Archive for Psychiatric Drugs
Follow-Up Articles:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/genome-disruption-syndrome-massacres-and-psychiatric-drugs/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/who-are-the-baby-killers-vaxxers-are/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/elliotrodgers/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/psychiatricdrugskill/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=13120
And from General Bert:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/military-medical-betrayal-soldiers-suicide-psychiatric-drugs/
In response to The Guardian’s article <a “http://www.alternet.org/investigations/seven-dead-premeditated-mass-murder-shooting-near-california-college-campus”> Seven Dead in ‘Premeditated Mass Murder’ Shooting Near California College Campus
Which psychoactive drugs was this young man taking, for how long and in what combination?
Sadly, many people have thoughts like these. Psychoactive medication protentiates their being acted upon through suicide and/or homicide.
Guns rarely kill people. Psychoactive drugs often do, sometimes with a gun as a tool, sometimes not.
I made a video called “I am Adam Lanza’s Doctor” in response to a blog from the mother of a young man like Adam Lanza [the video is a metaphor as I make clear in its opening section]. In it I elaborate on the dangerous use of psychiatric medication and how it is inextricably linked with the epidemic of mass murders and suicides we experience in the US and other heavily medicated societies.
I would be more than a little astonished if Elliot Rodger’s despair and desperate actions were not the result not only of psychiatric illness, but of the drugs mistakenly, but all-too-commonly used as if they actually treated the illness.
There are good and effective means to help those with emotional and psychiatric illnesses which do not involve toxic chemicals. I know.
I have been practicing drug free psychiatry and medicine for nearly 45 years.
Find someone who practices nutritional/orthomolecular psychiatry and medicine and treat the issues, don’t make the worse.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
In response to AlterNet’s Paul Buchheit’s article 8 Things Mainstream Media Doesn’t Have the Courage to Tell You
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Right.
Here’s No. 9: Vaccines are a dangerous hoax, killing and maiming their recipients. In fact, they have been a dangerous hoax since the days of Edward Jenner, the mountebank who bought his MD degree from the University of Edinburgh for 25 Pound Sterling and published the “results” of his “experiments” before he did them, if he bothered to do them at all.
When the British Government, which had made smallpox vaccination mandatory, was confronted with the fact that by jabbing babies with needles dipped in open syphilitic sores (there is no such thing as “cowpox” – the pox was “the great pox”, syphilis”, after a 2 year Blue Ribbon Panel investigation, the British Parliament debated whether to admit its mistake or cover it up.
Predictably, as politicians, they chose the latter, enacted stricter penalties, including jail time, for non compliance by parents and doubled Jenner’s life time stipend from 10,000 Pound Sterling per year to 20,000 Pound Sterling per year.
The only thing that has changed is that there are more vaccines, they are more toxic individually and in the aggregate and the stakes are higher.
They didn’t work then, they don’t work now and the cover up is just as vicious and wrong headed. Oh, and, by the way, as part of the cover up, no court of law will ever be able to demonstrate their dangers since vaccine manufacturers are covered by blanket immunity to the dangers their vaccines cause, no matter how clear that causality is. Vaccines are, in fact, an uninsurable risk for which the tax payer has already paid out nearly $3 Billion US in a special Vaccine Masters Court where almost no victim gets their day in [Master’s] court.
No. 10: Chemtrails are real, they are wildly dangerous and they are not for our own good. Geoengineering is destroying the planet.
No. 11: Agenda 21 is not for anyone’s benefit except the Globalists’ who will gain total control of all resources and labor while the rest of those allowed to survive the depopulation which is a part of it, will be limited in every aspect of life while Malignant Sustainability is used to corral and control us.
Under this insane plan, humanity will be restricted to “Transit Villages” comprising 1% of the land mass of the planet while the rest of the planet will be returned to the wild. Schooling will produce workers (Common Core Education) and children will be under fed and under educated to prevent them from consuming “more than their fair share” of the global resource base, as the well educated and well fed now do.
Hard to believe? Read the 40 chapter blueprint for the most tyrannical system ever devised here, www.TRUTHAboutAgenda21.com.
No. 12: Psychiatric and other drugs are expensive, ineffective and toxic, accounting for the majority of deaths in the US, according to sources like the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Chairman of Merck and the British Parliament.
Orthomolecular medicine and psychiatry, natural treatments like herbs, homeopathy, frequency medicine, vitamins and minerals, clean unadulterated food like fish oil, nano silver, biofeedback, chelation and frequency medicine make these dangerous drugs unnecessary except in emergency or surgical situations.
I have been practicing drug free medicine and psychiatry for 44 years, as have a forward-thinking group of colleagues and we typically accomplish what other doctors fail to do: cure the underlying cause of the patient’s disease or condition.
