Psychotropic RXs Fatal 2 All

Below is an hour 34 minute documentary with factual evidence and interviews with actual doctors and others in the field--former or current--who have been exposed to the truths that society as a whole is NOT privy too regarding the dangers, ineffectiveness, long term damage and fatalities in a majority of cases prescribed even ONE medication, and in many cases unnecessarily or for misdiagnosed conditions. People are killing themselves, or others, after only days or a week on some medications, and informed consent is almost never provided. This may be the most important 94 minutes one can spend on educating oneself and loved ones, as well as your doctors.


Personally, I was prescribed over 23 different medications for over 10 years, and it turned out that nearly all of them were creating the disability, sickness & symptoms the drugs were being prescribed to treat! I was home bound, bed bound, for 10 years because of the medications, NOT any illness or disability! Not once did any doctor suggest going off these medications & in fact many pressured & threatened me if I refused to take them, to the point of being discharged as a patient because I refused to take medications that were CONTRA-indicated & would cause MY CERTAIN DEATH if taken! Repeatedly I was prescribed drugs that had interactions with all my other drugs, despite the doctors having all of my medical & medication history, often it was my pharmacist who saved my life, or after I smartened up & started reading the patient info packets, I'd then refuse to take the medication that was often worse or more dangerous than the condition supposedly being treated.


When each drug causes at least 3-5 side effects, multiplied by 23 different drugs per day, that's a possible 110 side effects daily from the medication alone, to treat a handful (5 or less) of actual problems! Every side effect had another drug prescribed for it, that then had another side effect that then had another drug prescribed, on into infinity. No wonder I was so ill and lost a decade of my life to trusting these doctors to have my best interests in mind as a trusted doctor who swore the Hippocratic oath to never cause harm.

I went off 23+ different medications between Jan. 2011 and March 2011, broke 5 major bones (compound breaks, not mere fractures) from falls caused by the seizures of going through withdrawals that the doctors refused to treat me safely for, and have the hospital records to prove it, and worse, I was refused treatment all 3 times I went to the emergency room, including when I broke two ribs on each side, my sternum and my back all in one weekend! When I had seizures, they locked me in a room with the door closed, and no monitoring equipment on me to measure the seizures and nothing to protect me, for over 3 & 1/2 hours, before coming in to say I was being discharged without treatment! When I protested, they called me combative & sent me out with no transportation home, knowing I was seizing and could have been relieved easily with the most basic of treatment. When I began having heart trouble as a result of these multiple effects, I was terrified of going to that hospital again, because I was convinced I would die there with no one being held responsible then or to this day, for what they did & failed to do for me as a patient.


Instead, without any medical training at all, I had to be my own doctor, wean myself off the medications as best I could with what limited amount I had left, meaning much too fast, which directly caused my severe injuries & repeat ambulance delivered hospital visits, but I survived out of sheer orneriness if nothing else. I had not been able to eat for 10 years without taking medications--four different RXs--for controlling nausea & creating an appetite, for which they never really worked or I would not have needed 4 of them! When I went off my meds & had severe stomach pains one afternoon, I had no idea what was going on, fearing an ulcer from all the stress. It had been over a decade since I had felt any hunger for food, so I did not recognize the feelings of starvation, or hunger pains. I ate some crackers and the pain eased, putting two & two together I realized I'd been feeling what normal hunger was like when ignored for an entire day (which had been my norm before). I celebrated the return of hunger, and the more I ate, the more weight I lost, because my metabolism started working again, my stomach could depend on regular meals, so my body no longer needed to store fat for reserves.


