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As John received revelation upon revelation sitting exiled upon the Isle of Patmos, he issued a very strong warning for us in our day. He told us that our entire world would be deceived (lied to) through the sorceries (perhaps many) that would come out of Babylon. (Rev. 18:23-24)
He went on to say that the end result of this deception would be the demise of prophets, saints and many good men. In other words no one would be spared in this great deception by these sorceries. Remember that we were told that, if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.
So what is this sorcery of which John warns?
[I hate that I am often warning of things! I hope this will be helpful somehow, some way. Please know this is NOT a judgement of you if you or someone in your family is on one of the antidepressants or you are a pharmacist] [It is also NOT a condemnation of all medicines, either, rather a warning to stay aware of drug facts].
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” ~Romans 8:1
[I came upon this article and immediately processed it as a medical professional, but also a Christian. I’m pretty sure it will not be received well because of the nature and extent of the deceit of ‘pharmakeia’. Yet I still share it with the written permission of The International Coalition for Drug Awareness, a private, non-profit group of physicians, researchers, journalists, patients, and concerned citizens] [I also share because of key prominent whistle-blower testimonies that have come forward- see at end].
So what is this sorcery of which John warns?
The Greek word translated as sorcery is “Pharmakeia” (φαρμακεία) which means “medicine from a pharmacy.” (The word pharmakeia is very much like our word for ‘drugs’).
WHAT?!
Does that mean the drugs we find in those pharmacies on nearly every street corner now? Is it talking about those same drugs with ads that run all day long on our TVs and in magazines that we see everywhere we look?! Is it any wonder then that these prescription drugs are now being reported as the biggest drug problem in America today? Is it any wonder that the whole world has been deceived about these drugs?
More Than 9/11…Every Week!
According to a 1995 study done by concerned pharmacists, prescription drugs, taken “as prescribed” rather than abused, are the fourth leading cause of death in this country, killing as many Americans every week as we lost at 9/11 (US News & World Report).
In light of this, we need to ask who the real terrorists are when we are in a war over one week’s worth of these deaths while all the others go unnoticed, slaughtered and buried right under our noses. Is it any wonder the scriptures speak so sternly of sorcerers and sorcery?
Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry brought in more than $1 trillion last year, a number that’s grown every year since 2005.
Antidepressants and Study Bias
In January, 2008, we read in the New England Journal of Medicine that almost half of the studies done on one of America’s most popular group of drugs, antidepressants, were negative…
…yet when any of those negative studies were reported to the public the results were presented as positive.
The study discovered widespread antidepressant bias!
They also said the studies indicated that there was little evidence these drugs which bring in nearly $200 Million per day were more effective than placebo in treating depression.
Deception?
Deadly deception!
How deadly?
(Source) a misleading Effexor ad
The most popular of these antidepressants, Effexor, has “homicidal ideation” listed as a side-effect. Homicidal ideation is not just killing someone, but it is having constant ruminating thoughts of killing and how to kill.
With ads like the one on the right, many hurting souls are encouraged to go looking for something that might be better. –>
To see the results of just this one deception with antidepressants go to www.ssristories.NET where you will find a very long list of school shootings, loving mothers and fathers who have killed their children, children who have killed their parents, suicides, murder/suicides, female school teachers who have seduced male students, even well respected ministers who have raped children, previously “straight” individuals who have become “gay” – even to the point of having sex change surgery, extreme out of character behavior, including violence, wild spending sprees, embezzlement, sexual promiscuity, exhibitionism, gambling, etc. – all are side effects of antidepressants.
Then the FDA announced that they have been investigating 9 various types of medications for the potential of causing suicide. After learning that antidepressants increase suicidal potential by 2-3 times, suddenly the FDA officials realized that multiple classes of medicines might cause dangerous psychiatric problems including suicide. Medicines to treat acne (Accutane), hypertension, asthma (Singulair), seizures, high cholesterol, swelling, heartburn, pain, bacterial infections and insomnia can all cause psychiatric problems, effects that were discovered in most cases after the drugs were approved and already used in millions of patients.
How could these medications produce such things?
With antidepressants, that answer can be as simple as explaining that antidepressants create a sleep disorder in which the patient acts out nightmares. It is called a REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD), and 80% of those being diagnosed with the disorder are taking antidepressants. RBD is known to produce both murder and suicide. Acting out one’s worst nightmare – what a perfect way to produce out-of-character behavior that could destroy all a person has worked to achieve in character-building throughout life – all gone in the blink of the eye!