No. 13: Genetically Modified Plants and Animals represent a massive danger to personal and biosphere genetic integrity..Every independent study conducted by reputable scientists makes it clear that GMOs and the chemicals that are used in GMO plant cultivation pose massive risks to us all. Yet governments and the lap dog media act as if their safety were established.
The scientifically illiterate George Bush, Sr., declared that GMOs, which can be patented, are “substantially equivalent” (a scientific oxymoron) to naturally occurring organisms, which cannot be patented.
Because they are “substantially equivalent”, their safety cannot be reviewed by the FDA once a preliminary safety assessment is given to them by the patent holder which can withhold data with impunity.
There are more. Conspiracy theory is a wonderful way invalidate inconvenient truths. But if the mainstream media were anything more than a government-legitimized propaganda machine, it would be investigating, exposing and, where necessary, disproving inaccuracies, where they exist.
I invite you to visit the website of the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.DrRimaTruthReports.com and subscribe to our Health Freedom Action eAlerts for more documented information that you need and that the mainstream media is not giving you.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Follow-Up Articles:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/genome-disruption-syndrome-massacres-and-psychiatric-drugs/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/who-are-the-baby-killers-vaxxers-are/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/elliotrodgers/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/psychiatricdrugskill/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=13120
And from General Bert:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/military-medical-betrayal-soldiers-suicide-psychiatric-drugs/
In response to The Stir’s Kiri Blakeley’ article Military Mom Who Killed Her 2 Kids Didn’t Want Them to Become Like Her
There is no doubt in my mind that this woman was on psychoactive drugs when she made the decision, and carried out the action, killing her children.
Every single mass murderer, in or out of schools, in the US in the last decade or more has been on psychoactive drugs. Many, many people on these drugs kill themselves and sometimes they kill others along the way.
These drugs do not decrease deaths, they increase them. Psychoactive medication does that. Often.
As a psychiatrist who has practiced drug-free medicine and psychiatry for 44 years, I can definitively state that nutrition, neurobiofeedback and other safe, effective means work while drugs do not, and have disastrous consequences.
You really do not have to fill that prescription! And since these drugs inevitably, often permanently damage the brain and body, they should not only never be taken, but NEVER given to children.
Never.
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Psychiatry’s 3D Shame: Deceive, Diagnose, Drug
Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy was cursed by Apollo, whom she offended, with always being right but never being believed. She warned her father not to open the gates to the Trojan Horse but no one listened. The horse was brought in and, the story goes, in the dead of night, its huge belly was opened and the warriors hidden within destroyed Troy. Being right did not make Cassandra happy.
Being right does not make me happy when I am writing about things like deceiving, diagnosing and drugging an entire population for the benefits of anyone but the patient.
Being right when I wrote, decades ago, that the use of psychiatric drugs, especially in children, was a disastrous, brain-damaging and insane social and medical policy. These drugs are untested, toxic and will create a society of pharmaceutically damaged people rather than ill people being well treated. Being right when I said that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals for Psychiatry were dangerous and would lead to the expansion of diagnoses and treatment to the point where there were none who dared resist and non who were not diagnosed. Being right when I wrote that Psychiatric diagnoses rested in marketing, not in science and that treating CFL (corporate financial lust) was fundamentally insane, but that the insanity did not lie with the patient.
And being right when I wrote that possible drugging would inevitably become mandated drugging, although neither the science or the treatments were any better.
Alas, like Cassandra, my predictions did not ring real when I wrote them but we have arrived where I saw us collectively headed. Dangerous drugs for everything that even smacks of real life and universal mandating just around the corner – if we turn that corner.
First, an admission: I am, by training, a Psychiatrist, encouraged by that training to treat children, adolescents and adults. But I was, I believe, saved from violating the basic ethical standard of medicine (and, with decency, every activity which involves any of us): Primum non nocere – Latin for “First Do No Harm”.
It is my considered belief, after considerable study, clinical practice and observation, that it is literally impossible to BE a practicing Psychiatrist, FOLLOWING THE PRACTICE GUIDELINES AND “STANDARD OF CARE IN THE COMMUNITY” PRACTICES, and NOT do harm, first, middle and last. That is why I have never treated anyone for anything using medication with two exceptions: a wildly psychotic 19 year old patient of mine in a State Hospital locked ward was suffering the torments of the damned (which is what he believed himself to be) as he unendingly hallucinated his inner terror. I prescribed for him enough sedation to allow him to stop screaming after 9 days of 24 hour nightmare. I was a First Year Resident at the time and knew nothing of orthomolecular psychiatry (the use of nutrients for mental relief and health), but I knew that I had to do something to help this young man by allowing him to reach into our world and us to reach into his. Once the madness-fear-madness cycle was broken, our work began. Ironically, my Chief Resident had just returned from a sojourn with the British Psychiatrist R. E. Liang, who saw schizophrenia as a glorious adventure so I had to go toe to toe with my superior and his superior and HIS superior to provide some respite for my young patient. I did and I won that battle.
