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🧠Treating Depression & Anxiety Without Drugs
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🧠Treating Depression & Anxiety Without Drugs
Depression and anxiety rates have skyrocketed post-COVID, and yet despite record levels of prescriptions and mental health spending , outcomes are getting worse.
In his first video, Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring offers a hopeful roadmap for treating these conditions without medication.
💥 The “chemical imbalance” theory, the idea that depression is just low serotonin …..has never been proven.
In fact, multiple studies challenge it entirely. So why are we still treating it like fact?
💬 What’s been your experience with mental health care?
Link to the video in comments.
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The video can be seen here https://imahealth.org/non-drug-treatments-for-depression-and-anxiety/
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My experience with my daughter’s depression, anxiety & alcohol use disorder is that most Psychiatrists are just “pill pushers”, keeping the cycle of medication dependence going despite side effects and providing no solutions to the underlying causes of the problems.
I believe better nutrition, regular exercise, sunshine, social interaction, nutritional supplementation such as Ashwaghanda, St. John’s wort, good quality omega 3 fatty acids and more will make a world of difference, (especially when all that has been missing from an individuals life), though it’s a tough job trying to get my daughter to follow through with a lot of that.
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I have OCD. I was treated by a psychiatrist over 25 years ago, and it literally saved my life and quality of life. I am still on effexor and lorazepam. I was able to reduce my lorazepam, but still take it. I’m not sure if it’s such a good idea to start demonizing psychiatric medicine. I agree that too many people are just put on to these drugs when they really need some good talk therapy and lifestyle changes. It is very easy for doctors to just put someone on a pill, because their time is limited, and they don’t really know how to deal with psychiatric disease. I am concerned, however, that the pendulum will swing so far to the opposite side of prescription drugs for mental illness, that people who could live a normal happy life will not get that choice. I see this going the way of opiates. Too many prescriptions to people who didn’t need the drug led to chronic pain sufferers going without any kind of relief, and being taken off their pain meds so quickly that they weren’t allowed to taper off. This can cause real suffering, and should not be happening. I am asking professionals to use common sense and consider the patient before taking a all versus none approach to prescribing psychiatric medicine.
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Here’s a great 2013 article that goes deep into why we have so many drugs that not only don’t work but harm people:
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective Drugs
Donald W. Light, Joel Lexchin, and Jonathan J. Darrow
Full article: https://willhall.net/files/PharmaCorruptionInstitutionalDavidLight.pdf
NIH Abstract: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24088149/
I feel like copy/pasting this for most of the discussions relating to Big Pharma products because it clearly explains how we got to where we are today and why Secretary Kennedy has one of the biggest jobs anyone has ever taken on in US history. The fact it was written about and called out the problem over 12 years ago says something about how deep in the abyss we are today.
The article references:
10. JM. King and P. Bearman, “Conflict of Interest Policies and the Diffusion of Stimulant, Antidepressant, and Antipsychotic Medications,” in American Sociological Association (New York City: Yale University School of Management, 2013).
22. JM. A. Steinman et al., “Narrative Review: The Promotion of Gabapentin: An Analysis of Internal Industry Documents,” Annals of Internal Medicine 145, no. 4 (2006): 284-293; M. Hoffman, “Pharmaceutical Detailing Is Not for Everyone,” Journal of Legal Medicine 33, no. 3 (2012): 381-397; G. Spurling et al., “Information from Pharmaceutical Companies and the Quality, Quantity and Cost of Physicians’ Prescribing: A Systemiatic Review,” PLoS Medicine 7, no. 10 (2010): e1000352; see also S. Sah and A. Fugh-Berman, “Physicians under the Influence: Social Psychology and Industry Marketing Strategies,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 41, no. 3 (2013): XX-XX (page numbers coming).
K. Applbaum, “Getting to Yes: Corporate Power and the Creation of a Psychopharmaceutical Blockbuster,” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 33, no. 2 (2009): 185-215;
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The best book for solving most issues, psychological ones included, is one that Dr. Berkowitz pointed me at:
https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Atkins-Vita-Nutrient-Solution-Natures/dp/0684818493
In this book, if you have the eBook version (I do) you can simply search for whatever issue you want to know how to solve, even OCD… which comes up with Inositol as one of the solutions.
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