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Aug. 31, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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Deep State Drugging up Kids into Zombies! Plus Trump “Not Gulty!”
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Well, we've been hearing more and more in the news that we have a generation of children and teenagers that are depressed.
They're having anxiety.
They're having all sorts of mental issues.
Mental issues and mental health has come up in the news more and more, especially with so many shootings and school shootings and mall shootings.
Everyone seems to blame mental health.
That seems to be the person behind who's pulling the trigger there with these shootings and these tragic travesties.
But my question is, is this really a generation of children and young adults who have these mental health problems?
And if so, if that's really been a true increase in mental health problems, we need to look at why, why during our time, people, our children are more likely to be depressed and anxious and have a host of different mental health issues.
Or is it just that people, big pharma and doctors are very quick to diagnose and label children and drug them up so they can just be drugged up, sleeping zombies in society.
Emergency rooms are struggling to handle a rising number of children and teens showing up in need of mental health care.
The crisis has only worsened since the coronavirus pandemic began.
As students begin returning to schools, some local hospitals are reporting an increase of children being admitted for mental health problems.
And it's not just here in San Diego, but something we're seeing across the country.
Rady Children's Hospital is seeing a surge in kids experiencing mental health crises.
The hospital says it's had a 30% increase since the pandemic and they now hope to raise awareness.
Hospitals nationwide are seeing an increase of children experiencing mental health crises.
Ten years ago when I was doing this work, we'd see 30 children in a month.
Now, that can be up to 30 children in one day.
She says they're also seeing younger children coming in distress.
Not unusual to have an elementary school-aged child coming in talking about suicide with thoughts of suicide.
And many years ago, that would be very, very rare.
I have somebody joining me today because we don't explore this issue enough on our show, but I think it's a really important topic, especially if you're a parent out there.
You really should know what's going on with children and why doctors and teachers and role models are so quick to diagnose and label your child as having some sort of mental health issue and then just drugging them up, making them unproductive in society.
So Dr. Rod Roger McFillin, your tweets caught my attention over the last week.
I loved your tweets.
They were very honest.
He's a clinical psychologist, a speaker, a writer, and a podcast host of Radically Genuine Podcasts.
He's joining me because his tweets were very honest and politically incorrect, which I love, and you're really speaking to the heart of the problem here.
So, first of all, welcome to the show.
How are you, Dr.
Roger McFillin?
Well, Deanna, thanks for inviting me.
I'm glad that you're recognizing the honesty of my tweets.
That is my purpose.
It's to bring attention to an issue that is real in my field, something that I'm seeing as a clinician every single day.
And I think we have decades of research, science, data that supports most of my tweets.
So yes, I am bringing attention to this issue by Being radically honest and genuine with it and in a culture that relies so heavily on pharmaceuticals and the allopathic medical environment, I know that that certainly provokes a lot of emotions on both sides of the aisle.
But I hope that I can kind of communicate a case today based on really sound science that the decisions we're making around mental health of especially young people is creating a generation that is getting worse.
And we have all available statistics that kind of suggest that.
Amazing.
So just give everybody just a little brief introduction of your experience in the field and why we should believe you as somebody who's much more credible than the average person spewing out facts out there.
Sure.
Thank you.
I am a clinical psychologist, board-certified in behavioral and cognitive psychology, been in the field for 20-plus years and worked in many settings that have ranged from the juvenile justice system to children's psychiatric hospitals to schools, and I run a large practice in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Center for Integrated Behavioral Health.
I work as a practicing clinician, but I'm also a researcher and a writer.
And I've probably spent the last decade or so throwing myself into the research to try to understand the beneficial effects of psychiatric drugs.
Because they're so Easily obtained and prescribed to a larger amount of people, but yet we see our clinical populations worsening.
So I had to resolve the conflict for myself between what I was being told through the medical establishment and in some of the research that this should be a frontline treatment versus what I'm actually seeing in clinical practice.
So when you see people worsening, And you see people on not just one psychiatric drug, multiple psychiatric drugs, then I think it is It's ethical to be able to try to understand what the science actually says and then to ask very critical questions.
So being an owner of a practice, we have to make recommendations to our clients and their families, and that should be based on the best available evidence.
And one of the things that's clear when you look into the research on, let's just say, antidepressants to start, when it comes to young people, There's always been the red flag, the caution.
There's what's called a black box warning from the FDA. And you look into this research and you understand that there are decades of fraudulent publication bias That's coming out from the pharmaceutical companies and the academics and the thought leaders, which are on the payroll.
They're overvaluating the evidence that suggests that they're helpful and they're underestimating the risks.
So we know the drugs more than double the risk of suicide for young people over the age of 25.
They create agitation, mania, and violence.
There's been decades of lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies.
have not been violent previously become violent on these drugs.
