So you were a psychiatrist? If not, then you couldn't prescribe Ritalin if your life depended on it. I think you are making this up. Real Doctors do no leave their practice to become a trader and then knock the profession they spent YEARS studying...duh... I think everything you have said is radical and crazy. Don't you think there were kids with "mind" problems before the advent of "junk food"? Crap, modern medicine has emptied the "loony bins" that used to be full of nut jobs. One of my kids is on Concerta. We eat a good diet. We are a happy well balanced family. If you have really seen a kid who could not sit down for more than 2 minutes and couldn't concentrate for more than 5 minutes and was failing school turn around into a normal acting A-student, then you have never been in the medical profession OR you were a lousy doctor and Thank Goodness you got out before you helped destroy too many lives. I hope you are not really a "Gambler". If you are, you will get killed trying to be a trader. I would "debunk" your post in even more detail, but I have better things to do.
I can prescribe Ritalin in this country. Perhaps wouldn't be so in the US, don't know, don't care. I spend a lot of time in the states and I see you have the same problems, only worse, that we do. I have enough money to never have to work again and I have extra "gambling" money that I use to trade with very good risk management. To be frank, the way I tried to be a good doctor in a corrupt system, I wasn't making all that much. I worked 12 hours most days and earned less than my collegues who worked less. Being a doctor is nothing special...we are just more brainwashed than the rest of you after all those years of school. Are there any happy, well-balanced families in this world? Or are the "happy well-balanced" ones happy only relative to the typical or average? There have always been mind-problems, but not ADD on this scale. Loony bins have nothing to do with this conversation as ADD itself does not make one insane. ADD is an easy diagnosis and quick fix for the parent, the teacher, the doctor. The parent thinks: "oh you wonderful, great big doctor man you saved my child from this terrible unfortunate disease that I had nothing to do with. It is not my fault, and I can go on in my bliss if I give this pill to control my child who is just wonderful and peachy and not at all at all to blame for acting out in our wonderful family." The doctor thinks, oh good I just had to write a prescription, next patient please!" The teacher thinks nothing...there are 40 other kids with ADD in his class and he has no hair left from pulling it out.
I just wanted to give my 2 cents, don't really want to go into individual cases. Usually takes 1/2 hour at least and would be impossible on this forum. Bye all!
About ten different doctors gave me nothing but wrong answers, so I was forced to find the proper treatment on my own... Doc, I'd be very interested in your reaction to my essay on refractory depression: www.ProhibitionKills.blogspot.com I already know you'll agree that when it comes to refractory depression, medical orthodoxy is <b>looking in the wrong place</b>, as they blindly fixate on serotonin/dopamine/norepinephrine. Whether or not you'll accept my unconventional conclusions... well, that remains to be seen. Have you ever encountered a patient with this condition?
I don't want to get too off topic Rearden Metal. No, I don't agree with the opiod essay nor do I agree with conventional medicine. That doesn't mean opiods won't put anybody in a better mood, depressed or not hee hee
many patients takin' prozac'n'da likes to keep depression under control wud be much better off with bupe; sure both cause dependency'n'withdrawls symptoms but none is worse than da other in this regard'n'at least with bupe u mood is perfectly fine'n'u won't have suicidal thots due to adverse reactions...prob is that big corp are tryin' everythin' in their power to dismiss da efficency of opioids as alternative med for depression...too much money at stake, innit[?] how is it that a med supposed to cure u depression cause u to become suicidal...if u interrupt da cycle all of da sudden u fried with prozac; makin' an argument for psychopharmaceutical drugs to be lesser of a danger to u health'n'stability than opioids is completely idiotic...i mean, look back at benzos..u can get out of u mind if u take too many of 'em'n'for too long; also withdrawls symtoms are just terrible'n'last for months if not yrs.
I would like to add to my previous post that when I started eating healthy, non-toxic food and using organic soap, toothpaste, hair shampoo and spray, laundry soap and eliminating toxic fabric softeners I felt my daily stress levels during t-bond day trading go down dramatically! Good food keeps you immune system functioning at peak potential so it can much better deal with the stress hormones generated by active trading. The higher cost and inconvenience of not buying supermarket food is money in the bank. I recommend the following link: http://www.truthpublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html
This isn't about 'getting high' to treat depression, as Freud believed could be accomplished with cocaine. It's about directly addressing the <b>root cause</b> of the depression (low endorphin levels), by ingesting a substance remarkably similar to what the body is missing. Did you know that the endorphins in your own brain have 48 times the analgesic potency of heroin? I can't blame you, even if you didn't know that. Endorphins weren't even discovered until 1975, and endogenous opioid research efforts since that time have been few and far between. My essay connects all the dots, and cites the few existing scientific papers which form the basis for my opinion. I know it's all quite unconventional (maybe even iconoclastic), but when you really think about it, can you find any specific holes in my logic?