Take 2 Of These And Drool In The Morning

Psychologists and Psychiatrists have always been thought to bring yourself back to "normal", if you will. Psychologists will ask you series of questions to see what your mental ailment is, then give you a long list of psychiatrists that will aid you on your road to recovery, a "middle man" sort of speak. You speak with the psychiatrists once or twice a week, talking about whats wrong with your head, ways to overcome your problems, etc, etc. The psychiatrist reports to the psychologist on your progress or other symptoms that they may have missed. Then the psychologists prescribes the appropriate medication. Continue therapy until all is well again.

Sounds simple and very helpful right?

Wrong.

The only time this is actually effective, is if there is a real "Chemical Imbalance" in the brain. Then the medication is used to correct that imbalance. Other than that, millions of people are diagnosed with bullshit mental disorders, put on ridiculous medication, then evaluated like a lab rat, all because they feel a little unhappy with themselves or they are thinkers, and are misjudged as being ADD.

When my generation was growing up, there were 2 major advancements in mental disorders. They came up with, people that have a hard time concentrating or sitting still (most common in children) had Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD for short. Seemed very logical, especially with the 2 first words of the disorder, "Attention Deficit".

ADD is real. Some people just cant focus for more than a few seconds without the mind wandering or fidgeting in their seats. The medications for it, like Ritalin, were made to help those that actually couldn't concentrate on a normal level. But since 90% of all kids hate sitting still, ADD was the answer to all the parents prayers. Then almost every kid was "ADD", and was on Ritalin or some variation of.

Ever realize that kids are very fidgety to begin with? Kids don't like to sit still because they want to play, laugh, have fun. Not sit and listen to a teacher talk about liquid, solid and vapor are the 3 forms of water. Booooorrrriiiinnngggg stuff to an elementary student. Now little Johnny is a drooling fool in the corner of the class room, hopped up on Ritalin.

Parents never noticed the difference. All they would have to do, is watch their child play. If a kid plays with legos for hours on end, that doesn't show a sign of "Attention Deficit". Plays video games for long periods of time. Plays with other kids, doing make believe scenes. Hmm, maybe they weren't ADD. Maybe they were just a regular KID.

And today's remedy for ADD in adults is Zoloft. The miracle drug, which is just Ritalin but stronger, makes adults concentrate better so they can work more effectively. Also is used to battle depression. If it's not an actual chemical imbalance, all you are doing is pumping medication into a body that doesn't need it. Now you have a person walking around that was just depressed about bills, to being carefree and annoying.

The other breakthrough was that, "The reason you act out in school or at home was because your mother or father was always working or not around. No stable motherly or fatherly figure in your household." Typical response to this was, "So that's why Billy always tortured cats! His mother was at work! Thank you so much Doc! I can pick up the Ritalin prescription at the receptions window on the way out, right?"

This scenario, can better be told by Doug Stanhope. He is a stand up comedian that has a lot of good points on a lot of different subjects. At the 1:46 mark, is where this scenario takes place.



Maybe your kid was experimenting? Or is naturally just an evil little shit head? I can understand relationship issues later on, sure. Mother left the family when you were young and now you have a hard time trusting women. Or your dad left, and you can't trust guys. That's totally right. But to try and say that everything we do in our lives is a direct result of a dysfunctional family or a perfect family that believed in corporal punishment, is ludicrous.

I have an occasional anger problem, very mild and very rare, but if something gets to me so much that I punch a wall or a pillow (never a person, unless its that person that pissed me off and they deserve it), it has nothing to do with how my mom raised me. I came from a functional family. It was just me and my mom. My father left before I was born, so it wasn't like I was traumatized by him leaving. So it wasn't dysfunctional. I got the occasional spankings, but there was never violence in the home, no screaming, no nothing. So to say my anger comes from my adolescent years is bullshit. Same for millions of other people that have been told that something in their childhood home life, caused them to have certain outbursts.


Now lets progress into present day. Now the new "answer" is Bipolar Disorder, or otherwise known as, Manic Depressive. This disorder has been around a while, but has recently become very popular. And again, there are real cases of this disorder, more common in adults. This disorder effects the persons ability to control emotions. One minute they are happy, the next angry, the next sad, then they cry, then they are happy again. In most cases, a person has more problems with "highs" and "lows". Being on the "high" (manic) side, gives you an endless supply of energy, and nothing really bothers you all that much. The "low" side is no energy and depressed. The brain just cant find the middle, and will switch back and forth rapidly or slowly. Some people remain manic for days at a time, then their brain will switch to the low side for a few days. Some cases even weeks.

So now, anyone that has a mood swing is bipolar. Just as it was with ADD, bipolar is the reason for your qwerks. What was once just for adults that couldn't keep control on their emotions, turned into every adult that had a mood swing. Then it branched into the children. While some kids are bipolar, the vast majority are not. But the psychologists and psychiatrists think differently.

The medications for bipolar can leave you in a state of zombie. Mostly sedatives that make you a drooling fool. "Normal" is what the doctors call it. They figure if you don't have excessive energy, and are too sedated to be depressed, you are cured. So long as you stay on the medication. Once people realized they were living the life of a zombie, the doctors started prescribing mood stabilizers. Lithium, for example. Lithium counteracts the manic and depression bouts. But the side effects on it are very staggering. Common side effects of lithium treatment include muscle tremors, twitching, ataxia, hyperparathyroidism, bone loss, hypercalcemia, hypertension, kidney damage, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (polyuria and polydipsia), arrhythmias, muscle weakness, tremor, lethargy, cognitive blunting, headaches, and seizures. Not a very healthy alternative. So doctors prescribe dozens of other medications to counteract those side effects. Depakote, Neurontin, Abilify and Seroquel are the most common.