And I do a lot of consulting work where we're seeing the same thing.
So it's my job to bring attention to the general public that these drugs are mind altering, they're mood altering, and they affect people differently.
Overall, the research does not suggest that they demonstrate much of an effect in comparison to placebo.
And they come with significant side effects and potential adverse consequences, I just believe the public has a right to know that information.
Absolutely, yeah.
And nobody's sounding the alarm.
So let's talk about children now.
Let's talk about kids and children.
Something new that just happened is in the last month, Lexapro...
The drug Lexapro just got approved for minor children.
And this is big.
Why?
And tell us a little bit more for those of us who don't really know what Lexapro is.
What is Lexapro?
And why is this decision now so significant?
So Lexapro was approved for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents previously.
Very controversial.
We don't have a lot of good evidence that it has any positive effect on depression.
And like other SSRIs, which are serotonin, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, that's what the public commonly knows as antidepressants, have been prescribed to children and adolescents for depression and general anxiety.
Now, what happened recently and why it's in the news is the FDA approved this drug for kids as young as seven years old presenting with anxiety.
Wow.
On the one clinical trial, there was a six-fold increase in the likelihood of a suicide event compared to the placebo group.
So six-fold.
And so these are kids with anxiety, not had any previous suicidal ideations, and they're young.
So it's very atypical to be suicidal at age seven or eight years old.
So it really, really stands out.
And I've spoken with researchers and statisticians from around the world who kind of examine this data, and their conclusion to this is a child would more likely become suicidal from taking the drug than any meaningful reduction in anxiety.
It brings up a lot of ethical questions.
Why would we be drugging anxiety anyway for young people?
And the normalization of emotions like anxiety, fear, shyness, which would lead somebody to maybe talk to a doctor or a counselor.
And what happens is, unfortunately, is the physicians blindly trust the FDA. And so I want to communicate that the FDA does not approve drugs in a manner that would suggest they're safe and effective.
The author of that study concluded, despite the six-fold increase in suicidality and the fact that three out of the four outcome measures didn't demonstrate an effect on anxiety, that the drug was both safe, tolerable, and effective.
So we don't even trust our research anymore, and our doctors, who are on the front lines, most of them primary care physicians, are following guidelines from their major medical organizations.
Those major medical organizations are funded by who?
The pharmaceutical industry who are trying to sell their drugs.
So it becomes a big scam in which the drugs are over-promoted, over-prescribed, with significant risks, and most doctors are unaware.
They're just assuming they're safe and effective based on what they're reading from their medical organizations and their guidelines.
Wow, so it just makes no sense that a seven-year-old who has some anxiety would get on this drug, and then instead of subduing that anxiety, they're going to be more likely, seven times more likely, to commit suicide?
I mean, first of all, it just seems like a useless drug, at the very least, and a dangerous drug at most.
It is both useless and dangerous, so much so at my center we've created a position statement to communicate to families and anyone under the age of 25 that we do not recommend taking any SSRI antidepressant under any conditions.
We have a responsibility to prove that these drugs can be safe and effective and that has not been demonstrated.
Now, there's a number of things that's happening in our society.
We are seeing worsening mental health.
It's not like we've developed an antidepressant drug.
An antidepressant drug is a marketing term.
We have no drugs that are antidepressant.
At best, it's going to create an emotional numbness.
Further research has shown to us that it decreases empathy, it decreases human connection, it creates numbness not just emotionally, but it also experiences numbness throughout the entire body, which creates pretty significant and potentially Prolonged sexual side effects.
There's so many negative side effects that are just not communicated.
So patients and their families do not receive informed consent.
and they're under this idea that there is a quick fix to the emotional struggles that exist, that you can take a pill, it can either take the edge off or it can help you get through an episode, and none of that exists.
We've medicalized so much of our society that I think we have generations now who don't know what's normal anymore.
And so they're more likely to be just identified with a disorder by a doctor under a quick 15-minute interview and leave with a prescription drug and it'll be just a matter of time before that person's placed on another one or a higher dose that leads to many problems down the line.
Thank you.
Why would...
I mean, is it normal in the first place for a six- or seven-year-old to be anxious, to have anxiety or depression?
And I'm hearing more on Reddit because I'm a Reddit sleuth.
I like to hear what normal, average people are talking about.
I'm seeing more people say, my seven-year-old is threatening suicide or, you know, my six-year-old is depressed or anxious.
I mean, that seems like a new phenomenon.
That doesn't seem normal, is it?
Well, let me first answer the first question.
Yes, anxiety is normal.
Anxiety is our body's natural response to any type of threat.
Anxiety can be very useful.
It can actually increase performance when it's regulated.
Coming on this show, I should be a little bit nervous because there's a large audience and that anxiety should be able to drive me to stay focused.
