American psyche."
Really?
More of the problem is ignorance, and the problem compounds itself by playing and spouting an easy route to pretensions of causes...
There is nothing wrong with the "American psyche" related to drugs.
Is there an issue, and a crisis with regard to psychotropic drugs, and an issue with a criminal component that is prescribing "doctors" and the "healthcare" system that supports them?
Of course there is.
But to say...
"From Ferguson, Missouri to the deserts of Afghanistan the specter of US aggression is fueling the flames of civil strife and military conflict around an increasingly volatile planet. Much of the problem may be connected to the breakdown of the American psyche."
that is a farce, and a dangerous one.
Who or what is it you are apologing and covering for?
In case anyone's interested - https://www.nps.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/14699/RADAR_aripiprazole.pdf
For the primary indication (Schizoaffective disorder), my Psych colleagues note that Clozapine is far more effective. Of course Clozapine has problems all of its own (sudden - onset, dose unrelated neutropaenia being the worst), yet Psych still regard this drug as the Gold Standard.
I rarely see customers on Abilify. If I need to prescribe anything that might interact (QT prolongation being the greatest worry) or affect therapeutic efficacy of "anything Psych", I always "consult the experts" (Hiya Matthew! :-) )
Back when I was young and foolish, I took Thorazine a couple of times. Its effects are quite noticeable in that your internal thought processes slow down or quit working altogether. To take the metaphor of train of thought: It's like the locomotive for yer train of thought gets decoupled onto a siding.
D2 & 5-HT 1A represent two neurotransmitter interactions. Both neurotransmitters are involved in the pharmacological manipulation. The Dopaminergic System & Serotonergic System are involved. Furthermore, when two neurotransmitters interact from two different neurotransmitter systems causality becomes an issue. These neurotransmitters are identified through many years of analysis with animal models [transgenic mice certified pathogen free] and these rodents are then subjected to having their brains sliced into very thin slices .002" or even a couple of microns thin. Then the slices are analysed under a microscope, and compared to normal control groups of mice that did not receive the experimental treatment. Additionally, Clinical Studies of these drug interactions take years to complete and undergo rigorous Peer Review before they get approval from the FDA.
What people should really be worried about is the level of pharmaceuticals in the water supply even after the water has gone through a treatment plant. In all major metropolitan cities in the world the water consumed by residents is loaded with trace elements of pharmaceuticals that everyone on Z/H ingests on a daily basis if Z/Hers are not on a rural well for drinking water.
Party on Garth.
Party on Wayne.
I like my water Berkey Black.
Generously endorsed by the toasted "traumatic brain injury" recipients in the United States Armed Forces since 1991!...
You have to already be insane to take almost ALL new and newish prescription drugs (in the USSA). Some "oldies" are okay when appropriate (many antibiotics).
Most conditions are better treated by natural herbs and substances, the vast majority of which have no side-effects at all for most people, and no serious side-effects for everyone who doesn't have an allergy to the substance (which also applies to almost all foods too).
Humans are insane!
Trust no one... especially doctors and drug companies!
... and any other so-call "authority".
Pharmaceutical antibiotics are never appropriate or OK.
Oil of oregano is a natural antibiotic that is far superior to any pharmaceutical.
I have over 15 years with no, none, zero pharmaceuticals of any kind, and I'm no spring chicken.
You have been lucky so far. That's all it is - luck.
Without today's antibiotics, ALL intra-abdominal ("dirty") surgery would be unsafe (bordering on lethal), along with most neurosurgery / vascular surgery / trauma surgery. Management of contaminated wounds / injuries would in effect be limited to amputation of extremeties, or palliative management of death from sepsis, as was generally the case in the pre-antimicrobial era.
The "Antibiotic era" really HAS made "Modern Medicine" possible, especially modern complex / extensive surgeries, and the lack of really "new-target" agents in the development pipeline is a very major worry for those "in the Business".
At least at my current level of knowledge, I agree with you. However, I must also say, most surgery performed now is avoidable.
Not all though.
Good for you! I will research oil of oregano, which somehow I've not noticed in my research.
I know that when I used to live in Maui, Hawaii... and caught typhus (from fleas that jump from field mice to pets to humans), most antibiotics DO NOT HELP. The first time I almost died because Maui doctors pretended "there's no typhus on Maui"... the freaking lying murderers!!!!! We don't want to scare tourists away... do we now? Better to murder people instead! Murderers!
Fortunately for me, I was already a mainstream doctor skeptic, managed to do research myself (pre-internet) though I was writhing in pain on my freaking deathbed, and managed to get my hands on some doxycycline, and cure myself with that. Now I always keep some doxycycline around, just in case, no matter where I live. It is also a good wide-spectrum general-purpose antibiotic.
