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The Dark History of SSRIs

**UPDATE**

Please see this 17 minute video by The Highwire on new science showing long term issues even after discontinuing SSRIs including sexual dysfunction and ‘brain zaps.’ Despite this, ‘the powers that be’ want to make these dangerous drugs over-the-counter.  

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/there-is-decades-of-evidence-that?

The Decades of Evidence That SSRI Antidepressants Cause Mass Shootings

How Dangerous Must a Drug Be Before it is Pulled from the Market?

A MIDWESTERN DOCTOR
NOV 3, 2023

Most holistic doctors consider Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) anti-depressants to be one of most harmful mass-prescribed drugs on the market (it typically makes their top 5). However unlike the other drugs, which are just unsafe and ineffective, SSRIs also have a fairly unique problem—they can kill people who are not even taking the drugs.

Note: other common contenders for that list are Statins, NSAIDs (e.g., ibuprofen), and acid reflux medications (proton pump inhibitors like prilosec). The harms and irrationality of those drugs are discussed here, here and here.

What follows is a revised and updated article summarizing the extreme dangers of those drugs I was requested by a few readers to write in light of recent tragic events.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is one of the most important articles I’ve read for a long time.  The reason?  The topic of harm caused by anti-depressants is completely denied and ignored by Big Pharma, Big Media, and Big Medicine. I highly recommend you read this in full and share widely because it affects so many people, particularly Lyme/MSIDS patients who often struggle with psychiatric symptoms including depression.  Educating yourself on this is imperative if not for you than for someone you know.

Executive Summary:

  • While a minority of patients, particularly those with deficient methylation, who take SSRIs greatly benefit from them, much evidence has accumulated that they cause psychotic violence.
  • The author states that out of all of the controversial medical issues, the topic of SSRIs being linked to mass shootings has caused the most vitriol.
  • Unfortunately, like COVID and “vaccines” SSRIs have been highly politicalized, often among party lines.
  • Each time a mass shooting occurs the same script is repeated (ban all guns and have more mental health care [i.e. psych meds] for everyone).
  • Similarly to the “vaccine” topic, the oft repeated argument to dismiss the link between SSRIs and psychotic violence is that “correlation is not causation,” however:
    • clinical trial data hidden from the public gives this evidence
    • a black-box warning states SSRIs increase the risk of suicide
    • the psychotic events are completely out of character and the offenders report a very similar narrative of what they experienced prior to and during the shooting
  • SSRIs which entered the market in 1988 have a similar primary mechanism of action as cocaine
  • The SSRI Prozac received nearly 40,000 adverse events after 9 years which is far more than any other drug. These events include:
    • hundreds of suicides
    • atrocious violent crimes
    • hostility and aggression
    • psychosis, confusion
    • distorted thinking
    • convulsions
    • amnesia
    • brain-zaps
    • long-term or permanent sexual dysfunction
    • homicides: a website has compiled thousands of documented occurrences
  • A significant portion of the article came from the book Deadly Psychiatry and Organized Denial by Peter C. Gøtzsche (which builds upon the critical work Peter Breggin did to expose this issue)
  • For those taking SSRIs, do NOT suddenly stop taking them as you can have very strong withdrawal symptoms.  Please read the stories in the article to see how very serious this is.
  • Psychosis and Akathisia (extreme restlessness) are known side-effects of SSRIs that have led to strange impulses, or suicide, homicide, or both and are so disturbing they are often described as the individual being possessed, and patients have shared they felt as though a dark force was trying to take over their body
  • A clinical investigator wrote to Pfizer that during treatment with SSRIs, patients reported depersonalization and that their range of emotions were blunted as they were unable to feel or express themselves.  Pfizer responded with the admission that this happens with SSRIs and nobody knows why.
  • A common thread has occurred with these violent homicides:
    • the act of violence was immediately preceded by a significant change in the meds 
    • they occur in all ages who were completely normal before the act and no precipitating factors besides the psychiatric medication
    • there were clear symptoms of akathisia
    • the offenders returned to their normal personality when they came off the antidepressant
  • Similarly to the “vaccine” industry, the psychiatric industry aggressively gaslights victims rather than accept any responsibility
  • Individuals with a mutation in the gene that metabolizes psych drugs are much more vulnerable to developing excessive levels of these drugs triggering psychosis and akathisia but this is never considered when the meds are prescribed
  • Gøtzsche reviewed some key SSRI legal cases and in 2001 a jury found a pharmaceutical firm liable for deaths caused by an antidepressant. Central to a case were SmithKline Beecham internal documents showing the company was aware that a small number of people could become agitated or violent from Paxil, but they did not include a package warning about suicide, violence or aggression.  Two volunteers attempted suicide, but the company till denies that Paxil can cause homicides, suicides, and withdrawals.
  • Similarly to the false illusion that remdesivir helps COVID and that the COVID gene therapy injections are effective, Prozac was originally assessed to treat obesity, but was switched for depression which has a subjective metric which was easier to approve with doctored studies (after which they pivoted to using marketing off-label for obesity). “So, even though the evidence showing Prozac worked for depression was atrocious while abundant evidence existed for its harm, with a few well priced bribes and statistical creativity, Eli-Lilly was able to secure their approval.”  Sound familiar?
  • Government corruption has followed a playbook that existed long before the COVID debacle
  • While the COVID injections have complete legal immunity, SSRIs are toxic enough to have severely harmed large numbers of people motivated to fight the drug companies in court
  • The author states he was able to accurately predict and understand the COVID shot shenanigans due to being intimately familiar with the SSRI story.

