| If you look up "clinically proven process for | | | | most fundamental question about the state of |
| depression" on any search engine (be sure to include | | | | depression or any emotional state and that is: "What |
| the quotes as this will eliminate the medication sites) | | | | brings about an emotional state and or behavior?" If |
| you will find the only clinically proven process for | | | | your physician, psychologist or psychiatrist cannot |
| depression just as you would have ten years ago. | | | | answer this question how qualified are they? The |
| The majority of people who suffer from this | | | | answer is simple. If they cannot answer this question |
| debilitating disorder have been so programmed with | | | | they are guessing, this is why medication for |
| the use of medication for depression that a process | | | | depression is so widely prescribed. The reality is there |
| that actually fixes the problem at the source has | | | | is not a physician, psychologist or psychiatrist who |
| been all but ignored since its introduction into | | | | can answer this question because none of these |
| psychiatric care in 1990. | | | | groups even asks the question. You simply cannot fix |
| Depression is the primary symptom for almost all | | | | it if you do not know how it works and you do not |
| behavior disorders. Go to a psychiatrist or | | | | know how it works if you cannot answer the |
| psychologist with symptoms of depression and you | | | | question. |
| have just signed up for a prescription for an anti | | | | There is complacency if not outright resistance within |
| depression medication, many of which are linked to | | | | the community of psychology toward this clinically |
| suicide. This is probably the most profound example | | | | proven process. The first study of this process in |
| of attacking the body to try and change the mind. | | | | 1992 has had virtually no impact on how depression |
| This is not to say that a prescription to an | | | | was treated then or now. The medical and mental |
| antidepressant should never be done. It just does | | | | health communities have all but ignored it and |
| not make any sense as a first step when there is a | | | | continue with dispersing medication with a seemingly |
| clinically proven process for depression. | | | | high tolerance if not acceptance toward people who |
| In May 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration | | | | commit suicide while depressed or while on |
| (FDA) recommended a new warning label for all | | | | depression medication. |
| antidepressant medications. The current "black box" | | | | The most disturbing suicide statistics of late are the |
| label includes a warning about the increased risk of | | | | average of eighteen military personnel who are |
| suicidal thinking and behavior in children and | | | | committing suicide every day as reported by NBC on |
| adolescents. The FDA wants to expand this warning | | | | December 13, 2007. NBC also reported that 20% of |
| to include young adults from ages 18 to 24. Children | | | | active duty soldiers are reporting serious mental |
| and young adults should also be monitored for the | | | | health problems including depression and post |
| emergence of agitation, irritability, and unusual | | | | traumatic stress. All the while the medical and mental |
| changes in behavior, as these symptoms can indicate | | | | health communities are content with not even posing |
| the depression is getting worse. The risk of suicide is | | | | the question that will lead to a resolution to this |
| particularly great during the first one to two months | | | | problem and that is: "What brings about an emotional |
| of treatment. Does medication make any sense with | | | | state or what determines human behavior?" |
| this type of warning especially when there is a | | | | Question 15 of the clinical study was: Do you have |
| clinically proven process for depression that gets to | | | | thoughts that life is not worth living and you would |
| the very root of the problem? | | | | be better off dead? There was a 95.7 percent |
| Everyone can agree that your health and well-being is | | | | improvement in regard to this question and no one |
| dependent on your doctor's expertise, so it's | | | | was prescreened for depression before the study. |
| important to choose the physician, psychologist or | | | | The hope here is that people who have a friend, |
| psychiatrist who is best qualified. What does the best | | | | relative, child or know someone in the military who |
| qualified mean in regard to your mental health? In | | | | can be helped by the only clinically proven process |
| terms of the only clinically proven process for | | | | for depression will now take action on their own. |
| depression it means beginning with an answer to the | | | | |