What Might Lindsay Clancy’s Outcome Have Been if Medicine, Not Psychiatry, Had Shown Up?
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
The elephant in the Massachusetts courtroom, hearing the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, is that women’s health has been hijacked by the psychopharmaceutical industry and none of the numerous cocktails of psychiatric drugs prescribed to Clancy “treat” any part of Clancy’s alleged postpartum depression/psychosis and, in fact, may have contributed to her deteriorating mental wellbeing.
Of course, it’s a fact that women represent the largest drugged class in the United States. That’s right, women are twice as likely as men to be prescribed psychiatric drugs with about 1 in 5 adult women taking at least one psychiatric drug with one quarter of women on an antidepressant. So, it should be no surprise that Clancy, who complained of severe insomnia and anxiety, was labeled mentally ill and drugged. That’s how it works. Medicine goes out the window and is replaced by psychiatric diagnosing and drugging.
But the problem with psychiatry labeling Clancy mentally ill, is that nobody in the medical community stopped to find out or even consider what was causing Clancy’s insomnia and anxiety. You know, were there physiological/biological reasons for Clancy’s reported symptoms? The world will never know because Clancy’s medical experts, her psychiatrists, never bothered to do extremely inexpensive basic blood tests that may have revealed what was causing Clancy’s symptoms. It’s important. In fact, it’s life or death important.
If Clancy’s team of psychiatrists had at least done the bare minimum of conducting a basic blood test to determine whether Clancy was suffering from depleted vitamin and hormone levels, the world may never have heard of the Massachusetts mother. If Clancy’s psychiatrists had called for Comprehensive Blood Work (CBS) it would have provided data about hemoglobin and hematriot levels for postpartum anemia, especially if there were blood loss during delivery.
Targeted blood panels that may have been ordered include Thyroid Hormones (TSH), Iron and Ferritin, Vitamin D and B12 and, of course, the hormones Estrogen, Progesterone and Prolactin. Extreme fatigue and rapid weight loss are symptoms of Postpartum thyroiditis. Depletion of Iron and Ferritin from giving birth and breastfeeding may be revealed, and symptoms of severe neurological and mood disturbances may be the result of depletion of Vitamin D and B12. Though rarely tested, reproductive hormones naturally plummet by up to 90% within 48 hours of delivery and remain low while breastfeeding.
The above blood tests, especially in women who are experiencing postpartum symptoms, reveal a wealth of health information. For example, Vitamin D acts as a neurosteroid that helps produce serotonin. A decrease in Vitamin D levels is heavily linked to an increased risk of postpartum depression.
Additionally, Vitamins B6, B9 and B12 are vital for nervous system health and depletion can lead to anemia, cognitive impairment and psychological distress. The loss of Iron can cause anemia and profound physical fatigue, apathy and mood instability.
Lindsay Clancy never received a blood test for vitamin deficiencies, hormone deficiencies or thyroid levels. But she was given the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale test (EPDS), which is psychiatry’s postpartum mental health test. Clancy didn’t do well on the test, scoring 23 out of 30 reflecting depression and extreme anxiety. Of course, by the time the Edinburgh test was administered in November of 2022, Clancy’s psychiatrists had already prescribed numerous mind-altering antidepressants and benzodiazepines over a two-month period. It’s fair to say that given the number of drugs Clancy had been prescribed, the accused no longer was in her right mind as it had been altered by the chemicals.
The real insult, though, is that Clancy was being plied with psychiatric drugs that do not treat any known abnormality in the brain. Worse, the prescribed psychotropic drugs also do not treat physiological deficiencies, like depleted vitamin levels, minerals and hormones. Physiological deficiencies must be treated with direct nutrient replacement, targeted dietary changes and hormone replacement therapy.
In fact, it is well known within the medical community that vitamin and hormone deficiency can cause or mimic psychiatric symptoms. Prescribing psychiatric drugs to someone experiencing vitamin and hormone deficiencies, including the antidepressants, benzodiazepines and antipsychotics that Clancy had been prescribed, may further deplete the body’s already depleted nutrients.
Given that none of the psychiatrists seem to have been interested in Clancy’s health and, in fact, may have been contributing to the accused mother’s mental distress through prescribed psychotropic drugs, one must wonder what happened to “First, do no harm.”
