Chapter 21
What Can Be Done If
You Have Never Taken
Psychoactive Medication
If you are suffering from anxiety, stress that does not seem
to end, fatigue or a host of symptoms, you absolutely have
an alternative to psychoactive medication.
First:
Get a complete physical and have the physician rule out all
disease or illness.
There can be life events that were the direct cause of
depression, anxiety, stress, fatigue and more. Usually,
these feelings go away on their own in a matter of days or
weeks without you doing anything other than letting some
time pass.
If you lost your job and no matter how hard you search you
can’t find gain-full employment, which is depressing and
stressful on all of us. It does not mean you now have an
illness as some would like to make you believe. If you found
the job you were looking for the depression and stress would
vanish overnight. The answer is a job that pays what you
need. You do not suddenly have a lifelong chemical imbalance
due to unemployment.
These medications are strong, some are truly addicting, and
all of the drugs are life altering. The question is how your
life will be altered.
When depression, anxiety, stress, and/or fatigue begin,
other factors also play a role in general health. Levels of
hormones, adrenals, glucose, cortisol and other functions
can become drained, imbalanced or overly stimulated.
Psychoactive medications, in part, are designed to regulate
all of these functions to some degree, but they ultimately
affect these functions by altering other chemicals in the
brain and body. Read Chapter 4, Drug Side Effects again if
needed to gain a full understanding of the risk/reward.
Second:
If you are diagnosed with a disease or illness, make sure
the diagnosis is from an objective test – not a subjective
analysis. As of
this writing, all mental disorders are diagnosed with
subjective tests.
Later in this chapter you will find possible solutions for
symptoms you may be experiencing. One example is using the
JNK Capsules, Neuro Day, Neuro Night for anxiety symptoms. These supplements do not cure
disease or illness. With that in mind, if you feel the
anxiety vanish once you begin using these supplements, you
must not have had an Anxiety Disorder.
If you were diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, take
the JNK supplement and Neuro Endure Mini, and if you no
longer feel the fatigue, you were misdiagnosed. Misdiagnoses
can and does happen more often than not.
If a diagnosis of ADHD is presented, then you take JNK
Capsules and Neuro Day. Again, these supplements do
not cure or prevent disease or illness. If you feel the
major positive changes after using these supplements, your
body was just lacking those nutrients.
If you are hearing voices, experiencing ringing in the ears,
seem to be manic and then feel depressed and you take the
JNK Capsules and the Neuro Day, and those symptoms
vanish, you were never bipolar, schizophrenic: you greatly
lacked the nutrients found in those supplements.
Good-meaning, well-intentioned physicians often feel like
they must prescribe psychoactive medication or face the
threat of malpractice. One senior partner in a law firm
refused to even read this book. Why? His answer was, “If
there is a way to taper off psychoactive drugs, we would no
longer have a case.”
If you receive a clean bill of health from your physician,
there are suggestions and probable solutions.
Read Chapter 3, Nutritionals Used on The
Road Back Program
and locate the supplement/s that pertains to how you feel.
The supplements work quickly and you will probably
experience relief faster than you ever imagined.
If you have just lost a loved one, there are no supplements
or medications that will replace the loss. The most a
psychoactive medication will do is deaden the feelings
experienced because of the loss.
The most a good supplement will do is assist the body
to not succumb to the continued drain put on it because of
the feeling of loss.
The Road Back
of course, is unable to handle the life reason for anxiety,
stress, depression or even fatigue. However, we can assist
your body to not succumb to the physical stressors being put
on it daily from emotional trauma.
Hundreds of clinical trials have shown that people with
anxiety; stress, fatigue and depression have low levels of
amino acids, vitamins, minerals, antioxidant levels and
more. These clinical trials point to the fact that a person
will suffer a depletion of these vital nutrients if they are
put under enough stress or duress for a period of time.
Our goal here is to point out a few things you can do to
help your body maintain general health and well-being while
you address the real reason for the problem you are
experiencing.
If an emotion continues beyond some arbitrary “they should
be over it by now” time period, psychoactive medications
come into play. Neither these drugs nor supplements will
help you “realize” or have an “earth shattering realization”
about why you have felt that way for such a long time or
remove the loss you feel. They will not.
Psychoactive medication may block the emotion, but the
emotion will need to be dealt with at some time in the
future, unless you just wish to feel “flat- lined” forever.
Most people tell us, in hindsight, they would have been
better off dealing with the emotion when it happened,
instead of putting it off for months or years and then
dealing with the emotion on top of the drug withdrawal.
This is why The Road
Back suggests using a few supplements. Again, the
supplements are not going to solve the problem or underlying
condition. They will only help maintain the body’s general
health and well-being and give you the chance to address the
original problem.
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