I was depressed for over 20 years and whatever the cause of your depression and the validity of it, once you are on anti depressants it feels like your mind is floating in cotton wool clouds and you become a Zombie, you don't have any personal charisma, you don't have any real feelings anymore for yourself, or anyone else, you are cold, emotionless and uncaring of others, you get up, drift through each day and go to bed in this mindless, Zombie like existence, happy, yes, I would call it happy, but you can't be creative or inspired, because your motions are suppressed by the tablets or medication you are taking and it is a bastard to break free and become what you once were, before anti depressants.
After 20 years, I reached a point in time where my life had improved for the better and I decided I wanted to come off the depressive tablets, which my doctor warned me not to do - but I'm not very good at doing what I'm told, I refused to have any Covid vaccines for much the same reason and I have my free salt water cure which I hope all of you have too now, for your next viral infection, but if not, ask me and I'll post it here - you know, there is "one" in every crowd and that's me.
There was a guy who was on the same tablets as me in America and his Psych had him on a stronger dose than me and then one day this "Quack" stopped his anti-depressive tablets dead and the guy went off and bought himself a rifle, scope and a lot of bullets, went up a tower and killed a lot of people in the square below - when he went up before the Beak (Judge) he was asked why he did what he did.
By then he had come off the effects of the anti depressant tablets he was on and he said he had no idea, because he was a peaceable guy and would not hurt a fly, but he got sentenced to life in prison - but I know why, it was because his Psych took him off the tablets dead, without any slow down period for his mind to adapt to not being on the anti depressant tablets anymore - which I taught myself how to do and I share it with you here:
Reduce the tablets you are on by 1/4 of a tablet, once a week, until you are off them altogether - if you feel yourself slipping, go back on the full dose immediately and try again a few weeks later and eventually, you will be able to get off them altogether, without fucking up your mind in the process, like the guy above and what he did.
You will be very emotionally fragile and expect that, but you will start to live your life again and take pleasure in the simple things you see about you and the people you meet - I got off my anti depressant tablets in 2012 and I've been off them ever since and I'm a mentally tough guy, but I still burst into tears for no reason and I like to think I am able to show my feelings easier and I'm not ashamed of myself when I do, I think I have a gift, because of it.
Praise the Lord. That was a very uplifting story. I guess a person just has to have their own time-line of enough is enough. Glad you aren't having any of it anymore.
I use table salt with iodine in it, which I buy in bulk from my local supermarket, but it does not matter which salt you use - oh - and use clean water of course, too. Sea Salt might be best, if nothing else offers.
There is no cure for the next "injected" illness which you get. Previous vaccines deliberately stripped your natural immunity and this time you might/will die. My salt water cure is for a viral illness, if you get one of those and not a vaccinated, injected, illness.
Mix one heaped teaspoon of salt in a mug of clean warm water. Go into your bathroom and swallow two mouthfuls to sort out anything which has got down there, then cup a hand, pour some of the mix into your cupped hand and sniff or snort the remaining mugful up your nose, in stages until all is gone. If you have a burning sensation you have a virus and the salt water is killing the virus infection in your head. It will burn for a few minutes (but won't hurt you otherwise) and then the pain will go away, so when it does, take some toilet paper off the toilet roll and blow your nose out in it, then flush that away, washing your hands afterwards. Do this simple cure 3 times a day, or more often for a quicker result, until when you flush, it feels like you are flushing with plain water and no pain is felt - job done. I have been doing this simple cure for over 35 years and in that time I have never been ill from any virus or more lately, being shedded on by the vaccinated who now make up 97% of the population here, so we are told. The salt water goes throughout your nasal passages, behind your eyes, ears, brain bulb brain stem - where for my money, Long Covid likes to stay and when you get an infection in your head, there is nothing to stop it becoming, for the sake of example, Covid, the disease, which flows down into your body in the one liter of snot or mucus our head produces daily, the engine oil of your body - if flows down the back of your neck unnoticed because it is and always has been a lifetime thing - the top of your throat is at a point half way up your ears and not at mouth level, as you will quickly discover with my free salt water cure. I've never had a vaccine because I've never needed one, in other words, why reinvent the wheel when you have an unbeatable wheel to run with, in the first place - so in simplistic terms, say no to all vaccines and never have another one - vaccines are a mug's game for the mugs who do as they are told - don't let that mug be you in future - is my advice: Injected vaccines (Gene Therapy Injections) will deliberately kill you. Salt= I use Supermarket bought Table Salt with Iodine in it, but any Salt is OK, depending on the best sort you can buy.
