While I fully agree the dangerous drug cocktails the VA pumps into our veterans are not a solution, I vehemently disagree with this casual dismissal of PTSD, as if soldiers are talked into a contrived ailment. You perhaps have not lived with watching someone suffer 24/7, consumed with guilt over surviving a slaughter that your friends did not, taking the lives of others face to face, or trying to shake the memories of a fellow soldier’s brains splattered into your face by a sniper. Losing a limb and constant physical pain from injuries is also a daily reminder of events for these soldiers. Why do I have time on Christmas Day to comment on this? Because I watched the VA’s drugs destroy and finally kill my husband, a decorated soldier, 13 years ago. These people who suggest taking a walk in the sunshine have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about and cannot even conceive of the unspeakable horrors many of our soldiers experience.
This post is a Christmas gift. Thank you, Michael, and may G_d bless you for all you do.
Pharma has never had a scientific basis for their claims that various psychiatric conditions are due to a chemical imbalance in the brain. That was invented by their marketing departments, not R&D. But the entire field of psychiatry and the various psychological services and people downstream of it are now entirely pharmaceuticalized. How convenient. How lucrative.
More than 20% of American high school boys are now put on prescription psychotropic drugs. Do we actually believe there is something profoundly wrong with 20% of young American manhood?! This is a classroom management tool drugging energetic boys into submissive compliance. AND it is a financial windfall for Pharma and its search for ever-expanding markets. There are no long term studies to determine what happens to the developing brains of these boys. We do know it leaves them more vulnerable to recreational drug addiction such as cocaine. Might it not also impair their ability to deal with stressors in life, or worse. . . .
If these boys live long enough they will find themselves in yet another lucrative Pharma market in eldercare homes, drugged up on anti-psychotics with Black Box Warnings against use in the vulnerable elderly -- prescribed to the elderly inmates not due to psychosis but merely to keep them submissive and compliant. Helps keep costs down and puts fewer demands on staff.
There were almost no mass killings back when my father competed on co-ed Middle School & High School rifle teams in the 1940s. Teens had gun-racks on their vehicles. Parents stored rifles over the mantle, not in locked safes, through most of American history. Dad and many of his fellow Marines likely had PTSD when he returned from the first year of the Korean War (including Chosin Reservoir Campaign & street fighting in Seoul) but they were given no psychotropic drugs and there were no mass killings or mass suicides by these veterans.
With the advent of normalized psychotropic drug prescriptions (which have KNOWN side effects of suicidal and homicidal ideation) we have seen the growth in mass killings worldwide. There is almost a perfect 1:1 correlation between the use of psychotropic drugs and mass killings. But the MSM works furiously to NOT expose this nor explore this. Just as with Covid, they are beholden to a business model built around Pharma revenues.
I have long suspected the insane rates of suicide in our modern military is directly tied to the use of psychotropic drugs. My understanding is that a significant number of these daily suicides are not even among combat veterans.
Dr. Peter Breggin has been sounding the alarm for decades regarding the dangerous conversion of psychiatry to a completely pharmaceutical model of "treatment". This is not based on real science, nor is it based on optimal patient outcomes. In a military setting it sure as hell isn't based on optimizing combat readiness. It is based on the brilliant marketing strategies of product line extensions & new populations/markets to burnish Big Pharma bottom lines while lining the pockets and enhancing the revenues of psychiatrists.
People wonder why Dr. Robert Malone -- functioning in such a target-rich environment of EVIL psychopaths pushing the global scamdemic -- has chosen to kneecap 85-year-old Dr. Breggin with a $25 Million dollar lawsuit for "defamation". Follow The Money is as good a rule of thumb as any. Having spent decades fighting the wholesale reliance upon & abuse of psychotropic drugs in psychiatric medicine, and NOW having also published a heavily-documented 1,000+ page book called "Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey", Dr. Breggin has made some serious enemies amongst the deep-pocketed Pharma corporations & their government "overseers" for whom Malone has carried water for most of his career.
I hope Dr. Breggin's next well-documented 1,000+ page book will be entitled: "Big Pharma and the Global Predators: We are the Prey". And I hope it leads off with the psychotropic prescription drug TAKEDOWN of young American manhood.
Everyone should read Brain Energy - which outlines case for mental illness as a metabolic disease - which should be treated though diet and lifestyle. Chris Palmer explains why drugs don't work and why it's all about the mitochondria! Which is also the root issue behind nearly all chronic illness. Anxiety, depression, bipolar, schitzophrenia, addiction - all of it. Read the book, friends!
The drugs are a massive problem. Read Anatomy of an epidemic.
