You Shouldn't Be Stationary

Here are two interesting links to alternative takes on how to respond to the Corona virus:

• https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/24/12-experts-questioning-the-coronavirus-panic/
• https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/28/10-more-experts-criticising-the-coronavirus-panic/

The first article begins with an interview with Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, a specialist in microbiology. He was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in German history. He says, in reference to the German government's corona virus containment measures (similar to those in many other countries):

The government’s anti-COVID19 measures] are grotesque, absurd and very dangerous […] The life expectancy of millions is being shortened. The horrifying impact on the world economy threatens the existence of countless people. The consequences on medical care are profound. Already services to patients in need are reduced, operations cancelled, practices empty, hospital personnel dwindling. All this will impact profoundly on our whole society. All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide based on nothing but a spook.

An embedded YouTube video in which Dr Bhakdi expressed his views in more depth no longer exists as the good doctor has had his YouTube channel deleted:
  

Some have quipped that COVID-19 would be better referred to as COVID-1984. In Australia at least, it really does feel like 1984 has arrived. This chilling video (opening screenshot below) is clear evidence of it and is contained in an article from news.com.au titled:

Coronavirus Australia:  

Can you sit down at the park? 

The short answer is no. The problem is with plenty of people stopping at the same time, the park ends up with 50 people in it. NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said there were a lot of what ifs, like if you were exercising, which is still allowed in all states in Australia. Asked whether a mother and kids could sit on the grass in the park and let them crawl and run around, Mr Fuller told the Today show that could count as exercise. “But again, the problem is, I guess if everyone went down to the park at the same time it becomes a complicating factor,” he said. “But do the kids have it or do you have it without symptoms and you are spreading it to someone else who comes in contact with your kids – and I know there is a lot of what ifs in this space, that's why I've asked police to continue to show high levels of discretion. “And I think they have been doing such a wonderful job with that regardless of some of the reporting.”

It good that police are showing "high levels of discretion" but the fact that they even have the discretion to decide such matters in the first place is alarming. More disturbing is that many Australians, like my friend, seem to be OK with this level of control being imposed upon them. 

The article continues:

“You shouldn’t be stationary. You shouldn’t be sitting anywhere – especially if 50 people might be social distancing, but if they’re all sitting in a park, that’s not acceptable. “That’s why police have had to act.” She said “if a number of people are stationary (in a park) that’s an unsafe place”.

It is bizarre to suggest you shouldn't be stationary in a park but NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was serious. Who would have imagined this rather creepy looking woman issuing such a prohibition at the start of the year? Oh and here's a photo of her with you-know-who.

Needless to say she's up close and friendly with the Jewish community. In her own words, Israel is "a state that embodies the best of Jewish tradition, free speech and debate, innovation, ingenuity and above all else, resilience". 

Insecurity in the Age of Pathogens

The lasting legacy of this current pandemic, or plandemic as some are calling it, on the general population will be a deep sense of insecurity. One day you have a job, the next you don't. One day you have a thriving small business, the next day you're staring at bankruptcy. The rapidity and scale of the global shutdown is without historical precedent.

The police and army seem largely unaffected by the pandemic. I haven't seen any statistics regarding infection rates for these two groups. Additionally, their jobs are secure. Police stations and army posts are not being closed down. Likewise, the jobs of government employees are secure. For persons working in private companies and businesses, jobs can be lost quickly in a pandemic. For example, take this headline from an article that appeared in the Evening Standard on March 16th 2020:

Virgin Atlantic asks staff to take eight weeks
of unpaid leave as it cuts 80% of flights 

For people working in the travel and hospitality industry, things will never be quite the same again. What if there's another pandemic, like COVID-19, next year? The world has been conditioned to the possibility of a pandemic for decades now. The seasonal flu has always been portrayed as the source of a possible pandemic if a particularly virulent strain should arise. The importance of getting your flu shot, as well as a host of other vaccines, has been heavily promoted. 