Even worse than understanding the potential of these drugs to produce RBD, is to know that, in the past, RBD was known mainly as a drug withdrawal state. So the question of great concern at this point should be: “If antidepressants are being found to be in current use in 80% of the RBD cases, just how high will that percentage go in the withdrawal state from these drugs?!”
This is why is it so important to avoid the worst of withdrawal by weaning EXTREMELY SLOWLY down off an antidepressant.
Weaning EXTREMELY SLOWLY Off An Antidepressant
As people begin to see how they have been lied to about the safety and effectiveness of these drugs and attempt to come off the drugs, what will the end result be? Knowing what I know about these drugs and the withdrawal from these drugs, I can tell you that I for one DO NOT want to witness what we will see! If there has ever been a situation in the history of this world where we have so desperately needed to adhere to the command to be our “brother’s keeper”, this is it!
In doing so, even if you are not the one taking the drug, the life you save may be your own or that of a loved one. Why? Because when someone goes psychotic in the withdrawal, they can do anything to anyone and it just might be you or your loved one. (For information on safe withdrawal go to www.drugawareness.org to find the CD “Help! I Can’t Get Off My Antidepressant!)
Kim Crespi near Charlotte, NC, learned of antidepressant withdrawal all too painfully on January 20, 2006, when her husband David, a good strong Christian and wonderful husband and father, who was also a vice president of the local bank and well respected in the community, stabbed their four year-old twin daughters to death. David was months into an abrupt withdrawal from Paxil and had just started taking Prozac.
He and Kim were not aware that the FDA had just warned the year before that any abrupt change in dose of an antidepressant, whether going up or down (he had just done both), can produce suicide, hostility, or psychosis – generally a manic psychosis leading to a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder.
Of course, it is not true Bipolar, but a drug withdrawal effect, yet so many have found they would be medicated for years for something (the Bipolar Disorder) they don’t really have. Is it any wonder that the diagnosis of Bipolar has increased by 4000% over a recent 10 year period when it was basically unheard of before SSRI antidepressants?
But why is all this happening to us? Where did we go wrong?
For the answer we need to turn to Isaiah 28:8 where, he, speaking of our day, says that we will rise up each day to get drunk (but he had already made it clear that this drunkenness would not be from wine or strong drink). What would produce that drunken state then? Well when do people generally take their medications? First thing in the morning? These are mind altering medications. And what do the package inserts list as side effects? That is right – all the same effects one could expect from alcohol, but much stronger.
The Feeling Of Needing Drugs
Isaiah then goes on to tell us why people would suffer the feelings of needing drugs. He says that our tables are “full of vomit” and there is nothing clean there.
Well, what is vomit? Vomit is food that either has already had the nutrients extracted or food that cannot be used by the body and is expelled because of that. And unclean? Look at the chemicals that have saturated our food supply.
So if our tables are full of vomit – food that has been depleted of nutrients or food that cannot be utilized where does that leave us? We are nutrient depleted. And where does nutrient depletion lead us? It leads us to stimulants of any kind in order to force our bodies and brains to perform since they do not have the fuel or building blocks from nutrients to perform.
Perhaps the most obvious segment of society in which to see this is that which is most transparent due to the exposure they get – Hollywood. Show business is a very high profile and highly demanding profession. If you watch the lives of those in the business you generally see only two groups: health nuts or drug users. They either reach for nutrients to supply the building blocks they need to build energy levels they need to cope with their fast paced lifestyle or they use drugs to force their bodies/brains to keep up the fast pace.
One extremely critical point for all Christians to understand is the serotonin connection to spirituality. Antidepressants as well as the new atypical antipsychotic drugs work by increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. But 50% of the serotonin is metabolized by the pineal gland.
The Pineal Gland
What is the pineal gland? It is the master gland of the body and also thought of as the “seat of the soul” or our connection to higher, spiritual thoughts. In Eastern religions it is known as the Third Eye and is located right in the center of the brain behind the eyes. The question we need to ask is that if the Pineal gland is overloaded with large amounts of serotonin produced by these drugs, does it interfere with a spiritual connection?
According to patients using these drugs it does. They continually report that they can no longer feel God. One perfect example that comes to mind is that of Elizabeth Bush, the 14 year-old girl who shot her best friend at the private Catholic school they attended. Elizabeth’s hero in life was Mother Theresa. Elizabeth planned to devote her life to God and become a nun. So how did she go from that point to a charge of attempted murder almost overnight?
