11/7/07

I had been years since I first heard that this Christian leader's husband had been on antidepressants…

Then a few months ago I went to another dance after a time of absence.  Through the course of the evening I learned this woman had consented to have her husband treated with electro shock treatments for his depression – about 23 some odd sessions.

I walked over to talk to him, and as you would expect, he lacked all animation and his affect was dull and lifeless - almost flatline - a result of excessive electro shock treatment, and the inevitable organic brain damage is leaves behind.

This woman leads a "Christian" match making service, and from what I can tell she had no problems talking about the treatments she had consented to expose her husband to, and passing on that conviction to the new Christian couples she was helping to create - introducing and modeling a dreadful form of control of one spouse on another.

She shows no signs of repentance or remorse despite the links I sent to her explaining the dangers of electro shock treatment.

2/25/08

Hi Lisa and Ryan,

I read your book and truly enjoyed it. My mother is heavily infested with psychology mixed with Christianity and it has truly taken a toll on our family. It truly is psycho-heresy. She was at one time "schizophrenic" but two years and 18 shock treatments later was pronounced "well". It’s been difficult since and she has stated how if it were not for psychology she would not be there. Psychology ruins people and families and makes it so difficult to show them that their problems are spiritually based, not psychological or through the gene pool, etc.

Anyway, I just read an article that I thought you'd be interested in: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/mentalhealth.medicalresearch  Which says that Prozac and other similar drugs do not work:

"Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.

The study examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The trials compared the effect on patients taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill.

When all the data was pulled together, it appeared that patients had improved - but those on placebo improved just as much as those on the drugs."

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