Safe Alternatives To Antidepressants

Safe alternatives to Antidepressants
Doctors have diagnosed more people with mental disorders, which require medications, in the past decade in order to gain control with the major pharmaceutical companies that have influence in the medical world when there are plenty of natural, safe alternatives. Psychiatric drugs are now used not only used extensively in our schools, nursing homes, drug rehabilitation centers and prisons, individuals personally rely on them to “help” them with everything from   weight control, self confidence, mathematical and writing problems, to anxiety, sleeping and upsets. In fact, they have become the relief for the stresses of modern living. (Psychiatric Drugs Cont.) Natural ways to heal depression include Neuro-feedback, where a computer helps you re-train your brain waves (Guyol, 153), Meditation, and herbal healing.
While billions in tax dollars are paid each year to fight the “war on drugs,” we have a different kind of drug war affecting the world today, one that is perpetuated by psychiatrists dreaming up new mental illnesses to fund a multibillion-dollar legal drug industry. (Psychiatric Drugs Cont.) The American Psychiatric Associations’ Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is psychiatry’s “billing bible” of so-called mental disorders. With the DSM, psychiatry has taken “mental illness” simply by adding the term “disorder” to them. While even key DSM contributors admit, there is no scientific/medical validity to the “disorders.” (Psychiatry’s “Diagnostic” System) With this type of system, anyone can be labeled mentally ill and be subjected to life threatening medications basely on some doctor’s opinion. Just in the United States, more than six billion children are taking mind-altering psychiatric drugs for the learning and behavioral “disorder,” ADHD. Two million children take antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs. (Psychiatric Drugs Cont.) Jim Gottstein states, “The high rate at which we are drugging...