Good for you but obviously not everyone's situation is as ideal as that

Thats putting it mildly .

Just your Tourettes to beat now. good luck going forward 👍

As the mother of a son with severe depression, I have to say I agree with you. Modern medicine is out of its depth with 'mental health' issues - its role is to fix broken bodies not to heal the mind, heart or soul. And when it comes to chronic issues, rather than acute ones, it's often best to 'look elsewhere' for remedy.

I cured my depression and chronic fatigue by changing my diet (to low carb/ keto). Medical professionals for years couldn't do anything. I did my own research. Thing is, there's no profit in people improving their health by eating the food they've evolved to eat.

I'm really sorry what you've been through and I know it's real because there's too much investment in profit motive. For a long time I knew what I needed, what would most help me and suspected it's what most of us need, but it doesn't make a profit. Being accepted and treated with compassion is healing. When I unexpectedly began receiving that from a group of native people, it became more than theory.....it was positive results. I know that doesn't mean that's the total answer for everyone, but one thing I'm sure of....if there was a lot more of that acceptance and compassion this would be a much healthier society. I wish you well and hope you find that peace of mind. It is the most valuable thing we can have.

I am sad for what you went through, you can remove yourself from that system and heal. Be patient, be kind to yourself moving forward. All the best x

Me too....I m fighting back with intentionality to put this system down right into my subconscious and unconsciousness, (both collective and personal)from my conscious desire, determination and discipline commitment to do so. How are you being/doing? I hope that you're having it well....😱👹😇🤡😘🤘

Incompetent doctors are CRIMINALS! I hate them!

I am in the same boat. I have been in and out of 'therapy' and 'groups' for decades. I feel like i have just been trapped in that mentality. As if it's just all a self perpetuating business model. And when one is lonely, unable to make friends, it does not help one bit to go to an appointment to pay to talk to someone for an hour every so often. Someone who I really don't know much about and will never be friends with, as it's just a professional relationship. It's all such a sterile, clinical world when 'seeking help'. I hate it. Depression comes from very complex sources, unique to each of us. i tried the pills, things just got worse. I don't need pills, I need friends. but I don't know how or where to go, and the internet does not work like that for me. I am unable to form friendships online, I don't trust the internet. I am obsolete and lonely in this new online world. nothing to do with serotonin. The world changed, not in a good way. This makes me very sad. I have lost hope.

ESP finances!!!

Absolutely. We all have unprecedented pressures put on us. Doesn't matter what we use to help 'cope' with it. If these things are not addressed depression and anxiety in particular will never go away. Better to pop a pill than face facts or truths. Cheaper to calm an individual that doesn't contribute than it is send them to therapists.

undiagnosed toxicology problems and nutritional deficiencies is the main cause of psychiatric problems,i have seen so many depressed autistic kids get better just by drinking 500ml volvic mineral water daily,their issues where being caused by aluminium from the vaccines getting into their brains this causes neural inflammation what they diagnose as autistic and depressed it can do no harm to drink volvic mineral water 500ml daily it gently dissolves aluminium and mercury from the brain they get better

Often the root of low self-esteem etc is due to lack of meaning and purpose. As this sentiment and the sense of people being a burden to society and the planet more depression arises. Life is relationship Each and every single being wishes to contribute meaning to others and even the planet. That is our innate desire and drive. When that potential is thwarted the psychological and emotional charge of energy is internalised. When supressed long enough it becomes to heavy to undo, face and replace and so the enrgy is depressed/repressed.

A pill is a temporary lift that doesn't solve the problem.

I wish they tested this vit d is a precursor for serotonin!! they give pills without checking biology!! madness!!!

Thanks for the insight Jonathan. How long after supplementing with additional Vitamin D did you notice the depression lifting? Hope your enjoyment of life is going steady now.

Eating bugs and owning nothing make you happy and cure depression.

@@1njustice I’m not at all certain. My sister’s observation was more than a decade ago and my memory is not what it was. I’m 72 years old and noticing mild cognitive impairment. Things I could recall instantly now take minutes. Also note that noticing the _absence_ of something is rather more difficult than noticing the presence.

