Image above, and extra inspiration for this post courtesy of A Midwestern Doctor.
*DO NOT DISCONTINUE PSYCH MEDS WITHOUT MEDICAL SUPERVISION*
“Its no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” -Krishnamurti
“You have very little chance of getting at the truth if you know in advance what the truth ought to be” -Robert B Parker
You can no doubt tell from the title and image above what this post is about. If you’re not up for it, you know what to do. It’s not exactly a free country anymore, if it ever truly was, but you’re under no obligation to consume anything here you might not feel prepared to confront. Own your sovereignty, here, there, and everywhere!
(That’s my version of a ‘trigger warning’).
If you’re still with me…
In the wake of the recent quite close to home Nashville Covenant School shooting— the 377th since Columbine in 1999—I felt compelled to highlight one of the apparent ever-present common denominators in nearly all school shootings, as well as many mass non school-based shootings in this country. The one that’s virtually no where to be found in the mainstream discussion. (There’s a good reason for that).
I’m aware that gun violence in America is not only a complex, complicated, multifactorial social ill (most of which is beyond the scope of this post), but a long standing one in which school shootings are just one form. And taken as a whole, school shootings are exceedingly rare in comparison to the entirely of gun violence—the #1 cause of death of children in the U.S. if this is accurate. Is it? I have no idea. Who knows what sources are trustworthy anymore. Uncorrupted truth, outside of that which we can glean through our own soul/a pure connection to Divine wisdom, is on life support post 2020.
But my purpose in this post—a forum for my own personal voice and opinion, nothing less or more—is to highlight, raise the one question, and perhaps get more of us willing to ask:
Why the deafening silence about the apparently ubiquitous presence of psychiatric medication in the lives of schools shooters from Columbine to the present?
Let me be clear that as of the time of this writing, to my knowledge, it has not been confirmed whether and/or what psychiatric drugs and/or other medical or chemical interventions the Covenant shooter was exposed to, either prior to or at the time of the shooting. But if the answer is none, this would be exception, apparently.
Take that in for a moment.
NOT ANTI ANYTHING
(Except the over-drugging, indoctrinating and brainwashing of America, especially youth, and a continuation of this collateral damage/madness).
Let me start with what I’m not. What I’m not saying/blaming/supporting, etc. This will give a sense of where there’s nuance to my view, where there isn’t, frame my main point, and illustrate why I believe the powers that be who benefit from the continuation of this phenomenon (make no mistake, there are beneficiaries) are more than happy to have us, the public, indefinitely point fingers over root cause, knowing it only further divides and distracts attention from the elephant in the room, assuring that nothing will change.
Not Anti Medication.
I’ve said here on my home page and in social media posts, there’s a time and place for medication. There’s a role for it. Although I strongly feel it should ne that’s far less utilized than it obviously is. And there are definitely better, safer, and more effective alternatives. The problem is many of them are overlooked, discounted, demonized/labeled quackery (too many to list), or still illegal. Like psychedelics (except ketamine). Though that’s changing. And I suspect changing mainly because Big Pharma has figured out how to appropriate, dilute, mass produce, patent, and make a killing on them: (See: ‘Pharmacuasca’). The other problem is that many alternatives to medication are not economically within reach for everyone. That’s no doubt part of the story that works in favor of the continuation of the mass drugging of humanity.
As most reasonably aware people can see and would probably agree, psychiatric drugs are grossly oversold, grossly overprescribed, and grossly over and unethically marketed (ask any former pharmaceutical drug rep beyond the time limit of their NDA. You’ll get some hard truth). And the fact that every other commercial on mainstream tv/media is a drug ad? C’mon. What do think is happening there? What’s the message? The agenda?
Bottom line: The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex aka Big Pharma basically owns and controls the world at his point. Doctors, politicians, public health officials, media, hollywood. It’s out of control. Actually, completely in control. That’s the problem.
But still, I’m not patently anti-medication. I’m not a Christian Scientist or a Scientologist. I support the right to enlist psych meds—provided it’s truly needed (always subjective), and follows a complete psycho-social history, full consent, thorough and ongoing discussion of contraindications, risks/side effects, close monitoring, regular follow up, follow up labs, gene sight testing, metabolic, or neuropsych or other relevant testing where and when root cause/significant contributor questions remain, such as for nutritional deficiencies and underlying infections (underlying infections can wreak havoc on the brain and body, and science is now starting to corroborate the detrimental impact they have on mental health), and of course, concurrent counseling/therapy.
