Dr. Breggin is so wise. He truly is a warrior on many levels: psychiatry, Covid, etc. His books and advice are examples of a truly caring person that knows humans and solutions for a better life. Kudos to Dr. Breggin and wife Ginger!
Psalm 91 and Isaiah 61 praying constantly. I counseled with a minister who directed me to Scriptures! He had me study and read scripture. No discussions of the past or the future.
If only more people had taken the time and trouble to find out the truth about the damage caused by psychiatry. How its drugs correct nothing. How there are no bio markers to "mental illness" but the DSM gets voted into existence through bureaucrats making lists of behaviors/thoughts/feelings as symptoms of a disease they assume exists with no scientific proof. How the drugs ruin lives--and not just of those tricked or forced to take them.
But few took the time or trouble because it did not affect them. They thought.
I see the same techniques psychiatry used to deceive, seduce and control people like me being used on everyone around the world. Lockdown happened because psychiatry already received public approval. The powers that be knew what would happen.
Suffered from depression all my adult life, but so glad I rejected pharmaceuticals, so many I know haven't and still have to suck 'em down daily just to keep their heads above water.
Dr Briggin is so right, it's not a biochemical imbalance...this is just a term used to make people think that doctors have an answer. They don't study information in med school which would provide true solutions; in alleviating mental problems. Mental problems are caused by stressl, malnutrition and dwelling on negativity. It's time to be aware of the stresses in one's daily life and get rid of them. I believe one must focus on happy thoughts in order to alleviate depression. People must think of all the things that made them happy in the past to lift their spirits. My current substack focuses on this: Love Changes Everything.
Amen to this. I am the only one in my family on both sides who isn’t taking any psych meds. Most people are on anti-anxiety like Wellbutrin and there’s some on Xanax and some Vicodin or something, plus some on a cocktail of Effexor and other things and the Prozac of course. Everyone in my family is on drugs. By rights, I should be- i lived through the death of my father when I was 10, physical child abuse from my step father, sexual child abuse from step father, mother staying with step father and abandoning us for much of our youth to be with him, blaming us for their poor parenting and outcomes, one rape when I was 16, we grew up very low income and I myself had no financial education and was in bad debt between my age 18-25 years. Had one very psychologically abusive relationship which resulted in a beautiful child. We have repaired our relationship to a mutually respectful comfortable friendship for the sake of our souls and our child, and been through counselling and family court. I mean by rights I should be on meds but I refuse to be and just try to be positive and be grateful for what I have and the gifts I’ve been given. All is never lost! It’s a drag being around many of my family members because they’re all miserable and very downtrodden and negative and complain a lot and are very skeptical about everything. It’s not pleasant. My grandmother is on some anti-depressants and anti-psychotics and it’s just a mess when everyone is together. I’m also the only one who isn’t Covid vaccinated so there’s that to contend with, too. I always felt in my heart that depression was a state of the soul, not a chemical imbalance. And personally, when I was extremely depressed to the point where I couldn’t get out of bed, I took it one day at a time, even when I asked to die. One day at a time, one day at a time. Things ebb and flow and eventually the darkness breaks. As it breaks, you take on more and make changes over time. I haven’t been depressed like that in over 7 years. Mind you I also cut out almost all junk food (bread and cookies on occasion) and eat mostly animal foods. Made a big difference for me personally. Compared to being vegan or vegetarian, eating meat and eggs in my diet made the biggest mental health improvement. But it’s way more than dirt, it really is a state of the soul. It’s where your kind is at. Control that and you win.
As Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Andrew Saul and Dr. Harold Foster all talked and wrote a lot about is niacin and niacinamide, depending on the condition you have. Look up the 2nd edition (especially from two years ago but the first edition is excellent too)! Or you can look them up and read about them and the subject on doctoryourself.com. In my MS programs it became one of my favorite web sites.
