He told me over dinner, “You are a Klonopin person, Robert.” My friend’s wealth always impressed me, and I assumed his patrician confidence reflected a matching erudition. I must have been conjuring the Yiddish proverb, “With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well, too.”
It was a time in my life when I blindly believed in Medicine, a time during which I became a heavy Prozac prescriber after reading Peter Kramer’s Listening to Prozac. It was decades before I learned my primary diagnosis was mercury toxicity from dental fillings. Like everyone else in medicine, Albert was treating symptoms rather than root causes.
I wrote about psychiatrists in Judas Dentistry:
Psychiatrists are drug pushers proffering elixirs that they claim cure a thousand ills. Sorry, I exaggerated. Only 450 “diagnoses” are found in their billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). To fabricate these, American Psychiatric Association members—paid handsomely by Pharma—cast votes. These “physicians” claim that “disclosing their financial conflicts of interests” fumigates this bribery.
The psych “diseases” concocted by these shills are expressly designed to be “treated” using pricey patented drugs. Pharma supplies half of the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) budget just as they pay the doctors, so their approval is a rubber stamp. Finally, massive disease-mongering campaigns run by corporate ad agencies convince us to use the purported remedies. Since the drugs are all highly addictive, little persuasion is needed after that.
This “mental health” industry has persuaded over a quarter of Americans (and 80 percent of Danes) to swallow psych drugs. Monthly shots are forced on others. These medications numb us, addict us, and cause violence, suicide, and social dysfunction. None has been proven effective.
The proof of that is that—just like every vaccine—the jackals running big Pharma never ran tests of their pricey nostrums against placebo controls. Studies lacking this vital metric are nonsensical. When the authors publish, they prove their work is a scam, the journal editors admit they are accessories, and the companies confess they are ringleaders in a racketeering conspiracy. The FDA blinds itself because it is paid off. All the people involved are murderers, for the drugs are killers.
Shrinks are trained like dancing bears to slap labels on people and medicate anyone coming within ten feet of them. Before he prescribed Klonipen, Albert sent me to one of his colleagues. This fellow was not at a loss for words, and his muddy torrent of them included an attempt to convince me that the Klonopin drug class (benzodiazepines) was more hazardous than SSRI “antidepressants.” At the end of our “session,” he tossed me a bag of colorful SSRIs that were in fashion at the time.
I tried them all, but each time, my body sensed brain damage. For more details about SSRIs, see their chapter from Butchered by “Healthcare, which I reproduced in the Parting Shots. It puts a flamethrower on these noxious pills.
And so I returned to Albert, and he taught me about benzodiazepines the hard way. He prescribed a hundred clonazepam with five refills and told me not to worry about addiction. I described this drug class in Butchered:
The benzodiazepines (Valium-class drugs) relieve anxiety for a few weeks. But after about a month, they stop working. After this, patients require higher dosages to produce the same effects. Later, if the drugs are discontinued, months of agonizing dread, sleeplessness, and crippling nervousness commonly occur.
The original studies of Xanax for anxiety were for 14 weeks; after four weeks, it was working; after eight weeks, it was not; and at the end of the study, as the experimenters withdrew the drug from the patients, they got much worse.
The psychiatrists and the drugmaker ignored the longer-term results and claimed a net benefit based on the first four weeks. (See Robert Whitaker’s YouTube.) The FDA approved the drug, and it became not only the most commonly prescribed benzodiazepine but the most frequently prescribed psychiatric medication. But Xanax is addictive, and most physicians are well aware of this by now.
Other benzodiazepines are also problematic to discontinue. Klonopin (clonazepam) is a chemically similar drug. One patient I worked with had used this 17-hour benzodiazepine to sleep every night for a decade. He decided to stop it, so I wrote a compounding pharmacy prescription for smaller and smaller doses that he took over three months. He suffered from anxiety and sleeplessness the whole time but felt better at the end. He said his energy and creativity both improved.
That patient was a composite that included me, and I became addicted for nine years. Since the drug’s effects last about eight hours, I would feel a little fuzzy but functional in the mornings. Those taking benzos tend to gradually increase their dose, and heavy Klonipen users take up to 8 mg or more every 24 hours and still crave it. I peaked and stabilized at two milligrams every night, which is considered an intermediate dose. Many combine the drug with drinking, but fortunately, in a life bedeviled with problems that included an alcoholic mother, this was never one of mine.
Last year, a surgeon friend who had read my book asked me for advice about quitting his clonazepam habit of twenty-some years. He had the same pattern as me.
It took months of sleepless nights, recurrent anxiety, and tapering doses for me to get off the damn stuff. A compounding pharmacist’s tapering doses can make this less painful and aggravating, but you must admit your problem to someone who might rat you out to the state medical board. So, I cut it down in stages. I was eventually able to convince myself that my free-floating withdrawal anxiety was unconnected to anything real, and I manned up for a few months and was done.
My final perspective after these experiences and my reading was that the benzodiazepines were horrible but benign compared to all other psych drugs. The SSRI antidepressants cause violence, suicide, brain damage, and far more severe addiction. The atypical antipsychotics have similar issues, plus they cut ten to twenty years off people’s lives.
In a rational world, no psych drug would have ever been approved. None have been adequately studied, and this is proof they do not work.
Another addiction
People compliment me on my smoky baritone podcast voice; a decade of cigarettes was how I acquired it. During my Klonipen period, I began smoking on a climbing trip at the encouragement of my buddy, Herb. Quitting these was more aggravating than stopping clonazepam. Herb is still puffing away.
The good news is that if ten or more years have gone by since you quit, your chances of dying of all causes are the same as people your age who have never smoked (reference). I am hoping for the best after this decade of foolishness.
My story is nothing
The following is excerpted from Christy Huff, M.D.’s website, benzoinfo.com. She went through a related addiction and withdrawal, but this article tells a more malignant story:
Christine Anne Narloch passed away on June 16, 2017, at the age of 48, after a long struggle with benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome that ended in suicide…
In April 2015, she was prescribed 1mg of Ativan (lorazepam), which she took three times daily for symptoms of anxiety and tremors resulting from hyperthyroidism. She was not given informed consent at the time of prescription that the drug could cause physical dependence and severe side effects or that it was not intended for long-term use.
Initially, Ativan helped the symptoms for which it was prescribed, but after two months of taking it as prescribed, Christine developed a new cluster of symptoms… she was “now in tears most of the time and experiencing the inability to sleep and think properly, losing weight, having episodes of horrible fear and terror, burning nerves, episodes of severe pain, and thoughts of suicide.”…
She became unable to drive or care for her husband or her home. She visited multiple physicians who could not diagnose the cause of her symptoms… She became increasingly suicidal.
Knowing her life was at risk, she admitted herself to the hospital under the care of a psychiatrist, hoping that she would be helped. She was promptly diagnosed with a “nervous breakdown,” generalized anxiety disorder, and fibromyalgia. The psychiatrist decided to stop the Ativan abruptly, assuring the Narlochs that this was safe. What ensued during that hospital stay was not any relief, but instead a rapid onset of mental and physical torture that Christine would endure for the next 21 months…
Within a day of stopping Ativan, she had severe skin burning from head to toe. The next day, bright lights appeared before her eyes, combined with the feeling that her head was exploding, followed by a loss of consciousness for 30 minutes. When she awoke, she could barely walk for the next several hours, and the nursing staff ignored her pleas for help. She was released after six days in the hospital on a cocktail of risperidone, [an atypical antipsychotic] gabapentin, [a failed drug that was only approved originally for post-herpetic neuralgia], and hydroxyzine while still suffering horrific symptoms. Two days after discharge, she sought help again in the emergency room where the ER doctor diagnosed her symptoms as ‘benzodiazepine withdrawal,’ noting in her chart that she had not been tapered from the drug…
For the next 21 months, Christine continued to suffer. One of Christine’s most severe symptoms was akathisia, a state of inner restlessness with outer movement that compelled her to pace the house for hours on end. Mike was highly supportive and understanding of her situation, and he did all he could to help her. As a caregiver, it was difficult for him to feel so helpless, knowing that nothing could be done to make it better. Every day, he saw her forehead scrunch up as a wave of painful symptoms began. She would break out in a sweat, tremble, and cry. He remembers thinking how lonely and trapped she looked…
On the night she died, Christine sent a carefully worded letter… to a rarely-used email account. Her words make it clear that the relentless nature of the withdrawal symptoms led her to end her life.
