Depression doesn't exist? How to become happy.
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Today we’ll explore how a natural survival mechanism was declared a chemical imbalance. Why modern psychiatry is a direct continuation of Nazi experiments, and your depression is not a disease, but the last line of defense of your brain that Big pharma dreams of hacking to get you hooked on legal drugs. And why is it harder to get off them than off heroin? The true mechanics of depression and the business of frozen souls. - Professor Moriarti, welcome to the brave new world.
Which country do you think is the happiest in the world? According to the UN ranking, Finland has been ranked first for 8 years in a row. What is the secret of happiness? According to the metrics used by the UN, the most important things for you are GDP per capita, the level of social support, freedom of choice, the absence of corruption, and trust in government.
But for some reason, this ranking doesn’t take into account the eighth place in the world ranking for antidepressant consumption among the population,
or the eighth place in Europe for the number of suicides per capita.
For some reason, happy Finns kill themselves twice as often as residents of Rio’s favelas. Finland is far ahead of Argentina, depressed Brazil, and the mots miserable country in the world, Afghanistan. Perhaps the people in the UN suicide statistics are counted among the lucky ones. UN metrics are less about happiness and more about ease of use. When they measure GDP and the absence of corruption, they are assessing the quality of the human farm. It is important for a farm owner that the cows are well-fed, not sick, and not butting. Then they give more milk. These are metrics of comfort in captivity, but unhappiness in the true sense.
Happiness is a biochemical and existential process. If we want to measure it realistically, we need to look not at the reports of officials, but at the blood, brain and social structure of society. At the end of this study, I’ll point out which metrics to look at first when trying to measure intangibles. I’ll tell you how to quit antidepressants correctly and share Moriarti’s recipe for happiness. Now let’s move on to depression.
How scalpels were replaced by pharmaceuticals
Just 50-70 years ago, if you even mentioned depression, maybe even the voices in your head, you would be forcibly sterilized or castrated without psychotherapy, without even really being listened to. Juts like defective biomaterial. As part of the official project to cleanse the gene pool of the disabled and mentally ill.
In 1970, the first law on forced sterilization and castration of mentally ill people was passed in the United States. As a result, by the end of the seventies, in the United States alone, and according to official data alone, more than 80,000 people were forcibly sterilized, almost 70% women. They were simply not allowed to give birth; it was decided for them that their children were not worthy of life. The goal was simple: to exclude people from genetic reproduction. At the same time, smoking, alcoholism, and consumption of vegetable oils were promoted. Simply because he was mentally ill according to the precepts of that time.
It is a hereditary defect, a mistake of nature, a threat to the economy. Who went under the knife? Feeble-minded epileptics and the morally degraded. This was not the opinion of marginal individuals giving the Nazi salute at parades, but of entire institutes universities, ministries of health, and the foundations that finance them. Do you think the fascists came up with this? Oh, Hitler was a diligent student. Nazi Germany adopted these laws from democratic America. More than 400,000 people were sterilized in the Reich. In Sweden, the country of victorious socialism and Ikea, 63,000 people were put to the knife from 1934 to 1967. 90% of them are women. They were simply cleaned out so that the Swedish nation would be beautiful and healthy. However, after Nuremberg, participation in eugenics programs became not just compromising, but fatal to one’s reputation. It stank of concentration camp fascism. But in practice, no one was in any particular hurry to remove the scalpel from the table. In the United States, mass sterilization of mentally ill patients was carried out until the end of the seventies. Eugenics disappeared from billboards not so much because science had come to its senses, but because of its toxic image. Money does not like fascist associations.
Now instead of castration there is a prescription. Instead of surgery to get rid of defective drugs, pharmacology to freeze symptoms. Don’t you think we’re living in a dystopia that even Orwell couldn’t have imagined? Orwell was afraid that we would be enslaved through pain and fear. Aldous Huxley predicted something even more terrifying in Brave New World. We will be enslaved through pleasure. Remember soma? The ideal drug of the state. A gram of soma and no drams. In the world of Hux, people were not forbidden to be sad. They were simply given a pill that makes them normal, obedient, able to work, and not asking questions. Today the amount is SSRIs (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). But while the amount was free, for antidepressants a person signs up for a multi-year paid subscription.