One problem is, especially since Big Pharma captured the primary care sector, resulting in family and generalist practitioners prescribing psych meds (something few if any of them are trained in), most of this rarely happens. Or rarely happens adequately and consistently.
How could it in the larger context of a broken, illness profit-based managed care-driven 15 minute pill mill model, such as is modern American medicine, especially psychiatry?
Not Anti Gun.
Responsible gun ownership, in America, makes some sense. Because it’s always been and always will be. I don’t care for it personally. I’ve never owned one and probably never will. But I grew up around it, learn how to respect and use a firearm, became something of a marksman in Boy Scouts, and accompanied my Father on hunting trips as a kid.
Am I in favor of tightening controls? Closing loopholes? Background checks and digitally universalizing purchase attempts the way we’ve done with controlled substances? Securing tighter restrictions at gun shows, and making rapid fire semi-automatic weapons of human destruction harder for the average citizen to come by? Yes. Virtually anything to at least make it more difficult, to buy more time between the moment someone shifts from homicidal murderous ideation and intent to practical action plan ad acquisition. Count me in.
But how? Is any of this even possible? Yes. Probable? Probably not. Because it probably would have happened by now. And in the the current post 2020 political and cultural climate, with a thoroughly corrupt *Uniparty (two broken wings of one broken bird) system run by largely invisible misguided Globalists who are batting a thousand in the well-planned, well-executed extreme polarization of America on almost every front/every major issue, it’s as unlikely now as ever.
* “Paradigms of Republican vs Democrat, and Conservative vs Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.”
-Catherine Austin Fitts
Even with my boundless faith in God, in the Divine order, it’s hard to have much hope with respect to this phenomenon. (It’s not God’s problem, but ours). And my view is that we’re been stealthily indoctrinated—mind controlled—to ignore the boogeyman while innocents continue to be slaughtered. The fact that no perceivable change has been enacted and this goes on and on is one thing that in my book qualifies us as ‘a profoundly sick society.’
As far as the weapons element, historically, one or two countries have apparently implemented swift and sweeping action after mass shooting events and have seen no repeats. So something can surely be done be done. Just maybe nothing that robust in ‘Mericka, given how 2A is built into the fabric of our nation and the hearts and minds of the majority of the to the degree that any sensible controls have been so successfully but erroneously equated with all out unconstitutional violation/removal of the 2A. Nice job NRA, the gun lobby, and all politicians beholden to them.
But do I think guns or access to firearms are the root cause? I don’t.
For one thing, to my knowledge, firearms and relatively easy access to them have always existed in the great U.S. of A. Semi-automatic weapons included, though less so. Granted I’m sure the internet added much black market anonymous acquisition ease. But mass shootings, specifically school shootings—the trend that it’s become since Columbine—now as American as hot dogs and apple pie, has not.
Why all the sudden starting in 1999? What happened? What changed?
That’s the point I’m getting to.
Not Anti Trans (*)
As a child of the 70s and 80s though, still, whenever I hear it the term I think of Tim Curry in Rocky Horror. “I’m just a sweet Transvestite, from Transexual Transylvaniaaaaaaaaaaaaah…”. The whole point of that brilliant piece of arthouse art was ultimately acceptance. Celebration of differences. And non-judgment. Point taken.
Of course androgyny, gender bending and all forms of sexual variation has existed forever in virtually every culture. The famous 1970s Kinsey Report made it clear that sexual identity and preference exists on a spectrum, and most people are at least somewhat flexible and fluid when it comes to sexual identity, behavior, desire/preference. People are who they are. We’re complex. And I’m affirming of everyone’s sovereign right to discover this for themselves and express it in any way they see fit provided it’s safe, sane and consensual (The three tenants of sex positivity).
I have always had LQBTQ, and now some who identify as Non Binary clients. I don’t totally get NB, but if it harms none, fine. I actually cut my teeth in a field placement and subsequent first job in the mental health field in the heart of Greenwich Village in the 90s. The vast majority of my clients were lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, open/poly, leather, fetish, bdsm, sex workers, you get the idea. What an education! Yet as I recall, the least represented among this subset of the population was Transgender. I can remember all of two clients that actually identified as Trans over the course of two years in NYC. Neither to my recollection were post-op. I stood by them as I do now with anyone that genuinely feels, knows, themselves to be Transgender, or whatever else.