Other references
I interviewed a woman who learned about SSRIs the same hard way that I learned about benzos. A shrink tossed her a prescription during a period when she was being ostracised by her Canadian family for refusing the vax. After a few days of use, she suffered akathisia with psychosis and was briefly hospitalized. She is an independent thinker, so she made the right choice and moved to Miami. The story is HERE.
My post about how SSRI antidepressant akathisia causes almost every mass shooting is HERE.
And HERE is my post about David Carmichael asphyxiating his young son in a hotel room while under the influence of an SSRI. The Canadian justice system eventually released him, and I met him and interviewed him. This is X-rated but required listening for students of reality.
MISSD, an akathisia awareness foundation, was started by my friend Wendy Dolan after her husband threw himself in front of a train two weeks after starting Paxil, an SSRI that is well-known for suicides. Her website is a great resource, and I am a donor.
#1 Parting shot: my psychiatrist Albert
He is a senior expert witness for the California workers’ compensation system, which wastes over half its revenues in administration. It is a network of senseless, expensive, prolonged litigation that primarily benefits lawyers and expert witnesses. Albert testifies about whether people have permanent psychological damage following industrial injuries. After 30 years of observing the scene from both the plaintiff (patient) and defense (state) sides, he says about half the plaintiffs are fakers.
He also reports that the insurance industry would rather spend more on litigation than recognize disability and fund timely care. Many cases are held up for years, which is disastrous to those with genuine health issues. Even though this delay runs up the ultimate cost of settlement, when the companies keep the money longer, they make more overall because they invest the withheld cash and get high returns.
Like the other players, Albert works the system. He has forty employees and contractors and bills the WC insurance companies at his lucrative physician’s rate for some of his employees’ work. He claims this is a “grey area.” His income is $2 million a year, he works 20 hours a week, and he requested anonymity.
We are now out of touch.
The attached chapter from Butchered describes the workers’ compensation apparatus he works in. It is the second most corrupt healthcare delivery system. Download the following to learn the worst one:
Parting shot #2: Prozac and Relatives chapter from Butchered
I wrote about a thousand Prozac-type SSRI prescriptions over my career, which might have been a half-million dollars in drug sales. I screened my patients, as I was trained, by merely asking them a few questions.
Peter Kramer’s bestselling Listening to Prozac (1997) duped me. He said Prozac could save patients from common symptoms of guilt, fatigue, sadness, sleep disturbance, and even aches or digestive problems. He also claimed it could be a lifestyle drug similar to today’s Viagra, boosting ordinary peoples’ performance. I learned later that the SSRIs are toxic, have limited utility, and the hype has produced vast overuse.
Industry marketed SSRIs as an improvement on the older tricyclic antidepressants. These cause sedation, and only a month’s supply is needed for suicide. Part of the promotion of the Prozac-class drugs was that sleepiness is mild, and even enormous doses rarely cause fatality.
Before the drug era, doctors thought depression was rare and most often self-limited to about three months. Now (2020), Wikipedia claims that 17 percent of the US population becomes depressed during their lifetime, making them all candidates for expensive, indefinite medication usage. Legions of paid Wiki contributors, many of whom work for pharmaceutical companies, make this source only a little better than a drug industry link farm.
A simple checklist is used to diagnose depression. A primary care medical assistant often administrates it. It is a list of nonspecific symptoms from the DSM. Many are opposites.
DSM criteria for depression:
✪ Depressed mood most of the time
✪ Lack of pleasure most of the time
✪ Significant weight loss or gain, appetite up or down
✪ Slow or speeded-up thoughts and movements
✪ Feeling worthless or guilty most of the time
✪ Either fatigue or excess energy
✪ Cannot think or concentrate most of the time
✪ Thinking of death or suicide with or without a plan
No physical tests exist to verify the diagnosis. After waiting two weeks, doctors might commit a patient to these drugs for years—or even a lifetime. The industry promotes the disease, the medications, and the casual approach to treatment together.
“Prozac is not addictive,” according to the package label written by the manufacturer. True, there are no opioid-type withdrawals. However, after discontinuation, severe anxiety and depression are common. Other issues include suicide, feeling “electric shocks,” and tardive dyskinesia (TD), which is often manifest by continuous mouth movements. The drug companies claim most of this is because of the depressed state itself rather than medication effects. There were many consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission about these claims that antidepressants were not addictive.
When my patients sometimes stopped the SSRI drugs and had symptoms of depression and anxiety, I believed the propaganda that it was their disease and not the drug withdrawal. I was told that they must use the medications long-term for them to work, so I told everyone to continue. It was bogus information, however.
The Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor (SSRI) name was pseudoscience dreamed up in the marketing department of SmithKline Beecham. The “chemical imbalance in the brain” idea was the brainstorm of a sales copywriter in the 1950s. Knowledge of serotonin and other neurotransmitters was even more sketchy when Prozac was invented than it is now. Today, this seductive but mythical gibberish embarrasses researchers.
Similarly, “ACE inhibitor” or “angiotensin-converting enzyme” blood pressure medications were gobbledegook names for branding. Lithium is an old therapy for bipolar illness with no sparkling, pseudo-scientific story associated with it. It is not patented or a money-maker, so no one will pay a copywriter to invent a marketing idea. Note: lithium causes sedation and occasional tardive dyskinesia. It becomes toxic in doses only slightly higher than the therapeutic ones. This can cause permanent brain damage.
The marketers said depression was like diabetes, and SSRIs were an “insulin” for brain disease. However, no clear relationship of depression to serotonin or other neurotransmitters was ever established, and the drugs all work about the same, with a similar lack of benefit. Jill Moncrieff in The Bitterest Pills (2013) confirmed this:
No chemical imbalance or other biological process that might explain drug action in a disease-centered way has been substantiated for any psychiatric disorder … Most authorities now admit that there is no evidence that depression is associated with abnormalities of serotonin or noradrenaline, as used to be believed (Dubovsky et al., 2001). There is also little empirical support for the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia.
Ronald Pies, editor-in-chief emeritus of the Psychiatric Times, agreed: “The ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend—never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists… [it was a] myth.”
Despite this consensus, nearly everyone still believes the metaphor and parrots the message. The idea is 1) your brain is damaged, 2) the drugs fix something, and 3) you need to take medications indefinitely.
SSRIs cause substantial harm. A 2017 literature review of randomized controlled trials in Frontiers in Psychiatry said these drugs are ineffective and damaging. It linked them to osteoporosis and movement disorders, including akathisia and tardive dyskinesia. They may double the risks of miscarriage and congenital disabilities. However, physicians use them off-label for pregnant women and during breastfeeding. Expectant mothers get severe withdrawal symptoms just like anyone else.
Sexual side effects occur in a range from 2% to 59% in various trials. In some studies, they never asked the patients about the issue. When used for premature ejaculation, about a third of men permanently improved, sometimes after just a few pills or even a single dose. This suggests significant long-term effects that are adverse for most people. Many patients report having long-lasting problems with having orgasms after taking and then stopping these drugs.
In the first nine years of Prozac’s use, between 1988 and 1996, there were 39,000 FDA complaints, a record for any drug. This included reports of suicide, psychosis, abnormal thinking, and sexual dysfunction. Many patients taking the medication have sexual difficulties, are “emotionally numb,” and have “reduced positive feelings.” In October 2004, the FDA introduced a written warning about suicide in children and adolescents treated with SSRIs. The agency extended this in 2006 to include young adults up to 25.
