Welcome to the October 2009 issue of the Psychology Debunked newsletter!
Continuing our focus on ways we can improve our marriages, here is Commandment #8 of our "Ten Commandments of a Blessed Marriage:"
8. Rapidly repent. In a marital conflict, the offending partner must repent and ask for forgiveness immediately; if no wrongdoing occurred, the offending partner must clarify the truth in love, with mercy and patience. Admitting wrongdoing requires humility and keeps us at the cross where God can pour out His grace upon us. Conversely, standing your ground in pride and self-righteousness only continues the conflict and keeps you from God and His good will for your marriage.
Mat 5:23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Mat 5:24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
1Pe 5:5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to [your] elders. Yes, all of [you] be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."
Saying "I'm sorry" and meaning it sincerely is hard to do when your flesh wants to justify itself and finger-point. The blame game started in the Garden of Eden, and mankind has been perfecting it ever since. It takes a godly desire to please God more than ourselves to say "I'm sorry"--especially when it seems your spouse is more at fault than you are. When you start feeling the pain of the cross, remember, Christ took all the blame, and did nothing wrong.
This month, more antidepressant warnings... swine flu truth... Forced hospitalization and drugging for Chinese whistleblowers... tracking UK mental patients... performance drugs for everyone... a promising finding for Chronic Fatigue sufferers... healthy diet cuts depression risk... and thoughtful Q&A and Letter segments on the Bible's place in overall life learning.
We hope you enjoy the issue!
Under God's enduring grace,
Lisa and Ryan Bazler
Study: Increase in heart defects in newborns of moms taking antidepressants
Of course, GSK denies this finding related to their drug Paxil, even in the face of 600 cases filed against them for this very reason, the first resulting in a judgment against GSK:
"GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. must pay $2.5 million to settle a claim that its Paxil antidepressant caused severe heart defects in a 3-year-old Bensalem boy, a Philadelphia common pleas jury ruled today.
"The verdict is the first in 600 cases alleging that London-based Glaxo knew Paxil caused birth defects and hid those risks to boost profits.
"The drug, approved for U.S. use in 1992, generated about $942 million in sales last year, 2.1 percent of Glaxo's total revenue." more »
Should you get the Swine flu (H1N1) vaccination?
With the swine flu "pandemic" in full swing according to mainstream media, many readers have asked us about it, and the vaccines to treat it. We are not the experts in this area, but as a service to our readers, we have included links below to useful articles and web sites written by others who have nothing to gain except the satisfaction of benefitting their fellow man:
Chinese whistleblowers silenced, stripped of rights through forced mental hospital admissions
"Local officials in China appear to be increasingly using forcible psychiatric treatment to silence critics, a leading expert said today amid claims that at least 18 complainants were held in a mental hospital in Shandong province against their will.
"Authorities in Xintai district committed people who had pursued grievances ranging from police brutality to property disputes, according to the Beijing News, well known for its investigative journalism. Some were force-fed drugs." more »
UK to tag mental health patients with GPS
GPS tracking of problem patients: another band-aid way of managing mental patients that ignores the core problems and needs of the heart. more »
Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people
The legal drug cartel is not satisfied with limiting their market to sick people--now they are pushing drugs for healthy people, to enhance life performance. Sort of like a socially accepted form of steroid-using baseball players... more »
Infection
associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
"An article published online Thursday in the journal Science reports that 68 of 101 patients with the syndrome, or 67 percent, were infected with an infectious virus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV. By contrast, only 3.7 percent of 218 healthy people were infected. Continuing work after the paper was published has found the virus in nearly 98 percent of about 300 patients with the syndrome, said Dr. Judy A. Mikovits, the lead author of the paper." more »
Study: Mediterranean diet cuts depression risk
Common sense prevails once again after much scientific investigation:
"People who follow a Mediterranean-style diet rich in vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains and fish are less likely to become depressed, scientists said on Monday, but the reasons are unclear.
"Spanish researchers studied 11,000 people and found that those who followed the Mediterranean diet most closely had a more than 30 percent reduction in the risk of depression than those whose diet had few of the crucial Mediterranean elements." more »
The Bible and Psychology: What Does God Say About Solving Man's Problems?
"Manie’s mother was given Paxil and assured it would be okay as so many mothers are told. Her infant son, Manie, was born with Transposition of the Great Arteries and had to have open heart surgery when he was only 8 days old. The surgery lasted 12 hours. --Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, International Coalition for Drug Awareness
"According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October, where one in five U.S. children experienced the flu, says the CDC.
"So where's the emergency? The only emergency I can see is the emergency fabricated by Big Pharma to sell more vaccines. By declaring a national emergency over the H1N1 pandemic, Obama is playing right into their hands." --Mike Adams, Natural News
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