Today, neither my Chief Resident, the well-known Dr. James Gordon, nor I would medicate that patient, both of us for very different reasons.
The other patient was a lady who had been addicted to Xanax(R) by her General Practitioner. I had to write a prescription for a small amount to complete weaning her from that intentionally highly addictive, and therefore highly profitable, psychoactive drug.
That takes care of my prescription history for psychiatric drugs over a 40 year career practicing medicine and psychiatry with some of the most seriously ill patients in the world. Successfully. Very Successfully.
So you can see that the article below chills me to the bone. It announces another step down the path of subservient lunacy for the disgraced profession of Psychiatry, a profession devoted to poisoning a specific target organ in the face of better, safer, cheaper, kinder and more effective options like nutrition and NeuroBioFeedback, appropriate therapies and social and health supports.
It is my considered view after 40 years of practice, that there is no place, that’s right, no place whatsoever, for psychiatric drugs. None. But, then, it is also my considered opinion that there is no place for any drugs in the Doctor’s office, although there is a place for them in the Emergency Room or ambulance while a patient is being transported there.
Psychiatrists no longer learn to talk to, and therefore, to listen to people. They are trained to look for flags that trigger this drug being prescribed or that one. The “literature” in their journals is mostly junk, paid for, authored by, and owned by the drug companies. But then, the “scientific journals” that publish them are, in reality, little more than advertising circulars for their magnificent, deceptive and callously dishonest advertisements. Just ask Marcia Angel, who resigned in protest as Editor of the [supposedly] prestigious New England Journal of Medicine because of the deep, dark and deadly corruption of the “peer review” system and the staggering lies upon which drug studies, and therefore prescription practices, rest.
In the Reuters article below you will see a future emerging in which there are no normals any more. Normal means having problems and problems are given names which suggest drug treatments. Suggest? Did I say suggest? Today, for most of us, most of the time, it is a suggestion. But it is a MUCH better business model if the suggestion is rhetorical and the requirement is absolute. More drugs sold. More side effects. More drugs added to the regimen. More side effects. More brain damage which looks exactly like the condition for which the drugs were given in the first place.
If this reminds you of the influenza shot for “protection” which turns out to be the CAUSE of the influenza “epidemic” each year which then leads to more calls for more vaccines “against” the influenza “epidemic” and drugs to “treat” what was induced by the shots: flu, cancer, autism, ALS, infertility, diabetes, etc., etc., etc., then you are paying attention. The business model is identical.
And just as the flu shot is transitioning from voluntary to mandatory, so the use of psychoactive drugs, all of them, for “diseases” and “conditions” that any decent human being would be ashamed to label another person with, let alone “treat” them for, will soon be mandatory unless we collectively say “NO!”, as we did to the Swine Flu vaccination (now included in this year’s dangerous seasonal flu shot.
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Mental health experts ask: Will anyone be normal?
(Reuters) – An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for “disorders” such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal.
Leading mental health experts gave a briefing on Tuesday to warn that a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is being revised now for publication in 2013, could devalue the seriousness of mental illness and label almost everyone as having some kind of disorder.
Citing examples of new additions like “mild anxiety depression,” “psychosis risk syndrome,” and “temper dysregulation disorder,” they said many people previously seen as perfectly healthy could in future be told they are ill.
“It’s leaking into normality. It is shrinking the pool of what is normal to a puddle,” said Til Wykes of the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London.
The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and contains descriptions, symptoms, and other criteria for diagnosing mental disorders. It is seen as the global diagnostic bible for the field of mental health medicine.
The criteria are designed to provide clear definitions for professionals who treat patients with mental disorders, and for researchers and pharmaceutical drug companies seeking to develop new ways of treating them.
Wykes and colleagues Felicity Callard, also of Kings’ Institute of Psychiatry, and Nick Craddock of Cardiff University’s department of psychological medicine and neurology, said many in the psychiatric community are worried that the further the guidelines are expanded, the more likely it will become that nobody will be classed as normal any more.
“Technically, with the classification of so many new disorders, we will all have disorders,” they said in a joint statement. “This may lead to the belief that many more of us ‘need’ drugs to treat our ‘conditions’ — (and) many of these drugs will have unpleasant or dangerous side effects.”