Antidepressants are touted as preventing depression for people having medical problems. Prophylaxis is a market for nearly anyone.
Industry hid SSRI-related suicides and violence. The manufacturers have always claimed suicide was because of the underlying depression and not the drugs. They altogether avoided addressing violence, and the psychiatrists parroted this. Even Dr. Healy believed it before he worked as a plaintiff’s expert in the Stewart Dolin case. So did I. Healy changed his mind after he read the secret corporate documents produced by the defendant corporation during the lawsuit’s discovery process.
Dr. Healy learned from his review that Lilly concealed suicides. Their executives had written internally that they could “go down the tubes if we lose Prozac” and that a single big news story could do it. In 1985, a Lilly internal memorandum said that the increased suicides were 5.6 times greater than those associated with imipramine, an older antidepressant. Gøtzsche later evaluated a 2006 FDA meta-analysis of 100,000 patients and estimated that it under-reported suicide by a factor of fifteen.
SSRIstories.org has thousands of news clips about SSRI violence. Martha Rosenberg summarizes:
The only thing more shocking than the number of newspaper stories on the site is the number of previously healthy people who committed violence with no precipitating events. Twenty people mentioned here set themselves on fire. Ten bit their victims (including a biter who was sleepwalking and a woman on Prozac who bit her eighty-seven-year-old mother into critical condition). Three men in their seventies and eighties attacked their wives with hammers. In Midwest City, Oklahoma, a woman accepted a cup of tea from an elderly nurse she’d just met—and then strangled her. A twelve-year-old boy left in his cousin’s car while she shopped at Target killed her five-week-old daughter, who had also been left in the vehicle. All were under the influence of psychoactive drugs. Did events like these ever happen before the psychoactive drug revolution? In one month of reports on the site, a fifty-four-year-old respiratory patient with a breathing tube and an oxygen tank and no previous criminal record held up a bank in Mobile. An enraged man in Australia chased his mailman and threatened to cut his throat… for bringing him junk mail. A fifty-eight-year-old Amarillo man with no criminal history tried to abduct three people and killed an Oklahoma grandmother in the process. A sixty-year-old grandmother in Seattle killed three family members and herself. And fourteen parents drowned their children, a crime no one had heard of before…
Insanity we have allowed ourselves to delve into being programmed into believing the lies for easy fixes
u201CAlbert was treating symptoms rather than the ROOT causesu2026.u201D No pun intended!
Seriously, this is a great article.
Yes, a great article.
I am glad you reached out to a community pharmacist who could help you.
I have, while employed for 38 years, helped many. Sometimes the answer is breaking a pill in half, then quarters, usually it is a little bit more involved than that. And it takes a dedicated patient to do it, or a dedicated partner to administer it (rarer). Doctors are generally not interested in the results.
My story too. So glad I got off all of it!
Klonapin causes dependence, not addiction btw. Itu2019s a big difference
Out of no formal training, I innocently inquireu2026
Could you say more? Is there a big difference because dependence is coercion, whereas addiction is driven by uncontrolled desire?
Addiction is when you have a severe craving for a drug because you want to get high. You crave the sensation of the drug (this has both a mental and physical component). Many addictions can safely be stopped cold turkey.
Dependence usually occurs when taking a medication as prescribed and tolerance is reached, so interdose withdrawal happens. Or when it is desired to stop taking the drug and stopping cold turkey or even slightly decreasing the dose causes symptoms. The possible symptoms are a long list, and it can be very confusing because thereu2019s no craving. Itu2019s not clear that whatu2019s causing the symptoms is withdrawal. A person might even forget to take a dose because theyu2019re not feeling well. Additionally, they may wish to stop cold, cold turkey, but itu2019s not safe. A long taper is necessary. It took me five years of being in withdrawal to taper off all my psych meds. I often during that time wished I were an opiate addict. There would be treatment available. There would be support available. Everyone would be telling me Iu2019m doing the right thing. Whereas with benzos and other Psych drugs, there is no treatment available. (treatment often makes people much worse), There is scant support and people often question why youu2019re going off your meds. By the way now that Iu2019m off all meds for several years I have no emotional issues. What started as a treatment for insomnia ended up driving me crazy. Literally. Read an anatomy of a an epidemic by Robert Whitaker. The most life-changing book I ever read.
Whitaker is a genius.
I truly appreciate your thorough and thoughtful response. Thank you for also opening-up about your personal experience. Iu2019m happy to know youu2019re on the other side of that challenge, and appear to be doing very well. Your journey will undoubtedly help others.
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I finally located the group that reads! I read Whittakeru2019s book as well. Brilliant book.
never get in the way of a writer and his rhetoric ha
There is a benzo withdrawal support group that meets on zoom via a Meetup group. (You can easily search for this). Iu2019m no longer a member but I helped create the group, because I longed for such a group when tapering
Almost all psych drugs cause iatrogenic harm. There is no recourse to sue for medical malpractice because it is “standard of care.” Most P-docs prescribe these medications for long term while studies (not good results) were only approved for short term. Lastly, they have no idea how to taper safely; a science that is starting to get some traction. Pharma does not make small doses so you have to either do your own compounding or find a compounding pharmacy. I am still helping a family member recover from iatrogenic harm caused by a psychiatrist. I appreciate you sharing your story and getting the word/warning out to others.
exactly
100%
Great, informative post!
I have never taken any of these drugs, but have friends that do, so will share.
My mother attempted suicide after quitting Valium cold turkey. She suffered severe depression after she was rehabilitated, and eventually died from pneumonia most likely contracted from not getting out of bed. She had no enthusiasm for anything. She was a shell of herself. Yes, I blame the medical profession, her doctor, and especially the drug companies.
Also, my formerly loving children have not spoken to me for the last 15 years. I have grandchildren that don’t know me, and I don’t know them. None of them has the courage to tell me what great sin I have committed, and I thought it was because they went to “shrinks” who told them to eliminate any thing in their lives that caused them discomfort. It is more than that…after reading this article, I am certain that 3 out of 4 of them are on SSRI drugs.
Shocking statistic I saw some years ago – 1 in 10 ppl in the US are on some form of Anti Depressant/anxiety medicine.. 1 in 10!!
might be 20 percent on psych drugs of some kind
Iu2019ve been on many. I think half the women need thyroid medication not an antidepressant.
If it was me, I’d start with iodine. Research this by searching for Dr. Brownstein’s YouTube videos and this post: https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/252-when-heroes-are-needed-courageous?utm_source=publication-search
Thank you! Iu2019m doing the Ritchie Shoemaker protocol for biotoxin mold illness, I take iodine twice a day ( standard process brand).
I agree with the estrangement that can happen after people are treated with u201Cmental healthu201D medications. Sad and painful
blunts and distorts their human responses
low dose valium long term at bed is pretty benign but not something you want to start
My mom was prescribed 10 mg 2x day + phenobarbitol.
Lorazepam(Ativan) is also a very good cns suppressant and now Iu2019m on it my face, tongue and throat no longer swell up. Iu2019m on 2.5 mg morning and night. I donu2019t feel any effect from the drug, no narcotic effect or relaxed feeling. I just feel normal because my cns was overstimulated and the Ativan dose I take lowers my cns activity to normal. Not below normal. So I donu2019t get the nice relaxed feeling with it
Itu2019s like taking nothing and just works. It also improved the candida in my mouth a huge amount and Iu2019ve been able to lead a much more normal life and do things around the house and garden
I recently tried clonazepam to see if the longer half life would get rid of the candida on my tongue entirely but it was a bad idea. Instead of just suppressing my cns, it depressed my cns. So I went back on Ativan a few days later and am feeling normal again
Working great so far. Iu2019ve been on it about 6 weeks now. Iu2019ve played around with dosage. I tried 2.5mg 3 times a day(8 hours apart) but it was a bad idea. It depressed my cns. Took it down too far like the clonazepam
If the Ativan stops working it will be very obvious as my face tongue and throat will start swelling again and the candida will get worse. Time will tell
They say opiates canu2019t be used long term but they can. Iu2019ve been on them almost 2 decades. I had to find a way for them to work long term and I did. Two doses a day but not too late in the afternoon and they are very effective. Just means you have to put up with the pain at night.