Clancy sought help from a variety of medical professionals and at one point was being prescribed drugs by three different prescribers. Ironically, it wasn’t until Clancy had killed her three children and tried to kill herself that the medical community finally order a blood test and, you guessed it, the blood test was ordered to find out what were the concentration levels of psychiatric medications in Clancy’s system the day after the tragic murders.
The Clancy case has been dubbed “America’s saddest murder trial.” Perhaps it is. Three children are dead, a family shattered and a mother’s fate lies in the hands of twelve jurors. But this trial has exposed much more than the tragedy of Lindsay Clancy.
The questions that need to be asked and answered begin with: how many other women have gone through hell and been labeled as mentally ill when, in fact, they may have been suffering from real physiological symptoms arising from childbirth that should have been treated without psychiatric intervention?
How many psychiatrists have labeled and drugged new mothers experiencing post-partum depression as a mental illness without performing basic blood tests to, at least, rule out physiological causes?
How many new mothers have been relegated to a life of psychiatric drug use because they received a psychiatric diagnosis for a physiological condition?
Yes. This is “America’s saddest murder trial” and the only thing that could make it worse would be to ignore what has become psychiatry’s fraudulent excuse for care of America’s mothers.
This is AbleChild’s 11th article on the Lindsay Clancy murder case including the pending lawsuit against the “experts/providers.”
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"Psychiatry" or psychopathy?!?
Stop looking for ghost for answers and look to God and His remedies. God made all, knows all and gives answers to those who seek Him
Well, since you want us to believe you have been seeking and found God tell us O’wise one what does God have to say about the modern psychiatric method?
Don't asked them, these religious extremists have their own issues.
Yet another Breitbart refugee opines
You mean modern witchcraft, right?
The ramblings of a drug addled pervert.
Yes, modern psychiatry.
Why do you care when it is quite obvious you are trying to be condescending , go to a library and get an education instead of trying to provoke and slander another persons beliefs
If that’s the sum total of your intellectual arsenal no one here need engage you.
You can’t engage me on any level with an IQ so low that you have to look up to see down .
Hilarious.
So you’re going with the I know you are, but what am I strategy?
You must be an A student in seventh grade debate class Junior.
What a clown.
I am keeping it in 7th grade level thinking and I believe I am stretching it to say you made that level of education
Oh, this is priceless.
You now repeat the I know you are, but what am I strategy?
Whatever level of education I did achieve it has certainly been proven to be much more advanced than this public school embarrassment you have on display.
Bravo
As expected your response disappoints , you are not intellectually tall enough to comment on subjects beyond your ken , you may go now
nah, it's simple. I'll explain
It's Boston, Massachusetts. They're ALL guilty
-There's Big Pharma – GUILTY
– She blames "post partem depression . Whoever told her that GUILTY
– There's the Defendant. She killed 3 kids & knew what she was doing & it was planned GUILTY
– There's her defense lawyer team pushing whatever BS to get her off, GUILTY
– Democrat Judge- They're all (D) because radical (D) runs everything in Massachusetts GUILTY
– Prosecution – Same as the judge. If defendant were illegal she'd get away with murder.
just to spite Trump no doubt. GUILTY
– & of course the Media frenzy, easy one! GUILTY
THEY'RE ALL GUILTY, It's MASSACHUSETTS
She will also be found Not Guilty and then proclaimed as Mother of the Year because .., IT'S MASSACHUSETS!
ah… you know the place well
This could help explain TDS and other lunatic behavior from so many women.
Hmm…. What if she had been honest with her husband & the grandparents? What if she had taken more than a few pills out of every script? What if … Accountability lies only with her.
Frankly, I don't; know who is worse, doctors, nurses or psychologists.
Do no harm is a nostalgic nod to the past.
HONOR THE OATH OF OFFICE…THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
THIS IDIOCRACY TOILET OF A COUNTRY NEEDS A BATH. PEOPLE THINK WE NEED MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA.
DURING BIDETS TERM THE ENTIRE WORLD DUMPED THEIR DRUG ADDLED MURDERING PSYCHOPATHS FROM THEIR STREETS INTO OUR STREETS. EVEN 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES KNOW THERE IS NO FIXING CRAZY.
SCOOP THEM ALL UP AND DUMP THEM IN EVERY ALLY COUNTRY WE EVER SUPPORTED THAT DUMPED THEIR TRASH AT OUR DOOR. CLEAN OUT OUR COUNTRY AND BEGIN THE REBUILD MINUS THE " I HAVE FEELINGS AND RIGHTS VICTIM MENTALITY".
