Virtually all of my patients had tried to stop or cut down on the drugs that they knew were sickening them. Each time they tried to stop the offending drug, they experienced totally new withdrawal symptoms, but when they saw their psychiatrist, rather than acknowledging that they were suffering serious withdrawal symptoms from their dependency-inducing drug, they were told that their "mental illness of unknown cause" was coming back. Too often they were also told that they resume the drug, possibly at a higher dosage and even have a new drug added to counteract the new symptoms. And, all-too-often they were shamed for not being compliant with "doctor's orders".
The cartoon below, from a colleague of mine, health care journalist and brilliant cartoonist Martha Rosenberg, author of the important book, " Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health ", illustrates the hazards of the merry-go-round of "trial-and-error" mental health care. For more of her cartoon work, google "Martha Rosenberg cartoons"
Consistently -- and Intentionally(?) - Ignoring the Teachable Moments That Follow Each Mass Shooting
In my various past writings (many of which are accessible by googling "Duluth Reader Duty to Warn"), I have repeatedly pointed out much of the overwhelming -- albeit black-listed by most of the mainstream media - evidence that psych drugs and the tendency to commit violence. Such drug-induced violence is well-known is the illicit drugs, whose molecular structures are no different than the legal drugs. The violence can be inflicted on the drugged person himself (cutting, suicidality) and/or on others (aggression, homicidality), particularly in the drug-altered brains of the vilified mass school shooters who are typically both homicidal and suicidal. (It is important to note at this point that depressed people may be suicidal, but they are never, never homicidal until they are on brain-altering drugs or withdrawing form them.)
The powerful corporate media, with its powerful pharmaceutical industry connections, must shoulder a share the blame for America's lack of understanding about gun/drug violence by its intentional failure to report on the reality of violence-inducing psychiatric medications. (It is a provable fact that virtually all of the school shooters, where good investigative journalism had been done, had been taking or withdrawing from psych drugs immediately prior to the carnage).
As is the norm with our dumbed-down and distracted society these days, most every tragedy that could and should have made use of the classical "teachable moment" by exposing all of the corporate culprits that have contributed to so much despair among our hopeless, futureless, jobless, abused, neglected, over-indulged, unloved, sleep-deprived, mal-nourished, over-vaccinated, over-drugged and bullied children, whose main reason for living has been their addictive screen-time, their addictive, first-person shooter video games, their isolated FaceBook "friendships" and the media's glorification of war and violence. Instead, the media gives us shallow, irrelevant human interest stories and useless proclamations from our politicians and denials from various pro-gun industry trade organizations that keep our attention away from the real root causes.
The research that the FBI did should be helpful for concerned people who are truly interested in the early identification and therefore possible prevention of some future school shooting tragedy. The claim can be made that they are relatively rare (only 124 actual incidences over the last 3 years!) but this is another area where our spiritually-wounded "Exceptional America" is # 1 in the world. And what can be prevented is much more that the weekly, celebrated mass shootings that increases viewership and readership, but the personal, secret, emotional suffering that is all around us in the tinder box, ready to explode, that is our society, our families, our schools, and our mean streets.
The reasons for the American epidemic of military, domestic and interpersonal gun violence are many and complex, but also so believable, and no other country in the world is even a close second. We should all be ashamed of our nation, but the industrial-strength root causes that are the largest part are corporate causes that stem from our corrupt capitalist economic system.
The brain-altering, over-drugging of American adolescents (that follows close behind the brain-damaging over-vaccination policies that affect so many of our babies, toddlers and children) are serious parts of the puzzle. But, because those two unique American policies are also serious threats to several highly profitable American industries, they have been effectively protected .from exposure. Exposing those taboos subjects would be stepping on big toes that have the power to intimidate, black-list, hire, fire and worse.
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