Dr. Mercola: The Chemical Imbalance Myth and Antidepressant Harm

 

The Chemical Imbalance Myth and Antidepressant Harm

In the U.S., an estimated 17.3 million American adults (7.1% of the adult population), experienced at least one major depressive episode in 2017.1 The highest rates are reported among those aged between 18 and 25.2 However, not only is there evidence that depression is vastly overdiagnosed, but there’s also evidence showing it’s routinely mistreated.

With regard to overdiagnosis, one 2013 study3 found only 38.4% of participants with clinician-identified depression actually met the DSM-4 criteria for a major depressive episode, and only 14.3% of seniors 65 and older met the criteria.

As for treatment, the vast majority are prescribed antidepressant drugs, despite the fact there’s virtually no evidence to suggest they provide meaningful help, and plenty of evidence showing the harms are greater than patients are being told.

According to a 2017 study,4 1 in 6 Americans between the ages of 18 and 85 were on psychiatric drugs, most of them antidepressants, and 84.3% reported long-term use (three years or more). Out of 242 million U.S. adults, 12% were found to have filled one or more prescriptions for an antidepressant, specifically, in 2013.

According to data5 presented by a watchdog group, hundreds of thousands of toddlers are also being medicated with powerful psychiatric drugs, raising serious ethical questions, along with questions about the future mental and physical health of these children.

Recent studies are also shedding much needed light on the addictive nature of many antidepressants, and demonstrate that the benefits of these drugs have been overblown while their side effects — including suicidal ideation — and have been downplayed and ignored for decades, placing patients at unnecessary risk.

The Chemical Imbalance Myth…. Read More

‘My AR is Ready’

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September 18, 2019

‘My AR Is Ready’

Last week, a political party of violence peddling Bolsheviks held a debate involving candidates who wish to be anointed the next American Emperor. One candidate by the name of Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (known to Real Texans and Real Mexicans as The Fake Mexican) adamantly announced his intentions to confiscate the firearms of peaceful American subjects.

“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” the former El Paso congressman said. “We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.”

Not surprisingly, this assertion brought a rousing response from those who would object to such a criminal action. One of those objecting was Texas State Rep. Briscoe Cain. His response was equally inflammatory:

“My AR is ready for you, Robert Francis.”

Being the typical, loud mouthed, bullying coward, O’Rourke took Mr. Cain’s blunt eloquence as a “death threat.” He was so offended, he even reported Mr. Cain to the DC Regime’s version of the Gestapo.

But just who is issuing “threats” in this exchange?

This fact must be made perfectly clear: “Beto” is the one doing the threatening here; threatening to confiscate a peaceful individual’s property, threatening to take away a peaceful individual’s tool of self-defense and threatening lethal violence against peaceful individuals, if necessary, to accomplish just that.

Remember O’Rourke’s use of the well-worn, collectivist “we” in his confiscation announcement? It does not mean “he” personally, as Emperor, will be politely knocking on your door. It will be a cadre of heavily armed, loyalist goons doing his dirty work.

Mr. Cain is obviously aware of this fact, making his measured response completely rational.

Yes, his “AR is ready.”

1) It’s “ready” to be used to defend himself, his family and his community from criminal, murderous rampages.

It is the innate response of any living creature to defend itself. And to any sentient human organism, that immediate defensive response is initiated solely by that individual human organism, not by calling “911” or “sheltering in place.”

2) It’s “ready” to be used to defend himself and others from violent, authoritarian, communist goblins who want to disarm honest people so they will easily be slaughtered in the next mass shooting.

3) It’s also “ready,” if necessary, to defend himself and others from the violent state goons, sent by gangsters like The Fake Mexican, to disarm honest, peaceful people by any means necessary, including killing these honest, peaceful people!

“My AR is ready” is the modern-day version of the slogan from the early days of the Texas Revolution directed at other violent, state authoritarians: “Come and take it!”

Mr. Cain’s comments represent those individuals who adamantly refuse to be butchered by pharmaceutical-addled barbarians, while at the same time being bullied into disarmament and rendered defenseless by power mad, hoplophobic tyrants.

The last thing these folks want is violence but being blessed with the virtues of preparedness and common sense, they are “ready” to do whatever necessary to protect their property and families- And that includes securing the tools necessary to procure that protection!

