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 "Moreover, when you look at all other causes of death, people with higher cholesterol have less cancer, respiratory failure, automobile accidents, and suicides.
Accidents and suicides? The connection: you need cholesterol to make brain cells. A level too low (around 160 mg/dl) has, in fact, been linked to depression, aggression, and cerebral hemorrhages. Low cholesterol can also promote global amnesia because proper nerve transmission is affected. You need cholesterol for memory."- Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) |
 "Violent methods were more often associated with fluoxetine suicides than with TCA suicides (65% v. 23%, P < 0.001). Demographic characteristics of antidepressant-related deaths in Maryland were similar to those of the entire USA."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "According to the drug companies, there were no suicides in any of their drug trials. 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."- Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) |
| "Accidents and suicides? The connection: you need cholesterol to make brain cells. A level too low (around 160 mg/dl) has, in fact, been linked to depression, aggression, and cerebral hemorrhages. Low cholesterol can also promote global amnesia because proper nerve transmission is affected. You need cholesterol for memory.
Cholesterol helps neutralize toxins produced by bacteria that swarm into the bloodstream from the gut when the system is weak. So your body also uses cholesterol to fight infections." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) |
 "No one has yet shown that SSRIs increase the rates of completed or "successful" suicides in either adults or children. But one reason for the increased agitation is that the recommended starting dose is often too high. I recommend starting at half the recommended dose and moving patients up very gradually.
Akathisia is also treatable with Valium and other benzodiazepine drugs (sedatives), and I don't think that doctors should be afraid to use them for a limited time."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "As Persinger discovered, the more unsettled the weather in space, the greater the number of patients hospitalized for nervous disorders and the greater number of attempted suicides.18 Geomagnetic disturbance also seemed to correlate with increases in general psychiatric disorders.19 Even those already suffering from mental illness get more agitated during magnetically stormy days."- Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) |
| "The more we hear about the rising tide of suicides in adolescents and even in children as young as 8, 9 and 10, it seems astounding that such a thing should overwhelm substantial numbers of children in what is supposed to be the happiest time of life. I evaluate children and adults who are depressed. For some of them there is no apparent reason for their overwhelming sadness. They've got good relationships with other people. Their social organization is intact. They've had a good upbringing. They have a good self-image." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "Which begs the question: Could some of the suicides blamed on these antidepressants have been prevented with simple genetic testing for the gene that's responsible for the detox enzyme? I personally think so.
Interestingly, on the other hand, some folks make too much of this enzyme (as well as other enzymes) and require higher doses of drugs for the therapeutic benefit. These may be the same people who live long and with relatively unhealthy lifestyles!"- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
| "And venlafaxine seems to carry the greatest risk of suicide of all the antidepressants, with a threefold increased risk of attempted or completed suicides.
Mood-Stabilizing Agents
Mood-stabilizing agents are used conventionally in the treatment of epilepsy, but they may also be effective in the stabilization of mood in patients with psychiatric disorders, especially patients with bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive disorder) is a condition that affects more than 2 million Americans." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (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.) |
 "Even aggressive behavior and suicides are now linked with lower cholesterol levels. Since 1992, researchers have noted increases in suicides among those undertaking cholesterol-lowering treatment or dietary regimes. By lowering blood cholesterol you also reduce serotonin receptors leading to increased micro viscosity and affecting the balance of cerebral lipid metabolism. This is believed to have profound effects on brain function. Data from mental institutions have revealed that aggressive people and those with antisocial personalities have lower blood cholesterol levels than average."- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "Instead, it listed the suicides under the relatively benign category of "emotional lability" (emotional instability). No one on the face of the earth looks for suicide data under the category of emotional lability. As a result, anyone scanning the company's database would be unable to discover all the suicide attempts on Paxil.
My report in the Lacuzong case, based on sealed company data, also showed that the company systematically avoided reporting cases of akathisia, and that some of the suicide cases were related to that anguish-inducing drug reaction."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Consistent with what we find throughout this book, the increased rate of suicide on SSRIs occurred during the first month of treatment and "suicides of a violent nature were distinctly more common during SSRI therapy." Members of the "public" were allowed to make three-minute presentations.21 In my presentation, I politely told the FDA that it was playing with junk when it tried to analyze the suicidality data produced by drug companies. I emphasized that the drug companies cannot be trusted to deliver accurate data from their clinical trials." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Working with my research assistant Ian Goddard, we found many correlations between akathisia and suicidal behavior, including completed suicides.3 The official American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV), is the diagnostic bible of psychiatry. It discusses akathisia at length in both of the two most recent editions (1994 and 2000). This conservative, establishment textbook specifically warns, "Akathisia may be associated with dysphoria, irritability, aggression, or suicide attempts." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "So, we will have more suicides, more crime, more addiction and more mental problems. Children become teens; teens become adults. Those same children of yesterday are adults tomorrow, believing in drugs and continuing taking drugs. The genetic makeup of the human race will change bit by bit. We will have generations of drug-personalities.
