More Medical Madness

I came across a good site recently called PsychWatch Australia and two articles in particular caught my attention. One concerned the use of antidepressants by young people in Australia and another related to their use of ADHD medications.

Let's review their use of antidepressants first:

From 2008-09 to 2017-18, the proportion of Australians aged 0 to 27 using antidepressants grew from about 2.9% to 4.8%. Australian Government figures indicate 101,174 children (under 18) and 328,879 young adults (aged 18 to 27) were dispensed an antidepressant in 2017/18.  Antidepressants are not approved for the treatment of depression in people under 18 and it is particularly concerning that so many Australian children have been prescribed them. Source.

Figure 1

The news regarding use and abuse of ADHD medications is no better:

In 2009, according to the Australian Government data 60,931 children were dispensed at least one prescription of an ADHD medication (primarily amphetamines). In 2017 the latest year for which age specific data is available this number had risen to 107,345. Since then (from January 2018 until September 2019) the total number of Australian PBS subsidised prescriptions has risen at 11% per annum. Based on this rate of growth, it is estimated that more than 130,000 Australian children will be dispensed an ADHD medication in 2019. In summary, from 2009 until 2019, the percentage of Australian children aged 4-17 years dispensed ADHD drugs has grown from 1.6% to an estimated 3.0%. Source.

Figure 2

The message is clear enough. More and more young Australians are on antidepressants or ADHD medications or both than ever before. The figures for older Australians are equally disturbing. See Figure 3.

Figure 3: source

Of most concern of course are the growing numbers of young Australians on these drugs because it is likely that their drug-taking will continue for the rest of their lives. The figures for 2020 are likely to be much worse of course and so the future looks grim. The solid citizens of tomorrow will be more medicated, more vaccinated, more indoctrinated and more gender-confused than ever before, and easily manipulated and controlled.

Figure 4 shows a little cartoon that I modified to illustrate the situation:

Figure 4

Medication Madness

Thailand featured in the news yesterday when a Thai soldier ran amok in a shopping mall and started shooting, killing twenty people and injuring many more. I was interested in trying to discover if he had taken any medication recently for depression or anxiety. So far I've not been able to find any information to confirm this but my search did throw up this interesting news about ketamine and its recently approved use as an antidepressant. This post is about antidepressants and other mood-altering drugs so I've included it below:

I reason I'm looking into these types of drugs is that I'm currently reading a book by Dr. Peter Breggin called MEDICATION MADNESS: A PSYCHIATRIST EXPOSES THE DANGERS OF MOOD-ALTERING MEDICATIONS. See Figure 1.

Figure 1: front cover of Medication Madness

In the passage I'm going to quote below, Dr. Breggin describes his thoughts about why bipolar diagnoses have soared in recent years:

WHAT’S THE CAUSE OF THE INCREASED RATES of severe cases of mania? Antidepressant medications, and to a lesser extent stimulants and tranquilisers, especially Xanax, are causing the upsurge of manic episodes. In almost all the adult cases that I have evaluated in the last decade, and in every child and teenage case I have seen in my office, the manic symptoms had begun after starting antidepressants and, more occasionally, stimulants or Xanax. 

In the cases in this book, none of the children and their parents, and none of the adults who were driven into mania by prescription drugs, was told by the treating doctors that he or she had a medication-induced disorder. When occasionally the drug was implicated in any way, it was portrayed as a benign agent that happened to “unmask” a preexisting, underlying bipolar disorder—a theory based not on science but on the physician’s impulse to avoid blame for the disaster. 

The two men mentioned earlier in this chapter, and many others in stories to come, fit nicely into the official DSM criteria for a diagnosis of manic episode with one big exception—their reactions were drug-induced. According to the official diagnostic manual, when a drug causes a manic-like episode, it is improper to make a diagnosis of manic episode or bipolar disorder. As emphasised earlier, when a drug is the suspected cause of manic-like symptoms, the proper diagnosis is substance-induced mood disorder. 