But the *movement (Trans activism) around it is a different animal. And I’m well aware there are massive culture wars going on with regard to this and many other things, including a ‘war on gender.’ To the degree that the most vehement allies often go right to ‘trans-phobic’ accusation at the mere raising of question or concern. I don’t get much involved in these battles beyond continuing to question who benefits from the stoking of polarization, what is it distracts from, and what goes on—what gets passed and implemented—while we’re all preoccupied with fighting, judging, condemning and hating each other. And while I get and support the underlying premise of being ‘woke,’ (inclusion), how the gender identity/war on gender theme has morphed into all out gender non-existence/denial of gender, I don’t. I mean, is it reasonable and rational by any measure to assert that it’s suddenly impossible biologically define what a woman (or a man) is?
To quote Jessica Rose, in the conclusion of an excellent substack article:
‘A woman is an adult female human being carrying two X chromosomes.’
I’d say that’s pretty accurate and unambiguous.
Most of all, do I think it’s safe, sane and consensual (and by consensual i.e. the consent part here, I’m meaning specifically age, developmental stage, and the psychological capacity to fully comprehend and agree) to encourage and lead children/teens with unformed brains, porous self-concepts, and little life experience down a path of hormonal blocking/ alteration, supplementation and medical-surgical reassignment as a result of increasingly socio-culturally supported gender dysphoria? I think it’s lunacy, actually. I know Jordan Peterson and at some long-ago transitioned, mature Transgendered adults agree. On this point, I’m with them.
I say cross dress, live as the opposite sex, no-sex at all, a tree self, etc, all day long. But seeing as most of us have no idea who we are until our 30s (Jung said 40 —‘…everything up till then is research’), I do not support the trend of irreversible medical physical-biological/surgical altering of youth. Nope.
And what should be the age of consent? Consent demonstrably free of agenda-laden influence? Can’t drink till 21 in most places. Can’t rent a car till you’re 25. But you can die on the battlefield at 18. So, what age?
I have no idea.
What I do have an idea about is this: I believe the mainstream medical establishment and Big Pharma (same thing really) backs this movement for no other reason than it’s good business. A cash cow. More lifelong customers = lifelong profits.
From the mental health perspective—and this the reason for including my thoughts about the Trans theme in regards to school shootings—the last handful of school shooters apparently all identified as either Trans or Non Binary. Hear me out when I say I don’t pretend to understand all the implications of this. I may not understand any of them, honestly. That’s not the focus of my work, nor this post, apart from how it may connect to the principle point I’m making. Although I think there’s something not exactly right, possibly deeply dark and corrupt even beyond the misguided motives of major medical/Big Pharma. Not about being genuinely Trans, but the exponential rise and trend of co-signing gender dysphoria to the point of gender denial/erasure and the medical-hormonal transitioning of children and teens, consequences seemingly be damned.
And I’m leaning into the theory that there are powerful forces and factions with nefarious motives behind both fetishizing (Hollywood) and exploiting (Medical-Pharma/WHO/UNESCO/WEF/Globalists/Elite…?) this population for reasons we might not ever want to have to confront.
And consider Dr. Robert Malone’s thoughts on what he calls ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,’ regarding the social contagion factor that are at least partially explanatory as to the recent exponential rise. (Malone is a problematic figure for multiple reasons, but this point is sound).
I’ll leave that there because it’s beyond the scope and central point. Time will tell.
For now I can only wonder, since I don’t have the facts on this, how many of the last crop of Trans or ND identified shooters, if any of them, were actively medically transitioning, i.e. receiving hormonal injections? Why is this potentially important? Because for one thing, as we know, artificially messing with hormones greatly effects mood and can spike aggression, especially testosterone. Imagine the implication of hormone disruptors on our youth in tandem with psych meds that induce an altered state of consciousness (all of them), that potentially disinhibit, numb, dull and/or outright exile the capacity for empathy (many of them—SSRIs and SNRIS included, depending on dose, length of time taken and other factors), and are known to either create or exacerbate suicidal or potential homicidal thoughts, feelings and impulses.
Is this one major factor in the smoke in this community of youth recently turning to fire?
it’s the drugs…that don’t work…or do they?
Cuttin’ to the chase…
Do psych meds ‘cure’ anything? No. Do they treat ‘chemical imbalances?’ That depends on whether you buy into this premise. One that’s all been disproven with the more recent advances of neuroscience, epigenetics, and the centrality of [the effects of] trauma that we understand now better than ever.
The chemical imbalance theory has also been all but debunked as a pharmaceutical industry invented fiction—sold as a rational for the massively profitable drugging and controlling of the population, to the tune of hundreds of billions a year and counting.
