It’s chilly, Paris at the moment of the yr is a cold 83 per cent humidity, and the temperature is a mere three levels. Thankfully, my standard café au lait and toast with butter and jam enable me to place the pc on the desk to get nearer to a narrative that when once more takes us into the devastating world of dying and the medical institution.
In a newspaper, on 22 September 2001, a few years in the past, I got here throughout a small blurb, you recognize, these brief information objects that seem in column type and that are utilized by newspaper editors to fill the web page, which learn as follows:
Bleeding threat with new antidepressants:
A research revealed within the newest version of the British Medical Journal says that new-generation antidepressant medication that inhibit the reabsorption of serotonin within the mind improve the chance of gastrointestinal bleeding in older folks. The analysis, carried out in a number of Canadian hospitals, discovered particularly that the prospect of affected by such a dysfunction is elevated by 10 %.
Though the analysis was carried out in a Canadian hospital, the truth is that within the final twenty years, the consumption of antidepressants on the planet’s inhabitants has been and continues to be alarming. The massive pharmaceutical industries, aided by basic practitioners, the media and psychiatrists, have implanted the concept any emotional state that upsets us will be declared a “psychological sickness” and medicated with some glee with new technology antidepressants.
I personally was on the physician’s in 2010 and the physician who attended me, after I advised her about my mind-set, of a sure apathy, as a result of I had simply gone by means of a strategy of deep mourning by which I used to be nonetheless immersed, with out contemplating another sort of therapy, prescribed me antidepressants, which after all I didn’t take. Nonetheless, each time I go to my physician for any doc associated to any take a look at, I’m astonished to see that my medical information present me as an individual affected by melancholy. If I had determined to take treatment at the moment, right now I might be a chronically in poor health individual full of tablets for my “depressive” therapy.
In November 2022, a geriatric portal revealed a report with a devastating headline: Circumstances of stroke will improve by 34% within the subsequent decade in Europe. The Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) identified that 12.2 million folks on the planet will undergo a stroke in 2022 and 6.5 million will die. It additionally acknowledged that greater than 110 million individuals who had suffered a stroke had been in a state of affairs of incapacity.
Based on the affiliation and others consulted, the doable causes of stroke embody hypertension, smoking, bodily inactivity, an unhealthy eating regimen, weight problems, extreme alcohol consumption, atrial fibrillation, excessive blood lipid ranges, diabetes mellitus, genetics, stress, and so on. It appears that evidently dwelling, normally, causes stroke. As soon as once more, medication lays an enormous deck of playing cards on the desk in order that no matter card you’re dealt, you haven’t any selection however to medicate your self. And particularly for stress or pressure, anxiolytics and antidepressants.
In my modest analysis on the connection between previous age and stroke, I’ve come throughout some really terrifying articles that place all of the blame, as justice would have it, of the ordeal on the aged individual (I’m an aged individual myself). In an article revealed on 28 November this yr (2023) and entitled: La depresión, un problema de salud pública entre la población mayor (Despair, a public well being downside among the many aged). Among the many horrifying signs that may diagnose such a persistent sickness, the next will be learn:
Despair has turn out to be a public well being downside that deserves particular consideration due to its results on cognitive decline in older folks. Its signs can fluctuate and have an effect on each the bodily and emotional well-being of victims.
Widespread signs embody lack of vitality or fixed fatigue, boredom, unhappiness or apathy, low vanity, nervousness, restlessness, delusions, unwarranted worry, emotions of worthlessness, delicate cognitive impairment, unexplained or persistent ache and a few behavioural disturbances.
Social elements that ought to in no case be handled with antidepressants. To label such issues as a case of public well being is a shame that’s being imposed as a way to completely medicate individuals who ought to solely be helped to really feel helpful once more. To assert that such individuals are “a burden” is to dispossess them of their basic rights, particularly once they find yourself in nursing properties not for social and emotional reintegration, however solely as “cattle” to be fed and filled with medication till they die and are not a nuisance.
Over-medication is a threat issue, particularly in people who find themselves already grey-haired. Research on what causes a sure illness, carried out in any college on the planet or “accredited” physique, don’t essentially, if ever, analyse who causes it. That’s the reason each time we’re prescribed something, we shouldn’t be bored with asking always, even to web serps to indicate us and make clear each final molecule of doubt now we have. And if not, I like to recommend spending just a few {dollars} (euros) to purchase a ebook or two crucial of the medical system. I all the time suggest, due to the creator and his medical coaching, one in every of these two books: How you can survive in an overmedicated world, or Medicines that kill and organised crime.
The worldwide well being care system desires us to be over-medicated. Medication ought to solely be used very sometimes. If we have to be continually on the physician’s, then one thing is flawed, let’s learn the tablets we take, the unwanted effects they trigger, and it could prove that we’re falling right into a self-destructive spiral guided by the one-eyed main the blind.
However as I all the time say, as I end my already chilly espresso, my articles, my observations, don’t have anything to do with the trustworthy medical class that tries to convey us nearer collectively in order that our well being turns into higher and higher and extra secure. And in the identical method, it is usually handy for us to pay attention to the life we lead. Is it wholesome? If it isn’t, let’s change it.
References:
Los casos de ictus aumentarán un 34% en la próxima década en Europa (geriatricarea.com)
La depresión, un problema de salud pública entre la población mayor (geriatricarea.com)
Diario La Razón, sábado, 22/IX/2021, pág. 35 (España)