Yes people can have a chemical imbalance in their brains. MSM comes out with a news story last week sayingā¦ oh by the wayā¦ Thereās no such thing as a chemical imbalance in a human brain. That is just another lie from the media. Consider the source!
Can we agree that when somebody drinks alcohol, smokes weed, or does any type of drug, that there is a chemical imbalance in their brain? Yes, the brain is flooded with endorphins, serotonin, dopamine! The effect of whatever you have consumed, affects your brain.
To suggest that humans do not have a chemical imbalance, is preposterous. You can find chemicals in the food we eat, the products that we use on our skin, the water that we drink and shower in, and in many other ways. Global corporations put specific chemicals in their products, so that you will crave them and become addicted to them.
This is how they have been controlling us, poisoning us, and how they have been slowly dumbing us down. They have been fine-tuning the chemical and social engineering for years. They use drugs and chemicals to confuse us, to make us docile, and now - to even change our gender.
I 100% believe that we have a chemical imbalance in our brains, and some more than others. With some, that chemical imbalance DOES cause depression. Severe depression. Itās all part of the design. They created the SSRIs, to further control us.
I DO believe many people have a chemical imbalance in their brains, that causes depression. But I DO NOT believe that SSRIs are the answer. To suggest that somebody with depression, itās not chemically imbalanced, is the final blow to someoneās sanity who has been trying to make it through life without killing themselves every day.
Living with depression is one of the most horrific lifestyles that people have to endure, and if someone has not personally experienced it, they have no idea what that person is going through. After many years of suffering through depression, I finally found a treatment that works.
Ketamine Infusions!
Ketamine infusions work by flooding the brain with glutomate, which helps neurons to grow new connections. This treatment actually helps to rebuild your brain. Hereās a brief video of how it works.
Of course this treatment is not covered by insurance, because they donāt want people to be well. They want you to take pills. For anybody out there who suffering from depression, and has been sold out to the pharmaceutical companies, please look into ketamine infusions.
This treatment has changed my life completely. The only reason Iām posting this, is because I was replying to another post, and it made sense for me to make my own post. When I saw the news about the this last week, I just shook my head, and my mother laughed out loud.
More importantlyā¦ Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior, and I had to get right with Him before I started my ketamine infusions. He is first and foremost in my life, and has allowed me to experience relief from my depression through this treatment. I give God all the glory for helping me to have a new life.
The treatment works, but I also have to work at my relationship with God. I go to a Bible believing church, read my Bible daily, and attend a weekly Bible study. Being around other believers helps lift you up and through the dark times. Yes the treatment is not perfect, and we need to be able to have an infrastructure in place to help us when things go wrong. But thatās with anything in life.
OK so bring on your comments, your questions, your distain, or your hopefulness! Which will it be?
Here is the truth about Mental Disorders:
There are no definitive laboratory tests for any so-called mental disorders.
No biological markers, saliva tests, brain scans, genetic assays, nothing.
And along with that:
All so-called mental disorders are concocted, named, labeled, described, and categorized by a committee of psychiatrists, from menus of human behaviors. Psychiatry's big secret has been slowly bleeding out into public consciousness for the past several years.
For years, even psychiatrists have been blowing the whistle on this hazy crazy process of āresearch.ā
Even Dr. Allen Frances who was perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America at the timeā¦ā (New York Times, 1994) admitted:
The ever expanding number of mental diseases is driven by a pharmaceutical industry that the American Psychiatry Association is in lockstep with.
Medical science, and disease-research in particular, rests on the notion that you can make a diagnosis backed up by lab tests. If you canāt produce lab tests, youāre spinning fantasies.
Dr. Russell Barkley, clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, sums up all of psychiatry:
That logic is no logic at all. That science is no science at all. Psychiatry is NOT science.
So, what is it then?
Psychiatry serves its master; the government. In Bolshevik Soviet Union any dissonant speaking contrary to the powers that be, were institutionalized in mental hospitals where they were injected with drugs and sphincter probed as a form of dehumanizing punishment.
Dr. Francis said this about Psychiatry's DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders):
Dragons! We're talking about Peter, Paul, and Mary's "Puff The Magic Dragon"!
