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Dear Friend,
Have you ever taken a drive, your mind drifts, and before you know it you're lost and have no idea how you got there? This can also happen in our spiritual lives. A little compromise can grow into a big problem if we don't check the map often. With the Bible as our map, we'll be sure to stay on the right road. The biblical road and psychological road lead to two very different destinations, but both involve death along the way.
One road is a spiritual death in listening to the world's answers for mental/spiritual help, or even a physical death for some antidepressant drug users who fall victim to side effects and kill themselves and others. The other road is a death to the "self-life"--the life of what "I" want, what "I" need, what "I" deserve. Death to self is the road of the cross--the same road our Lord Jesus took:
We'll venture down both roads of death in this issue of the Psychology Debunked newsletter, and see where they lead. We also answer the very important question, "Can the brain chemical serotonin be measured for depression?"
In Christ,
Lisa and Ryan Bazler
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September 13 - Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Kimveer Gill, 25, fatally shoots young woman and wounds 19 others before killing himself. In an interview, his mother said Gill had been treated for depression a few years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_Shooting
September 27 - Platte Canyon High School, Bailey, Colorado: Duane Morrison, 53, takes six female students hostage and sexually assaults them before releasing two and fatally shooting one, then killing himself. Antidepressants were found in the Jeep he was driving that day.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5032220,00.html
October 2 - West Nickel Mines School, Bart Township, Pennsylvania: 32-year-old Charles Roberts lines up 10 Amish girls at the chalkboard of a one-room schoolhouse and shoots them execution-style before turning the gun on himself. Five girls die and five are in critical condition. All of his actions describe someone having a psychotic reaction to an antidepressant (see Dr. Tracy's blog posting at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1714357/posts).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_school_shooting
This FOX News video clip makes the case that antidepressants are to blame for many school shootings: http://mms.tveyes.com/ExpandGuest.asp?ln=140891
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Records Researcher Ken Kramer has discovered what the annual National Depression Screening Day is all about. He says, "Oct 5th is the so-called National Depression Screening day. The funding sponsors for this very special day are listed as follows on the website for mental health screening:
Funding Sponsors:
Major support provided by a charitable contribution from:
Eli Lilly and Company maker of antidepressants Prozac and CymbaltaAdditional funding provided by educational grants from:
Forest Laboratories, Inc. (maker of antidepressants Lexapro and Celexa)
GlaxoSmithKline (maker of antidepressants Wellbutrin and Paxil)
Phizer Inc. (maker of antidepressant Zoloft)
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (maker of antidepressants Effexor)"
Kramer found this information on their official site, under the Sponsors link: http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/locator/NDSDmap.aspx
With most of the school shootings over the years perpetrated by antidepressant users, the last thing we should do is encourage more depression screenings!! Some insightful, humorous articles about what's really behind depression screening...
"National Depression Scam Day - October 5" (http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0610_screening.htm)
"Depression Screening A Cruel Fraud; Exposing 'National Depression Screening Day'" (http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_col_061002_depression_screening.htm)
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As the FDA halts additional studies on ADHD drug risks due to alleged budget cuts, they, along with Health Canada, have taken what they know today and ordered additional drug labeling, warning of the potential of adverse psychiatric events (aggression, mania) and sudden death. While this is progress, we believe the drugs should be banned outright due to their high risk-to-benefit ratio and faulty chemical imbalance assumptions.
U.S.: http://www.market-day.net/article_29049/20060928/ADHD-and-ADD-Drugs-and-Sudden-Death.php
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Since the birth of modern-day biological psychiatry in the mid-1900s, there is still no proof of the theory that mental illness is caused by biological factors or "chemical imbalances" in the brain (see http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0511_home.htm). Yet billions of dollars, millions of customers and thousands of side effects and ruined lives later, the myth marches on, unchallenged by the public at large.The mental health agencies of Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island recently admitted to having no proof of the theory and no test showing how much of a chemical is normal or abnormal. See "Psychiatric 'Chemical Imbalance Fraud' confirmed by Three New England States" article at http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/10/09/psychiatric_chemical_imbalance_fraud_con_1.
This article by Keith Hoeller cites the 1999 Surgeon General's Mental Health Report and the 1999 Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry as stating that the causes of mental disorders are unknown and no lab test exists to identify mental illness. He compares modern-day biological psychiatry to the animal magnetism theory of the 1700s, and proposes relegating psychiatry alongside "alchemy, astrology and phrenology as a pseudoscience." http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/137089_mentalhealth29.html
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This reader asks, "Can the brain chemical serotonin be measured for depression?" See our response here.
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In chapter 14 of our book Psychology Debunked, we describe the three qualifications of the overcoming life--a life of Jesus living through us, as we humbly depend on Him. Here is a summary of these qualifications, in Bible verse form. This isn't some new, mysterious discovery or a complex 12-step plan, but rather, simple but profound truth--the way of the cross and the death of the self-life.
http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0610_overcominglife.htm
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This reader shares his concern that many pastors are downplaying or completely avoiding the message of the cross in their preaching. The cross is not only the pathway to salvation, but also to growing in Christ. Read his letter here.
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