How much more profitable is it to turn an injured person into a lifelong subscriber to a pharmaceutical service than to simply get rid of them? Let’s look at the statistics. In the happiest country in the world, Finland, 10% of the population takes antidepressants. The statistics among young people are much more interesting. In the age group from 18 to 29 years, every fifth woman (20%) takes antidepressants. Over the past 10 years, this number has almost doubled. The United States is the main consumer. According to the CDC, Centers for Disease Control.
Antidepressants are taken by 13.2% of the adult population. This is more than 45 million people. Just like the population of the whole of Ukraine. Among women over 60, every fourth. 24.3% are taking pills.
In England, NHC data show that 8.6 million patients were prescribed antidepressants in 2022-23.
This is approximately 17% of the adult population, almost one in five. Europe. Who is the leader? Iceland has the highest per capita consumption. A country with one of the highest happiness indices. There, 153 people out of a thousand, or 15%, take antidepressants. General global trend. According to the ECD, antidepressant consumption in developed countries has doubled over the past 20 years from 2000 to 2020.
But not all countries publish such statistics. There is no point in inflating it, and only officially registered recipes are taken into account. This growth is the result of a well-established mechanism for monetizing the mental health of the population. If we strip away the medical veneer of mental health care, we see four specific drivers of this industry.
The First Factor: Expansion of Indications.
This is the first and main reason. If antidepressants used to be heavy artillery for deep clinical depression, now they are handed out like candy. The list of diagnoses for which SSRIs is prescribed has grown to the point of absurdity. Social anxiety, PMS, sleep disorders, chronic pain, mild depression and even prevention. The system declared any natural reaction to stress, grief, fear, fatigue to be a chemical imbalance. It’s a genius move to make life a diagnosis in order to sell drugs for it. And here we need to understand that when Big Pharma, with the help of doctors, talks about the need to take antidepressants, they almost never mean clinical depression or clinical bipolar affective disorder. We are not talking about severe organic disorders. Most often, we are talking about reactive depression, the same one that is now diagnosed almost by a look. Tired, burned out, no point in living. You have a disease that requires medication.
But reaction depression is not a failure, it is an energy saving mode. This is not a brain disease, it is what I call the result of self-defense. The fuse has blown. If conditions are unbearable, the emotional background is switched off to survive. At first it covers you with sadness, then with an emotionless emptiness. Anyone who has gone through the whole stage knows, right? For the brain, emotions are secondary and too energy-consuming. Emotions are not necessary for survival. He uses them to focus your attention. If people in the past had become overwhelmed by every out-of-control event, humanity would have died out. Therefore, in the most terrible and difficult moments of your life, especially those that drag on for a long time, your brain switches off the emotional background so that you can survive and not waste valuable resources on unnecessary worries.
Yes, at the very beginning of depression it seems like unbearable sadness. And then the emotions disappear completely. All that remains is irritability which is deceptively considered anger. But in the late seventies, depression was declared not to be a consequence of logical self-defense and conservation of the brain’s energy resources to save the carrier from emotional experiences during periods of real danger or a traumatic event. And they beautifully called it a chemical imbalance, the very thing that is simply a consequence of the brain blocking emotions, which means it can be stopped or corrected at the patient’s expense for the rest of his life, without paying attention to the root cause, but working only with the consequences, the symptoms. It was the marketers who told you: “Depression is like diabetes. A diabetic lacks insulin, and you lack serotonin. Just take a pill and the balance will be restored.” It sounds scientific, logical, and it is an absolute lie.