It seems incredible not to have known what was happening as it was happening. I could and probably should write an entire book on the ten years & this year since going off my meds. I live in a 2nd floor apt. now, no home health aide, no cane or hospital bed, no handful of pills every four hours, no living in a fugue of pills anymore. Each small victory I've celebrated, the biggest being when I moved with only 2 days notice, and NO HELP to pack an entire apt. of belongings, where I was not allowed to do the kind of lifting & movements required to pack, yet I had no choice. Movers did the physical moving of those boxes between locations, but I did all the work of packing & unpacking, alone. I'm still not fully unpacked yet nearly 7 months later, yet the day after the move I had expected to be crippled for a week, and instead I worked another two days before I needed a full day of rest and some motrin took care of the pain. Impossible to imagine even two months or two weeks before that date.


I still take two medications regularly and I am definitely decreasing the dose over the next 4 weeks until I am off the one for sleep, because it has caused some severe side effects & I don't want to start this whole circus all over again, nor am I willing to take this drug for the rest of my life, for insomnia I've had since childhood. Worse, the medication does NOT give me sleep, not reliably and not quality rest, so why bother taking something that does not work, yet causes serious side effects as well as long term physical harm, which I have already went through surgeries for this same drug's results over 20 years ago? My body needs to recover on its own and rebalance after a decade of these meds for sleep, eating, pain, you name it, my chemistry is more unbalanced because of the meds, and my body will heal itself if given the chance. I never gave it that chance and after seeing this documentary I realize I've been victimized by the medical & psychiatric community for decades, and if I continue taking these drugs knowing all I know now, I am also victimizing myself. I can't in good conscience continue a regimen I KNOW will, and has in past, cause me great harm, much greater than the discomfort of lack of sleep could ever justify.

I'm not suggesting anyone else follow my example, or treat themselves without medical consultation, I'm only knowledgeable about my own experiences, conditions and motivational drive. Instead, I suggest one begin by requiring informed consent immediately from every doctor prescribing one any medication for any purpose. Educate oneself starting NOW by watching this documentary, FREE, in your own home, in comfort, paying total attention. Follow up by doing your own research, as I have done, looking into the actual studies done on the medications you take, the side effects known & common as well as those that are not as common yet still happen to enough people to be mentioned--then imagine the ones the corrupt studies are NOT reporting, are hiding behind falsified data and agenda driven studies. If one's been on a medication for many years, or has been told one needs a medication for life, look into the facts on the condition & the medication, demand the proof, read the studies, ask your pharmacist for the free printing of information for any medication you are taking now, have ever taken or before taking anything newly prescribed.


There's so much more I can say from experience, so much more I have learned, but this is enough to get one started on the path to enlightenment on one's own path to wellness. I could be bitter and angry that I lost ten years of my life for no medical reason, or I can choose to celebrate that I am given a second chance to live after expecting to be home bound for life & to die without ever having lived again. I can be grateful I took the initiative to educate myself & go through all I did to free myself of those prescriptions that were in fact killing me, some faster than others, and I may never know how much harm was caused by them. I'm getting healthier in mind & body every day, as long as I continue to educate myself & trust my own instincts, to listen to what my body is telling me.


Learn from my experience, don't repeat it. Let my suffering be enough to veer you off that similar path, don't learn the hard way as I did (and seem to do on everything, learn the hard way that is). Children are now being killed by these medications given under false diagnoses so psychiatrists and drug companies can get rich at the innocent's loss of life and health & function. Educate yourself, read the fine print, ask questions & demand INFORMED CONSENT. Start by watching this film, and by sharing it with your loved ones and medical professionals.


GMJ 1-18-2012





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Further Reading:

• Under-age and Over-medicated? http://www.foundhealth.com/blog/2011/12/under-age-and-over-medicated/

• What Are Psychotropic Drugs?  http://www.healthnot.com/what-are-psychotropic-drugs-2~403

Time Travel: Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking 2010 TV-PG 2nd of 3 Episodes

Time Travel: Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking 2010 TV-PG 2nd of 3 Episodes
5 of 5 stars

The second episode of this three part series focuses on time travel. Stephen Hawking is our guide through vocal narration into the visual delights this made for cable Discovery channel special, which had to have had a huge budget on the CGI alone.

