Re: More evidence emerges that Americans are drugged out of their minds

"Indeed, Schizophrenia is a biochemical imbalance; that is a biochemical imbalance and not an emotional imbalance.

The hub of the matter is whether this biochemical imbalance has its roots in biochemistry and of a physiological origin, or whether this imbalance is of an emotional/psychosomatic origin. A case of whether the chicken or the egg comes first.

It is established that Schizophrenia can be treated successfully via Orthomolecular means by using Vitamin B3 and other nutrients. There are Scientific references at the end of each article in support of this approach..........."

Actually, it is psychological/mind/spirit in origin.  Again, Western Culture is so orally oriented that we have created a generation of obesity and whether you take a pill for your schiz or whether you take "nutrition" for it - you will never get to the source.  I'm in no way denying that nutrition is beneficial, but then about 95% of Americans can benefit from nutrition.  

You will find schiz mentioned at the site below, but what the author - and major scientific studies have found is that repressed anger in particular cause the chemical imbalances.  (By the way, one symptom of repressed emotions is intellectualizing everything - instead of allowing yourself to have feelings - a common problem with Western males.)  If you free your repressed anger and emotions - your mind will cure your toxicity - it has happened many times over.

http://www.neurovector.com/depression.html

All children are born with an instinctive fight or flight reaction, which is Nature's gift for survival. We use this reaction throughout life to get our needs met and to avoid danger. Anger is expressed instinctively as a part of this reaction.

The cry of a newborn child is an expression of anger. When parents mistreat or neglect their children, they usually cause them to suppress their justifiable anger. When the anger that accompanies the fight or flight reaction is continually suppressed, a toxicosis develops in the brain consisting of the neurotransmitter that processes anger.

This is the source of future depression, emotional disorders, and addictions. It does not mean our parents were abusive people in the usual sense. It takes very little to cause this toxicosis.

"I do not doubt that repressed emotions can create toxins within the brain and the body generally, but there seems to be very little evidence that "talk-therapy" or psychotherapy/psychiatry has any therapeutic value and is even dangerous.............."

Research has discovered that repressed emotions, particularly repressed anger, create toxins in the body.  Just because you doubt it in now way makes it true.  Your statement is a complete lie and is more evidence of the mass paranoia in our society.  We in the USA are the wealthiest, most abundant, and freest nation in human history and we are also the most paranoid.  You statement proves it.

PBS had a recent series on mental illness and I paid close attention to the part which followed two veterans with PTSD.  One was a Desert Storm veteran who refused psychiatric treatment and continued his downhill spiral.  The other was a Marine Viet Nam veteran who had dealt with PTSD for 30 years and had lost jobs, become addicted to alcohol and street drugs, and was even homeless at times.  He had tried all sorts of things - including psychiatry for his condition with no beneficial results.  He then entered a program at the University of Pennsylvania school of psychiatry which uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and within four months (17 sessions) he was completely cured - without a change in nutrition.  He said that he felt better than he had at any time in his life.  The Veteran's Administration has had significant success with CBT and PTSD which was once thought to be difficult to cure, but they are getting more and more responses all the time.

More about mind creating toxins:

http://www.redirectingselftherapy.com/toxicmind.html

Abstract -- The continual suppression of emotions during fight or flight reactions results in atrophy and endogenous toxicosis in noradrenergic neurons. Diminished synaptic levels of norepinephrine (noradrenaline)are associated with depression. During periodic detoxification crises excess norepinephrine and other metabolites flood synapses. The norepinephrine overexcites postsynaptic neurons and causes symptoms ranging from mild anxiety to violent behavior. Some of the other metabolites, which may include dopamine, epinephrine (adrenaline), serotonin, gamma-aminobutyric acid, peptides, amino acids, and various metabolic waste products, are bound by noradrenergic receptors and alter neurotransmission. When they prevent norepinephrine from exciting postsynaptic neurons, depression returns. A mechanism is proposed for the binding of norepinephrine and for the effects of the other metabolites, many of which have been thought to be neurotransmitters. The diverse receptor proteins presumed to be specific for false neurotransmitters may instead encode specific memories. The shift in depressive and excitatory behavior is characteristic of nearly all nervous and mental disorders, including addictions, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and psychosomatic disorders. When toxins accumulate in regions of the brain that control specific activities, the symptoms observed will be related to those activities, giving rise to supposedly distinct disorders that represent the same detoxification process. Recovery can be facilitated by therapy and self-help measures that involve the releasing and redirecting of repressed emotions. 

http://www.toxic-energy-healing-therapy.com/toxic-energy-mind.html

......emotional experiences are not negative in themselves; in fact, they are vital for our survival.

"So my advice is to express all of your feelings, regardless of whether you think they are acceptable, and then let them go…When your emotions are moving and your chemicals flowing, you will experience feelings of freedom, hopefulness, joy, because you are in a healthy, "whole" state."

Barret was mentioned in an article about $2.5 billion dollars spent researching alternative medicine - I didn't mention him, the article about research mentioned him, and your paranoid reaction is to throw out $2.5 billion and ten years of research because Barret is in name in the article?  You still didn't address the lie that was in your quote regarding his certification.

"Your comment........
"those who slam psychiatry out of hand are the ones who need it the most".

Is a comment based on ignorance.
You have absolutely no idea as to what you are talking about................."

You say I have no idea what I'm talking about?  You've got it backwards.  Your link is to psychiatric drugs, not to therapy.  The two are not necessarily connected - except in your head.

My comment is not based on ignorance, it is based on many years of observation.