Popes don't represent him
The Bible is His teachings available to anyone who wants to know Him.
THE VATICAN SHOULD BE DISBANDED. WHAT EVER THEY ARE THEY ARE NOT CATHOLIC ANY LONGER. TAKING OVER THE VATICAN WAS ONE STEP IN THE MARCH TOWARD EVIL, THUS SHOULD BE RETAKEN AND DISBANDED TO SMALLER ENCLAVES OF TRUTH.
Her husband testified that the day the event occurred she had been in a good mood , even took the kids outside and built a snowman with them. I find it odd that no one has addressed the possibility that many times when someone has decided to check out they find peace within themselves, and given the fact she didn't want to leave without the kids this tragedy occurred.
How a drug addled pervert, who openly admitted to lusting after his mother and literally convinced the entire mental health industry that everyone suffered from this disgusting malady became the so-called father of The modern psychiatric method will always be a mystery to me.
Still gets to the only question: did she know killing her children was wrong? I bet she did. Guilty of murder.
Put her in a cell with endless pictures and video of her dead children.
People who commit family annihilation (usually fathers, interestingly) tend to believe that they are actually protecting their loved ones; that without the parent the children would be worse off than if they were dead.
Yes, it's crazy ideation, but it makes sense to the annihilator.
The only treatment for mental illness is a healthy lifestyle. Healthy eating, cut out sugar and drinks like pop, etc, exercise, drink plenty of water, sunshine.
Do you even know what bi-polar is? You obviously still believe those frauds.
I've seen the switch from one personality to another. One is demon possessed, the other is fighting that demon. Modern med's can fight that.
That’s multiple personality disorder. Bi-polar is going from a manic state like shopping, gambling, high energy, etc to a deep depression. Ups and downs.
Just like your kids don't need vaccines. You don't need psychiatric drugs.
THAT IS JUST RIDICULOUS….LOOK AT COVID. IF YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE VACCINATED AND I DONT GET VACCINATED I WILL SPREAD THE DISEASE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, KILLING US ALL.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY ARE STILL TO DATE PARROTING THIS NONSENSICAL BS.
HEALTH CARE CHANGED THE MEANING OF THE WORD VACCINE TO BE ABLE TO CALL A NON VACCINE POISON TO BE CALLED A VACCINE.
AND NO ONE WILL EVER BE ARRESTED FOR MURDER. A BIOLOGICAL ATTACK WAS PERPETRATED BY A SITTING PRESIDENT AND ABSOLUTELY F-ALL WILL EVER BE DONE.
I HAVE MORE TO WORRY ABOUT THAN YET ANOTHER CRAZY HOUSEWIFE
FJB
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO HATE THESE “PEOPLE ” TOO MUCH. I TRY TO AVOID TELLING PEOPLE THEY ARE WRONG IN PUBLIC AND TRY TO AVOID BEING TOO RABID…BUUUT SOMETIMES ITS LIKE HEY! THESE POLITICIANS ARE ACTIVELY TRYING TO KIL* US.
* KILLARY SLIPPED FIRST BY CALLING ANYONE NOT PRO KILLARY DEPLORABLES. NOW THEY OPENLY HATE EVERYONE EVEN THEIR “OWN” ONCE THEY ARE ELECTED THEY SEEM DUTY BOUND TO FACILITATE AS MUCH PAIN AS POSSIBLE. YET FORCE TOLERANCE…THE WHOLE THING IS NUCKINGFUTS.
Totally out of context here, but not really. My oldest son was given phycotropic drugs as a child for his behaviors in school with his mothers permission. This took place in Calif. He's now in his fifties, serving time in Texas. Another life runined thanks to pill pushers who claim to be doctors.
Sad…I’m sorry.
Thank you
you sound like a bad parent
You need to reread my post. His mother approved the drugs by the doctor….we were divorced.
It's a newborn troll ID.
You sound like an infant troll.
56 live in d/fw same job for 22 years wife no kid got fixed in 2003 now you sound like a little bata peon orange man cuck who can not get laid unless by hooker no chance of a happy life who lives thur all you maga cult looser cultist who have same lives and no future but think your orange *master* is the fantasy all of you want and there is safety in numbers who have *GROUP* think/thought
Exactly.
