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Child Spends 6 Months in Psych Ward, Then Healed with Micronutrients

01.09.2019 by Molly McHugh // Leave a Comment

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Update: This post was first published June, 2017 but there is a bipolar advocate (amazing women, educated, lovely family, illness issues erupted postpartum – most likely copper toxicity) who is writing about thinking her son may have bipolar, and it just makes me so sick and sad, this person is completely controlled by Big Pharma, and now endangering the life of her child.

If she knew better, I know she would be doing nothing of the sort, but finding appropriate medical care. I posted this on her FB wall, hope it helps open her eyes, and anyone else who is being victimized by psychiatry’s lies. All most of them do is write prescriptions, ignoring the harm the meds cause.

Child Spends 6 Months in Psych Ward, Then Healed with Micronutrients
Click Image to Watch Vid and Learn How Micronutrients are More Effective Than Psychotropic Medications

A child was kept in a psychiatric facility for six months. Multiple drug treatments were administered, and no improvement. His concerned parents learned about the work of dedicated physicians, psychologists and nutritionists who use nutritional supplementation and diet changes to heal mental illness.

After he was discharged with no improvement, they decided to try treating him with micronutrients. The child not only healed – he was symptom-free four years later.

Related post: Parents Against Pharmaceutical Abuse Fighting for All of Our Kids.

The Story of Andrew

This is the case study that Dr. Julia Rucklidge describes in the lecture that caught my attention. Here is what she says:

“Andrew at age 10 had disturbances in sleep, he had hallucinations, delusions, problems with concentration, he was paranoid. He felt that his food was poisoned, that he was a murderer and adulterer.”

“He was admitted to the Alberta Children’s Hospital inpatient mental health for 6 months. He had every test imaginable and was put on a whole host of medications to try and change his symptoms.”

“After 6 months, various medication trials, he was discharged completely unchanged. The parents heard about the micronutrients and they approached the psychiatrist and said we’d like to try the micronutrients to help our son.”

“They talked to the psychiatrist treating him and she said ‘This is snake oil, but I don’t have anything better to offer.'”

Source: What If Nutrition Could Treat Mental Illness.

The diagnosis – or diagnoses – this kid was given I have no clue and who cares. The point is he had severe mental illness symptoms warranting psychiatric hospitalization and was not helped by psychotropic medications or other treatments.

What Happens to Andrew After Put on Micronutrients

This is what happened when the child was put on micronutrients:

“Within six months of being on the micronutrients Andrew’s psychiatric symptoms were all gone and maintained four years later.”

“No clinically significant anxiety, no psychotic symptoms, he is enjoying school, he has friends, and he has normal relationships.”

Take that you idiot shrink – many of you should simply be in a jail cell.

Psychiatrist Unable to Help Child, Calls Nutritional Supplements “Snake Oil”

The psychiatrist who was useless in helping Andrew reacted to a request from the parents to try micronutrients by saying they are “snake oil”. Someone needs to go back to medical school.

Get educated and also take a good, long, hard look at herself and her profession in the mirror. If anything used in psychiatry for the treatment of mental illness today is snake oil… it is psychotropic medications.

Related post: Treatment Resistance is Your Body Saying No.

No Child Should be Given Psychotropic Medications

But Big Pharma-controlled psychiatry will keep on prescribing them, as long as they can get away with it without being sued.

What conscientous physician would give a harmful substance to a child that they very well know the risks and dangers of (death, debilitating side effects) when there are alternative treatments that could be tried that are non-harmful.

Non-harmful and be able to heal the underlying imbalances going on.

None.

Related post: Understanding The Placebo Effect of Antidepressants.

Protect yourself, protect your family and please watch the video above and share this information.

As more and more caring, empathic and intelligent adults understand these issues, fewer children will be victimized by psychiatry and medication-happy psychologists and physicians.

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Categories // Alternative Treatments, Children, Nutrition & Supplements

How Much Salmon Oil Should You Take For Bipolar Disorder?

10.31.2018 by Molly McHugh // Leave a Comment

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How much salmon oil should you take for bipolar disorder? Excellent question! And the award goes to Emile who wrote this as a comment on another post:

“What dosage of omega 3 fish oil capsules a day for bi-polar is enough. Thanks”

How Much Salmon Oil Should You Take For Bipolar Disorder?
A New Product I’m Going to Buy – Is 100% Pure Salmon Oil from Wild Caught Salmon.

I’ve always assumed 1000 mg per day (1 gram) was the recommended dosage – because in all my years of taking it that is what the supplements give for a daily dose.

I was diagnosed Manic Depressive in 1984 at the age of 19. No, no one ever told me to take salmon oil to help my condition. I had to figure it out on my own.

Related post: How Omega 3 Fatty Acids Help Bipolar Disorder + My Story.

Now there is much research that has shown a benefit for symptoms of bipolar disorder.

FDA Classifies Up to 3 Grams of Omega-3s Per Day as Safe

The below is from an article: “Fish Oil to Treat Depression?”

“The Food and Drug Administration is now considering what quantity of omega-3s to recommend; currently it has no recommendation but classifies three grams per day as ‘safe.'”

Source: WebMD

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a fact sheet for health professionals on omega-3 fatty acids. Here’s what they have to say:

“… according to the European Food Safety Authority, long-term consumption of EPA and DHA supplements at combined doses of up to about 5 g/day appears to be safe.”

“It noted that these doses have not been shown to cause bleeding problems or affect immune function, glucose homeostasis, or lipid peroxidation.”

“The FDA recommends not exceeding 3 g/day EPA and DHA combined, with up to 2 g/day from dietary supplements [168]. Some doses used in clinical trials exceed these levels.”

Source: Omega-3 Fatty Acids Fact Sheet.

