I think ALL of us would agree it is not a sane action to give loaded guns to children. Yet this is EXACTLY what is happening everyday to tens of millions of people as millions of unstable,rage filled unhappy and severely stressed out people are being handed powerfully addictive and toxic drugs that CAUSE reactions that include suicide, rage, anxiety and delusion.

Let me step back a moment and share with you fifteen minutes I experienced in my office while having a meeting there on my day off. Although the center was closed a young man around 35 came upstairs anxious and concerned looking for help to deal with his overwhelming anxiety and depression. For many years he had been on various psychotropic drugs. Yet these only caused him disassociate from his body,mind and life itself. He felt desperate and wanted to see what I might be able to do to help him return to his "old self' that was medication free and happy.

While I was speaking to him the phone rang. I excused myself to answer it. t was a women who had been given my name after spending the night in lock down as she had overdosed on Xanax. It was suggested she go to a local rehabilitation center in the area She said she had been to one a few times and in every instance was prescribed different medications. She felt she was in a perpetual fog because of this. She asked if I could help her find another way as she was told I've helped many people get to the underlying reasons why they were unhappy and angry to enable them to live a healthy medication free life.

I told her that if she was committed to find another way and become medication free I could show her how and work with her prescribing doctor to slowly wean her off her drugs as she learned the necessary tools to relax ,focus and remove unconscious drives buried inside her. She liked this idea and I told her I would call her back after my meeting to arrange an appointment.

At this point I returned to my visitor who was listening to my conversation. He wanted to get off his medications before he reached the point that this caller had reached. He set up an appointment to come in and begin his personal work. He left happy he was starting to take positive action.

Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists. Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.

The study examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The trials compared the effect on patients taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill. ... "Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless alternative treatments have failed," says Kirsch. "This study raises serious issues that need to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported." The paper, published today in the journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) Medicine, is likely to have a significant impact on the prescribing of the drugs. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) already recommends that counseling should be tried before doctors prescribe antidepressants. Kirsch, who was one of the consultants for the guidelines, says the new analysis "would suggest that the prescription of antidepressant medications might be restricted even more". The review breaks new ground because Kirsch and his colleagues have obtained for the first time what they believe is a full set of trial data for four antidepressants. They requested the full data under freedom of information rules from the Food and Drug Administration, which licenses medicines in the US and requires all data when it makes a decision.

In a fascinating development, now researchers point to growing evidence that depression might actually be good for you: What depressed the cavemen? It may strike us as a particularly modern malaise for a time-poor, fast-paced society but a new reappraisal of depression suggests it has always been around. A leading psychiatrist says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defense mechanism that in its mild and moderate forms can force a healthy reassessment of personal circumstances. Dr Paul Keedwell, an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, argues all people are vulnerable to depression in the face of stress to varying degrees, and always have been. The fact it has survived so long - and not been eradicated by evolution - indicates it has helped the human race become stronger. There are benefits and that's why it has persisted. It's a tough message to hear while you are in depression but I think that there's a life afterwards," he says. "I have received e-mails from ex-sufferers saying in retrospect it probably did help them because they changed direction, a new career for example, and as a result they're more content day-to-day than before the depression." One woman left an abusive relationship and moved on, he says, and might not have done if depression had not provided the necessary introspection. Similarly, unrealistic expectations are revised when depression sparks a more humble reassessment of strengths and weaknesses. In Britain one in four men and one in five women are estimated to suffer depression during their lifetime, and one in 20 suffers it at any one time. Creativity Dame Kelly Holmes has spoken in the past about how the depression she suffered in 2003 made her a stronger person, a year before her double-gold performance at the Olympics. Alastair Campbell has said it was the making of him. But there are other qualities depression generates, not just resilience, says Dr Keedwell, author of How Sadness Survived. "Psychological unease can generate creative work and the rebirth after depression brings a new love affair with life." Aristotle believed depression to be of great value because of the insights it could bring. There is also an increased empathy in people who have or have had depression, he says, because they become more attuned to other people's suffering.

I hope these reports help you understand what I've been saying for the past 35 years...when unhappiness occurs it is an OPPORTUNITY to look at your life and sort out what works and what doesn't..so you can then look at the different levels of consciousness..body,emotions,and thinking (beliefs) to make the necessary corrections and find another way. This is the alternative way that is best to try first before beginning to drug yourself! Maybe our new workshop or just ongoing classes will be your ticket to this new way of feeling good again and becoming medication free!
One of my favorite quotes which I feel has such practical application is Gandhi's " Be the change you seek in the world". How simple and direct this is to remind us...our job is NOT to control everyone and everything around us to make it the way we want it to be (while becoming a stressed out control freak in the process), our job is to find the peace within ourselves and then radiate this outward. Our inward feelings can create an atmosphere around us that naturally manifests peace.

