Doc I don't know if you saw this, but the MAHA website is crowd sourcing nominations for different positions. I think it has closed, but you should throw your hat into the ring or at least check it out. https://discourse.nomineesforthepeople.com/c/health/7
Who knows what will come of this but it's not nothing. God Bless.
It starts with birth. Women’s bodies are divinely designed to grow and birth our babies in power and in pleasure. Every part of the American hospital birth machine deliberately strips a woman of her connection to her own body, to her own deep knowing. Their system is set up to create lifelong dependency upon pharmaceuticals and “experts” in white coats. A mother disconnected from her own intuition will operate in such fear that she is almost guaranteed to comply with anything doctors tell her to do. Over and over again.
In order to create real change within American medicine, it has to start with women, the mothers themselves, fiercely reclaiming their own autonomy and authority in how they give birth.
Having birthed three children. The first in the hospital where I was given drugs without informed consent, and was physically restrained, held down and forced onto my back to push my baby out, the third I had in my own bedroom at home in peace. I can tell you which experience I found empowering. Reclaim birth!!
Wow, that was tough to listen to but we all know it's true. I think we can all feel that something has changed in the mindset of people, how they deal with problems & stresses, when not getting what they want out of life... Or out of an election. We have become self absorbed and live in a time where there is no objective truth. Whatever we want is truth, even when science, evidence, numbers disprove it. When you have medical and psychological doctors prevented from even questioning a child's desire to chemically and physically change to the opposite sex, and you have social media/ tech, education systems, even government entities preventing truth from being shared, that's a problem. We all feel it, we have seen it. We see unhinged people on our social media sites protesting Trump's win in the most bizarre ways and wonder how these people can even live in a normal world. the scary thing comes when we find out some of them are our teachers, our counselors, our journalists, our parents, our actors in Hollywood... Government lies to us, big pharma and it's research entities lie to us, big food lies to us, our education system lies to us, social media/tech lies to us.
This battle is real, it is huge, it is ultimately in the end a spiritual battle. It's really always been a spiritual battle in every generation since time began. the tactics have been different, but in the end, always there is harm to people, to families, to people groups and nations. Read the Bible. It's all in there. God's Word is Truth. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Change can come when we turn to God. The world and our nation have been drifting away from God and Truth but true believers still exist world wide and all is not hopeless with God and the gospel of Jesus Christ who is the way the truth and the life! Seek and you will find.
I do feel there is a grass roots effort to take back our health. Local organic farming produces vegetables and grains. Meat is so expensive now, leading to less consumption. The wine industry is worried about the new generations sober movement. People are making their own bread products to reduce intake of preservatives and enjoy good nourishing food.
What a fabulous, albeit sobering letter to Mr. Kennedy, one that highlights the challenges the American people are facing, and that will prevent future generations from ever thriving.
Humans are naturally resilient, if we allow them to develop the inherent skills that come with being an adaptable species.
However, as you mention so succinctly, for a variety of reasons these skills have been prevented from being developed, and so the opportunistic windows of neurophysiological development that have served us so well in the past can no longer do so.
The health of America depends not only on fixing the food supply, which is critically important, it also depends on the re-introduction of resilience as not only a necessary but also a worthy characteristic to foster.
If this doesn't also become a priority we will never end this ongoing reliance on pharmaceuticals to dampen natural emotions that have served us for millennia. We should not be pathologising being human.
Dr. McFillin - with this article and your prior one - you have hit the nail on the head. My guess is that is why we have so many "failure to launch" young adults. they have never learned resiliency in life - protected by well-meaning parents (and still protected at 20+years). Parents were misled that they could not trust their instincts, and that their kids should never experience negative emotions/experiences. then to see these attitudes/behaviors demonstrated on campuses and in the MSM when things don't go the way they like... No wonder those who actually DO deal with life with its ups and downs walked away from "current" approaches. they wanted to be empowered by themselves - not told they are a victim.
Hi Lee. I'm off the benzodiazepine but have to wait for more healing before starting the taper off the antidepressant. If you are looking for a good resource to help guide your family member I would strongly recommend The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines by Mark Horowitz and David Taylor. I think this book offers sound advice in deprescribing antidepressants, benzodiazepines, z-drugs, as well as gabapentenoids. This book can be purchased on Amazon. Also you may want to tell your family member to look up Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring on YouTube. His services are expensive but he offers a lot of free content on his YouTube station. Many people, myself included can not tolerate tapers that recommend a person cut 25% of their dose every few weeks until off and unfortunately this is what often happens in our mainstream medical system.
Mr. Kennedy is going to be overwhelmed at first but I think this is something that he will take up eventually. All in good time! We have to get him confirmed first though. Not everyone can see how important it is to do that.
Thank you for this beautiful letter. It hits home with so many.
