Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He opened a private clinic for treating mental illness, where he raked in enormous sums for removing the teeth and organs of the super rich. Rich people, even in 1922, were just as gullible as rich people today when it comes to trading their wealth for medical procedures based on junk science.
Despite the astonishing death rate, patients couldn't get enough of Cotton's cutting-edge treatments, and they were willing to fork over top dollar to subject themselves to various organ lobotomies in the hopes of curing mental illness that was most likely caused by simple nutritional deficiencies. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In the same period, the images of many of his patients were documented in a massive documentary project on mental illness carried out by a leading photogtapher of the day. Captured in the same albumin emulsions, Charcot and his erstwhile clients seem more alike today than different from one another. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You know what we're number one in today? mental illness. We are the best in the world at driving our population mad. That's right, mental illness – number one in the world; no one comes close to us. We're also number one in obesity.
Here in the U.S., we poisoned an entire generation with fast food, sugars and hydrogenated oils. We made sure they never got good nutrition. We drove them mad with violent television programming, violent video games and insane public school systems. We did a good number on those kids, didn't we? |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The molecules can cause mental imbalances ranging from attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder to serious mental illness."102 Preliminary evidence of changed behavior in GM-fed animals was presented in section 1.14 and 1.19.
"N: o one can scientifically claim to be able to predict all consequences of the presence and functioning of a new gene (and even less for several) in a genome which has never been exposed [to] or contained this gene. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Cautions: While melatonin has been shown to be very safe in short-term use, people with severe allergies, severe mental illness or depression, autoimmune diseases, and immune-system cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia are advised to avoid melatonin supplements since the hormone may exacerbate these conditions.58 Pregnant or nursing women should not take melatonin, as its impact on fetal and newborn development is not known. Women who are trying to conceive should avoid high doses of melatonin (10 mg or more), which can prevent ovulation. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It is being investigated for its potential in treating mental illness and encephalitis. It is used in the treatment of depression, nervousness, Parkinson's disease, rheumatism, and worms.
Topically, Syrian rue can be prepared as a wash to treat eczema and psoriasis; as a hair rinse to treat dandruff and stop hair loss; and as a compress to treat hemorrhoids.
Edible Uses
Syrian rue is used as a seasoning in Mideastern dishes. An edible oil is made from the seeds.
Other Uses
The seeds are burned as an incense said to promote mental clarity. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 We have a paradoxical need: to feel the hurt, and not to feel the hurt; to be protected from shattering pain, and at the same time, to connect to it and get it over with.
"Mental illness" means the representation of lower forces on our mental, rational, and logical processes. The brain is so good at disguising its pain that most of us don't even know we have it; even if we do, we don't know what it is or where it comes from. Worse, we don't know how to get rid of it. |
Charles Barber
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 In other words, psychological distress, but not mental illness. A 2007 study showed that about one in four people who appear to be depressed are in fact dealing with the aftermath of a recent emotional blow, like the end of a marriage, the loss of a job, or the collapse of a business.32 "Serious Psychological Distress" is a measure used by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. They find it highly prevalent: an average of 9 percent of Americans report having experienced psychological distress in a given year. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Besides receiving funds for academic research, he serves as consultant, owns stock in, and/or is a member of the speaker's bureau for virtually every pharmaceutical company that manufactures drugs for treating mental illness. As a member of the speaker's bureau, he gives talks to other physicians on behalf of the companies who "employ" him. At a minimum, this actively puts patients' rights at a disadvantage.
This interwoven network is pointed out quite well by Paone in "When Big Pharma Courts Academia. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 President Bush, convinced that the drugging of 17% of the nations 52 million schoolchildren is too many children "left behind"(giving new meaning to "no child left behind") has just launched his own plan to screen all children and employees in the nation's public schools for mental illness: "Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 In addition, research suggests that past or current stress and mental illness, especially depression, may be the cause of many cases of unexplained infertility. This can be especially problematic because continued inability to get pregnant often fuels depression, leading to a vicious cycle of emotional upset and a veritable roller coaster of monthly hopes and letdowns.