A society on drugs is a degenerating and dying society. A drug-personality will flee from reality with drugs, not unlike the person on street drugs. We will have a society with more fear, more toxicity."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "This is over a five-year period from 1999 to 2004 and represents 38% of the total youth suicides. Florida State Representative, Gus Barreiro, released the report February 23,2006, which also showed that 36 children who had committed suicide were using the popular ADHD stimulant medications, which are given to some 2.5 million children in America today. Barreiro stated, "These drugs are dangerous and there is no question that they kill children. Parents need to know the consequences." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "And, more apropos, "they say" that there was an unusually high number of suicides at the time of the crash of 1929, but there was not.19 Stories that are useful in conversations, and in media presentations, have a currency often unrelated to the facts.
Given this tendency to attribute views to real or imagined experts, people do not worry much about apparent contradictions among the views they hold."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
| "Therefore, the lack of completed suicides had nothing to do with the antidepressants.
My conclusion? Putting a depressed patient in a controlled clinical trial by itself probably protects against suicide. Why? Because patients in controlled clinical trials are given the hope that they will be helped and for several weeks they are also given a great deal of weekly professional attention. Hope and personal attention are the two most important human factors in preventing suicide. Therapists routinely prevent suicide by offering hope and attention." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
| "Approximately half of these cases are due to unintentional poisoning as opposed to attempted suicides, the researchers add.
Compared to the millions of acetaminophen tablets taken by Americans every day, the number of poisonings still remains low. But the researchers find it troubling that the percentage of acute liver failure cases linked to the drug have almost doubled since 1998.
THE STUDY
Lead researcher Dr." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
 "There had been four suicides over several years of testing, but those, the company stressed, had occurred among patients who were depressed. Tracy was not. Lilly believed that there was no evidence that it might induce suicidal thoughts, a strange assumption given the problematic history of antidepressants, and the fact that, at the time, the FDA had ramped up its investigation of just that issue. Tracy Johnson signed up.
For the next month, she dutifully took her daily dose of Cymbalta. She was cheerful, as usual."- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "Eli Lilly's newest antidepressant, Cymbalta (Duloxetine) had 6 suicides in the clinical trials, before it ever reached the market, and in people with no previous history of depression. The last and most publicized was the death of a young college girl, who had entered the clinical trial for some extra money while she was in school. She had no depression, was a good student, social and well adjusted, found hanging by a noose after a dosage change of this forecasted blockbuster. See: news.independent.co.uk/uk/ healtf_medical/story.jsp?"- Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.) "Teen suicides have tripled since 1960 in the United States. Today suicide is the leading cause of death (after car accidents) for 15 to 24-year-olds. Since the early 1990's millions of children around the world have taken antidepressants that health authorities are just now branding as suicidal agents. This is the other side of the magnesium deficiency, the nightmare of these drugs which only compounds and worsens the loss of magnesium from the body. The scene has been long in the making for the patterned onslaught of psychiatry on the young." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.) |
 "At the time he was consulting with a high school, doing grief work with students after a rash of suicides. "It is terrible for a client," he objected, "if they try all that touchy-feely stuff and it doesn't work."
Underlying his objection was the assumption that living meant that the "touchy-feely stuff" worked, and dying meant that it did not. Siegel and others have reintroduced into public consciousness the idea of a healed death.
My mother showed me this first-hand. She developed cancer in her left eye and her liver."- Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) |
 "In 1987 the German equivalent of America's Food and Drug Administration refused to allow Prozac (the only antidepressant drug approved for use by children in America) to be marketed in Germany when studies revealed three times as many suicides among study participants as among those on a placebo.14 Their studies were particularly disconcerting because, unlike correlational studies which can lead to false conclusions, the Germans used an experimental design. If antidepressants correct the chemical imbalance, why would there be more suicide among those on these drugs?"- Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "If his estimate is even close to being accurate, then the number of suicide attempts (and actual suicides) related to just the first of the SSRI drugs is staggering. As Tracy noted, it was in February of 1990 that the suicide concern came to "public and professional attention." Specifically, she was referring to an American Journal of Psychiatry article published by Dr. Martin Teicher and his colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School which received much attention." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "Those comments were made as stories about Prozac-induced suicides were being written in the popular media following the American Journal of Psychiatry article of February 1990 which identified the link. It took 19 months before the FDA hearings on this concern were held, but Lilly (rather than develop fair RCT studies which they already knew would destroy their miracle pill) plotted the strategy which would keep the public from knowing the truth and would influence the FDA committee members." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (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.) |
| "Akathisia was not the only unrevealed side effect at play in many of the suicides and suicide attempts. Withdrawal syndrome — a sudden, intense, flu-like syndrome often accompanied by both mania and depression — also loomed large in both young and older SSRI users. But parents had not been warned about that either. At SmithKline, Paxil had been relabeled eleven times before there was any mention of withdrawal, and then only in a deeply buried paragraph." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "Suicides also seem to be highest during this time of year.
Foods greatly influence the brain's behavior. A poor diet, especially one with a lot of junk foods, is a common cause of depression. The levels of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, which regulate our behavior, are controlled by what we eat, and neurotransmitters are closely linked to mood. The neurotransmitters most commonly associated with mood are dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine. When the brain produces serotonin, tension is eased."- Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) |
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