Citizens Commission on Human Rights^®
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Are You Depressed?

The Truth About Depression!

Psychiatry is heavily pushing false data about depression.

What exactly is “depression?” The dictionary has this to say about what “depression” means:

A condition of feeling sad, despondent, hopeless, or inadequacy; A reduction in physiological vigor or activity such as fatigue.

The fact is, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association and the National Institute of Mental Health admit that there are no medical tests to confirm mental disorders as a disease but do nothing to counter the false idea that these are biological/medical conditions when in fact, diagnosis is simply done by a checklist of behaviors.

Yes, people experience symptoms of depression. This does not make them “mentally diseased” and there is no evidence of physical/medical abnormality for the so-called diagnosis of “depression.”

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t solutions for people experiencing difficulty; there are non harmful, medical alternatives. But they do not require a psychiatric “label” to treat them. There is no mental illness test that is scientifically/medically proven. This isn’t a matter of opinion — psychiatrists who are opposed to the labeling of behaviors as mental illness openly admit this.

There are understandable possibilities for someone experiencing symptoms of depression. One is an undiagnosed and untreated medical condition that presents mental symptoms; and there are many of these medical conditions, requiring a full and searching clinical examination by a competent medical—not psychiatric—doctor to find the underlying undiagnosed and untreated physical problem. Go here for examples of medical conditions which can have mental symptoms. These all have non-psychiatric-drug alternatives.

A second possibility arises from stress, which is actually a situation in which a person is being suppressed in some area of their life — meaning there is something in their life, such as an antisocial person or element, which is putting them down, stopping them from getting better, invalidating or making less of one or one’s efforts.

Another possibility is simply a life event, such as grief, which has occasioned sadness or fatigue.

We might also say that depression could actually be low morale; and since morale is based on production, find something useful to do and hop to it!

For more information about anti-depressant drugs such as Celexa (citalopram), Lexapro (escitalopram oxalate), Luvox (fluvoxamine), Paxil (paroxetine), Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride), Seroxat (paroxetine), Zoloft (sertraline hydrochloride), Cymbalta (duloxetine), Effexor (venlafaxine), Pristiq (desvenlafaxine), Strattera (atomoxetine), Wellbutrin (bupropion); download the booklet Antidepressants — the facts about the effects.

Click here to read some of the current research about how some people cannot metabolize psychiatric drugs and are therefore susceptible to their horrific side effects.