Candida is a symptom, not a root cause. It means your pH is imbalanced. What is causing the candida? If you had candida, and you treated it, the cause is still there. If you have unhealthy eating habits, that will cause the problem. Gut issues from eating high protein, fats, refined sugars. All of this could be feeding an underlying strep bacteria issue. And, interestingly enough, when you have gut issues, they could affect your CNS. Best diet is low fat low protein that incorporates many whole fruits (yes, fruit) and vegetables. If this sounds awful, ask yourself if you want to rely on drugs to suppress symptoms…not cure them.
I did it on purpose by flushing vitamin c from my body to stop myself from dying of anaphylactic shock everyday. Our tryptase levels rise and fall with our vitamin c levels. It was nothing to do with diet. It was to do with an adverse event to Cortoss bone cement during surgery. Suppressing my cns improves it without having to take vitamin c which I canu2019t tolerate as it causes bad symptoms
I have a severe hypersensitivity due to a gene mutation and bone cement to everything. The phytonutrients in vegetables are slightly toxic to healthy people but to me are highly toxic. So in my case, itu2019s a bit more complicated than just not eating right. I got rid of the candida on my feet by removing all my white composite dental fillings and replacing with metal free ceramics. This isnu2019t a simple case. Robert actually interviewed me a while back about my life of health issues caused by metals and metal salts
I am so happy to hear you found a solution to your issues! And, good to know about white composite fillings. Of course, we were told they were safe, but I am learning over and over, trust nothing without clear proof.
They have alumina in them. And they leak terrible. It was the alumina in the bone cement causing a lot of my issues including the dementia and adhd/bipolar type thing(neurotoxicity)
The amount in the bone cement put me over my tolerance so I removed my fillings to put me back under my tolerance for alumina
low fat? disagree. Animal fat is antiinflammatory. See upcoming post
Vegetables are antigenic too. So they contribute to early aging and the disease process. All around the world, thousands of people with autoimmune disorders have shifted to a red meat and fat only diet and it gets rid of their autoimmune symptoms as long as they avoid vegetables and other antigenic food.
If I donu2019t eat animal fat my face goes all droopy and wrinkly. I age about 40 years if I have a day without animal fat. Animal fat is necessary for healthy metabolic function and is required for brain signalling processes
you would have a hard time convincing me the opioids helped you but since you have been taking them so long, withdrawal is likely a mistake
Just ask the drs prescribing them. Morphine was hopeless and didnu2019t work. Taken orally it is only 10% bioavailable. Codeine on the other hand is closer to 100% bioavailable. We tried things stronger than morphine but their low bioavailability meant codeine was the best. Iu2019ve taken the dose up and down as required and now only take 90 mg 3 times a day. They certainly helped. In the early days after the metal fragments peppered amongst my nerves made it near impossible to sit or stand in one spot or sleep or get any relief I would have had to commit suicide. Waking up in pain, taking codeine did help but just enough to stop me jumping off a cliff to put myself out of my misery. I eventually got CT guided steroid injections in my back every 3 months. I used to be on over a gram a day. 225mg 6x a day/night. Because of the corruption in our healthcare system my dr had no other choice but to keep increasing them. It wasnu2019t until I got the steroid injections that there were big improvements so I dropped down to one dose a day in the morning. Even though I was getting the injections, I still woke up in pain from lying down.
A friend of mine was on morphine for 15 years due to a back injury. He was a painter and couldnu2019t work without them. After he retired he came off them quickly with no withdrawal symptoms. He no longer needed them because he wasnu2019t working so wasnu2019t in pain. Because he had no pain, he just automatically stopped reaching for them
Mark is a friend of mine and has a complex, unusual history.
I would use a different term than complex but it may offend some viewers lol
Mark is an unusual case
Not really. Iu2019m a typical case in the implant allergy community. Happens to all of us with gene mutations which mean we donu2019t detox efficiently. People with mthfr should never get implants as it will lead to disease. Itu2019s a typical response for these people because of the gene mutation
My uncle was diagnosed with schizophrenia but it was actually metal hypersensitivity to his amalgams combined with the family gene mutation that was the cause. Psychiatry isnu2019t real. Itu2019s pseudo science with no evidence to back it up. It comes purely from the imaginations of man
I think Lexapro gave me brain damage. It has taken 10+ years to be able to return to any semblance of what I had before, acuity-wise. IMHO. I was not on it for long, maybe a year? When I quit, I heard swooshing noises whenever I moved my head for awhile. I also recall someone published a study fairly recently which proved SSRIs have nothing to do with treating depression. Say what? They sure do explain a lot of suicides and murders by teens though. Big Pharma has basically destroyed the physical and mental health of a huge swath of the western world.
exactly
Dr. Yolo, another take on Valium. My dear great aunt passed at 100.5 of age. It was her custom every night for 30 plus years to take precisely 1/2 of a valium each night. She never had high blood pressure, and there is some thought in our family that her longevity was enhanced by slowing the beats per minute of her heart, and thus extending her life span. Was she addicted? She did not suffer from anxiety in the least, so I do not know if that was the origin for the prescription. I believe she was prescribed it in her late 70s. But it was never more, never less, and always at bed time. My take away is that she might have been addicted as a habit, but that for her at least, it was not the mood altering drug that day time users use it for. My second point: it is Much Much Much better to have a drug that washes out slowly so that you *can* taper off, than a drug that you are forced to go cold turkey on. The cold turkey experience is a bit like what those who stop smoking experience. The smoker craves the next hit of nicotine, the next fix of oral satisfaction etc. And has terrible trouble walking away from it. Many times they fail and go back on the drug. Ditto the true alcoholic. In fact with the alcohol, those who got out of alcoholism, when shown pictures of a tall iced glass of the poison, have brain pattern changes in the centers of the brain where satisfaction/rewards are processed. The body and brain ‘remember’. There are many facets to addiction, the biological physical response is only one of those. The psychological responses are *wow* as well. In any case I have constantly refused to use anti anxiety meds, even though my BP is high and the anti anxiety meds completely normalize my BP. And when told I need perhaps an SSRI, I ran as fast as I could to get away from that doctor. I knew only too well the horrible profile of issues the SSRI patient faced getting off the drugs. I say NILIF … nothing in life is ‘free’ and the idea a ‘pill’ or injection will ‘fix it all’ is one of the biggest lies of all!
I recently wrote an article on addiction. You may find my experiences interesting. https://healthcarenotmedicine.substack.com/p/are-addictive-drugs-the-only-ones
thanks Mark
benzos are the least malignant of the psych meds
Yes I think what itu2019s being prescribed for is important. Iu2019m prescribed benzos as a cns suppressant. I donu2019t have anxiety. My experience has been great. I have not had to increase the dose at all and I donu2019t get any kind of side effect or narcotic effect from them. I did at the start but it only lasted a week. The benzos stop my oxygen saturation from suddenly dropping and slows my heart rate down as itu2019s high (90-105) due to an adverse event which requires surgery to remove bone cement from my spine which Iu2019ve been refused. So maybe those prescribed it for anxiety need to keep increasing their dose but those using it as a cns suppressant or for something else donu2019t.
Cannabis is similar if you use if for medical purposes. Eventually you stop getting high but the medical benefits donu2019t go away and you donu2019t have to increase the dose to keep receiving the benefits. This is noted in the documentation of sativex in New Zealand and matches my experiences.
