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FDA has asked the manufacturers of leukotriene-modifying drugs to include a precaution in their labeling about the potential for neuropsychiatric events with these medications. The drugs include Accolate (zafirlukast), Zyflo (zileuton) and Zyflo CR (zileuton), which are used to treat asthma, and Singulair (montelukast), which is used to treat asthma and allergic rhinitis, and to prevent exercise-induced asthma.

Reported neuropsychiatric events with these drugs have included agitation, aggression, anxiousness, irritability, restlessness and insomnia. Patients have also experienced tremors, dream abnormalities, hallucinations, depression and suicidality, including suicide.

Healthcare professionals should be alert to the possibility of neuropsychiatric events in patients taking leukotriene modifiers, and should advise patients to report neuropsychiatric symptoms if they occur. If these symptoms develop, clinicians should consider discontinuing the medication.

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Trazodone is a psychiatrists medication its great for depression and insomnia instead of a benzodiazepines like xanax or valium or z drugs like ambien… often prescribed by non psychiatrists which contributes to depression. Trazodone takes 90 minutes usually to kick in so if go to bed at 11:00pm I tell my patients to take it at 9:30 pm. Listen to this updated vid on trazodone. Its often misunderstood in general medical practice and patient’s conceptions of it vary widely. It’s ok to ask your pdoc for this!

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http://www.lowermypressure.com I don’t sell the Alpha-Stim but I do use it. In this video I discuss my success with the Alpha-Stim - the FDA cleared non-drug alternative for the treatment of Anxiety, Depression and Insomnia. To learn more about the Alpha-Stim please visit my website at: www.lowermypressure.com. In my 6-part video series, Ill go through everything youll need to know to determine is the Alpha-Stim might be right for you!

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Professor Irving Kirsch, author of The Emperor’s New Drugs, discussed his research into the efficacy of antidepressant medication. Kirsch argued that,

contrary to popular belief, depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and treating the condition with antidepressant drugs is no more

effective than placebos.

Kirsch analyzed data from numerous clinical studies on antidepressants and said he was surprised to discover that “75 percent of the response to the drugs

appears to be a placebo effect.” According to Kirsch, patients improved mostly because they believed they were taking a medication that would help them with

depression. He went so far as to say that the figure could be as high as 82 percent, with the remaining ‘drug difference’ accounted for by enhanced placebo

effect.

Kirsch stressed that lack of serotonin cannot be the physical cause of depression. As proof, he pointed to a new French antidepressant that works as a

selective serotonin reuptake enhancer (SSRE). This drug decreases serotonin levels — exactly the opposite of how popular SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake

inhibitor) medication functions. Kirsch said studies show about 60 percent of patients get better regardless of whether they are on antidepressants that

increase, reduce, or do nothing to their serotonin levels. This is a clear evidence to Kirsch that these drugs actually do nothing.

And not only are antidepressants an ineffective pharmaceutical treatment for depression, Kirsch pointed out that they come with a host of negative side

effects, including insomnia, sexual dysfunction, and increased risk of suicide in children and young adults. Kirsch suggested alternative treatments for

depression, such as physical exercise (shown clinically to help people get better) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which boasts effectiveness

comparable to antidepressants. Patients treated with CBT are less likely to relapse, he added. Kirsch also advised people currently taking depression

medication to continue if it was working for them.

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Boiling Stumbling Mind model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_David_Laing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift

Depression, mania, psychosis, mood-swings, insomnia, anxiety attacks, etc. are ’symptoms’ of HEALING and will eventually get worse if suppressed by so-called medication or other distraction.

A therapist should help client find out what changes (like spirituality, self- or world-image, job, relationship, lifestyle), however painful, are needed to feel well/ whole/ healed again.

Most (if not all) mental dis-eases are caused by lack of harmony between cognitive (mind, psyche) and emotional (soul, instinct) consciousness.

Model of understanding mental insatbility as ’symptom’ of phase transition (i.c. mind-set/ change of mind/ consciousness or paradigm shift).

Note: In stead of “mental stress” you can also read “information” or “knowledge that is in conflict with the existing paradigm”.

A simplified (experimental) model to explain mania/ psychosis as a temporary state between two stable states of mind.

Based on Synergetics, theory of phase transitions and self-organisation or emergence in nature, by prof. Hermann Haken. (For “State Shift” read “Phase Transition”.)

Adapted from Synergetics site:
“Synergetics is an interdisciplinary field of research that was founded by Hermann Haken in 1969. It deals with complex systems that are composed of many individual parts that interact with each other and are able to produce spatial, temporal or functional structures by self-organization. In particular, synergetics searches for general principles governing self-organization irrespective of the nature of the individual parts of the systems that may belong to a variety of disciplines such as physics, meteorology, chemistry, biology, movement science, brain activities, computer sciences, sociology, psychology and psychiatry.
The present research activities focus on brain theory and psychology.”

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When absolutely nothing else works for sleep and depression, doxepin (SINEQUAN) is left over from the 1960’s and I pull it out of a hat and it works about 60 % of the time. Dont forget doxepine or sinequan for insomnia and depression, there’s one catch is sort of a dangerous tricyclic antidepressant with side effects: dry mouth constipation blurred vision, urinary retention, cardiac side effects, confusion so limited use and only for some patients. it may come back in low dose in the future!!!