I called her attorney when this happened and told him what happened was likely the result of the use of one of these antidepressants. He did not show much interest, but said he would check. Then the following week Elizabeth was interviewed on 20/20 and asked this very question of how did she go from Mother Teresa as her hero to shooting her best friend at school. Her reply was that she could “no longer feel God anymore.”
I called her attorney the following morning and told him I no longer had any question about whether or not his client had been on an antidepressant nor any question about its contribution to causing this tragedy. With that new evidence about her inability to feel God anymore, in my mind, I knew. At that point he asked me to hold for a minute and when he returned he said through the rustling of papers, “Paxil. Is Paxil one of those drugs?”
Severed From the Spiritual?
So, as dangerous and life-threatening as these drugs can be, even worse is the possibility that we can be severed from the spiritual by these drugs. Not only can they produce physical death, but also spiritual harm.
Where did we go wrong?
Clearly we have underestimated Satan and his potential to pull us into his web of deceit and debauchery. Just because he is evil, does not mean he is stupid. He has much knowledge, far more than we do. Not more power than we do, because we do have the strength to overcome all with the help of the Savior. But we must be constantly aware of his cunning craftiness when it comes to his power to deceive.
This awful situation in which we now find ourselves is a call for humility and faith and a reminder to always turn to the Savior in ALL things rather than trusting in the arm of flesh.
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” ~Romans 8:1
For additional information on serotonin and antidepressant medications along with additional information on the great deception of pharmakia that John spoke of see Ann Blake-Tracy’s book, Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? – Our Serotonin Nightmare.
Ann Blake-Tracy has testified as an expert witness in Prozac and other SSRI-related court cases around the world. Some of the more high profile cases she has worked on would be the Columbine & Red Lake School shootings, Andrea Yates – the Texas mother who drowned her five children, Princess Di’s death, the murder/suicide of the royal family of Nepal, etc.
Update: Additional critical information:
WITHDRAWAL HELP: You can find the hour and a half long CD on safe and effective withdrawal helps here: http://store.drugawareness.org/And if you need additional consultations with Ann Blake-Tracy, you can book one at www.drugawareness.org .
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Charlotte Moore says
LORD help us all. So many children are on drugs too. This is so sad.
Anonymous says
I’m anything but a chemist. Both of my children (now teens) have been on different drugs for seizures and migraines. (One does have epilepsy; both have migraines.) I know that drugs are often used for multiple problems, so I don’t know if the drugs were SSRIs or not. I do know that the side effects listed included suicidal ideation. Both children are now off the migraine meds, but the anti-epileptic drugs will have to wait. You said you were a medical professional. Would you please email me? I have some questions that I can’t ask publicly because I have a couple family members that stalk me online. I know you can’t give me medical advice, etc., but I would like your help finding resources to research. Thank you.
Janet says
You might have already pursued a Naturopathic doctor, but it sounds like a whole-foods plant based diet would help with both things, and getting them checked for food sensitivities, too. My husband’s nephew is lying semi-comatose in ICU right now after years of self-medicating, and now an overdose. I am so glad that God is bigger than all of this, yet it is still sad and I’m mad at the devil who stole most of this man’s life on earth.
Jacqueline says
Janet, I am so sorry to hear that about your husband’s nephew. It does make one mad that these things happen! I am praying for him now.
Hugs!
Barb says
Thank you so much for sharing this. We have been aware of the dangers of these drugs for years. We had a very dear elderly family member who took his own life while on an anti-depressant. This was someone who had survived the Great Depression, combat in WWII and several bouts of cancer. He was a strong Christian with a wonderful family and very positive attitude and was a respected and trusted leader in his community. He loved life and there is NO WAY he would have ever considered suicide if he’d been in his right mind. I also work with public school children and have been very alarmed at the increasing numbers of them who are medicated from a very young age. They take drugs to wake up in the morning and other drugs to make them sleep at night. I fully agree with your assessment that this fits perfectly with the apostle John’s warnings. America has welcomed this development with open arms and, if you think about it, it could very well lead right to one world government and the ushering in of anti-christ, as the first step to this would by necessity be the disarming of the citizenry. As you stated, we must be constantly vigilant against the snares of the enemy.