A friend of mine was on morphine for 15 years due to back pain because he couldnu2019t do his physical job without it. Then he retired so was no longer getting a sore back. He stopped the morphine over a few days with no side effects whatsoever and never looked back.
Iu2019ve been on codeine for a few decades due to metal fragments in my back but I donu2019t get any narcotic effect from them. I would if I increased the dose but I donu2019t need to increase the dose as they work fine with no narcotic effect.
Love it if my doc would give for hbp as relaxant I don’t get high on it and only use at night
When the War on Intractable Pain began, I was taking 5 mg Oxycontin for a degenerative spine, OA and OP twice a day. I refused to be treated like a criminal. So stopped cold turkey. I’d read the horror stories of the sudden withdrawals. I never had them. 10 years, of blissful pain relief, was GONE though. The neurologist tried multiple drugs, which never made it past a few days before they were in the trashcan. Tylenol is a Damn poor excuse for more than a normal headache. Chronic PAIN replaced, INTRACTIPICLE PAIN.
What Does Intractable Pain Really Mean?
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2020/11/19/what-does-constant-or-intractable-pain-really-mean
Due to new research, we now call the constant pain condition the Intractable Pain Syndrome (IPS). Itu2019s called a u201Csyndromeu201D because of the many manifestations of the condition. IPS is a complication of a disease or injury.
Multiple treatments used together, including hormone therapy, can be successful. Here is one clue: Emotional freedom technique Mercola https://eft.mercola.com/. Another is the rundown on therapies in Brownstein’s Heal Your Leaky Gut.
Gallstones are the biggest debilitating issue in the past few days, not the first time, there are no plans to sonic blast them. It is unknown how old the condition is. Complaints of pain were ignored. I don’t want a 6th AB surgery. ARTIFICIAL HORMONES HATE ME.
see Hormone Secrets to learn about bioidentical hormones
What is the difference between the crap hormones they already tried and bioidentical hormones? I don’t trust hormones. They ruined my GI tract.
Don’t let me accuse you of DFR ha
Look at Hormone Secrets. Study it.
I’m using naturopathic, it is a slow process. But these things need to go now. The AB pain never lets up. Doesn’t help the Gastroparesis, and Barrett’s Esophagus any. It’s right under both sides of the top Floating ribs. It goes from left to right side when I turn or walk. The MRI also showed a hernia on the left, the ultrasound was too cloudy to show that. The primary is an old-fashioned, cautious man.
So what is done about it? Iu2019m 72 with a history of low back pain caused by lumbar adult onset scoliosis. Iu2019ve lost five inches. At this point I canu2019t sit in a dinner chair, stand, or walk without pain. My life has changed for the worse. Struggling to function and keep up normal activities. The pain meds barely take the edge off it and I canu2019t take anti inflammatories which did help. Iu2019ve tried about every intervention my doctor has suggested but my issue seems to be gravity. I have no pain in water aerobics.
read Hormone Secrets for a discussion of hormonal and many other therapies for osteoporosis that work
“gabapentin, [a failed drug that was only approved originally for post-herpetic neuralgia]”
Yes. Thank you. I have culled all my physiatry (MDs with physical medicine specialty) referrals who knee jerk with gabapentin. They just warehouse patients on the stuff, leaving them lethargic and often with significant weight gain.
it’s dogs**t
That’s putting it mildly. Great article. I am reading your hormone book and Judas of Dentistry. Thank you for your research and having the courage to share your own story as a human and as a doctor.
I knew 2 people who were on prescription opiates when the decision was made to cut everyone off. Both of them, with different doctors, were given a quart sized bottle of gabapentin . After both of them complained about how awful it is, the doctors replied “Well I don’t know what more I can do, look at how huge that bottle of gabapentin is!”
For years RX opiates were the standard, then, when people began dropping like flies from overdoses, they weren’t. When a leg is shattered from a roadside i.e.d., morphine is THE way to control the pain immediately and begin treatment. Hydrocodone ad infinitum for failed back surgery? Not a good way to extrapolate the use of morphine. Pain system dysfunction has created a whole new specialty that unfortunately worsened…pain system dysfunction. The dysfunction involves a significantly lowered pain threshold, i.e., 0.15 Kg of pressure on the Cluneal nerve distribution of healthy people is painless, the same pressure on dysfunctional patients is reported as excruciating. How to fix it? Instead of relying on Opioid receptors, mechanical therapists, e.g. chiropractors, without realizing it until recently, did their work by modulating the data from the periphery presented through the Basal ganglia to the PreFrontal Cortex. Similar modulatory work is done by various body workers, and some techniques used in physical therapy, as possibly acupuncture as well, although I know acupuncture can be effective, I am clueless as to exact mechanism.
Thank you for covering this topic of “anti-anxiety” drugs. I do not know anything about Klonipin. But this topic of psychotropic drugs needs much more open discussion.
I took Klonipin for a very short while. I had fairly bad case of “restless leg syndrome” when I was younger and was told this was an “off label” help against that condition. I dropped it pretty quick because it did nothing to help one way or another. I went through some anxiety times in my younger “culture shock” days and tried a few kinds of benzodiazepine pills for a few months. They helped with the anxiety but I could see I was becoming addicted early on so I stopped them. I remember that there were some “anti-anxiety” pills that have a warning about “MAO inhibitors” like Tranxene, and I decided that those kinds of pills put me into an immediate depression hole, so stopped taking those pronto.
I decided that I could control my anxiety best by controlling my thoughts so I just said over and over again in my mind little short Catholic prayers that I was taught. That stopped ugly angry thoughts and depression and anxiety for me.
The more I see the effects of the PLANdemic and the “COVID vaccines” the more I see what profound evil was perpetrated on humanity. Everything is ruined and nothing works. Such a massive Lie, Ill, Steal and Destroy operation!
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Wanted to share this video I watched today — found it insightful and helpful.
Cultural genocide against Western civilization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxMgdemgITI
1:54:30 video runtime
Anti-Christendom: A Spiritual & Cultural Genocide
Dr. Deep State
3,457 views May 14, 2024
David visits us to talk about current events in Europe and their implications for Western Civilization and Christianity.
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Here is a blast from the past musical favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQzp8g91xWo
This Little Light
(Live At UCLA, Los Angeles/1961)
The Kingston Trio
The u2018little Catholic prayersu2019 help my mental and spiritual health immensely. +JMJ+ u2764uFE0FuD83DuDE4F
Sequence for Pentecost: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Come, O holy Spirit! And send from heaven a ray of Thy light.
Come, Father of the poor! Come giver of gifts! Come, Thou light of our hearts!
Thou best of comforters! The soulu2019s sweet guest and refreshment!
Her rest in toil; her shelter in heat: her solace in her woe!
O most blessed Light! Fill the inmost soul of Thy faithful.
Without the divine assistance, there is nought in man, there is nought but evil.
Cleanse our defilements; water our dryness; heal our wounds.
Bend our stubborn will; warm up our cold hearts: guide our straying steps.
Give to Thy faithful, who hope in Thee, Thy holy seven gifts. Give them the merit of virtue; give them the happy issue of salvation; give them endless joy. Amen. Alleluia.
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Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus
O come, Creator Spirit, visit our souls; and with Thy heavenly grace fill the hearts that were made by Thee.
Thou art called the Paraclete, the Gift of the most high God, the living Fountain, Fire, Love, and spiritual Unction.
Thou art sevenfold in Thy gifts: the Finger of the Fatheru2019s hand; the Fatheru2019s solemn Promise, that enrichest men with the gift of tongues.
Enkindle Thy light in our minds; infuse Thy love into our hearts; and strengthen the weakness of our flesh by Thine unfailing power.
Repel the enemy far from us, and delay not to give us peace; be Thou our guide, that we may shun all that could bring us harm.
