This is an article about the antidepressants that Robin Williams may have taken and were ineffective with the depression symptoms that he was having (AND MAY HAVE EXACERBATED SUCH SYMPTOMS):
UGUST 12, 2014 by MARCO TORRES
Robin Williams was found dead yesterday at his home near Tiburon, California. The actor and comedian was 63. Authorities are still investigating the circumstances of death, but one thing that is known is that he was battling severe depression. A mountain of studies has shown that antidepressant drugs are largely ineffective, yet many hollywood stars are hooked on the happy pills. Might we finally heed the warnings and shake ourselves out of our pharmaceutical stupor?
Women have a 10 to 25 percent risk and men a five to 12 percent risk of developing severe major depression in their lifetime. The use of these drugs has tripled in the last decade, according to a report by the federal government. In 2006, spending on antidepressants soared by 130 percent.
Dr Mark Hamer, a public health researcher at University College London, shows that people on the older drugs -- tricyclic antidepressants -- are at far higher risk of cardiovascular disease than those taking the newer class of pills, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). But tricyclics were discovered in the Forties and it is only now we have identified these dangerous effects.
Moreover, some SSRI drugs are known to cause serious problems such as stomach bleeding. In addition, the withdrawal symptoms can be so severe that patients may become dependent on them.
Dr Hamer says his findings do not only affect people with depression, because antidepressants are also prescribed to people with back pain, headache, anxiety and sleeping problems.
25% of American children are now on psyche drugs. And according to the CDC 1 out of every 6 children are developmental damaged. Do you ever wonder why so many people on psyche drugs are committing suicide and homicide these days? After all, decades ago, there were no "school shootings" or bizarre child suicides or homicides like those found onwww.ssristories.com.
Up to 50% of Psyche Drugs Are Not Metabolized
Years ago the genome project identified the main metabolic pathway needed to metabolize 25 - 50% of all psyche drugs and street drugs. Common psyche drugs such as Adderall, Haldol, Respirdal are on the list that needs the Cytochrome P450 gene 2D6 in order to be metabolized. 2D6 refers to the most major metabolic liver enzyme.
Perhaps more than 10% of caucasians and a percentage of Asians and African Americans do not have the 2D6 activity. These folks can notmetabolize 25-50% of the psyche drugs. These non metabolizers are given more and more psyche drugs as they become more and more psychotic until they hang themselves, kill someone else or become disabled in a mental institution, foaming from the mouth.
One leading expert, Randolph Nesse, a psychiatry professor at Michigan University, argues that mild forms of depression are beneficial, often interjecting in life to tell us to stop what we are doing and reconsider.
This can help, he says, when something awful happens to us, such as a job loss or relationship break-up, when it makes sense to slow down to grieve, reassess and make changes.
But instead, we live in a world that tells us that when we feel out of sorts we need a pill to recover.
It is this belief that creates queues of patients at the doors of hard-pressed GPs, who often feel they have no option but to hand out happy pills as though they were sweeties.
Many patients later claim they couldn’t have coped without them. They will swear that ‘the drugs make me feel better, so they must be working’. But often the drugs do not actually work as chemicals. Instead, they merely reassure us -- the so-called placebo effect.
SSRIs cause lower bone density, cause weight gain, harm male fertility and make people more likely to go on shooting rampages, commit suicides, and attempted suicides.
There's more. It also causes panic attacks, low heart rate and lightheadedness, induced mania, psychotic symptoms, electrolyte disturbances and seizures, and even anorgasmia (inability to achieve orgasms). There are literally dozens of other side effects too numerous to mention in this article.
How We have Been Deceived by the Antidepressant Hoax
Drug companies are not forced to publish all the results of their studies. They only publish those they want to. The team of researchers that reported their findings in The New England Journal of Medicine took a critical look at all the studies done on antidepressants, both published and unpublished. They dug up some serious dirt ...
The unpublished studies were not easy to find. The researchers had to search the FDA databases, call researchers, and hunt down hidden data under the Freedom of Information Act. What they found was stunning.
After looking at 74 studies involving 12 drugs and over 12,000 people, they discovered that 37 of 38 trials with positive results were published, while only 14 of 36 negative studies were published. Those that showed negative results were, in the words of the researchers, "published in a way that conveyed a positive outcome."
That means the results were twisted to imply the drugs worked when they didn't.
This isn't just a problem with antidepressants. It's a problem with scientific research. Some drug companies even pay or threaten scientists to not publish negative results on their drugs. So much for "evidence-based" medicine! I recently had dinner with a step-uncle who runs a company that designs research for drug companies. He designs the study, hires the researcher from an esteemed institution, directs the study, writes up the study and the scientist just signs his or her name after reviewing it.
Placebo
In 2008, Professor Irving Kirsch at Hull University found something strange when he took a close look at some figures from drug manufacturers’ own trials of four common antidepressants.
The drugs improved patients’ sense of wellbeing. So far, so unremarkable.
But many of those involved in the trials were given sugar pills instead of antidepressants.
And their depression scores improved just as much as those on the real pharmaceuticals. In other words, the placebo patients put so much store by the magical (and much-promoted) power of antidepressants that they lifted their own morale without any genuine chemical intervention. Such is the life-enhancing power of human belief.
But this phenomenon also has a dark side: the opposite of placebo, which is called the ‘nocebo’ effect.
This occurs when you convince someone that a particular thing will do them harm, and they begin to feel sick.