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Activism, Psychological Aspects, Treatment

Novel Therapy Destroys Lyme in Lab

https://projectlyme.org/novel-therapy-destroys-lyme-in-lab/

Novel Therapy Destroys Lyme In Lab

Research Identifies New Investigational Therapy Regimen Capable of Irreversibly Damaging Lyme Bacteria in Laboratory Tests

Inspired by research that targets cancer tumors, these new findings in Lyme could also lead to novel R&D strategies for other diseases. This project was partially funded by Project Lyme, in partnership with the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. Learn more about our funded research here.

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Dr. Neil Spector Research Project

Nov. 1, 2023

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. November 1, 2023 – Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the US, today announced the development of a potential new drug, HS-291, that targets and destroys Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Chemical Biology, this laboratory study represents a novel paradigm shift for anti-microbial treatment research as it is the first to target and inhibit Borrelia burgdorferi HtpG (high-temperature protein G), a specific type of enzyme within the bacteria that causes Lyme disease— a condition affecting nearly 500,000 new patients annually. The research was conducted at Duke University School of Medicine, with collaboration from the University of North Carolina, Tulane University, and Stanford University, and HS-291 is currently in preclinical stage testing at UC Davis.

“As Lyme disease is currently treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and there are no targeted treatments, we are particularly excited about this discovery, and hopeful that our novel Lyme disease therapeutic HS-291 will specifically destroy the Lyme bacterium without off-target effects or antibiotic resistance,” said Timothy Haystead, PhD, professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Bay Area Lyme Foundation grantee, and co-lead author. “This research has been an incredible opportunity to leverage knowledge from oncology to Lyme disease to design an investigational therapeutic that could one day benefit hundreds of thousands of patients with Lyme.”

This discovery has implications beyond Lyme disease as it demonstrates that using the drug HS-291 to deliver cellular toxins to HtpG, a type of non-essential enzyme that assists the folding or unfolding of large and complex proteins, greatly expands what can be considered druggable within any pathogen and opens a whole new area of infectious disease research.

When activated, HS-291, an inhibitor of HtpG tethered to the photoactive cellular toxin verteporfin, causes discrete protein modifications, which wreaks havoc on the Lyme disease bacterium’s DNA. This impacts multiple processes including nucleoid collapse and cell wall disruptions. A single dose of HS-291, when activated by light, irreversibly damages Borrelia proteins in close proximity of Bb HtpG in vitro.

“Antibiotics used to treat Lyme disease do not always work for all patients, which causes many to suffer for years with extreme symptoms including neurocognitive issues, disabling fatigue and sleep disruption,” said Linda Giampa, executive director of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. “Bay Area Lyme concentrates on funding innovative research, including projects where knowledge can be deployed from other areas of medicine. We hope that this discovery will inspire others to join us in investing in impactful, translational research to bring relief to patients.”

This research was made possible by a 2020 Bay Area Lyme Foundation grant of more than $2 million to Duke University School of Medicine in honor of Neil Spector, MD, a renowned oncologist who passed away from complications of Lyme disease that had been misdiagnosed for years. He encouraged scientists to take cancer staging techniques and immunotherapy learnings from oncology and apply them to Lyme research. Dr. Spector was the Sandra Coates associate professor in the Duke University Department of Medicine and also served on Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board.