Unfortunately, this common sense and officially approved diagnostic standard is largely ignored in the practice of psychiatry. In almost every case I have evaluated, and perhaps every case in this book, the substance-induced mood disorder has been mistakenly diagnosed as bipolar disorder, laying the blame on the patient’s “mental illness” rather than on the doctor’s prescription. Like the proverbial elephant in the living room, the drug’s obvious role in producing the mania will go unmentioned in the medical record. 

It is very prejudicial to the patient to be labeled with bipolar disorder rather than with a substance-induced mood disorder. A diagnosis of bipolar disorder stigmatises the victim for life as suffering from a serious and potentially recurrent “mental illness” or “psychiatric disorder.” Without any scientific basis, the diagnosis is used to push lifetime medication, and in criminal cases, it becomes a justification for lengthy incarcerations in institutions for the criminally insane. The bipolar diagnosis makes it more difficult or impossible to get health insurance or long-term care insurance. 

In contrast, a proper diagnosis of substance-induced mood disorder identifies an acute neurological disorder that typically goes away after the medication is discontinued. Instead of lifetime medication, the proper diagnosis discourages further use of the offending drug. None of the dozens of individuals described in this book went on to repeat their criminal or dangerous behaviours after they were removed from the drugs.

This psychiatric approach is certainly the case for a person I know quite well who at age 37 was diagnosed as schizophrenic following his first psychotic episode. The fact that he had been drinking heavily for some time, smoking marijuana and taking (or possibly not taking) antidepressant medication prior this episode was ignored. He has remained on psychotropic medication to this day and firmly believes he is a schizophrenic. However, having worked as a psychiatric nurse for eight years and being familiar with schizophrenic behaviour, I know the diagnosis was unjustified. The long-term side-effects of the psychotropic medication have caused glaucoma and osteoporosis in this person (these possible side-effects are listed on the label of the medication he takes).

It may be of interest to recount how I stumbled upon Dr. Breggin. It was via an article on the Truthsteam Media website run by Aaron and Melissa Dykes. The article was titled "Then They Came For Your Mind: The Untold Story of Psychosurgery" and is accompanied by the following video:

It was a riveting video and so I was prompted to find out more about him. He has a YouTube channel and has written many books and published many scientific articles.

"Medication Madness" makes for disturbing reading as the unintended effects of antidepressants, hypnotics and tranquillisers becomes apparent. Statistics such as three million Australians using antidepressants defies belief (source):

Three million Australians are now reliant on antidepressants.

24/04/2019 

New data from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme shows one in every eight Australians are using the drugs, including 100,000 children. 

The data has prompted concerns Australia is over-diagnosing and over-treating depression. 

Psychiatrist Dr Jon Jureidini, from the University of Adelaide, tells Ben Fordham too many doctors are prescribing the drug. 

“The marketing of antidepressants has been extremely successful, and lots of people have been led to believe they’re better off taking the drugs. 

“The safety of these drugs is often overestimated, the risks are underestimated.”

The figure of 100,000 children on antidepressants is disturbing but there are probably more children on stimulant drugs for ADHD. It's a mad, mad world when children are assaulted from an early age with vaccines, the water they drink is poisoned by fluoridation and they are zombified with medications.

A further interesting point in "Medication Madness" is the following:

Up to 10 percent of the population have a genetic lack of liver enzymes necessary for the effective breakdown of many medications, including the newer antidepressant drugs such as Prozac. These people are called “poor metabolisers.” They are more likely to suffer adverse drug reactions because the drug concentration builds up in the bloodstream when it cannot be destroyed or eliminated efficiently. If medicine were conducted on a more rational basis, all patients would be tested when possible in advance of taking psychiatric drugs—or any drugs—where there is a risk of abnormal liver metabolism affecting the treatment result. The drug companies have been reluctant to recognise this problem or to make laboratories available to perform tests for these liver enzymes. 

 I'll finish this post with another quote from the book which pretty much sums up everthing:

Meanwhile, it should be no surprise that the brain is not well suited to receive drugs. It lives in a delicate harmony with itself, an organ with complexity far beyond our current understanding and imagination that provides the biological basis of our humanity. It contains approximately one hundred billion neurones—nerve cells that send the chemical messages that run our brains and influence our bodies. There are more neurones in our brain than there are stars in the universe. Some of these individual neurones make ten thousand or more individual connections with other neurones. These neurones and their connections are ignited by a couple of hundred different neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine. The neurotransmitters we know best we nonetheless know little about; most of the others we know nothing about and haven’t even as yet identified. 

