Just Because You`re Depressed Doesn`t Mean You Have Depression, Depression Is a Symptom Not a Disease, So Find the Cause -- Fix the Problem - Softcover

Dr. Mary Ann Block

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980087511 ISBN 13: 9780980087512

Publisher: Block Books, 2008

Synopsis

In her new book, Dr. Mary Ann Block exposes the truth about the diagnosis of depression and reveals the dangers and risks of current drugs prescribed for it. If you or someone you love is one of the 19 million people diagnosed with or suffering with the symptom of depression, the information in this book could literally save your life. In her clear and easy-to-understand writing style, Dr. Block again takes on the often flawed area of psychiatry to help people understand the real issues surrounding their symptoms. If you don`t have all the information you can`t make an educated decision. This book gives important information that often is not included in the usual doctor/patient conversation. In her book, Just Because You`re Depressed Doesn`t Mean You Have Depression, Dr. Block explains the six most common causes of the symptom of depression that she sees in her practice. Dr. Block explains how a comprehensive physical examination and proper testing can find these conditions and how they can be treated without dangerous and unnecessary psychiatric drugs. If you are feeling depressed you could have one of the following conditions: 1. Thyroid problems 2. Hormone deficiencies 3. Magnesium and other nutritional deficiencies 4. Allergies 5. Prescription drug side-effects 6. A personal loss or other normal life cycle experience. Some of the side effects of antidepressants include: depression, heart failure, heart attack, atrial fibrillation, cerebral embolism, stroke, shock, thrombosis, ventricular arrhythmia, ventricular fibrillation, hemorrhage, coma, delusions, abnormal EEG, hypertension, angina pectoris, agitation, sleep disorder, apathy, ataxia, hallucinations, hostility, paranoid reactions, personality disorder, psychosis, vertigo, antisocial behavior, and stupor. DID YOU KNOW: 1. More than 40% of depressed patients were not helped after taking two trials of antidepressant medications. 2. Before they first reached the market in the late 1980s, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) were known to cause suicide, aggression and other violent behavior. 3. According to the FDA, less than 1% of doctors know the side effects of the drugs they prescribe. Antidepressants carry serious potential side-effects 4. Studies have shown that 32% of patients in psychiatric hospitals registered low levels of Vitamin C. 5. More than 70% of patients diagnosed with depression had a history of allergy. 6. Chemicals in the body can change as a result of thyroid or adrenal problems, nutritional deficiencies, allergies, low blood sugar, pain or any other medical problem or from a medicine side effect. Feeling depressed is usually a symptom of one of these medical problems. 7. Discontinuing use of an antidepressant can cause severe withdrawal side-effects including severe dizziness, nausea, balance problems, flu-like symptoms, hallucinations, blurred vision, irritability, tingling sensations, vivid dreams, nervousness and melancholy. Patients may mistake withdrawal symptoms for a return of the original symptoms they were using the drug to treat. Difficulty stopping the drug can result in needlessly prolonging exposure to it.

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About the Author

Dr. Mary Ann Block is a top-selling author on family health and international expert on the treatment of ADHD symptoms without drugs. Her medical approach is to look for and treat, whenever possible, the underlying causes of the problem instead of using drugs to cover the symptoms. Dr. Block found that many of her patients had been prescribed psychiatric drugs by other physicians. But after conducting a thorough examination, Dr. Block found undiagnosed medical conditions that, when treated, resolved the psychiatric symptoms. These patients did not need psychiatric drugs which carry potentially dangerous side-effects. Dr. Block is the author of the top-selling books, No More ADHD, 10 Steps to Help Improve Your Child's Atttention & Behavior Without Drugs, No More Ritalin and No More Antibiotics: Treating Ear and Respiratory Infections The Natural Way, The ABC`s of Raising Great Kids, and Today I Will Not Die which chronicles how she helped her mother survive terminal lung cancer in 1991. Dr. Block chairs The Health and Empowerment Committee for The National Foundation for Women Legislators. She has served as a peer reviewer for the Agency for Health-Care Policy and Research and the American Academy of Pediatrics for the diagnosis and treatment of ear problems. She is a state of Texas Family Practice Preceptor and served on the faculty as assistant professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center/Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth, Texas Dr. Block has been featured on the CBS news show, 48 Hours and The Montel Williams Show and interviewed on CNN News, MSNBC's Scarborough Country, The Joni Lamb Show, The Ricki Lake Show, NBC`s Home Page, Fox Network News, The Today Show in New York and is a regular contributor on TBN, and FamilyNet's Your Health with Dr. Richard Becker, as well as being quoted in such magazines as Better Homes and Gardens and radio and newspapers across the country.

Edition details

• Publisher: Block Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0980087511
• ISBN 13: 9780980087512
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172