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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: CoastToCoast recaps Psychiatric Drugs: In the first half of Tuesday's show, author and psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Breggin, discussed the harmful long term effects of psychiatric drugs. The original drug safety studies only last for short periods, but people are told to go on these drugs for months and years, he said. When you stay on these kind of medications for a long time, we're finding a shortened lifespan, particularly from anti-psychotics, which may cut 20 years from a person's life, he detailed. Further, scans and MRIs have revealed that people on long-term psychiatric drugs have brain shrinkage. While the drugs may offer some short term relief for patients, "if you're looking at actual improvement in mental and emotional health...all the evidence points toward decline in quality of life," for those who stay on them long term, he stated. A new study has revealed that people taking SSRI antidepressants had more than a 70% increase in driving accidents, and people taking 'benzos' (tranquilizers) had more than a 50% increase, Breggin reported. He also singled out the vexing problem of psychiatric drugs increasingly prescribed to both children and the elderly. Symptoms for children on these meds include Tardive dyskinesia, obesity, and premature sexual development, while the elderly in nursing homes are often placed on anti-psychotics as a way to control their behavior, even though it shortens their lifespan. Additionally, Dr. Breggin talked about difficulties in withdrawing from the medications, as well as how many states have put in place "involuntary outpatient" programs, where people are forced to take drugs, instead of going to mental hospitals. Mental & Emotional States: In the latter half, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Peter Fairfield, talked about his work connecting people with the multi-dimensional wisdom of their body, as well as dissolving emotional and physical pain. He suggests that we can wake our whole being up by "going into all the places in the body where our traumas and habitual patterns are held," and begin to loosen or open them up, to reveal a calming innate presence that is connected to the now. One simple method is to breathe into your lower abdomen, which increases neurotransmitters, puts us in touch with our feelings, and enhances the digestive and immune systems, he shared. Fairfield also spoke about the concept of the heart. The heart comes down from the crown chakra, and has glial cells "that produce electromagnetic frequencies or waves that connect us...so when our heart is open, we connect to life and the universe, and we feel deeply," he explained. Interestingly, he said that "the heart protects itself with openness...when we're open and have the courage to actually see the truth, then the world is open to us as well." Vampires & Werewolves: In the first half of the program, author Varla Ventura discussed vampires, werewolves, banshees, and other terrifying entities. Ventura credited John William Polidori's "The Vampyre," published 70 years before Bram Stoker's Dracula, for laying the basic framework for the vampire stories that followed. It was conceived on the same night as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein after a night spent listening to ghost stories at Lord Byron's house, she revealed, noting how the story reads like a clinical study of the vampiric personality. Ventura spoke briefly about psychic vampires and their first mention in the book House of the Vampire. She commented on contemporary vampire pop culture and how the vampire mythos has been transformed through modern books and movies. "I do think that if Dracula were to run into one of the characters from Twilight, he would proba bly put a stake through their heart," she joked. Ventura turned next to werewolves, pointing out that 'lycanthropy' is an actual mental illness characterized by a patient's belief that he or she has been transformed into an animal. She traced the werewolf legend back several hundred years, speculating about their association with full moons and the folkloric roots of using silver items against them. Ventura said the definitive work on the topic of werewolves was done by Sabine Baring-Gould believed, a man best known for writing the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers." She also talked about banshees, or Irish ghosts whose appearance portends death. They are usually the spirits of women who died tragically and often attach themselves to a family, passing from one generation to the next, Ventura noted. They do not cause death, only foretell of it, she added. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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