As a longtime administrative professional in the legal field, I offer some thoughts on your open letter: all good points and arguments but using five or ten times more words than are necessary. It seems slightly insulting to Mr. Kennedy as you are speaking to someone who already knows most of the points you are bringing to bear, and again, it's length suggests you assume he has the leisure time to read it in its entirety. Besides this letter requiring a good check of time to read, it is challenging to seriously consider your main point when so much page space is taken up with educating the reader on your supporting narratives, I think the urgency of your main point gets lost due to the unreasonable length of this letter. If you and Bobby Kennedy were already familiar with each other and communicated regularly, this might be something he would read with interest, knowing it's author. In my opinion, it is way, way, way too long to expect him to seriously read. Certainly too long for an initial introduction of yourself or your concerns.
That said, although Mr. Kennedy may not appreciate it fully, I found your points accurate and your arguments compelling. It was just way too long.
I am working in a fantasy series where my characters face profound suffering and come through to become light bearers in a world of darkness. In a way that is my response to this profound loss in understanding of the potential in human experiences. I started writing when my oldest son faced his first real challenge and wanted to throw up his hands and walk away. I figured a hero who has to struggle might help.
While this is most acutely obvious in the spheres of mental health it extends FAR FAR beyond that, reaching into virtually ALL aspects of our daily lives: education, religion, sexual relations, diet, you name it.
I am not sure that he has the patience, the flexibility or the literary acumen to digest it all, toss it around in his head and come up with various pros and cons and do's and don'ts. It has to do with my perception that there is a tendency of people on the right wing to distrust others who are suggesting more flexible ways of thinking about things that challenges their ideas. Let us know what happens.
I hope it does. I am a person that has had an injury from psychotropic pharmaceuticals that has derailed my life as I knew it. I'm not sure what percentage of people will have these types of "adverse reactions" but it does concern me how when I've spoken to what has happened to me I have met so much resistance and have been told on numerous occasions among other things that I am "pill shaming" people.
Deborah, were you able to get off of them? I have a family member who needs to get off them. Don't know where to start. Have seen how bad cold turkey is... Not sure if psych doc is up on how to slowly wean him off safely. He needs to work and take care of his family at the same time. We all believed the lies...I'm afraid for him😢
Doc I don't know if you saw this, but the MAHA website is crowd sourcing nominations for different positions. I think it has closed, but you should throw your hat into the ring or at least check it out. https://discourse.nomineesforthepeople.com/c/health/7
Who knows what will come of this but it's not nothing. God Bless.
It starts with birth. Women’s bodies are divinely designed to grow and birth our babies in power and in pleasure. Every part of the American hospital birth machine deliberately strips a woman of her connection to her own body, to her own deep knowing. Their system is set up to create lifelong dependency upon pharmaceuticals and “experts” in white coats. A mother disconnected from her own intuition will operate in such fear that she is almost guaranteed to comply with anything doctors tell her to do. Over and over again.
In order to create real change within American medicine, it has to start with women, the mothers themselves, fiercely reclaiming their own autonomy and authority in how they give birth.
Having birthed three children. The first in the hospital where I was given drugs without informed consent, and was physically restrained, held down and forced onto my back to push my baby out, the third I had in my own bedroom at home in peace. I can tell you which experience I found empowering. Reclaim birth!!
Bless you Dr. McFillin. I can't remember anything that has better expressed my feelings with regard to our families' collective pain. Sincere thanks
This resonates. Thank you. I also hope you can be part of Kennedy’s team. They are looking fur bold leadership and you are exactly that.
Wow, that was tough to listen to but we all know it's true. I think we can all feel that something has changed in the mindset of people, how they deal with problems & stresses, when not getting what they want out of life... Or out of an election. We have become self absorbed and live in a time where there is no objective truth. Whatever we want is truth, even when science, evidence, numbers disprove it. When you have medical and psychological doctors prevented from even questioning a child's desire to chemically and physically change to the opposite sex, and you have social media/ tech, education systems, even government entities preventing truth from being shared, that's a problem. We all feel it, we have seen it. We see unhinged people on our social media sites protesting Trump's win in the most bizarre ways and wonder how these people can even live in a normal world. the scary thing comes when we find out some of them are our teachers, our counselors, our journalists, our parents, our actors in Hollywood... Government lies to us, big pharma and it's research entities lie to us, big food lies to us, our education system lies to us, social media/tech lies to us.
This battle is real, it is huge, it is ultimately in the end a spiritual battle. It's really always been a spiritual battle in every generation since time began. the tactics have been different, but in the end, always there is harm to people, to families, to people groups and nations. Read the Bible. It's all in there. God's Word is Truth. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Change can come when we turn to God. The world and our nation have been drifting away from God and Truth but true believers still exist world wide and all is not hopeless with God and the gospel of Jesus Christ who is the way the truth and the life! Seek and you will find.
I do feel there is a grass roots effort to take back our health. Local organic farming produces vegetables and grains. Meat is so expensive now, leading to less consumption. The wine industry is worried about the new generations sober movement. People are making their own bread products to reduce intake of preservatives and enjoy good nourishing food.