However, if natural alternatives exist to antibiotics like doxycycline, I'm all for them. Of course, it is still likely that not every natural antibiotic is effective on every kind of bacteria, so having several available is probably very important.
Though I'm fairly up-to-speed on herbs and natural substances for health and cures, I am quite sure I've still barely scratched the surface.
OK, So now a bunch of the dumb sh#t I see in traffic and at the grocery store makes sense
Taxpayer funded steroids for cops!
No guns for vets on meds!
That's the flipside.
Nonsense - the most prescribed prescription drug in America is Levothyroxine, used for treatment of hypothyroid conditions. Do you boobs believe everything you read on the internet? http://bfy.tw/2KTs
Reading attentively helps:
Above article claims Abilify is the top-selling by US Dollars, not by quantities.
Rightfully critical but greatly oversimplified and grossly underinformed. In other words, the author is somewhat right, but I doubt he has more than the faintest idea what he's talking about.
At $30 a pill and once-daily dosing, the 7.2 billion figure for Abilify gives 658,000 people on prescription. With 300 MILLION people in America, that's 0.2% of the population, which is a reasonable figure for a major antipsychotic. Schizophrenia, the major indicator for such medication, afflicts from 0.3-0.7% of the population, and there are several other drugs to treat it. This figure is resilient across time and around the world, so no, it's not an artifact of our particular culture. The human brain is a delicate instrument, and the tuning filter is out of whack on about one in 200 people. Mistuned brains cause people to see and hear things that "aren't there" (that most other people can't see or hear), and to have strange thoughts that don't relate very well to the rest of society. While most cultures have developed ways to utilize the mistuned brain to detect things that are otherwise undetectable, ours prefers to just force the Mistuned Ones to ignore their vagrant brains. Our drugs allow us to turn the "volume" on the badly-tuned instruments down to where it doesn't alarm the neighbors. This doesn't allow the schizophrenics full use of their unusual senses, but it does allow society to ignore them and those pesky, unusual perceptions that might rock the social boat.
While it may not be the optimum choice in a small, closely-knit and spiritually aware society, this is probably the only workable option in an immensely complex, over-populated, and rationally-dependent culture. Mechanistic society would CHOKE if it had to deal daily with the distractions of schizophrenic minds. It simply isn't designed to handle such aberrant perceptions. Closed-minded as it is, it succeeds in feeding seven billion humans on the planet by being dogmatically unimaginative. Yes, it does it by strangling the souls of the most sensitive and gifted among us, but you already knew that.
Again, the incidence of "major psychosis" in America is no greater than it is anywhere else or was fifty years ago. The use of narcotic pain killers is far less than it was in 1850, and the danger of addiction is grossly exaggerated both here and in popular culture. Pain is NOT good for body or mind, and opiates are remarkably effective in controlling pain. The DEA is far too intrusive on doctors' ability to practice medicine in this regard, and a century of propaganda has convinced far too many people that opiates are the veritable tools of Satan himself, fitting for the descendants of Puritans who earnestly believed that suffering was "good for the soul". As something of an expert on the evolution and training of souls, I can tell you that that is utter crap. Suffering is incredibly BAD for the soul; it can lead to centuries of destructive behavior and emotion. Alleviating suffering pays dividends for both the original victim, and all the victims-to-be when his pain is turned back out into the world.
As an individualist, I can appreciate the distrust of chemical behavioral control, especially when exercised by others as a form of coercion. But the rational, deliberate USE of drugs to control and direct one's OWN thoughts and emotions is the epitome of self-liberation. We need fewer kneejerk responses, and more deliberate and self-conscious action in this regard. Medication of all kinds needs to be a self-controlled right, not an other-directed prerogative.
Do yourselves a favor and watch that docu from the srticle. Scary shit.
The downfall of all empires requires a sense of entitlement that is part apathy and part gratification. Indeed, in the modern era, despite amazing advances in entertainment technology, the circuses of the American empire are still proving to be insufficient to many of the considered entitled, and thus need chemical stimulation to complete the illusion. And it so seems that chemical alteration of the mind has the ability to turn all of an individual's existence into a continual form of entertaining circus. The question for such people is not whether they live in "The Matrix", but rather the degree to which they reside in it.
