By Kieron McFadden

There is a MUCH betteralternative than psychiatric drugs.

A person who is "mentally disturbed" will be found to havehidden underlying physical problems that prevent their recovery.

Broken bones, pinched nerves, and suppressed pain - all can affect theperson's mental outlook. Modern advances in medicine and nutrition haverevealed just how big an adverse effect on the mind can be exerted bynutritional and vitamin deficiencies, poor diet, allergies, food additives andchemical toxins in the fatty tissues of the body.

Physical discomforts, deficiencies and exhaustion have a detrimental effecton mood. The person is medically ill or injured, not "insane." He mayhave a disease but he does not, short of a tumour, have a diseased ormalfunctioning brain, nor is he locked into a mental condition by the ficklepre-programming of his genes.

Fix the medical problem, allergy or nutritional deficiency and the personwill experience a resurgence of spirit and morale in concert with his physicalrecovery.

The correct procedure on a seriously mentally disturbed person therefore isa thorough medical examination by a competent medical doctor to locate andrepair the underlying but hitherto undiscovered physical illness.

The list of physical ailments that can bring about the complete range ofmental problems such as depression, poor concentration, aggression, anxiety andeven visual or auditory hallucinations and so forth is very extensive andincludes commonplace things such as undiscovered broken bones, tooth abscesses,glandular disorders, liver disorders, vitmain and mineral deficiencies, evencaffeine poisoning. Even senility has been linked to poor diet and Alzheimersaleviated by giving the patient the natural superfood known as blue-greenalgae.

Let me cite one, often cited example just to give you an idea: Lyme Disease.

Lyme Disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the NorthernHemisphere. It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks. Earlymanifestations of infection may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression,and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans. Left untreated, latemanifestations involving the joints, heart, and nervous system can occur. Inmost cases, the infection and its symptoms are eliminated with antibiotics,especially if diagnosis and treatment occur early.

You will notice that two of the symptoms noted here are depression andfatigue. Imagine someone with the early stages if Lyme disease but does notknow he has the disease. He feels worn out and depressed. He goes to his doctoror psychiatrist, describes his depression, is not given a thorough physicalexamination so the presence of the Lyme infection is missed.

The psychiatrist, without checking for any one of a long list of ailmentsthat can cause a person to feel depressed, diagnoses "depression" andwrites out a prescription for anti depressants. The physical cause is neglectedso the illness gets worse. The psychotropic medication, supposed to treat amental disorder that does not exist, causes physical and mental complicationsand the person gets worse.

Lyme Disease is, incidentally, often cited in arguemtns such as mine thanksto Dr. Paul Fink, a past president of the American Psychiatric Association. DrFink has admitted that every disorder in Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual can becaused by Lyme Disease! Yet psychiatrists when diagnosing, normally do notcheck the spectrum of likely culprits and usually go straight for the"mental illness" diagnosis without proper examination and the stocksolution of drug to "readjust" brain chemistry.

Here, briefly, are a few other likely culprits:

Adrenal problems
Herpes
Hypoglycemia
Insecticide Poisoning
Lead Poisoning
Pellagra (Vitamin B3-Niacin Deficiency)
Wheat-gluten Sensitivity

Drugs, whether illicit street drugs such as cocaine or prescribedpsychotropic medication, will at best provide a person with temporary relief bydisrupting the routine activities of the nervous system, endocrine system,glands, cells and so forth. They are essentially poisons.

The human body, however, will try to process the poison, and nullify itseffect on the body.

Unfortunately it was not designed for coping with chronic disruption andlike any abused machine will, quickly or slowly, break down. Tissue damage candnerve damage can occur, the organs and glands stop functioning normally,hormonal systems go aout of kilter.

As the body begins to break down, bizarre things start to happen: exhaustioncan set in, reduced sexual desire, shakes, nightmares, visual and auditoryhallucinations, loss of concentration and memory, anxiety, fear, paranoia andpsychosis.

In other words, the person deteriorates due to the psychaitric drugs while,unaddressed or even undetected, the original physical illness remains as welland often worsens.

As a solution or cure to life's problems, psychotropic drugs do not work.But proper medical treatment, detoxification of the body, antibiotics, settingbroken bones, vitamins, nutrition, temperance and sufficient sleep and so forthall do.

The very LAST thing one should do when suffering some unwanted mentalcondition is take a psychiatric drug!

[Important warning: if you are already on some psychiatric medication do NOTjust stop taking them without first seeking and following the guidance of amedical doctor.]