What a fabulous, albeit sobering letter to Mr. Kennedy, one that highlights the challenges the American people are facing, and that will prevent future generations from ever thriving.
Humans are naturally resilient, if we allow them to develop the inherent skills that come with being an adaptable species.
However, as you mention so succinctly, for a variety of reasons these skills have been prevented from being developed, and so the opportunistic windows of neurophysiological development that have served us so well in the past can no longer do so.
The health of America depends not only on fixing the food supply, which is critically important, it also depends on the re-introduction of resilience as not only a necessary but also a worthy characteristic to foster.
If this doesn't also become a priority we will never end this ongoing reliance on pharmaceuticals to dampen natural emotions that have served us for millennia. We should not be pathologising being human.
Dr. McFillin - with this article and your prior one - you have hit the nail on the head. My guess is that is why we have so many "failure to launch" young adults. they have never learned resiliency in life - protected by well-meaning parents (and still protected at 20+years). Parents were misled that they could not trust their instincts, and that their kids should never experience negative emotions/experiences. then to see these attitudes/behaviors demonstrated on campuses and in the MSM when things don't go the way they like... No wonder those who actually DO deal with life with its ups and downs walked away from "current" approaches. they wanted to be empowered by themselves - not told they are a victim.
Hi Lee. I'm off the benzodiazepine but have to wait for more healing before starting the taper off the antidepressant. If you are looking for a good resource to help guide your family member I would strongly recommend The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines by Mark Horowitz and David Taylor. I think this book offers sound advice in deprescribing antidepressants, benzodiazepines, z-drugs, as well as gabapentenoids. This book can be purchased on Amazon. Also you may want to tell your family member to look up Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring on YouTube. His services are expensive but he offers a lot of free content on his YouTube station. Many people, myself included can not tolerate tapers that recommend a person cut 25% of their dose every few weeks until off and unfortunately this is what often happens in our mainstream medical system.
Mr. Kennedy is going to be overwhelmed at first but I think this is something that he will take up eventually. All in good time! We have to get him confirmed first though. Not everyone can see how important it is to do that.
Thank you for this beautiful letter. It hits home with so many.
As a longtime administrative professional in the legal field, I offer some thoughts on your open letter: all good points and arguments but using five or ten times more words than are necessary. It seems slightly insulting to Mr. Kennedy as you are speaking to someone who already knows most of the points you are bringing to bear, and again, it's length suggests you assume he has the leisure time to read it in its entirety. Besides this letter requiring a good check of time to read, it is challenging to seriously consider your main point when so much page space is taken up with educating the reader on your supporting narratives, I think the urgency of your main point gets lost due to the unreasonable length of this letter. If you and Bobby Kennedy were already familiar with each other and communicated regularly, this might be something he would read with interest, knowing it's author. In my opinion, it is way, way, way too long to expect him to seriously read. Certainly too long for an initial introduction of yourself or your concerns.
That said, although Mr. Kennedy may not appreciate it fully, I found your points accurate and your arguments compelling. It was just way too long.
I am working in a fantasy series where my characters face profound suffering and come through to become light bearers in a world of darkness. In a way that is my response to this profound loss in understanding of the potential in human experiences. I started writing when my oldest son faced his first real challenge and wanted to throw up his hands and walk away. I figured a hero who has to struggle might help.
Well said and well worth sharing widely.
While this is most acutely obvious in the spheres of mental health it extends FAR FAR beyond that, reaching into virtually ALL aspects of our daily lives: education, religion, sexual relations, diet, you name it.
I hope you will expand upon it
This is a good letter but I am skeptical that Mr Kennedy will read it and understand it, and if he does I doubt he will agree and act on it. .
Why so skeptical?
I am not sure that he has the patience, the flexibility or the literary acumen to digest it all, toss it around in his head and come up with various pros and cons and do's and don'ts. It has to do with my perception that there is a tendency of people on the right wing to distrust others who are suggesting more flexible ways of thinking about things that challenges their ideas. Let us know what happens.
You realize Kennedy is a lifelong liberal right?
why do you think Kennedy is right wing?
Did you actually send this letter to R.F. Kennedy Jr.?
I tried.. not sure if it will get in his hands. If we forward along he may see it
I hope it does. I am a person that has had an injury from psychotropic pharmaceuticals that has derailed my life as I knew it. I'm not sure what percentage of people will have these types of "adverse reactions" but it does concern me how when I've spoken to what has happened to me I have met so much resistance and have been told on numerous occasions among other things that I am "pill shaming" people.
Deborah, were you able to get off of them? I have a family member who needs to get off them. Don't know where to start. Have seen how bad cold turkey is... Not sure if psych doc is up on how to slowly wean him off safely. He needs to work and take care of his family at the same time. We all believed the lies...I'm afraid for him😢
I just shared it with rfks substack, on x and Facebook. Hopefully it will get to him if we all do that.