In 2022, University College London published a devastating study by Joanna Moncrieff ( Molecular Psychiatry: The Serotonin Theory of Depression ). They analyzed half a century of data and reached the verdict: “There is no link between low serotonin and depression.” The brains of people with severe depression contain exactly the same amount of serotonin as the happiest people who love life. What does that mean? This means that for 30 years we have been treated for a disease that does not exist, according to a theory that does not work. Depression is not a chemical breakdown, it is a protective mode. Imagine running a marathon with a broken leg. Your brain is screaming at you with pain. Stop, lay down. Save energy, otherwise we will die. This is depression. An evolutionary brake that saves you from burnout in an aggressive environment. What does an antidepressant do? It doesn’t heal the leg, it just cuts the wire that carries the pain signal.
The Second Factor: The Popularization of Antidepressants
The Lifetime Subscription Effect. Previously, antidepressants were prescribed in short courses of 6 to 9 months to bring a person out of peak Island. Today, the average duration of treatment has increased a several times. A huge proportion of consumers are people who have been taking pills for 2 or 3 years, and many for decades.
The reason is simple: withdrawal syndrome. When a patient tries to get off the drug, his brain, accustomed to chemical crutches, produced such hell that the person returns to the pill in horror, mistaking the withdrawal symptoms for a return of the disease. Big pharma doesn’t need a recovered patient, it needs a subscriber.
The Third Factor: The Emergence of Safe Antidepressants
The emergence of new generation drugs, the very same SSRIs, made them safe in the eyes of doctors, and therefore patients. Old antidepressants were toxic and could cause poisoning, new ones are almost impossible. General practitioners and therapists without in-depth knowledge of psychiatry now write up to 80% of all prescriptions. It is easier for them to prescribe a pill that takes 5 minutes to take than to send the patient to long and expensive psychotherapy. This is the path of least resistance for the healthcare system.
The Fourth Underlying Factor: Destigmatization and Marketing
Over the past 20 years, a colossal campaign has been carried out to normalize mental disorders. We were told, “Depression is like diabetes. You just need medication.” It sounds humane, but there is a cynical calculation behind it. Remove shame to open pharmacy doors to millions of new customers. Direct advertising of drugs in the USA. And convert marketing through influencers and TV series has created the image of a modern, successful person who takes care of himself by consuming chemicals. All types of antidepressants are reduced, weakened, cumulative forms of narcotic drugs.
You are taking SSRIs antidepressant, or more precisely selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. So you’re blocking serotonin reuptake. The substance MDMA, for example, does the same thing. Only SSRIs does it weaker and has a cumulative, long-lasting effect. Mephedrone was originally developed as an antidepressant.
Are you taking three cyclic antidepressant? You’re on a weakened form of painfully familiar psychostimulants, receiving norepinephrine and dopamine. For example, like amphetamine, cocaine or alpha PVP. I’ve even gotten to the typical antidepressants. Most often, they have opioid properties, that is, they act on mu-opioid receptors, like morphine or diacetylmorphine, also known as heroin. Your soul is not being healed, if I may say so. You are being sold a tolerable state of health in exchange for neurochemistry. You think you’ve found a pill for pain and suffering, but in fact, you’ve simply learned to endure and remain silent with a good level of neurotransmitters, without affecting the cause of their absence in the slightest.