The latest next cure is Bill Gates Flu Pills, which go down into your stomach and then into your inner workings - what has that got to do with a nasal infection - beats me. Send them to me in the post, in the rubbish bin they go, quick as a flash. Why reinvent the wheel, when my wheel above is unbroken and continues to work well, for me. Trump is spending 500 Million to find a one vaccine cure for all viral infections, this one is free.
I don't doubt the annoying victim mentality many seem to have and that you've described so well (seems to be women more than men that adopt this whole mental illness identity used as a defense for everything imaginable) but it doesn't help us answer the fundamental question of whether depression is biological or 'psychological', which I consider to be absolutely fundamental. The hellscape that is the mental health industry is something people get caught up in only once they have an existing problem. People in good health won't go anywhere near it, won't seek 'help' and won't be susceptible to any of the mind games played by actors within this industry.
The psychologist Dorothy Rowe said adopting the biological model of depression was convenient because it meant you didn't have to take responsibility for anything. The flipside of that weird sentiment is a radical form of self responsibility that lets every toxic thing we are subjected to (and there are so many now!) that damages humans off the hook and puts the onus on the individual to improve their lot purely by willpower and whatever absurd suggestions people like her recommended (she suggested mimicking the behavior of happy people which still seems a popular idea) . This is approximately insane, not to mention utterly abusive.
If the sum of your knowledge about biology comes from psychiatry then you'll throw the baby out with the bathwater. A look at the literature through a different philosophical lens paints a different picture. Depression and anxiety are problems of metabolic disturbance, problems of energy. The learned helplessness model used to test anti-depressant compounds is a good demonstration of this, essentially a complete exhaustion. It's reversal with active thyroid is good proof of an energy suppression (SSRI's 'work' by mimicry of our natural hormones).
Look at the publications on 'covid' injections- a startling increase in the risk of various mental disorders. But the mental illness industry has successfully separated 'mental health' from the rest of our health, so to many it seems strange that injecting toxic substances into people could ever cause depression, anxiety, psychosis. It isn't, when you stop believing the brain is somehow isolated from the rest of the body and plays no role in emotion and wellbeing.
A purely psycho-social model of depression is just more psychology. Nobody thinks their way into depression so nobody can think their way out of it. These problems are caused by environments that damage people's health in a multitude of ways- exposure to inappropriate pharmaceuticals and 'tests', industrial pollution, a degraded food supply, broken family lives, demolished communities, authoritarian schooling, demoralizing employment, maternal stress, health of the parents at the time of conception.
Time to ditch this cancerous dualism that psychology has thrust on us that tells that our attitudes are easily exchangeable rather than being a reflection of our health, that our feelings are something to largely ignore when they are prime indicators of things going on in our body. Biological studies show us that it is the high metabolic rate that provides resistance to stress, to aging and makes us highly creative and happy beings. Psychologists should be relegated to empathetic listening and social critiques otherwise they are just running a distraction for the people who are systematically poisoning the population.
A model of depression etc that is dependent on health provides the opportunity to consider everything that could negatively affect it and everything that could positively support it: our relationships, economic matters, our homes, our food, our work and intelligent supplementation of hormones, vitamins, light and safe drugs (there are a few!) as therapy, where necessary.
I do think some has to do with 'hard wire' personality types as well.
I read many years ago (and i have tested it. i am pretty good at guessing which order a person was born, by spending 5 minutes with them in conversation) that order of birth played a large part on how personality is developed. Oddly, it was pretty accurate.
My point being is, yes I think nutrition and physical chemistry should be the first to explore in any mental depression. But being a fighter or strong personality does make a difference as to what and if you are willing to do to feel better.
