It happens when we enter university usually…
That age…
Maybe we aren’t eating enough…
Maybe we are smoking too many cigarettes…
Stress, new people, new classes-we end up a little nuts…
Some people are more vulnerable than others…
So maybe we end up in a psychiatrists office, maybe we end up in a psychiatric ward…
If you are a little too zippy, they call it manic, not sleeping, talking too much, doing kooky things, or even risky things, usually you will get Lithium…
This will slow all of that down…
Later you will stop taking the Lithium…
And you will get the rebound effect…
You will rebound & be even zippier than before…
You end up with psychiatrists again & now you decide you are mentally ill & decide to stay on the Lithium…
The problem is, is that there is no end usually when you decide this…
You will get continued prescriptions for Lithium for the rest of your life…
Now you start to slur your words a bit…
You may tremble at times, your hands…
Your emotions are flat…
Your creativity, sexuality, bounce are gone…
You can’t work…
You may be able to graduate university, but you cannot seem to make it out of your parent’s house…
Life is too much for you…
Then you start getting depressed…
Many people don’t realize that the downer effect of Lithium that was so good at bringing down the excess Zippiness, eventually causes depression…
This depression is called Iatrogenic effect…It is an effect of a drug…It is not your depression…It is chemically induced…
Recently I bought access to the Mental Wellness Summit, where I easily downloaded 30 interview transcripts-interviews with leading experts (including ones with how to get off psychiatric medications gently & what to do instead of taking these drug cocktails…)
The Summit is partly run by a Naturopath who I had visited, Dr. John Dempster of the Dempster Clinic in Toronto…
But back to our story…
The depression induced by the use of Lithium now causes the person to think they have a depressive disorder…
So now an anti-depressant is prescribed…
Instead of weaning someone off the Lithium, another drug gets added to the mix…
The antidepressant drug now messes with sleep…
So a third drug, sleeping pills, are prescribed to help with sleeping…
We now have someone who was stressed out by first year university tensions, who was probably nutritionally deficient, who was partying in so many ways that students do-we now have that person on 3 major drugs…
We have now produced a Zombie…
A zombie who feels they have severe mental health issues & who needs all these drugs…
If this is you, I urge you to find a better way…
In Toronto, Dr. John Dempster is experienced in this regard, weaning people off of psychiatric medication(who don’t need to be on them), & the story of how he helped Ross Mckenzie(another Mental Wellness Summit organizer)come off of Lithium is making history right now in the film Bipolarized…
Also:Gwen Olsen wrote the book Confessions of an RX drug pusher… It is worth the read…