We should feel nervous between anything that's like really important in our lives.
And learning how to regulate fear appropriately is part of some of our life transitions.
So yes, it's quite normal for kids to feel anxious, which makes this so nefarious because we start talking about it like it's a symptom of a disease or an illness.
And that's not accurate.
That's where we're losing a sense of what is normal and expected.
Now, are there some kids that are going to have really severe anxiety that prevents them from doing things?
Of course.
There are some kids who will refuse to go to school, have separation anxiety, severe social anxiety, struggle talking in public.
But there's help for kids like that.
And the appropriate help is going to include exposure to those situations, learning how to tolerate that emotion, and be able to refocus.
It's something that can be learned.
And a lot of us have to learn that.
Now back to your other question.
It is atypical for kids as young as seven or really young kids to talk about suicide, threaten suicide.
In most cases, they have to learn that somewhere because you're talking about a concept of life and death that isn't always really conceptualized at that age.
And so there is greater exposure in our media.
We're giving kids access to cell phones that young of age.
They're on iPads.
YouTube.
So there are kids that are being exposed to material that's not developmentally appropriate.
And for a lot of people, parents out there, if you're following trends, there is just trends around being mentally ill.
And so there are TikTok videos.
There are YouTube personalities who develop an entire brand around being depressed or having ADHD or autistic or some other rare psychiatric condition.
So it's become way too mainstream where their exposure to kids are now internalizing that and then acting it out as well.
Gosh, it's just so disturbing.
I mean, to me, it seems like you wouldn't give...
I mean, our whole mantra as parents throughout life is, don't take drugs, kids.
You know, stay away from drugs.
Stay away from drugs.
But then you're putting a seven-year-old on a drug, a mind-altering, serious drug, excuse me, while their brain is still developing, right?
Yes.
Coping methods should be actually developing and instead you're just putting them on a brain-altering or mind-numbing drug.
What does that set them up for for the rest of their life?
I mean Is it pretty damaging?
It's very damaging.
So let's take away the neurological and cognitive aspects of this.
We don't have long-term studies, but just using common sense, we could suggest a developing brain by taking a drug that acts on the brain on specific neurochemicals that there are no deficiencies to are going to have long-term effects.
Think about what it's going to do to their emotional development.
They're learning at a very young age that what they feel is wrong.
It's a disorder.
So we have to learn to trust our own emotions and use them to our benefit.
What happens when you start to condition a young kid that the emotions they're experiencing, they need to take a drug in order to decrease it?
Well, you're going to set them up for later substance abuse.
Anytime they feel something, they're going to turn to some type of substance.
If we approach our mental health in that manner, we would think about Alcohol as a social anxiety drug, right?
And that's what happens.
People turn to alcohol in social situations to decrease that anxiety and can create a lot of long-term problems.
And so the bottom line is we have to be able to teach emotional literacy, emotion regulation skills.
And I think there was, generationally, we've been able to do that naturally.
But in the United States, we are one of, I believe, two countries that have direct-to-consumer advertising with the pharmaceutical companies.
So we are bombarded with these false ideas, these false narratives about our own mental health and about the power of these drugs.
From the chemical imbalance lies.
How many of us heard that?
That if we feel depressed or anxious or we're struggling, we have some chemical imbalance in our brain.
And it requires a drug like...
We need insulin for diabetes.
So they've tried to normalize it based on lies because the science never supported it.
So they've conditioned a generation to think about that, and we've developed an expert culture around our medical establishment.
The medical establishment is so powerful now, even when they don't have the answers, they act like they have the answers.
So a primary care doctor, a pediatrician, for example, who has absolutely no background or training in the treatment of emotional disorders, It's now taking an expert role, assessing something quickly, providing a diagnosis, and then writing a prescription pill, because that's what healthcare has become in the Western world.
It's been the next drug, the next pill.
Well, we all get sicker.
There's rising rates of emotional, psychological disorders, obesity, chronic health issues.
As a culture, we're getting sick, and we keep doing the same thing over and over again.
We go back to the doctor, we get the pill, we think there's some quick fix, and we see that as healthcare.
Until that idea changes, I'm not very optimistic that we're going to make any progress as a society.
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A long-time friend from college, actually, that she started off with taking some medication for her anxiety.
You know, every time she'd have sort of an anxiety feeling or attack, she would take a pill.
Then she started taking pills for her depression.
Then, you know, she started having like this cocktail of pills that she would have to take every day because it was this or that or the other.
And then there were side effects, right?
So those things started reacting in certain ways.
And at this point, I mean, it's a tragedy to say, but she's basically schizophrenic.
She has these actual schizophrenic psychotic episodes.
And I have to wonder if it's because of this cocktail of medications that now she's been taking for years and doesn't even know how to cope or what is reality and what isn't when she's off of these pills.