Those who enthusiastically talk about how antidepressants saved their lives most often were not truly clinically depressed. They have something else: apathy, fatigue, seasonal decline, burnout, and yes the psychotropic stimulation of the SSRIs or other classes of antidepressants can indeed make such a life better. Like any weak drug, an antidepressant creates the illusion of normalization, but the illusion crumbles at the first attempt to get off. A withdrawal syndrome begins, which pharmacists and psychiatrists prefer to call a discontinuation syndrome so that the patient does not associate the process with drug addiction. Although in terms of symptoms it is absolutely the same rebound, withdrawal syndrome. You can expect insomnia, irritability, anxiety, sweating, dizziness, and electric shock sensations in the head. In other words, brain zaps, panic, suicidal impulses, these are not side effects, no. This is a systemic rollback of the central nervous system from artificial stimulation. And it doesn’t last for couple of days. In its structure, it is closer to the post-ecstasy pit, when after the euphoria of ecstasy there is a prolonged drop in serotonin. Anxiety, emptiness, insomnia, inability to feel. Only here the failure doesn’t last for a couple of nights, but for weeks. If ecstasy is an evening of chemical happiness and a day of a broken body, then an antidepressant is a year of chemical normality and a quarter of a chemical pit. The problem is that the vat majority of research and institutes have been funded by drug manufacturers for over 80 years. Doctors are simply taught to write down what they are told.
What happens to a person who decides to start taking antidepressants?
A man who survived real hell. A critical emotional shock, stretched out over time, whose brain did not break, but consciously turned off the emotional background in order to survive, so as not to burn out. Starts taking SSRIs antidepressants. There are two scenarios and both are dead ends.
The First Option: The Emotional Background Returns abruptly, without filtering.
A person from whom the brain tried to hide the trauma suddenly begins to feel again and experiences everything that he could only recently bear. Panic, horror, guilt, fear, system overload. Second wave of impact, only now without an active shield. The result will be anxiety breakdowns, outbursts of aggression, paranoia, and, in the worst cases, a window or a noose.
The Second Option: Instead of Returning Emotions, a Complete Reset.
Chemical burning of feelings, sweet anhedonia. You can’t cry, you can’t rejoice, you can’t suffer. And in this, believe me, there is no salvation. You just turn grey, no pain, no life. Functional, but completely empty.
And pharmacists pass off this side effect as a therapeutic success. After all, you didn’t kill yourself. Here’s what you have to understand. The lack of neurotransmitters is not the root of the problem, but the answer to it. This is a result of the system overheating, not its cause. As it seems to most at first glance. If you interfere with the effect without eliminating the cause, you cure nothing. You suppress the alarm and then wonder what it’s like to stop taking the drug. Everything returns to normal with even greater force and suffering.
How to properly stop taking antidepressants?
Now listen carefully. If you’re already addicted, don’t even think about quitting abruptly. The system doesn’t know how to clean itself. Withdrawal syndrome, which doctors often call rebound syndrome, is hell. Brain zaps, electric shocks to the brain, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, insomnia. Your central nervous system has forgotten how to work on its own. If you suddenly remove the crutch, you will face down on the asphalt.
Step 1: The Principle of Hyperbole
The dose reduction should not be linear, but hyperbolic. The higher the dose, the slower you reduce it. The last milligrams are the hardest. Spread the process out over months.
Step 2: Foundation Replacement
While the chemicals are holding your roof, you should pour a new foundation. Exercise to produce endorphins, a strict sleep schedule for melatonin, and a clean diet. You must teach your body to produce fuel on its own. Before you turn off the tap from the pharmacy.
Step 3: Acceptance of Pain
The worst thing is the return of feelings. It will hurt, a lot. At first everything you have been suppressing for years will come back to you. Anxiety, anger, fear, don’t be afraid. It is not the disease that is returning, it is you who are coming back to life. Like a leg that has gone numb. When the blood returns, it feels like a thousand needles are pricking it. Be patient. This is the price of freedom.
Recipe for happiness
To begin with, let’s continue to dissect the list of achievements of the exemplary cost. Social support in UN reports is not about love, not about sincere mutual assistance, and not about a friend’s shoulder. This is the cost of maintaining the enclosure. When a system boasts a high level of social support, it simply tells investors: “Our biomaterial is insured. This is the warranty repair for a unit that has broken down. You won’t be allowed to die under a fence not because you are valuable as an individual, but because your corpse will spoil the appetite of neighboring units and reduce the overall productivity of the farm. This is the social glue that keeps you in the system. When you want to give up everything and go into the forest, they tell you: “Sit tight. Here is your allowance, here is your free clinic.” It’s not support, it’s anesthesia to keep you from kicking while you’re being blown away.
