Chemical Imbalance

[tien714]

Doctors and Psychiatrist is full of crap; your doctor speaks of antidepressant as if they are candy. "Takes the edge off"?  what a joke. There are no chemical imbalance test to prove any of this; it's all a scam.

[a10fjet]

90% of the time, mental diagnosis is a fraud. Get outside and reconnect with nature and change your diet to be more nutritious and less fattening.

[WoWanate]

TREAT CAUSES NOT SYMPTOMS!

Time for a healin of the nation

[Silenus6]

See: Breggin.com for tons of information about the dangers of psychemeds.

Also check out the documentary Food Matters

[reprovo]

We live In a nightmare that we've become accustomed to , desensitized. If you grabbed someone from a couple of centuries back and threw him Into our world , He/she would In all likelyhood go Insane.

[TonyCH0]

Darren has nailed it here, I think. Please check it out, and think about it! :-)

Look up: youtube Darren Hanlon Happiness chemical

"Can you take me with you when you go?"

[martini20071996]

you fat pig, go away

[martini20071996]

you fat whore, go away

[madbandicooot]

For me depression is what I make of it, I know I can prevent becoming depressed in the first place its a way of thinking.

[AbaIssachar]

WTF!! depression is easy handled? once you experience that kind of suck ailment you probably die!

[MeMeCloud]

I was diagnosed with major depression at a young age. I just gave off a vibe of doom and gloom, darkening any room others had the misfortune of being in. I tried every drug available, saw multiple therapists, but my feelings didn’t change. The last therapist I saw, a CBT finally said to me, “I can't help you”. After that, I felt, if my life was going to be enjoyable, I had to find meaning on my own. He actually did help me, because at that point, all I had was myself.

[MeMeCloud]

@MeMeCloud

I'm not implying therapy and drugs don’t work. When he told me he couldn’t help me, I thought about living within a depressing void for the rest of my life, and everything inside of me just said, “NO”. I had never felt like that before. If I had, the therapy I had gotten earlier in life probably would have been more effective.

[rosko300]

i totally agree our government is fucked and i dont see how talking to some stranger psychiatrist about your problems and what your going thru is going to help that person get better ? its a load bullshit and its not about helping people its about the government making money the bastards !!!

[IvanMatvijenko]

The society makes me laugh sometimes, there is a test! and i can see from just looking at you that almost all chakras are not working properly! Go see a Homeopath he will give you safe medicine that will 100% work, don't be surprised if he ask you lots of questions personal question, you might have to spend up to 10 20 hours with him some times can be as little as one depending on how complex the problem is (every person is different too)

Chemical Imbalance = careful what to eat

[eliasjabbour31337]

well im sorry to say it, but here we have seen a load of bullshit being tossed that i cant believe that in the 21th century can be still tossed..

go read a book.. there is no laboratory test to see the chimical imbalance in the brain and to specify it.. u have a shitload of neurotransmittors than can cause depression

the diagnosis itself is made by encounters and thats it.. so please mam .. read a book.

anti depressive isnt needed for life.. and they dont do it alone. psycotherapy is needed too.

[whatUneverknew]

Thank you for sharing!!! The medical community is guessing and selling drugs because they don't know what else to do, and because our society holds profits over health. Depression is not a medical issue, it's a reaction to living in an shallow unfulfilling society. Societal improvement is the answer to drugs and depression.

[LojakZeRo]

Ima stick it in yer butt.

[UberCowz]

A Psychiatrist is the definition of the word devil. Pills don't work, they just cover up the problem for a bit, and then create bigger problems....

[hardinmichael1981]

what does she mean by "general doctor"?

I thought that general physicians were not able to make psychiatric diagnoses.

[steepleashton]

The key to helping people-The most fundamental thing Is to help them get over feeling helpless-To help them understand that they can actually figure things out and make decisions and choices-You can't do that If your giving medication because your saying to them, ' you can't do It ', you need a drug '.