This is what our classes and workshops do..they teach students tools to become calmer, remove built up tensions and frustrations, realigning themselves to their hearts' purpose. This provides focused mental direction which naturally dissolves old fears and grievances. Students gain a new knowledge of our Authentic Self. It is this which wakes us up from the dream of our false selves. This awakening shifts our attitude of trying to please others, win other's approval or prove "they" were wrong. Instead we learn to easily fill our own needs, feel what's right inside and follow the path given us for our growth and development.

Yesterday I met with Florida House Majority leader Adam Hasner to enlist his support for Educate,Don't Medicate..an alternative plan of action that gives choices to parents and children to Say No to ADD/ADHD Drugs that are being pushed on unsuspecting children through the medical and school systems. I gave him a list of 28 facts that show these drugs are addictive and cause brain damage,,while NOT really helping students learn any better than when not on these drugs. I asked him to help me find the right course of action to give children a bill of rights that let them protect their own bodies and mind by being given the right to Say No to Add/ADHD or other psychiatric drugs in which there isn't a biological test showing a disease or mal function of their system. (would anyone take insulin without a blood test for diabetes first?). I feel many parents and teachers get children on these medications to control children through the brain damage it causes making them more co-operative and less defiant. We used to spank the buttocks to ensure discipline..now we frown at that and spank the child's developing brain instead of making their home safe and loving and their education relevant and interesting! I had a large picture of the brain with me that I repeatedly spanked to make the point..after all 8 million children ARE spanked like this EVER DAY! There is another way. As many of you know the Clear Minded Children's Program I created years ago at the center has had 100% results of helping children become medication free and thrive again at home and in school without medication. My goal is to help at least 2 million children find a non medication solution to overcome their "ADD/ADHD" symptoms" I explained to him how I can easily train people to use this program to help children,families and save millions in medicating and insurance costs! I need your help. IF you agree with me that giving cocaine-like drugs (remember Ritalin (and the other brand name methylphenidate) is like cocaine..a Class II drug with nearly an identical chemical compound. However it is stronger than cocaine and lasts longer in the body. Maybe this is why Ritalin is the number one drug on college campuses and causes millions of other horror stories because of its great availability! I need your help by getting out the word to your friends and neighbors to have them email me if any teacher,principal or other school personnel has encouraged your child to be put on medication..and perhaps has ridiculed him or her about taking them in some way which caused them to be labeled publicly. I also wonder how many parents had it explained to them that these ADD drugs act like cocaine? Its funny how parents react when I tell them they are giving their children cocaine declaring "I would never give my child coke just to enhance his performance at school. That's crazy!".....Yes,it is! So let's forgive ourselves our mistakes and move forward to make some changes in this system...like steroids these are performance enhancement drugs that damage the user! I need your help with contributions to our program. Some of our angels came crashing to earth with the reverse in the real estate market and we are hoping others will step forward. The monthly cost of running our program is currently $2800. We average working with approximately 12 to 18 family members each week. Yes..if you do the math you'd see within the average three months it takes a child to ween off of medications under their prescribing doctors supervision (some much quicker) ..our program saves the insurance companies, medicare.parents and Medicaid billions. (Did you know 55% of foster care kids take one or more of these medications? With medication there a lifelong of taking multiple medications. With Clearminded program there is a $100 yearly maintenance cost versus a! (Each medication averages about $3600 per year. Many take two or three medications!) Plus our program reunites families , not put them on the edge from all the medication side effects! Our hope is that angels will emerge to fund this program for one or more months.Yes we are a tax deductible non profit organization and you would tell your accountant as it may reduce your taxes. We already have a commitment from the Besthoff Foundation, who were the initial contributors that began the program. They contribute for two months and are considering a third. That leave us with 8 months( a month off for the summer. Usually we collect enough donations from attending families to fund one month. Of course we also have in mind a retreat center for in house longer term workshops and have started a building fund to reach our $ 3 million dollar goal.So we appreciate all your generosity!

I am filled with inspiration as I have recently returned from Washington D.C. after presenting my research of helping kids off their ADD/ADHD/Bi-polar medications to The International Center for The Study of Psychiatry and Psychology(ICSPP). It was an amazing conference as professionals from all over the world spoke about how the false unproven "science" of chemical imbalance (do you realize there is NO scientific evidence chemical imbalance causes depression and that there is NO biological evidence that ADD/ADHD exists other than being boredom, fear, anger or acting out ?). Next week I hope to launch my inspiration with a series of new projects to help the 15 million children under 18 now on these drugs. (and the millions of adults as well). Of course this Saturday morning we continue the Clearminded Children's Program which now in its 5th year has helped dozens of children become medication free and thrive. We've had 100% results! (If you know someone with a child on medication or suggested to go on them for ADD/ADHD please let us know as we have more openings.

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