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Whether it be money, relationships, sickness, war, or the plethora of other potential stress triggers, modern man is more stressed-out than ever before. In the U.S., over $300 billion annually, or about $7,500 per employee, is spent on stress-related compensation claims, reduced productivity, absenteeism, health insurance costs, direct medical expenses, and employee turnover. It is predicted that 
depression, one of the manifestations of stress, will be the leading occupational disease of the 21st Century—responsible for more work days lost than any other single factor. (1)
In 2003, the British newspaper The Guardian published a report indicating that nearly 25% of the adult population of France are taking either a tranquilizer, antidepressant, antipsychotic, or other mood-altering prescription drug. In persons over aged 70, 40% are taking these drugs, as are 4% of all French children under age nine. (2) Although psychiatric drugs can be useful, various categories of these drugs have recently been linked to an increased risk of diabetes, blood clots and stroke.
Stress is the mental and physiological reaction to perceived demands of daily life that exceed one’s ability to cope or respond to the situation(s) in a reasonable manner. The symptoms of stress include anxiety, depression, insomnia and fatigue, and may lead to physical ailments ranging from the minor to the catastrophic. Medical researchers are now able to measure the direct detrimental effects of stress on the cardiovascular, immune, endocrine, muscular, genitourinary, and gastrointestinal systems, and on mental health (3).
Not to be surprised, the pharmaceutical companies offer many solutions aimed at making us more tranquil in the face of our daily challenges. If we’re too tranquil, i.e., depressed, the many varieties of anti-depressants (energizers) will lift us up. One pill makes us taller, and one pill makes us small—just ask Alice.
Tranquilizers are divided into two groups: Major tranquilizers include Clozaril,® Haldol,® Thorazine,® and Risperdal.® Minor tranquilizers have more familiar-sounding names: Ativan,® Librium,® Serax,® Valium® and Xanax® (street names include: “libs,” “tranks,” “benzos” and “vees.”)
Tranquilizers such as the Benzodiazepines can be addictive even at prescribed dosages if taken for extended periods. Withdrawal may include diarrhea, delusions, depression, flu-like symptoms, general pain, hallucinations, heart palpitations, paranoia, psychosis, and stomach cramps. Withdrawal from some Benzodiapines can be life threatening.
Minor tranquilizers are designed to induce feelings of calm and relaxation. On the other hand, if they don’t function as designed, one might experience blurred vision, disorganized thinking, dry mouth, hallucinations, headaches, hostility, impaired motor functioning, irritability, lethargy, memory loss, nausea, sweating and vomiting. (4)
These are the tranquilizers. War is peace.
Antidepressants, on the other hand, are “mood-brighteners.” You may need them if you have an adverse reaction to a tranquilizer. Two main types of antidepressants are tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs; and their next-generation offshoot, SNRIs, serotonin-norepinephrine uptake inhibitors). These drugs function by reducing the uptake of neuro-transmitting brain chemicals such as serotonin so that more of the chemical remains available.
Serotonin, denoted 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is the brain’s master molecule. Adequate levels produce feelings of calmness and relaxation. 
Low levels produce anxiety, depression, insomnia, and other negative feelings and behaviors.
Pharmaceutical antidepressants are effective for many, but when they’re bad, they’re very, very bad. While this classification of psychoactive drug is intended to help people, sometimes it has the opposite effect—with catastrophic results. As an example, many of the highschool and other senseless shootings which have plagued the U.S. and other countries were perpetrated by individuals taking the SSRI group of antidepressants.
The list of casualties includes such household names as Eric Harris (Columbine High; total killed: 13, wounded: 23; Harris was taking prescription Luvox®); Mark Barton (Atlanta day trader; total killed or injured at two separate brokerage firms: 22; he also killed his wife and two children; Prozac® was found in his car); Brin Hartman, wife of deceased Saturday Night Live comedian John Hartman, was also taking a prescription SSRI drug when she killed her husband; Joseph Wesbecker, a Prozac taker, killed seven of his co-workers at a Kentucky printing company with a semiautomatic rifle.
Before sitting down quietly in a chair to wait for the arrival of the police, 42-year old software engineer Michael McDermott killed seven of his co-workers using an assault-type rifle, shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol. McDermott was a Prozac user;5 and the list goes on. Heard that from your local (legal) drug vendor lately? (Other popular SSRI drugs include Effexor,® Paxil,® Seroxat,® and Zoloft.® ) To view an informative index of hundreds of violent SSRI-related incidents, visit www.ssristories.com
In January 2008, Dr. Erick Turner, Professor of Psychiatry at the Oregon State Health and Sciences University shocked the medical world when the New England Journal of Medicine published his article entitled “Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy.”
In the article, Dr. Turner disclosed he had discovered evidence that the pharmaceutical firms who manufacture antidepressants maintained an ongoing policy of hiding from public and private view the results of clinical trials whose results are not favorable to the drugs being evaluated. Rather, only the studies showing positive results are published. The hidden trials Dr. Turner discovered showed that in 49%—nearly half—of these trials, the antidepressants had either negative or mixed results.
Because such negative test results can be withheld from public awareness—as if they never existed—the unsuspecting public has no idea that many/most people using these drugs experience no greater benefit than taking a sugar pill. This is particularly reprehensible given the advertising spin that surrounds this group of drugs via the direct-to-customer marketing methods now permitted.
Another unpleasant fact regarding SSRIs, as discovered by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, is that SSRIs depress levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine—the brain’s “feel good” molecule. Brains of individuals with Parkinson’s disease produce almost no dopamine, and it is the absence of this neurotransmitter which is related to many symptoms of the disease. The Harvard researchers reported that persons taking SSRI antidepressants were almost twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s as those not taking the drugs.
Because of the harmful effects experienced by so many users of the SSRI category of antidepressants, it’s best to avoid them in favor of more natural alternatives. It’s important to note, however, that the use of SSRIs should never be stopped immediately, and any SSRI should be allowed to clear from the body before other products are taken.
Tune in next week to learn about effective, natural treatments for stress.
www.stressdirections.com/corporate/stress_organiza tions/stress_statistics.html www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1080507, 00.htmlIbid.www.cmcsb.com/tranquil.htmwww.drugawareness.org; and Breggin, Peter, M.D., et al. Talking Back to Prozac:
What Doctors Aren’t Telling You about Today’s Most Controversial Drug. St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
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