Even strong personalities get exhausted sometimes, but it never keeps them down. Quitters have always been 'victumhood' and like being there it seems.
Historically, people understood that people would be down after the death of a loved one, people wore black in varying quantities depending on proximity. A wife for instance would wear black for a full year, but more distant relatives would wear less or for a shorter period. This let people know to be there for them.
But today most people in society help push the pills, instead of being supportive.
Very well thought out and written. I knew this whole mental health crisis was just another pharma scam but never really thought about how it was perpetuated. I saw how it negatively affected my mom’s life after they put her on Prozac after her divorce. Then unqualified people started stacking more antidepressants on her in her assisted living residence because she “presented as being depressed”. I think these pills dramatically accelerated, if not caused her Alzheimer’s. This article provided many insights on how the medical complex created a whole new group of lifelong customers. Well done.
Same story! They aren’t “isolated” or “bored” or “adjusting to a new living arrangement” or “adjusting to losing their independence” they just need more more stabilizers. 🤦🏼♀️
I do think there may be a biological basis for depression. My mother in-law an identical twin was sensitive, insecure and depressed her whole life. Her identical twin was the exact opposite and very physically robust also. She said twins compete in the womb for nutrients and she believes she thrived at the expense of her sister. So maybe epigenetic changes resulted in a susceptibility. Now pair that with a child who was treated as worthless, and brutally terrorized from the get-go, where they never developed a sense of self, their nervous system is frazzled to the point where they can't focus, and the information they were fed from the Gods, their parents was soul destroying. They really are victims. I don't think psychotherapy is enough undo the damage and I think it is toxic positivity to say 'just pull yourself up by the bootstraps' when they were not given any boots to begin with.
Couldn't agree with you more. There is a site 'Jung to Live by' with Stephen and Pauline Richards, who practice depth psychology. Their protocol is very comprehensive; they tie genetics with the various components of a healthy psyche as well as maladaptive complexes that can result in crippling neuroses etc... But how many therapists dig that deep? Not many. Regarding trauma, I don't believe psychotherapy is enough, the trauma needs to be released physically as well as separated from the ego. Society still does not take enough care regarding the developing mind and emotions of children. Since AI is predicted to take over much of the world's labour market, maybe there will now be time to reconnect with nature and invest more consciously in childcare.
Jung is my daddy, lol. Yes, life is quite complicated and rough. We really think we're so advanced, living in the future, but we're not at all. lol. People have Utopian expectations for present day, but it's like bro... WWII was basically yesterday, in the grand scheme of things.
If you want any genuine help these days, with anything; physical or psychological, you essentially have to go on a rogue odyssey. It's been my entire life's journey so far, 'fixing' myself from CPTSD. you do, try, learn, unlearn so many things.
I do have hopes things will improve in the future, for preventing CPTSD & effective healing for it.
Just gotta rewire your entire brain's perception of reality & self, is all. LOL
Yes, it is unbelievable to me, how many people think childhood is irrelevant and it's "just how you are."
the initial molding of your brain & perception of yourself and the world is everything yo
'Mental Health' problems have people collecting benefits as it's an excuse to never work again. It's ridiculous.
We all have 'mental health' to safeguard, just like physical health. Every single one of us experiences stress, anxiety, fear, unhappiness, disappointment, betrayal, crushing blows, loss, sickness, etc, etc.
It's the human condition. Happiness is and always has been fleeting and we learn to accept, experience and recover from episodes in life which bring us down.
However, now we don't have to try any longer or develop strategies to cope and regain a hold. We can wallow, with the pills and a diagnosis.
Anxiety is the new backache and we all have to be kind and understanding. It IS debilitating but human beings over centuries have faced atrocious situations, dreadful lives and survived and thrived. I include myself in that.
We are medicating mood and creating helplessness, and fashioning our own demise.
Life - you have to get on with it. The world keeps turning no matter what, so devising strategies to cope and appreciating we do cope, that we move on, flourish again and survive all the slings and arrows of misfortune is such a strength. We have it in us - but a label and the path of least resistance is an option so many seem to choose.
Very incisive analysis. People are scrolling Tik-Tok, not realizing that they are adopting identities and labels contrived by a committee of psychiatrists in the late 70's, and energetically disseminated by the drug companies.
