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Home » Psychotropic Medications Kill 500k+ Adults Every Year

Psychotropic Medications Kill 500k+ Adults Every Year

Updated November 22, 2021 by Rich

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Psychotropic Medications kill 500k+ Western adults annually, with few positive benefits – according to a leading scientist. Reblogged from https://rt.com/uk/258133-antidepressants-unnecessary-for-many/ with my comments in italics. Psychotropic Medications are also known as psychiatric drugs lead to the deaths of over 500,000 people aged 65 and over annually in the West, a Danish scientist says. He warns the benefits of these drugs are “minimal,” and have been vastly overstated. The research director at Denmark’s Nordic Cochrane Centre, Professor Peter Gøtzsche, says the use of most antidepressants and dementia drugs could be halted without inflicting harm on patients. The Danish scientist’s views were published in the British Medical Journal on Tuesday.

No Kidding. Besides having minimal benefits, antidepressants are not benign because their negative side effects can have catastrophic consequences. When are the psychopharmacologists, licensed social workers, psychiatrists, doctors and psychologists going to get the memo?

His scathing analysis will likely prove controversial among traditional medics. However, the concern is mounting among doctors and scientists worldwide that psychotropic medications are doing more harm than good. In particular, they say antipsychotic drugs have been overprescribed to many dementia patients in a bid to calm agitated behavior. Gøtzsche warns psychiatric drugs kill patients year in year out, and hold few positive benefits. He says in excess of half a million citizens across the Western world aged 65 and over dies annually as a result of taking these drugs.

Psychotropic Medications Do More Harm Than Good

Psychotropic medications are doing more harm than good. Yes, especially if you consider divorce, career loss, family estrangements, suicidal ideation and suicide to be a problem. As well as additional physical maladies are among the negative side effects that psychiatric medications cause. No one says that the doctors are knowingly advocating harmful substances, but it is possible that they are highly influenced that the only way to treat depression or other psychiatric illnesses is with antidepressant drugs that all come with extensive warning labels.

We all know of at least one individual who began to behave in very strange ways after starting psychotropic medications. Fom being overly aggressive, to hyper emotional to considering suicide when that was never considered an option before. Obviously there has always been some concern or other wise there would not be the extensive warning labels on so many if not all antidepressants.

I still do not believe for example that it was a coherent Robin Williams that committed suicide. Unfortunately, in April of 2018 I lost another friend to suicide. He was on antidepressants for over 30 years. Another divorced man who had everything to live for but killed himself. I believe he, a good man, a professional, a father,  only jumped out of his own office window because of the influence of antidepressants on his mental state. I suffered with suicidal ideation for all three years that I used psychotropic medications. 

“Their benefits would need to be colossal to justify this, but they are minimal,” he writes. “Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm.” Gøtzsche, who is also a clinical trials expert, says drug trials funded by big pharmaceutical companies tend to produce biased results because many patients took other medication prior to the tests. He says patients cease taking the old drugs and then experience a phase of withdrawal prior to taking the trial pharmaceuticals, which appear highly beneficial at first. The Danish professor also warns fatalities from suicides in clinical trials are significantly under-reported.

And if you do not commit suicide because of the suicidal ideation induced by antidepressants, you may lose your marriage, your job or your closest relationships because of your bizarre behavior once on psychiatric drugs. It is difficult to understand why psychiatrists and/or psychologists do not first prescribe diet and exercise as a means to reduce disabling depression. Why do they not try good food and working out first? Why do they prescribe meds before you even finished telling them what is upsetting you in the first place?

Placebo Psychotropics are Just as Effective as Real

In the case of antidepressants venlafaxine and fluoxetine, Gøtzsche casts doubt over their efficacy. He said depression lifts in placebo groups given fake tablets almost as promptly as groups who partake in official clinical tests. He also stressed the results of trials of drugs used to treat schizophrenia are disconcerting, while those for ADHD are ambiguous. ‘More than a tragedy’: Commenting on the negative side effects of such pharmaceutical drugs, Gøtzsche argued the “short-term relief” appears to be replaced by “long-term harm.”

“Animal studies strongly suggest that these drugs can produce brain damage, which is probably the case for all psychotropic drugs,” he said. “Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic medications without causing harm – by dropping all antidepressants, ADHD drugs and dementia drugs … and using only a fraction of the antipsychotics and benzodiazepines we currently use.”

“This would lead to healthier and more long-lived populations.”

Gøtzsche says psychotropic drugs are “immensely harmful” if used for prolonged periods. “They should almost exclusively be used in acute situations and always with a firm plan for tapering off, which can be difficult for many patients,” he adds. Gøtzsche’s views are sharply contradicted by many experts in the field of mental health. But others, including a diverse group of medical experts and institutions affiliated with the Nordic Cochrane Centre, argue otherwise. The Nordic Cochrane Centre is an independent research hub dedicated to scrutinizing and monitoring the effects of health care.

The Debate on Antidepressants Continues Unabated

The debate on psychotropic medications has gathered momentum in recent times.

In the discussion, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Gøtzsche’s arguments are contradicted by Professor of Mood Disorders Allan Young and John Crace. Crace, himself a psychiatric patient, writes for the Guardian. Crace and Young say a broad body of research indicates the drugs are effective and that they are just as helpful as drugs for other ailments. They also argue mental health conditions are the fifth most significant contributor to disabilities worldwide. While Gøtzsche stresses clinical trials bankrolled by pharma giants churn out skewered results, Young and Crace say the efficacy and safety of psychiatric medication continues to be monitored after research trials come to a close.

However, both Young and Crace acknowledge concern over the side effects and effectiveness of psychiatric medications.

“For some critics, the onus often seems to be on the drug needing to prove innocence from causing harm rather than a balanced approach to evaluating the available evidence,” they write. “Whether concerns are genuine or an expression of prejudice is not clear, but over time many concerns have been found to be overinflated.”

The BMJ discussion is a preamble to the Maudsley debate at Kings College London on Wednesday. The debate takes place three times a year at the university’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).

Wednesday’s debate focuses on the impacts of psychiatric medications and poses the question of whether they prove more destructive for patients than beneficial.

Will You Risk Your Mental and Physical Health with Psychotropics?

This is a sad state of affairs if this article proves to be true, so many thousands, no millions of people whose lives have been wrecked by playing what if with their bodies and minds.

Today I was in contact with two individuals, both graduates of the antidepressant school of how to treat depression thought and both have been dysfunctional for over a decade with catastrophic results to their life.

Is it possible to rebuild your life after years perhaps even decades of using psychotropic medications? Just ask someone who has been medicated for over 30 years and still has no benefit to show from it other than perpetual dry mouth and fatigue with a constant fear of stopping the usage due to extensive warning labels to not stop without a physician approval. Yet above the article states that they estimate that we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm! So why are so many of us suffering?

What is your experience with psychotropic medications?

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Rich Hashimashi AuthorRich is a NASM-CPT (Certified Personal Trainer), Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and the author of Crossing the Bridge From Depression to Life. At the age of 55, he lost 75 pounds in 6 months, and discovered if you transform your body, you can change your life. You can read about his story here and send Rich a message here.

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