All that because he called someone a troll……..I think the cuck is you moron, why don't you STFU you f-in COMMUNIST …..yet another POS on GP that has no business being here that I have to block
You sound like an imbecile.
He is……just another leftst communist weighing in showing us how stupid he is
And you're a moron, learn to read will ya!
what’d you say maga cultist
Oh…look it’s the f-in COMMUNIST…..STFU COMRADE!
wow This commie voted voted for your *ONE* and *ONLY* orange *GOD* IN ’16 YEAH HE SUCKERED ME TOO
And he’s not alone.
do us all a favor and don't get your kids and grandkids and the last great great great gand kid (singular) any vaccines the worlds a better off place with your blood line dead
Get boosted. The world needs you around to make fun of. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7db50b893aed40b2902e7d6c46a4219342055afc28fb0ca060da10aa34188164.png
Aren't you due for you umpteenth covid booster that is clearly rotting your brain, you are f-in stupid dude
no not yet but will get it (with flu shot) by the way i have never had covid can you say the same???? and if you did get it do you chug the clorox or eat the pig dewormer paste to get better ????
Ummmm…..NO a**hole I have NEVER had covid, and I worked in human services. AND because I am rarely sick unlike you I don’t feel the need to subject myself to flu vaccines. You speak like an utter moron btw. Will get it with my flu vaccine LMAO.,…….yeah you go and do that you moron. Same person talking about a “dewormer” goes and injects himself with an “experimental vaccine” like he’s a guina pig and is not going to inject himself with the concoction of covid and flu LMAO!! YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!!
Do the world a favor and get yourself and your whole bloodline vaxxed and boosted. Don’t miss a dose.
Agreed!!
No you really don't, I lost my boyfriend to suicide, it devastated me. I was very grief stricken and depressed over it, unlike him, I opted NOT to take anti-depressants or anti-anxiety meds. I got myself through the pain of it all
I’m so sorry. That’s devastating. It’s worse when you know pharmaceuticals played a role. Or may have played a role.
I have taken them in the past. I was never more suicidal in my life. I also gained weight, which made me more depressed.
I changed my lifestyle and started exercising, eating healthy, giving up sugar etc. I’ve never felt better. Mind over matter.
I had an art teacher who won a multimillion dollar lawsuit, not reduced, decades ago because psychiatric drugs ruined her life and were given because the “doctors” decided she was mentally ill.
She was actually suffering from severe headaches, insomnia and mild depression from undiagnosed TMJ.
Her career as an artist and art teacher was ruined because she lost her ability to think creatively and wasn’t stable enough to be around students AFTER they started her on these medications, and even after stopping them, her brain was permanently damaged.
I never knew what happened to her until later I was doing malpractice research for a law firm and found her case in the books, one of the few cases of large jury awards that aren’t later reduced or revoked by a judge.
Prescribed 13 drugs in 6 months? Lindsay got worse with each new one prescribed. Studies have proven, anti-depressants don't work. Now there is one called caplyta that is taken with anti-depressants to boost their effectiveness. Psychiatry and Medicine are failing.
Simple logic would indicate that post-partum depression which is exclusively experienced after childbirth, a major physical event, is strictly physiological in origin.
The idea that it's considered a psychiatric event is just ridiculous. It would be like claiming headaches and insomnia after a head injury are psychological.
Of course, claiming there is a pharmacological answer to this so-called psychological event tacitly acknowledges it IS physiological, but simultaneously refusing to look for it's physical source.
I suspect psychiatrists are basically pharma shills first, psychiatric practitioners second, physicians last or not at all.
She murdered them regardless of the drugs or the diagnosis and she belongs in prison for life
Shouldn't the health principles brought up in this article be considered for people who aren't postpartum, as well?
God told us the truth about the pharma medical system long ago, "…for by thy sorcery (the word in the OG Greek text is pharmakia, meaning sorcery or witchcraft) were all nations deceived." Revelation 18:23. Now think of what we've learned about their poison vaccines, Faucci, their fraud, lies & all the rest. Pfizer has paid out 1 of the largest if not the largest lawsuit award of all time b/c of what they've done. This is crimes against humanity & nature & it warrants the death penalty.