Boy, does this hit the nail on the head! I know way too many people who are exactly doing this. Now, what in the world could anybody say or show a person, in this state of mind, that will snap them out of it?
That's a serious question.
I am a helper personality. This sort of destruction has baffled me. It is as though they are brain lost. Makes me sad.
Let me know if you have any suggestions to help someone that is doing everything in Dr. McFillin's substack piece. The depressed person that I am caring for doesn't want help and if you try to be prescriptive in anyway (diet, sunshine, etc.) the person feels worse and resents me. I have decided to let go and let God and hope they find their way. It's so sad to watch.
My husband, for just one, doesn't do regulation anything! I am the one and only person who has not given up on him. I feel it my duty to reason with him and most times he goes along. But seriously, if I were not here it would go down hill quickly.
How I approach anything positive with him is just take him into the sun for 20-30 minutes in the morning. I do this for a couple weeks. He starts to feel better. That is when I talk to him about what and why we did/do the morning sun thing. Amazingly the more this happens the easier it is to reasure him I do care and want his health better. (w/o all those pharma pills)
I think some of what happens is the people have been given up on and they give up on themselves as well. It's a rut they just accept. Once they see it doesn't have to be hard, just change, it might work. Especially if not dictated to but sneakyly just happen. Here is a phrase I always hated; "It's for their own good". But it is true.
As for diet, I think anything that isn't fast food and loaded sugar foods (soda drinks) should be 'let it be' and steer to one part carb and one part protein. Then taste starts to change.
I am no pro but have had many who change and just as many who haven't. It is sad to watch self destruction.
Thanks @Loretta for sharing your loving and caring actions that you do to support your husband. I am in total agreement that some people give up entirely maybe because it's safe and easy in lieu of doing something different that could be hard or provoke anxiety. The self destruction of a loved one is very difficult to watch and I hope you and your husband both rise to the challenge and become whole!
This describes my mom to a “T”. Also I was at an appt with a menopause specialist when I started crying about just not feeling great and still feeling the stress of caring for my mom for five years before she passed last year. I told her under no circumstances did I want SSRIs and she still slyly tried to convince me they would help! Honestly.
I had a colleague who brought in a medical note from her shrink stating that she was entitled to miss work for up to 2 weeks "every time she has a depressive episode." But what really qualifies as a "depressive episode"? It would normally just involve her waking up and feeling depressed that day, and then calling out of work. And each time that happened, she claimed she was entitled to 2 weeks of leave. Why have mental health professionals suddenly become the czars of how companies should operate their employee leave policies? And more importantly, why are healthcare professionals encouraging this type of behavior?
I was on a mild SSRI routine for a while and decided to ditch it because it wasn't an improvement from my baseline, which seems relatively low-energy. I never knew what to call the side effect of ceasing the medication, but "brain zaps" seems accurate. An out-of-the-blue couple of seconds of feeling like I'd snapped out of falling into a nap. Thankfully, those faded away after a few weeks, but they sure were weird.
Maintaining or helping others to maintain a state of victimhood is a worldwide malaise. It prevents people diagnosed with depression as per your article moving on because they don’t see this as in their power. It’s the same for Aboriginals and Palestinians, they maintain and we support a state of permanent, entitled, victim hood from which they cannot envision emerging.
That was a long rant. Do call that expertise or personal opinion? I would call it opinion and see part of the problem as opinion gets considered expertise when someone has a degree. I bet your clients annoy you or do you tell them they’re idiots and if they don’t like that they can go elsewhere. After all if they don’t like the way they’re treated what are they going to do about it. They’re mentally ill. No one will listen to them. We agree on two things. One, the medical model is wrong and dangerous. Two, one should do one’s best not to let others (like the MH field) get sovereignty over oneself.
I was depressed for over 20 years and whatever the cause of your depression and the validity of it, once you are on anti depressants it feels like your mind is floating in cotton wool clouds and you become a Zombie, you don't have any personal charisma, you don't have any real feelings anymore for yourself, or anyone else, you are cold, emotionless and uncaring of others, you get up, drift through each day and go to bed in this mindless, Zombie like existence, happy, yes, I would call it happy, but you can't be creative or inspired, because your motions are suppressed by the tablets or medication you are taking and it is a bastard to break free and become what you once were, before anti depressants.