Anybody that puffs the dragon (psychiatry) is out of their minds. The whole profession is bullshit that serves fascist governments and its accomplice, the pharmaceutical industry! Look out. That's precisely where we are heading.
The government has co-opted and weaponized the field Psychiatry. It is used by governments around the world to imprison political dissidents and with the case of the FBI to manufacture crimes.
Psychological disorders are caused by a combination of factors due to toxins in the environment and genetics. Just as allergies are formed as a result of imbalances, so are psychological disorders. Psychotropic drugs only exasperate the disorder and eventually cause greater imbalances.
The whole field of psychiatry is really a sham to keep people doped up on psychotropic drugs for profit. These are not my words, but from leading psychiatrists themselves. Read on to find out. These same drugs also compromise the immune system resulting in disease formation, including cancer.
Fuck you.
I have had to live this last year seeing my wife battle schizophrenia. Shit is fucking real and you my good sir, are an agent of the devil for attempting to make light of the entire field. It is absolutely real and not made up, and there is absolutely physical proof. All of your "ketamine" infusions and alternate mushrooms is all hokey pokey bull shit that does not work.
My sincere condolences to your wife's affliction. My wife suffers from anxiety that has had crippling effects. Her hands start going numb and she has had to pull over on the side of the road when driving several times. She has been hospitalized for it.
To her big surprise was to learn that for her the anxiety was psychosomatic. She discovered this. What has remedied her 'behavioral condition' was (1) to keep a finger pulse/oxidation indicator with her to help her be aware of it. It acts as a crutch for her and helps to give her confidence. (2) She does the Wim Hof breathing exercises to overcome oncoming anxiety. It's now very manageable and she doesn't use any Allopathic drugs that only mask symptoms. She also uses CBD oil as an aid for sleeping. Sleep is very important.
Telling me to fuck off is shooting the messenger. Go tell that to the leading psychiatrists in the world who are quoted in my post.
I never said "schizophrenia" didn't exist or wasn't real. You said this. All so-called mental disorders are concocted, named, labeled, described, and categorized by a committee of psychiatrists, from menus of human behaviors. The same is basically true for diseases. The difference here is there are no definitive laboratory tests for any so-called mental disorders. No biological markers, saliva tests, brain scans, genetic assays, nothing. This is an incontrovertible fact.
It's 'human behavior' they are describing, which are symptoms to something that is causing it.
ok
I'm curious as to what are you/she are doing to treat and remedy her affliction? Does anxiety have a relationship to schizophrenia? I think it might. A long time ago, I had a girlfriend who invited me to Thanksgiving. Her mom was clearly stressed by the event and had an 'episode' of delusional rationality after her other daughter was taken to the hospital for being out in the desert sun too long at her mom's pool. It was quite extraordinary for me because I was falsely accused of causing this to happen. I was dumbfounded. I recall my girlfriend saying to me -- "So, I guess you met my mom." She smiled at me. I knew then.
Maybe the Wim Hof breathing exercises can help.
Thanks for your positive reply, and providing information with your own situation. Itās when we are able to talk amongst each other about whatās happening, that helps people to find solutions. Thatās what this post is about. Finding solutions.
Iām not making light of anything. I currently understand that yes there are chemical imbalance and problems in peoples lives. Apparently you didnāt read my post. I have not in any way try to denigrate anybodyās illnesses. I have suffered myself my entire life.
My comments are based on SSRIs, and medication that I feel donāt work for everybody. Me in particular. Ketamine infusions are not recommended for people with schizophrenia. Sometimes those treatments can actually heighten those thoughts and feelings.
I have an aunt that has schizophrenia, it is real, and yes itās very debilitating. Her and my uncle have been dealing with it for years. I have no idea what itās like to have schizophrenia, because I donāt have it. But from the research I have done, and the people that I know in my life that I have it itās been very debilitating.
Just because Iām suggesting ketamine for somebody with treatment resistant depression, doesnāt mean that I am discarding somebody who has schizophrenia. These are two different mental illnesses.
Iām sorry that you have to deal with what you are dealing with. I know from experience, that itās the people around you that have to deal with the illness as well. And itās very hard on them. I hope someday soon theyāll come up with some type of a treatment that will actually work for people with schizophrenia, So you and your wife can both have some type of peace in your life.