Beyond the neurotransmitters, our brain functions are affected by assorted other kinds of support cells, many chemicals such as sodium and potassium, and various hormones. The overall brain activity generates electrical fields that reflect and influence brain function in ways no one can yet grasp. We don’t even understand the operating system of the brain—how it organises and runs itself.

Each brain is more complex than the entire physical universe of stars, galaxies, black holes, gravity, and electromagnetic fields. That is the nature of life and especially of the mammalian brain—it is complex far beyond our current understanding and far beyond anything in the inanimate physical universe. 

So the next time some “expert” tries to explain a subtle manifestation of human behaviour in terms of brain function—or tries to convince you that a biochemical imbalance is at the root of your problems—you should wonder about his pecuniary motives. You should suspect that it’s in the expert’s interest to convince you that you’re a much simpler biological organism than you are. 

A principle to remember: Tampering with the human brain to influence human emotions and actions is not a good idea.the 

The Global Population Control Agenda

There are some who say there is an agenda on the part of the Global Elite to reduce the population of the planet to about half a billion. If this were true how would the elite go about achieving this, while ensuring that its own members were not culled in the same proportion as the general population? If the unwashed masses have on average fewer than 2.1 babies, then simple demographics kicks in to gradually reduce the population. Once babies are born, an insane assault on their immune systems via relentless vaccinations ensures they will be impaired in one way or another, whether through allergies, autism, asthma, auto-immune diseases, ADHD or whatever. This makes parenting a nightmare. Try it once (making a baby) and you probably won't want to try it again. Mandatory childhood vaccinations are not far off and most aware couples, faced with the prospect of watching helplessly as their babies are abused by forced vaccinations, will choose not to have any. Zero (babies) works especially well in reducing the population.

Same sex couples also work well in that respect and hence the aggressive push for LGBT "rights". I certainly don't want to see individuals who identify as LGBT persecuted or discriminated against but it's clear that the movement has been hijacked by hidden forces with the social engineering agenda of promoting the LGBT lifestyle as normal and natural. Challenging this agenda ensures you will be branded "homophobic" just as challenging the vaccine agenda earns you the sobriquet of "anti-vaxxer". There is no middle ground where LGBT rights are concerned just as with vaccinations. You have to take a side. Any hesitation or equivocation puts you on the other side. With the imminent roll-out of 5G, it is likely that male fertility rates will decline even more, so that even heterosexual couples who decide to have a baby may find that they are unable to do so.

Of course, populations are already declining in many developed countries while those in developing countries are still increasing. This population imbalance ensures increased immigration from developing to developing countries. Migrant intakes help to reduce the sense of identification with the host nation and predispose towards a sense of being a global citizen. Hasn't identification with nation states only led to endless warfare? Identifying as a global citizen will put an end to all of that supposedly. The Global Elite's agenda and propaganda are subtle but relentless, aiming always to erode the connections that individuals have with their sex, country, ethnicity, religion and more.

The long game is being played, for now at least, and meanwhile the children of the Global Elite will not be receiving the same vaccinations as the masses. They may not be receiving any vaccinations at all or maybe just placebos. They will not eat the same polluted food and water as the masses. They will be the first to receive the benefits of advances in medical technology. They will thrive and become our new genomic overlords just as their parents and grandparents are already our economic overlords. Of course, plans may well be in place to accelerate the depopulation process. An earlier blog post explores one possible way in which this could be achieved. In this I said:

This was the first I had heard of such a virus. If it is effective, then the implications are chilling if one believes the global elite are intent on reducing the population of the planet to around 500 million people. If a similar virus targeting humans was engineered, it could be easily added to the aggressively promoted annual flu vaccinations that many people receive.

The message keeps getting repeated: there are just too many people and there are not enough resources to support them. There is so much human activity that it is warming the planet, leading us toward a climate apocalypse. The propaganda is relentless and quite effective.

