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"On closer examination of the initial reports, it was unclear whether the behaviors reported in these studies represented actual suicide attempts or other self-injurious behaviors that were not suicide-related. While it is good to know that there were no actual suicides, it is still not reassuring that suicide attempts or thoughts and other self-destructive behaviors can be a symptom of these drugs. This is one of the most serious issues that has taken its toll on our health and on our future in the name of profit." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Gavin Lambert of Baker Medical Research Institute in Australia found that suicide rates peak in the spring just after winter's end. This seasonal variation also showed up in other studies. At the same time, this phenomenon was absent when we reviewed suicide rates in an equatorial population in Singapore. This suggests that it takes a shorter summer with UVB rays and a longer winter without UVB rays and decreased vitamin D production for the seasonal suicide trend to occur. Serotonin acts as a brain messenger that sends you a sense of well-being. Dr." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"No one has committed suicide because he or she was taking vitamins or amino acids, but there is up to a 60 percent increased risk of suicide attempts in people taking some types of antidepressants and an overall 39 percent increase in suicide from all antidepressants.19 You don't hear about nutritional treatments like these, because supplement manufacturers don't have billions to advertise on television or millions to fund large studies the way pharmaceutical companies do. In chapter 22, you will learn how to fix low serotonin levels naturally, using the concepts I have discussed here." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"He found "74 of the 2298 children taking antidepressants had a 'suicide related event' compared with 34 of the 1952 children taking placebos."138 Over one hundred events occurred in the trials that were labeled by the drug company sponsors as "possibly suicide-related," ranging from hanging and overdose to cutting and slapping. Forty-seven patients were hospitalized; none completed a suicide attempt. Mosholder additionally found that only 3 in 15 pediatric depression trials included sufficient evidence of efficacy, raising the question of whether any of these drugs were effective in children." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"But a very well-kept secret, revealed by considering all the research, is that the actual rate of death from suicide is higher in patients who take the new antidepressants than in those who take the older tricyclics. Even more important, twice as many people taking the new antidepressants successfully committed suicide than did the people who took placebos. The results of all the studies—published and unpublished—showed that of every 1000 people with depression treated with one of the new antidepressant drugs, 4." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, unlike most other neurological disorders, ADHD has high rates of suicide that are associated not only with the disorder itself, but also with the drugs most commonly used to treat it, including Ritalin. Many suicides among children, attributed to Ritalin use, occur every year. This was the possible future that Mary had to face. If she and her husband refused to face it, and did not struggle to help Brian recover, this future of pain and failure would be even more likely to occur. This was also the reality that Lisa faced with Teia. It was the reality Liza faced with Alisa." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Some years ago, there were reports that low blood cholesterol levels might be associated with lung, liver, or colon cancer and that they might also contribute to accidental deaths and suicide. For example, one trial from Helsinki, Finland, seemed to have identified more traumatic deaths in patients using cholesterol-lowering drugs.2 But subsequent reanalysis of the Helsinki study and all other trials of the effects of reducing cholesterol levels, with or without drugs, have shown no increased incidence of suicide, accidents, or cancer." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Brynn Hartmann, the actor Phil Hartmann's wife, was on SSRIs when she shot her husband and committed suicide. • In March of 1998, Matthew Beck went on a bloody rampage at his office, the Connecticut Lottery Corp. headquarters, killing four senior lottery officials before committing suicide. He was on 2 antidepressants, including Luvox. • Many children under the age of 3 have already been given Prozac. • Special "flavored" SSRIs are now in development just for children. The Herbal Solution For the vast majority of people bothered by stress or depression, there is a safe, effective solution." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Shaffer announced that he had shown that screening adolescents at school could find those at risk of suicide, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, the maker of the antidepressant Luvox, presented two checks, each for $250,000, to the Foundation for suicide Prevention, where Dr. Shaffer served as president. The checks were part of Solvay s pledge to pay $1 million to the foundation, which has helped spread the word about TeenScreen. In 2005 the foundation's chairman was David A. Dodd, the former chief executive of Solvay." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"For astonishing numbers of farmers, despair has led to suicide. India in particular has had a huge epidemic of farmer suicides. Vandana Shiva reports that twenty thousand farmers committed suicide in India between 1998 and 2000.1 Some five thousand farmer suicides have been recorded since the late 1990s in a single southern state, Andhra Pradesh.2 The typical method is to drink pesticides. According to an Indian reporter who has visited and documented hundreds of families in which farmers have killed themselves, "The suicides are a symptom of vast agrarian distress." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"Even more important, twice as many people taking the new antidepressants successfully committed suicide than did the people who took placebos. The results of all the studies—published and unpublished—showed that of every 1000 people with depression treated with one of the new antidepressant drugs, 4.6 more committed suicide each year than would have if they had been treated with a placebo. Another, more specific example of bias in the research results available to doctors is the "evidence" showing that Paxil is safe and effective for depressed adolescents." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"This suggests that it takes a shorter summer with UVB rays and a longer winter without UVB rays and decreased vitamin D production for the seasonal suicide trend to occur. Serotonin acts as a brain messenger that sends you a sense of well-being. Dr. Michael Maes of the University of Maastrcht in the Netherlands has observed a seasonal variation in serotonin metabolism that coincides with the seasonal variation in depression and suicide rates. He and other researchers also saw lower levels of omega-3 fatty acids in patients with depression." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt, or a specific plan for committing suicide. There are even subtypes of depression such as mild, moderate, and severe, with and without psychotic features, chronic, catatonic, melancholic, atypical, and more outlined in a similar manner. And there are literally thousands of different distinctions like these made for the major "mental diseases" cataloged in the DSM-IV." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Death" after helping to assist the suicide of several patients. A little-known story is that Dr. Kevorkian's first assisted-suicide patient, Janet Adkins of Portland, Oregon, was a so-called Alzheimer's victim. Her family members said that she had made the decision to die when she was first diagnosed with having AD—that her outlook was so bleak after the brief conversation with her doctor that she couldn't bear the idea of suffering from the dread disease. Even though Mrs. Adkins was still hale enough to beat her sons at tennis, she made the decision in 1990 to contact Dr." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt, or a specific plan for committing suicide. There are even subtypes of depression such as mild, moderate, and severe, with and without psychotic features, chronic, catatonic, melancholic, atypical, and more outlined in a similar manner. And there are literally thousands of different distinctions like these made for the major "mental diseases" cataloged in the DSM-IV." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"After five and a half years of follow-up evaluation, they had experienced significantly fewer deaths, fewer new heart attacks, and fewer angioplasties and bypasses than those who took the placebo, and they showed no increase at all in deaths from accidents, suicide, or cancer.4 Will I have enough strength and energy? If you believed all the advertisements that bombard us in print and on television, you'd think that people who didn't consume dairy and animal products couldn't possibly get the nutrients they need for strength and energy. Nonsense." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"AKATHISIA: A PAINFUL DANCE OF DEATH SOME OF THESE BIZARRE SENSATIONS MEET the diagnostic criteria for akathisia, a drug-induced neurological disorder that is known to drive people to suicide and violence, and to madness. Akathisia means the inability to sit still and the syndrome is usually but not always associated with a compulsive need to move about in a futile attempt to stop the torment. Several people observed that Harry was agitated and restless in the days before he assaulted the policeman." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "In addition, GSK had already sent out its "Dear Healthcare Professional" letter confirming that Paxil caused increased suicide attempts in all ages of depressed patients. Beyond that, the FDA's own analysis of the data by staffers Marc Stone, MD, and M. Lisa Jones, MD, in late 2006 confirmed that Paxil caused increased suicidality in adults of all ages and in all diagnostic categories. The FDA ignored all of this when it decided to limit the warning to increased suicidality in children and young adults taking the newer antidepressants like Paxil." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"No one knows, for his tongue is so swollen before his suicide he cannot be understood. By the fourth day, only one sailor is left alive. He beaches his vessel on the shores of Halicarnassus, and runs from the cursed ship, screaming . . . but not very loudly, as he has started coughing up blood. He makes it as far as the nearest village before dying. Now, multiply this voyage by a hundred, five hundred ships. By a thousand ports. Ten thousand oxcarts. The demon was loose." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The LPS wall is needed not only for all the outer-membrane functions that permit the survival of each individual bacterium, but, like a belt of explosives worn by a suicide bomber, is its most powerful weapon as well ... in the words of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Meda-war, "probably the most complicated chemical substance known."16 And if the point of the spear for Y. pestis is the lipopolysaccharide-produced endotoxin, the very tip of that point are the six (occasionally seven) fatty acids, collectively known as Lipid A." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "These bacterial suicide bombers cause overproduction of a number of the immune system's most powerful agents, including the enzymes that release lysozyme, and TNF (tumor necrosis factor). The result is shock, sometimes fatal. The diabolical beauty—there is no other word—of the system is the bacterium's ability to delay telease of its cargo of Lipid A until its arrival in the lymphatic system, which can carry it throughout the body. Frequently, the system works so well that by the time the first symptoms?chills, rigor, high temperature"?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The thirteen-year-long reign of rhe mad Justin II—at one point, bars were affixed to his windows to frustrate any suicide attempts43—can count among its achievements the unchecked invasion of the Lombards into Italy, the establishment of the Avars on rhe Danube, and the encroachments of the Slavs into the Balkans and Greece. The empress, Sophia, prevailed on her husband to choose a general, Tiberius, as his successor in 578, but while sane, Tiberius was no better able to preserve Justinian's achievements than his predecessor." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"For one thing, there was his professional position to think about: for a Harvard professor to commit himself to studying the health benefits of meditation struck many of Benson's colleagues as professional suicide.32 For another, there was the question of the religious implications of his work. "After seeing . . . how much this was [practiced] in a religious context, it hit me, this is prayer, this is one form of prayer. And I got frightened, really scared." Benson went to see the dean of the Harvard Divinity School and asked for his advice." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Eating the more or less typical American diet consisting of red meat, fried foods, full-fat dairy products, refined grains, and desserts is, in fact, synonymous with unintentionally attempting suicide. In an observational study, investigators examined the relationship between the dietary patterns of more than 1,000 people who had been treated for stage III colon cancer and their risk of colon cancer recurrence." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Within individual societies, he found that suicide rates were also relatively higher among groups of people who were less socially integrated and regulated by collective societal norms: unmarried people (as opposed to married people), people living in urban settings (as opposed to people living in rural villages), and Protestants (as opposed to Catholics).3 In postwar America, some sociologists adapted Durkheim's concept of anomie to describe other costs they believed were associated with living in an increasingly mobile and rootless society." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The populations in Northern European countries like Norway and Finland, which experience months of darkness every year, have a higher incidence of irritability, fatigue, illness, insomnia, depression, alcoholism, and suicide than those living in the sunny parts of the world. Their skin cancer rates are higher, too. For example, the incidence of melanoma (skin cancer) on the Orkney and Shetland Isles, north of Scotland, is 10 times that of Mediterranean islands. UV light is known to activate an important skin hormone called solitrol." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"While it is good to know that there were no actual suicides, it is still not reassuring that suicide attempts or thoughts and other self-destructive behaviors can be a symptom of these drugs. This is one of the most serious issues that has taken its toll on our health and on our future in the name of profit. This is the same class of drugs discussed earlier that is being routinely prescribed to our children for ADHD. It is a travesty." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"At the close of the nineteenth-century, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim had presented statistical evidence that suicide was more common in societies that had recently experienced a breakdown in social norms—what Durkheim called "anomie" (a Greek word meaning "absence of norms or rules")—than it was in more stable societies." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

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