What do you think?
Yeah, this is the horrific cycle that is quite the norm in my field.
So I said earlier that I had to resolve the conflict between what I was actually seeing versus what I was being told.
So you see something like this.
Someone experiences a normal bout of struggle in their life.
Maybe it's a depressed mood for a couple weeks or anxious about something and they start viewing it through the lens that there's something wrong with them.
They go into the medical system, they get their first drug and that becomes the gateway.
The gateway into the mental health system.
So we are turning episodic conditions and we're making them chronic illness.
So you take one drug and maybe the episode in itself resolves itself naturally, but you believe it was the drug.
You attribute it to the drug.
So the next time you struggle, you go back.
And you get another drug.
The side effects are then misinterpreted as worsening mental illness.
They either up the dose, they add another drug.
Those drugs in itself are now interacting with each other in a manner in which we never studied them.
They create their own unique reaction, which could be as severe as psychosis or mania.
And now the doctors are interpreting that as an underlying mental illness that was never understood to begin with.
And that is the start of a lifelong connection with the mental health system and then turning somebody who just had an episodic issue and making them chronically mentally ill.
And that's what you see in our statistics.
Tell me what other medical specialty where your involvement worsens their condition.
That's what we see in psychiatry.
We see that once you enter into psychiatry, if you stick with psychiatry, there's not positive outcomes.
You're viewed as mentally ill and you end up becoming dependent on the drugs and dependent on the physicians.
Yeah, I mean, they honestly do.
When you look at it through that lens, psychiatrists seem like glorified drug dealers.
I mean, it really kind of is what they are.
They're pushing these drugs.
They're hooking people on drugs.
And just because it's clinical and they can get them at a pharmacy instead of on the street, I really don't see how it's any better or different.
It's exactly what it is.
It was a dying profession before their alliance with the pharmaceutical companies.
Because when you think about the psychiatry profession back in the 70s or 80s or previously, if mental illness was a brain disorder, we had neurology.
So, we've certainly kind of debunked the idea that mental health-related conditions are a brain illness, but during that period of time, what was their role going to be?
So, you had psychologists who were doing therapy.
Psychiatrists, in trying to legitimize themselves in the medical profession, tried to push mental illness as a brain disorder, something that we could cure, like other conditions, and it created decades of mass marketing around that entire idea.
And all we see is generations that have continued to worsen when you begin to think about your emotional states as outside your control, and there's some illness that they believe that they can target.
Now that doesn't take away that there is a percentage of people we don't really understand.
How to treat schizophrenia is something you mentioned.
Schizophrenia is a condition that the drugs that we have outside of emergency medicine have not produced any positive long-term outcomes, yet people believe that if you're on the drug, if you're on the med, well then you're stabilized.
For really serious mental health conditions, like maybe someone who's in a dangerous manic state or experiencing psychosis, there is some truth to initial stabilization, but The brain always seeks homeostasis.
The body always seeks homeostasis.
And what we end up seeing is that what could have potentially been a single episode then also becomes lifelong chronic illness.
And I've just come to the conclusion, as we put more and more people on drugs, we are medicalizing normal, we are medicating normal, and that's creating customers for life.
And so it is really a boon for the pharmaceutical company to be able to be integrated in American culture in the way that they are and to communicate that the normal aspects of living, regardless of the cause, are going to be improved from a psychotropic drug.
And it's just put us all down a dangerous path.
Amen.
I'm also very concerned and disturbed about the alarming rate that doctors and teachers and parents even are labeling or diagnosing their young children as ADD or ADHD. As a child myself who was diagnosed in high school as having ADD by,
honestly, a lazy algebra teacher who just was really boring and thought that I had ADD because I wasn't quite paying attention to his boring algebra, But so many parents' children are just so quick to say, oh, my son has ADD, or your son's being a little hyper in school, he probably has ADD, go get him diagnosed.
And what's very disturbing is that they're putting them on drugs, really heavy, you know, Ritalin or Adderall, as young as, I think, three, four, and five years old.
When I think a lot of boys are just naturally hyper or a child is just naturally energetic or creative or learning in a different way.
So we have this huge rate, I don't know if you know the numbers here, not to put you on the spot, but an alarming rate of children, young, young children being diagnosed with ADD and ADHD and then put on drugs.
Are you seeing that?
Are you alarmed by it?
And what do you think the trajectory of that is with this generation of young babies and toddlers and children being diagnosed and drugged up?
As a clinical psychologist in practice, and this isn't me being hyperbolic, it is rare that someone comes into our center and doesn't proclaim themselves to be ADHD. It is so normalized that on social media, I'll tweet out everyone has ADHD because that's what it feels like, right?
