Regarding those recommending taking L Tryptophan…I googled it and found this on the drug: “Background on L-tryptophan and 5-hydroxy L-tryptophan and the eosinophilia myalgia syndrome
FDA took action to limit the availability of dietary supplements containing the amino acid that is the biological precursor of L-5-hydroxytryptophan, that is, L-tryptophan, because of the association between dietary supplements containing L-tryptophan and the 1989 epidemic outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) in the United States. In the summer and fall of 1989, an epidemic outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) occurred in the United States. This illness is associated with the use of dietary supplements containing L-tryptophan. In all, more than 1500 cases of EMS, including at least 37 deaths, have been reported to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), although the true incidence of the disorder is thought to be much higher. Some individuals suffering from L-tryptophan-related EMS have recovered, while other individuals’ illnesses have persisted or worsened over time.”

So, is FDA trying to say it’s unsafe? Is it still causing EMS? I have been on prozac and zoloft (for 2 1/2 years) and I would like to go off those meds, to try something that I can control my depression with diet and maybe hormone supplements, or was considering L Trytophan until I read info above. Any advice appreciated. Thanks-Anonymous

the person i wish we would see less of is elizabeth, she is the new kathie lee except kathie lee had a more likeable quality. kudos to rosie for having the guts to speak her mind!!!!!

Praise the Lord! I don’t watch this show, but I saw the incident with her and Elizabeth on many news and entertainment clips. Good ridence! Hopefully we won’t have to hear about her any more.

Rosie is worth everything. I hope she does stay with “The View”. She is the best. Those men are ridiculous.If one can call them men !!!!!!!!!

I am glad that Rosie speaks about taking medication and frankly about depression.

I had a similar reaction when the Branch Davidian compound was taken over and so many people died. It didn’t help that I was raised a Seventh Day Adventist. David Koresh had lived in the same town I did for many years and many associated this psychopath with my home town and the religion I was raised in when nothing could be further from the truth. I couldn’t stop watching the coverage…I didn’t know anyone involved but still I felt as if I did.

Alot of people take psychiatric medication, I know I do. There are side effects with any type of medication but villifying people who otake meds is the wrong thing to do. If more people like Rosie could put a human face on it, then normal everyday people wouldn’t be so concerned about it.

As I am reading a couple of these comments I am forced to ask this question.
Is this a Scientology Convention?
Get a life and do your homework, you the one’s with the Tom Cruise attitudes.
Oh, and while you’re at it, try giving birth to a child.
Tunnel Vision People need to join a golf course or take up a hobby.

hey rosie, i hope you and donald will make up soon i got a great idea how you and donald can join up on his show and do a show on raising moneys for childrens charitys like make a wish or st judes foundation for children this would be right up your alley i know how much you love children!!!so do i,thanks to the gift god bless you and donald with the gift of fame ,this would bring both of you the ratings of your lifesand it would bring you back together on the same page again!!

Behaviors such as anxiety attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts, agitation, insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity, hypomania, mania and psychosis, are all linked to antidepressants.

Kids of violent crimes have been found to be on these mind altering prescription drugs. The shooters of Colombine were on anti-depressants.

Are these drugs really life saving when Violent shootings, rages, outburst and suicides, are all linked to them?

Andrea Yates, woman who drowned her 5 kids, on many mind altering prescription drugs including antidepressants. Yet the press ran with the post partum depression like a perfect PR machine for drug companies to lure more women into taking drugs that would cause more of the very symptoms that they were already suffering from while ignoring how the HORMONE levels were causing it in the first place.

Forget addressing DIET. Forget to tell these women to get off the garbage milk filled with more synthetic hormones, or the garbage cheeses and meats filled with more synthetic hormones, or the toxic soy products and soy oils that demolish healthy hormone levels. Instead the answer is to drug them with toxic drugs that exasterbate the root cause of why they suffer in the first place.

These people can be saved from mental distress and they do not have to risk these serious side affects to do it. They could learn a lot from children.

They have gone to alternative schools that house violent, and out of control children, who have been kicked out of many other public schools. In those schools they switched the diets of those kids to all organic, pesticide free, no preservatives, no antibiotic and no vaccine infested meats. The kids learned how to grow their own foods, and how to eat better.

These kids quickly saw how their mental out-look, attitude, focus abilities, and awareness were all linked to what they fed their growing bodies.