Peter Breggin M.D I'd encourage anybody to read and listen to his speeches. A great man.

[steepleashton]

If there was no profit In psychiatric drugs, most likely they would just disappear from the market. In order to sell these drugs, people have to be convinced that they have ''diseases'' and Illnesses'' that can be cured with the drugs. This Is a form of Disease Mongering.

[steepleashton]

The whole health system Is about making money from the suffering of others. Everytime you go to a doctor for a prescription drug, both the doctor and the pharmaceutical company are making money from your condition. The health system doesn't really serve people who are suffering. This health system Is only living because It's making billions of dollars of profit from ''supposedly'' sick people. Very deceiving. Disease Mongering plays a big part In this as well.

[steepleashton]

Aloxic, yes, you are absolutely right. Studies have shown that natural treatments such as exercising are just as effective or even better than taking psychiatric drugs. The whole medical field Is making billions of dollars from the pain and suffering of others. A lot of people don't realize the greed that's Involved with these drugs.

[Aloxic]

yeah the idea of taking medication and psychiatrists and doctors.. just makes me angry!! :D Natural treatments all the wayyy

[steepleashton]

jaycutlerfans. As you already know, psychiatric drugs cause withdrawal problems.People have to gradually withdraw from these drugs. If you stop cold turkey, then It could be catastrophic.

Secondly, depression Is NOT an Illness. It's a completely normal human response to life. It's completely normal to feel down and sad every now and then. Mild feelings of depression are normal through day to day living.

[steepleashton]

MetaKittie. The brain works chemically. Psychiatric drugs screw the bio-chemistry of your brain function up. This creates biochemical Imbalances In your brain, dangerously stimulating your mind. A lack of serotonin In your brain has nothing to do with feeling more depressed.

[jaycutlerfans]

Whoa, appreciate the time that was taken to make this video but this could be very misleading to medicated patients that truly need there meds! The fact is like all drugs, they are over prescribed and patients are wrongfully diagnosed. But in some causes letting someone with depression off of there meds could result in catastrophe. Example... suicide, murdering loved ones etc... Most victims start with a minor case of depression.

[steepleashton]

There Is no chemical Imbalances In the brain. Antidepressant drugs cause them. It's a fact. It's actually a drug company-sponsored marketing campaign to sell drugs, that's all.

Science does not possess the technology to measure biochemical Imbalances In the living brain.

[MetaKittie]

Ahaha. So you're saying these "imbalances" don't exist? Oh this is pure gold.

Go get a medical degree and try to say that.

Because if imbalances didn't exist, we wouldn't have things like diabetes.

[MsGothicSmoker]

@steepleashton  Read sometime hun. Please...

[LethalPassion]

isn't that bullshit how the first 6 months they just kept upping the dosage and telling you to come back each month? That's why i hate going to doctors about certain shit because I want to just tell him exactly what it is I need and that I researched everything and I know the prescription I need, but they always seem to start with the mildest medication possible...regardless of symptoms.

[Atheistx82]

I think it's bullshit how they take people with situational depression and put them on pills that cause mental illness then give them more pills for the chemically induced mental illnesses they created.

If someone has a chemical imbalance then it's not going to be situational. Being depressed because you lost someone or because you've run into a rough patch in life isn't a mental illness, it's normal and may even serve a function as it motivates you to change things.

[tyronusbiggums]

That's why you're not going to be diagnosed with major depression if you've lost a loved one. The DSM makes exceptions to certain situations. However, if the distress continues to the point where it really screws up your life, then you'll get diagnosed with an episode.

That doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get medicated, however, some therapy to teach coping techniques or behavioral adjustments should be used.

Pills are just convenient due to insurance problems with traditional therapy.

[Atheistx82]

Everyone in the industry is coming out on top except for the patients. It's particularly a problem here in the United States because of the way the system is set up, the lack of transparency, accountability, regulation, and oversight means that doctors can pretty prescribe whatever they want to whoever they want and there's no restrictions on kickbacks from the pharmaceutical industry. It's the Corporate Health Care system, even hospitals are big businesses in it for the money.