God bless you and have a great night.
You were fine op, I just got mad at the post suggesting that all of psychiatry is meant to enslave us, when there is a very real and present need for it, and it is not actually meant to enslave, but try to save with our current limited understanding of the human condition.
Got it! Having a mental illness sucks, but to be perfectly honest, I think it sucks more for people who have to live with those people. You have to stand by, and watch whatās happening, and feel like you have no control over it. I know my mom suffered many many years seeing how my depression debilitated my life. Your wife is lucky to have you!
I am so grateful for the ketamine treatments, because we are actually a family again. I love my mom so much, we go to church together, Bible Study together, and are able to enjoy each otherās company. I really hope that they can find something with the schizophrenia. Iāll say a prayer for your wife tonight.
You have been blessed.
I agree with you 100% that psychiatry, and all of their descriptions and disorders, have been piling up for years, and itās just a way to control us. Yes they want us to serve their master, but at the same time you cannot dismiss the fact that yes there are people that are depressed. The problem is that you are rightā¦. Itās very difficult to assess, and diagnose. Unless youāve experienced it yourself, nobody would understand. And I wouldnāt wish it on anybody.
But hereās something to take into consideration, because I have been to this clinic, and by the scans alone, they were able to predict, and explain to me some of my behavior patterns. I found it very interesting, but it was expensive. I went through the process, and I did it for my own sanity to prove I was not crazy.
https://www.amenclinics.com/
Dr. Amen is a neuroscientist, and his goal is to end mental Illness. He tries to help people with natural path type supplements, and behavioral modifications, and an understanding that youāre not a bad person because you have depression. Thatās the stigma! You canāt walk around the world with a bandage around your head to signify that thereās something not right in your head, so people just donāt know whatās happening inside of you.
If somebody has a broken leg, you make room for them when theyāre walking by with crutches, if you see a pregnant woman you offer her a seat. Simple solutions. But weāre talking about chemical imbalances, itās tricky business. I completely agree with you that the whole psychiatric and psychological industry has been built to socially engineer us into believing that weāre all sick, and need to take pills. Thatās how they make their money and thatās how they control us.
The problem isā¦ Finding a solution for the few people who actually do have depression, and fighting something that works. The ketamine option actually rebuilds your brain, which treats the actual problem, not the symptoms. This is why you never hear of that treatment, itās not a win-win for the Medical propaganda arm. Thereās no money in healing patients!
Thank you for sharing. I hadn't heard of that.
My interest lies in the creation of new pathways in the brain because I am older and forgetting words. But the fact that it can be addicting put me off so I'll wait for more information.
To encourage youā¦ Everything is done in house, and by a doctor. Iām grateful I actually found a great Christian Doctor Who does my treatments.
I donāt find it addicting at all. I try and wait as long as I can before I do another treatment, to see how long I can last, but that doesnāt always work out based on what kind of stress Iām under.
I would say, give it a try. What do you have to lose! Changed my life completely!
Yes I know someone who had years of debilitating depression then did the ketamine infusions and her life has totally changed, she feels like a new person. Especially people with TBI effects, can be helped with the ketamine. Someone commwnted that its addictive; that is certainly not my understanding. I'd try the ketamine myself.
Itās not addictive. Iāve been doing it for years, I donāt have cravings for it. I actually try to see how long I can go without a booster, but that doesnāt always work out based on stress.
Everything is done in an office, you have no access to the ketamine, and once the treatment is over you go home. Iām not sure how people can say itās addictive, because you only do it once a month, and some people donāt even have to do that. I just happen to have some severe depression.
I think the addiction comments on the Internet are from Dr as you know nothing about it, and people who do not watch it to get off your pills. Of course theyāll say itās addictive! I donāt wanna lose their customers.
Pharmaceutical companies have already tried to hop on pop. They have a version of it called esketamine. Itās a nasal spray, and you still have to do it in the office, with a doctor, but more frequently. Of courseā¦ Itās less effective. So the insurance companies approved the pharmaceutical, but not the actual treatment. Go figure!
Yes, itās definitely not for everyone.
I partially agree with you OP. There are certainly hormonal adjustments that occur in the brain. And certainly, you can poison yourself with alcohol and drugs.