So now you are taking 10 pills 3 times a day for the rest of your life. That's not fair to a child that was misdiagnosed because he had a mood swing, or is going through their junior high depression. Or to an adult that was misdiagnosed. Most kids go through a bout of depression during junior high. Small portions of the real world mixed with the stress of "fitting in" causes tremendous grief on a kid. So yeah, they are going to get depressed for a while. That doesn't mean make them drool like an idiot and take a ton of pills to correct it.

So from the examples I have given, it's easily understandable that maybe these psychologists and psychiatrists are using these disorders for profitable gains. Instead of treating just those that are chemically imbalanced, they treat everyone that comes in their offices like they do. Even I was diagnosed with a chemical imbalance. I was never given an MRI or a blood test or anything. They just instantly assumed I had the imbalance. How scientifically sound is that? So a psychologist got paid very nicely by my mother for a chemical imbalance he assumed I had, and the psychiatrist made out like a bandit too. Not too mention the drug companies that make mass money on the deals with these doctors offices for them to distribute them.

Time to wake up and realize that we are normal people with depression, or just cant concentrate because the stuff we are doing is too boring. Don't be a sucker for these diagnoses right away. Make sure that you are properly tested for Bipolar Disorder and ADD.

Evolution By Creation?

In over all of the debates of "Creation Vs. Evolution", I have come to see a way that both exist. This is coming from a religious perspective. This is just a theory of mine. Hopefully this may settle the debate.

Evolution, as we all know, is the process of growth and adaptation, starting from the single cell to the animals and sea creatures we know today.

Creation, is the belief of a "Higher Power" creating and designing the earth and all life on it.

This debate has been going on since Charles Darwin gave us his theory in his book "The Origin Of Species". This debate has divided people, since the origin of man is a major belief and concept for many people. The religious say the Bible is right, and that God created everything. Whereas evolution, which does not say that God doesn't exist, says that everything evolved from single celled organisms. Thus bringing about a massive debate that has turned friends against each other. Brought even more division amongst those that are religious, and those that are atheist, agnostic, etc.

Even I once was against evolution. I believed that God created everything. I understand also that the earth was not created in 6 days, 6000 years or any other small number, because of fossils, and the time line within the Bible is longer than 6000 years anyway. This made a conflict with me on how long has the earth been here? How long has man been here? Evolution must have some truths to it, especially with time lines and such. That explains the dinosaur bones we have discovered. They are far older than 6000 years.

In my research of the Bible, have noticed a few lines of verse that suggests that maybe, just maybe, that Creation and Evolution are one in the same.

What if God created the earth, then used evolution to progress all the creatures?

And another Question, did man evolve or was he created?

To answer the first question, I have noticed in the writing of Genesis, that it is worded in a way that allows evolution to be the way things came about.

Genesis 1:20 (KJV) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

"Let the waters bring forth" shows that God may have placed the single cell organisms in the ocean, and then evolution took over, and produced all the sea creatures. (How "fowls" come from the ocean is beyond me, and may be another blog later, but lets focus on the water.) So now we have all water life flourishing. Growing. Evolving. Since this happened in day 5 of the creation of earth, and we all know that our "day" is not the same as God's "day", this allows the time line of fossils and such to fit nicely here.

The next verse is, Genesis 1:21 (KJV) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

The devout, hardcore, Christians will take that as "God created all the sea life and birds. So evolution didn't happen." It does say that, but with the verse prior, even with the evolutionary process, God still created, through evolution.

And again with the beasts of the land, as in, Genesis 1:24 (KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

Again, it is worded that the land brings forth the life, just as the waters brought forth life. The single cell organisms on earth grew and evolved into many creatures.

And again, the next verse says God created. Genesis 1:25 (KJV) And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Like I said above, the hardcore Christian can use that as definitive proof of God creating all. But the verse prior allows the evolutionary process to occur. This was the 6th day, and again the time lines and fossils, allow it to fit. There is another thing that happened in the 6th day, that I will get to shortly.

So just like in the evolution process described from "The Origin Of Species", a sea creature eventually evolved into some form that allowed it to come out of the water onto the land. Along the theories, that creature may have mated with another creature that was already on land. Thus progressing evolution, and the coming of new species. Possibly, reptiles and other like creatures.

Hopefully I have made sense so far.

Back to the 6th day, the second question, "Did man evolve or was he created?", comes around. I can only give a religious answer to this. Once science can prevail and find that missing link, my faith is all I have to go on for this answer.

Unlike the 2 verses that gave the opening for evolution to occur, the verse on man is worded that we were created.

Genesis 1:26 (KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Also repeated again, Genesis 2:7 (KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

It is written specifically, that God created man. God did not call upon the earth or the waters to bring forth man. Nor does it say for man to come from the beast on earth. Without the difference in wording, there is no room for evolution.

If science can find the missing link, I may have to rethink about the origin of man. Until then, this is the closest to any (religion included) logical explanation that I can live with comfortably, to evolution and creation.