Haystead and Spector joined forces as Spector sought to leverage his knowledge of oncology to help better understand Lyme disease, and Haystead’s research is focused on the use of chemical biology approaches to define novel drug targets focused on the treatment of hypertension, obesity, cancer, inflammatory and infectious disease.

Bay Area Lyme Foundation also funded University of North Carolina collaborator, Matt Redinbo, PhD’s research on HS-291; his lab’s crystallography work was instrumental in the discovery process.

Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s research grant program was made possible by the support from the Fairbairn Family, the Younger Family Fund, and Project Lyme.

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Lyme, research, Treatment

COVID Shot Has Killed More Than COVID & New Zealand’s “Crime Scene”

https://twitter.com/remnantman1/status/1719906905730990146  Video Here (Approx. 1 Min)

The COVID Shot has Directly Killed More Americans Than COVID

540,000 Americans (18K VAERS deaths times an underreporting factor of 30) died directly from the COVID-19 gene therapy injections, according to Dr. Peter McCullough.

The number of COVID deaths on the books is 1.2 million; however, this is all based upon faulty tests and the fact they counted every death as caused by COVID if they had a positive test, even if they had NO symptoms. McCullough states that real COVID mortality is about 10% of that or 120,000 Americans.  

“The government encouraged death certificate coding that was so broadly inclusive that even things that were completely unrelated to COVID or COVID pneumonia, if they tested positive, was counted as a COVID death.  And, we now know the COVID test, the PCR test, can remain positive for many months after the initial infection.”  Dr. Peter McCullough

I recently posted that according to independent research conducted by Sin Hang Lee, faulty COVID testing means COVID cases will be overstated by a factor of 72%!

But, true to form, rather than fix obvious errors in the tests (no positive control sample, no data on false positives, faulty cycle thresholds, and refusal to publish Ct values due to it being “proprietary”,) HHS, FDA, and CDC opt for arbitrary and perpetual diagnosis of COVID.  The same is true in Lymeland only in the reverse: hardly anyone tests positive.  They must control testing.

Further, the CDC has been accused of fraud by systematically misclassifying COVID as the Underlying Cause of Death on death certificates which are subjective and unreliable when making public health decisions.

Lastly, it’s important to remember that under the “Cares ACT” hospitals were bribed every time a patient tested positive (which means they tested them constantly until they got a positive), was diagnosed with COVID, was admitted to the hospital, used toxic but lucrative remdesivir, was ventilated, and injected with the gene therapy injection, and labeled it as a COVID death. One study showed that 70% of COVID deaths were due to ventilation.

In short, since the beginning, every single thing has been stacked in favor of high COVID numbers to create a narrative.

https://rumble.com/v3qp8bu-m.o.a.r-update.html  Video Here Approx. 8 Min

New Zealand: a “Crime Scene”

Ms. Liz Gun, former TV broadcaster and attorney describes New Zealand as a “crime scene” after whistleblowers revealed information about specific “vaccine” sites from 2021 and 2022.

“There are tens of thousands of deaths linked to the jabs. And this is just one of the sites recording this type of information in New Zealand…in one example…on one day, 30 people were jabbed on the same day at the same location.  All [of them] are now deceased.  And their deaths are all in close proximity to one another.”

Gunn is calling for a full criminal investigation int all post-injection deaths.

Gunn started an entirely new political party in June called New Zealand Loyal whose mission is to end the country’s participation in the UN, WEF, and WHO, remove fluoride from the water supply, reduce Glyphosate spraying, protect land from being arbitrarily seized, decentralize government, elevate freedom of choice fr personal heath decisions, and promote alternative holistic health modalities.  Go here for more.

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**Comment**

Poor Australia and New Zealand – playground for the globalists.

This article written in May shows that New Zealanders “Desperate to Leave” as Thousands Flee “Controlling and Fearful” Jacina Ardern.  But she just doesn’t care.  She is after all best buds with Bill and Melinda Gates, is the Poster Child for WEB founder Claus Schwab, and became one of the many “Young Global Leaders” in 2014 – even to the point of wearing a creepy identical shirt.

The real goal is New Zealand’s quarantine program which utilizes Digital ID wallets – the ultimate end-game.

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Podcast: When a Family Has Lyme

https://www.lymedisease.org/podcast-when-multiple-members-of-your-family-have-lyme-disease/

PODCAST: When multiple members of your family have Lyme disease

By Fred Diamond

10/16/23

It’s hard enough managing your own or just your child’s persistent Lyme symptoms, but what do you do when multiple people in your family have Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses? What kind of support do you need and where do you get it?