As mentioned above, what psych meds essentially do is create an altered state of consciousness that temporarily distracts from suffering. That’s it. Sometimes, yes, this can be beneficial—in the short term—such as to quell the severity of an escalating extreme state/psychosis, help bring the nervous system to the beginning of regulation in response to acute or boiling over complex PTSD symptoms, give a leg up out of a debilitating major depressive episode, or debilitating postpartum depression. So one can get out of bed, and have the energy to engage with methods of healing our pain.
Long term though, the gains are diminishing and the risk-reward ratio skews heavily to the former. This is fact. Psychotropics also wreak havoc on the gut and entire GI system—the so-called ‘second brain.’ In fact, approximately 15% of our gut lining is composed of enteric endocrine cells, which produce over 90% of the serotonin and over 50% of the dopamine our bodies use. Gut health is intricately linked to both immune system functioning and our mental health. This is why the number one most common side effect of psych meds is gastrointestinal upset. They tend to throw the whole delicate balance out of whack.
From my own clinical experience I’ve noticed that the more psych meds one is on, especially at higher does and longer duration, the more the capacity for interoception—the ability to subjectively sense and know our inner experience—becomes hijacked. Put to sleep. Or more specifically, in accordance with my multiplicity-informed understanding of the psyche, it obscures access to our intuition—our Larger Self, i.e. our essence; the infinite undamaged core—the seat of the soul, or consciousness. You get the idea.
This is why I recently decided that my most potent therapeutic offerings are simply not conducive to those who are taking two or more psych meds and/or those taking purposefully stimulating methamphetamine-based (Adderall) or tranquilizing effects (benzos, opiates).
Regardless of class/type, most meds have a poop out effect, leading chronic consumers on a treadmill of hoping on and off different meds, often to the point of neurological dependency with disastrously consequences where many are led to feel and believe that they can never come off. That is, resigned to a life of a perpetually dulled, chemically-altered state of consciousness. I saw this for years working in community mental health.
And for the last time, SSRIs and SNRIs in particular—the drugs the majority of school shooters were apparently prescribed, currently taking, or recently withdrawing from at the time of the shootings—have been shown time and again to either create or exacerbate (disinhibit and unleash) suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts, feelings and impulses. It’s in the medical fine print that no one reads and many doctors don’t have time or often much interest in openly discussing. And the longer (a child or teen with an largely still unformed brain especially) takes them, especially in higher doses, then add in massive psychosocial stressors not adequality recognized or addressed, the longer they remain in a state of chemically-altered/compromised state potentially detaching from external reality, slipping into derealization and losing both the capacity for empathy and judgement—I say the higher the likelihood of the continuation of this phenomenon that began in the years post initial wholesale roll out of antidepressants in the late 80s.
Here’s a brief summary in list form from an article (that I cannot get to paste or link for some reason) published in 2013 that illustrates the point:
•Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and one teacher and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.
•Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. Ten dead, 12 wounded.
•Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.
•Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.
•Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire, killing two classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
•Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.
•A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed standoff at his school.
•Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded.
•Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding ten others.
•TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates.
•James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
•Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania
•Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California
•Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported having been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
•Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for his conditions.”
•Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed nine students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.
•Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax, and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.
•Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.
•Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.
•Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school.
pharmageddon
So if there’s any truth in any of this, WHY do we not hear about it? Why is no one talking about it as at least a compelling correlation worth questioning and examining further? Why is it not on the network news, except maybe on FOX here and there in the wake of another shooting, or You Tube (until it gets swiftly pulled down).
To cut to the chase again, the answer is obvious to anyone who paid close attention with a questioning eye since 2020. As I said up top, the Biopharmaceutical Industrial Complex basically owns and runs the world at this point. Big Pharma apparently funds 45% of the FDAs budget. And it seems the CDC, the mainstream media, much medical school continuing education, and major political, public health officials and institutions have been captured and corrupted by this monolithic industry. All in their back pockets.
“Over the last two decades, the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primary a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way…including the United States Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself.”
-Marcia Angell, Physician, Author, first female editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, current Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (nourishourchildren.org).
Much of this ties back to the two largest private investment companies that dominate almost every aspect of our lives and own everything we spend money on: Vanguard and Black Rock. Not to mention an estimated two-thirds to 80% of the content broadcast and published by mainstream corporate media comes from one of four pubic relations firms (Publics Groups, WPP, Omnicom Group, Interpublic Groups). The result? The vast majority of mainstream corporate content is outright propaganda.
