Better Choices in Mental Health

What is wrong with psychiatry’s “help.”

Most of us enjoy helping others. We feel pleasure at giving an extra hand to someone about to lose the battle with a grocery bag and a car door; relish a co-worker’s smile after teaching them a new computer trick.

When we personally hit into troubles that need a specialist, we turn to professionals for help; a dentist for a screaming tooth; a doctor for a shattered bone; an optometrist when an arm’s stretch is just short of what we need.

Which might explain why you might think a psychiatrist or psychologist is a person to turn to for help with mental problems. Aren’t they the professionals in that field?

But If they were professionals, wouldn’t their result would be the cure of mental illnesses?

Yet, psychiatrists are the first to admit they are unable to cure anyone.

One former president of the World Psychiatric Association even declared, “The time when psychiatrists considered that they could cure the mentally ill is gone.”

So if psychiatric treatments do not cure – what do they do instead?

There are plenty of places on the internet where you can discover this for yourself. The important thing is that you read up on the side effects of their “miracle drugs,” the way their labeling of one parent can cause heartbreak in a divorce case, but worse, their use of psychiatric drugs on children whose parents are not given all the information, merely told the drugs (which are a proven gateway to hard drug abuse) are “safe and effective.”

Psychiatric labels create life-long clients, life-long because once labeled and given damaging treatments, it is very, very hard for anyone to get out of the system and back into real life.

At Better Choices we therefore recommend staying as far away from psychiatric labels and treatments as possible. Stick to what is really happening that can be isolated, addressed and cured.

What about depression?

Depression manifests in a myriad of ways.

Start with the simple, physical things.

Not sleeping? What about eating? Coffee for breakfast? Fastfood for lunch?

A martini for dinner?

No exercise? No love life? Rotten job? Lousy boss?

Now you’ve got some things you can do something about. Go ahead and do so.

But, take a pill for the above? None of them is solved, and pretty soon you’ve gained 20-30 pounds, you might not feel depressed anymore – because you might not feel anything, really, anymore.

Digging a little deeper and doing something effective to keep your life in your own control and not dependent on a drug are the kinds of things we recommend.

So, welcome to our website.

Take your time, have a look around.

We hope you find information of use.

Nancy O’Meara

And

Stan Koehler

Co-founders