[Atheistx82]

I know for a fact that I'm right.

Yes there is massive fraud, but that fraud is based on something real. They didn't just make up BPD, they found an extremely rare condition that had properties they could exploit.

The brain isn't perfect, things go wrong, they always have. Even the ancient greeks knew about different kinds of mental illness.

The only difference today is Big Pharma has arrived and started making people sick with pills then giving them more pills just for being human.

[Atheistx82]

When people deny that mental illnesses exist it pisses me off. People who actually do have BPD have it bad enough already, and just because most people diagnosed with it don't have it those who DO have it have to put up with this.

You don't know the situation with my friend. He would get hysterically happy and fall into a sobbing wreck, he didn't get on pills until he was a teenager, and the pills created problems of their own.

We're not talking about someone who was raped or lost a son.

[Atheistx82]

Oh geez, you people piss me off. You don't know the fucking situation but you know Jonny didn't have BPD so it must be a totally made up thing huh?

My friend didn't have situational depression, he had extreme emotional reactions that didn't make sense all his life. The pills made him miserable but they stopped the manic episodes.

Now he's on a THC pill, basically refined pot, and it's doing wonders for him. He's evened out, living a happy life, blogs on myspace, and has a son on the way.

[Atheistx82]

Just because they improperly diagnose a lot of people with BPD doesn't mean that BPD doesn't exist.

I had a friend in High School who really did have BPD.

[Ysomuchluv]

For me personally, I've been on Paxil with varying doses for about three years now for depression and have been recently diagnosed as bi-polar. For me the medications have helped, but not all medications are for everyone and not everyone needs them.

[heartattackstroke]

@Ysomuchluv After three yeears you are still feeling bad? Time to work on your cure instead of selling your soul to dope dealing flim flam shammers. Nuff said.

[Atheistx82]

When i was a child I was diagnosed with ADHD for acting like a perfectly normal child. I was given drugs, psychotropics, which caused extreme anxiety and depression. They then tried to diagnose me with Bi-Polar disorder because of my CHEMICALLY INDUCED symptoms.

My mother wouldn't have it, she secretly took me off the drugs and within two weeks I was a normal teenager. But by that point, half of my childhood was stolen from me.

[exbronco1980]

psychiatrists should be ashamed of themselves. i put up with their bullshit for years. that profession needs to go the way of the typewriter

[MrTlwalker]

I'm glad for your post; one year of paxil

left me with hypothyroidism, malignant

neoplasms of the brain and syncope...

I was told I had atypical bipolar then

disassociative identity disorder, doctors

asked if I would consider taking something new if it came out to counter paxil, take mood stablizer, take SNRI,

take clanazepam, tricyclic anti depressant.

I'm a vry happy person who sings in for choirs I live with the pain of this brain

damage, Debbie my sis was not so

lucky she died. tnx

[stitchedplate4]

The same doctor who told me to never try speed, also prescribed me Ritalin when I was a teen. I suppose he just didn't want me taking my money to a street doctor instead.

[JazzyJonas]

@stitchedplate4

I think you nailed it.

[1x12x23x3]

@stitchedplate4 weeeeeeeeed lol - does it help

[stitchedplate4]

Someone should let the snake oil rat bastards know that it is natural to get depressed every once in a while. Sounds like you were suffering a bad case of Normalacy to me. People dealt with depression better in the old days because they were not conditioned to look for a quick fix every time they were down on life. I've found psychology to be more helpful than psychiatry, but a good doc is always hard to come by, and hardly worth the effort of searching.

[Atheistx82]

Exactly! If you never get depressed something is wrong with you!

[MetaKittie]

I'd rather take happy pills than listen to this.

[Atheistx82]

When the pills make you anxious, depressed, and psychotic, then you'll realize that you should have listened.

[MetaKittie]

I already am! Who cares.