However, the cause of depression (or mania) is a type of psychoses that is brought about by the psyche which is trying to protect/assist/defend/strengthen the individual who perceives a threat/problem/attack etc., real or imagined (most frequently imagined).
I do agree with your spiritual treatment and believe this is what REALLY worked for you. The solution to depression/mania, like all other psychological or physical dis-ease is ultimately the acceptance/allowance/forgiveness/coming-to-terms-with one or more life situations that we are not happy about and unwilling to let go of.
To forgive is sublime!
You are correct! Along with my renewal in my faith in Christ, Iāve been seeing a natural path chiropractor. His focus is on. B.E.S.T. Practice! Itās the idea that your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, affect everything in your body. The reason for illness, etcā¦
When have we going to his office, he would do his thing, and he would describe to me what was bothering me, Just by figuring out how and why the energy was flowing through my body and where it was stopping. I donāt know how to describe it the way he does it, but I called hocus-pocus. I know itās not, because he was right every time. Without me saying a word. he would give me a paper with a word on it that I needed to focus on, and something that I needed to not focus on.
Overall it was just about dealing with all those emotions, and letting them go, and trusting the Lord. I spent several years going there at least once or twice a week. This was a precursor to the ketamine.
I really believe that God has been trying to heal my depression and trauma through many ways. I canāt say that youāll do a ketamine treatment, and wave a magic wand and everything will go away. It doesnāt work that way.
The key to true freedom was the forgiveness! I for gave several people in my life that I had unforgiveness in my heart towards! Wrote them letters. Iāve never felt more free. Yes the word is sublime!
Wonderful! This is the way!
It sounds like your chiro may indeed know a thing or two. There is a very specific psychological conflict associated with every dis-ease, every organ, every bone/muscle group, etc. This wisdom is being heavily surpressed by the lamestream medical establishment. Suffice it to say, there are no mysteries about how someone gets any of their diseases. They are all psychosomatic in origin resulting from a life situation that catches us off guard and we are unable to quickly resolve it.
Forgiveness of ourselves is the final frontier. Once you've worked through everybody else in your life you feel need to be forgiven, you need to turn that power on yourself and come to understand that you're already forgiven by God and you have made no mistakes that you need to incessantly judge and criticize yourself over. Leave them all behind as best you can and you will find your "load has been lightened", both literally and figuratively. Just hand it all over to God and move about your life in playfulness and joy as often as you can.
BTW, depression results from a lowering of estrogen and a rise in testosterone in women. The same can be true for men but it's not as common. This lowering of estrogen happens when a person has two or more unresolved conflicts. In my modality we call this a "constellation". Oftentimes, people can and do shift out of their most recent conflict, either shifting back to "normalcy" or in more extreme cases, from depression to mania -> aka "Manic-Depressive" behavior. They are falling in and out of their constellation over and over again.
And also, you should not ever do any hormone replacement therapy. If you are, work with your doctor to safely cycle down over time as you begin to feel more and more normal. You shouldn't ever try this cold turkey. That can be extremely damaging. A gradual easing off is the only way, and you should trust your own intuitive senses as you do this, moreso than some rigid "by the book" doctor guidelines that he/she says you MUST follow.
Depression is a very disheartening thing to suffer with as it sounds like you well know. Your forgiveness of the people and life situations will ultimately return you to your natural state of happiness!
Keep up the great work!
I really enjoy all your uplifting comments, and the truth about forgiveness. Yes it is awesome. I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Heās so awesome.
Iām 58 now, postmenopausal. But I will never, and have never taken any hormone replacements. I refuse to. The fact that I have struggled with depression and brain chemical in balance most of my life, I was not willing to interject any other chemicals into my body. For the most part Iām pretty healthy. I had a couple hiccups this year, but overall for 58 Iām kicking ass.
I have no heart problems, no high blood pressure, no diabetes, no thyroid issues, no lung problems, I have no issues with all the regular ailments that people have around my age.
Yes Iāve been working very hard at balancing out my heart mind body soul and spirit. I am finally reaping those benefits. All that was done in the past, was not done overnight. Took a long time to get through everything, and the Lord is still working on me. I am grateful.
God bless you and have a great night.
Wonderful to hear. You're on the perfect path to bliss. Keep up the great work and may God continue to bless you!