Pharmaceuticals prescribed for mood are among the most dangerous due to their side effects and high toxicity to brain chemicals and hormones. Medicinal plants and natural nutrients are extremely effective in promoting neurotransmitter balance while promote relaxation. Please review Dr. Dave Mihalovic's report on effective mood stabilizers that can dramatically improve and stabilize moodswings, suppressing manic phases but not inducing depression and curing depressive episodes while not causing mania.
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A few words here if I may. Alex Jones ran an artical and a vid on Robin Williams a few days ago that stated and showed that he was not only on Prozak but that he had Parkinson Disease. He had aged a lot in a short time and was very thin. His last TV show was a bust. You could see in the vid that he was not himself or the old self that we remember. So that could also be a great factor in his Pharm.drug problem and his suicide . Also he went off the wagen after 20 yrs clean of alcohol. His cocaine habit was greater in the past and the Cocaine of today is not the same. I speak from experience here. I had a short romance with cocaine bqck in the early 70's. Back then it was not so stepped on as it is today. I did it for a few months as I had a friend who supplied it to me cheap. When it was finished, I had no withdrawal systems nor did I ever do it again. In S. America it is a holy herb in its natural form and still part of the culture. But today cocaine and especially Crack is not very pure and the additives are sometimes poisoned. Crack is cut Cocaine that is soaked in Kerosine and battery acid is used to extract it so it is poisoned and it does the same thing to people. It makes them very paranoid and violent. It is used very much here in central America as it cannot be smelled by humans or dogs and it is destroying the society here. Good ol pot has taken 2nd place here which is a shame because it is not harmful and is natural and good. As for Pharm Drugs I have had my share of them as well and I can say that they only did me great harm. I had to take them to get my VA diability and as soon as I got it I went off the drugs and back to natural herbs to clence and heal me from the Pharm Drugs and my many ailments most all caused by the Deadly Pharm Drugs !!! Adonai
Not all of us are druggies Barry. There is just a select few out there in Ashtar who like to play Russian roulette with dangerous chemicals and expect society and government to pay for their medical bills created by their teenage attitude with life.
i used to be a nurse and one of the main side affects that zoloft has is a feeling to commit suicide and this is a med that supposed to help you get over the depression and anxiety so that you dont commit suicide its an oxymoron to me
Light! chakra balancing, auric cleaning by a healer/shaman twice a week for as long as necessary and ween off the chemicals-but if it's a lesson it will not ease completely until contract agreement is up(were in a part of hell after all )-still the Light REALLY helps
The physical vessel is a "temple" for spirit to inhabit...
Thus it should be treated with respect and not taken for granted, nor abused....
Of course, we may enjoy ourselves with maybe moderate alcohol, without going to extremes, BUT substances such as cocaine and stronger drugs, do result in longer term damage, as Malcolm suggests...
The problem with taking an irresponsible attitude to health is that it has a karmic penalty, as people like Robin Williams have experienced...
Maybe "cool" to snort, smoke, or shoot, when younger, but deadly with age...
I have never taken anti-depressants, as I do not suffer from this psychological imbalance, named depression...
With a good diet and plenty of exercise, the human body will produce the necessary hormones to bring an apt re-balancing of the physical aspects, aiding prevention of excessive mood swings....The key is balance, of both mind and body....
Also, meditation enables a far greater ability for the average sufferer to attain a more attuned state with the higher self....That connection will be priceless, as it achieves a greater control over the imbalanced astral vehicle, suffered by depressives...
The taking of artificial stimulants is one reason some commence on the path of depression, as it puts the bodies out of balance....
Williams was a drug abuser and addicted to their artificial comforts....Thus, he suffered mood swings.....
Such people are vulnerable to the pressures that life may put upon them....as they become excessively attached to events deemed unfortunate...
Each should strive to rid themselves of "recreational" drugs and pharmacetical "remedies." Noting that BOTH are produced and distributed for selfish profits by criminals and corporations....They may seem to help, but often lead to greater dependency by the unfortunate victims.... the ill and vulnerable...
Good read. Note that Robin Williams (as well as George Carlin) were profound users of cocaine, and cocaine is a very dangerous drug. This is because excessive use of cocaine will eventually affect the electrical systems of the heart pump function (note that George Carlin had more than one heart attack) and permanently disrupt the dopamine reuptake function of the dopamine receptors in the brain (which regulate mood. Hence, messed up dopamine receptors results in depression issues, as seen in Williams and so many other aging entertainers (especially in rock music)).
MORAL OF THE STORY: stay away from cocaine. It can lead to heart issues and depression problems as one gets older. George Carlin and Robin Williams are proof of this.
Here's a video of Robin Williams where he admits to taking Prozac, a drug now banned in Canada due to its direct link with violent behavior. He talks about it between 0:35 and 0:45.
Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4vIT-Lafs&feature=player_embedded for video from ET.
You're wrong Tom, because the FDA has openly admitted that antidepressant use can directly lead to violence, as the article below states. Also note that compared to previous times when antidepressants were not introduced to the public in a mainstream manner ( and this introduction of massive use of antidepressants has taken place in the past twenty years, along with mainstream media commercials), we never had the rise in school and mass shootings (as well as the rise in suicide rates) that has dramatically taken place before this past twenty year period of massive antidepressant use, and this absence of such activities were very much noted with the absence of mainstream antidepressant use for depression.
I used to be on every anti-depressant under the sun. I finally stopped taking them, but I had to go off them slowly. Most of them, in my opinion, DIDN'T WORK. (One did, but I can't remember the name of it. At the time, I did not know that anti-depressants were harmful).