Mental Illness in America: A Crisis Exposed.
Did you know that 1/3 of United States population is on psychiatric medication?
Mental illness is skyrocketing and so are the number of Americans on psychiatric medications.
In the past 50 years the mental health landscape in the U.S has changed dramatically. But have we stopped to think what this really means for our society?
A very concerning study came out in 2020 showing that nearly 77 million people in the U.S were taking psychiatric medication for mental health problems, over 6 million children and teenagers under the age of 18!
To put this into perspective, Yankee Stadium in New York holds 54,251 people. We have enough people taking prescription medication for mental illness to fill Yankee Stadium over 1400 times!
The big question here: What is mental illness and what causes it?
The names we hear—depression, anxiety, panic attacks, bipolar etc. — are labels for groups of symptoms. They don’t tell us anything about the underlying causes or the complex pathologies that drive these conditions. These names don’t actually mean anything!
So, what’s really causing these issues?
Let’s start with depression…
Most people think of depression as being stuck in a perpetual state of sadness or grief. But that’s not accurate, a more accurate description of depression would be a person becoming emotionally numb, losing interest in the things they enjoy and several accompanying physical health symptoms like fatigue.
A key thing to remember, depression is a symptom of physical and mental health problems, it isn’t the cause of them.
For years, the pharmaceutical industry deceived the public and led people to believe that depression was the result of a “chemical imbalance”, this has been proven to be false, but not before big pharma raked in billions of dollars selling an outright lie!
What’s really behind depression?
Multiple studies have shown a clear link between depression and chronic, low-grade inflammation in the body. There is also an association between depression and a cellular immune response, which is typically associated with the body fighting off a pathogen like a viral infection.
Several studies have shown a clear link between depression and low levels of testosterone in men.
There is also an established link between depression and metabolic problems, your body’s ability to digest and utilize nutrients from the food you eat.
The medical research is pretty clear if you ask me, depression is a symptom of underlying health problems. Chronic inflammation, hormone imbalances, and poor digestion, these issues all go hand-in-hand.
What about anxiety and panic attacks?
When we start talking about anxiety or panic attacks, what we are really referring to is nervous system problems and neurological inflammation.
A lot of people think of anxiety as a problem rooted in a person’s thought process, someone overly fearful or thinking too much. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
The best way to describe anxiety and panic disorders would be a person being stuck in a state of fight or flight. Fight or flight is the bodies natural response to an immediate threat, the HPA axis goes into overdrive and the nervous system revs up like Ferrari getting ready to hit the track. Either you physically attack the threat, or you flee from the situation to safety.
The problem with anxiety disorders, there is no immediate threat. But the nervous system stays stuck on overdrive anyways.
When we look at the peer reviewed medical literature on the root causes of anxiety and panic disorders, we see a recurring observation: inflammation in the brain.
It’s well documented that a period of severe stress or trauma can trigger anxiety or panic disorders, but what’s actually being triggered and what changes are taking place?
They find immunological response cells in the brains of those with anxiety disorders, most of these immune cells are typically associated with being a response to viral infections. It’s also well documented that stress and trauma can cause viral infections that a person is already carrying to reactivate, they go from a harmless state of dormancy to a state of active replication and pathogenic activity.
Multiple studies have suggested a link between viral infections and mental health problems like anxiety and panic disorder…
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF03391675.pdf
Toxin exposures have also been shown to damage the nervous system and create chronic, low grade inflammation. This can directly set the stage for anxiety disorders and nervous system problems as well…
This begs the question: With all of this research on anxiety and depression, why are those in our healthcare system not addressing the root causes of these problems?
Why are they “treating” us with addictive and dangerous medications?
As a community, what are we doing to address these issues?
I will be putting out an in-depth and comprehensive guide on combatting mental health problems like anxiety and depression without the use of supplements or risky holistic protocols in the near future.
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I and my children are living proof of all of this after 20+ years treating depression, anxiety, ADD and OCD with medicines that caused new problems and never really helped the symptoms beyond numbing our brains so we could think as fast.
2-1/2 years ago I switched to a ketogenic diet. Within 2 months I was completely off my ADD medication that I had been on for over 12 years. At four months I was completely off over 12 other Rx that I relied on for over 20 years for one condition or another. I’ve been prescription free ever since. As have my sons.
And guess what?
I no longer have the deep symptoms of depression and anxiety. I have the energy of my youth and am no longer fatigued. My sons have disabilities that no longer overpower their entire day. They are getting ALL the benefits that the medications claimed to give, but without the life ruining side effects.
It’s our food. It is killing our nation and keeping big Ag and Big Pharma rich.
I said “enough” and I refuse to let any of them have power over my health ever again.
I still struggle with a mild depression, but it’s from some tragic life events and it makes sense, perfectly normal, expected. But no where near as bad as it would be without a ketogenic diet and using Pharma solutions. Never again.
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