Reality Check: Mass Shootings & Psychiatric Drugs

in #benswann6 years ago


Why is it that when mass shootings are debated in America, the discussion always goes toward tougher gun laws? Yet we are not talking about the role of psychiatric drugs.


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I have been saying that pharmaceuticals have been involved in every school shooting for years. The progressives don't care, they just look for another tragedy and seize the opportunity to go after the tool used to hurt our kids and not the problem. They are like doctors, lets treat the symptoms and not the problem.

its good to see people talking about this. Psychiatrists are prescribing drugs which they dont fully understand the mechanisms behind how they work, and they can have serious unintended side effects on behavior.

Glad you're on Dtube Ben.

Excellent research and presentation! If only the mainstream media outlets showed as much professionalism as you ?!?!?!

Thank you for saying this! Resteemed! I actually bring this point up to anyone who brings up mass shootings and gun control as I do not agree with the treatment of symptoms rather than the root cause of the problem. Just like the medical industry treats only symptoms to perpetuate the gravy train, this is yet another cause of trying to quickly patch a problem with a symptom solver. Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and unfortunately, it seems more often than not, people on psychiatric drugs kill people even more often! This conversation needs to be had by more and more people rather than allowing governments (aka mind control) to take more control of peoples' lives and to gain more and more power to become more and more corrupt.

Thanks for bringing up this subject, Ben, it's important that we distinguish between the weapons used to do harm and the cause of that use. I do object to some of the language you used to describe mentally distressed people, words like deranged are not very helpful in this conversation and tend to reinforce the stigma that this group of people already experiences.

The "medications" prescribed to an increasing number of people have been shown over and over to increase suicidality and homicidal thoughts, and create a mental state called disinhibition that can cause people to do things they would not normally do, such as act on those homicidal and suicidal thoughts. In addition, when people do attempt to come off these drugs, psychiatrists intentionally wean them off quickly or make their subjects go cold turkey. This leads to withdrawal symptoms that the patient is then told is a return of their symptoms. The mental health industry is there to put and then keep people on drugs rather than to help them get better.

The question of why so many people are now on these poisonous medications is also one we should be asking ourselves. Why are so many people depressed and unhappy in our society? Could it be the conditions we now live in, where the poor are kept down and have no voice, where everyone is in a constant state of fear of terrorism and where we are never not in a state of war? The world we have created is surely a major cause of the depression and suffering that leads to seeking psychiatric help, we should solve that problem and not just band-aid over the symptoms with profit making drugs that often do no better than a placebo.

Deranged: Insane, mad, disturbed, unhinged, unstable and irrational. Please tell me how these words do not apply to any mass shooter?

I understand sensitivities to special needs children, but this is not the time to apply them. If there was ever a time to be callous towards a human being it it times like this.

Very informative and mind changing. This just gave me a reality check 🤔

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