Add to this already toxic mix of apathy and gratification in support of a superiority based sense of entitlement:
1. an incalculated lack of awareness (education) and capability for critical thinking
2. an irrational fear of that which is not familiar
3. a coddled state of being that removes the element of elemental risk from daily life (the bread portion of bread and circuses)
and you have all the elements in place to ensure the demise of the empire. The question is no longer if it will fail, but rather the form and timing of its collapse. The Constitution is a wonderful document precisely because it proposes those behaviours which most optimally enable a human civilized society to flourish. We abandon it at our peril .... and given the narcotized state of our general populace, I fear that we no longer have either the will or the emotional fortitude to enable the Bald Eagle to metamorphasize into the proverbial Phoenix.
But we shall, in time, become an interesting footnote in history, which hopefully will serve future dominant civilizations well.
Switch these junkies over to vaporized Sativa oil instead. Or maybe an edible variety of said oil. Yeah that's it.
It is written that the fool (lit. stupid person) says there is no God. If you really desire the truth, the read Romans 1 verses 28-32 why? Becuase He tells us what happens after we abandoned Him as a nation and in return He gives us what we desire. We are reprobates by nature; just read it and see for yourself. No honest self examination (your motves) in light of those verses can deny the veracity of it. No one can deny the truth in relation to what we are experiencing in this nation and the world; what happen to morality and integrity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXoNE14U_zM (You can't handle the truth 9 seconds)
28 And because they did not think it worthwhile to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.(In a nutshell - 14 words) 29 They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, disputes, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. 32 Although they know full well God's just sentence-that those who practice such things deserve to die-they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice themIt's also said that religion is held by the simple as true, by the learned as false, and by the rulers as useful. Compared to your televangelist's self-serving sales pitch, Seneca's statement has explanatory and predictive power. Yours has cognitive dissonance, bourgeois arrogance and infantilization written all over it.
A Deliberate Take-down of America:
http://winteractionables.com/?p=26272
The answer to the question is yes and the reason has been studied, pharm is just exacerbating things. One work explains it quite well... "political ponerology"
"The original manuscript of this book went into the furnace minutes before a secret police raid in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled by scientists working under impossible conditions of violence and repression, was sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged - the manuscript and all valuable data lost. In 1984, the third and final copy was written from memory by the last survivor of the original researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski. Zbigniew Brzezinski blocked its publication."
No!
The elitists are psychopathic and because of that the control mechanisms that they run, such as: governments, banks, secret societies and organized religions are sociopathic.
The problem (and first-line chemical solutions are very problematic) runs basically along two distinct paths: organic and non-organic mental states.
Both, like chronic pain, are very difficult to diagnose objectively, because seldom are there physiological markers to verify a mental health issue.
I can SEE evidence of an MI.
I CAN'T test for manic depression.
So, whether you're talking about pain, or schizophrenia, practitioners ultimately must rely on the reports of symptoms by patients. There is no other way to treat patients, IF drug therapy is employed.
That's the first problem.
Second, we tend to see ALL mental illness as pharmacologically-treatable conditions, whether or not they are organic. Most so-called mental health problems are NOT organic, and most are also NOT actually mental conditions at all; they are "coping with life" problems. Modern culture doesn't seem to be doing well handling the world it creates.
What we DO well, though, is demand an instant solution, even without fully understanding the source of the problem. Risky and expensive pharmaceuticals seek to satisfy OUR demand.
Nervous about life? Benzodiazepine.
Been blue lately? SSRI's.
Can't sleep? Ambien.
And of course, there's always booze.
Are we dealing with real organic mental illness here, or living/coping problems?
What's the life behavior BEHIND the complaint?
How are we living?
By what code or standard?
Are we meeting those? If not, why not?
And so on.
That doesn't necessarily require psychological therapy either. Folks, if willing, can be taught to live differently--often with much better results.
I don't think we're losing our minds nearly as much as we are losing our moral/spiritual compasses. Anything goes...until we can't handle what we get. We're damaged by our misshapen priorities and by our behavior-troubled conscience, that leads to the need to change (quickly and easily) how we FEEL, without the work of submission and circumspection.
Seems to me, anyway...
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Submission is overrated because authority has essentially no legitimacy and the order has no moral authority. "Men", freed from deliberate mental binding, do not need nobles or gods to mediate between themselves and the universe. Plato needs to be lamp-posted along with his followers. Then, we can have something resembling sanity and peace.
What dosage do I need to make Obama go away?
Xanax was pretty gold bar fun when I took it a long time ago, don't care what anyone says. Zoloft wasn't to bad why I switched to it. Been off both for 8years, alcohol does the trick but does have its depressive issues, gnc valerian & st johns liquid in the beer solves that. Found out that today. Since I couldn't get a prescription. lol I actually was laughing a little today. Long story short a beech caused it.
I find walnut and maple trees are much more amenable..