After 20 years, I reached a point in time where my life had improved for the better and I decided I wanted to come off the depressive tablets, which my doctor warned me not to do - but I'm not very good at doing what I'm told, I refused to have any Covid vaccines for much the same reason and I have my free salt water cure which I hope all of you have too now, for your next viral infection, but if not, ask me and I'll post it here - you know, there is "one" in every crowd and that's me.
There was a guy who was on the same tablets as me in America and his Psych had him on a stronger dose than me and then one day this "Quack" stopped his anti-depressive tablets dead and the guy went off and bought himself a rifle, scope and a lot of bullets, went up a tower and killed a lot of people in the square below - when he went up before the Beak (Judge) he was asked why he did what he did.
By then he had come off the effects of the anti depressant tablets he was on and he said he had no idea, because he was a peaceable guy and would not hurt a fly, but he got sentenced to life in prison - but I know why, it was because his Psych took him off the tablets dead, without any slow down period for his mind to adapt to not being on the anti depressant tablets anymore - which I taught myself how to do and I share it with you here:
Reduce the tablets you are on by 1/4 of a tablet, once a week, until you are off them altogether - if you feel yourself slipping, go back on the full dose immediately and try again a few weeks later and eventually, you will be able to get off them altogether, without fucking up your mind in the process, like the guy above and what he did.
You will be very emotionally fragile and expect that, but you will start to live your life again and take pleasure in the simple things you see about you and the people you meet - I got off my anti depressant tablets in 2012 and I've been off them ever since and I'm a mentally tough guy, but I still burst into tears for no reason and I like to think I am able to show my feelings easier and I'm not ashamed of myself when I do, I think I have a gift, because of it.
Praise the Lord. That was a very uplifting story. I guess a person just has to have their own time-line of enough is enough. Glad you aren't having any of it anymore.
Thank you.
What salt water are you refering to?
I use table salt with iodine in it, which I buy in bulk from my local supermarket, but it does not matter which salt you use - oh - and use clean water of course, too. Sea Salt might be best, if nothing else offers.
There is no cure for the next "injected" illness which you get. Previous vaccines deliberately stripped your natural immunity and this time you might/will die. My salt water cure is for a viral illness, if you get one of those and not a vaccinated, injected, illness.
Mix one heaped teaspoon of salt in a mug of clean warm water. Go into your bathroom and swallow two mouthfuls to sort out anything which has got down there, then cup a hand, pour some of the mix into your cupped hand and sniff or snort the remaining mugful up your nose, in stages until all is gone. If you have a burning sensation you have a virus and the salt water is killing the virus infection in your head. It will burn for a few minutes (but won't hurt you otherwise) and then the pain will go away, so when it does, take some toilet paper off the toilet roll and blow your nose out in it, then flush that away, washing your hands afterwards. Do this simple cure 3 times a day, or more often for a quicker result, until when you flush, it feels like you are flushing with plain water and no pain is felt - job done. I have been doing this simple cure for over 35 years and in that time I have never been ill from any virus or more lately, being shedded on by the vaccinated who now make up 97% of the population here, so we are told. The salt water goes throughout your nasal passages, behind your eyes, ears, brain bulb brain stem - where for my money, Long Covid likes to stay and when you get an infection in your head, there is nothing to stop it becoming, for the sake of example, Covid, the disease, which flows down into your body in the one liter of snot or mucus our head produces daily, the engine oil of your body - if flows down the back of your neck unnoticed because it is and always has been a lifetime thing - the top of your throat is at a point half way up your ears and not at mouth level, as you will quickly discover with my free salt water cure. I've never had a vaccine because I've never needed one, in other words, why reinvent the wheel when you have an unbeatable wheel to run with, in the first place - so in simplistic terms, say no to all vaccines and never have another one - vaccines are a mug's game for the mugs who do as they are told - don't let that mug be you in future - is my advice: Injected vaccines (Gene Therapy Injections) will deliberately kill you. Salt= I use Supermarket bought Table Salt with Iodine in it, but any Salt is OK, depending on the best sort you can buy.