There are 4 dimensions explained, with everything in existence having 3 dimensions, the 4th being the distance in time. Even if we could somehow find a way to travel in time, one could never travel to the past, only to the future (see the movie for the reasons, not going to ruin it for anyone if at all possible :)

Three ideas are explored, those of wormholes, black holes and traveling almost the speed of light. I found it interesting that wormholes already exist all around us, in minuscule places in the quantum foam of every day life, smaller than even an atom. However these wormholes are millions of centimeters small, and travel nearly immeasurably small distances on the space time continuum. In great detail, wormholes as a time traveling source are ruled out mainly due to two conditions: paradoxes and feedback.

Next are black holes that if we could somehow design a ship to travel the distance & withstand the gravity of the black hole, could accelerate in orbit around it and actually proceed at a different time than our own back on earth. Impractical of course & unlikely considering the tiny gains for the resources expended.

Third is the idea that traveling 99.9% of the speed of light, we could conceivably travel forward in time. The reality of what would be required to get up to that speed in any spaceship makes this seem unlikely to our current understanding, but does not rule out a future resource to make this form of time travel possible. For instance, several analogies are used such as a speeding race car, a super fast train circling the earth 7 times every SECOND, in order to reach nearly the speed of light.

One principle I'd like to have heard more about is the fact that the speed of light will SLOW down anything that approaches the possibility of going the same or faster than the speed of light itself. How can the speed of light be self-aware enough to slow things down that might exceed its own speed? Is this a physical law, and if so, how does this work? Perhaps this is the motivation for further study into physics.

This series is amazing visually and brings extremely complex ideas within the reach of any one interested in the subject. Obviously a space engineer would be bored by this, as would an astronomer or physicist, however for laypeople it is explained in everyday terms that make enormously complex concepts easily grasped. However, the short length of time for the episodes means there is little in-depth information. These are just too brief to be anything more than an entertaining eye & mind expanding idea for further exploration. Well worth the view, I can find no real reason for buying the DVDs since these are not complex enough to need more than one viewing, nor are they interesting enough to be watched more than once, perhaps twice at most. Great for all ages.

We're Getting Dumb & Dumberer

We're Getting Dumb & Dumber...

Gina Jordan 11-22-2011

On the news & in the media I hear this term used a lot, innocent victim. Is there any other kind of victim? A guilty victim perhaps? How about an innocent predator? A predator victim? How about the term innocent bystander, is there a guilty one? Hit and run today was a creepy bystander who deserved it, perhaps? How about today a 17 year old slut was raped, now on to other news? Of course NOT!

Yet we hear, and even repeat, these phrases without stopping to think what we are really saying. How often do we pay attention to what we think, say or hear? In today's busy world, not often, too much information overload to really spend any time choosing with care, the quickest route is automatic.

Perhaps because I write reviews every day, I started noticing the phrases I was using to describe the experiences so others could relate. I felt challenged to come up with different phrases or adjectives even for similar items, beauty interchangeable with gorgeous, awesome with superb, amazing with incredible, fantastic with excellent, but the phrases I found myself using too often were "funny as hell" and "sexy as hell" when we all know there's not much funny or sexy about the definition of what hell is to most people. Once I noticed how often I used those terms, I became curious enough to look up their origins, and down the rabbit hole I went, finding very little to point the way back to sanity.

I recently had purchased two CD compilations for a 9/11 Tribute project, and mixed in with nearly all the songs were actual news audio samples from the coverage & reporters at the scene of what I'd describe as a hell on earth, ground zero. Many were still trying to figure out what had happened, as we still are even now unsure what exactly went on that day. Heard over & over were the phrases "innocent victim" (actually has a LEGAL definition & we call ourselves civilized?) and "innocent bystander". Really? Were any that day deserving of their fate, or NOT innocent? How about just bystanders and victims, why can't we just say that without trying to qualify them as innocent?