After the diet changes their Test scores soared! Behavior was dramatically improved. Violent tendencies, hyperactivity, and depression came to a stand still for these kids when their bodies and brains were given what they needed for survival and growth.

No drugs were issued and children who were on prescription drugs were weaned off.

What a novel idea to give children the real tools needed to heal and allow them to develop as thier bodies were created to do?

Just think of the millions of adults who could be free from the damaging side affects of prescription drugs if they too could learn from these at risk kids?

We can drug and mask symptoms all we want but that will never affect any real healing unless the root cause is addressed.

Living on drugs for years is not healing. For children thrown on these drugs while their neurological system is developing, and when their brain stem cells are not yet fully protected by the ever important myalen sheathe, can make the difference between a child who could have recovered fully from vaccine caused autism, to a child who will always remain autistic.

Induced autism (autism that children DEVELOPED after birth and were not BORN with) was never heard of until they introduced multiple vaccines. While they downplay the seriousness of the accumulative affect of mercury and aluminum in vaccines as linked to these neurological disorders in our children they have no problem warning about mercury in fish and mercury amalgams. Mercury is still in all flu vaccines and it is directly linked to causing alzhiemers in the elderly who get annual flu vaccines.

People over 40 only got 4 to 6 vaccines. So for all those adults who say they got their vaccines, and they are fine, they need many more vaccines and see just how well they would be doing then.

Today’s children recieve well over 32 virons before they are the age of two. Some children recieve up to 52 virons by the time they are school aged. Do the math and you will not find it difficult to see why so many more children today are being diagnosed with developmental labels and rare cancers. The dangerous cancer causing SV40 virus was still tested positive in polio vaccines just a couple of years ago even though our government promised they ordered it removed.

For these young children being assaulted by vaccines, the over use of antibiotics, and then neurological dangerous drugs, their young neurological systems can only take so much of a toxic overload before it breaks down and cells become mutated.

The ONLY way to heal a vaccine injured child is to first remove the mercury and toxins from the vaccines that have long since adhered to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and major internal organs. Mercury will remain in the brain and continue to cause damage as long as it is left in the child.

The only way to truely address and cure a mental condition is to start at home. Do the work to find the culprit.

Margot Kidder is no longer Bi-polar and has been free of Bi-polar for well over a decade. She found her cure in orthomolecular medicine that does not use one narcotic drug and addresses diet and environment. She is not living on ANY drugs as so many victims of bi-polar are today. Many of the drugs Bi-polar patients are placed on also cause the exact same symptoms of Bi-polar. How is that any choice?

Yes, we can drug a child to initially mask the self inflicting behaviors for so long. But when that drug can cause self inflicting behavior what have we done?

Further what is the aftermath of making that choice to assault the child’s neurological system again while it was still developing and already fighting pre-existing damages?

These drugs are creating lifetime patients out of our children and adults. They are NOT healing anything. Not one child or adult suffers from a drug deficiency. But millions of children suffer from mineral, and vitamin deficiencies that will cotninue to wreck havoc on them until those root causes are finally addressed.

The anti-depressants are ensuring that a permanent chemical imbalance will happen so these children will be the bi-polar patients of the future, they will become the manic depressants. Is that a good choice for the patient or the drug company?

If parents already have a family member who is Bi-polar they will usually think less of the newley created bi-polar patient they allowed doctors to make of their child. They will believe the gene card.

Meanwhile, the drugs are addictive and longer use means less affectiveness of dumbing down the patient, numbing the senses, and hiding the symptoms. Meaning they will need more drugs, and stronger dosages that will cause more side affects, that will make them a slave even more to mainstream medicine.

These antidepressants are directly linked with causing suicides, and violent tendencies later in life. They are directly linked with causing odd tics, and chemical imbalances that were NOT there before taking the drugs.

We are finding more and more that it is the shared SAME life style of family members that is the real culprit in why many family members suffer from the same afflictions.

That is why babies who were adopted often suffer from the same heart diseases and cancers as their adoptive parents. There were NO genes that connected that child to that parent to offer a link to same illnesses. But that child ate the same foods, was in the same environment as the parents and had the same exposures.

If the parents ate highly processed foods filled with synthetic dairy, chemical preservatives, artificial dyes, artificial sweeteners, and used highly toxic chemicals to clean the home, clean the bedding and on their yards, then all people in that family had the same toxic exposures.

If that child kept that same toxic diet, used those same chemicals in their home, and yard, after they moved out later in life, then yes they would eventually incur the same illnesses that afflicted their family.