The scientists said “psychosis risk syndrome” diagnosis was particularly worrying, since it could falsely label young people who may only have a small risk of developing an illness.
“It’s a bit like telling 10 people with a common cold that they are “at risk for pneumonia syndrome” when only one is likely to get the disorder,” Wykes told the briefing.
The American Psychiatric Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The scientists gave examples from the previous revision to the DSM, which was called DSM 4 and included broader diagnoses and categories for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism and childhood bipolar disorders.
This, they said, had “contributed to three false epidemics” of these conditions, particularly in the United States.
“During the last decade, how many doctors were harangued by worried parents into giving drugs like Ritalin to children who didn’t really need it?,” their statement asked.
Millions of people across the world, many of them children, take ADHD drugs including Novartis’ Ritalin, which is known generically as methylphenidate, and similar drugs such as Shire Plc’s Adderall and Vyvanse. In the United States alone, sales of these drugs was about $4.8 billion in 2008.
Wykes and Callard published a comment in The Journal of Mental Health expressing their concern about the upcoming DSM revision and highlighting another 10 or more papers in the same journal from other scientists who were also worried. DSM 5 is due to be published in May 2013.
(Editing by Peter Graff)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66Q4BJ20100727
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David Korten is both a change agent and an observer of change. He has written a provocative article called, :The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference”.
He says that if you can answer “YES!” to ONE of the following criteria, you are making a difference.
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The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference
David Korten
David Korten’s newly revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, outlines an agenda to create a new kind of economy: locally-based, community oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all.
In this special pre-publication excerpt Korten explains how to tell if your actions are helping to build the new economy that “must be lived into being from the bottom up.”
For the many millions of us working to create a better world, it is easy to feel discouraged by the seeming insignificance of even major successes relative to the scale of the problems we face as a nation and a species. Consumed by the details and challenges of our daily engagements, we may easily lose sight of the big picture of the powerful social dynamic to which our work is contributing.
Step back from time to time; take a breath, look out beyond the immediate horizon to bring that big picture back into perspective. Reflect in awe and wonder at the power of the larger social dynamic to which your work contributes.
In my career in international development, I saw, time and again, that the most successful projects were not the largest or the most carefully, centrally planned; they were the ones that arose from the bottom up. Likewise, successful social movements are emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing, and involve the dedicated efforts of many people, each finding the role that best uses his or her gifts and passions. Their scope and their success may not, at first, be readily apparent. Social movements grow and evolve around framing ideas and mutually supportive relationships instead of through top-down direction. New ideas gain traction, or not, depending on what works for those involved in the movement. Some alliances are fleeting; others endure.
The organism, not the machine, provides the appropriate metaphor. The relevant knowledge resides not in the heads of outside experts but in the people who populate the system. The challenge is to help them recognize, organize, and use that knowledge in ever more effective ways.
This is the model I think of when I think about what it will take to build the New Economy—one based on fulfilling the basic needs of people and planet—that we need. It’s also the way that that economy is already being built: step by step, in creative and surprising ways, by people looking for alternatives to a system that isn’t working for them.
To bring down the institutions of Empire, we must begin to build the rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy. These must be lived into being from the bottom up.
So how do you know whether your work is contributing to a big-picture outcome? If you can answer yes to any one of the following five questions, then be assured that it is.
1. Does it help discredit a false cultural story fabricated to legitimize relationships of domination and exploitation and to replace it with a true story describing unrealized possibilities for growing the real wealth of healthy communities?
2. Is it connecting others of the movement’s millions of leaders who didn’t previously know one another, helping them find common cause and build relationships of mutual trust that allow them to speak honestly from their hearts and to know that they can call on one another for support when needed?
3. Is it creating and expanding liberated social spaces in which people experience the freedom and support to experiment with living the creative, cooperative, self-organizing relationships of the new story they seek to bring into the larger culture?
4. Is it providing a public demonstration of the possibilities of a real-wealth economy?
5. Is it mobilizing support for a rule change that will shift the balance of power from the people and institutions of the Wall Street phantom-wealth economy to the people and institutions of living-wealth Main Street economies?
These are useful guidelines for setting both individual and group priorities. Bear in mind that in a systems-change undertaking of this magnitude, there is no magic bullet and no one is going to make it happen on their own, so don’t be discouraged if the world looks much the same today despite your special and heroic effort yesterday. It took five thousand years to create the mess we are in today. It will take more than a few days to set it right.
David Korten adapted this article from the newly revised and expanded 2nd edition ofAgenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, available for advance purchase from the YES! Magazine web store.
David is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the People-Centered Development Forum, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). His books include Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World.