[Atheistx82]

If you were all those things, I would ask you to examine the causal factors and your history, to determine if the problem is situational or chemical.

Meta, a lot of these drugs make people sick, and a lot of them will cause symptoms of mental illness that you don't naturally have. I know you're being an apathetic brat, but this is something that should be taken seriously.

[plowy]

she should start smoking crack

[artifactingreality]

Translation: we'll keep prescribing you happy pills till will find the one that dopes you up real good so you stop coming here and bothering us.

[Klamev]

Fuck You

[ModernNosferatu]

Most meds today cause retardation in the central nervous system and the release of natural brain chemicals

[ModernNosferatu]

I also thought a chemical imbalance was from taking acid ( LSD ) and the LSD was been stuck in parts of the brain causing flashbacks. Face it once you do acid you are never the same. Good or Bad it changes you

[Gedankenverbrecher84]

Hi Sharon,

Thank you very much for this great video!

This exposes once again, that psychiatry is in no way scientific. Its more like a religion: There is no proof for any chemical imbalance, just the believe in that.

[Kevinlcm17]

IF you want Relief from your "Chemical Imbalance" - Go to a Movie, and Talk to people. And make Money!

[ModernNosferatu]

All the things you said to do or exactly the problems that cause a chemical imbalance but you do have to do these things in life, cause you can't stop talking to people they're fucking every where and you need money to live and movies are every fucking where also but you don't have to see them so you might want to pick up a hobbie

[rextony22]

@Kevinlcm17

does that really work? because everyday i feel so down on different days of the week and i might need those pills to help.

[spaceage614]

theres no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the brain. the reason why your depressed bipolar anxiety etc is because you have a spirital imbalance. dont take the drugs there not designed to help you.

[fkngtwat]

are you serious when ure dying of cancer  we will see how well u do with out medical help (medication and treatment)

[ModernNosferatu]

drugs do help when you really fucking scared of the spiritual world but they are designed to cause harm in the long term

[eshpayman]

ok maybe in magical fairyland but in the REAL world its a proven fact

[Atheistx82]

They're diagnosing toddlers with bi-polar disorder.

Yes some people do have chemicle imbalances, but for every person that needs medication there are a thousand taking pills who don't.

[MyRealityIsMine]

I see this a lot with kids that are hyper and swear and the parents do nothing and say, "he can't help it he has a chemical imbalance..."

[MopDMTBARTL]

one world - CANNABIS!!

beats the heck out of any prescription drug known to man! but most importantly - it's all about NUTRITION - the great videos psychetruth is putting up! good job Psychetruth!!

Watch "The Drugging of our Children" on video google.

or at my website

truthknowledge com

[foxleyleon]

i think there is a blood test to show for sighns of the bipolar gene.

[fkngtwat]

A bisexual polar bear

[EnlightenedPerson]

Please explain to me why you put that. :)

[rpandaspring]

i take Vilift, it's the best. i love how it alleviates my feelings, my mood.

[Feyrhawk]

that blue sky in the back is freakin me out. LOL

[rocksoliddnb]

"Then he referred me to a psychiatrist" -- that's what doctors call a "professional"?

[wob41]

you know what the whole video sounds like me, but before I was on anti depressants, i was suffering from anxiety disorder, later they dignosed me with ADD and Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism)

so they put me on drugs for ADD which did help, but about earlyer this year I got depression again and they increased the dose. I honestly, cant do anything now, i'm so tired, I cant sleep properly i'm so misrable i dont know what to do actually :(

[bodanger]

Some people can endure with a high threshold for pain. These are those who have learned to cope with their problems naturally.

[xdaveh]

Sharon , Thank you . I have been suffering from depression for years and had gone through all the events as you described . I am also clean and off all antidepressants for about a year now and see that bigger picture . Yes I still suffer from depression and looking back now I realize that prescribing medication is an educated "guessing game" . None really worked for me . It was almost amusing but sad to see another experience what I had gone through with the prescribed antidepressants . Dave

[08michaudl]

I have been suffering emotional numbness now for the past four weeks and I feel trapped and lonely.

