![]() Youthful Aging By Norm Shealy |
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ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND JOY Our founding fathers claimed we have a right to the PURSUIT of Happiness. Indeed, I would maintain that life is the pursuit of happiness. However, clinical medicine reports that 20% of Americans are taking antidepressant drugs at any given time and that at least another 20% 'need' antidepressants. Although psychiatrists have a variety of categories for depression, I see unhappiness as ranging from slight to severe, with anxiety as minor or major components of sadness/depression. Variations include manic behavior and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mood altering drugs represent at least 25% of the total pharmaceutical costs in the U.S., or over 75 billion dollars each year just for prescription mood drugs. Interestingly, the antianxiety drugs mostly block the personality and convert anxiety to depression. And the BEST antidepressant is effective in just 42% of individuals (that is 7% better than placebo) with at least a 25% complication rate! Over three times as many complications as benefits! A long run for a short slide! The complications, called 'side-effects' by the PharmacoMafia, range from damage to liver, kidneys, heart, and blood manufacturing capacity to death. The increased incidence of suicide in children treated with these dangerous drugs is well publicized; but there is also an increased risk of suicide in adults, a risk even greater than the risk without these drugs. Of course, the over the counter mood drugs---tobacco and alcohol-add even more to the psychosocial and economic damage of mood altering drugs. And the significant use of illegal street drugs suggests that, overall, the majority of Americans are not happy! Interestingly, scientific reports from every country suggest that the same is true virtually everywhere. THERE IS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE---The Shealy Protocol
For over 30 years I have had 85% good results in treatment of over 30,000 patients with depression and often-concomitant anxiety, with NO complications. The treatment is simple, safe and cost-effective:
is available as a certificate training program for all M.D.'s, D.O.'s, Nurse Practitioners, or allied health professionals sent by physicians who wish to learn and use this approach. The program is also offered to patients in Springfield, Missouri. 417-891801.
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