Large doses above 3 grams (3000 mg) per day could be harmful. You could increase your risk of bleeding (very important for anyone taking anticoagulant medication) and of having a stroke.

2 Quality Products at Low Cost

Here are two brands you can try, there are many more available. Just buy a quality supplement and not at Walmart!

1. Omega Factors Wild Alaskan Salmon Oil

2. MRM Fresh Omega Pure Extra Virgin Norwegian Salmon Oil

Don’t buy fish oil that could be from many different types of fish and contain contaminants (mercury, PCBs). Buy a 100% salmon oil product.

Salmon Oil is Not a Bipolar Cure or a Quick Fix for Severe Illness

Know that taking a salmon oil supplement is not a quick fix type of solution. It is a long-term treatment that could help to lessen severe mood states, both depression and mania.

How? By treating an underlying biological cause of your illness.

And it has been proven to be effective. So just buy it, take it daily and stick with it.

It may take a month or more to notice any change but regardless you are helping many different things in your body i.e. heart health, inflammation that contributes to chronic illness, etc.

Children Benefit From Omega-3 Fatty Acids

If you are Manic Depressive that has been proven to have a genetic susecptability and have children, it would be very smart to give them salmon oil. To prevent onset of the illness.

There are many brands marketing fish oil supplements to children. You would need to research and find a quality product and also give an amount appropriate for their age.

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Categories // Alternative Treatments, Nutrition & Supplements, Omega 3 Fatty Acids & Fish Oil

Is Hypomania Always a Bad Thing?

10.26.2018 by Molly McHugh // Leave a Comment

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Is hypomania always a bad thing? Hypomania is a critical concept to understand and deal with as best as possible for those with Manic Depression – now called “Bipolar 1 Disorder“. But is it always a bad thing?

Is Hypomania Always a Bad Thing?

Have doctors gone overboard in their attention to it and is it being misused as a way to prescribe greater amounts of psychotropic ‘mood stabilizing’ drugs?

I think the answer is yes, though of course the big picture is complicated. When hypomania is connected to someone who clearly is BP-1 and in treatment or living with the illness independently like I am then it goes without saying it is critical to understand and deal with when it begins to present itself in your life.

I wrote about a recent experience of mine here: I Was Hypomanic and all is Fine.

But in all cases is hypomania bad? Something to fear and ‘have to recognize’ and deal with?

Have Psych Docs Criminalized Hypomania?

Have psych docs – and their pharmaceutical handlers – criminalized hypomania?

No, they are not arresting people who have a period of heightened mood… but they have made it an experience to be wary of. Something to jump at the slightest hint of in your life and something you then have to go to a doctor to get help with and possibly take medication.

That is what I mean by my sarcastic ‘criminalized’ comment – they’ve turned something that is fairly common and normal into something scary and wrong. It is neither.

And Big Pharma, of course, profits hugely from this ‘new take’ on hypomania. That’s why I sarcastically call them the shrink’s handlers. Big Pharma’s agenda and the pharmaceutical reps who work for them and go knocking on doctor’s doors selling their wares (psychotropic medications) are controlling a field of medicine in significant ways.

There is no valid argument against that… it’s fact. It is how our medical system currently works. Do you want to be controlled in this way? Or would you rather learn and make educated decisions about your life and your mental health care?

Hypomania Can Be a Spice of Life

Maybe experiencing the state of hypomania is not the spice of life… but it is a positive thing in general and usually enjoyable.

Is Hypomania Always a Bad Thing?

Have you ever been in love? Been a teenager? Then most likely you’ve had a bit of ‘hypomania’ in your life.

Got engaged and are planning your dream wedding? Or maybe you have been given a raise and over-the-top performance review at a job you worked years to land, then took your significant other out for a special night on the town. You felt so good that day. Maybe even felt a little ‘high’, no?

Hypomania is not always a bad thing. To feel good in life and have some natural high times is one of life’s hightlights, not something to be diagnosed and medicated away.

This can be when someone gets diagnosed with ‘Bipolar II Disorder‘ (BP-2) instead of Major Depressive Disorder. Or, quite possibly a person is in treatment for depression, the doctor prescribes an antidepressant and the person has an elevated mood as a side effect of the drug.

The doctor then – rather than have to take responsibility for a known side effect of the drug and possibly lower a dose or stop the drug to go through more trials of other medications – changes a diagnosis of depression to ‘bipolar’.

Have you ever been prescribed Cymbalta – the most prescribed antidepressant in America (2014)? Did you know a common side effect of the med is “abnormal excitement”. Another is “acting without thinking”.

Hmmm. What does that make you think of? A drug induced temporary state of hypomania that has nothing to do with bipolar? That’s what I think of.

The patient who then gets a BP-2 diagnosis feels better. The depression felt like a life sentence as was not being treated successfully… now they have a new diagnosis and new (false) sense of hope.

So what’s wrong with that you may ask? The problem is – psychotropic medications are toxic and all have serious side effects. Not to mention the fact a period of elevated mood does not equate to the devastating condition of Manic Depression. It is a normal part of life.

The big exemption to this type of thinking and where the ‘big picture is complicated’ comes in is in cases of severe depression that may include actual mood swings – not heightened feel good moods from a prescription drug reaction or from self-medicating with recreational drugs (cocaine, pot, alcohol, etc.).

If you are Manic Depressive then hypomania is a mood state that has to be carefully monitored and thought of as possibly needing medication as it may lead to an actual period of serious illness i.e. mania.

If you are not, then don’t let a doctor convince you it is abnormal. Psychiatrists get a huge payout for prescribing psychotropic medications… the more the better.

Know this reality and try and protect yourself from being a victim of misdiagnosis leading to the pressure to take large amounts of brain damaging psychotropic medications.

In peace, Molly

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