As a Latino with darker skin living in the UK for 20 out of my 31 years alive, fixing my severe vitamin D deficiency was absolutely bonkers. I no longer what depression even feels like and can't relate. Looks so foreign cause even after awful events nothing feels like when I had my severe deficiencies. For some people it's working out, or social life or some other thing. For me it was deficiencies in vitamins and minerals for sure. I used to also get ill every month. Now I don't remember last time I got ill and I had covid without symptoms and only tested positive for a single day after being the weakest in my family when it came to immune system before. I'm for sure on your camp.

Amen ! From a social worker on Boston :)

Yes. Depression is experiential and not chemical. We shouldn't medicalize psychic experience with pharmaceutical hacks to the brain chemistry.

Unfortunately it's not as simple as that Depression is about how you react to the world around you sometimes and partly, but it's quite possible to be depressed when everything is going OK in your life It's far more to do with how you handle your feelings about yourself than anything else, and people can handle those feelings fine at one time,but badly at another Therapy is offered when people are actually not in the best place to make use of it,not emotionally able to make use of it,rather than when they aren't depressed, and so feel able to explore their emotional reactions Particularly reactions to past events/experiences,rather than anything in the present Medication can help people be in a position to make use of counselling, but isn't suitable for long term use,only short term However it actually works chemically

That is complete nonsense.

What do you think therapy is? And medication is really not supposed to be used without therapy. It's the two together that makes the treatment. Also, electroshock therapy has been proven to be the most effective thing for depression

I totally understand everything is grey

@@valkyrie5948 Exactly 💯

Agreed. His gentle, kindly demeanour combined with his clear presentation of the data is just what is needed...

He overstates the effectiveness of SSRIs. These drugs don't improve the quality of life of depressed people long term. How does it matter if you feel a short term improvement, which placebos can also achieve, though not as profoundly, when there's no benefit long term? And there's also a risk of a rebound effect if you don't keep gradually increasing the dose.

@@matfax And your evidence for this is????

@@ethicscannie5716 Antidepressants and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for patients with depression: Analysis of the medical expenditure panel survey from the United States. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265928

I would use the link but KZfaq doesn't like links to scientific evidence.

exercise, nutrition, sunlight, nature, mindfulness

God bless you too ☺️💕

Eating bugs and owning nothing make you happy and cure depression.

@@club4ghz LOL!

For divine intervention to be real, there’d have to be a god proven, and it would have to be proven that he intervened. Given neither of those are the case, I’ll wish you well but reject your argument :)

One of my gps decided to trick me i to trying them to see if would help with my post viral chronic fetigue. I wpild also sue if i could. Fortunately i only took them for 6 months, but that was 6 months too long. Absolutely terrible. I had every side effect under the sun, clenched my teeth so much it ground down the tips of my canines. Realising that the doctor just straight up lied to me and just pushed anti depressants because thats all they do when they cant do anything, was a real wake up call for me, and especiaply after all the way ther crap thats happened lately i don't trust doctors even a little bit.

@@ge2719 don't forget that the government is also to blame

@@ge2719 agreed, a lot of doctors are only fit to be called drug pushers, had years of it, now i look after my health, proper food, no fast food poison, no drugs, no sodas,

@@wendyfreeman32 not that simple for complicated cases of depression.

@@melgrant7404 agreed, i think my depression was caused from drugs themselves, if i had listened to my doctor he would have put me on more drugs, i listened to my gut instinct, and i think sometimes if you have a doctor that doesn't basically care, your not placed in a good position, it's a minefield.

You said exactly what l felt about this interview so very eloquently ..thank you!

As Dr. John points out, they do work even though it has been shown now that it has nothing to do with serotoni n. All the other things are important - exercise outdoors, eat healthily, counselling and psychotherapy. I have tried everything going, willing to try anything. I have found the chemical route was the only thing that gave me true relief from anxiety and drpression but that after a few years they would stop working and my doctor would change from one SSRI to another or increase the dosage of what i was on. Then i went to New York where cannabis is legal and tried a microdose each day, and for the first time i can remember, ever, and i am 73 , i experienced feeling happiness, it changed my world. Yes it is only a surrogate, it doesn't cure, just another drug. If i could buy these manufactured gummies to eat here, i would buy them even if they are stupidly illegal compared to the legal alcohol and its not uncommon longterm illhealth or death side effects when abused.