If the words, “The rights of the people to keep and bear arms  shall not be infringed” is not concise enough or too complicated for “Beto” to understand, perhaps “My AR is ready” will be more easily grasped by this severely challenged individual and other despots like him….. Original Story

Chinese-American Family in Nebraska Destroyed as Teenage Daughters Medically Kidnapped and Sex Trafficked by CPS


MFP Commentary:
Do a search on this site for  “medical kidnap” and you will come up with over 100 stories exposing how evil and pervasive CPS is in this country.  If you do not speak out against it, you are supporting  it.
~MFP


 

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

They were Chinese medical scholars continuing their education and careers in the U.S.

Yang Wang, who upon obtaining her U.S. citizenship changed her name to Catherine Anderson to have an easier name for Americans to pronounce, graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai, one of the top universities in China, and reportedly harder to gain entrance than Harvard University in the U.S.

Her husband, whose last name is also “Wang” but unrelated outside of marriage, graduated from one of the top medical schools in China, Capital Medical University in Beijing.

They obtained student visas to continue their education in the U.S. Catherine went on to obtain two Masters degrees, one as a Clinical Nurse Specialist from Maryland, and another one as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Her husband obtained his Nebraska physician license when he started his residency in Creighton Medical School in the Pathology Department, and became the Chief resident and was retained as a faculty member at Creighton after his graduation.

Two beautiful daughters were born to them while residing in Nebraska. Both went on to become honor students in high school, ranking number 1 in their classes, following in their parents footsteps to achieve academic excellence and preparing for college at the age of 14.

Unbeknownst to them, tragically, they had settled in a part of the U.S. that is known for one the largest child sex trafficking scandals ever uncovered and then buried in U.S. history: the Franklin Cover-up story centered around Boys Town. See:

Is the Franklin Cover-up Scandal of Child Sex-Trafficking in Boys Town, Nebraska Still Happening Today?

Catherine learned that her oldest daughter was developing an unhealthy relationship with one of her male high school teachers outside of class, and eventually learned that this teacher was “counseling” her on “sexual identity issues.”

After finding inappropriate text messages on her daughter’s phone, she reported the teacher to law enforcement.

What followed next is every parent’s worst nightmare. Instead of investigating the teacher, Catherine became the focus of investigation, and not only did Nebraska CPS take custody of her older daughter who was then 16, but they seized her younger 15-year-old daughter as well, against the wish of the younger daughter who had no complaints against her mother and wanted to stay home where she felt safe.

The tragic story that follows is a story about how one mother fought as hard as she could to get her daughters back, not realizing in the beginning that she was fighting an apparent child sex trafficking ring that allegedly brings in more money to the state of Nebraska than any other business.

She has spent more than a quarter of a million dollars in legal fees fighting for her daughters, and has had her career destroyed…..Read More

Investigation Reveals North Carolina CPS Took HUNDREDS of Children Away from Parents Illegally


MFP Commentary:
If you have been paying attention,  it is  well established that the Federally funded CPS  system, is in reality a pediophyle procurment system.  Americans have sat on their colective arses for decades and watched children kidnapped by the state, with zero due process (no jury no trial) without a whimper or voice of opposition.  Christians and  the “church”  in general have a lot of culpability here, and a lot to answer for IMHO.   
~MFP


by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

“I’m sort of flabbergasted by it. It’s one of those situations where – very rarely am I speechless – I am absolutely speechless over it.”

These were the words spoken by North Carolina District Attorney Ashley Welch, when reporter Kate Martin, writing for the Carolina Public Press, asked her to respond last week (August 2019) to news that an internal memo revealed that state officials knew that Cherokee County Department of Social Services was illegally removing children from their homes, before a civil lawsuit was filed in 2018 and before a request was made for a State Bureau of Investigation probe into the matter.

In 2018, Associated Press reporters Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr published an investigative report showing that Cherokee County Department of Social Services removed many children from their homes illegally, perhaps “hundreds.”

From the 2018 story:……Read More

Is the FBI allowing mass shootings to happen to advance a gun control narrative in America?

(Natural News) There are a number of strange anomalies associated with the recent mass shooting that was reported in El Paso, Texas, including the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) apparently knew it was going to happen before it happened, but let it happen anyway.

Reports indicate that the alleged shooter posted his plans to 8chan several hours before entering the Walmart – 8chan having previously been identified as a “honey pot” hive where the FBI has intentionally incited violence in the past as part of a covert terrorist entrapment program.

