posted June 17, 2016 04:58 PM            

I've seen a lot of propaganda lately against people who are mentally ill. Mentally ill people are portrayed in the media and in movies/tv as abusers, killers and just awful people. I really wanted to dispute that so much.

Since I want to go into Health Psychology and have my own mental disorders I wanted to say this to everyone who says "the crazy people are the ones causing all this violence". There are 42.5 million American adults with a mental illness, that's 1 in 5. If everyone with a mental illness was really as horrible as the media makes us out to be there would be a lot more mass murders and crimes happening.

I'm not saying people with mental illnesses cannot be flawed, violent or abusive. I know first hand that isn't true. My mother who suffers with mental illnesses was abusive to me and my father with mental illness was abusive to my mother. However, many people with mental illness are actually abused themselves, my parents were as children and did not have the proper coping skills to break the cycle.

The truth is people with mental illness or disorders do not want pity, sympathy, or fear. Sure we have to face our own demons and it makes our lives a lot harder, but we want to be recognized as regular citizens just like someone without a mental illness.

In essence, please do not blame these mass shootings on mental illness. Most people with mental illness or disorders know right from wrong and the law, and most just want to live a peaceful life. It is zealots and other factors that is causing these atrocities, please don't believe the mentally ill trope.

posted June 19, 2016 03:00 PM              

Emotional illnesses and imbalances are different from mental illnesses but people confuse the two and lump them together

This society as a whole does not know how to properly treat most mental/emotional disorders. (because most of these disorders direct causes are correlated to the broken system that we are all taking part in).

posted June 19, 2016 03:02 PM              

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Originally posted by Randall:
This could also go in Sweet Peas.

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Sweet Peas is an unhealthy forum and I think this thread would add to the unhealth that exists there already.

posted June 22, 2016 02:37 PM            

Every high school shooter was on some antidepressants or tranquilisers (known as uppers & downers), these can render a person unstable... many many adverse reactions. Sometimes people get prescribed both at the same time, horrendous.... add to this Ritulin which is being overwhelmingly served to every unusually energetic child and you get the scale of the tragedy.

And then coming off these brain affecting drugs is super hard...
I tried to get my friend's 65 yr old mother off the sedatives, which were prescribed to her to mask the vile effects of other medications she had been prescribed. Very difficult case. Just google stopping antidepressants and you'll be blown away by the SEVERITY of nightmares that people get and are so scared they quickly go back onto the medication, just to stop the bloody nightmares. My fiend's mom was so terrified she lasted only 2 weeks before getting back on them.

I am not surprised that the brain of some people snaps at some point and they go off the rails and hurt others. The chemical overload damages the brain, irreversibly, simple as that.

Another issue is the ever growing compendium of modern inventions cunningly named 'disorders' or 'syndromes' which 65 years ago didnt even exist. I dont call this progress, I call this a great sales channel to push the products. The 1950's compendium of psychological diseases was 50-100 pages. Current day volume can be used as a small table...
Sleep disorder ? Just eat real food, and exercise, relax, watch a proper mineral balance esp Magnesium salts and you'll be sleeping like a baby.
Fatigue syndrome? Again nutrition, vitamins, minerals.....
The list goes on...

Hippocrates must be really **** *d off ..wherever he is..at the state of the 'progress' of civilisation...

Ancient Chinese Medicine was all about the prevention of disease and maintenance of health. Acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage, martial and meditative arts ,and dietary therapy - the 5 pillars. In Ancient China, a doctor was paid a retainer to keep their patients healthy. If a patient became sick, then nothing would be paid until the patient’s health returned.
Sounds fair.

posted January 11, 2017 03:48 PM            

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Pharmaceutical medications generally make illnesses worse

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posted January 12, 2017 02:41 AM            

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Originally posted by dreamscomeslow:
Yep. Today in the newspaper the front page is about a huge sum of money being granted for research for the Anti-Psychiatrist movement. It's not to say the symptoms don't exist but rather that they are not "diseases" and that more often than not psychiatry makes things worse. Not trying to step on any toes. Just sharing. Diet, exercise/yoga, and natural alternatives are beautiful things.

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agree, I have studies that show that some "psych-drugs" can damage the brain independently from the "illness".