Much of this type behavior, mass killings and school shootings, began about 20 years ago when these drugs came to market in mass. There is a direct correlation time wise. It was part of a business plan. Repeat customers for the life of the 'customer'. Wow. Imagine…….just sit back and watch the monies come in. The graphs showing growth in board meetings would make share holders smile. That's why Albert Borla is still CEO of Pfizer. Even though he is a veterinarian and not a Doctor.
I’ve been watching this trial on court tv. The “ psychiatrists” that were “treating “ Lyndsey should never be allowed to see another patient. During cross by the defense it was quite clear that they had no idea what the f they were doing.
Metabolic acidosis can occur postpartum and can cause hypokalemia which can cause psychotic symptoms.
Of course, that course of treatment does not result in an extremely profitable inpatient stay or lifelong dependency on psychotropic medication, so it is rarely explored
Jung predates psychotropics
Always git ur doctor to take a vitamin D test and Iodine too. 20% of Americans are deficient in one or da uder and are never tested!
Something as simple as a blood test could’ve changed this whole scenario. So sad it didn’t go that way. Lindsay ended up on the wrong medical path. These drugs are too dangerous to be handing them out so freely. That whole field is lacking.
I wonder what Rosie is taking?
IF the court had relied ONLY on the totally UNQUALIFIED "medical diagnose" provided by law enforcement, instead of the testimony of medical PROFESSIONALS, the woman would be in a much worse position.
To allow ANY member of law enforcement to "testiLIE" about a medical condition (as would be done under a "red flag law",), would be a TOTAL FABRICATION of fact.
who was the Author of this Article?? Published through ABLECHILD.ORG but we do not know the background training & experience of author. It seems to me the experts would be Pediatricians who deal with post-partum depression all the time. All mental illness is on a curve. It takes a expert who has the training and experinece working with the curve to judge when to refer a patient to a p-doctor. Due to lousy genes I have sought psychiatric treatment for treatment of my addictions. My experience is there is a wide variance of abilities in psychiatric medicine, the problem is nobody knows. If a surgeon does lousy work, he will be barred from hospitals, therefore a consequence. If p-dr does lousy work nobody knows. There is the term callled "standard of care" that what attorneys look at to determine if the physicians actions are neglegent. Do not for for p-doctors, nobody can explain how p-medications work, therefore no performance standards. Hopefully this case shines the light on p-medicine, where people are made skeptical of the claims of the doctor of the ability to successfully treat patients.
"Medication Madness" by Peter Breggin covers this exact thing, very sad
Women's bodies go thru massive chemical changes naturally and without any outside help all month long and I am so glad I am not a woman and I feel for and respect them in this burden. Most of them deal with it very well and it is admirable.
I can totally respect it when they lose it from time to time and it just isn't their fault. It is such a crazy balancing act of nature that women have to deal with chemically and physically and if just one thing isn't right it can make them crazy or miserable or any number of other things.
Being an incubator for babies is a massive job and the human body does amazing things chemically to do it and women have to live thru that both physically and emotionally/mentally and survive it whether they get pregnant or not.
I thank God I'm not a woman and I give them every benefit of the doubt for what they go thru.
Put a man on an estrogen regimen and watch him turn into an emotional wreck out of his control inside of a week. Now live that way almost your entire life.
It's another reason why those sex change people go on the gun sprees because they are playing Russian roulette with their bodies natural chemistry and their brains are being scrambled chemically.
I appreciate your compassion for what we go through! I hope if you have a wife or girlfriend she appreciates you.
To me, your last paragraph also made the case for the talk of men on female hormones going crazy/violent.
Thank you for taking the time to write all that out!
Well I’m not trying to be funny and my wife has explained it to me like this: One night her and ten of her friends went on a girls night out. During the night the current election of the time came up and they started talking politics. All but two of the women, my wife and another lady, were going to vote for John Edwards. When my wife questioned them about John Edwards policies or what platform he was running on none of them had a clue. When she questioned why they were voting for him they all told her because he was the cutest and had the nicest hair and smile. These women were in their mid forties which makes it even more pitiful. My wife came home and immediately told me she would gladly give up her right to vote if it would keep those other women from voting and she was dead serious.
OH MY GOSH!
I have a few friends that have more ‘progressive’ views than I do. Mostly women. When folks in these chats mention taking the vote away from women, I have to agree. Although it would make me very sad not to be able to vote, BUT reading all this stuff and hearing friends talking, I think I may very well be glad THEY couldn’t vote. SIx of one; half-dozen of another……sigh.