Freedom of choice is the most elegant joke on this list. You’re given the choice between five or ten brands of toothpaste, three streaming services, and two virtually identical candidates for government. But try choosing not to participate in the game. Try choosing not to pay taxes, not to have a digital ID, or not to submit your children to a system of mandatory brain calibration. Your freedom is the length of the leash. In Finland or Denmark it is just a little longer and softer, covered with velvet so it doesn’t chafe your neck. You are allowed to choose the color of the walls in your cell, but not the right to go out the door. True freedom is dangerous for GDP so it has been replaced by consumer itch. A happy slave is one who is busy choosing a new iPhone rather then, pondering the meaning of his existence.
Such a system makes the thesis absurd that depression does not exist. Depression exists and is actively multiplying in the minds of young people. When you’re 20, your instincts demand expansion, risk, genuine creation and struggle. But instead, the system offers you a safe plastic world where your every step is digitalized and every ambition is packaged into a template for social success. Depression in young people is not a breakdown of the dopamine loop, it is a rebellion of a living organism against sterility. This is a natural reaction to the realization that you were born into a world where everything has already been decided, divided and insured. And you are assigned the role of a punctual bill payer.
The absence of corruption and trust in government are metrics of transparency of exploitation. For a farm owner, corruption means that overseers steal grain from cows behind his back. Or, God forbid, a cow escapes from the stall by bribing the warden. This reduces efficiency. Transparent power is simply a well-delayed mechanism for transferring your resources upwards without any leaks at the local level. And trust in the authorities is the highest form of training. If a unit trusts its master, it doesn’t need chains. He goes to the haircut himself, goes into the stall himself, and brings his aliments himself, so that he can be prescribed a dose of antidepressants in a timely manner. Trust in UN metrics is the absence of the will to resist. The higher the trust, the deeper you sleep.
My recipe for happiness is not sold in pharmacies. It’s free, but damn expensive to implement. If you regularly experience anxiety, sadness, or depression, try fasting. When you stop putting fuel into yourself, your body switches from consumption and storage mode to survival and cleansing mode. For the brain it is a signal of critical importance, if there is no food, being sad becomes evolutionarily disadvantageous. You need to look for resources, be as focused and sharp as possible. Why is this effective?
Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor
Fasting causes a sharp increase in BDNF protein after just 48 hours, it’s literally fertilizer for your neurons. It triggers neurogenesis, the growth of new connections, and restores those areas of the brain that have withered from chronic stress.
Autophagy - Nobel Prize 2016 by Yoshinori Ohsumi
Cells begin to process their own waste, all the protein waste accumulated in the neurons goes into the firebox. The brain is cleansed on a physical level.
Ketosis and GABA
When glycogen stores are depleted, the brain switches to ketones, it is a cleaner fuel. In this condition, the level of GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric Acid) increases the main inhibitory neurotransmitter. Your anxiety cannot be relieved with a pill, it dissolves into the natural calm of a chemically stable brain. How to do this safely and beneficially not only for the brain, but also for the body?
Step 1: Preparation
Two days before the start, remove sugar, flour and alcohol. If you start fasting while your carbohydrate levels are fluctuating, the first day will be a headache-including ordeal. Prepare your mind for the fact that it won’t be an easy walk, but clarity is ahead.
Step 2: Water Regime (3-4 days)
This is the gold standard. The first day you will feel the usual hunger, on the second day, weakness and irritability are possible. The brain requires a dopamine boost. The turning point. By the end of the third day, sugar levels stabilize and ketosis is activated. This is where the depressive fog will begin to clear. You will feel a strange cold cheerfulness, it’s your body that has switched on the hunter mode.
Rule: water only (You can have still mineral water. But without gas)
No tea with sugar, juices, or well, I’ll just have an apple. Any calorie interrupts the autophagy process and returns you to the state of agonizing hunger.