With you Liz, from the Sunny coast

Excuse my curiosity, but I wonder, were you happy as a child? I mean... before it started? Was something specific which triggered your depression? Were/are you surrounded with loving, caring people? Good friends? I wonder if that mysterious "clinical depression" is maybe a misdiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder... . I suffer from CPTSD since childhood, with severe somatization since my 20s and I totally understand your pain. I was constantly diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorder, until one day one wise person told me it's CPTSD. It solved the mystery why meds and therapy never worked, moreover I had paradoxical reactions! This person is a neurobiologist and she told me antidepressants won't work for PTSD and actually no one knows much about brain chemistry. (Looks like she was the only truth telling person I met!) Are there any chances you experience repetitive traumas in your life? Emotional traumas included... . And yeah, in my country the authorities and medical circle doesn't bother to help people like us.A version of Catch 22 in real life.

@@missstarrynight7736 Thanks for your reply, appreciated. My family life was what might be called normal. Stable and loving parents, non smoking, social drinking only and then very moderate, 2 siblings, one with mental health issues, both female. There are only two things I can think of that were traumatic. We moved around alot due to my fathers career develpoment and I was systematically bullied at a number of schools from about 10 years old until I left school. We also moved to another country, fathers job again, and I recall being very upset about that, I was about 11. I recall feeling insecure as a child, and also fearing death! I've always found making friends difficult and all my romantic relationships have failed, I'm male and hetro btw. I've had a couple of long term relationships, but they eventually broke down. I can't remember anything before the age of about 9, nothing at all. The bullying has been highlighted by a number of therapists as being significant with respect to my mental health, I admit I still think about it now. As for feeling happy, I don't really know what happy is. Things that have made me feel good are cars and motorcycles, personal relationships when they were going well, motorcycle travel, and my collection of books. So I think happiness for me is elusive, I tend to be introspective and always looking for something new and interesting. Hmmmm.

@@turboslag As someone with Asperger's, your description of your experience does ring some bells of similarity. Maybe look into that, if you want.

@@Sakuradrops51 Thanks but I am not religious at all. There is no credible evidence for the existance of gods of any kind and I cannot believe or have faith in that which is not tangible. For me science is the one constant in my life, mankind will eventually discover solutions for all our problems, although it is a rocky road.

“Lost Connections” by Johann Hari. Pick it up in the bookshop or online. Fascinating book about depression, some common reasons why depression occurs and examples of people reconnecting which inevitably had a huge impact on their mental health.

But they work for so many

Yeah, but there’s thousands of studies that contradict the so called study John Campbell has cited. That’s science.

SSRI meds made me worse. Amphetamine works very well

@snowdrop They have surely saved many lives. They’ve also caused many to end their lives. And, probably most common of all, they’ve caused untold unnecessary suffering and did nothing to alleviate depression. Just because administering a chemical helps a few people doesn’t mean it’s ill effects (or nil effects) are worth an FDA approval.

@@melgrant7404 They also don’t work for so vastly many more.

yes yes yes

It takes all sort of loner who need validation to seek out fellow losers, this clown wanted everyone jabbed even the kids.

Did you listen to him when he was pushing jabs ?

@@natashawatson385 what of they did?

@@natashawatson385 Yes, I was. I took the jab. Twice in fact. Does that make either one of us a bad person? We were only going on what was purported to be the best information at that time. How could he, or I, know that it was all part of a gigantic scam? We, (I) thought we were doing what was necessary to end the pandemic. Or more accurately, to end the *measures* that were supposedly meant to stop the pandemic. I was had, as were many others. I'm not happy to admit it, but that is a fact.

same treatment plus benzos I was not depressed I told the truth about my abuser and then they shut me up and supported the abuser nasty!!! 25 years of poison hurt me very much now I have an allergic reaction to Lies, mean and bossy people who are bad and don't care about vunerable people ! Cruel and unusual treatment!!!

