I have been treating people with depression for 37 years.

This is what I know.

Sadness is a feeling. Sadness can become depression. How, what is going wrong?

Let’s put it simply. Emotions consist of two things: Thoughts and feelings.

Thoughts and feelings interact. They feed of each other. They can get into a vicious cycle. Bad thoughts, bad feelings, bad feelings, bad thoughts.

When does this happen?
Let’s go back to emotions. Emotions, the composition of thoughts and feelings, are a reaction to an event. If the ‘reaction’, which we now call an emotion, outlasts the event we call this a mood. It diminishes quality of life. Thoughts and feelings start to feed of each other.

When does a ‘sad mood’ become e depression?

When your mood diminishes the way that you function then you are depressed. You stop doing things. It is no longer a quality of life issue.

20% of the Population is going to get to this stage repeatedly. There moods will lead to depression.

What can we do?

If there is a diminution of functioning you should always consider medications.

The vast majority of patients are functioning but suffering. Their poor quality of life is a major issue.

Only Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [CBT] can improve the quality of life. CBT can and does prevent relapses. Medications cannot make these claims.

I am convinced that CBT should be available to all.

That is why I built my free Online Self-Help CBT site myRay. [www.myRay.com]

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Only your skepticism.
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Dr. Michael Benjamin
Psychiatrist

Neither GlaxoSmithKline or the MHRA can give answers as to what constitutes a proper chemical imbalance of serotonin in the brain - weird because Seroxat is prescribed for this ‘disorder’

The only thing that I can see is that Seroxat actually causes the chemical imbalance rather than rectifies it - A genius piece of marketing by GSK.

Prescribe a drug

Let the patient get hooked on the drug

Play down the risks by producing clinical trial studies beneficial to GSK

Employ ghost writers and patient support groups to back up the benefits of taking Seroxat

Robustly deny Seroxat causes aggression, suicidal tendancies etc

Always settle out of court for any litigation

Infiltrate the Medicines Regulatory Agency with former employees of GSK

Fund the government

Financially secure to research and market more SSRi type drugs

Credit where it is due, the marketing team at GlaxoSmithKline are without doubt highly skilled at manipulating doctors and the general public.

They don’t even klnow how Seroxat works - they are just pleased that it does work. Cases where it hasn’t worked - infact quite the reverse, seem to go unoticed - until the invention of the internet that is.

The MHRA are proud of the Yellow Card system - Why?

It is a completely flawed system and they only act on less than half of the Yellow Card reports.

A more robust system would be for the MHRA to employ a person or persons with a basic grasp of internet seaching. Then, they will see the REAL suffering from the REAL people.

Alas, they have ties to GlaxoSmithKline, namely Alistair Breckenridge and Ian Hudson. If they see GlaxoSmithKline have duped the public then they themselves have been duped by messrs Breckenridge and Hudson and that would cast a serious dark shadow on the MHRA’s integerity.

They (The MHRA) have been investigating GlaxoSmithKline for nigh on four years now - my guess is they are waiting for a ‘busy news day’ until they release their findings. This way the story will be pushed to some small article in the tabloids.

It is utterly shameful of any human being to cause human suffering. Both GlaxoSmithKline and The MHRA have continued to deny Seroxat is harmful in the adult population - forget the clever spin ‘dangerous in young adults’.

GlaxoSmithKline are currently being sued through the courts both here in the UK and in the United States. It now needs a firm of solicitors with huge balls to sue the MHRA. There is enough evidence I’m sure to successfully bring them to trial.

It will happen

Bob

Seroxat Sufferers
http://fiddaman.blogspot.com

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