Thanks for the story!
You are literally retarded!
Look up any psychiatric drug and look for the information on how it works and what it actually does. You will never NEVER see any information on how it actually works or what it actually does. It's all a bunch of "it is believed, and we don't know". All efficacy is judged based entirely on improvements in symptoms over a 6 week to 6 months period. How is that in any way proof that the drug actually accomplished anything? Improvements likely could have occurred naturally over that time period. Psychiatrists and to a lesser degree psychotherapists could be doing far more harm than good. We will never know because to question the pharmacological efficacy of the massive pill pushing is treated like you are denying science. Psychiatry is not a science. For the most part it consists of throwing mind altering drugs at people until they find, not the one that does the most good, but the one that causes the least harm! You'd likely get just as much help from having a witch doctor throw dust in the air and dancing around the patient screaming and shaking a spear to scare the evil spirits away.
83% of mass shooters were deemed mentally ill and prescribed one or more psychotropic drugs known to cause anxiety, confusion, anger and violence. Yet they are prescribed anyway. When the patient finally goes off, the psychiatrist is never considered in any way responsible. The Left always blames guns.
They also cause suicide ideation, my boyfriend became depressed after his mother passed. He went on medication and 6 months later took his life
Independent studies all show that long term outcomes are far better for patients that do not use psychotropic medicine. Long term use of psychotropic medicine also lowers your life expectancy by ten years.
They’re not talking about medicines.
Maybe stick with MKUltra favorite, LSD.
Strangely enough, modern Electro-convulsive therapy has actually had some amazing results in improving depressive disorders. People have been misled about that treatment option for many years.
I don't know, jumping your brain like a car battery sounds like old quackery.
For a child, the belt was the best medicene. For post delivered mothers, the last thing one should do is seek a physco doctor.
Well, it actually is like jumping the car. What it does is to allow the brain to sort of do a reboot. There is some temporary short term memory loss but the memories return fairly quickly. in todays version the patient is asleep when the procedure is done. It works better than pharmaceuticals for severe depression and even bipolar disorder, I’ve never hear of a treated person ever trying to kill others after a treatment. The major problem is that the psychiatrist doesn’t get a kickback from the pharmaceutical industry.
The person who I know who endured this treatment lost all the time they were in the hospital and it never returned. They find this very distressing.
More than anything else. Good sleep is what is needed..
Lack of sleep is what about this person put in the hospital in the first place.
Lobotomy is also highly effective.
You are just another retard!
I agree because I had a family member that had ECT and not only did it work on ther clinical depression but also alleviated some Parkinsons symptoms temporarily. I had two close relatives to seek wide counsel from…..one was a clinical psychologist and another was a pastor who also had a degree in social work and had ministered extensively with older adults in nursing homes. Both recommended it and stated they had never witnessed bad results from it. It was frightening and scary because of all the negative connotations associated with it, but it worked. And I believe people should be given the option.
I have a very personal experience with that.
I also know that they will just like with prescription Drugs try to use the maximum amount possible.
ECT induces seizures, with the aim of increasing plasticity. The research is ongoing, the precise mechanism of action still unknown.
You are correct in pointing out that people have been misled about it; the side-effects range from temporary confusion and amnesia, all the way to status epilepticus and thromboembolic events.
Still, fewer side effects tha your typical psychotropic meds and for many psychiatric disorders like PTSD and Trauma, it is far more effective than drug therapy in the relief of symptoms.
No argument against the side effect assertion; I've seen some extraordinarily destructive dosing excesses, leading anxious and melancholy clients all the way to psychotic breaks and lesser increments of worsening symptoms.
ECT should be reserved for a treatment of very last resort.
To your point about PTSD; it has become increasingly difficult to find competent CBT-oriented therapists with sufficient experience to provide meaningfully-effective treatment.
That said, the vast majority of those being prescribed pharmaceutical interventions, are simply everyday neurotics in need of help with learning to overcome maladaptive ideation.
…..But that requires work and passage through temporarily-increased discomfort. Far easier to ingest chemicals that flatten emotional responsivity.
I have observed a corollary to that flattening; an incuriosity that inhibits learning. This is nontrivial, forming a feedback loop that worsens the maladaptive reactivity to mildly-disturbing life events.
