Reply #49: Yea, and other people have no thyroid problems [View All]

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and are still depressed. I got tested, no problems

SSRI's are not addicting. I can stop, but I would rather keep living.

"(cognitive behavioral. nutrition, natural healing, and misdiagnosed/undiagnosed hypothyroid disorder)"

I had a friend whose boss tried "natural Healing" for his bipolar disorder. I asked her if it helped. A big fat "NO!".

Tried st. johns wort. Up-down-Up-down. That was 1 hour. Just wasn't powerful enough.

How long have I been on them? 12 years. 12 wonderful, fun, colorful years.

I looked up the doctor who made that paper you linked to:

"He uses terms like "fraud" to describe the biological and genetic theories of mental disorders."

"In 1994, the president of the American Psychiatric Association called Breggin a "flat-earther" (suggesting he embraced outdated theories); the head of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) called Breggin "ignorant"; and the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health called him an "outlaw.""

"Breggin reinforces the myth that mental illness is not real, that you wouldn't be ill if you'd pull yourself up by the bootstraps...his views stop people from getting treatment. They could cost a life."

That one *REALLY* galls me.

Here's another lovely one:

According to an article in Forbes, Breggin has also expressed some controversial views that he later rejected, such as that "it can be okay for children to have sexual relationships, <...> and that the vast majority of women have been sexually abused in childhood".<30> Similarly, Steven Milloy strongly criticized Breggin for making the following statement in his book The Psychology of Freedom: "permitting children to have sex among themselves would go a long way toward liberating them from oppressive parental authority. This is the main reason that parents fight so hard to prevent sex between children. Sexual freedom would allow their children to become truly independent of them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Breggin