I would not take time-released capsules. I ask for guidance in all I do...and I am not guided to use them. I am a middle of the road person myself...and keep away from stressful situations. I use supplements daily...magnesium included, but find that B-Complex is most important. Years ago, Dr. Russell Blaylock recommended B-Complex vitamins from a specific manufacturer in his newsletter..and I found they worked well. Supplements must come from a reliable manufacturer. 95% of the vitamins sitting on store shelves are questionable. Many contain ingredients such as , lead, etc. I am very careful about the ones I use. Many people who are alone during Christmas...have an empty feeling...which leads to Depression. Lots of Sugar-rich foods during the holidays are a major stress...They depletes necessary vitamins that the brain needs. Sugar causes malnutrition. I recognized how dangerous sugar was back in the 1960s...I have been using liquid stevia for over 20 years...and gave up on honey, after I wound up with a tumor from using too much honey in my herb teas. Excess carbs feed the growth of tumors.
Totally agree. They control the institutions, so they hide the truth. They talk about mental illnesses when the reality is another one that they have hidden from you and are hiding in the faculties. As is very well said in this substack, who runs the world? We realized it in 2021.
Maybe, this is a continuation of the troublesome signs when the doctrines and processes of Psychiatry Psychoanalysis and so forth become officialized and I think Thomas Szasz in his books (1970’s) The Myth of Mental Illness and The Manufacture of Madness pointing out something extremely important to us, which is that in effect the psychological official of today is the priest and that he is beginning to exercise the same sort of controls over human life as we're exercised by the church in the Middle Ages. (the astute reader will notice the similarity of the MD promoted during a recent world wide medical event) With noticeable increase post “pandemic” of counseling and mental health commercials, the momentum is changing. Maybe Dr. Breggin could speak more in conjunction of his current post.
Dr. Breggin is so wise. He truly is a warrior on many levels: psychiatry, Covid, etc. His books and advice are examples of a truly caring person that knows humans and solutions for a better life. Kudos to Dr. Breggin and wife Ginger!
TRUE PILGRIM IN MENTAL HEALTH...JUST LOVE YOUR ADVOCACY IN THE FIELD.
So helpful throughout all the years when once practicing. THANK-YOU.
everything is pathologized these days, it's honestly sickening (pun intended?)
Psalm 91 and Isaiah 61 praying constantly. I counseled with a minister who directed me to Scriptures! He had me study and read scripture. No discussions of the past or the future.
If only more people had taken the time and trouble to find out the truth about the damage caused by psychiatry. How its drugs correct nothing. How there are no bio markers to "mental illness" but the DSM gets voted into existence through bureaucrats making lists of behaviors/thoughts/feelings as symptoms of a disease they assume exists with no scientific proof. How the drugs ruin lives--and not just of those tricked or forced to take them.
But few took the time or trouble because it did not affect them. They thought.
I see the same techniques psychiatry used to deceive, seduce and control people like me being used on everyone around the world. Lockdown happened because psychiatry already received public approval. The powers that be knew what would happen.
Thank you, Drs Breggin.
For your courage, your intellect, your wisdom, and your love.
He is a TRUTH TELLER! Diogenes with tact!
Suffered from depression all my adult life, but so glad I rejected pharmaceuticals, so many I know haven't and still have to suck 'em down daily just to keep their heads above water.
Dr Briggin is so right, it's not a biochemical imbalance...this is just a term used to make people think that doctors have an answer. They don't study information in med school which would provide true solutions; in alleviating mental problems. Mental problems are caused by stressl, malnutrition and dwelling on negativity. It's time to be aware of the stresses in one's daily life and get rid of them. I believe one must focus on happy thoughts in order to alleviate depression. People must think of all the things that made them happy in the past to lift their spirits. My current substack focuses on this: Love Changes Everything.
God bless Peter and Ginger Breggin 🌼🙏🌼
Thanks, it reminded me of a title of a book I read years ago but the title says it all:
Help, I'm being helped.