What people don't understand is that it is not just the anti-anxiety meds that are addictive, it is all of them. Try getting off of them. Not that I have ever been on them, but I have a Master's in Psychology I have read about people trying to get off their anti-depressants, it is very difficult. Those taking Cymbalta trying to get off of it literally open the capsules and gradually pull out some of the beads in it ween off gradually. I asked a Psychiatrist once if they are addictive and he denied it, I didn't argue with him, I had already done my research and knew he was incorrect.
Actually if you have been watching the trial, the night that horrific tragedy occurred bloodwork was done by the ER. It showed she had minimal psych drugs in her system.
Withdrawal from the drugs can actually cause psychosis. It’s called dopamine supersensitivity syndrome
Well said. Years ago when I was under a lot of stress it manifested in my gut as stomach issues including bloat, heart burn and on and on.
I went to my regular doctor and he's prescribing all these antacid meds, sending me out for endo scope tests, barium upper GI series, colonoscopies and they even did heart tests and put me on a tread mill stress test. Not of that stuff helped.
I was an amateur athlete at the time doing weight lifting, cycling and such. All of these tests and treatments were all negative and all they showed was that I was in excellent physical condition! Yet I had all these stomach problems and bad heart burn!
To make a long story short, I threw all that junk in the trash and went to a naturopathic doctor that was an MD that did not prescribe drugs. She did some tests for allergies and found I had a mild sensitivity to gluten and lactose.
Set me up on a herb and vitamin program and diet and told me to start exercising again for the stress and it cured me! It took a few months but things improved a whole lot, all with out drugs. Homeopathic doctors also prescribe remedies which are tiny pellets consisting of various compounded herbs that are put under the tongue to dissolve and they treat various maladies.
I did the same thing during covid and concentrated on building the immunity and taking Vitamin D, zinc, E and other natural substances and I avoided covid.
Tell that to an allopathic doctor and they will swear their drugs are better but drugs have severe side effects while you can take most all natural substances and they come with NO side effects and natural things will not harm you.
Medicine today is totally drug related while using natural substances can and will work and with out any side effects.
I had bad acid reflux during my divorce. All the prescribed because it was new Nexium in the world.
Apple cider vinegar. That’s what did it.
I had horrible heart burn atoo and was on that nexium as well. It didn’t help at all.
Apple cider vinegar is good because sometimes the heart burn is not too much stomach acid, theres isn’t enough. Yet these docs go immediately to drugs.
Headpills=quack medicine
Pharmakeia = witchcraft/sorcery. From pharmakon (a drug).
I found Rye Ergot when trying to look up Rye Argott. Are these the same to you?
if Medicine, Not Psychiatry, Had Shown Up?
Medicine did show up in the form of Psycho-pharmaceuticals …
And there-in lies the problem …
Andrea Yates needs to be studied to see if her postpartum drug regimen was the cause of thoughts that told her to kill her 5 kids.
I knew a wonderful woman many years ago who suffered from extreme postpartum depression. She was clear enough to understand that she was off her rocker. She had this overwhelming urge to put her newborn in the microwave. She did not of course. But she admitted to moving the baby into the kitchen in preparation to do it. She called a friend to find out more about it. Her friend stopped her. She passed a few years ago and her son is doing well. She was a beautiful woman with a beautiful soul. Just a sad period in her life. Postpartum is much more common than we know, in my view
an article like this needs to explain in the first paragraph why it is important. I have no idea who the person named is and about halfway through the article I realized they were not going to tell me, so I am gone. I articles mistrust of psychiatry, but I can't waste my time
They do tell you. But it should be made clear in the beginning of the article.
When I saw what crime she was on trial for I remembered reading about it when it happened. But her name didn't ring that same bell.
I ended up going elsewhere and finding what she did there. Maybe someday I will go back and read the article.
After my boyfriend's Mom passed he became clinically depressed, he went into counseling and went on medication. He appeared to be doing better, and then they changed his medication, 3 wks later he hung himself. I have always blamed the medication for the loss of him. I was devastated by his death, I did not go on medication and just made my way through it all by sheer will.
I'd look at if he was cheating in her and she found out.
After gving birth this can happen!! Why wasn't the husband family members friends doctors!! Paying attention. Answer > due to ignorance!! Sigh Innocent until proven guilty. This happens a lot. Wake up world!!