On this week’s Love, Hope, Lyme Podcast, I talk with Jessica Snajder, founder of Partner in Lyme, a non-profit that distributes funds to families in Connecticut for medical care. She discusses how her family coped when she was diagnosed with Lyme three years after they started caring for her teenage daughter.

“I founded Partner in Lyme based on the experience my oldest daughter had with her diagnosis, the complications of treating Lyme, and the financial aspects of treating Lyme and I felt that something good had to come out of our family’s experience,” she said. “I have also become a patient. I was diagnosed with Lyme and have been in treatment myself. It has evolved from my daughter’s care to a nonprofit and then to a family experience.”

“Partner in Lyme was really born out of that desire to make something good come out of a really bad situation. We give financial support to Lyme survivors in Connecticut to spend on anything that falls under the wellness umbrella that helps them heal in their body, spirit, and soul.”

I asked her if everyone in Connecticut understands the disease, since it was named for a city in the state.

She said that it is not the case.

“Residents of Connecticut still are operating under such misconceptions about what Lyme disease is and what it is not. Not enough doctors are screening proactively at yearly checkups. Pediatricians are not looking for signs. There’s a lot of missed opportunity to catch people early on in treatment and it’s very hard to find a doctor to work with and afford.”

What Do Those Who Love a Persistent Lyme Survivor Need to Know?

Jessica said Lyme survivors might need emotional, physical, and financial support.

“No matter who that person is, they need emotional support. Chronic Lyme is isolating, it’s physically debilitating, and it impacts who you are. There’s a grief process that the person with Lyme goes through.  You’re going to mourn the things that you can no longer participate in, and how your life has changed through no desire of your own.”

She also said that sometimes physical support takes precedence and can be different from person to person.

“Everyone in my family has had different physical issues. One of us has had more neurological issues, which has resulted in them not being able to drive. Someone else has mobility issues and that has led at times to wheelchair use or spending days on the couch until a flare passes,” she said.

“For myself, it was a little bit of both plus memory issues. My family thought I was multitasking or maybe on my phone when they were speaking to me. They would get frustrated with me when I wouldn’t respond, but once they realized that this wasn’t me not paying attention, this is my mind being affected by a bacteria, then it was easier to say, ‘all right, I’ll repeat that for you,’ or, ‘I won’t get aggravated if I think that you’re just not listening to me.’

Not surprisingly, financial support is often needed.

“Unless you are a wealthy individual, it’s almost impossible to do all the things that you would like to do and that your doctor may advise you to do,” she suggested.

She said that people don’t understand you just cannot go to your primary care physician for chronic Lyme. She estimated that the average patient spends about $50,000 out of pocket a year, if they can. Since most people cannot afford that, they’re not getting the treatment that they need, which means they need even more emotional support and even more physical support, because their bodies are not getting what they need to heal.

Complications When She Got Lyme Disease

Jessica said she was diagnosed with Lyme three years after her daughter was diagnosed.

“My oldest daughter was diagnosed in 2018, after seeing 10 doctors and struggling for about a year and a half to figure out what was wrong with her. That affected her senior year of high school into college. There was a lot of support that had to be given just to get her to finish school. I was driving her to college, waiting for her to finish her classes, and then driving her home.”

Jessica said being a caregiver was deeply entrenched in her day-to-day life and helped her process her own diagnosis. “I had the benefit of understanding this disease deeply. I was one of those classic long COVID cases but because I knew enough about Lyme, I knew it was not normal that my joints were hurting too.”

“My biggest takeaway was just the heartbreak for wanting things to go back the way they were and knowing that they can’t easily, and they may never go back. It’s reframing your life. As a 50-year-old woman, it’s easier for me to do that than as a 20-year-old young person,” she observed. “My heart just broke a bit more for her when I realized how significantly this takes a toll on your mental health. Looking for joy, trying to experience joy in a different way.”

Her Suggestion for Caregivers

When I asked her for advice for people who want to support Lyme survivors, Jessica said to avoid generalizing.

“When you share that you have Lyme, inevitably someone will say to you, “Oh, so-and-so had Lyme and they did X, Y and Z and they’re better. It’s no big deal. Well, yes, it’s a big deal. There are lot of misconceptions about how to treat Lyme and how not to treat Lyme. When you share these anecdotal stories of someone’s friend of a friend of a friend, it’s not received well.”