It's become that normalized in our culture that if anyone's bored, Anyone struggles in a classroom environment, anyone has a difficult time focusing on a certain task that requires sustained attention, they'll call it MyADHD, which again, very purposeful that it's so integrated into our society.
The younger generations, like when you're talking about two-year-olds or three-year-olds, I was doing some research on this various topic and What I saw there was a work group with the American Psychiatric Association that actually was recommending early intervention.
So basically stating if you can identify a toddler who has ADHD, and tell me how you can identify a toddler who has ADHD. Right!
Don't they all sort of have symptoms of ADHD? Yeah, it's completely losing our grip on reality because, listen, toddlers are meant to explore and move and be energized.
That is a gift.
That's not a disorder.
I'd be much more concerned if I had a toddler that could really quickly focus and sit and be subdued for a long period of time.
That is the norm.
And that's where you really just question the legitimacy of that medical specialty.
As I think it is medical negligence to provide a stimulant drug to a young developing child, especially when we have no idea about the long-term consequences of such an intervention.
Who would experiment on a young child's brain in that manner and hook them on a drug that is known to create dependency?
And we know how ridiculous this is when the American Academy of Pediatrics Won't allow kids to have caffeine, right?
They'll recommend against any caffeine, which is a stimulant, a much more milder stimulant than the forms of amphetamine that are part of these stimulant drugs.
It's like, let's be a haired three-year-old, have some crack or speed.
I mean, hello.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, it's scary that we can actually have this conversation that it's that normalized.
Like there's ADHD is a medical illness and my kid has a medical illness.
And people don't know the history of this.
They think ADHD is a legitimate, discreet illness.
And, you know, I've gotten hammered on social media and some other shows I've been when I tell people there's no such thing as ADHD. And what I mean by that is all it is is a label that's slapped on somebody based on symptoms.
When a high school teacher can make a referral and that can be accepted by the doctor as enough information to suggest that they have ADHD, then we know that that is not an empirical investigation of any underlying medical illness.
We're unable to identify any explanatory process that would lead somebody to have ADHD. So when I say that it's symptoms without any type of cause, think about all the reasons why someone might struggle with attention.
It could be related to nutrient deficiencies.
It could be someone who's abused and experiencing trauma reactions.
It could be a kid who's in the wrong environment, so meant to be outside working with their hands, hunting, fishing, playing sports, but they're kind of confined into a classroom and have to focus on something where it's just not interesting to them.
There's other legitimate reasons why someone might struggle with focus or attention.
They could be sleep deprived, for example.
They could be worrying.
They could be daydreamers.
Daydreamers used to be something where some people would be very creative and in their own minds.
I was a big daydreamer, always.
Yeah.
I mean, it's interesting.
Every time I'm on a talk show with somebody who's in the media and who has really strong communication skills and is very interpersonal, they tend to say things like, well, when I was in high school, I struggled.
When I was in school, they thought I had ADHD and they wanted to have me take these pills.
And that just says we have this very restricted idea of what is normal.
And if you extend outside that bounds of normality, then they're going to disorder you.
And that's the risk we are.
In schools, what do teachers want?
They want obedient kids who are going to follow the rules and who are going to repeat back the information that you're providing them.
So it's an environment that...
Values rote memory skills versus critical thinking and creativity.
So if you're outside those bounds of normal, you're more likely to be disordered.
That's so interesting.
I mean, yes, all they want is order, order, obedience.
And if you color outside the lines a little bit, you do things your own way, oh, you have a disorder.
You are disorderly.
You are misbehaving.
It's funny.
Funny how that works, how quick they are to do that and label people.
And that's what parents should know.
If your children is creative or they color outside the lines or they're not following the rules exactly, you should probably think this is a genius in the making.
This is somebody that's worth investing time into developing that creativity, developing that uniqueness, instead of, let me listen to this teacher and just slap them on drugs and get a diagnosis of ADD or anxiety or something else.
When you speak about the complexity of the mental health crisis that we're in right now, you can see that it's related to multiple factors.
It can stem at home from parenting.
Think of other reasons why you might have a real difficult time focusing with ADHD if you're living through screens.
If you're living through screens and you're playing video games all the time, it's very difficult for you to do well in school.
There could be behavioral problems.
We have a number of rising rates of Two parents working and outside of the home, right?
So that's something that's new with the American culture and American economy.
It's really difficult to make ends meet right now.
So parents get home, their kids are at school, or maybe they were in daycare.
It's not like it's so easy to spend so much time engaging with your own kid.
You have to get dinner ready.
You've got to get your house together.
So a lot of kids are just put in front of a screen in order to be subdued.
Yeah.
And that's a dangerous trend because we know that that's having really negative emotional and attentional problems.
And not to mention the labels, the drugs, the lack of connection, the lack of social connection.
There's just more isolation than there ever was before.
