For this edition of our late summer / Back to School Issue, we are handing over our column to one of our readers. Our “chance” meeting on the beach one evening, lead to the following Letter-to-the- Editor, which culminated in a critically important, two-page article by world-renowned, health and nutrition expert, Gary Null.

 

Dear Neil,

The evening of the fire circle, I told you of my friend’s son who committed suicide two weeks ago attempting to get off of psychotropic drugs. It was a rollercoaster.

Ultimately he succumbed. Last week I walked into a coffee shop where there was a donation jar on the counter for the family of a 14 year-old girl that had recently taken her life. I can’t keep track of the countless drug overdoses (heroine) and deliberate suicides.

Far too many schools are not sufficiently forthcoming (via public alerts) about the enormity of the drug problem engulfing their communities; this also applies to the cyber bullying that goes on 24/7 that erodes young people’s fragile self-esteem, and moreover, their will to live. I can only surmise it’s about “property values” and the district’s “reputation.”

Clearly our current culture is contributing this this epidemic ... from two parents working non-stop, to the bullying, to endless inane TV programing, to the shift from critical thinking to teaching test taking, to violent video games, to the isolation of texting and social media (not being in nature, no real people to people interaction, including the latest report I heard on NPR that new mothers are not making eye contact with their babies as they are too busy on their cell phones), to the hopelessness of people young and old looking to enter the dismal job market, to the illicit drug culture, to the relentless pushing of psychotropic drugs (regardless of the dire side effects, including suicide) by our trusted physicians at every turn and age level – the sole purpose of which is to “mask” the symptoms resulting from all the aforementioned root causes.

I don’t know of anyone that has not been touched by this epidemic, or does not know of someone at risk. Put these at-risk people in our present mental health system and they’re sure to be given one or more prescriptions (one to wake up, one to function, yet another to sleep). I recall reading somewhere adults taking Ritalin for the sole reason that they “liked themselves better” while on it. Our society is on the brink of self-induced insanity where pharmacology is the only prescription. Surely, an alternative needs to be created (maybe it exists somewhere), wherein at any age, someone can enter a program protocol that considers the whole person and his life circumstances, that is DRUG-FREE AND INSURANCE WILL COVER. This great film is a must see for every family member: Requiem for a Dream www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgo3Hb5vWLE

Sadly the symptoms of “less than ideal life situations” are diagnosed as mental illness. These vulnerable people are led to the door to the mental health model, the underpinnings of which is Big Pharma. Furthermore, “Columbine-like” events, likely caused by Big Pharma, are exploited to get more “struggling” people on drugs. Then the national media runs these stories ad nauseam creating a vicious cycle. This issue is huge! And it crosses all racial, societal, and economic strati.

Blessings,
Anne Mayer
Centerport, NY

 

 

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