--Read Christain Science, compare what Mary Baker Eddy says about thought control with
biofeedback. Same stuff, different label. Your mind produces your bodies reactions.
Take me off your mailing list,my work is in welfare reform. I have been trying to get
off this list for one year, no luck. Please help. thanks, leigh dallas
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:22:56
Edward R Weick wrote:
>> Ed Weick replied:
>> > This assumes that we know what the "causes" are. I know people who are
>well
>> > off, productive and have no cause to get depressed, but they still do.
>> > There is not much you would want to add to or remove from their lives.
>>
>> How superficial. The medical literature has identified quite a few
>causes,
>> but Joe Sixpack and his "practicioner" aren't aware of them or deny them
>> (the latter because treating symptoms keeps him in business). One of the
>> main causes is mercury, the main supply of which comes from dental amalgam
>> [14]. FYI I'm attaching a few references on the topic.
>>
>> No silly flames from the vested interests, please...
>> Chris
>
>I was really trying to stay out of this one, but I guess I bit. And I
>didn't think what I posted was superficial. But perhaps it was. Being of
>about the right age, I do have a fair bit of mercury amalgam in my mouth.
>To survive the spring and fall in a more positive state, I might look into
>having my teeth pulled, though that might not work because by now the
>mercury would have entrenched itself into my brain and body. But I do
>wonder why the toxins in my b&b work mainly during specific periods of the
>year and not at others. I seem to recall a study of suicide rates in
>Scandinavia which indicated peaks in April and November. Perhaps it is
>during those months that people are most exposed to toxins, or during which
>the toxins they had accumulated have their most powerful effect?
>
>I also wonder if people never got depressed in pre-industrial times when
>there were far fewer toxins in the environment. Historic literature is full
>of characters who behaved rather strangely, many of whom mass murdered.
>However, perhaps they too were unduly exposed to quicksilver?
>
>Please understand that I'm not denying the impact of environmental
>degradation on physical and mental health. However, I would make two
>points. One is that susceptibility to depression has a variety of causes,
>probably including genetic inheritance. The other is the one which I
>believe Judi Kessler has been making - give people who are susceptible to
>depression a chance of a better quality of life even if it means feeding
>them pills. We take pills for ever so many other reasons, why not for
>depression? If they work, they work. Besides, by the time we cleaned up
>the environment and gave people a better quality of life that way, the
>current generation of depressives, and probably several subsequent
>generations, would be long dead.
>
>Ed Weick
>
>
>
>
Get your FREE Email and Voicemail at Lycos Communications at
http://comm.lycos.com