The spectre of the Spanish Flu of 1918 is always raised as proof of what might happen if we are not on guard. However in a pandemic, while individuals might sicken and die, the world would go on. At least that was the expectation. Now we know that's not the case. The world didn't go on. It stopped, and people lost their jobs or were stranded in foreign countries or on cruise ships. Many people's lives have been turned upside down. Figure 1 shows the death toll as of March 22nd 2020: 

Figure 1: source 

This is a tiny number by global standards. By contrast Figure 2 features an infographic concerning the impact of malaria: 

Figure 2: source 

It's unlikely that the deaths in 2020 from COVID-19 will match the death toll from Malaria. The latter of course is not a pandemic and is endemic in only certain parts of the world. The point is that there are many other illnesses that cause death rates far higher than the current virus and no lockdowns, global or even local, are enforced.

After COVID-19, people are going to be looking for more secure employment. Jobs that are perceived as "pandemic-resistant" will be in high demand. One possible scenario is that most small businesses collapse and are taken over by banks. The businesses however, continue with the owners being paid a salary by the banks. Everybody becomes an employee. As home owners default on their mortgages, banks take them over but people are allowed to continue living in them and paying a nominal rent. Nobody owns anything. Perceiving the vulnerability of workers during pandemic lockdowns, the government introduces a Universal Basic Income for everybody.

The governments and especially the central banks become all powerful. There is no paper money anymore. Your government-allotted income is credited to your bank account. On the pretext of tracing your previous contacts if you are found to be infected, it will be mandated that location-tracking apps be installed on mobile phones and these must be carried on your person when leaving your home. The penalty for not complying as always will be fines or imprisonment. 

So this is the bleak, cashless future. A future in which your location and purchases are constantly tracked. You, like nearly everyone else, works for the government and owns nothing. You are provided with a basic income and accommodation whether you work or not. You must comply with whatever the government tells you to do e.g. submit to vaccinations. As in Huxley's "Brave New World", you may be "happified" with a daily dose of "soma". This dystopia will be packaged and propagandised in a way that makes you feel grateful that you have such benevolent overlords.

Our overlords, having acquired the world's assets and with a militarised police force at their beck and call, will have achieved total control over their underlings (most of whom will have actively supported their enslavement). Decisions as to whether you are allowed to breed or even if you are allowed to live will be decided at their whim.

The Cull of Humanity

As the COVID-19 virus spreads in Indonesia, my feeling now is that it's real enough and clearly deadly to some. However, the spread of any virus amongst the general population is going to be limited as precautionary measures are put in place to limit its spread. Even with 90% mortality, a virus can only kill if it infects.

Despite the mild lethality of COVID-19, the fear factor is high and people, already conditioned to the necessity of vaccinations, will be lining up for the jab once a vaccine has been developed. If such vaccinations are made mandatory, and they can be made so under medical martial law, then the perfect vehicle for infecting all of mankind will be in place.

Let's assume COVID-19 was genetically engineered. It's likely that far more lethal varieties will be concocted in the future. Even so, without injections, the spread and mortality rate will be limited. If the global elite are seriously intent on reducing the population to 500 million people, then forced injection of the pathogen is the way to go.

The vaccine manufacturers do not have to disclose what's in the vaccines that they produce. It's not too far-fetched to imagine that there could be some intervention in the vaccine manufacturing process whereby an active and aggressive pathogen might be inserted. This might only happen to certain batches destined for particular countries or regions. The vast majority of the people involved in the manufacturing process would be need to be unaware of the addition of an active pathogen into the vaccine.

There's been mention made of how such a virus could be engineered to remain latent until activated by some external agent such as 5G signals. As the 5G networks roll out around the world, the death toll would rise and be attributed to the effects of a pathogen.

Fanciful? Perhaps, but the one certainty is that mandatory vaccinations provide a means to add an INGREDIENT X into the already toxic brew of ingredients that make up the modern vaccine and to thrust it deep into the bodies of any human on the planet.