Sorry to hear that. I took SSRI for anxiety disorder and it help me a lot... I don't think it was placebo, because i was not happy about having to take drugs in the first place and also i did not figure immidiately that drugs were actually working, but was aware that somathic symptoms were gone...

Eating bugs and owning nothing make you happy and cure depression.

@@club4ghz only if you listen to Klaus Schwab.

@Bernard paroxitine is fine for most people maybe the effect on you was due to your particular state of mind.

Thank you for that. Dr Eric Berg has good information on Iodine, I take seaweed supplement occasionally but maybe I should have it regular, I am always a bit anaemic.

I knew you was going to.mention the thyroid after reading your fist two paragraphs. Many people don't really the importance of a healthy working thyroid in many many of the bodies functions. Iodine deficiency is one cause of a malfunctioning thyroid.

Isn’t it amazing that a GP would never suggest sea kelp supplements?

I’m so sorry to read you’ve suffered so much, I have autoimmune thyroid disease (hashi ) so I really feel for you. Thyroid uk don’t recommend iodine as a treatment but I can understand also that a lack of iodine can cause thyroid to die.

@@celiad6012 I recently started taking them, and it has given me a ton of energy and improved some other health conditions I have too.👌

Well said!!!

But got the Campbell is saying that the medications do work.

@@AceRamone Yes, and that's not really where the science is. FDA only required 3 months for post-test of these drugs. At 3 mos., on average, a person with MDD will, in fact, be doing better than the Placebo Group. BUT ( yes, a big one), at 6 mos., the group NOT taking SSRI'S is doing better. Whitaker has been reporting on this stuff for many years, and a former Chief Editor for The New England Journal of Medicine was quoted by him. She said that they've known that the SSRI deficiency story was bogus, but admitted that doctors are taught to use the "Insulin for Diabetic" analogy for compliance; keeping the "patient" from being bothered with the science- which never existed, relative to SSRI'S and MDD. I read of a study where they looked at neurotransmitter waste materia in the Cerobrospinal fluid via spinal tap. The findings was that there was no difference between Serotonin "debris" in patients with and without MDD. There is no way to directly measure the levels of any neurotransmitters in a living being. We also know very little about each one's effects, nor their interactions. Hell, we just found out (and I'm surprised Dr. J didn't mention) that there are more receptors for neurotransmitters in the gut than the brain. We do know that more information travels TO the brain, FROM the body (sensory, polyvagal, etc.), than vice-versa, so you'd think we'd stop looking to our brains for all the answers. Once again, "show me the science", and if you start a pharmaceutical insert with, "While the exact mechanism is unknown.....", any deleterious effects are to be expected. Nature's got it figured out, and we can't just poke and prod; a lesson we cannot seem to accept. The neurotoxicity of these medications is likely coming from an attempt to affect Serotonin. The withdrawals are often hell because the body adapts, as far as it may, to any changes. Antidepressants weren't supposed to be prescribed for more than 6 mos; a rule clearly aborted long ago. I too have taken them in the past. I'm depressed, yes, but not again. They never treated the cause, only the symptoms, so Seratonin would've been causal of some symptoms. Grievers are provided these drugs; a testament to our collective loss of wisdom, and meaning. I'm sorry to all who are suffering, and hope the best for you all. May you be blessed during your "dark night" with people who understand, and who will love and support you. The universe knows we deserve this, while it remains unpromised.

He promoted the unsafe and ineffective, so my question to you must be 'why?'