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TRANSCRIPT:
[Undoubtedly, I've made some mistakes in this. I more than welcome suggestions on how to improve this transcript.]

This is the last day of 1972, 12–11:45 at Camp David. A memorandum for the file, not to be transcribed.

Pat got away last night. [And I appreciate that because I already recorded it, but-- (?)] And I think that she really feels that I have been under considerable stress. I can sense that she has some sympathy for what I’ve been going through. I know she did. It must have affected her because she has been really quite low par all week long. I know these emotional things, they get to her, as they do to the girls. And I’m glad for that reason, as well as for many others. It’s far more important in the long run that this decision came at the end of the year, on the Sunday before she goes to the Rose Parade in Maryland.

In talking to Colson yesterday, I made the point that we would not have any positive reaction from the people on this bombing halt to renew the negotiations.

[They must understand (?)] that we had everybody meet, because, as I put it to him, in nature and in all forms of life political or otherwise, the peaks can only be, are only as high as the valleys, which–it is our belief, and it may be mistaken, that the bombing has not yet reached the point in the public mind that could cause the consternation that the [remembrance/members (?)] of the opposition to the May 8th decision caused. Consequently, while the valley in first blush is very deep, the peak afterwards coming off of the Moscow summit is a very high one.

In this instance, because of the fact of the bombing we have to get down and get up in the public mind to a very great extent till the middle of the week. We undoubtedly had a lot of consternation among even some of our friends, since in talking to Connally and Billy Graham will indicate a sense of relief, which is based on the [... (?)], not that we need a peak, but public support such as we had after May 8.

And we know the negotiations will of course renew the hopes for peace. This will help in getting across the point that would be fundamental that we never would have had negotiations on a serious basis unless we had bombed. It is something that we can only hope the public will understand, because we had to [move out (?)] on this point.

Paragraph. I also talked to Moorer. Since he basically [... (?)] since three-thirty this morning, this morning when I [wrapped up on (?)] my two hours insomnia, which seems to be now a rather standard pattern. But I would like to get over it somewhat. Period. Incidentally in that respect, I tried again last night staying up till eleven o’clock or 11:30 and then going to bed late hoping to sleep maybe until around 6:30 or 7, but it was the same pattern. I still woke up between 2:30 and three in the morning. Perhaps I have to develop a new scheme, whereby I accept the fact that regardless of when I go to bed, I wake up every four or five hours, and it’s going to take me about an hour and a half to two hours to get back to sleep again. [... (?)] the hour and a half to two hours in a more constructive way. The only problem is when I read in bed or make notes in bed, I know that I stimulate my mind so much that it makes it very difficult to get back to sleep, and certainly just lying there wide awake for an hour and a half just to return to sleep, it’s not the best way to handle it.

New paragraph. I don’t think I covered in my memorandum from yesterday: when I called Moorer he said that he was very proud of the men, who are doing their flying and so forth over Vietnam. He said they were true professionals and that they admired the presidents courage. And I told him that my courage was not really very central while they were risking their lives.

About raising questions as to the wisdom of policy which had to be made as to how to [level it (?)], which caused them to take such risks:

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-Part 1-
December 31, 1972
238-027
Camp David Hard Wire

Nixon dictates a diary entry (which he did off and on during his presidency) that was picked up by the bugs he had installed in his study at Camp David. In December 1972 Nixon had ordered the controversial Christmas bombing of North Vietnam with hopes of forcing the North Vietnamese to accept a peace agreement ending the Vietnam War, which happened soon after this diary dictation. Nixon later recalled that he had fallen into a depression during this time period.

Nixon talks about his diary dictations in his memoirs. Woodward and Bernstein also discuss them in The Final Days.

(Photo: Richard and Pat Nixon.)

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If you are stressed regularly but don’t do anything to fix it, you suffer from long term stress. Such situation is extremely dangerous both for you body and for your psyche. The chances are that at least one of the following problems will show up.

The first signs of chronic stress are depression and problems with keeping one’s temper down. While they are bad enough, they are only a beginning. Soon after first bursts of rage, a stressed person starts to suffer from various health conditions. high blood pressure is probably the easiest to notice since it is the main reason for stress-induced deaths. So, soon after you become chronically stressed, you will have to start taking more and more pills from a doctor only to maintain your present health.

However, it is still only the beginning. Soon after risen blood pressure you will start to suffer from various diseases - nothing too serious, but you will soon notice that you don’t heal at the same speed anymore. Everything because stress got to your immune system and caused it do be much less effective than normally. As it also hits the digestive system, you can expect all kind of intestines-related problems such as diarrhea.

Diet problems usually comes right away. As stress forces us to consider everything around us either as a friend or as a foe, we feel urged to either cease eating altogether (anorexia) or just the contrary - we start top eat tons of junk food. As stress develops, diabetes is a more and more probable outcome. As our ability to know the right from wrong is seriously clouded by depression and other psychological problems, we may often feel as if there was no way out to normality.

Sleeplessness is another stress-induced problem. If you deal with stress for a long time, you have probably been suffering from sleep disorders for some time now. That’s a problem you have to solve ASAP - the less you sleep, the more you are tired, making your stress even worse. Sleeping pills may seem to be a solution, but they quickly cease to work and the danger of later stomach problems or addiction is real.

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