Connection to nature, our food source.
So it is a complex issue.
But there's no doubt that the way that we're reacting to the mental health crisis is we're exacerbating the problem because we're making it a medical issue on drugs.
Exactly.
And you put out a tweet recently that says, resist any attempt by anyone to provide you a depression screening or anxiety screening or mental health screening.
You said, never, never, never engage in this nonsense.
If you have children especially, warn them to never, never, never fill these screenings, these types of screenings out.
Why are you so passionate about that statement?
Yes, this is a serious concern.
So parents especially, please listen up.
In my local area, the Lehigh Valley Health Network, they've mandated in primary care settings and pediatrician settings to take what's called the PHQ-9.
This is a very poor symptom checklist measure to screen for depression.
And who was it developed by?
Pfizer.
Ah, interesting.
If you take the screening questionnaire, You will quickly learn that anyone at any given time can rate themselves as depressed.
So it is a very poor predictor of depression.
It has very poor validity.
So it doesn't measure what we're looking to measure.
It's general.
It's wide open.
It's easily misinterpreted.
So it is going to over-diagnose non-depressed people dramatically.
And if you listen to what I said earlier in the interview is that those settings have been really hijacked by the pharmaceutical industry through their medical organizations.
So when a doctor looks at a screening and it suggests that they're depressed, their answers are to write a prescription.
So it's part of the system that is maintaining increased psychiatric drugs and making it a multi-billion dollar industry.
So listen, if your kid or you yourself are really struggling with your mental health, you know it.
You don't have to fill out a screening questionnaire for your physician.
That's one thing we will clearly know.
So we have to resist that at all costs.
And there's a lot of non-depressed, non-anxious, normal reactions in life that are being pathologized through these screening measures and pushing more kids into the system and on the drug And as we mentioned before, the side effects are significant, even potentially fatal.
Yeah.
Amen.
Sounds like the faulty PCR test as well with COVID. Exactly.
And the vaccines.
I mean, you go to a pediatrician's office and it's all posters for vaccines, all different types of vaccines.
And then, of course, the vaccines make your children sicker.
And then the last tweet I wanted to go over is you said, trust me, the last thing you want to identify in life with is being mentally ill.
No matter how strong the message, resist.
They aren't ending stigma.
They're developing customers for life.
And this sort of goes to your, you know, your thought that this is people, TikTok, the media, they're trying to make mental health labels almost cool and trendy.
And it's not.
It's not cool to label yourself as mentally ill, right?
Or have mental health issues.
It depends on what subset of society that you're in.
And this is more of a cultural issue where we praise being a victim to an oppressor and a disability status.
So if you have a mental illness and you're a young person and you identify as mentally ill...
It can get you out of taking tests, going to school.
It can allow you to feel connected to another group of people on the internet globally.
It's part of your identity.
The antithesis to normalizing struggle, which we can see as something that's developmental, that's necessary for growth in our life, you know, an opportunity for learning, the antithesis to that is to say that when you come across struggle, that you're ill,
you're disordered, there's something broken within you, you have obtained disability status, you're a minority group, and then you can achieve specialty treatment and You're disordered, maybe for life, and you require these drugs and this treatment.
And you can see how it becomes that person's identity, even if they didn't choose it.
So imagine that you're an adult and you've been suffering.
If you attach to this idea that you are mentally ill, you will not see that experience as potentially transformative.
You're going to see it as to serve nothing for you other than there's something wrong with you that requires medical intervention.
I think emotional struggles, whether it's anxiety, it's depression, it's loss, it's fear, they are opportunities for us to grow.
It is an indication that there's something in our life that we have to address.
And if we don't talk about and view struggles that way, then we are just entering down that path that has become so dangerous.
And, you know, we can see the statistics.
I mean, we require A lot of people in society who are in positions of authority, who are teachers, who are politicians, who are business leaders, parents, to be able to reconstruct the way that we deal with our experiences as human beings.
A lot of our emotional reactions are just normal, they're valid, and they're expected in the circumstances that we have to learn how to cope effectively with them.
Yeah, amen.
Again, it's creating victims for life and people who are hooked on drugs for the rest of their life, unproductive people.
And the population control orchestrated by the powers that be, it's not just about cutting down the population.
It's also about controlling the population, literally.
And that means getting people hooked on drugs and being zombies.
Unproductive to society.
You know, easily controlled and manipulated and just kind of almost blobs.
It's almost like they're not even there.
They're not even human anymore.
They're just zombies because they're hooked on these psychiatric drugs for the rest of their lives and they're victims.
I speak about this as an issue of freedom.
One, medical freedom around informed consent.
So if you're taking a drug and you're not aware of the risks, that's a violation of law and ethics.
But the sicker you are, the sicker we all are, the more dependent we become on their products, the more dependent we become on their ideas.
