Hi guys, I have a question. Maybe someone in here has had a similar ordeal and can give some advice.
My sister has been diagnosed by psychologists as bi-polar. She's 34 now, yet the problems started when she was still at school. Even though she's very beautiful and intelligent, usually she's quite a sight for sore eyes - always very sad and cries a lot.
She's always extremely medicated, and after I read Joe's article (First They Came For The Cows - Are The Sheeple Next?) I thought I'd have a look at the prescribed concoction she takes daily. A lot of the pills are from the pharmaceutical companies mentioned in the article, so now I'm really worried.
I myself 'never' take any medicine, since I have always had my suspicions about pharmaceutical companies. I have the flu right now and I'd rather suffer through it than swallow something. A couple of years ago my brother threw all her medicines in the dustbin, saying that's the cause of the problem, and shortly afterwards she really lost her marbles.
I was just thinking if taking her to a herbal doctor might be a good idea. The side effects of the chemicals she takes is no joke. She's always kind of in a haze. She has no extreme emotions, she can't burst out laughing or become furious or anything. She's just always so mellow.
And the worst of all is that she has no libido or sexual drive, and I read on the internet that that side effect is permanent, even if the patient stops using the medicines. I was outraged.
Here's my question:
First of all, why does someone's brain stop producing serotonin or doesn't produce enough of it?
Secondly, should I try get her off all that chemicals and get her to a herbal doctor with natural remedies, or am I just extremely uninformed about these matters and should rather keep out of it altogether.
I just feel we have nothing to lose, if we take her off that stuff, and she goes all loony, then we can just put her back on it and know that we have tried.
My sister has been diagnosed by psychologists as bi-polar. She's 34 now, yet the problems started when she was still at school. Even though she's very beautiful and intelligent, usually she's quite a sight for sore eyes - always very sad and cries a lot.
She's always extremely medicated, and after I read Joe's article (First They Came For The Cows - Are The Sheeple Next?) I thought I'd have a look at the prescribed concoction she takes daily. A lot of the pills are from the pharmaceutical companies mentioned in the article, so now I'm really worried.
I myself 'never' take any medicine, since I have always had my suspicions about pharmaceutical companies. I have the flu right now and I'd rather suffer through it than swallow something. A couple of years ago my brother threw all her medicines in the dustbin, saying that's the cause of the problem, and shortly afterwards she really lost her marbles.
I was just thinking if taking her to a herbal doctor might be a good idea. The side effects of the chemicals she takes is no joke. She's always kind of in a haze. She has no extreme emotions, she can't burst out laughing or become furious or anything. She's just always so mellow.
And the worst of all is that she has no libido or sexual drive, and I read on the internet that that side effect is permanent, even if the patient stops using the medicines. I was outraged.
Here's my question:
First of all, why does someone's brain stop producing serotonin or doesn't produce enough of it?
Secondly, should I try get her off all that chemicals and get her to a herbal doctor with natural remedies, or am I just extremely uninformed about these matters and should rather keep out of it altogether.
I just feel we have nothing to lose, if we take her off that stuff, and she goes all loony, then we can just put her back on it and know that we have tried.