@@alexcassel63 big pharma makes drugs that need to be sold and consumed. Docs prescribe and get their share

Not much profit in councillors buddy

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Fasting very quickly reduces leptin resistance and leptin levels and one day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again! Does the body preferentially prefer glucose as a fuel? No, it never uses mainly glucose for fuel and using glucose for fuel is very biochemically damaging! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMxhndp-x9yyqKs.html Fasting stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells. AMPK does many helpful things in the body including activating the body's antioxidant defenses. Fasting can make you gain muscle faster: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7h9a6qD39mteZs.html Deep ketosis virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body. This can offset the life threatening symptoms of viral pneumonia which effectively kills you through inflammation. 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Dieters losing weight through intermittent fasting show greater reduction in waist size and increase in insulin sensitivity for the same weight lost and alternate day fasters were shown to lose fat while gaining muscle at the same time over a six month period. Fasting reverses metabolic syndrome, which is tightly correlated to Chronic Fatiguque Syndrome, high blood pressurecancer and many other chronic diseases. Fasting has been shown to increase bone marrow volume by 10% and levels of carnosine in the body in as little as a few weeks. Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level. Eating one meal a day can bring most of these benefits to a lesser degree, and adding a few entire days off from eating per week will have even more effect especially when starting to feel poorly. 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It is questioned. Y’all need to really dig deep into the research because it really seems like you aren’t aware that the medical profession is perfectly aware of the limits of antidepressants. There is a wealth of research papers and studies trying to more accurately determine causes of depression that is tailored to the individual, as well as finding new non-medical therapeutic ways of dealing with depression. Read into EMDR, BDNF interactions, TMS, neural imaging, non-serotonergic interventions, diet, sociological analysis. People are really trying. Doctors do give the whole “serotonin imbalance” spiel to patients because really the subject is so nuanced and complex that there really is no time to explain it all during a 30 minute appointment. A responsible psychiatrist will forward a licensed psychologist to their patients. No psychiatrist has ever told me medication was the end all be all. They all have stressed the importance of psychologists to create a multi-factorial approach to healing mental illness. My doctor attends seminars and additional training every few months to stay up to date with the latest developments. Many people have the impression that psychiatry stopped progressing the second SSRIs were invented and have since been reaping in the profits and have just been resting on their laurels. That is just completely untrue.

@@Charles-pf7zy Not by the GPs who prescribed it and should not be allowed to. They just run down a list and have no clue why things work (or don't).

@@Charles-pf7zy There is no test for serotonin levels. No patient will be tested for lack of serotonin. Majority of psyche diagnoses lack any scientific evidence. Over 70% of the of the DSM task force editors/ writers has connections to Big Pharma. It’s funded by big pharma. Huge conflict of interest there. They have pathologized almost every normal human behavior and feeling they possibly can, while making a drug to “fix” it. They almost never rule out a physical / medical problem. Of course psychologists and therapists aren’t even trained to recognize or diagnose medical conditions and can’t order medical tests.

@@LTPottenger you didn’t read my comment because no where did I make the claim serotonin levels had anything to do with depression

I agree. I always felt like a guinea pig in a scientist's lab (i.e. the psychiatrist's office), "Well, that one didn't work. Let's give this other one a try and see if it works?" ---???--- Me: "Do you know what's in it that will help me, or how it works?" Psychiatrist: "Well everyone's different, so..." That was the extent of their "expertise." 🙄 Most people's depression is caused by life events/circumstances IN COMBINATION WITH what you wrote here: hormonal imbalances, diet, exercise, family & social support, or physical ailments. And it rarely improves with 1) meds like SSRIs and 2) talk therapists who have NO BUSINESS being in the psychiatric field, because they lack wisdom and discernment. And there are, very sadly, a LOT of them out there. Good intentions and wanting to feel important doesn't help people with serious depression. Therapists pushing the general public away from faith in God doesn't help people either. My faith in Jesus actually ended up being the ONLY HELP to me.

Spot on. My thoughts exactly.

Most of the prescriptive side of medicine is trial and error. It often happens that a drug created for one condition somehow "works" for something completely unrelated. They have no clue why. Clinical trial is not science. It is systematic trial and error. It can tell you if treatment works based on some criteria but sheds no light on the underlying mechanism. That's why I think treatment should be targeted and limit in scope, do the minimum that needs to be done and leave other things alone lest we mess up something that we don't understand. That's a problem I have with the MRNA vaccines. They take a maximalist approach and hack the system itself. Instead of fast tracking them they should be tested for an even longer period than traditional vaccines. They are a_s backward.

Or creating customers for Big Pharma.

Spot on.

Hey i hope life is getting good now.

