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onestandingstill -> RE: keep the pills away!!! (2/13/2007 8:52:08 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Celeste43
I'm fourth generation mood disorder, my oldest and her cousins are fifth. I can assure you that my great-grandfather did not have any vaccinations or modern medications as they didn't exist in the late 1890's when he emigrated to this country. Yet he suffered from depression all his life. One of his children committed suicide, two of the surviving three suffered from depression. My father's generation contains one suicide, one ADHD and anxiety, one depressive and one healthy one. I'm not in touch with all of my second cousins but of the five of us who were closest as children there are three depressives. The younger generation? One unipolar, one high functioning autism spectrum, one bipolar out of seven. The diagnoses are different in this generation because modern psychiatry is more advanced. I truly believe that the suicide in my father's generation was a form of nonmania bipolar, although as there was no treatment for it then perhaps the exact diagnosis is unimportant.
My point is that it is fashionable to blame higher rates of diagnosis on modern life but for many of us it is an inherited disease. As far as vaccines go, my mother was one of the last to catch polio. My ex had a compromised immune system as did his father. When you went off to school unimmunized, the school system had to redo class rosters to prevent you being in the same classroom with someone who had a family member undergoing chemotherapy or treatment for autoimmune disorders. Because if you caught whooping cough, you could have given it to a classmate who would himself have been immune but could have passed it to the sick family member who might have died from it.
I think her point was using natural treatments like acupunture & other things like for example St Johns Wart (The mother of prozac) can help with depression, not the anti depressants caused the depression.
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