Many times geographic locations dictate family illnesses. People living next to busy highways that emit mercury and lead in high levels, next to agriculture that relies upon heavy pesticide spraying, have developed Bi-polar and mental disorders like Parkinson and Alzhiemers.

If their children bought homes in thier childhood areas, they would keep those exposures and increase risk of brain injury due to location and not genetics. But when these families are stricken with mental disease, the last thing mainstream doctors conclude is environmental, or diet exposures, and they run to the genetics card.

We can drug these kids today to mask the symptoms and we may just not see who they could have been in the future.

I have worked with vaccine injured families for years. My own son also healed from a full blown autistic label to a normal child. No drugs were ever used. Diet was addressed, environment was addressed, and vital supplementations of PCA Rx to cleanse toxins first, cod liver oil, Natural factors and liquid vitamins and minerals were given.

Many parents will do the work needed to heal the child. Many others want the proverbial quick fix of dangerous drugs in spite of all the risk they are asking thier minor child to take when they have no voice to object. The child will pay the price in the end when the parent refuses to do what it really takes to heal the child.

Instead of defending the use of drugs look at the brochures and the clinical trials from the actual drug companies if you want to see the truth. Then demand that they have to give all the results from these trials to doctors. demand that safe alternatives are used first with any child who is given a mental label. Demand truth in labeling in our foods, cleaning supplies, and drinks.

Choices are there. Safe, and healthy choices that really heal are there. I agree with the former poster who suggested L Tryptophan for depression. It is the safest antidepressant there is and it will not alter your brain to give you the “impression” that your depression is in check.

Are these choices a quick fix? No, they are not. But I digress, what amount of time would any of these parents wish to have to go back and try something safer if they lost a child to suicide or full blown mental disease that drugs caused? We can’t go back in many of these sad cases that I hear about every week. Parents should seriously investiagte ANY unnatural substance being placed into their children because for some they can’t go back.

The saddest reality to me is that many parents beg me to tell them what we did to heal our son. They think I found some quick miracle supplement and all they have to do is give it to the child. When they see “they” have to do some serious work, thier dire intent to really help the child wanes.

It’s really pathetic to me that most parents will take more time to look into options on buying a new car, or finding that proverbial perfect home, then the time needed to look into the serious side affects and damages that can be caused to their own children from prescription drugs.

Thus we have a society filled with people who want it NOW and if it requires that THEY do any work, regardless of the full healing potential, or the damages their children face, they do not have the time for it. Parents who lost children now wish they took that time.

I do not normally post anything on line—but I had to respond to this. I believe there is a link between suicidal tendencies and young patients—and extra care has to be rendered both when prescribing these medications and monitoring their consequential effects; however, I have to add that zoloft SAVED THE LIVES of both me and my son-who is autistic. I have suffered depression throughout most of my life (there is a genetic tendency in my family—my mother was bi-polar, as are several cousins)and following the birth of my son (like Ms. Shields)I suffered horrific post-partum depression. My doctor prescribed zoloft-and the changes it produced were nothing short of astounding. Not only did it helped to alleviate the depression—it also decimated the terrible panic-attacks of which I had been stricken as a young college student. (which had caused me to leave school) Thanks to the zoloft—I was able to deal with the terrible diagnosis of autism my son received at age 21 months (which I DO NOT attribute to vaccinations, but that’s another issue)and the sundry life-altering difficulties that condition incurs. Also, I am happy to add that I have since returned to school and am shortly to receive a bachelor’s in communications (and plan to go on for my master’s); Further, after my son demonstrated extremely aggressive behaviors (rages, etc.) towards himself and others which NOTHING helped to alleviate—I suggested zoloft to his physician (having read somewhere about the postivie effects of some anti-depressants on autism)and like a miracle—the symptoms have subsided. Once in a ‘blue moon,’ so to speak, he’ll have some aggression, but nothing like that which he experienced before taking zoloft. I am happy to report that he has been on zoloft now for over two years—with continued success—and I continue to experience success with my zoloft therapy—which has been ongoing for eleven years..There is no mystery here—studies show that much clincal depression is due to an inbalance in the rate of the neurotransmitter serotonin produced in the brain, and the new class of antidepressants (zoloft, prozac, etc.)work to create a balance among the aformentioned neurotransmitters…THANK GOD for these wonderous anti-depressants….! And I do not need to be ‘annonymous’—I’ll gladly and proudly state my name..