The latest next cure is Bill Gates Flu Pills, which go down into your stomach and then into your inner workings - what has that got to do with a nasal infection - beats me. Send them to me in the post, in the rubbish bin they go, quick as a flash. Why reinvent the wheel, when my wheel above is unbroken and continues to work well, for me. Trump is spending 500 Million to find a one vaccine cure for all viral infections, this one is free.
I don't doubt the annoying victim mentality many seem to have and that you've described so well (seems to be women more than men that adopt this whole mental illness identity used as a defense for everything imaginable) but it doesn't help us answer the fundamental question of whether depression is biological or 'psychological', which I consider to be absolutely fundamental. The hellscape that is the mental health industry is something people get caught up in only once they have an existing problem. People in good health won't go anywhere near it, won't seek 'help' and won't be susceptible to any of the mind games played by actors within this industry.
The psychologist Dorothy Rowe said adopting the biological model of depression was convenient because it meant you didn't have to take responsibility for anything. The flipside of that weird sentiment is a radical form of self responsibility that lets every toxic thing we are subjected to (and there are so many now!) that damages humans off the hook and puts the onus on the individual to improve their lot purely by willpower and whatever absurd suggestions people like her recommended (she suggested mimicking the behavior of happy people which still seems a popular idea) . This is approximately insane, not to mention utterly abusive.
If the sum of your knowledge about biology comes from psychiatry then you'll throw the baby out with the bathwater. A look at the literature through a different philosophical lens paints a different picture. Depression and anxiety are problems of metabolic disturbance, problems of energy. The learned helplessness model used to test anti-depressant compounds is a good demonstration of this, essentially a complete exhaustion. It's reversal with active thyroid is good proof of an energy suppression (SSRI's 'work' by mimicry of our natural hormones).
Look at the publications on 'covid' injections- a startling increase in the risk of various mental disorders. But the mental illness industry has successfully separated 'mental health' from the rest of our health, so to many it seems strange that injecting toxic substances into people could ever cause depression, anxiety, psychosis. It isn't, when you stop believing the brain is somehow isolated from the rest of the body and plays no role in emotion and wellbeing.
A purely psycho-social model of depression is just more psychology. Nobody thinks their way into depression so nobody can think their way out of it. These problems are caused by environments that damage people's health in a multitude of ways- exposure to inappropriate pharmaceuticals and 'tests', industrial pollution, a degraded food supply, broken family lives, demolished communities, authoritarian schooling, demoralizing employment, maternal stress, health of the parents at the time of conception.
Time to ditch this cancerous dualism that psychology has thrust on us that tells that our attitudes are easily exchangeable rather than being a reflection of our health, that our feelings are something to largely ignore when they are prime indicators of things going on in our body. Biological studies show us that it is the high metabolic rate that provides resistance to stress, to aging and makes us highly creative and happy beings. Psychologists should be relegated to empathetic listening and social critiques otherwise they are just running a distraction for the people who are systematically poisoning the population.
A model of depression etc that is dependent on health provides the opportunity to consider everything that could negatively affect it and everything that could positively support it: our relationships, economic matters, our homes, our food, our work and intelligent supplementation of hormones, vitamins, light and safe drugs (there are a few!) as therapy, where necessary.
Very thought provoking. It does all make sense.
I do think some has to do with 'hard wire' personality types as well.
I read many years ago (and i have tested it. i am pretty good at guessing which order a person was born, by spending 5 minutes with them in conversation) that order of birth played a large part on how personality is developed. Oddly, it was pretty accurate.
My point being is, yes I think nutrition and physical chemistry should be the first to explore in any mental depression. But being a fighter or strong personality does make a difference as to what and if you are willing to do to feel better.
Even strong personalities get exhausted sometimes, but it never keeps them down. Quitters have always been 'victumhood' and like being there it seems.
It is such a big can to open!
Thank you for your thoughtful posting.
Historically, people understood that people would be down after the death of a loved one, people wore black in varying quantities depending on proximity. A wife for instance would wear black for a full year, but more distant relatives would wear less or for a shorter period. This let people know to be there for them.