Grant that, through Thee, we may know the Father and the Son; and that we may evermore confess Thee the Spirit of them both.
Glory be to God the Father, and to the Son who rose from the dead, and to the Paraclete, for everlasting ages! Amen.
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https://instituteofcatholicculture.org/easter-week-8-pentecost/?vgo_ee=Uq2id46x%2FKdYgcvjsAuV3R%2FHJ4wh71tkanD345gncbR2RmBU%3AdWupgaH2qVWcW2vOhukPu8vx1Ou0fNcw
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My sonu2019s story. Thankful every day for his almost fatal decision to sit in our garage with the car runningu2026we found him before he died and he spent a month in a hospital that remarkably had an oxygen chamber that helped with his brain damage. He is 33 now and playing drums for our church worship team. He credits his good mental health these days to weight lifting and exercise. uD83DuDE4FuD83CuDFFC
The more I read and experience, the less I trust the health care system, even though there are some really wonderful ones out there. Many just don’t have a clue what is happening – or it is too late to change professions!
There’s a place for them, but it’s always a difficult verification process, even for me when I have medical problems. You have to try to be polite, or you can’t get the best out of them.
Best to see an environmental dr for most things in my experience. Like a toxicologist or immunotoxicologist. In the paradigm of environmental medicine they look for the cause of disease and then attempt to cure it
In the allopathic paradigm they arenu2019t allowed to do that. All they can do is treat symptoms with pharmaceutical interventions. In New Zealand where I live theyu2019ve essentially outlawed environmental medicine. You canu2019t see a toxicologist here or a neurotoxicologist or immunotoxicologist but I think they are the best people to see for chronic illness as itu2019s usually some kind of exposure thatu2019s caused it. An antigenic reaction is quite common in people with certain common gene mutations. But an allopathic medicine dr might call those symptoms adenomyosis or fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome or arthritis and tell the patient nothing can be done for them, which isnu2019t true. Thereu2019s not much guidance out there for people who are chronically ill. You have to feel your way and see what worked for others in a similar position
So many friends of mine from the medical profession have died from addiction so I am happy you are not amongst that number. My neurosurgeon and anesthesiologist friends are gone. They were good people who were not taught how to manage stress in a healthy manner. Some of the stories they told me about traumatic events in their jobs were incredible and made me very glad I chose engineering. I am relieved you made it out of that cycle, especially since you have an important message to share. I buy your books and dole them out like candy so thank youu2026more than you will ever know.
About 15 years ago, I developed panic attacks while driving. It got to the point where I couldn’t even put the keys in the ignition. My world was getting smaller, and in desperation, I went to see a doctor. I was prescribed Xanax, and exactly like you describe, they were a miracle for a few months. I was driving again! But they slowly turned me into an unfeeling zombie. I even excitedly considered suicide. I came to my senses enough to quit. Not knowing anything about tapering, I quit cold turkey. For the next 3 years I was basically bedridden and my life was an unrelenting hell. I won’t go into symptoms but I’m sure many of them are familiar to you. Things so horrible you would trade your old, familiar hell for this fresh hell in a heartbeat. Doctors gaslit me and said it was all in my head and tried to prescribe more drugs. I nearly lost everything. That’s when I started researching every thing I could about health and alternative therapies and climbed out of that hell. I tell everyone I can, never ever touch benzos.
They have many profound side effects that are mostly unknown to doctors. Xanax is so short-acting that it’s a particular problem as you are constantly on the hunt for more. Thanks for sharing.
Haha, yeah, that’s why it was, according to the doctor, “perfect for panic attacks”. Maybe as an addendum to this post you should list the side effects of both use and withdrawal. Appreciate your work. Take care.
Shall we add in another pharma ‘hors d’oeuvre’ that can nudge you into suicidal depression? for which of course you can then be prescribed the psych trash?
Anti-acne drug Ruocotane… I personally know 2 people affected as teenagers, remember a 14 year old Australian girl who killed herself after being kindly prescribed this, and several friends whose eyes widened when I told them of it and who immediately said “So that’s what was going on with my brother!”
It’s the drug du jour apparently at the local up market private school…
It does now mention way down the admitted list of side effects that suicidal thoughts are one of those but – rare. Yes. And Santa Claus is alive and well and living in Alice’s rabbit hole.
How many other drugs must be the catalysts for their still more lucrative second tier ‘siblings’?
And accutane. see https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/153-a-premed-student-is-butchered?utm_source=publication-search
I have heard that many of these achool shootings are prompted by kids on psych meds and if you are a real conspiracy theorist, they are known by and manipulated to act by govt forces wanting to make a point about gun control, etc. The kid “wakes up,” so to speak not knowing “WHY,” they did what they did and we never truly learn what happens to them if they survive, i.e. are they really in prison or out on some witness protection. program…
That suspicion was somewhat confirmed firsthand when this RN was caring for a dear, sweet lady one night, hospitalized for an injury. It is routine to place routine orders for alcohol withdrawal if in their history they admit to drinking regularly. She had orders for Ativan 3 MG if she started to show signs of DT’s. She couldn’t sleep so someone gave her the Ativan. Normally, 0.5 MG would be given for this. About an hour later, she became angry, combative, and screamed all night. She called her family, 911, the police…accused us of all kinds of mistreatment…her behavior was a complete 180 from hours earlier. The next night I took care of her again. She apologized profusely and said she knew exactly what she was doing, BUT COULDN’T STOP HERSELF!!!. It was unbelievable and showed the exaggerated side effects of these medications. Obviously this doesn’t confirm malicious intent by govt but I have noticed that what psych meds these shooters are on is omitted from news stories. Since this observation, I have learned about http://www.ablechild.org, an organization started by Sheila Mathews who warns of the connection between school psychologists and Big Pharma.
Thank you for the link
What are your thoughts on ADHD and the use of Ritalin and Adderall? Whether the dx is correct or not, I have taken these for years. I found I needed Ambien (hard to get) or Ativan to help me sleep (i.e. to come down.) I have cut way down on Ritalin and have decided to stop taking anything at night and am considering weaning myself completely off of the stimulants. At this point, I’m. not certain they do anything, initially liked the energy boost they provided, but also wonder if now more a placebo effect. Anything out there about the quality control of these meds coming from China?
Read the “Living in drug world” part of Butchered by Healthcare and the chapter on generics. Here’s a free download link for you:https://dl.bookfunnel.com/4kliod8a9z
Years ago in a group counseling session, a man was having new hallucinations. The doctor wanted to add more prescriptions. The group figured out that it was his new nicotine patch.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE DOCTOR!uD83DuDCA5Outta the ballpark!
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If I were a physician, Iu2019d have a prescription pad that read u2018Cut all of the assholes in your life looseu2019, u2018eat high quality foodu2019, get good quality sleepu2019, u2018exercise moreu2019, u2018laugh a LOT moreu2019, u2018stop watching tv with pharma adsu2019 and things along those lines. For sure Iu2019d have my license suspended as there is no profit in that. I did those things in my own life and it worked so much better than any pill ever could.
The sleeping pill Ambien can cause insomnia. Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen (or Tylenol) can all Cause pain, fever and inflammation. All the SSRI & Tricyclic Antidepressant medicines used to treat depression, can also cause or worsen depression. Ritalin (or methylphenidate) is a stimulant that is used to treat the symptoms of the _hyperactivity_ disorder called ADHD. Both Budesonide and Albuterol for treating asthma, can cause spasms of the bronchia and difficult or labored breathing.
The bizarre aspect of drugs causing symptoms they are used to treat is actually the essential aspect of classical homeopathy – u201Clike cures likeu201D; the constellation of symptoms that a single medicine will cause on all levels u2013 mental, emotional and physical (MEP) – in relatively healthy individuals, it will also cure in a sick person.
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But how does this paradoxical effect occur? It seems counter to our common sense.