The effect of that INGREDIENT X will be for our self-appointed overlords to determine. Perhaps such an ingredient has already been added to the existing flu vaccines. The push over the past twenty years to promote vaccinations and to intimidate and silence any opposition has been relentless. More recently, the push to implement 5G telecommunication networks has been similarly forceful. It's not too fanciful to suspect that the two might be interlinked in some way. Figure 1 shows a screenshot of a post that promotes this point of view:

Figure 1

Of course, the screenshot appeared in a BBC article titled Analysis: Conspiracy theorists link coronavirus to 5G and 'chemtrails' as an example of the sort of crazy ideas that are spreading online. It's interesting how Italy has emerged as a global hotspot for this virus. This country currently has ten vaccinations for children that are mandatory for school entry but there has been a strong push in recent years to make these vaccinations optional. This article from July 2018 gives some idea of the conflicting approaches:

Immunity fears as Italy abolishes requirement for parents to prove children have been vaccinated 

Italian state schools will no longer demand parents prove that their children have been vaccinated, the country’s new populist government has announced. Lega leader Matteo Salvini said he considered 10 vaccines - the amount Italian schoolchildren are required by law to have - to not only be useless, but potentially dangerous, in the run-up to the general election in March 2018. The new policy is likely to stoke fears that the coalition government, which also includes the Five Star Movement, may look to legislate other campaign promises which critics argue are not grounded in scientific proof.

My God. A politician stating that he thought that vaccines were useless and potentially dangerous. An anomaly to be sure and of course the government quickly backtracked and reinstated mandatory vaccinations. However, it's as if the country were being taught a lesson via COVID-29, specifically not to question the wisdom of vaccinations. In this scenario, the genetically engineered virus was released first in China and then later in Iran and Italy. See Figure 2.

Figure 2: source

Given the current isolation of Iran, the virus hasn't spread much from that country but Italy's geographical position ensured that the virus would spread to the rest of Europe. It would seem that countries like Italy that display "vaccine hesitancy" must be punished. I'm assuming that the United States developed and disseminated the bioweapon.

There are additional reasons why Italy may have targeted. As the Christian news site Gospa News states:

Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio with Iranian Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif during a diplomatic meeting last year

The Italian ambassador to Iran, Giuseppe Perrone, met the Iranian minister for information and communication technologies, Azari Jahromi, on Tuesday, February 18, to increase bilateral cooperation between Italy and Iran in the field of artificial intelligence ... (and) in March 2019 Rome signed the preliminary agreements of the plan of commercial agreements with Beijing for the Silk Road.

The article goes on to explain the vaccine situation in Italy very clearly (it has been translated by Google from the original Italian so it reads a little strangely in parts):

... the Global Health Security Agenda (the international entity to which 40 countries adhere) in 2014 created an experimental health plan, desired by the American administration of President Barack Obama – a great friend of the Gates spouses he himself awarded for philanthropy – in which Italy has been identified for a pilot project of 10 mandatory vaccines, implemented by the Law Decree Lorenzin (110 of 31 July 2017), for children: i.e. anti-polio, anti-diphtheria, anti-tetanus, anti-hepatitis B , anti-pertussis, anti-Haemophilus influenzae type b, anti-measles, anti-rubella, anti-mumps, anti-chicken pox. 

The first three have been compulsory for decades in order to fulfill the compulsory schooling while the one against Hepatitis B, as highlighted in the previous reportage, became such after in 1991 the then Minister of Health Francesco De Lorenzo had received a bribe from 600 million old lire from SmithKline, subsequently absorbed by GSK which was commissioned to provide vaccines for the same Lorenzin Law, including the hexavalent one that many pediatricians consider very dangerous for children of a few years. 

This is why the spontaneous movement of the so-called NO-VAX has developed in Italy. This is why a beautiful pandemic may be the best solution to digest all the Italians the vaccines on which the same American-Zionist investment funds profit that speculate on the Arms Lobby and control the secret rooms of the NWO globalists and the Deep International State, the occult entity transversal to finance, freemasonry, politics and military intelligence apparatuses.

Getting back to the cull of humanity, it may sound crazy to suggest that a tiny group of influential people would cold-bloodedly set out to exterminate six sevenths of the world's population but then again the members of this group are crazy. Crazy in the sense that they believe they have the right to rule over the rest of us and regulate our numbers by culling in a manner similar to Australia's recent cull of feral camels. Apparently they were drinking too much water. In the view of our overlords, humans too are consuming too many of the world's precious resources and breathing out too much carbon dioxide. Most of them will have to go. 

