so it's no secret that Big Pharma does not give up about us all they care about
is padding their own pockets so this week we're gonna be doing a series
focusing on the work of dr. Irving Kirsch alright and he's pissed a lot of
people off in the psychiatric community because he's exposed all the lies that
they've been telling us about anti depression medications so I don't know
about you but I feel that it's important to know the truth and in this video to
kick this series off we're gonna talk about why it's so important to know the
truth about anti depression medications
what's up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
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series that we're focusing on this week and this is something that I don't I
don't like talking about because it was kind of like the matrix where I was
offered the two pills like a few years ago and a few years ago I read the book
lost connections by Johann Hari and that was when I first kind of learned the
lies that we've been sold about anti depression medications and like the
experience I went through with it I was like oh my god right and it's a
difficult subject to talk about because it's so widely accepted especially here
in the United States that any problem that you have here's some pills for it
right so to tell people the truth about it it can be
a difficult truth to accept all right but I want everybody out there to be
able to make informed decisions about what they're putting in their body all
right so like I said this week I'm gonna be focusing on the work of dr. Irving
Kirsch okay so he is a psychologist he has been researching the effectiveness
of depression medications for a long time he's done more research in this
space than anybody else he has discovered the ways that not only does
Big Pharma kind of cover up what they're doing but also kind of the way that the
FDA is even lying about results and everything like that and like I said for
us it's it's up to us to make more informed decisions about what we're
putting in our body so I'm gonna start the series off by talking about three
reasons three reasons why it's so important to know the truth about anti
depression medications all right so the first one is the first one is side
effects okay like if we were just getting these medications and you could
just take them and nothing would happen like you know it's like you either take
them and you know you feel just as depressed as normal if you don't take
them or if you do take them you know it's not a big deal because nothing will
happen but the reality is most of these medications come with side effects not
only side effects when you start them but side effects when you get off of
them all right like I feel that as a society like we
are we we are way too quick to just toss whatever medications were given in our
body right like how many of us actually question what doctors are giving us like
personally I have to as a recovering drug addict I always have to like
question the doctors about what they're giving me like is this addictive you
know what's what's in this thing you know and stuff like that but for the
most part a lot of us just get these medications and we just take them you
know some people we need go pick them up from the pharmacy you'll ask them and
everything like that but like think about it we are putting these
mind-altering body altering chemicals in our body alright so if if there's a
so we don't actually need these we should stay away from them because
side-effects from antidepressants like they can be rough like like on the on
the mild end of the spectrum you can have nausea dizziness headaches but like
on the more extreme side on the more extreme side especially with withdrawal
you can have more anxiety more depression suicidal thoughts getting off
of them you know what I mean so we need to be informed about these to
see if we really do need to take these medications alright
so reason number two why it's so important to know the truth about anti
depression medications is because of the cost all right I don't know if any of
you got the memo all right they here in the United States
our mental health care system sucks alright so if you have insurance and
your insurance covers these medications dope alright but I know that I am one of
many Americans in the United States who has had difficulties right so this year
a lot of you know that I just started working a full-time job as well as a
part-time job and my health insurance just kicked in alright so I am on
antidepressants I'm fully transparent about that if you want me to do a video
about why I'm on them and discuss that one might I might do one because that
can give a little confusing based on this series but anyways I for a good
chunk of this year I didn't have health insurance because I was self-employed I
wasn't making enough to really buy my own health insurance and the medications
I was on like prozac was extremely expensive so thank God here in Las Vegas
we have a pharmacy called Smith's you might know it as Kroger but they have
like this little like discount card or whatever so my medications were actually
affordable all right so like again if you don't need to be on these
medications like you're incurring the cost that you might not need to have
right so say if you get laid off say if you get fired say something happens
where you who's your health insurance again the
withdrawal side-effects from these medications can be really brutal and you
can be worse off than you were before so that's something else that we should
take in account so third the third reason why it's so important to know the
truth about medications this is the most important reason all right and this is
what I want to focus on all right because we are not being told the full
story about what depression is all right the easiest story to tell people is that
this is a chemical imbalance this is a disease
take this pill it'll balance out the chemicals that is for the most part an
absolute lie with no scientific evidence behind it all right and here's what we
need to know this like for anybody out there feeling depressed feeling hopeless
something else that I'm learning more about is people who are depressed about
being depressed right like when people ask a lot of people with depression like
what's the most difficult part about having oppression and there like being
depressed right like that is the worst part right so if we believe the story
that this is something chemically wrong with our brain that's never gonna get
fixed we are always going to rely on those medications that aren't even
nearly as effective as we think they are and that's something I would be talking
about this week during the series all right so to put it in perspective for
you all right one of the ways that they you know see if you're doing better with
your depression if your depression is going into remission and things like
that they use something called the Hamilton scale
all right this Hamilton scale zero is no depression at all and then at the top of
the scale I think it goes up to like 50 points or so that means you are just
severely depressed okay so listen to the words coming out of my mouth
all right the best antidepressants out there move you an average of one point
eight points on the Hamilton scale all right now some of you were like okay
almost 2-point difference that's pretty dope I'll take a two-point difference in
my depression but listen to this okay when you get better sleep that improves
your Hamilton score of six points all right
are you hearing me right now you get six points from better sleep so if you can
fix your sleep that is three times better than the best antidepressant
medications okay and throughout this week I'm gonna be talking about other
ways to treat your depression to work on your depression some of it involves
therapy some of it involves exercise eating better meditation there's so many
ways out there to improve your depression that are scientifically
proven to be better than medications but we need to understand like I was just
telling Tristan about this the other day the United States is one of I believe
one of two countries in the entire world on the planet Earth out of hundreds of
countries we are one of two countries where it is legal for pharmacy companies
to market directly to consumers so all of us since we were children has been
being told that pills and medications are gonna fix us right and we've been
brainwashed since we were kids like think about that for a second we are one
of two countries on the entire planet where that's even legal okay so like I
said this week I'm gonna be going through like a bunch of different
studies and everything like that without antidepressant medications if you have
any questions let me know down in the comments I just put up a survey on the
community tab about how many of you are on antidepressants or how many of you
would like to be if you could afford into things like that and I might do
something with that information but like I said it is important to know the truth
about these medications alright but anyways that's all I got for this video
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