Lots of drugs get advertised on TV -- but you don't hear people whining about how a Preperation H ad "forced" them to over-use the product.
Just because Ambify is advertised, doesn't mean you have to ask your doctor to prescribe it. And doctors (at least the better ones) don't have to prescribe something just because the patient saw an advertisement on the idiot box.
At some point, the Obama supporters will have to take some personal responsibility, make their own decisions, and accept ownership of those decisions. You can't always expect to blame the other guy just because your ambulance chasing lawyer tells you there is free money to be had.
There is no free lunch, especially if a politician tells you otherwise.
It seems to me the Pentagon's preparations for a frigging zombie apocalypse are in themselves a sure sign the country has a serious mental health problem.
A "zombie apocalypse"? Sweet mercy.
Well, we don't know the mechanisms, what makes them work, behind a host of common drugs. That does not mean we can't use them. You don't need to know how an engine works, you can still drive.
I think a major portion of the problem is that everyone needs their "label" these days. "oh I am ADD" "oh I am disabled and on this med" "oh I take that for my depression, I am depressed" and on and on and on...
To the citizens of America I would like to say: "Get a good tug on your huggies, get off your self pity party, and get on with life. Or, simply lay down and die" I honestly believe about 95% of the BS going on in this arena could be cured with tough love, and in most cases a good beating.
It's the break down of the family is what it is. People are isolated and go down these dark tunnels that lead to deranged behaviors. Nobody is there to pull them back into the light. No family, just isolated on the internet with other isolated, unhappy people.
Long before a kid goes and shoots up a school there should have been someone that noticed a change in behavior. Instead you have millions of these people that have no friends and don't really do anything but sit on the internet getting crazier.
When is the last time a guy went on a spree shooting that had a girlfriend or wife and kids at the time? Pretty rare.
It's these young men with a lot of pent up aggression and frustration doing it. Sometimes they actually state specifically that their reason is no girlfriend (Elliot Rodgers, that recent half black kid in Oregon).
A man with no family or intimate female relations really has nothing to live for and is free to do anything, including commit horrible acts of violence.
>It's these young men with a lot of pent up aggression and frustration doing it.
This is exactly the reason they need to freely dispense Quaaludes. It's damn difficult to shoot anything when you have no motor control.
Standard Disclaimer: Safe when taken as directed.
Let me expand on that a bit.
Men are killers by nature, warriors. We are only here because the Y DNA of our warrior ancestors managed to survive this long. Through countless battles, global wars and all manner of hardship.
Men are happy when their life has a purpose. Something constructive to work towards and for. That is why the family is so important to society. It keeps men and their aggression somewhat in check. Without a family to care for men generally don't give 2 shits what happens to the world or even themselves. Our grandfathers were charging into machine gun nests with bayonets not so long ago. Men aren't suicidal, and aren't fearless, but there are some facts that need to be understood about men in order to fit us into society - a society which is increasingly rejecting us and everything we are. Boys in schools run by feminist women. Feminists saying "masculinity needs to be destroyed." This constant blame game that we are oppressors. Rape claims. Rape hysteria. Sexual harrassment claim fears. Easy no fault divorce with child support and alimony for life and financial rape. On and on it goes.
I don't think the people pushing this understand that they need us more than we need them. We will go off into the woods, build a cabin with our bare hands plus some simple tools, then come into your town and haul off some woman to be our wife. We aren't far off from that happening, and when it does, you'll see this fancy metrosexual anti-male feminist civilization collapse in a week.
This shit is just trendy like iCrap. People don't need it but they want to be part of the "in" crowd. The same with gluten free.
I volunteer some time with a charity that raises money by working a concession stand at a major sports venue.
Some 20 something comes up and orders a gluten free sandwich.
I say, "we are out of gluten free rolls but we can give you the sandwich stuff on a paper plate."
20-something's response, "will that be gluten free then?"
They don't even fucking know what it is yet they want to be gluten free. Fucking most useless generation ever!
One of Abilify's uses is a compliment treatment to anti depressants that no longer work. Want to place a bet that this is its number one prescription use? There is a syndrome classically called "Poop out" when the antidepressant stops working at its present dosage or higher dosages. A lot of people are taking their antidepressants at levels that are far too high. Sometimes with the doctors knowledge and at other times without it. This is also extremely dangerous. Tell your doctor about it and chances are they will tell you that "this is not how the drug works". In other words you cannot develop a tolerance to it like any other drug. Of course this is pure nonsense. It is a drug which means it is NOT produced by your body. Therefor it is a foreign sustance that can and will affect you. Each person has a different reaction to the drug. They have changed lives in a sense where a lot of institutions have been closed and people who were mentally ill moved into the community, which has saved the government money. However we shall see how much it has saved in the long term when these supposed quick fix problems come home to roost. This will not be pretty.