She advised not to minimize it and to try to think of it as if this person in your life was diagnosed with cancer. “Just cut off cancer and put in Lyme because the similarities between those two diseases are very strong and the quality of life for someone with Lyme consistently rates lower than someone who has been diagnosed with cancer.”

The biggest thing is to empathize with them. To not take anything that happens personally.

“If you are willing to set yourself aside and be selfless in your expression of how you love that person, whether you’re loving them as a friend or as a spouse, it’s humbling to set yourself aside and give that person what they need. It is a lesson in what love really is. Being compassionate, being kind, being selfless, seeking someone else’s well-being above your own.”

Learn more about Partner in Lyme here.

Click here to listen to all episodes of the Love, Hope, Lyme Podcast or on YouTube.

Fred Diamond is based in Fairfax, VA and can be contacted via Facebook. His popular book, “Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know” is available on Amazon. The e-version of the book is always free to Lyme survivors. Send Fred a private message on Facebook for your copy.

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**Comment**

We spent about 15K per person about 10 years ago; however, our LLMD doesn’t test much as he just doesn’t feel they are accurate – plus they cost a lot of money. We stuck primarily with low cost antibiotics and when they were expensive we ordered from a Canadian pharmacy which gets most of these drugs from India making them much cheaper.  You have to plan a month in advance to do this successfully.  That said, we had to supplement with many things and supplements are rarely cheap.

The last I checked, an herbal treatment program runs about $300 a month per person unless you get the ground herb in bulk and make your own.

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Lyme, Treatment

Woman With Lyme, Babesia, & Bartonella Turns to Carnivore Diet & Improves

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12446991/woman-plant-based-diet-killing-lyme-disease-carnivore

EXCLUSIVE – Woman, 38, whose undiagnosed Lyme disease left her ‘MINUTES from death’ reveals how plant-based diet nearly DESTROYED her body – before she turned to strict carnivore regimen that completely cured her symptoms

  •  Angela Lerro, 38, from Los Angeles, stopped eating most meat and fish in 2013
  • She began fainting up to 20 times a day and suffering from anaphylaxis
  • Angela learned her diet was killing her after being diagnosed with Lyme disease

By CAROL DRIVER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED:

A woman who was advised to follow a plant-based diet after being diagnosed with breast cancer and having a mastectomy has opened up about how shunning meat almost killed her while she was suffering from undiagnosed Lyme disease. 

Angela Lerro, 38, from Los Angeles, stopped eating most meat and fish and lived mainly on vegetables and colorful salad dishes for three years after undergoing surgery in 2013.

But instead of feeling better, she began fainting up to 20 times a day, breaking out in hives and rashes, and suffering from heightened anxiety and anaphylaxis. She became so bloated, she looked pregnant.

The reiki master was told it was post-cancer ailments, but her symptoms were actually caused by undiagnosed Lyme disease, which she’d been unknowingly battling for over 30 years. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is quite the journey this poor woman has lived.  I pray something within will help someone out there who has barked up every tree but still hasn’t found any answers – or should I say THE answer?

As always, this is not medical advice.  Make sure you are working with an experienced Lyme literate doctor.   But, as is often the case with Lyme/MSIDS, we simply have to experiment.

Angela went on the “Lion Diet” otherwise known as the “ultimate elimination diet,” to reduce inflammation.  Angela believes that ruminant fat, meat, and organs contain the most bioavailable nutrients the body can absorb and use.  She states borrelia feed off gluten, grains, and sugar and when they are consumed they create inflammation.  When she ditched her low-histamine paleo diet for bison, veal, lamb, and venison many of her symptoms disappeared within three months.  She no longer fainted and her mobility improved.

She also had undiagnosed Babesia and Bartonella.

Angela helps others.  Go here for her info: https://www.instagram.com/meatbasedmedium/

I too have improved dramatically with diet; however, diet really didn’t appear to be a problem until later – after I had treatment for 5 years.  Now, could a dietary switch have helped?  Possibly, but as you know – it’s nearly impossible at times to distinguish what is doing what.  It wasn’t until I developed a very painful Baker’s Cyst and what appeared to be “arthritis” that I got serious about diet.  I’m happy to report that I’ve experienced great improvement by ditching gluten, most dairy (except hard cheeses and whipping cream), and trying valiantly to eliminate sugar.  That last one is the tough one for me.  🙂

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Babesia, Bartonella, diet and nutrition, Inflammation, Lyme, Treatment