But today most people in society help push the pills, instead of being supportive.
Very well thought out and written. I knew this whole mental health crisis was just another pharma scam but never really thought about how it was perpetuated. I saw how it negatively affected my mom’s life after they put her on Prozac after her divorce. Then unqualified people started stacking more antidepressants on her in her assisted living residence because she “presented as being depressed”. I think these pills dramatically accelerated, if not caused her Alzheimer’s. This article provided many insights on how the medical complex created a whole new group of lifelong customers. Well done.
Same story! They aren’t “isolated” or “bored” or “adjusting to a new living arrangement” or “adjusting to losing their independence” they just need more more stabilizers. 🤦🏼♀️
I do think there may be a biological basis for depression. My mother in-law an identical twin was sensitive, insecure and depressed her whole life. Her identical twin was the exact opposite and very physically robust also. She said twins compete in the womb for nutrients and she believes she thrived at the expense of her sister. So maybe epigenetic changes resulted in a susceptibility. Now pair that with a child who was treated as worthless, and brutally terrorized from the get-go, where they never developed a sense of self, their nervous system is frazzled to the point where they can't focus, and the information they were fed from the Gods, their parents was soul destroying. They really are victims. I don't think psychotherapy is enough undo the damage and I think it is toxic positivity to say 'just pull yourself up by the bootstraps' when they were not given any boots to begin with.
The psychotherapy really is missing the mark on both parties.
those who are experiencing normal humanity VS those experienced complex PTSD
How much is the psychotherapy really aiding at all? What a mass tragedy and disaster.
And it doesn't have to be this way.
Couldn't agree with you more. There is a site 'Jung to Live by' with Stephen and Pauline Richards, who practice depth psychology. Their protocol is very comprehensive; they tie genetics with the various components of a healthy psyche as well as maladaptive complexes that can result in crippling neuroses etc... But how many therapists dig that deep? Not many. Regarding trauma, I don't believe psychotherapy is enough, the trauma needs to be released physically as well as separated from the ego. Society still does not take enough care regarding the developing mind and emotions of children. Since AI is predicted to take over much of the world's labour market, maybe there will now be time to reconnect with nature and invest more consciously in childcare.
Yes! :)
Jung is my daddy, lol. Yes, life is quite complicated and rough. We really think we're so advanced, living in the future, but we're not at all. lol. People have Utopian expectations for present day, but it's like bro... WWII was basically yesterday, in the grand scheme of things.
If you want any genuine help these days, with anything; physical or psychological, you essentially have to go on a rogue odyssey. It's been my entire life's journey so far, 'fixing' myself from CPTSD. you do, try, learn, unlearn so many things.
I do have hopes things will improve in the future, for preventing CPTSD & effective healing for it.
Just gotta rewire your entire brain's perception of reality & self, is all. LOL
Yes, it is unbelievable to me, how many people think childhood is irrelevant and it's "just how you are."
the initial molding of your brain & perception of yourself and the world is everything yo
Yep, nurture is crucial, look at plants in poor soil without sun and water they wither.
Brilliant piece.
'Mental Health' problems have people collecting benefits as it's an excuse to never work again. It's ridiculous.
We all have 'mental health' to safeguard, just like physical health. Every single one of us experiences stress, anxiety, fear, unhappiness, disappointment, betrayal, crushing blows, loss, sickness, etc, etc.
It's the human condition. Happiness is and always has been fleeting and we learn to accept, experience and recover from episodes in life which bring us down.
However, now we don't have to try any longer or develop strategies to cope and regain a hold. We can wallow, with the pills and a diagnosis.
Anxiety is the new backache and we all have to be kind and understanding. It IS debilitating but human beings over centuries have faced atrocious situations, dreadful lives and survived and thrived. I include myself in that.
We are medicating mood and creating helplessness, and fashioning our own demise.
Life - you have to get on with it. The world keeps turning no matter what, so devising strategies to cope and appreciating we do cope, that we move on, flourish again and survive all the slings and arrows of misfortune is such a strength. We have it in us - but a label and the path of least resistance is an option so many seem to choose.