Step 3: Condition Monitoring
Drink plenty of water , if you feel dizzy, add a knife tip or sea salt to a glass for electrolytes. If you have type 1 diabetes or an ulcer in the acute stage, this method is not for you. Find another way. The rest of you, be patient. Your task is to show the brain that biological survival is more important than existential angst.
Step 4: The Correct Way Out
The exit should last as long as the fast.
- Day one: diluted vegetable juices or light vegetable broth.
- Day two: grated vegetables, a little porridge.
If you eat a burger on the fourth day of fasting, your pancreas will say goodbye. Be disciplined. Hunger is the oldest antidepressant in the history of the planet, it brings you back to your body, it makes the cells tremble with the desire to live. It’s free, it’s effective. This is why you will never be advised to do this by a doctor who has an calendar on his desk.
St. John’s Wort
You see, the people making millions and billions off your health are very afraid of anything that can’t be packaged in a branded box and sold via subscription. That’s why you’ve been told for years that herbs are for witch doctors and town lunatics, and that real science is only what’s synthesized in a laboratory.
St. John’s wort is a weed that cannot be patented, but which works by the same mechanisms as the most expensive drugs. But we will not refer to grandma’s methods. This is unscientific. The Cochrane Library (www.cochranelibrary.com) is the holy grail of evidence-based medicine, and their verdict is unambiguous. Roadside weed works just as well as patented molecules, only without turning you impotent, scared, and trembling. They conducted an analysis of 29 pediatric clinical trials involving 5,489 patients.
Result: St. John’s wort extract was found to be as effective as standard antidepressants, including Prozac Fluoxetine, and Zoloft Sertraline in treating mild to moderate depression.
The main difference: The number of side effects with St. John’s wort was several times lower. People didn’t turn into vegetables and didn’t suffer from nausea as much as they did on synthetics.
Why is St, John’s wort so effective?
Unlike the SSRIs, which simply blocks one channel, serotonin, St. John’s wort contains two powerful components: hypericin and hyperforin, they act as a board spectrum, suppressing the reuptake of not only serotonin, but also norepinephrine, energy and dopamine joy. In essence, nature has created a complex and multi-component cocktail that works more smoothly and more voluminously than a mater key artificially synthesized in a laboratory.
To overcome depression and become mentally stronger, it is important not only to apply the above-described tips, but also to change your philosophy and attitude towards life.
First: Acknowledge Your Pain
Stop calling your depression a problem. If this reality makes you sick, it means your sensors are working properly. Your melancholy is a signal from your security system that you are not living your own life. Don’t silence the siren with a pill, listen to it. What exactly in your ideal world would make you want to jump out the window? Find the source of the rot, don’t put a band-aid on your eyes.
Second: Burn The Velvet Leash
You have been taught to choose between an iPhone and an Android, between a liberal and the Ruling Party. This is a false choice. True happiness begins where you choose autonomy. Less dependence on the system, more real skills. Happiness is when you are not afraid of being left without their safety net, because you are in control of yourself.
Third: Look For Yours In The World of Atoms
The system wants you to be a lone unit in front of a screen, consuming a quick hit of dopamine. Break down atomization, look for people willing to lend you a hand without a banking app transaction. Oxytocin from real brotherhood and trust is stronger than any synthetic serotonin. In this world, only flocks survive and not proud individualists.
Fourth: Bring Back The Right to Meaning
Happiness is not comfort, it is creation. When you do something that can’t be digitized, sold, or packaged into a UN report, you become a danger to the system. And it is a this moment that you become truly alive. The exit from the farm is always the same as the entrance. Take off the chemical glasses in your mind. It will hurt, it will be scary, but this will be your life. Remember, corporations and Big pharms want your money. Your submission to any state. And only you, yourself need your true self.
Nael was with you. See you soon.
- Credits Professor Moriarti.
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