( 8 reviews )
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Posted: Nov 26 2007
I don't believe Ann Tracey's aim was to win a Pulitzer Prize with this book. A typo here or there just might have been due to the publisher, not the author, wouldn't you think? I believe her aim was more humanitarian than of some self serving purpose; to share in our experiences and to involve herself with those so victimized by these intoxicants, rather than be published in some obscure medical journal. Where no doubt she'd be dismissed and discredited by the very advocates of these past two decade's wholesale prescribing of SSRI's, even in the face of an ever widening circle of tragedy that now comes from such rampant malpractice. Instead she went public, and I'm grateful to her for that. I read her book along with other corroborating books and articles, and used her advice to help with my own recovery (from a near fatal heart attack from taking these meds), and to help me to begin to fathom just how and why my life had unraveled, at the hands and whims of privatized healthcare, and the mindless profiteering of the pharmaceutical industry. Before Prozac there was Delysid (LSD), used in psychiatry (by the psychiatrists themselves!) in an attempt to understand schizophrenia, and once considered a potential "cure" for alcoholism. AND, it was made widely available for the public to order from the pages in a magazine! By the very company that brought us Heroin, Cocaine, and had synthesized LSD for the CIA's MK-ULTRA experiments; the maker of Prozac, Eli Lilly. So, who do you, who can you trust? I trust Ann Tracey, in all honesty. I took her advice and called for tests the doctors I've seen had never once considered. Tests that spoke volumes: sky high levels of Cortisol (indicating Cushing's syndrome) and metabolic pathways (2C9/2C19) inherently incapable of tolerating ANY of the drugs prescribed, effectively shut down by these drugs. My brain was swimming in Serotonin for a dozen years, as a result. Safe and effective? I don't think so. It isn't depression we're suffering from, it's oppression. The subjugation of an entire class of Americans; the lobotomizing of literally everyone with a healthcare plan. Ann Tracy, if anything, has tried her best to help an American society that's become addicted to legalized dope, to warn us of our blind faith in a medical community, whose credo "there's no money in health" rings true, and has "what's in your wallet" as its primary concern, not your health. Sure, there may be more eloquently written books, but this one is a bible on the subject, dense with facts on not only cause, but cure. And perhaps the best cure of all is one of prevention; of being fully armed with the facts before you have that "scrip" filled.
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( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 21 2007
In contrast to students who earned degrees at accredited schools, you'll rarely see Ann Tracy mention what school she attended. However, in a court hearing in Arkansas (David Eric WOOD v. STATE of Arkansas, Opinion delivered September 5, 2001), she "testified that she received a bachelor's degree in psychology and biblical studies from Coral Ridge Baptist University in Utah. She also holds a Ph.D. degree in health sciences, with emphasis on psychology, from George Wythe College." Those are simply two different names for the same unaccredited school at the same campus with the same unqualified teachers. The founder (and, for years, one of the main teachers) of George Wythe College also has unaccredited degrees from Coral Ridge Baptist University--notice, it's the same name as the diploma mill that Tracy "graduated" from. (He does have an accredited BA in International Relations from BYU.) How could he teach her "science" when his areas were Biblical Studies, Christian Political Science, and Religious Education? Furthermore, how can a business with no accreditation, led by someone whose degrees are so shaky then confer a "doctorate" on Ms. Tracy?
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( 6 of 11 found this review helpful ) Posted: Dec 21 2005
Some people think they are so smart that they know everything about these drugs and chemistry, no matter how smart you are and lets say youre #1 top psychiatrists in the world. If you havent taken the SSRI yourself and experienced the damaging affect of these drugs, you cant say anything PERIOD. Not even if you invented the drug !!!!! Why do we have so many people complaining about these drugs? duh maybe because there is a problem and causing problems!!!, people who havent tried or experience the damaging affects afterwards dont see why people are complaining. We dont see books about warning people not to take for example flu shots do we? No. I used to be one of those people who believed and that popping a pill can solve my life problems but Now because of SSRI my life is ruined and have permanant problems that wont go away. And for people who are currently on SSRI, pills will never ever cure depression unless you stay on them forever,Im sure you are happy with those fake smiles, see what happens when you taper off of them. And people who are FOR these drugs should immediately go to doctors and try them and see how safe they are. I recommend you try prozac first. If that dont work out dont worry there are plenty others that doctors will want you to try. HAHAHA so sad that there are still people out there in this country that really believe these pills can help them.
