Modern Mental Health Care is Shameful
You can choose different. You can experience mental health abundance!
We Would Never Accept This in Any Other Area of Medicine
If you are prescribed an antibiotic and it didn’t completely resolve the infection. What you do? Continue taking the antibiotic for months, years, decades? Who knows maybe it gets better with time?
Of course not. You would be back in office with the strep throat or UTI, asking for a better option.
If the therapy didn’t fix the problem, we reassess.
We escalate care.
We look deeper.
We absolutely do not accept a chronic, unresolved infection as a life sentence. Okay, in some cases doctors would. I would not and since you are on the health accumulation train, I am thinking you wouldn’t either.
But when it comes to depression… anxiety… chronic insomnia… emotional numbness… loss of motivation… low mood…psychiatric illness.
The pattern is the opposite.
A person starts an antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication.
Six months later, their symptoms haven’t resolved. No biggie, at least they didn’t commit suicide.
Two years later—same picture.
Five, ten, twenty years later—not only are they still struggling, but they’ve also come to believe this is as good as it gets. Oh ya and instead of one, they are on three mind altering meds.
And the medical system’s response.
It’s your genes. It’s just how you are. You need these meds.
No deeper evaluation.
No plan for root-cause healing.
No expectation of full recovery.
Just maintenance. Indefinite maintenance. Talk about a great business plan!
How has this become normal. How is the acceptable for 40 million Americans to be on prescription mind altering psychotic patented drugs.
The Problem Isn’t Just the Medications. It’s how we think about mental challenges.
We say things like:
depression = serotonin problem
anxiety = GABA problem
insomnia = sedative problem
But the human brain doesn’t work in isolated neurochemicals.
Depression and anxiety come from a network of dysregulation:
circadian rhythm collapse
micronutrient deficiencies
unresolved trauma
chronic inflammation
gut–brain disruption
blood sugar volatility
hormonal imbalance
muscle loss and low physical exertion
oxidative stress from zero nutrition eating
loneliness and lack of purpose
No medication can fix all that. Sure, you can numb a human. Take away their capacity for joy and sadness but that is so far removed from resolved, healed, moving forward, let’s get back to dominating life.
Pharmacia and our medical institutions have conditioned people to believe the mental illness is an until death state.
“You’ll probably be on this forever.”
This is the default script in psychiatry.
This is especially appalling when we consider that two people coming in “depressed,” one given a medication the other not. The person not given the medication is less likely to be depressed 12 months from now.
People get stuck in the middle ground because the meds kind of do something.
Not enough to resolve the issue.
Not enough to restore vitality.
Not enough to give someone their full life back.
Just enough of a Band-Aid to keep them filling the prescription because withdrawal that could be worse than the initial anxiety that brought us to the medication in the first place. The rebound of going elicits the…
“I must need this.”
The reality is what the person needs or needed is:
trauma release
nutrient repletion
circadian rhythm repair
digestive restoration
a workout routine
forgiveness and emotional detox
a reason to get up and get after it
Just throw the person a life raft every time they fall into the pool, keep that 35 year old guy in a floaty…whatever you do, do not teach him how to swim.
What really gets me, is that we have plenty of validated options!
We just choose not to use them. It takes too much time. People don’t really want to change. There is on money them.
As a system, we choose not to explore the metabolic side of mental health.
We choose not to champion physical exertion, even though exercise has antidepressant effects equal to or greater than medication in study after study.
We choose not to promote micronutrients—B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, amino acids—even though these are the raw materials for neurotransmitters.
We choose not to talk about the gut microbiome, despite its massive influence on serotonin, inflammation, and mood.
We choose not to address unresolved trauma, even though trauma literally changes brain wiring.
We choose not to discuss digestive dysfunction, liver overload, or blood sugar chaos.
We choose not to acknowledge the emotional realities—bitterness, buried grief, lack of forgiveness—that manifest physically, neurologically, and hormonally.
The only way out, is you the reader choosing different. Choosing abundant life because I can assure you nobody in the system is going to choose abundance for you.
A healed person is empowered.
A healed person becomes independent.
A healed person stops needing the system to medicate their survival.
A healed person becomes the architect of their own health accumulation.
Empowerment doesn’t create lifelong customers. Even worse for the system, when a person overcomes their mental imprisonment with everyday living and
they start telling ALL their friends and family.
The customer base evaporates. I smile from ear to ear 😊