The stronger you are.
The healthier you are.
You have the capacity to critically think.
You have the capacity to be independent and take care of yourself.
And this is a free society.
It's supposed to be a free society.
We start giving up those rights and we start labeling ourselves as ill.
They can take away your freedoms.
And a lot of people don't understand that, that once you're assigned that label, how easy it is to take away further freedoms, or for it to be in your medical records, and then for maybe a legitimate health issue down the line is not discovered because they think it's psychosomatic, that there's something wrong with you.
There are so many layers to all this, from forced hospitalization, to forced drugging, to removing of rights, to medical records with diagnoses impacting your ability to get life insurance.
There's so many aspects around this tied to our own freedom.
But most importantly, if you're not strong enough, If you are sick, you're dependent on drugs, you're attaching to this label.
If we're creating an entire generation that lacks appropriate coping skills, then you are absolutely creating a generation of people that are more zombies, who are more likely to just blindly follow the authoritarian control.
So, I mean, it's a major concern.
Yeah, they're like just obedient slaves, basically.
Brains have turned to mush.
And I guess that's The plan makes sense.
It's intelligent from up above, although it's maniacal.
So stop falling into their plans.
Stop being a victim, a slave, and falling into their hands.
That's exactly what they want.
Sorry, any last words there?
Well, I'm hopeful that post-COVID there's a bit of a wake-up call because I think a lot of things that have been happening for decades are more clear to the general public, including the misrepresentation of science and government overreach into the private lives of the individual, trying to control businesses, trying to control medical freedom, bodily integrity, and a number of things.
So I think with the post-COVID, I think it's transitioned into my field as they are also kind of, I think with a critical eye, a lot of people are looking about the damages of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs.
Yeah.
I mean, do you think that people, are you seeing more of an awakening, more of people questioning authority, questioning science in the last year or two than before?
I'm hoping it's not a bias on my end because of the circles that I'm in, but a podcast like mine, the Radically Genuine Podcast, has been on the Apple charts in health and mental health.
It's been in the top 10, and that's grown significantly.
When someone like myself, who is using social media profile to bring attention to this, that's starting to grow.
So I don't know if it's filtered information that's coming just through my social media because of what I'm attending to and the algorithm.
But the podcast, the shows I'm listening to certainly appear to suggest that there's more of a global awakening.
And that's why independent media is just so critically important.
And the use of social media for people to communicate or like-minded and to share information.
You know, most people would never know that that Lexapro study leads to a six-fold increase in suicidality.
You know, Parents are not going to be provided that information.
But if they're aware of how scientific papers can be manipulated and how the FDA is funded by the pharmaceutical companies and it's fraud, well, I think they can look through recommendations with a more critical eye and then question the medical authority, which is what we're going to have to do as a culture.
Yeah.
Amen.
Well, thank you for shining the light on truth and questioning the medical authority.
We really appreciate your work.
Tell everybody again where they can follow you and find your awesome work and, of course, your radically genuine podcast.
Sure.
You can download the Radically Genuine podcast with Dr.
Roger McFillan from all your major apps.
You can find me at Radically Genuine on YouTube.
We have a new YouTube channel where I am creating videos to provide this information.
A lot of people who follow me know that That YouTube channel was taken down within 24 hours.
And for people like Joe Rogan and others who were able to promote that, we were reinstated.
But certainly shadowbanned.
And this is just providing published research as well.
You can follow me at Dr.
McFillin on Twitter.
Radically Genuine on Instagram.
And DrMcFillin.com is a website where you can learn more about my work and our podcasts and some of the initiatives.
Okay, great.
Well, thank you so much.
Dr.
McFillin has been informative and enlightening.
Guys, go give him a follow.
Check out his podcast.
The fact that you were banned on YouTube is a badge of honor.
It means you're over the target.
So, thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
Thanks.
We'll have to have you back on again.
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Well, it's Thursday, so it's time for another Darwin Awards.
The Darwin Awards, the dumbest, stupidest, most ridiculous people and offense of the week, of which there are so many.
It's always hard to choose with these.
Well, this week, number one, Mitch the bitch had another glitch.
Yes, Mitch McConnell, the turtle.
I'm not even sure if he's dead or alive or CGI, but he has had another CGI brain glitch.
And he was asked a question, will he run again in 2026?
I don't know how old he is.
I think he's like 90 or something.
And his CGI brain just totally glitched.
Check this out.
What are my thoughts about what?
Running for re-election in 2026.
Did you hear the question, Senator?
Running for re-election in 2026?
All right, I'm sorry, you all.
all we're going to need a minute i mean you can't even you can't even hide it what like How is this even legal to keep running?
How is this even legal to keep being a senator or a congressman or a representative of the people in this country when you're this old or when your CGI or robotics just literally keep glitching over and over again?