Medical Martial Law

Well the Puppet Masters seem to have developed the perfect tool for total subjugation of the masses. The tool of course is the COVID-19. Yes, the once-upon-a-time mildly annoying Corona Virus has mutated into a Killer Virus and governments around the world deem no measures too extreme to combat it. Whether the mutation came about naturally or was concocted in a laboratory somewhere is unknown. Whether it was unleashed deliberately or accidentally is also unknown. Whether it is a real mutated virus or a product of media hype is also open to debate.

In the end it doesn't really matter. Decades of Hollywood pandemic movies and numerous trial runs (swine flu, bird flu, Ebola, SARS) have conditioned the masses to not only acquiesce but also to cooperate in their enslavement. Even Hollywood is lending a hand. This was the heading of a recent article in The Atlantic:

The Strange Weight of Tom Hanks’s Coronavirus Diagnosis

The actor’s announcement that he and his wife, Rita Wilson,
tested positive brought the reality of the outbreak home for many Americans.

Tom Hanks is currently more than 7,000 miles away from Hollywood, preparing to film Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis Presley biopic in Australia. But last night’s news that he and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for the coronavirus feels, in some ways, like the most seismic news the U.S. has received since the pandemic reached our shores. 

In an Instagram post, Hanks explained that he and Wilson had been diagnosed after exhibiting symptoms such as slight fevers and chills. “What to do next? The Medical Officials have protocols that must be followed,” he wrote. “We Hanks’ will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires. Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach, no?”

 "The Medical Officials have protocols that must be followed". Yes indeed. The genius of this "tool" is that it pits everybody against everybody else. Anyone could be harbouring the virus. Fear and suspicion reign supreme. The infected can look the same as the uninfected. Even those who recover can relapse and infect others. The only way to know for sure is to have THE TEST. If you test positive, you forfeit any rights you may have thought you had. If you were in contact with someone who tested positive, you forfeit any rights you may have thought you had. You can be quarantined, taken away or simply disappeared. Not only individuals but whole communities, cities and countries are subject to the whims of BIG GOVERNMENT. Anything goes once Medical Martial Law is imposed.

In countries where citizens with grievances could once come together in protests (think Yellow Vests in France), that can be made illegal. Citizens can be put under house arrest. Any medical intervention that is deemed necessary can be implemented. In the future, that may include compulsory vaccinations. Not only would this be a massive boon to the coffers of BIG PHARMA as over seven billion people line up for their shots but it would also be the prefect TROJAN HORSE for the Puppet Masters. The citizens lining up for their jab will not know what it contains. The pharmaceutical companies do not have an obligation to disclose this information. Suffice to know that it's good for you and that it contains nothing harmful. 

This is the terrifying future where jabs can serve whatever agenda the Puppet Masters have decided upon. Population control is certainly on the list of agenda items and 500 million is a number that is posited. With Ingredient X added to the jab that could well be possible by rendering people infertile or by adding a virulent virus with a 90% mortality rate. The virus need not be instantly lethal. It might require exposure to 5G radiation to be activated. This might be fanciful but it's been suggested and there's no doubt that the Puppet Masters will have considered this. Let's say the Puppet Masters and those who are useful to them for administrative and law enforcement purposes comprise 1% of the total population of the world. If a reduction of the population to 500 million occurred and the 1% remained unscathed, then this minority would comprise about 15% of the population in the aftermath. 


The 85% would be herded into smart cities and subject to total surveillance by a benevolent and now overt Ruling Elite (the core of which might then comprise about 0.15% of the population). In the emergent cashless society, all financial transactions will be monitored as well as all online activity. Social credit scores will encourage people to spend their money in acceptable ways and to browse the Internet wisely. This may sound Orwellian but most people will line up for their jabs and those who survive the cull will be thankful that they did. They will consider themselves fortunate and cooperate fully in their enslavement. Of course there will be some who don't but they will have low social credit scores. As a consequence, there will be severe restriction imposed on their travel and accommodation. Befriending people with low social credit scores will negatively affect your own score and so these difficult characters will tend to be ostracised and relegated to enjoying the company of their own kind. Inevitably, they will be disappeared or suicided unless they conform.