Could I have it all wrong? Yes. If it turns out to be the case, I’ll be the first to say so.
For now, ask yourself: Would any Pharma-controlled media outlet be allowed to question or encourage discourse about the potential role of their products in this phenomenon, potentially implicating them in crimes against humanity, and threatening the windfall profits this monstrosity generates?
This is why the only place you might see, read, or hear anything much about the psych drug connection are on non-mainstream, non-captured, for now still uncensored platforms. Or in the offices, conventions and retreats run by holistic, wellness-oriented, functional/integrative or naturopathic medicine practitioners.
To drive it home, to date, the largest fraud (yes, fraud) settlement among corporations/larger institutions in the history of the U.S., like just about everything else in mainstream society, is “brought to you by Pfizer.” A 2.3 billion dollar criminal and civil fine for for illegally marketing off label use of four different drugs. And it’s not just Pfizer. Each and every major Pharma company has been sued and settled massive law suits time and again. The opioid crisis was knowingly at least co-created by Big Pharma. (See also: Purdue Pharma, Sackler Family). To these souless institutions, it’s just ‘the cost of business.’ When you’re too big to fail, lack conscience, life-affirming humanitarian values, and a moral code. Profit, power, and control over people.
On the profit point, consider this: In 2022, the total global pharmaceutical market was estimated at 1.48 trillion U.S. dollars.
Welcome to the post 2020 Post-Truth New Brave New Orwellian World. One where silence, (‘follow the silence’), corrupted peer review/captured science, censorship, cancel culture, propaganda, shadow banning and de-platforming, discrediting, virtue signaling, medical tyranny and totalitarian biosurveilance and biosecurity are the new free speech, the new democracy, the new health care. What the awake and outspoken Dr. Aaron Keriaty, M.D. calls (in his book of the same name): The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State.
HOPE FLOATS
Despite this stark picture, truth always emerges. It already is. And in my worldview, light/absolute truth/good will always prevails over dark/maya/evil. As many masters have taught, the shadow/dark/evil/’wetiko’ aspects must come into full view before true renewal, emergence, and authentic collective awakening/ascension can commence. In the big picture that’s what I believe is happening. And while we must act on our own behalf and ultimately save ourselves, I’ll die on the hill that there is a spiritual solution to every problem, smallest to largest. But part of doing our part is opening our eyes wider, fearlessly speaking up, speaking out, speaking our truth. Naming the elephants, and taking our personal collective power back in wherever and however we can.
And while I have little hope in seeing the grand systemic changes necessary to end the multifactorial gun violence epidemic in our culture in my lifetime, my faith in the Divine order, the Divine play (‘Lila’ in Hinduism); my faith in the essentially goodness of humanity, and humanity as an expression of the Divine Spark has not and will not waiver.
Earth is a school. And we were never promised a rose garden in coming to this here school! In the words of Delores Cannon:
“The Earth School is the most difficult in the universe. Only the bravest souls sign up.”
From a Multiplicity of Minds-based, Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy-informed perspective, I also believe there are truly ‘no bad parts’ of people. Genetic and ancestral/generational loading that adds baggage, definitely. External entities and attachments that find openings in our porous system and can influence us toward malevolent ends, yes. Otherwise, just traumatized, wounded parts. Parts thrust into hyper protective, sometimes woefully misguided roles as a result of the various slings and arrows of life that can drive any one of us to horrific extremes given the right (or wrong) set of circumstances. That resonates as truth in my bones and soul, so I’ll die on that hill as well.
Hopefully I’ve shed some light on at least one major element of what I believe lights the fuse of these particular atrocities that’s become an American epidemic.
In the meantime, may God grant us the wisdom and strength to do better.
To end on a classically spiritual and uplifting note:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.—St. Francis of Assisi
LINKS
For more on the link between anti depressants and unfavorable outcomes of all kinds, check out:
https://ssristories.org/all-posts/
On the specific link between antidepressants and mass shootings (that I could not put better):
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-decades-of-evidence-that-antidepressants
And for more on how the pharmaceutical industrial complex sausages are made, I recommend starting with:
-Anatomy of an Epidemic, by Robert Whittaker
-Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America, by Gerald Posner
-Deadly Psychiatry and Organized Denial, by Peter Gotzsche
-MadinAmerica.com (Organization and website)
-Medicatingnormal.com (Documentary film and website).
Thank you for reading.
Peace, love, and better living without chemistry for us all.
Chris Hancock, LCSW, ACMHP
@therapyoutsidethebox
Franklin, TN