[swflgrrl]

Sharon, thank you sooo much! I am currently going through exactly what you are describing! Thank you for your story.

[Aislan4414]

Great video I also had a similar experience. All those psych drugs can take a toll on your mind good to see you have bounced back ^.^

[DJERKS]

anti-depressants are bad.i tryed zoloft and lexapro both made me have realy bad panic attacks.there rubbish

[hajarc]

Thanks for another great video.

I also recommend everyone to check out what Gwen Olsen has to say. Search her name here on You Tube.

[paxil007]

Interesting video

[dummyhead69]

indeed

[trailblazer1971]

Really liked the way you presented this especially the part about the drug reps involvement. Have you ever noticed the way equipment in dr's offices all have a drug company's logo displayed prominently on them?

[justme247s]

thank you psychetruth

[justme247s]

3/ I guess i am writing to everyone here because you understand the "Order of the Black Dog". I have considered counseling at my local GP's. I'm just not sure that they understand depression very well. watching the video (by the way thank you :)) and reading comments left on this thread, compelled me to seek advice from here.

[justme247s]

CONT/...I have supported my husband for four years now because I love him dearly, its pains me to see him go through this time and again. However, I'm less able to cope, I'm displaying symptoms. I feel my marriage is heading for trouble,

[justme247s]

I believe I have developed some kind of reactional depression, I live with my husband who has manic attachs frequently since childhood, he has taken meds in the past, but we both feel they added to the anxiety, because meds created new problems.

[realnoid]

The test is in the taking of the meds and perfecting the dosage to find the CI that

might be found but can't be pointed to and has

no name.) Fortunately, CI was never mentioned

to me as the cause of my illness. IT TOOK 5

yrs for my P-doc to finally tell me to check my hormones. I've got adrenal fatigue and

that for me is the mystical CI all these guys

don't look for and, for that reason, never find. Get your hormones checked and work

on them and the true reason for the imbalance.

[realnoid]

That said, I can't blame everything on low cortisol and epinephrine but how can anyone

hope to cope with stress when cortisol is

almost flatlined caused, in no small part,

by proscribed psych meds. Many psych meds

DECREASE the ability to handle stress

by depleting the adrenals and thereby

GUARANTEEING a relapse or a worsening of

the conditing.

[morbeck]

i havent finished the whole video but i can say to you is that at least the doctors in the us give you choices and talk about the different medications that might work for you better. Here in Brazil they make the decision for you and even if you feel awful they insist that you need it because of the quemical imbalance.

[Hiswillnotmine1]

My counselor is trying to push these drugs on me right now & I'm angry about it!I came in for marriage counseling & I'm now being pushed by these Psychiatrists to go on meds. My family/friends say my "chemical imbalance" is crazy and it doesn't even describe me or my situat.They want me to get away from this counselor whose going to screw up my head!I'm reading and seeing this here and I don't even want to finish my sessions w/her. I'm now smelling kickbacks!

[kkristen1]

this is similar to my story, except i was put on many many different drugs as a teen. i finally said enough in my late twenties, stopped going to my pschyciatrist, and now clean from all drugs for 4 years now. I believe that these drugs damaged my brain somehow. They have left me in a permanent type of "fog". I'm not sure I will ever get over the damage

[kamarpashmoo]

reactive depression exists. ok. fine. but biological depression excist too. 2 distinct problems. but WHATEVER.......... There is no point in arguing with you. you wouldn't get it anyways. i did 10 years of therapy and no shit happend. but 2 pills a day do the trick now. go figure.

[spongebob1x]

i got told the same crap and just made me more depressed...imagine someone telling you you have a chemical imbalance..thats depressing in itself

[verysherry13]

actually, it could also be a positive. There is a medical reason behind it, and it is treatable.

