Mental illness shortens life: should read: medications are neurotoxic http://wp.me/p5nnb-b0j

[GiaK]

Just one of the very many potentially deadly psych meds

 

When this issue is covered in the media they always fail to mention that psych drugs tax the bodies in multiple ways that can cause early death. Impacting cardiovascular health in numerous ways and causing serious and numerous and also potentially deadly metabolic issues…this omission is criminal and frankly ridiculous.
 

The below article came to my inbox today via an advocacy email group I’m part of. I responded with the above brief comments.
 

It starts:

A new study says mental illness might actually take years off a person’s life.

 

According to research from the 

University of Oxford

, mental illness may cut life expectancy by seven to 24 years — more than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. (

read the rest

)

 

 

Of course these are not new results. There have now been numerous studies showing that folks who get labeled mentally ill and are treated in the psychiatric system die early. Those facts are never made explicit of course.
 

Rather than learning how to deeply and profoundly heal our bodies, minds and spirits, the mental illness system doles out drugs that kill the motivation for exercise and other lifestyle changes that can help us heal. Everything we do and think and eat and ingest matters and this is not something that is understood in the psych system. If we are not given the means to heal, we won’t. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I’ve communicated with 1000s now that have learned how to do it. 
 

See: Our brains on exercise and Drug free recovery from depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, etc…
 

Here are some articles on the subject:
 

• “The seriously mentally ill die, on average, 25 years earlier than the general population…”
• SAMHSA’s 10×10 Wellness Campaign — spawn of a statistic (mentally ill die, on average, 25 years earlier than the general pop)
• Worse Than Vioxx: Zyprexa, Risperdal, Clozaril, And Paxil Killed Thousands Of Americans (note the date is several years ago, the death toll has only gone up)
• Psych drugs kill people and psychiatrists aren’t even doing appropriate screening

And it’s possible to learn to get healthy again:

• If I Had Remained Med Compliant…

And: To my friends and readers who still take psych drugs

Also: Please do not attempt to discontinue psych drugs without first very carefully educating yourself on the risks involved so that you might minimize the chances of developing grave iatrogenic illness if you decide to withdraw: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome Round-Up

 

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[Altostrata]

All studies showing a relationship between physical illness and mental conditions fail to show which was the cause and which was the effect. Could someone feeling low because he or she is ill?

 

Few address the debilitating effects of long-term psychiatric drugs or polypharmacy overall.

 

These types of statements are part of the ongoing hysteria about the dangers to society of mental illness -- a ball that pharma started rolling to sell drugs.

[btdt]

I think of this every time I hear their ads diabetes high cholesterol... both related to ssri snri drugs... add more dangerous drugs to "treat" these two problems we have a domino effect. 

There are many more thyroid... liver... I sure the list is long but that is all I have off the top of my head right now. 

[alexjuice]

It's clear the cause is the medication. Whitaker discusses this as I recall. In countries where they don't drug the patients the outcomes are much much better, maybe even normal (i don't recall). It is clearly the toxic chemicals taken everyday ravaging the body.

[alexjuice]

When I was in the psych hospital the medications were very en vogue but I had a feeling that the seeds of a question mark were being planted. I wonder how this is today.

 

Also years ago I volunteered at NAMI satelite called the Clubhouse in my town and big conflict between the Clubhouse staff (who were kids really, not very sophisticated about these matters) and Clubhouse members was that some members started to question the efficacy of their treatment programs. The members would discuss amongst themselves ideas for going off the meds, this was 2011 and Whittaker book and alt psych recovery talk was easy to find by now online.

 

Anyway the staff took a hard "you need your insulin" approach and they thought it was criminally dangerous for the members to be encouraging each other to stop taking meds. This was 2011.

 

I still get the Clubhouse newsletter and I've noticed a loosening in the attitude of the staff towards the drugs. Now there very much a "we are opening to finding the right solution for each unique member" kind of talk. I think it's been interesting and encouraging. The main thing I take away is that nobody wants to be EVIL that's the main thing. The folks working at the Clubhoue are MAINLY working there because they feel good about themselves for having a self-actualizing job that helps people (rather than working a cube or whatever) and they have NO INTEREST in doing anything to the patients that will hurt the patients because that goes against the whole reason they are working there -- to feel good about themsevles for doing the good work.

 

The takeaway is that there aren't really Nurse Ratchets working at these pro-drug advocacy groups like NAMI, etc. The changes will come pretty quickly I think in this arena even considering the funding. The staffers want the members/clients to do well because they work with them and care about them but also bc their self estemm is in the helping of others, so it's a pretty good setup where the staffers incentives/priorities are in line with the clients' best interest. So I am hopeful for peer communites come to fully acknowledge the dangers of the meds, and the uselessness frankly.

 

It is the hospitals, any place overseen by MDs where resistance to the idea that taking toxic poisons everyday shortens your lifespan will be the strongest because the medications are so intertwined with the MDs status and it is how they differentiate themselves from the (lesser minded) psychologists and people who work at NAMI. Doctors are obviously quite ego centric on average.

 

The main thing is that the idea that the drugs do harm is not very hard to accept except for doctors so I expect that most people with common sense could come to accept that taking chemicals for hundreds of consecutive weeks could have SOME long run effect. it is insane that doctors are hostile to that, but understandable considering the status-driven and ego-infected features of this group as I have just described/

[btdt]

It's clear the cause is the medication. Whitaker discusses this as I recall. In countries where they don't drug the patients the outcomes are much much better, maybe even normal (i don't recall). It is clearly the toxic chemicals taken everyday ravaging the body.

Whitaker said 14 years less life for those of us drugged. 

[GiaK]

it's often more than 14 years...here it says 7 - 24 years

 

http://beyondmeds.com/2014/06/13/mental-illness-shortens-life-should-read-medications-are-neurotoxic/

[btdt]

Should all that be true and if I were to die at the same age as my mother it is time I packed up my stuff and bought some term life insurance for my burial. I am exactly 25 years younger than she was when she passed.  I wish I could afford some burial insurance. 

[GiaK]

you're getting healthy now...we don't need to go there as we heal...or at least I suggest you try not to!   

[compsports]

It also doesn't help that "regular" doctors do not take patients with an MI label very seriously.   Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to minimize the issue of the meds as I agree with everyone's points about them.   But the fact that having an MI label causes a person to get inferior care doesn't help either.

[Rhiannon]

It also doesn't help that "regular" doctors do not take patients with an MI label very seriously.   Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to minimize the issue of the meds as I agree with everyone's points about them.   But the fact that having an MI label causes a person to get inferior care doesn't help either.

Yes, good point. The attitude that "patients don't really know much, doctor is God" is part of general medical culture anyway, and then when you add on top of that the credibility-erasing fact of having ever taken a psych drug, it's hard to get good care.