Please help me ask dr Campbell to provide us With patient accounts of those who got better and how. Ideas never hurt

I understand. People without depression have no concept of what it's about though and the energy it takes for us to pull through. How could they?

"I'm alright"....

@York Hunt I'm definitely not a victim and I lead a successful life. Be quiet.

@York Hunt I'm afraid you've just proved the original point. Yes, there are things in everyday life that make you feel down but that's not clinical depression. I have had long periods of relatively mild clinical depression and I couldn't explain how I felt to my wife, any more than, a few years later, she could tell me what having the after-effects of a stroke was like. I could talk to two depressive friends, though, and the support we could give each other was invaluable. What's it like to be a depressive? In my case I didn't want to let my workmates down so I did what Eleanor Rigby did in the Beatles song: when I went out I put on my outdoor face. It's hiding the fact that your thoughts don't always run on 'normal' lines. For example, you set yourself difficult targets and you might get 90%+ of that target done but you'll flay yourself for not doing the last, probably impossible, bit. Prozac helped me. I don't care whether it did it chemically or as a placebo it got my mind straight and I've been stable for over 20 years. I'm not cured. I don't think you can be but I am now aware of the first signs and can do something early to avoid things getting bad again. I don't expect you to understand and I'm not trying to lecture you. It's just, as has been said, very hard to explain to someone whose brain works 'properly' what living with clinical depression is like.

@York Hunt Feeling depressed and clinical depression are vastly different. If you have never experienced true clinical depression you have no idea. Just like feeling anxious is not clinical anxiety. Clinical anxiety and clinical depression are life debilitating - it is a hell experience.

Jesus loves you he died on the cross for your sins. Believe in him and you will be saved and go to heaven!

@@tannyland6412 good for him…

@@tannyland6412 Jesus was perfect 🥰, His father [God] was deeply flawed, hence offered up Jesus as a "patch" for mankind's firmware deficiencies.

HOW DARE YOU, Campbell is a conman, who wanted everyone JABBED, FOOLS LIKE YOU FELL AT HIS FEEL BECAUSE YOU NEEDED SOME VALIDATION IN LIFE, STAY AWAY FROM US ALL.

And Dr Sam Bailey and her husband are brilliant

Neil Oliver isn't wise.

Hmmm…agree in the case of John Campbell. Neil Oliver? Some of his views, though not on show on this occasion, are distinctly disturbing.

Lol

They're not a scam they do work, just not in the way we understood. Tests show it's not just placebo, I don't believe they're good in the long term though, best used for a few months then weaned off, long term use leads to depending on them and eventually depression returns and the only option is to keep increasing and change to another drug.

I will not take SSRI's I tried Prozac many years ago it made me feel cut off from everything , anyway I did a little research. How do "they" Doctors know that you are low in serotonin? They don't. How do "They" test for low serotonin levels? They don't, and as far as I can gather the only way to test if someone is low in serotonin they would have to drill a hole in your head and test the blood in the brain.

Psychedelics are the reason why i didn’t take my life when i was at my end. I was stripped of my ego and saw the beauty of life and interconnectivity and even though i still battle anxiety and depression, I’m doing better everyday and will never think in such a self destructive way again.

LSD and mushrooms completely changed my whole outlook on life. I became a better version of myself This experience gave me a lot of confidence about my self and my body. A bunch of bad thought / behavior patterns were broken. One of these was pretty bad OCD that made me wash my hands a lot. It gave me a lot of hope that things will be fine, this is the one thing that I heard throughout the trip: Everything is alright. The main reason for the trip was my severe depression and it definitely helped me (although it's not gone). Before all I could do was lay in bed. Now I am trying to rebuild my life one step at a time which wasn't possible before."

[_James_tray] Got psychs

@@sarahh321 Where to search?? Is it IG?

Last year, I took shrooms at Las Vegas thinking it was going to hit like an edible or something. Shit was scary at first but amazing once you start getting deeper into your thoughts

Good for you Laur.

Read Einzelganger's book about the Stoïc philosophy and his book "Unoffendable", it can help you to better manage your brain. one day we will die, it is a certainty, so we must let go.