Higher levels of premenstrual tension and stress are associated with lower pregnancy rates. |
Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH
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 Perhaps the best way of explaining this relationship is to view cerebral allergies as an ecologically-induced mental illness. In defining ecologic mental illness, M. Mandell states: "The human brain may be viewed as a complex allergic shock tissue which is easily reached by inhaled and ingested excitants from the environment via its rich blood supply. No physician can render adequate care to any sick individual unless he acquires a thorough knowledge of ecologic disease."6
There are two distinct mechanisms by which cerebral allergies can cause disturbances in brain function. |
Bottom Line Health
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| There is a real link in the public mind between mental illness and 'dangerousness,' and that is what is fueling the stigma," says Pescosolido.
There is reason for concern, adds Goodstein. "Sometimes the drugs are prescribed excessively or for some type of performance enhancement, and they do have side effects," he says.
Pescosolido notes that people taking psychiatric medications should be closely monitored by a doctor who has experience prescribing these drugs. |
| Americans have become more sophisticated and knowledgeable about mental illness, and everybody assumed the stigma was going away," Pescosolido says. However, this analysis seems to show that assumption is not true.
Now You Can Relieve Stress, Anxiety and Depression... Without Drugs
David Servan-Schreiber MD, PhD, clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, and author of The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy. Rodale. www. instincttoheal.org. |
| There is a real link in the public mind between mental illness and 'dangerousness,' and that is what is fueling the stigma.
Bernice A. Pescosolido, PhD
Although many people are reluctant to take psychiatric drugs, most would have little qualms about taking a drug to ease a physical problem.
"I think they are afraid of what is going to happen to them," says Pescosolido. "They've been primed by the media about what might happen in the first two weeks, when some people have a risk for suicide. |
| Isn't depression a type of mental illness?
Research in the last decade has found that depression is associated with physical changes in the brain, similar to those that might occur with any neurological disease, such as epilepsy, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. Depression causes atrophy—that is, brain cells die—and a loss of connections between brain cells. The longer the depression persists—or goes untreated—the greater the damage.
One study conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. |
| Click on "About Mental Illness" under "Inform Yourself."
Depression May Be Genetic
Recent research indicates that there is a genetic variation that could predispose some people to depression. This may explain why some individuals who experience depression are not helped by certain drugs. These findings may also allow scientists to formulate a genetic test for depression and pinpoint the most effective treatment.
Marc G. Caron, PhD, department of medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Depression: The #1 Hidden Health Threat
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Charles Barber
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| I was working, or attempting to work, with people suffering from rampant substance abuse problems in addition to their mental illness. For a brief ignorant period, my agency had a zero-tolerance approach to relapse with substances, and we were discharging clients hurriedly and thoughtlessly for their "noncompliance." Though I tried not to, I couldn't stop my moral judgment of my clients' failings, their weakness in the face of temptation. |
| In my work with patients suffering from mental illness, I have found the critical pathway to health is not typically the robustness of the disease, but the resources of the person to deal with the affliction. Erik Erikson put it a slightly different way: "We cannot even really know what causes neurotic suffering until we have an idea of what causes real health. This we have only begun to investigate. |
Anne Harrington
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 For many these days, this way of thinking about illness includes even that class of disorders we still call "mental illness."
