Mental Illness - How Millions are Scarred by this Devastating illness. With Your Help We Can Help the Sufferers!
#Suicidal Thoughts, low self esteem, sleeping throughout the day to block out pain, withdrawn from Society, breaking up relationships, feeling of helplessness # ...... these are some of the devastating stuff my childhood friend Jane goes through every single day.
It all started at her workplace 10 years ago and the stress just got out of control. So Jane went to see her Doctor and was prescribed heavy anti-depressants, without even being given a chance to talk about her emotions. Maybe a walk in the park, a drink at the bar, session at the gym, doing some yoga or going to the cinema may have actually helped her but now the profit making capitalist Doctor only looked at his self interest with the nearby pharmacist that supplied the anti-depressants for life. This is big business. After 1 year, the side effect of anti- depressants made Jane put on 3 stones which led to high blood pressure and other complications. The end result of this terrible illness transformed Jane from a fun loving girl into an introverted and mentally disabled person with serious side effects. She is now on 8 different tablets. It breaks my heart to see her like this.
Why are Doctors and the Medical Profession not recommending other alternatives rather than these serious life destroying drugs?
The bottom line is money. Simple solutions don't cost anything but get someone hooked on meditation and you've got residual income for the long term.
What can be done to raise awareness for mental health sufferers?
I need to raise funds to get a web designer to create a website to prevent new people from taking anti-depressants and trying the different things yoga, gym, walking, chatting with friends etc. I can educate people through Jane's 10 year experience suffering in silence and I can also share my own story of how I saw the darkest episodes of my own life and what I did to overcome depression. The funds raised for the website Blog would be spent for the following:
- Domain name
- Website Hosting costs
- Web Designer Fees
- Professional Article Writer
- Advertising online and offline costs
Your funds would be used wisely to fund this important issue that faces every single one of us as you may have a friend or family member who is suffering in silence. This website blog would be a ray of sunshine for thousands of people. When the website blog is completed, it would be posted on here for people who have faith in this noble cause. I strongly believe in Karma and am totally passionate about helping those who need our love and support.
Thank You for your humanitarian love, understanding and support.
God Bless Every Single One of You!
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Thank you so much dragonslayer. Humanity will never be dead with people like you around. God bless!
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Great work! Thanks to you the ball has started to roll on a project I am so passionate about. Trust me when I say what you have done will make a big difference. You will be rewarded for the good deed.
Sent you some funds to help. Best of luck.
Thank you so much @benjojo. I really appreciate that. I am so passionate about helping others
I've lived with mental problems, for as long as I can remember. Mostly depression though.
On the contrary actually. There are a lot of different sites, groups on facebook, and similar things, that are designed to "help" people, but generally speaking, they always end up feeding each others problems, while making themselves feel even worse about themselves.
So I probably won't be supporting this, mostly because I don't know who you are, and if you actually have some value to bring forth with what contributions you get. But also, because I don't really see a point to it.
Though, I wish you the best of luck, and sincerely do hope, that you can help someone.
(On a sidenote. - They aren't really "capitalist doctors" - They are socialist ones, when they get tax funds.)
Many thanks smokerscorner for your views. I wish I had access to a website at the time depression hit my friend and when I suffered. It would have avoided some terrible mistakes. I think knowledge be used to save lives.
That was why, I wrote "It might be good for some".
I'm deffinitely not the norm, not by a longshot. But I have spent time on various sites, forums and facebook groups, and my experience was, that they mostly tend to keep each other depressed, rather than giving actual help.
It is amazing how few doctors are recommending holistic approaches for the treatment of depression, that said there is a widely growing movement of MDs and GPs recommending Loving Kindness and Mindfulness Meditation. There is also a burgeoning amount of evidence coming through from various clinical studies regarding the many benefits of meditation. All of which could do with coming through a little quicker, that said the information is there for those who desire it, and starting to meditate can be done with ease without the need for a prescription. Good luck with your site, I know it can benefit a huge number of people!
I appreciate your comments Stephen. I actually came out of depression through yoga and meditation. I got rid of the drinking, smoking habit and hit the gym 2-3 times a week. Now I now if I took anti - depressants, I would have been hooked on them and not live life I was meant to live.
Good for you! It is truly amazing what comes from ditching legalized drugs and getting into healthy living, truly transformational!
You have my support!
Thank you so much @myiju. Great support!
Your case is valid. Antidepressives are a shame. As is almost everything else that Big Pharma is doing to us.
There are many effective natural ways and methods to deal with this.
I wish you success. Good luck!
Great comment Ervin-Lemark. Thank you for your support.