Agree
Genius. Thank you for laying it out so comprehensively, Dr. McFillin.
Very incisive analysis. People are scrolling Tik-Tok, not realizing that they are adopting identities and labels contrived by a committee of psychiatrists in the late 70's, and energetically disseminated by the drug companies.
Boy, does this hit the nail on the head! I know way too many people who are exactly doing this. Now, what in the world could anybody say or show a person, in this state of mind, that will snap them out of it?
That's a serious question.
I am a helper personality. This sort of destruction has baffled me. It is as though they are brain lost. Makes me sad.
Let me know if you have any suggestions to help someone that is doing everything in Dr. McFillin's substack piece. The depressed person that I am caring for doesn't want help and if you try to be prescriptive in anyway (diet, sunshine, etc.) the person feels worse and resents me. I have decided to let go and let God and hope they find their way. It's so sad to watch.
My husband, for just one, doesn't do regulation anything! I am the one and only person who has not given up on him. I feel it my duty to reason with him and most times he goes along. But seriously, if I were not here it would go down hill quickly.
How I approach anything positive with him is just take him into the sun for 20-30 minutes in the morning. I do this for a couple weeks. He starts to feel better. That is when I talk to him about what and why we did/do the morning sun thing. Amazingly the more this happens the easier it is to reasure him I do care and want his health better. (w/o all those pharma pills)
I think some of what happens is the people have been given up on and they give up on themselves as well. It's a rut they just accept. Once they see it doesn't have to be hard, just change, it might work. Especially if not dictated to but sneakyly just happen. Here is a phrase I always hated; "It's for their own good". But it is true.
As for diet, I think anything that isn't fast food and loaded sugar foods (soda drinks) should be 'let it be' and steer to one part carb and one part protein. Then taste starts to change.
I am no pro but have had many who change and just as many who haven't. It is sad to watch self destruction.
Thanks @Loretta for sharing your loving and caring actions that you do to support your husband. I am in total agreement that some people give up entirely maybe because it's safe and easy in lieu of doing something different that could be hard or provoke anxiety. The self destruction of a loved one is very difficult to watch and I hope you and your husband both rise to the challenge and become whole!
This describes my mom to a “T”. Also I was at an appt with a menopause specialist when I started crying about just not feeling great and still feeling the stress of caring for my mom for five years before she passed last year. I told her under no circumstances did I want SSRIs and she still slyly tried to convince me they would help! Honestly.
Try CBD oil next time.
I had a colleague who brought in a medical note from her shrink stating that she was entitled to miss work for up to 2 weeks "every time she has a depressive episode." But what really qualifies as a "depressive episode"? It would normally just involve her waking up and feeling depressed that day, and then calling out of work. And each time that happened, she claimed she was entitled to 2 weeks of leave. Why have mental health professionals suddenly become the czars of how companies should operate their employee leave policies? And more importantly, why are healthcare professionals encouraging this type of behavior?
Exactly!
WOW!!!
I was on a mild SSRI routine for a while and decided to ditch it because it wasn't an improvement from my baseline, which seems relatively low-energy. I never knew what to call the side effect of ceasing the medication, but "brain zaps" seems accurate. An out-of-the-blue couple of seconds of feeling like I'd snapped out of falling into a nap. Thankfully, those faded away after a few weeks, but they sure were weird.
Maintaining or helping others to maintain a state of victimhood is a worldwide malaise. It prevents people diagnosed with depression as per your article moving on because they don’t see this as in their power. It’s the same for Aboriginals and Palestinians, they maintain and we support a state of permanent, entitled, victim hood from which they cannot envision emerging.
That was a long rant. Do call that expertise or personal opinion? I would call it opinion and see part of the problem as opinion gets considered expertise when someone has a degree. I bet your clients annoy you or do you tell them they’re idiots and if they don’t like that they can go elsewhere. After all if they don’t like the way they’re treated what are they going to do about it. They’re mentally ill. No one will listen to them. We agree on two things. One, the medical model is wrong and dangerous. Two, one should do one’s best not to let others (like the MH field) get sovereignty over oneself.
Spot on!