And the next Darwin Award goes to...
Joe Biden, of course, and Jean-Pierre Delatois, whatever the hell that diversity pic's name is, for the nice little spin that she put on it.
When there was a poll, a recent poll that was out this week, and the poll said, which is pretty funny, what words come to mind when you think of Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden.
What words come to mind when you think of Joe Biden?
And 26% of Americans taking this poll said, old, outdated, elderly, and aging.
Old, outdated, elderly, and aging.
Another 15% put, slow, bumbling, and confused.
Why is this even okay to have our leader, the President of the United States, be confused or be slow or retarded or stupid or old, too old?
But check out this little spin on it that Jean-Pierre Delatois put on it.
He has his finger on the pulse on what it is that the American people need.
He talks about issues that really matter to the American people, and he is delivering.
Is there more work to be done?
There's always more work to be done, but we are happy to take that on.
And the next Darwin Award goes to...
This ridiculous event, if you haven't heard of it, check it out now.
The University of Wyoming sorority sisters, Kappa Kappa Gamma, they filed a lawsuit.
Yes, they sued to try to prevent a transgender man from joining and living with these sorority sisters in their sorority house, in their shared spaces.
And guess what?
The lawsuit was struck down.
It was rejected by Wyoming U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson.
And these sorority sisters say, hey, we don't really want this man who's got a penis and six foot two in our house, living in our house, which he's trying to do.
They said he's creepy, he's a sexual predator, and he gets erections when he's watching them.
He watches them apparently shower and dress because that's what sorority sisters do when they're living in a big house, right?
They're all sorority sisters, whatever.
They're hanging out.
They're trying to be comfortable with each other.
And this dude is trying to live with them and he's getting erections.
Yeah.
How creepy is that?
And sexual, apparently he's a sexual predator too.
And their lawsuit got struck down and rejected.
Check this out.
All of the bathrooms are shared spaces.
There are about three, four, if you count the guest bathroom.
And they are shared spaces.
There are no private changing areas for when you shower.
There are no locks on the showers.
And it's just, it's very open and vulnerable.
Oh my goodness.
And this person's moving into the sorority house next year?
What's interesting about that, Megan, is that there has been an exemption granted for him.
for his safety, but not for these young women.
Way to make a women's only space, not only obsolete, but totally uncomfortable and totally be violated.
And speaking of transgenders and hairy men having things that women should only have, have you heard about this new show?
I was watching TV the other day, just skimming channels, and I saw on the guide My Pregnant Husband.
And I'm like, okay, I've got to go check this out.
My pregnant husband.
So I go on there and sure enough, it is so vile and disgusting.
It is a documentary series that covers men who are having babies.
So I'm pretty sure I guess it's a woman biologically that transitioned into a man, looks like a man, but still has their uterus and is now pregnant and having a baby.
And it documents their journey.
And they felt so bad.
But for me, like, that could have gone, like, so many different ways.
What the hell is this BS? I feel like every father wants to protect their child, and I get to protect the child even before they end the world, so I'm, like, sitting in a lot more.
I'm looking forward to giving birth, and I'm ready for this process to be over.
What the hell is this?
Oh my gosh, this is just trash.
Look at this.
What is this trash?
I'm scared about something going wrong.
I want to be conscious when I deliver the baby.
I want to be able to feel the birth of my child.
No!
Come on, man.
Come on.
What?
Ari was induced and went into active labor eight hours later.
Eww.
I don't get it.
Do they have male parts?
Female parts?
Were they born a man?
Were they born a woman?
Very confused.
You got it, Ari.
Yes.
My doctor said...
If I... Don't get the baby out in three pushes, then we're going to have to give you an emergency C-section.
Well, I'm very confused.
I said, no way.
What is going on?
This is disgusting.
This is such trash indoctrination.
Good.
And the next push, the baby's head popped out.
I could feel their whole body come out.
It was so amazing.
Please don't make this the norm.
Hi, baby.
Where's your baby?
Look at all that beard.
It is so grotesque.
And it's like, again, way to make women totally obsolete.
Erase women's uniqueness, their God-given ability to have children, to bear children, and to give birth.
I mean, that's really a uniquely woman-created-by-God thing.
And now you're turning it into a man thing or a freak show.
And lastly, the winner of the week, Goes to President Trump.
He issued one of many videos today.
And one of them, and it was talking about his policies and what he plans on doing if and when he becomes president again.
And one of them had to do with COVID. And he said that he will never allow the tyrants to win again.
And he will never allow these COVID restrictions to happen again.
These are bad people.
These are sick people we're dealing with.
But to every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our freedom, hear these words.
We will not comply.
So don't even think about it.
Finally, you said it.
Finally, you said it, President Trump.
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