he Stone Age of psychiatricdrugs gives way to the new Bronze Age of nutrition. The blunt answer to thequestion asked in the title of this article is: "No, we don't needpsychiatric drugs."
The Stone Age of psychiatric drugs gives way to the new Bronze Age ofnutrition.
The blunt answer to the question asked in the title of this article is:"No, we don't need psychiatric drugs."
Hope Re-Born
This is actually very good news and heralds an era of re-born hope in the fieldof mental health, yet the pharmaceutical industry spends more on advertisingthan it does on research in a concerted campaign to convince us of the oppositeanswer, to sell us on the idea of using drugs to resolve mental problems.
In so doing they are in the position of a car salesman pulling out all thestops so as to sell us a model of car already several years out of date andwhich was, even in its heyday, a hideous liability of a contraption in anycase.
The concept of using chemical concoctions to alter "brainchemistry" so as to resolve mental difficulties - as technologies go aboutas subtle and precise as using bashing someone in the head with a baseball batso as to cure his toothache - has in fact been rendered as redundant as theStone Age by modern advances in nutrition and psychotherapy.
Massive marketing and promotional efforts have managed to keep this from theview of the general public for a while but the truth has a way of penetratingeven the amour plate of the pharmaceutical dinosaurs.
Superior Methods
Methods far superior to and safer than drugs now exist and are available. Youdo not need to take the drugs proffered by psychiatry in lieu of actually beingmade well, nor suffer their appalling debilitative effects and complications,nor endure the life sentence of such suffering that embarkation upon thepsychiatric-pharmaceutical road so frequently entails.
You just don't need it. Period.
So why bother? Why go through hell for no good reason? Of course the drugroute will be immensely profitable for the psychiatric-pharmaceutical axis ifthey can entice you and many million others onto it. But do you owe the drugcompanies that much that you will permit yourself to be damaged in order thatthey and their shareholders can continue to be rich?
It is true that the reason so many people are lured onto the drug route isthat they are unaware that better alternatives exist and there has no doubtbeen a considerable expenditure of effort by vested interests to ensure thecontinuation of that ignorance.
But let us for now, for the purposes of this short essay, take just twosimple examples.
Feeling Depressed?
If you are, psychiatry will persuade you to take an antidepressant. And youonly have to read the drug's warning label to know what a minefield ofpotential harm you are walking into if you let yourself be so persuaded.
But did you know that in no less than twenty three random clinical trials,the natural herb St John's Wort, was found to be as effective, if not actuallymore effective, than routine antidepressant drugs. St John's Wort comes however without thedangerous side effects of the pharmaceutical concoctions. (see Leslie Kenton'sbook "Healing Herbs," published by Random House in 2002)
Blue-green Algae too - of which you will be hearing a lot more in the nearfuture - are a useful mood elevator, with a host of other wonderful benefitsbesides (see Miracle Superfood: Blue-Green Algae by Gillian McKeith Ph.D.,published by Keats Publishing, Los Angeles).
The motto is: nutrition is better medicine than drugs.
This is but a very brief glance at a very large chunk of good news. I sincerelyhope it helps by pointing you