My good wishes for success in your efforts. I hope you will gradually overcome the heavy difficulties.

I had vestibular migraines it took a lot of research on my part cawthorne cooksey exercises, tapping and good CBD oil. Drs wanted me bed ridden but that’s the worst thing you could do

2 little magic mushrooms will alter your brain chemistry back to its normal state in hours

Whatever it takes, i agree. It should be about choice, so that psychtherapies, talking therapies may help disentangle deep-rooted problems but are never, in my experience, given long enough to be effective longterm.

Havening

That is exactly how I felt during the lockdowns!!! And it resulted in “depression” which has since lifted somewhat. But many friendships and even family relationships never fully developed again :(

Eighteen months ago, Dr John stood for everything that Neil Oliver despises. He's changing his tune in an attempt to remain relevant.

He used to be an unsung hero... I'm quite happy that people are listening to him now.

@@James-gf9jl He stood for everything Neil despises? Can you give one example of that? If yes, can you prove this example is a result of desire to stay relevant over genuine change of opinion?

Campbell is a quack and a loser and an abuser he wanted all and sundry jabbed, he is a conman.

At last! He pushed the arm spears though!

Interfering with mechanisms we don't even understand, but hooking half of population on those pills. Excellent business model.

Interesting thought 🤔

They are basically blindly scrambling your brain function and if your function is bad enough it can jog you out of depression. Probably rather harmful, though.

I became depressed after my baby and it got worse. When baby was 6months,I became suicidal. For meanti depressants were and are life saving.

It's the perfect business model, really. Never let the patient get better.

How long has this solution been working for you?

much the same for me, Vitamin D 3 i take 6 months of nice level mind cost 50 cent a day, was reacting badly to sun shine called for 7 years found out could be Vitamin B 3 low level so putting that to the test now started 9 days ago just waiting on an hour of sun on my skin see what happens

They do tell you to go outside more, which is related to vitamin D levels

@@vivvpprof It's been working for me ever since the start of the pandemic when I first started taking them.

@@dylan3657 I start burning and developing heat rashes in 5-15 minutes in direct sunlight. Even in indirect sunlight when outdoors I'll still burn, just takes 2-3 the time. The preceding days tend to be unfun with tight dry, flakey skin that breaks out in pimples. So anytime I spend extended periods outdoors is always in the shade, dawn/dusk, and night. If I have to be out in the middle of the day without shade for an extended period of time I bring an umbrella to block out the sun. I don't really care about the odd looks I get on occasion because those are easier to deal with than what happens to my skin after too much sun.

Yes, absolutely. If you have no hopes, they can't be disappointed. If you anticipate the worst all the time, and it's not as bad as you thought, then you get a slight relief. If you don't try, you can't fail.

Look up dr Sarno. The inner rage we feel is known by those who follow the stress reduction exercises to help significantly. I’ve recovered from other pains, but never suffered from migraine personally. I just know others that have. These are most common in people pleasers and perfectionists.

I don't know if you ever heard of the work of Dr. John Sarno and Dr. Howard Schubiner but you might find it interesting. Take care.

You do realise he is not a medical doctor? He is a nurse with phd in nursing practice, so yes, a doctor, but not a 'Doctor'.

I read that migraines are almost always a food sensitivity. I got an ELISA blood test and learned egg whites and almonds caused an, off the chart, inflammation response. I quit those foods, stay away from MSG, yeast extract and fluorescent lights and I rarely have them anymore.

They are caused by the TMJ, jaw joint. Doctors don't study the TMJ, neither do dentists, so no-one knows much about it. It's like a missing part of the anatomy.

Shame on you, Campbell or is it MENGELE is a quack, who wanted EVERYONE jabbed regardless of health, get real, let me guess you have a pride flag above your bed.

On NHS? Dream on! IAPT is only for 6 weeks. And if you want to extended to 12 weeks it makes you feel like YOU ARE BEGGAR! Actually whole process to get one is extremely frustrated and it no surprise they have ZERO TOLERANCE policy everywhere. Better going privately, as you would have more options, like to choose therapy and therapist. You can change your therapist unlimited number of times, if you feel like he or she is incompetent or because you might have clash of personalities. FORGET about that on NHS, the envy of the world!

