Medicating Grief: Big Pharma’s Greedy Hands
& What You Can Do For Yourself Naturally
Antidepressant Side Effects
Seratonin Syndrome:
- Confusion
- Rapid heart rate and high blood pressure
- Dilated pupils
- Loss of muscle coordination or twitching muscles
- Muscle rigidity
- Heavy sweating
- Diarrhea
- Agitation
- Muscle twitching
- Shivering
- Very high fever
- Seizures
- Unconsciousness
Hyponatremia:
If the sodium in your blood is too low, you have a condition called hyponatremia.
- Nausea
- Fatigue
- Headache
- Confusion
- Muscle Spasms
- Seizures
- Weakness
- Vomiting
- Muscle cramps
- Irritability
Anti-depressant Induced Mania
- Excess energy
- Decreased need for sleep
- Abnormal and excessive mood elevation.
- Abnormally upbeat, jumpy or wired.
- Increased agitation.
- An exaggerated sense of well-being
- An exaggerated self-confidence (euphoria)
- Unusual talkativeness.
- Racing thoughts.
- Distractibility.
Seizures
Current use of SSRIs or SNRIs was associated with a twofold increased risk of first-time seizures compared with non-use, while current use of TCAs (mostly low dose) was not associated with seizures. Treatment initiation in SSRI and SNRI users was associated with a higher risk of seizures than longer-term treatment.
Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome:
- Confusion
- Rapid heart rate
- High blood pressure
- Dilated pupils
- Loss of muscle coordination
- Muscle rigidity
- Heavy sweating
- Diarrhea
- Agitation
- Muscle twitching – Tardavdyskenesia may be permanent.
- Shivering
- Very high fever
- Seizures
- Blurred vision
- Vertigo
- Unconsciousness
Home>Medicating Grief: Big-Pharma’s Greedy Hands
Often a person who has lost a loved one has the symptoms of a major depressive episode. Depression by itself has a list of symptoms, such as sadness, insomnia, fatigue or loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness, or excessive or inappropriate guilt. Having five of these symptoms for two weeks, the DSM-V concludes the diagnosis of depression, otherwise known as a major depressive disorder or clinical depression.
The DSM-V is the 2013 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In the United States, the DSM serves as the principal authority for psychiatric diagnoses. Treatment recommendations, as well as payment by health care providers, are often determined by DSM classifications, so the appearance of a new version has significant practical importance.
In other words, the doctors and psychiatrists use the guidelines in the book to diagnose mental disorders. They updated the book, and one of the recent changes makes grieving for more than two weeks a mental disorder so they can use their big-pharma medications to cure you of your grief. Keep reading for the list of things you can do to help yourself avoid the big-pharma medication push.
Isn’t medicine supposed to be used to cure illnesses and diseases? So with this new change, grief is now an illness or a disease so they can diagnose it and now give you medications so they can make a profit. The majority of people go through the greiving process, which is a natural part of life since the begining of man, with no need for any kind of assistance at all.
The DSM-5 criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) states that the subset of persons who meet the full symptom-duration-severity criteria for major depression within the first few weeks after bereavement (i.e., the death of a loved one) will no longer be excluded from the set of all persons with major depression—as many would have been—under DSM-IVs exclusion guidelines.
The removal of the bereavement exclusion in the diagnosis of major depression was perhaps the most controversial change from DSM-IV to DSM-5. Critics have argued that removal of the bereavement exclusion will “medicalize” ordinary grief and encourage over-prescription of antidepressants.
Mourning is a deep sadness that can be overwhelming and debilitating. It is a natural process that millions upon millions have survived since the very beginning of time. Now big-pharma has taken their influence and stretched their greedy, ugly hands too far.
The American Psychiatric Association has decided to make the changes to the DSM V. That is the rule book and the guidelines for the medical industry about mental disorders.
So in a sense now, if you are grieving and experiencing depression you are mentally ill.
The insanity has begun, no pun intended. We believe grief is a typical human experience. Every person will grieve differently depending on the circumstances of the death. Some will be severely depressed for a short time, others will last longer, and some not at all. It is all normal and natural. You can do things to help yourself, and medication and a doctor of psychiatry should not be on the list. Let’s look at some facts, and you can decide for yourself.
You must grieve, you must feel, you must allow yourself to go through the process or do whatever you must do naturally. What you must NOT do is take a pill, thinking it will all go away. Big-pharma and your big-pharma trained medical doctors and psychiatrist want you to believe that taking their medications that cause suicide will make you better—there is a good chance it will make you worse. It is your choice whether you fall for this new way that allows the psychiatric industry to get you on unnecessary medications a lot faster.