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And yet, investigating conventional medicines one sees that almost all that are prescribed based on symptoms (as opposed to lab results) have “side effects”, really just _effects_, that match the symptoms they are indicated for!
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u00A0Prescribed conventionally on only a few of the patient’s symptoms, they palliate or suppress them temporarily, and must be repeated regularly. If these same conventional medicines were prescribed so that their effects on all levels mental, emotional and physical matched the patients symptoms, they would be homeopathic and curative.
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How does this happen?
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All medicines have a primary action followed by a secondary reaction when they wear off.
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We are all familiar with the primary action and secondary reaction of coffee. Drinking that first cup, typically we are mentallyu00A0 more alert, emotionally hyperexcitable and physically stimulated. When it wears off we crash: mentally slow, emotionally down and physically lethargic.
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Giving homeopathic coffee to a patient with insomnia who is awake late with a racing mind, hyperexcitable and physically stimulated, there will be a slight increase. But the secondary reaction by their body/mind which has an innate tendency to heal, will push in the “opposite” direction toward health.
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This same push-and-pull, primary action followed by secondary reaction, of all medicines that are prescribed homeopathically will cure in this manner.
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It is not necessary that the medicines be diluted, or potentized, for this healing effect to occur.
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Dr Hahnemann in the early days of homeopathy used small doses of undiluted medicines. He only started diluting or potentizing them when he discovered it was more effective.
Without dissecting the mechanisms, you have hit upon the central theme we face. AZT, not AIDS, caused all the fatalities. Tylenol depletes glutathione and should be disposed of in a biohazard box. And all the lies about TG, carbon, “climate change” etc.
Conventional medicine is so obsessed with determining biomechanistic mechanisms for drug effects. e.g. lock and key for receptors, enzyme effects, etc. But in actuality they cant begin to explain all the effects of their drugs, particularly the mental-emotional effects.
They need to change ultimately their idea of what constitutes a disease. Instead of compartmentalizing a patient into multiple diseases and treating each one separately which leads to over-drugging and palliation and suppression of symptoms, they should look at the whole patient’s condition as the disease as every other system of medicine does.
It would change their whole relationship with their medicines. They would look at the whole effect of the drugs – mental, emotional and physical. They would see that prescribing their drugs based on how they match this whole patient would lead to cure. They would be practicing homeopathically!
the terrain hypothesis
NAD+ IV Drips with amino acids is way better than anything the Medical Mafia will shove down your throat.
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I’ll look
Watch videos on the website: https://www.cchr.org/
Thank you!
Thank you for this article! I have saved it and ordered your book. The insert by Dr. Huff was particularly interesting as my husband and I recognize some of the symptoms described in our son who has been suffering from addiction that has vacillated from benzos, and alcohol to heroine. Itu2019s been a horrible ride. Every time he tries to get u201Ccleanu201D he suffers from a myriad of symptoms as described. He was on Xanax in high school that was gifted to him by a friend. We took him to psychiatrist for years where he was u201Ctreatedu201D with all manner of things. And heu2019s also been thru multiple systems and organizations who profit from mental illness caused by addiction but with little if any help. Today he appears to be healed for now. He became his own doctor and did his own research so determined to be well. A very slight few days in jail helped his final phase of detox. As you put it, he u201Cmanned up.u201D
Thank you again, and I hope your book will be helpful with additional info.
I have a friend who spent two years in jail, and it cured his SSRI addiction. Painfully. https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/101-ben-bathen-tells-how-he-was-butchered?utm_source=publication-search
That podcast was immensely helpful and at the same time Iu2019m terrified. My sonu2019s recent doctor has him on Cymbalta and Wellbutrin!! Ugh. He has never suffered from psychosis until he started experimenting with drugs. Iu2019m hoping he hasnu2019t been taking the prescription. He has never liked medicine or trusted doctors. Thank you again for your work!!
Has your son taken or looked into ibogaine?
I havenu2019t heard of this. I will have to ask him. Please let me know more.
I listen to Joe Rogan and he has mentioned a few times that a friend of his went to Mexico to have ibogain treatment. Cured his alcoholism! I believe it is a plant based medicine that addresses subconscious reasons for addiction. I haven’t done any research so I can’t offer much info. I was considering it as I have struggled for years, but am now 1yr sober (by divine intervention).
Thank you! That is very interesting. Information is key to moving towards enlightenment. uD83DuDE0A
My book chapter describes my own benzo addiction and how I addressed addiction once I realized medical help was not on the way. Solimini, J. (2024). Breaking the Chains: A Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Journey. Holistic Mental Health Volume 2: Calm, Clear, & in Control for the Rest of Your Life (Vol. 2). Brave Healer Productions.
Never again.
Should be freely available info
Psychiatrist here. I’m sorry you had to go through that Robert. I’ve seen the light with over prescribing of psych drugs and for depression, I recommend magnesium (any preparation than magnesium oxide) which helps a whole lot of things in addition to optimizing vitamin D levels and other ways of working with the body and lifestyle problem solving. When it comes to schizophrenia however, the antipsychotics alleviate hallucinations and paranoia so sometimes they are necessary. People, please remember that the United States is one of only two countries on the planet that allow direct to consumer marketing of prescription drugs. TV addicts are brainwashed by neuromarketing. A pill rather than feel…
Thank you. I recently (today!) bought Robert Whittakeru2019s book and my Amazon order of Dr. Yohou2019s book arrived. I will add your suggestions to my reading.
traditional view is that it is harmless
Thanks for including us in your therapy, Robert 🙂 I’m kind of new here, so I’m sure I’m missing lots of chapters (no, I haven’t read your books yet). Don’t recall how I got here either, but I plan to start with the on bioidentical hormone book, since I’m 75 and recently (2 months ago) started on bioidentical testosterone cream (had to go shopping for and educate a new doc). I’m thanking not only my age, but also the brainstorm idea to get a vasectomy, when I was under 30. Topics keep coming up here that I’m particularly interested in and have a lot of experience with (like Chlorine Dioxide, Methylene Blue and DMSO). On this topic with SSRI’s, while I’ve never taken them, I did the research years ago and have advised anyone, who would listen, to just say NO, or run the risk of being the next school shooter! I’ve suggested to hundreds of people that they watch the first 5 minutes of Making a Killing: (The Untold Story Of Psychiatric Drugging). It’s free on youtube now, but I used to send them the DVD. It’s older, but does not disappoint: https://youtu.be/rk-ryvdWPgw
you are in the right place and I can supply detail
I have 1.3 million words in print
it was a lot of work
“it was a lot of work…” Aren’t all labors of love? ;->
Thank you Dr. Yoho for the article. From the F.W.I.W. dep’t.:
https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/panel-members-for-new-psychiatric-bible-received-over-14m-from-industry/
great ref
Thank you Dr Y for exposing the criminal underbelly of Pharma
For me, all that was needed was:
[1] …their billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
[2] ….Since the drugs are all highly addictive, little persuasion is needed after that.
Thank you, Dr. Yoho.
thanks for your feedback Radio
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Article was great Iu2019ve experienced it and these stories would be horrific if I was taking 8mg I canu2019t imagine, donu2019t think Iu2019m a whiner because I was only on 1mg at night for sleep, but when I forgot my medication on a Florida trip I think I was close to a seizure (Iu2019ve never had one by the way) I didnu2019t think much about it until I couldnu2019t get to sleep the first night but by the 2nd night I was a different person, I felt I was going crazy and it got worse as the night went on, I took Tylenol which I never do to no relief. I messaged my doc who wouldnu2019t send in a 5 day supply to the local pharmacy, so my spouse overnighted some and it wasnu2019t instant relief but better. I realized Iu2019m getting off this poison and I gradually tapered off, I do miss the sleep I used to get but I donu2019t want to be controlled by a little yellow pill, I still have some that Iu2019ll take a half in the middle of the night but rarely.
Iu2019m no doctor but if your taking this stuff I would start tapering immediately.
