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6 years ago, in a life and death struggle with clinical major depression and the medication prozac, I calmly stared at a B & M passenger train that would end my life - in a million pieces.
A special thank you to Mrs. Betty J. Eadie author of the best selling book, "Embraced By The Light" your book along with my own inner strength helped me step off those railroad tracks just in time.
First I would like to state I am not a doctor and I never profess to be. What I am writing here is from first-hand experience and nothing more. All of this is documented. Inpatients of psychiatric hospitals, or at least the hospitals I was a patient in, are actually given classes on most everything I am writing about here.
Stress is the number one killer in the United States of America. Over heart disease, cancer and all other illnesses. Stress, over time, creates a severe brain chemical imbalance, more specifically a depletion. This in turn creates physiological imbalances throughout your body. The big three brain chemicals are Serotonin, Norepinephrine and Dopamine. When any one, two or all three become depleted, you are in serious trouble, mentally and physically.
Stress, whether domestic, work related or environmental can rapidly escalate to general anxiety disorder, panic disorder and major depression. Medications are prescribed to help alleviate and restore those chemicals those normal levels. Studies done on people who committed suicide were found to have little or no Serotonin in their brain.
There are many different kinds of depression. All depressions are a silent killer. It doesn't matter which kind of depression you get, given the right situation it can, and will, kill you...
I recently read in a newspaper that every 17 minutes in America someone commits suicide.
Anyone who has experienced depression knows what I am talking about here. Suicide ideation is the constant ruminating, absolutely overpowering thoughts, that right now on this day you must and will take your own life.
I don't care what kind of life you've had or how tough you may think you are, there is no defense against suicide ideation except admittance to a psychiatric hospital where trained doctors and medical staff will see that you do not take your life.
It goes without saying, you must never take your own life. How you die is just as important as how you lived. I would like you to refer to Mrs. Betty J. Eadie's book 'Embraced by The Light'. A personal thank you to Betty from me, your wisdom, experience and book, on more than one occasion, help save my life.
All medications that treat general anxiety disorder, panic disorder and mild or major depression have physical side-effects. There is a small percentage of the population that cannot adapt and take any medications. The train incident I experienced above is a good example.
I was later to find out from my doctor that my particular case, along with the depression itself, I was experiencing a side-effect prozac has on some people, it's called suicide ideation. Simply put, I can't take medications, especially prozac.
According to Massachusetts state law, when this happens your doctor reports the incident to the manufacturer, my doctor did and then he, of course, took me off prozac.
This information, after the fact, was not helping me while I was very calmly looking at that on-coming train and anticipating GREAT RELIEF that my own 5 year battle with major depression was finally coming to a close.
It's at this very moment in your life, I had several during my 5 year illness, that you have to reach deep inside yourself, everything you are and everything you have ever been, and let your soul overcome your thoughts and save your life.
A special thank you to United State Air Force Captain Lance Peter Sijan - Congressional Medal of Honor Winner. Captain Sijan's own remarkable story was a great inspiration to me during the years of my illness. His amazing true story Into the Mouth of the Cat by Malcolm McConnell (Signet Books) stills sits today on my night-stand.
What Captain Lance Peter Sijan did for America and each and every one of us, is today only spoken of in 'whispers', when in fact it should be shouted to the whole world.
In my travels I learned the seventh and final secret to life...
I will share it with you.
