The Holistic Health Warrior

This is a must read. Here is an excerpt. Please be sure to click the link below to be taken to the article that was published by Psychology Today.

"Here is a sampling of what he found in the research literature:

• After six months of antidepressant treatment, the drugs "generally fail to protect" against a return of depressive symptoms. (In other words, maintenance treatment is ineffective, compared to placebo.)

• Two-thirds of patients maintained on antidepressants suffer from "residual symptoms," with "anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, cognitive impairment, and irritability the most commonly reported."

• As patients are switched from one antidepressant to another or to a polypharmacy regimen, their illness may be propelled "into a refractory phase, characterized by low remission, high relapse and high intolerance."

• Antidepressants increase the risk of a "switch" into mania, and thus into bipolar illness. Antidepressants also increase the risk that bipolar patients will become rapid cyclers, and that bipolar patients will develop a syndrome dubbed "Chronic Irritable Dysphoria."

The good news is……there is a better way to treat depression. And that is to get to one or more of the root causes. One things that stops depression in it’s tracks and promotes healing is nutrition. Specifically bioavailable micronutrients. Go to http://www.qsciences.digi-info-broker.com for more information on that.

Micronutrients have been used for decades by Functional Medicine doctors. It’s time the psych industry wake up and smell stench of anti-depressants

Enjoy the day.

Mellisa