Amen to this. I am the only one in my family on both sides who isn’t taking any psych meds. Most people are on anti-anxiety like Wellbutrin and there’s some on Xanax and some Vicodin or something, plus some on a cocktail of Effexor and other things and the Prozac of course. Everyone in my family is on drugs. By rights, I should be- i lived through the death of my father when I was 10, physical child abuse from my step father, sexual child abuse from step father, mother staying with step father and abandoning us for much of our youth to be with him, blaming us for their poor parenting and outcomes, one rape when I was 16, we grew up very low income and I myself had no financial education and was in bad debt between my age 18-25 years. Had one very psychologically abusive relationship which resulted in a beautiful child. We have repaired our relationship to a mutually respectful comfortable friendship for the sake of our souls and our child, and been through counselling and family court. I mean by rights I should be on meds but I refuse to be and just try to be positive and be grateful for what I have and the gifts I’ve been given. All is never lost! It’s a drag being around many of my family members because they’re all miserable and very downtrodden and negative and complain a lot and are very skeptical about everything. It’s not pleasant. My grandmother is on some anti-depressants and anti-psychotics and it’s just a mess when everyone is together. I’m also the only one who isn’t Covid vaccinated so there’s that to contend with, too. I always felt in my heart that depression was a state of the soul, not a chemical imbalance. And personally, when I was extremely depressed to the point where I couldn’t get out of bed, I took it one day at a time, even when I asked to die. One day at a time, one day at a time. Things ebb and flow and eventually the darkness breaks. As it breaks, you take on more and make changes over time. I haven’t been depressed like that in over 7 years. Mind you I also cut out almost all junk food (bread and cookies on occasion) and eat mostly animal foods. Made a big difference for me personally. Compared to being vegan or vegetarian, eating meat and eggs in my diet made the biggest mental health improvement. But it’s way more than dirt, it really is a state of the soul. It’s where your kind is at. Control that and you win.
As Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Andrew Saul and Dr. Harold Foster all talked and wrote a lot about is niacin and niacinamide, depending on the condition you have. Look up the 2nd edition (especially from two years ago but the first edition is excellent too)! Or you can look them up and read about them and the subject on doctoryourself.com. In my MS programs it became one of my favorite web sites.
I would not take time-released capsules. I ask for guidance in all I do...and I am not guided to use them. I am a middle of the road person myself...and keep away from stressful situations. I use supplements daily...magnesium included, but find that B-Complex is most important. Years ago, Dr. Russell Blaylock recommended B-Complex vitamins from a specific manufacturer in his newsletter..and I found they worked well. Supplements must come from a reliable manufacturer. 95% of the vitamins sitting on store shelves are questionable. Many contain ingredients such as , lead, etc. I am very careful about the ones I use. Many people who are alone during Christmas...have an empty feeling...which leads to Depression. Lots of Sugar-rich foods during the holidays are a major stress...They depletes necessary vitamins that the brain needs. Sugar causes malnutrition. I recognized how dangerous sugar was back in the 1960s...I have been using liquid stevia for over 20 years...and gave up on honey, after I wound up with a tumor from using too much honey in my herb teas. Excess carbs feed the growth of tumors.
Totally agree. They control the institutions, so they hide the truth. They talk about mental illnesses when the reality is another one that they have hidden from you and are hiding in the faculties. As is very well said in this substack, who runs the world? We realized it in 2021.
Maybe, this is a continuation of the troublesome signs when the doctrines and processes of Psychiatry Psychoanalysis and so forth become officialized and I think Thomas Szasz in his books (1970’s) The Myth of Mental Illness and The Manufacture of Madness pointing out something extremely important to us, which is that in effect the psychological official of today is the priest and that he is beginning to exercise the same sort of controls over human life as we're exercised by the church in the Middle Ages. (the astute reader will notice the similarity of the MD promoted during a recent world wide medical event) With noticeable increase post “pandemic” of counseling and mental health commercials, the momentum is changing. Maybe Dr. Breggin could speak more in conjunction of his current post.