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@@LTPottenger Thanks!

Eating bugs and owning nothing make you happy and cure depression.

@@milo2324 you're welcome

Jesus loves you he died on the cross for your sins. Believe in him and you will be saved and go to heaven!

@@tannyland6412 think you need medication, if you believe that nonsense

A wolistics approach doesn't make profits Cardi. Always follow the money.

No doubt essential oils and crystals will work. Lol😆

What I am concerned about with the wholistic care is that they then don't give drugs to people who really need them. I suffer from chronic pain and belong to a couple of blogs that give helpful advice on how to managed pain. In the USA, because there has been such a scare about the number of people getting addicted to prescription drugs, Doctors are now cutting down drastically. So people who are in chronic pain are not getting drugs that have helped them. It's time Doctor's spent more time with patients to find out what they really need.

Very true! Two good men in every sense of the word

I actually clapped my hands. What an excellent idea.

Correctamundo 🎯

StimParavane, you had no withdrawal symptoms?

@@aidabarreto9299 None. I thought it would be more difficult than it was.

Including wanted EVERYONE jabbed, YOU PUT YOU TRUST IN MENGELE.

He pushed the needlecraft. Glad if he has stopped that now? Better late than never!

We definitely do NOT need more people like him. He is a digital big pHarma drug pusher, who follows government ‘guidelines’ that have done untold damage to humans. Allopathic petrochemical industry relies on ignorance and greed. There is no money to be made in the healthy.

I tend to be suspicious of anyone who constantly uploaded videos to KZfaq regarding the pandemic and the jabs, and yet didn't get a single strike on his channel...Where other, more prominent doctors and scientists were immediately banned for doing the same!

very much so, James obrian, toxic and the bloke Darren overnight, I simply don't know how he gets away with some of the things he says!

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I struggle here and there. It’s a funny old thing. I don’t understand it myself. I deal with it and i recon I’ll get back to normal at some point. Good luck.

@@gdfggggg having quite nice results with microdosing.

@@sazajac77z interesting 🤔

@@gdfggggg citizen science. A neglected/outlawed cure showing much promise.

he needs the death penalty

@@Beekind799 seems a tad extreme. Just a tad though ;)

@@1234doawee anyone that died from the coronavirus was allowed to die from unchallenged cytokine storms,20000mg of iv vit c by drip over 12 hours stops the cytokine storms from killing the patient,it raises the oxygen level fast,no lethal ventilators needed and it stops sepsis ,all concerned in this disgusting assault by big pharma and its share holders will be held accountable,all nurenberg codes have been smashed to bits,i would hang every one of them ,if your mum died on a ventilator how would you feel knowing she would still be here if shit cunts like campbell and co supported the use of cheap life saving protocols to save lives ,any virus symptoms take 2 x 1000mg caps lipsomal vit c every hour until all the symptoms are gone,high dose lipo vit c blocks any virus from using glycosylation thats the end of any virus,how many have these bastards allowed to die from aids and the coronavirus ,they died needlessly,i hope you dont think this is just a tad extreme hopefully you have had the new vaccines they are lethal later

Just like when Campbell AKA Mengele wanted EVERYONE jabbed AND HATED THE UNJABBED.

What about his views on the unjabbed, let me guess you already had your 18th booster and you have a pride flag above your bed, mental health needs to be the topic of the day with you lot.

Scientists only do science where the funding is, or they become unemployed. The funding model needs to be changed to allow reaserch into new avenues.

Its because the government stepped in with big pharmaceutical over 50 years ago.

I have always believed in holistic medicine, it works for me now, after years of being poisoned by drugs, i will never go back.

@@planetzogg1 That is most certainly a huge aspect of what we are seeing, though I feel societal pressures among others are also to blame. It annoys me how quickly the scientific method forgot itself.

@@moomoocowsly I mean sure, if that's your opinion. Others who are in that situation may have done their own risk/benefit analysis regardless of their scientific knowledge based on their own experience of the effects of these drugs, are you suggesting they shut up and listen to you?