Perhaps part of the success of COVID-19 is that the marketing department for the New World Order came up with a picture of it and it really caught on. I can't recall any of the earlier scary viruses having pictures associated with them. How to stop the psychopathocracy from succeeding in its plans to depopulate and subjugate the world is beyond me. The propaganda and dumbing down of the population has been too successful. Even those who are resistant to the propaganda and aware of what is going on are reluctant to air their opinions publicly for fear of damaging their careers. 

More Brisbane Violence

Hot on the heels of the recent and horrific murder-suicide comes another bizarre incident. As described in the Brisbane Times, police gunned down a man who chased two foreign tourists in Brisbane's CBD. Apparently, he was known to police. Clearly the 24 year old was deranged but again I'm left to wonder. Was he on any medication? Did he recently change his medication, come off the medication he was on or experience a change in his dosage? As with the recent murders, it seems unlikely that any attention will be paid to the possible role of medication.

If someone is on antidepressants or tranquillisers, the assumption is that there is already something wrong with their brain chemistry and the medication is helping to remedy that. The medication is viewed as helping the person cope and not causing the person to flip out and attack and murder people. Of course, the pressure is on mainstream media to ignore the possibility that the medication played anything but a helping role. Imagine the furore if a news article announced that a murderer had recently been started on Setraline by his physician and that it was known that this drug had been linked to homicidal and suicidal episodes.

Even family and friends of the perpetrator, unless they've read a book like Medication Madness, may not suspect that legally prescribed medication might be the trigger for homicide or suicide. In the two cases I've referenced in this post I don't know what the situation was regarding medication. Probably I'll never know because I'm reliant on what appears in mainstream media and nothing that is critical of Big Pharma offerings is see the light of day. In the case of Rowan Baxter's murder of his children, there's a natural aversion to blaming the act on medication that he may have been taking. By all accounts he was a nasty human being but setting your children alight is such an extreme act that the role of legally prescribed medication in producing a psychotic state must be considered.

The following news article from July 2017 is relevant:

Anti-depressants have been associated with 28 reports of murder referred to the UK medicines regulator in the last three decades, according to a new BBC investigation. Murderous thoughts were also believed to be linked to the medication on 32 occasions, according to Panorama, although the possible connection does not necessarily mean the drugs caused the events. In 2016, over 40 million prescriptions were made for SSRIs, a type of anti-depressant that boosts levels of the chemical seratonin in the brain. 

For the vast majority of people, the drugs are safe to take, however the programme has uncovered a number of cases of extreme violence thought to be linked to the medication. A father who strangled his 11-year-old son was among the cases thought to be linked to the drugs, the programme found. Professor Peter Tyrer, psychiatrist at Imperial College London who has been studying SSRIs, said: “You can never be quite certain with a rare side-effect whether it’s linked to a drug or not because it could be related to other things. 

"But it’s happened just too frequently with this class of drug to make it random. It’s obviously related to the drug but we don’t know exactly why.” Drugs manufacturer Pfizer who developed an SSRI called sertraline said a causal link between the drug and murderous behaviour had not been proved.

Finally, this gun lobby site has a comprehensive review of the role of antidepressants in gun violence.

Antidepressants: Physical and Psychological Effects

Here is the list of Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) that appears in the book Medication Madness that I mentioned in my previous post.

Antipressants 

Celexa (citalopram)
Lexapro (escitalopram)
Luvox (fluvoxamirie)
Prozac and Serafem (fluoxetine)
Paxil (paroxetine)
Zoloft (sertraline) 

Other Newer Antidepressants 

Cymbalta (duloxetine)
Effexor (venlafaxine)
Remeron (mirtazapine)
Symbyax (Zyprexa and Prozac combined)
Wellbutrin and Zyban (bupropion) 

The older antidepressants belong to a class of compounds known as Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs) described by Wikipedia as:

... a class of medications that are used primarily as antidepressants. TCAs were discovered in the early 1950s and were marketed later in the decade.[1] They are named after their chemical structure, which contains three rings of atoms. Tetracyclic antidepressants (TeCAs), which contain four rings of atoms, are a closely related group of antidepressant compounds. Although TCAs are sometimes prescribed for depressive disorders, they have been largely replaced in clinical use in most parts of the world by newer antidepressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (NRIs).