Mauryn says
“I hate that I am often warning of things!” PLEASE DONT STOP! Your ‘warnings’ are much appreciated!!
“I hope this will be helpful somehow, some way.”VERY VERY MUCH!
Thank you so much for sharing all this info. Some of us don’t have the wherewithal to access this. I really enjoy reading your posts. Always!
I know that the Lord upholds every single child of his and by HIS strength we will overcome. I will be praying for as many as are suffering from this. May the Lord preserve & protect us & all our loved ones in Jesus name, Amen!
Gail Golden says
You make some good points.
Regarding unclean foods. The Bible is very clear on what is clean and unclean, so by your own thesis, it is best to avoid these foods also.
Jacqueline says
Gail, I had not thought of that, but you make a great point! Unclean!!
Blessings, friend! J
Angie Abella says
I agree that medications are often over prescribed. Even hubby,who does psychiatric nursing/behavioral home health, believes that if one does need medication, to only use what is absolutely lowest amount in order to be able to live a normal life. I myself use celexa in low dose, it seems to really help in handling the stress and such that comes in our household of special needs. If I can handle the stress better, I can better serve my family, read my bible and focus, etc. Our kids have their own meds, used for various issues that come with autism spectrum, and I’ve seen good and bad depending on kid and medication. Oldest nearly died from one that had side effects of lowering heart rate (we didn’t know he had an abnormally low normal heart rate as it is). We have doctors that work with the kids, who each want to see them on as little as possible but still be able to function in the environments they are in daily, like school, public places, home, etc. I’d love to see the day they don’t need it anymore. Whether that will happen, I don’t know.
I fully agree too that we need to know about each med used. Side effects, contraindications, etc. Most doctors don’t tell about that. It takes researching ourselves most of the time, using the nursing books, apps, etc to check them out. We want to be fully informed so we can make good decisions. We also monitor for the side effects, if any, that come with a med. We’ve seen the physical side effects of respirdol and quickly asked Dr to dc, with explanation, and they obliged. The kids are old enough they can tell us when something doesn’t feel right as well, that helps a lot.
Jacqueline says
Angie, I love your informed and wise (cautious) approach to meds. I am thankful to know your story and can pray for you and yours now. I am a special needs buddy at our church and love it and the children so so much. The program allows families to get out and worship and have decompression time. I am always learning something and it gives me perspective I would never have otherwise. God bless you, dear Mama!!! xoxo J
Judy says
I have been on Zoloft for over 25 years. Last year after 35 years of marriage my husband left our family, unexpectedly. Well, the Lord’s timing was perfect as my mother needed more care so me and my 2 grown children moved in with her and it has been a blessing for all of us! Two months ago I was feeling really good and decided to go off the Zoloft cold turkey, I actually did pretty well. Within weeks I was feeling emotion again, true emotion. I was feeling Christ as though He were right with me at all times…it was incredible. Sadly, after 6 weeks of being off it I spiraled down in one afternoon to being a catatonic state. My daughter immediately got my pills and I started back on them. I was on a high dosage so I am keeping the dosage very low but I still crave the feeling of being off of them and actually having emotions again. I truly do not know what to do. I did not feel suicidal, I liken it more to feeling like I want to just evaporate, I know it’s a mix of paranoia, fear and self loathing. (the self-loathing is a very temporary feeling, just while I’m in that pit)
So, what do I do? I really want to be off the meds but not worry and scare my kids to death.
When I read that the meds keep you from God I remembered how wonderful I was feeling off the meds. I cried, because I was feeling again, I was feeling so close to my Lord and now I can’t get there again.
Judy
Janet says
You can’t quit cold turkey because the body is expecting these drugs in your system. Work with a natural doctor toward your goal of getting off it, but weaning slowly, so your body gets used to less of it over time. I’d also guess that increasing your wellness with healthy eating, walks/exercise, friendships and talk therapy, if necessary would be beneficial. That’s rough to scare your kids like that, but it also teaches us all that God is in charge, no matter what happens to our loved-ones.
Heather Stover says
I started taking Zoloft for postpartum depression with my son. Before I started taking it I could barely function and everything took so much effort. After about 2 weeks on the Zoloft I could actually think clearly,function normally,and actually felt like myself again. Antidepressants are not always bad!
Jacqueline says
Yes, I understand. I give a caveat in the post to address that there are people like yourself who do well, Heather. I am so thankful it works well for you. Praise God!
Blessings,
Jacqueline