A grieving person can benefit from support and sympathy, not given a label as pathological and treated as if they are mentally ill.
Multiple new studies are showing the long term effects of antidepressants hurt more than they help.
Nausea – Nervousness – Insomnia – Diarrhea – Rash – Agitation – Erectile dysfunction – Loss of libido – Weight gain or loss
Suicide…
“Suicidality” (36%)
Did you know?
Antidepressants have a side effect of depression and increase your risk of suicide.
You should know…
Prof David Healy, from the psychiatric unit at Bangor University, believes the drugs make “one in four people become more anxious, rather than less.”
“Some people become very agitated, and some go on from that to become suicidal,” he says.
“The drugs can become the problem that they’re then used to treat.”
Also…
Some individuals may suffer prolonged side-effects from antidepressants – lasting months or, on occasion, years.
“What we need to bear in mind is that some patients who have taken these have been very vulnerable, they’ve been very anxious, and it can be very difficult to tell what is anxiety and what is the tablets,” Dr. Jarvis
Prof David Healy, from the psychiatric unit at Bangor University, believes the drugs make “one in four people become more anxious, rather than less.”
“Some people become very agitated, and some go on from that to become suicidal,” he says. “The drugs can become the problem that they’re then used to treat.”
Anywhere big-pharma can reach their greedy hands in unnecessarily, they inevitably will.
We agree that big-pharma has some life-saving or life-changing medications, no doubt, but unnecessary antidepressants with horrific side effects are not in that category.
We completely disagree with their new guidelines that two weeks after a loved one’s death, you can now be diagnosed with a major depressive episode and put on medications that have suicide as a side effect.
We have presented you with some evidence that almost all doctors will not disclose to you so you can make your decision with both sides of the story.
Long-Term Effects of Antidepressants: What People Say
In 2016, the medical journal Patient Preference and Adherence published a paper looking at what people taking antidepressants long-term had to say about the side effects that they’ve seen. Overall, they did say they were less depressed and had a better quality of life because of the drugs, but about 30 percent still said they had moderate or severe depression. Between 36% and 57% of respondents experienced these adverse effects at either a moderate or severe level.
Ten adverse effects were reported by more than half of the participants.
Withdrawal effects (73.5%),
sexual difficulties (71.8%),
weight gain (65.3%),
feeling emotionally numb (64.5%),
and failure to reach orgasm (64.5%).
“feeling not like myself ” (54.4%),
“reduced positive feelings”(45.6%),
“caring less about others” (36.4%), and
“suicidality” (36%).
Mania a side effect of Antidepressants
This unfunded study highlighted below completed without big pharma’s influence shows a different outcome than one completed by big pharma trained doctors. This study conducted by doctors who administer the antidepressants to their patients finds that 0% of people become bipolar instead of just depressed as a side effect of antidepressants. You can read both studies and decide for yourself. They contradict each other.
(Antidepressant-associated mood-switching and transition from unipolar major depression to bipolar disorder: A review, Baldessarini RJ, et al., Journal of Affective Disorders, May 2013). They identified 51 studies involving almost 100,000 people who had been diagnosed with a major depressive disorder with no history of mania or hypomania whatsoever. They found that mood switching occurred in 8.2% of the participants.
Things you can do to the avoid big-pharma thrust of antidepressants
To Ease Your Stress and Calm your Grieving Mind
Exercise – This should be on the very top of your list to help you while grieving.
Meditation – There are a plethora of free u-tube meditations, and you can take a class.
Yoga – Many have greatly benefited from yoga
Mindfulness – Practicing living in the moment. “The Power of Now” by Eckert Tolle is a book we highly suggest.
Writing – Journaling helps many grieving people to heal.
Support Groups – When you find the right group, it can be beneficial.
Finding Others Like You – Turning to people who have been through what you have is a great way to help yourself to heal.
Reading Books on Grief and Loss – Reading can help you to understand and make you feel as if you are normal when some feel like their grief has taken control of them.
Calming herbs and supplements:
L-theanine
HTTP-5
Magnesium
Valarian
Passion Flower
St. John’s Wort
Ginseng
Chamomile
Lavender
Saffron
SAM-E
Omega-3 fatty acids
Probiotics for gut health
Did you know your mental health is governed by your gut health?