[spongebob1x]

well im all sorted now..but at the time it wasn't very helpfull them telling me its a chemical imbalance

[tayraw]

Did you know the old word for deppression is 'melancholy'? Basically it means you are 'sad'. There is no pill that can 'fix' that. You gotta pull yourself out of it maybe with some help by talking things through, oh bu no-one has the time for that anymore so they just 'drug you up' and shut you up basically. Its all a crock!!! Pharmaceuticals pah!

[psychetruth]

Yep there as a time in the not too distant past (1950s) where the doctor would tell you to exercise, get some sleep and pick up a hobby for depression. There were no antidepressants prescribed to people for depression than and the suicide rate was about half of what it is now.

[gamewiz203]

cool vid keep on makin em they r cool

[JimmyK76]

Best cure is exercise.

[PsychoMatt01]

very true!

creates endorphins! =D! ^^^ SMART ANSWER!

[R4ndomCrap]

You surely had a chemical imbalance. Unfortunately, it was caused by whatever your emotional/spiritual problem was at the time.

[psychetruth]

Sometimes people just aren't getting enough sleep or their life is in disorder or their life just sucks. Drugs don't put ones life in order or replace sleep and good nutrition. Drugs also don't handle real life problems (money, upsets in a relationship, ect.) with cause stress, anxiety and upset.

[Hiswillnotmine1]

I think you are so right with this. See,my husband is going to counseling so he said I have to as well.I went & within 2 sessions,I was told you are "depressed" but I'm thinking:"Um,my marriage is falling apart,who wouldn't be?" She insists that it is depression & I NEED meds. I don't think I need them & don't want them. My hubby gave me an ultimatium to continue seeing her & she keeps pushing them on me & won't stop. What should I do?

[Adipatus]

I'm not a clinician, so I won'd pretend to diagnose anyone, but I definitley agree that our thoughts can change our brain's chemistry. You can have an OCD brain chemistry, and through a process of behavioral modification you can end up with a non-OCD brain chemistry.

[88bananapeels]

THIS is the point that needs to be made to all people dealing with depression/anxiety disorders... scientists have yet to pinpoint a single gene which predisposes you to depression.. they think it is a combination of genes and even then it isn't black and white... thus I conclude that depression is really a brain disease in that your brain really does show changes in functioning and size in depression (look itup) but it IS reversible through changes in thinking, etc.

[Elements07]

Man I love your videos keep posting them brother.

[littleitaly96]

im with ya they put me on 7 different SSRI's over the coarse of a year or two, they all just did something worse to me, never felt better. all they care about is money

[AnthiaKim]

Enjoyed the video.Thankyou.Could I suggest that bringing up kids can cause the upset?I know it had for me and as time went by I learnt that I can't always control their actions.When I learnt to accept this things got easier.

[SFJane]

Congratulations Sharon! Well done! Mike you outdid yourself on this one. Where you managed to find someone that looks like my mother I have no idea. Seriously Sharon if you had red curly hair and whiter skin you would look exactly like my mom. If your hair was black, you would look like her sister, or Amy Lee, either way awesome video. The silly rating thing only goes to 5, lame. 10*s

[psychpatient101]

Part of a psychiatrist daily routine should be watching this video. maybe some reality would seep into there delusional world.

[AlterEgoTrip]

She is holding back the tears, and me watching this makes me want to cry, utterly heartbreaking because the doctor made her feel more overwhelmed and helpless in her life instead of empowering her which I believe she really needed in any situation where you are a mum....the problem is that the doctor has way too much power, and we all give them far too much respect when they are only using people as test rats.

[frottbott]

I think it really varies. Firstly, the test would be a brain scan, it can only be done at special institutes and costs quite a bit of money. It measures brain activity moreso than chemicals, and decreased activity in various areas would signify depression.

[frottbott]

But there is some shady business as well. Meds are an excellent tool for some people, but not the best option for all. A psych wouldn't really be willing to talk to me about my manic depression unless I was willing to take stabilizers. Granted, manic depression is untreatable without medication.

