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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finally it is worth noting that the same multinational corporations that own the subsidiaries that sell us poisoned processed foods also own subsidiaries that are comprised of pharmaceutical companies. Anyone who doesn’t get the connection between these entities is just not paying attention. CVS stopped selling cigarettes several years ago because they’re a health care company they proclaimed - but when you go there to pick up your pharmaceuticals, you have to walk past aisle after aisle of highly processed edible substances that are not actually food but rather food products. There is a massive difference between real food and food products. CVS and Walgreens and Walmart and all those places are UPF pushers - they have no moral qualms with selling the products that drive obesity and diabetes and chronic sleep deprivation and mental health disorders along with the pharmaceuticals that treat the symptoms but don’t cure anything.

There is no profit motive in curing lifestyle diseases.

There is very low profit motive in selling broccoli, et al.

Make the connection, people.[/quote]

To me, you seem very zealous.  Why do you care if someone takes 10mg of prozac.  You sound just as controlling as the pharmaceuticals you despise.  Medicine can help.  Why make things more difficult?[/quote]

I am very zealous. I spent 30 years taking SSRIs and SNRIs thrown at me by various physicians and psychiatrists and suffering the host of awful side effects including chronic insomnia that worsens mental illness and the weight gain that exacerbates anxiety/depression.

Never once in those 30 years did a single doctor ask me how I’d been sleeping, eating or exercising BEFORE I developed anxiety/depression, nor did they suggest I try exercise, light therapy, clean diet, meditation/breath work to manage anxiety depression - yet even in the 1990s there was already substantial research to suggest that mental illness could be greatly alleviated by these lifestyle changes to manage stress, and thirty years later the clinical and research evidence is overwhelming that the improvement from lifestyle changes used to manage anxiety and depression is equally effective and even more effective over the long term than taking pills that bring a host of very bad side effects which cause most patients to cycle on and off and on and off and suffer endlessly so big Pharma can make a buck.

There are hours of education on pharmaceuticals in medical school. There is not even a days worth of education on the critical ways proper nutrition impacts all aspects of our health from gut biome to brain resilience. Guess who underwrites substantial amounts of the research and education arms of universities that house medical schools?

Do I need to give you the answer, or can you work it out for yourself?

Yes, I’m very angry about three decades wasted on the hamster wheel of anxiety/depression medications. This is not schizophrenia or psychotic bipolar disorder, this is far too common anxiety and depression which is rooted in our lifestyles and can be put into effective remission by lifestyle changes alone - with the added benefit of staving off the host of other chronic illnesses that poor lifestyle choices ultimately lead to, including more and more often in kids as young as preteens.

Sleep
Exercise
Sun exposure/lightbox therapy in winter 
Whole foods diet focused on phytonutrients especially omega 3s as in fish or walnuts
Cut out the sugar, cut out the UPFs
Meditation, breath work, yoga
Cognitive behavioral therapy

Any parent who truly cares about setting their kids up for lifelong mental health will take this approach before tossing pills down their throats[/quote]

NP. NP. I am sorry for your pain. Yet, you sound unhinged and your poor choices do not give you allowance to judge/shame other parents who make choices for their kids you disagree with.

My DS was diagnosed with GAD at age 4. We tried CBT and all you suggest for years - until we participated in an NIH anxiety study when he was in 4th grade. It was evaluating the effectiveness of CBT. His anxiety was so significant he couldn't participate and the suggested an SSRI. Looking back, DS is now 21, we should have medicated him earlier. SSRIs have been life changing AND lifesaving.[/quote]

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