Quite often, this physicalist way of thinking about illness works. Patients take the antibiotic and recover from their infection, learn to inject themselves with insulin and normalize their blood sugar levels, have surgery and learn that their cancer has gone into remission, or take the antidepressant and find they can get out of bed again in the morning. |
Charles Barber
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| In 2004, the World Health Organization completed a study on the global prevalence of mental illness. Based on structured, in-home interviews, an extraordinary 26 percent of Americans reported that they suffered from any type of psychiatric disorder in the prior year—far exceeding the rates of all of the other fifteen countries. By contrast, 5 percent of Nigerians, 8 percent of Italians, 9 percent of Germans, and 12 percent of Mexicans reported having a psychiatric disorder. (The only country that came close to the United States was perennially troubled Ukraine. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Today, catnip is used to treat amenorrhea, anxiety, bronchitis, chicken-pox, colds, colic, convulsions, delayed menses, diarrhea, dyspepsia, fever, flatulence, headache, hives, hyperactivity, hysteria, indigestion, insomnia, measles, menstrual cramps, mental illness, motion sickness, pain, pneumonia, restlessness, scarlet fever, smallpox, stomachache due to nerves, teething pain, toothache, and worms.
Topically, catnip can be used as a bath herb to relieve stress, colic, and teething pain or as a compress or poultice to treat pain, sprains, bruises, hemorrhoids, or toothache. |
Charles Barber
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| I spent the next decade running two housing programs for people with mental illness and then working at two psychiatric shelters for the homeless. Day after day, I saw and handled an endless parade of pills and capsules. They came in all shapes and sizes and colors: big and small and dny; oblong and circular and square and trapezoidal; mint colored and pale white and faint gray and canary yellow and vibrant purple and lurid pink and soft orange. Depakote smelled nice, like vanilla soda, and Wellbutrin like rotten eggs. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Put another way, if you suffered from schizophrenia, major depression, or other mental illness in King County during 2001, your chance of a full recovery was less than one in one thousand. The residents of the Seattle area are paying over $22 million for each mental health recovery.
Case Studies
The evidence gathered during the subsequent 50 years concerning the efficacy of vitamin B-3 as a treatment for schizophrenia is very large. |
| Prior to this young man's first schizophrenic episode and subsequent hospitalization at age 18, there had been no obvious warning signs detected by his parents, except that there was a history of mental illness in his family, validating the hereditary aspect of this disease. His grandmother on his father's side was diagnosed with manic depression, while his aunt on his mother's side was institutionalized with schizophrenia and she died at an early age. Beyond this, neither the medical community nor the educational system had recognized any of his subtle, early pre-episode signals. |
| Cancer and mental illness. Compr psychiat 1981;22:404-10.
44 Gulbinat W, Dupoint A, Jablensky A, Jensen OM, Marsella A, Nakane Y, et al. Cancer incidence of schizophrenic patients. Results of record linkage studies in three countries. Brit J Psychiat 19925161:(Suppl i8):75-85.
45 Lichtermann D, Ekelund J, Pukkala E, Tanskanen A, Lonnquist J. Incidence of cancer among persons with schizophrenia and their relatives. Arch Gen Psychiat 200i;58(6):573-78.
46 Cohen M, Dembling B, Schorling J. The association between schizophrenias and cancer: A population-based mortality study. |
| The ability of niacin and niacinamide to prevent another serious mental illness, pellagra, appeared to be of great significance. Hoffer knew that niacin and niacinamide, collectively known as vitamin B-3, prevented pellagra and could also cure it in high doses.
There was little doubt that high doses of vitamin B-3 could be tolerated for long periods. Indeed, it had been shown that the LD,-0 in animals (the amount of the vitamin which, if given all at once, would cause the death of 50% of a group of test animals) was 4 g per kg. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Although people are becoming more understanding of mental illness, there is still a stigma associated with taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, according to a report from researchers at the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. The report was funded, in part, by the National Institute of Mental Health.
THE STUDY
In the study, the research team reviewed data from the 1998 General Social Survey of 1,400 Americans. They found that... |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Vitamin D deficiencies have also been shown to play a role in the development of dozens of diseases—everything from many different cancers to diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, psoriasis, and mental illness. Once the link between vitamin D and rickets was established early in the twentieth century, American milk was fortified with vitamin D, all but eliminating the disease in America.
We don't have to rely on fortified milk for vitamin D, however. Unlike most vitamins, vitamin D can be made by the body itself. |
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