[frottbott]

The problem is, I was on lithium for several months and, while it worked miraculously, it really made a zombie out of me. The doctor used the same term, 'to take the edge off.' She gradually upped my dosage so I didn't notice it, but when I stopped taking it I realized how slow my thoughts had become and how flat I was.

[SFJane]

yea, thats just Lithium, now add a drug 10 times more potent than thorazine, called perphenazine, and now you know how I spent 6 months of my life frottbott

[CheddarxCheese]

Thanks for this video. I always was skeptical of antidepressants doctors be prescribing to any and everybody out there. Thanks for saving us valuable time not having to numb ourselves with these pills claiming to make our lives better.

[SFJane]

it was not always as bad as it is now, deregulation had a massive impact, especially for off label usage

[knoyurself]

If you take pills you will never be "cured" but only have your symptoms masked with other chemicals. We have been conditioned to think ..as Natalie says.. to Take A Pill (watch the video). Greed is the addiction, money is the drug, power is the high!

[SFJane]

yep, it is like taking an aspirin for a headache in perpetua, it makes no sense.

[nonoctave]

Really good first person accounting of the way the Mad in America pharma scheme works.

[Adipatus]

Hi Sharon, I had a similar experience to yours. I had been having night terrors with fears of asphixyation, and I couldn't work also for fear of asphyxiation. My doctor (Internal Medicine) told me that I had a form of OCD that kept me going back to bad, nervous thoughts, which was caused by a "chemical imbalance." He put me on meds for it. At first I was scheptical, but that very night my terrors were gone! So I became a believer.

[Adipatus]

(Cont.) Then I decided that I didn't need the meds, since now the doctor had explained to me that there was nothing wrong with breathing and that it was all in my head. He was a kind-hearted man so he helped me to stop the meds, which also were expensive and made me sleep weird too. Had I asked him for more meds for more time he would have obliged, being kind of a pushover.

[Adipatus]

(Cont.)But he never even suggested a shrink. He was used to loving his patients with pills and chemicals, like those mothers that love everyone with fattening foods. I knew that if I wanted a shrink I would have to get her myself. That happened some ten years ago and I never have relapsed. I am happy to report to you that my name is Adipatus, 42, and I've been psychiatric-drug free for some nine years! Yaaaaay !!!!!

[Adipatus]

(Cont.) What really clinched the whole deal for me and let me know that I would never go back to the junk was a really nice old book that I found thanks to 20/20 or some show like that and I recommend it to you and your viewers: Brain Lock: Freeing Yourself from Obsessive Compulsive Behavior: A Four Step Self-Treatment Method to Change Your Brain Chemistry, by Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D., with Beverly Beyette. Just what the doctor ordered, only cutting out the pusher!!!!!

[ozjthomas]

Good video. This is a real experience many have from antidepressants. I have known many who have similar responses.

[ranera]

i'm glad you're off these drugs by now. there is one thing that confuses me, though.....why did you write in the video description "Now she has been off medications for 2 years and is living a stable normal life" ? I hate that word NORMAL

[psychetruth]

Ok, I changed the description for you. :) hehe.

[ranera]

oh thanks :D

[ivory890]

This is Sharon, the girl shown in the video. I guess the description normal, while I see your point on the word itself, is best defined right now as someone who has friends, who holds to her commitments, who doesn't spend her time wondering what's wrong with her, but spends her time thinking about how she contributes to those she loves around her. My life should now be described as "What normal would be if you could CHOOSE exactly what you wanted in life." Cool, huh?

Much love 2 you all! Sharon

[tasha122277]

sharon thanks for sharing your story

[ivory890]

tasha, you're welcome! Hey, feel free to tell folks about my story...So many people get sucked into the promise of "dealing" with reality...when the end result is creating a zombie who just no longer trusts their opinions and ideas. Happens a lot to artists, and one of my goals in life is to stop it...it's NOT cool to hurt people who live to see beauty, you know?

Thanks! sharon