Melatonin Madness

'Bloody awesome': 

how melatonin is helping children fall asleep 

Many parents will be only too familiar with the problem of children tossing and turning for hours before they finally go to sleep. Rather than put up with it, a growing number of families are turning to prescribed melatonin to help children fall asleep. For many it’s a revelation ... 

Adults who have trouble getting to sleep or need to reset their body clocks to deal with jet lag or shift work have long sworn by melatonin, a synthetic version of the natural hormone that regulates your sleep rhythm. Now there’s enough evidence about safety and efficacy that doctors are prescribing it for children too, usually in low doses.

So said an article that appeared in today's Brisbane Times. As to whether it's safe for children, there has been no long term studies (18 to 24 months seem to have been the longest) so who knows? The pineal gland produces melatonin naturally so the idea of its long term administration to children is disturbing. Common sense suggests that some disturbance to the proper functioning of the pineal gland would result if this practice were to continue over a long period of time.

The headline atop this newspaper article however, presents the practice in a very positive light. This is yet another instance of mainstream media conniving with big pharma and big medicine to induce parents to purchase unnecessary medication for their children. In Australia, a prescription is necessary to purchase melatonin although in other countries it can be bought over the counter. It is regarded as a food supplement rather than a medication and so quality control and restrictions on its distribution are more lax.

The promotion of this supplement is purely for profit: doctors benefit because they need to write the script, pharmacists benefit by dispensing it and the manufacturers benefit by selling it to the pharmacists. Consider this glowing endorsement of Melatonin from a manufacturer:

Andrew Harb, general manager at wholesaler Medisca, said melatonin was a “godsend” for the whole family. One study done with children with autism showed children taking melatonin were getting to sleep half an hour earlier than those taking a placebo and this was measurably reducing stress for their parents.

It's a nice deal: induce autism via vaccinations and then buy Melatonin to combat some of the side effects. One is reminded of the similarly vaccine induced Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the Ritalin that is prescribed to combat it. Hooking a child on Ritalin, Melatonin or whatever is a major goal of Big Pharma because it is likely to reap financial benefits for the lifetime of the individual.

Meanwhile, note the headline of this article:

Caesarean rates soar with doctors 

'less prepared to take risks'

At the midwifery expert had some telling comments to make on this shameful statistic and to disabuse those who think it has anything to do with doctors being "less prepared to take risks":

Professor Hannah Dahlen, a midwifery expert at Western Sydney University, said evidence suggested episiotomies were medically necessary in only about 10 per cent of cases – for example when the baby’s heart rate was at a critical level. “It’s not a minor operation. It causes people emotional distress. It causes them physical distress,” she said. “I haven’t done an episiotomy in 15 years and I’m still a practicing midwife. You don’t need to do them, except in rare circumstances.” Professor Dahlen said that private obstetricians in particular were encouraged to schedule more caesareans and inductions to avoid being called out every night of the week. She said obstetricians should be forced to declare their individual statistics “so we do identify the obstetricians with 90 per cent caesarean section rates – and they do exist in the country”.

How did things get to this point? Mothers are now given vaccinations while they are pregnant. The baby may well be induced or delivered by caesarean, and the vaccinations begin immediately after birth. The growing infant continues to be jabbed with a bewildering variety of vaccines for the next four years and beyond. It is likely to receive several unnecessary doses of antibiotics and other medications that are deemed necessary, including Melatonin. Yet, the reasons for the epidemics of Autism, Asthma, Allergy and ADHD remain a mystery supposedly to the medical profession. As Heather Fraser writes in her book "The Peanut Allergy Epidemic":

The mantra might well be:

VACCINATE 

MEDICATE

EDUCATE

One is reminded of the lyrics to "Mad World" that was sung originally by Gary Jules:

MAD WORLD 

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow 

And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world 

Children waiting for the day, they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me 

And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Enlarge your world
Mad world

And so children, weakened and damaged by vaccinations, fluoridation, medication, are sent off to school and that's another nightmare ... perhaps it's time for children to get their own back. If you don't laugh, you have to cry.