Older Antidepressants 

Anafranil (clomipramine)
Asendin (loxapine)
Elavil (amitriptyline)
Parnate (tranylcypromine)
Tofranil (imipramine)
Vivactil (protriptyline)
Surmontil (trimipramine)

I was reading this article from the Mail Online dated 16th March 2019 in which the antidepressant sertraline is under discussion. The article begins:

Liam Batten was, according to his devoted family, a gentle giant with a wicked sense of humour and a prodigious talent for technology. Despite the agoraphobia and anxiety that had plagued him since 2012 and left him afraid to leave his home, the 24-year-old managed to live a relatively full life after making friends around the world through the popular YouTube video game channels he ran. He loved music and occasionally, on good days, rode his bicycle. For many months, Liam had been taking sertraline, a common antidepressant and part of a group of drugs known as SSRIs, or selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. It is among the most commonly prescribed medicines in the world and has been used for nearly 30 years to treat anxiety and depression. In July 2018, Liam had put on weight and his dose of sertraline was doubled by his GP – although it was still within the maximum recommended level.  But nine days later, Liam was found dead in his bed after suffering a cardiac arrest in his sleep. There were no warning signs; Liam had no previously diagnosed heart condition or symptoms.

The following response from a "health professional" is typical and justifies the use of antidepressants on the grounds that the benefits outweigh the dangers.

With millions of people taking SSRIs, you will see incredibly rare, one-in-a-million side effects. But no drug is risk-free.

The article goes on to state that:

Sertraline has been available since 1990 and works by raising the levels of serotonin, a brain chemical linked to mood. Nearly 13 million prescriptions for the drug were dispensed in England alone in 2017 – ten times more than in 2007.

The figure of 13 million prescriptions, just for that particular brand of antidepressant, is disturbing. Wikipedia says that the drug is now generic and thus cheap. Previously, it was sold under the brand name Zoloft. As for "one-in-a-million side effects", the drugs labelling warns of:

... palpitations as a commonly reported side effect in up to one in ten people. It also says one in 100 may experience a ‘fast heartbeat’, and one in 1,000 could have a ‘heart attack, slow heartbeat, heart problem or poor circulation’. 

The self-confessed odds of side effects involving the heart are clearly more than one-in-a-million. Returning to the news article, the takeaway is that antidepressants can have very serious physiological effects, even on seemingly young and physically healthy adults. The adverse psychological effects are well documented in the book Medication Madness.

The dangerous psychological effects of antidepressants came to mind in the case of the recent horrific murder in Brisbane of a mother and her three children by the children's father who committed suicide. Here is a link to an article in the Brisbane Times. The article states that:

Police investigating the murder-suicide in Camp Hill have converged on Rowan Baxter's home, a day after he killed his estranged wife, Hannah, and their three children. Detectives hope his house at Carindale, in Brisbane's east, will give Ms Baxter's family some answers over an act that "beggars belief", according to senior police. 

Indeed the murders are so horrific that they are reminiscent of the types of incidents described in Medication Madness. So far there has been no mention made as to whether the children's father was on medication or not. The fact that the taking of antidepressants is so commonplace may mean that the medication is never even mentioned as a possible contributing factor in the violence. If he was taking medication for depression, then typically it will be the depression that is blamed for the violence and not the medication that may have exacerbated it. If alcohol or illegal drugs were involved as well then the waters are muddied even further.

So far there has not been any mention of medication being taken by the perpetrator. He was involved in counselling and a friend of his is reported as saying:

"Obviously the guy was suffering extreme depression and we really want to try and help men and prevent these things from happening in the future. We have got to identify the triggers that occur."

Well, if the perpetrator was taking antidepressants, then it could well be that a failure to take his medication or a change in the dosage may have been the trigger. Here is a link to a study that suggested antidepressants were linked to murders and murderous thoughts.

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