In other words, the FBI is a regular 8chan user – or was, seeing as how the site has since been banned – that monitors the message board system for red flag users that it believes might try to commit acts of mass violence….Read More

BOMBSHELL: Global geoengineering (chemtrails) experiment pushed by Bill Gates also funded by Nazi-linked Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, linked to eugenics and depopulation


(Natural News) The mainstream media is now openly pushing geoengineering and chemtrails as a solution for so-called “global warming,” which is of course a complete hoax to begin with. Globalist propaganda network CNBC has just released a new video (see below) which is a blatant infomercial for chemtrails, touting the benefits of polluting the skies with calcium carbonate and sulfur dioxide, two pollutants that would devastate life on Earth. Matt Agorist from The Free Thought Project published an informative write-up.

The project is called SCoPEx, and it’s being masterminded by the who’s who of eugenicists and depopulation pushers at the highest levels of world government and academia. It’s funded and endorsed by Bill Gates, for example, who openly calls for reducing the human population by billions. We’ve covered this extensively on Natural News, warning how Bill Gates is funding a plan to carry out planetary genocide…..Read More

The 21st Century Crusades Have Commenced As the Democrats Usher In Communism While the Pope Is Ushering In Global Satanic Worship

Submitted by Dave Hodges on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 – 08:27.


Can there be any doubt that the Democratic Party has been hijacked to usher in Communism? Just look at AOC’s “new (gang)green deal”. Look at Kamala Harris’ statement about taking your private home and your car, and on and on it goes with the Democrats. File this new position of the Democratic Party away until the conclusion of this article which primarily deals with how the Catholic Church is being used to usher in the worship of Satan.

How does one baptize a fallen angel? Well, the Pope would do exactly that. No, there is no formal declaration, yet, but the intention of the Pope to serve the “fallen ones” is clear. And what is also clear is the fact that this Pope is NOT a Christian. The Catholic religion has been hijacked. This Pope is on the record of having said he would baptize aliens (ie ET’s, ie fallen angels). Don;t forget about Lucifer’s telescope on top of Mt. Graham. This posiition, alone, should have been enough to wake up Catholics, everywhere, that their brand of religion had been hijacked.

Did the world need any greater proof than the coverups that have taken place in the multiple and never-ending sexual and ritualistic abuse of our children at the hands of the Catholic hierachy? The links between these heinous and largely unpunished, and more importantly unrepentant acts of abuse, and child sex trafficking are beginning to appear. As if this ongoing evil was not bad enough, the Pope is now organizing a modern-day set of crusades against fundamentalist Christian beliefs (ie Biblically based teachings) and those who earnestly practice

Do you remember when the Imams recited Islamic prayer at the Vatican. It was clear then, that this Pope was trying to create a one-world religion. On June 6, 2015, were you aware that the Pope allowed members of the Islamic faith to pray at the Vatican and he further broadcasted the event? More Chrislam wihich serves to dilute the Lord’s message and leads people astray.

LifeSiteNews is reporting that the Vatican (ie the Pope) is holding a thematic conference entitled ‘Reinventing the Global Educational Alliance”.The event consists of the Pope inviting leaders of major religions and key politicians, leaders in economics and academia to attend a meeting whose obvious intention is to dilute Christianity by combing the religions into a form of Chrislam and this will be accomplished by signing a “A Global Pact on Education” which is a thinly veiled education pact to deceive future generations of students and will collectively turn children against the Christ. The Pope even cited Hillary’s work on the notion that “Takes a village to raise a child”. Please allow me to remind the reader that it is not a secret that Hillary is a 4th Degree Coven Witch. Do I need to say more? Perhaps I should….

An anti-Christian servant to the Pope’s betrayal of the Christian faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke, was quoted in the Rome Life Forum as he stated the following:….Read More

John Whitehead’s Commentary: Is the U.S. Government the Enemy of the People? America’s Lost Liberties, Post-9/11

“These are the times that try men’s souls.” ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

Take heed, America.

Our losses are mounting with every passing day.

What began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act  has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse.

The citizenry’s unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security has resulted in a society where the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded.

Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, police violence and the like—all of which have been sanctioned by Congress, the White House and the courts—our constitutional freedoms have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded….Read More

Michigan Law Professor: “The United States Destroys More Families than any other Country in the World”

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Vivek Sankaran is a clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, and he directs both the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic, through which law students represent children and parents in trial and appellate proceedings.

Professor Sankaran understands the failures of today’s foster care system better than most people in the U.S. do, and he has written:  …. Read More