Our job here on earth is to behave as morally and ethically as we can

It's not in our hands whether we succeed in life, it's in our hands how we live it.  

  

It took him 4-5 years to stop lobotomies in the west. No difference between lobotomy and every other treatment in psychiatry. Electro-shock treatment is a closed head lobotomy with electricity.  And the drugs, which are neurotoxins, all impair frontal lobe function.  That's how they all work.  

Our job here on earth is to behave morally and ethically as we can. 

Michelle Carter is a real sparrow who has been attacked by a lot of hawks.  

He's been surprised by what he's been able to accomplish.  She's stopped all of the lobotomies in the western world.  He's been able to get a lot of the FDA products labeled.  

On the one hand, he is appalled by what is going on in the world.  But he also knows that he doesn't get to determine his effect.  By chance, societal pressures, and higher powers.  It's not in our hands whether we succeed in life, it's in our hands how we live it.  

Frightening people is a creation of the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry.  That's a false approach to the problem created by threats to shut up healers, like Breggin.  With lobotomy, he was accused of taking away the last resort treatment for people who needed it.  How dare he.  How dare he scare people.  We were doing lobotomies in the prisons here. And I called a psychiatrist I knew from my training, and I said to him, "Will you back me on this?" and he got enraged with me, saying you're scaring the prisoners.  I work with prisoners.  Of course, I want the prisoners to be aware of the dangers of lobotomy if a local surgeon comes by wanting to help them out.  

Good reason to be frightened about all psychiatric drugs, especially long-term.  Long-term, they behave like any other neurotoxin.  A neurotoxin is a drug that impairs brain function.  And these not only impair brain function, but the highest functions, all of them impair frontal lobe function, where all of the--what we think of as a human is expressed through.  And they impair the temporal lobe and the amygdala where so much more goes on like memory and emotional control.  They impact on the limbic system and the basal ganglia.  Because the brain's an integrated system, that all gest into motor control, deeper kinds of dementia, so . . . .  No, people need to be concerned and we have a moral obligation that if we have this information to share it.  And I believe the best information to give people is the truth.   

As of now, the main problem with people hearing the information about how harmful the anti-depressants are is that they shouldn't try to come off them quickly because they're not only dangerous to take, they're dangerous to come off of.  People can get deeply depressed and self-punishing and suicidal.  They can get violent and angry, they can even get manic, the opposite of what you'd expect coming off of the anti-depressants.  So that's what they need to know.  Does that frighten people?  Well, I don't know.  It certainly should inform them about the risks of starting the drug and of stopping.  And then there are huge risks in starting, because in the first few days you have this huge amount of adverse effects, occurring after one, two, and three doses.  I've written about this, describing the effects of Paxil, so it's dangerous to start them, dangerous to stop them.  You should not be on these drugs long-term.  They're disabling long-term, sexually disabling.  They're disabling feelings, creating apathy, and the person doesn't even know what's happening to them.  

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients, and Their Families, Dr. Peter Breggin, 2012.