You are absolutely right about people not wanting you to be sad. Or collectively, that being sad is a bad thing. Sometimes you do have to push through the dark times and being sad. Sometimes you just need to cry about crap.
I have found in my life, when Iāve been very down, I try to think of others. Try to serve others, even if that means just baking cookies for my neighbors, or whatever I can drum up. Itās when I do so seems it takes the focus off myself, and soon you forget about your issue.
I know that life sucks sometimes, and I know that a lot of people have it a lot worse off than I do, but that severe depression itās just a real bitch. It sucks bad. But knowing I have Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, helps me through a lot of dark time. Thanks for the great advice.
Problem is you have to get approved. I was rejected.
If you donāt mind me asking, why were you not approved. There could be ways around that. I can give you some ideas. if you donāt wanna talk about it here you can DM me.
Donāt know.
I have ptsd (self diagnosed), pain from ankle reconstruction. I tried to get approval for either the chronic pain or ptsd. I had to see a āmedical processionalā to get approval and she would submit to the center. I was not approved.
Oh thatās a bummer, you have to have treatment resistant depression. Meaningā¦ You have to have taken several anti-depressants over specific amount of time, and have proven that it has not worked.
Sorry to hear about the PTSD. That sucks.
I just recently had ankle reconstruction surgery. Six weeks nonweightbearing, Iām in my third one month now, and thanks to my mother helping me along the way, my ankles doing pretty good. But I canāt say that I found myself in some pretty dark places during that time. Apparently not being able to use a lamb for a specific amount of time, can cause a lot of issues in the head.
I hope you find some relief for the PTSD, and that your ankle is doing better.
I donāt know if youāve ever heard of EMDR? this is supposed to work great for PTSD. I did it for mineing it helped a lot. I highly recommend it, if you could find a decent non-liberal doctor. If you live in the Phoenix area, I have a recommendation.
That bed rest can really mess with your head. It wears on you after a while.
Iāve tried anti depressant stuff decades ago. It doesnāt make sense using something that I know doesnāt workā¦. AGAIN just to get the ketamine.
The medical system is not forward looking when it comes to stuff like ketamine.
Yes the bed rest! Convalescing! It really does mess with your head. Big time especially if youāre a busy person.
Anyway - Iām not a doctor, and Iām not giving you any advice wink wink, nod nod
But you could go to a doctor and get the depressants, and just not take them. You just have to figure out how long they want you to do that, before they believe that youāre depressed. It really is a ridiculous system isnāt it.! Especially the fact that itās not even covered by insurance. Itās a medical procedure, that you pay cash for. If you need it, why would they deny you. Because we live in clown world.
I do know from experience though, that they do not do blood tests to check if you are taking antidepressants. So thereās that.
I hope youāre able to find some help until then. Like I said try to EMDR!
Iāll just use some mushrooms.
What is an imbalance anyway? There is much more to our consciousness/soul/psyche than chemicals, if not can anyone trust these chemicals to tell us they are trustworthy?
This is more the fault of psychology that psychiatry IMO,psychology have been waging a turf war on other medical and social sciences to be seen as the new secular priestly caste and is has worked. They are the ones who try to give us their language to describe our internal life, most people have fallen for it and can only talk of themselves using psychological terms.
Presumably as they must think it makes them seem intelligent. But psychology is dead as a parrot in a cage, neuroscience which is real science is undermining them.
Sorry OP, I am rambling, your post was about imbalances.
Yes there is a neuroscientist call Dr. Amen. Iāve actually been there to have my brain scanned. He does want to help people, but his theory is to end mental illness. by using behavioral changes and natural pathic supplements. I have had a SPECT Scan, and they were able to tell me some of the reasons for my behavior, and why I am the way I am. This is based on former brain trauma, etc. It was very interesting. another thing I found very interesting from the scan, is that they can tell in advance, if youāre going to have Alzheimerās. Apparently Iām not one of those people.
I always make a joke about that, because of my depression and a lot of very Trumatic experiences in my lifeā¦ I thought to myself, Oh great ā¦ as I get older, I get to remember all this miserable life that Iāve had. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. when you suffer from depression you have to find things to laugh at, and I found that funny. But I really donāt feel that way anymore. My life has changed tremendously.