The "breaking of the American psyche" could be better viewed as the disintegration of the peoples collective will.
With so many illegals in the country, and so much racism strife broadcast daily we are no longer "one people" but a bunch of angry groups not willing to work with the other group.
Meaning we can't address the real problem, our government.
America was founded as credal civil religion, ruled by Truth and Justice alone; only the Creator, our Sovereign.
Rome's Talmud/papist Fifth Column has usurped us, the Beast, and we are now ruled by lies and injustice under Satan.
And, as usual, the Founding Priesthood were detestable Chamber of Commerce aristocrats who wanted self-maintaining livestock and a citizenry that is seen and not heard.
"I pledge allegiance to the pathologies my lords and masters approve" and ever it was thus.
Pills pills pills. $7.2 B, $30 each, that's 240 million Abilify pills you ate.
One drug among so many out there..
Amurika- Clean up your act! Stop it!
Our emminent physicians should be bundled in feedsacks and beaten with rakes.
Pill pushers, the lot of them.
According to the Centers for Disease Controls, every day in America, 44 people die from overdose of prescription painkillers....In 2013, nearly two million Americans abused prescription painkillers....People who take painkillers can become addicted with just one prescription, according to the CDC website. And once addicted, start packing your bags for the nearest detox center because getting unhooked can takes months, maybe years, maybe never....Has the unbearable weight of the capitalist, dog-eat-dog system gone to America's head, or is something else at play?
What moralizing, reefer madness, FUD hogwash. Any substance can be responsibly used and any substance can be abused. Opioids are no more addictive than alcohol. "Just one prescription" is as likely to addict you as just one six pack of beer.
In 2013 16.6 million Americans had an "Alcohol use disorder" and 241 people died every day from alcohol-related causes. Shall we ban this devil alcohol now as well? Wait, tried that in the 1920's.
And of course this clown blames capitalism for the pharmaceutical cronyist cartel and oceans of drug and medical regulations that give them their monopoly power to foist questionable drugs on people at inflated prices while eliminating all their individual choice and access to the drugs they do want. A capitalistic free market for all drugs putting all choice back into the consumer's hands is the only solution.
Quote: American Psycho - Has The United States Lost Its Collective Mind?
That's what happens with centralized authority. Things get misallocated and only gets worse with increasing population numbers. State's rights and better yet, county and municipal rights.
That's what happens with ANY authority, actually. The scope of malfeasance is simply smaller when decentralized.
Why not citizens' rights instead? If we must worship this principal-agent problem in the idol of "representation", then whose interests are served by agents who have no fiduciary duty to their principals? If you can't decertify your representatives on the spot, they don't represent you, they don't have to, and they don't even have to listen to you. If one recognizes a right to rule, then people will be ruled. DUH. If one doesn't recognize a right to rule, the principal-agent problem all but vanishes.
hunkerdown wrote, quote:
That's what happens with ANY authority, actually. The scope of malfeasance is simply smaller when decentralized.
Why not citizens' rights instead? If we must worship this principal-agent problem in the idol of "representation", then whose interests are served by agents who have no fiduciary duty to their principals? If you can't decertify your representatives on the spot, they don't represent you, they don't have to, and they don't even have to listen to you. If one recognizes a right to rule, then people will be ruled. DUH. If one doesn't recognize a right to rule, the principal-agent problem all but vanishes.
Hunkerdown, thanks for your reply. Glad that you didn't say completely vanishes, because I don't know how far I'd get decertifying. By "principal-agent" I assume that you're referring to the elected representative. And by "duty to their principals" I assume that you're referring to the voters. Really, I was considering adding something to the effect about citizens' rights when I wrote and care say it now. States' rights and better yet, county, municipal and citizens' rights.
Lyme disease sufferers are told it is all in your head with here have some antidepressants when what they need are antibiotics!
Doctors rely on "clinical practice guidelines" to determine how best to treat patients, and insurance companies use them to decide what treatments to cover. The Centers for DiseaseControl Prevention (CDC) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) worked closelyto develop the controversial IDSA guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
The view enforced by IDSA is that Lyme disease is easy to diagnose and simple to treat with a limited course of antibiotics. According to the IDSA guidelines, chronic Lyme does not exist and long-term antibiotic treatment is not warranted. The IDSA guidelines are followed by most physicians and used by insurers to determine limits on coverage.
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/33256-why-is-the-cdc-allowing-a-p...
CDCpetition
https://www.change.org/p/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-end-...