It has all kinds of horrible side effects, including homicide and tardive dyskinesia.
Thanks for your comment.
Please let me know about your Amagams!
When I was 6 or 7 years old I had an evil dentist who was later arrested for malpractice for filling teeth that didnu2019t need it, and other dental procedures.
I was a prime target at the time and he destroyed most all my teeth with Amagam fillings.(mom didnu2019t even have the money for the dentist either)
My health today has declined drastically and I have severe tinnitus that Iu2019ve had for over 20y, Im a health nut but the tinnitus is taking its toll on my body with little sleep and memory loss.
Iu2019ve read through the years how toxic amagam fillings are especially with the age of the fillings and could be the source of tinnitus, what Iu2019m wondering is what made you get your fillings removed?
I donu2019t think thereu2019s enough tooth left to replace the fillings but I would do almost anything to stop the ringing in my ears.(like have them pulled)
Thank you for your time.
SD
Judas Dentistry tells the story of my dental and my wife’s dental misadventures. https://dl.bookfunnel.com/5ercuvl94y is the free download link.
I hope to get it out in paperback soon.
I would get those amalgams out if it were me. See the chapter on Dr. Lagos.
I, too, have tinnitus. DMSO in the ears is supposed to help but I have not tried it.
Ok, I just recently had a 7 year relationship with the love of my l8fe DESTROYED because he began taking SSRI behind my back. I just told me today that he has been on it. He has been suicidal and multiple personalities for over a year. He became violent with my 17 year old son, put him in a choke hold and drug him 5 ft. across the kitchen. This was in January and we left the house. I had a retraining order on him for a month. I am so sad because I love this man,,,,the man he used to be.
all SSRI drug effects
it could have been worse
read the post describing the man who killed his son referenced in my artlcle
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Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac has been very vocal about her horrible experience with Klonopin. She is 5 feet tall, and she ballooned to 200 pounds and suffered many of the same things other people do.
Fortunately for her and all her fans (including me), she got off of them and seems fine.
I seem fine but have this substack addiction ha
I took SSRIs for a couple of years in the 90u2019s. In my early 50u2019s. I think they had a placebo affect on me. I was struggling mostly in the winter, even with the pills. I stopped slowly one winter and bought a light box. Within a week I felt like some tiny blinds in the back of my eyes had suddenly rolled up. I was a changed person. My husband wondered who this woman was. Lol. I also began walking and noticed the beauty around me. I started college and just got on with my life with friends and a job perfect for me in a library. I eat much better now, staying away from the toxic food system and we live in a small town surrounded by farms and local food. Retired now, we boondock camp in Wyoming around a month each summer. Iu2019m so glad Iu2019ve taken myself off the medical liars merry go round. I began to see what was really going on 12 years ago. But yet, Iu2019ve still been fooled a few times. The entire system is cunning and smoothly manipulative.
If you get sick, it’s hard to resist them and analyze the best course.
Definitely. My grandson (18) has been on them for several years. Iu2019m sure he was injured by the HPV vax. Plus other drugs he is on. I so fear for him as he goes to college in the fall. How can he manage these meds if mom does everything for him now. Then goes 4 hours away. I cautioned my daughter about Accutane for his acne but of course she didnu2019t listen so heu2019s on that horror as well. Just because use is regulated doesnu2019t mean there will be no harm. Itu2019s horrifying to me.
Thank you kindly for sharing. I will purchase Butchered for sure & the other as well. GoD Bless. Love from Vancouver B.C. Canada.
I’ve got one for you: our friend who is a MD gave my husband clonazepam for insomnia. I think it was about 2 weeks before the nightmares started. Now, these were not your regular scary dreams. These were dreams he seemingly couldn’t wake from. Our lives turned into a literal nightmare on steroids of him waking me at 3 am where I would spend the next hour trying to help him see the difference between reality and his dream. Fast forward and we were both diagnosed with Lyme/MSIDS. Insomnia is a hallmark symptom. The anxiety came later which is a hallmark Bartonella symptom. Once we treated these pathogens the insomnia and anxiety simply went away. This took YEARS of treatment and even then we have relapsed probably 4 times requiring stints of 2-3 months of treatment. Nobody really touches the psychiatric manifestations of Lyme/MSIDS but they are very real and frightening:
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/10/18/psychiatric-lymemsids/. Dr. Robert Bransfield has written on this prolifically: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/04/01/psychiatric-manifestations-of-tick-borne-infections-dr-bransfield/. So glad you found your health, Robert.
Chlorine dioxide cures Lyme but has to be used for a year or more to be sure. see: https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/280-nasa-said-that-chlorine-dioxide
When considering how many people around us in life are taking these toxic, dangerous drugs it is wise to stay very aware. The complete loss of self-control that can occur with these drugged people is alarming and at any moment driving on a road or any plave in public someone can just snap and get you involved in their nightmare. Psychiatry is a total fraud as I see it. Thanks for posting this Dr. Yoho, I have shared it and trust someone will be helped by the information.
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YES if we have conservatively 15 percent on SSRIs alone, if you are involved in a car accident, anyone is potentially a psychopathic killer
Psychiatry is not a totally bogus specialty. People with mania used to die from literally running themselves to death. Tell someone who is suffering from auditory hallucinations telling them to kill themselves that the medications I prescribe are bogus. Sometimes these meds are the best we can do with symptom suppression to keep a person from dying of suicide.
Dang you are good with the headlines, bro
My buddy AMM
Yes I revise them all the way until publication
I’m skeptical but open-minded. I didn’t know about CD when we were first diagnosed but we did use it later. It’s a rough treatment, tastes like bleach, and must be dosed hourly, which is really tough to do for an entire year. I also read and your readers may enjoy one man’s experience using CD for Lyme in the tiny book: https://www.amazon.com/Lyme-Disease-Medical-Diagnosis-Treatment/dp/1501059106. He had a good outcome and uses 6-10 drops per day for maintenance. What’s your opinion of turpentine for parasites?
we have effective and safe parasite remedies such as CD and mebendazole.
CDS is well tolerated by most
CD or MMS is not especially over 50
See my archives for the distinctions if you do not know
Benzoinfo.com has free information about tapering benzodiazepines, FYI
Benzoinfo.com has free information about tapering benzodiazepines, FYI
Benzoinfo dot com has free information about tapering benzodiazepines, FYI
Benzoinfo dot com has free information about tapering benzodiazepines, FYI
I just canu2019t believe what a broken society we live in. Doctors are destroying lives every single day and the public trusts them without question. Less so now than in the past but still most of the people that I know just go to their doctor and get on whatever pills their doctor prescribes to them. Whoever thought going to a doctor would be the most dangerous thing a person could possibly do? Glad I donu2019t have a doctor.
What an amazing article and stack you have, Robert. I was forwarded this from a friend and have subscribed to your free posts. Thank you for this absolute treasure trove of information!
Have you ever seen this website?
https://rxisk.org/
I found it when I was trying to get off the last pharmaceutical I hope to ever take in my life: pregabalin/Lyrica. What an absolute nightmare. Prescribed for sciatic pain at a very high dose, took six moths to titre down and still have ill effects six years later. Probably for life.
Thank you for writing these posts!
Why would you expect a drug to cure your ills? You take the drug, maybe feel better, then stop taking the drug and you revert back to square one. Rinse and repeat, it’s always the same as no drug cures your ills.
Drugs can only mask them or dumb them down for a bit. This is the deception of drug use and your doctor is clueless because he is trained to be a drug marketer, not a healer. All doctors should be able to fix and repair a body, with the body’s help, so that in the end you require NO MORE DRUGS.
Hi. I need the link to your hormone secrets book please. I cannot seem to find it.
Dear Robert,
I am on a carnivore diet and it’s lifted my mood, even when things go wrong, I don’t get depressed.
I’ve realized that you have to look after your own health, google your doctor’s advice.