Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

I see that 2 people got to answer before I did. But I agree with the both of them. Medication can only suppress the symptoms and the real problem will be hidden only to slowly take away at your life. All self medication is the same. 2 people that I know have been using anti-depressants for 10+ years and to be honest they are incredibly unhealthy emotionally. Both of them have countless of buried issues and lives that have pretty much already ended.
The anti-depressants are one of the most profitable drugs sold by the pharmaceutical companies. So no wonder they are keen on keeping people on the IV drip for as long as possible.

I dony think just profability is behind all ot it. It seems more and more the political idea is less about changing yourself to more "I am a victim of my enviroment and forced to do this" this has become the political paradigm lately and is becoming worse

Despression is accepterd to be a chemical imabalance causee by genetics with not many ways to change it. People belive that its not your beleilfs or weakness that causes is, but a genetic "destiny".

Profit is all the drug companies understand. They develop drugs for X test them, discover that it does nothing (discard and repeat), nothing they can monetize (discard and repeat), what it's supposed to do (sell the hell out of it) or that it does something unexpected that they can monetize.

When it does the latter, they invent a new "disease" for it to treat, and start advertising it and training doctors about the new "disease".

The political side is definitely more and more about a government that takes care of you while taking away your rights and freedoms. But these days, a free ride is worth it for a lot of people.

If you look around, there's a lot of evidence that the "genetic/chemical imbalance" theory (and it is only a theory) is full on BS, if not all cases, in the vast majority.

My research and experimentation shows that almost all depression stems from either emotional trauma that has been medicated and/or buried instead of dealt with and purged, eating a diet that fucks with your brain chemistry (e.g. too-high carb diet), or some combination of the two.

If my theory is correct, then E2/E3 (when it comes out) should be much more effective in helping with depression in the long run than antidepressants.