While I fully agree the dangerous drug cocktails the VA pumps into our veterans are not a solution, I vehemently disagree with this casual dismissal of PTSD, as if soldiers are talked into a contrived ailment. You perhaps have not lived with watching someone suffer 24/7, consumed with guilt over surviving a slaughter that your friends did not, taking the lives of others face to face, or trying to shake the memories of a fellow soldier’s brains splattered into your face by a sniper. Losing a limb and constant physical pain from injuries is also a daily reminder of events for these soldiers. Why do I have time on Christmas Day to comment on this? Because I watched the VA’s drugs destroy and finally kill my husband, a decorated soldier, 13 years ago. These people who suggest taking a walk in the sunshine have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about and cannot even conceive of the unspeakable horrors many of our soldiers experience.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Michael! You are so right! Positive feelings cure all! Sunlight, walks, a love of a dog, healthy eating, and healthy lifestyle!
This post is a Christmas gift. Thank you, Michael, and may G_d bless you for all you do.
Pharma has never had a scientific basis for their claims that various psychiatric conditions are due to a chemical imbalance in the brain. That was invented by their marketing departments, not R&D. But the entire field of psychiatry and the various psychological services and people downstream of it are now entirely pharmaceuticalized. How convenient. How lucrative.
More than 20% of American high school boys are now put on prescription psychotropic drugs. Do we actually believe there is something profoundly wrong with 20% of young American manhood?! This is a classroom management tool drugging energetic boys into submissive compliance. AND it is a financial windfall for Pharma and its search for ever-expanding markets. There are no long term studies to determine what happens to the developing brains of these boys. We do know it leaves them more vulnerable to recreational drug addiction such as cocaine. Might it not also impair their ability to deal with stressors in life, or worse. . . .
If these boys live long enough they will find themselves in yet another lucrative Pharma market in eldercare homes, drugged up on anti-psychotics with Black Box Warnings against use in the vulnerable elderly -- prescribed to the elderly inmates not due to psychosis but merely to keep them submissive and compliant. Helps keep costs down and puts fewer demands on staff.
There were almost no mass killings back when my father competed on co-ed Middle School & High School rifle teams in the 1940s. Teens had gun-racks on their vehicles. Parents stored rifles over the mantle, not in locked safes, through most of American history. Dad and many of his fellow Marines likely had PTSD when he returned from the first year of the Korean War (including Chosin Reservoir Campaign & street fighting in Seoul) but they were given no psychotropic drugs and there were no mass killings or mass suicides by these veterans.
With the advent of normalized psychotropic drug prescriptions (which have KNOWN side effects of suicidal and homicidal ideation) we have seen the growth in mass killings worldwide. There is almost a perfect 1:1 correlation between the use of psychotropic drugs and mass killings. But the MSM works furiously to NOT expose this nor explore this. Just as with Covid, they are beholden to a business model built around Pharma revenues.
I have long suspected the insane rates of suicide in our modern military is directly tied to the use of psychotropic drugs. My understanding is that a significant number of these daily suicides are not even among combat veterans.
Dr. Peter Breggin has been sounding the alarm for decades regarding the dangerous conversion of psychiatry to a completely pharmaceutical model of "treatment". This is not based on real science, nor is it based on optimal patient outcomes. In a military setting it sure as hell isn't based on optimizing combat readiness. It is based on the brilliant marketing strategies of product line extensions & new populations/markets to burnish Big Pharma bottom lines while lining the pockets and enhancing the revenues of psychiatrists.
People wonder why Dr. Robert Malone -- functioning in such a target-rich environment of EVIL psychopaths pushing the global scamdemic -- has chosen to kneecap 85-year-old Dr. Breggin with a $25 Million dollar lawsuit for "defamation". Follow The Money is as good a rule of thumb as any. Having spent decades fighting the wholesale reliance upon & abuse of psychotropic drugs in psychiatric medicine, and NOW having also published a heavily-documented 1,000+ page book called "Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey", Dr. Breggin has made some serious enemies amongst the deep-pocketed Pharma corporations & their government "overseers" for whom Malone has carried water for most of his career.
I hope Dr. Breggin's next well-documented 1,000+ page book will be entitled: "Big Pharma and the Global Predators: We are the Prey". And I hope it leads off with the psychotropic prescription drug TAKEDOWN of young American manhood.
Follow the money, indeed. . . .
Fabulous post
Good information Michael. I’ve watched the Chapelle vid. Dead on over target.
Everyone should read Brain Energy - which outlines case for mental illness as a metabolic disease - which should be treated though diet and lifestyle. Chris Palmer explains why drugs don't work and why it's all about the mitochondria! Which is also the root issue behind nearly all chronic illness. Anxiety, depression, bipolar, schitzophrenia, addiction - all of it. Read the book, friends!