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Old 06-24-2020, 03:06 PM
 
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I tried Prozac back in the early 90's when it hit the market. Did NOTHING...so got off it. Went for 10 ugly years with anti depressants, and many doctors as I believed it was THYROID and no one believed me but believed their lab numbers. It was thyroid as on D.O. helped me in 2002...the long depression LIFTED and never to return. When a lowness started to hit me in 2006, found it was Vit D deficiency.

Thyroid desiccated support and Vit D has saved me from the toxic drugs.

As I wrote in a recent thread on phobias, Vit D helped me overcome my phobia of bridges.
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Old 06-24-2020, 10:02 PM
 
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As I wrote in a recent thread on phobias, Vit D helped me overcome my phobia of bridges.
How interesting!
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Old 06-24-2020, 10:30 PM
 
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Even psychiatrists have been forced to admit that the chemical imbalance theory of depression is wrong. Now they are saying that they never really said it in the first place. They certainly let everyone believe the myth.
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The Emperor's New Drugs – Exploding the Antidepressant Myth is a 2009 book by Irving Kirsch, arguing that the chemical imbalance theory of depression is wrong and that antidepressants have little or no direct effect on depression but, because of their common serious side-effects, they are powerful active placebos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Drugs

And recent studies are showing when people use SSRIs they are more likely to have the depression recur.
Patients who use anti-depressants can be more likely to suffer relapse, researcher finds
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0719121354.htm

Tardive dysphoria: The role of long term antidepressant use in-inducing chronic depression
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...06987711000223

Also read Anatomy of An Epidemic by Robert Whitaker. Whitaker traces the effects of what looks like an iatrogenic epidemic, meaning the drugs used to treat mental illness are actually causing MORE mental illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_an_Epidemic

I tried one once mainly because I was having terrible nerve pain following surgery. It didn't numb my bad foot, just my penis.
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