I don't have the answers, I'm just observing something that I'd spent most of my life ignoring, in a rush, not really thinking or paying attention to the language used in daily life. I'm a word geek, used to love reading the dictionary, encyclopedias, thesauruses, vocabulary builders & other such FUN (to me anyway) light reading. Does anyone else read the cereal box just because it's there & is something to do while crunching down the cereal? I'll even go a step further...has anyone else, as a kid especially, pretended to do commercials for the products by reading off the content from the container? "Prell shampoo will make your hair squeaky clean", or "Eat your Wheaties, grow big & strong like Joe Namath" [disclaimer: phrases made up, not necessarily actual product info]; anyone? Perhaps I spent too much time alone, having to entertain myself?

Has anyone paid attention to what's written on the items we use everyday & take for granted that everyone else knows how to use them? Such as a warning about "HOT Coffee" being in your coffee cup? Or still needing instructions on bottles of shampoo that describe how to shampoo your hair? How about the warnings on plastic bag wrappers, not to wrap them around our head & try to breathe? Really? Are we THAT dumb or that clueless? Are there really people who need those warnings? Apparently so. Manufacturers aren't creating them at their own expense for laughs. We love to read the labels now, check the contents & nutritional content of any food--have you noticed that where it tells you for example, 3 g protein, 5 g carbs, then it will also say "not a significant source of ..." whatever is NOT in the ingredient list? We can't figure that out for ourselves, we have to have a separate list of what's NOT in the package too?

I swear, I fear for our continued sanity & existence if these trends continue, for soon we won't be able to think for ourselves at all, but will expect everything to be spoon fed, decisions made for us, directions for the most basic self care required or we're lost, unable to figure out what to do with a bar of soap, or the empty bottles that tell us to recycle.

An article in Discover Science in 2010 featured an article about a scientific study that has determined that our brains have been steadily shrinking, our intelligence dropping, in record numbers & very quickly, prompting a debate on whether we are actually becoming dumber. Among several culprits blamed were being civilized, agriculture & animal farming, as well as living in cramped quarters, meaning we're safer, don't have to think about survival on a minute by minute basis, our food is provided so we don't have to plan a hunt or the best way to trap or kill supper, civilization meaning we need spend less time worrying about our enemies in a different tribe or region coming to pillage our gains. In many ways technology has made us less self-reliant, less aware, less intelligent or at least under utilizing our intelligence. An interesting topic, more studies need to be done to pinpoint the answers, said the scientists, some of our smartest humans.

The saying "take time to smell the flowers" or alternately, "take time to smell the coffee", can also speak to us on taking the time to pay attention, period. Slow down, think more, challenge our brains, make the more difficult choices, switch the route we run or drive or walk or bike home from work, read books that aren't just for fun but make us use our brains, actively pursue learning something new every day even if it's just a new word or using an old word in a new way. I've heard that one way to avoid senility & related illnesses is to exercise the brain just as much and as often as we exercise the body. For me, working out with my brain is much more fun than exercise, but like any muscle, if not used regularly, it gets out of shape or atrophies. Use it or lose it.

My favorite scene from Dumb & Dumber, the movie:

Review of Extreme Ice: Nova documentary

Extreme Ice: Nova
You rated this movie: 5
How can previous reviews say there's no evidence when this entire film is about them collecting the forensic evidence to prove not only their theories (and ALL science is theories, only proven until unproved with technology), but that their theories were UNDERestimating the rate of speed & transformation from ice to rising sea levels, from temps to direct evidence of its effects??? What more do we need to see? Billions of people and whole states wiped out before our eyes, well by then it's too late. Even now may be too late, considering our technology can't even keep up with the speed of glacial decay, never mind stopping the train when we haven't designed a brake system yet! Already this year's weather has been more extreme than ever in history because of climate change & we're supposedly 50-100 years away from those consequences, right? ha! Obviously NOT. If we as a species are too dumb to police ourselves NOW, then we deserve extinction--may a smarter species than us survive.