Quote From: momakababeI mean you're pretty factual here yourself at the same time you're telling someone else not to state facts if they're not in the situation. Does that mean you ARE in the situation? You seem pretty aggressive in your posts here are you the mom? I have to say that it's scary to see your posts here looking like you're still angry at the same time you've been allowed to return to the home your kids are in. You'd mentioned in another post that the "heavens" & others were on the "mothers side". Do you see this as "their side" & "your side"? When you speak of how "they are at this time only helping the mother not the children and father and this is a month and 3 days out from when the show was even taped" you almost sound as though you're saying this in an defiant "ha ha they didn't get any help, I did" kind of way. Does it anger you that people have empathy for what your daughters have to endure? If they haven't gotten any counseling I should hope that you would seek that out for your children on your own. I can only imagine how much pain they've suffered.
If your husband actually knew what to do then why wasn't that the solution he would have just used instead of needing to go to Dr. Phil in the first place? & I mean if he could actually difuse the rage then wouldn't he just always do that or was he only able to control the situation when he was there? If he allowed the raging to go on while the scene was being taped so Dr. Phil could see what the mother is "really like" then why was the audience not told? Wouldn't that have been part of the information taken into consideration? If this was known & not spoken of what else was with held from the audience?
If it was thought to be a medical condition or part of one why wasn't that talked about on the show on the air? I mean if this is part of a bi-polar condition or depression then that should have been brought up even if it was just suspected by Dr. Phil, because there are others watching & waiting to see an out come so they too can perhaps identify or make a connection to their own problem & get treatment. If many Drs. had been sought out & it had gone undiagnosed or had been misdiagnosed then this is even more vital information to the public. While this segment was not just to help the people on the show it's also to reach others having the same problems. If they don't know the whole story then just like you they're going to be misdiagnosed or not diagnosed & what would the point be of airing it in the first place?
As I said in a prior post I do hope you all get the help you need but most importantly I hope for your daughters a home that is what a home is suppose to be and that's a safe haven. I imagine as the mother you'd want the same right?
By no means am I stating "haha" that the mother is getting help and the children and father are not. The mother was evaluated and so far no one has been. As far as the father, you hit it right on the nail..... he was only able to control the situation when he was there. As far as not telling the audience, well that you would have to talk to Dr Phil about because there were somethings that were not to be mentioned through the nifty contract they make you sign.
As far as the medical condition, if you look at the last segmint of the show he does say "this is a neuro problem that you can not control and your brain has shut down". No he never said what type of neuro problem but after being evaluated its a problem with the serotonin level in the brain. To give facts about it... a normal persons seritonin level is around 40-60. In this case it was in the 90's. Here are some facts about serotonin.....
Elevated 5HT (serotonin) levels:
#1 schizophrenia, psychosis, mania, etc.
#2 mood disorders (depression, anxiety, etc.)
#3 organic brain disease - especially mental retardation at a greater incident rate in children
#4 autism (a self-centered or self-focused mental state with no basis in reality)
#5 Alzheimer's disease
#6 old age
#7 anorexia
#8 constriction of the blood vessels
#9 blood clotting
#10 constriction of bronchials and other physical effects
Lower 5HIAA (serotonin metabolism) levels:
#1 suicide (especially violent suicide)
#2 arson
#3 violent crime
#4 insomnia
#5 depression
#6 alcohol abuse
#7 impulsive acts with no concern for punishment
#8 reckless driving
#9 dependence upon various substances
#10 bulimia
#11 multiple suicide attempts
#12 hostility and more contact with police
#13 exhibitionism
#14 arguments with spouses, friends and relatives
#15 obsessive compulsive behavior
#16 impaired employment due to hostility, etc.
All are exactly what patients and their families have continued to report to be their experience on these drugs since Prozac was introduced! These individuals are frantically searching for answers while this research sits right under our noses. Although this is a totally different picture than pharmaceutical marketing departments would have us believe, marketing claims and reality rarely have much in common.
Researchers tell us that five, ten or twenty years later it is not uncommon to find we have another thalidomide on our hands. Raising 5HT (serotonin) and lowering 5HIAA (serotonin metabolism) in such a high number of people can produce very serious, extensive and long term problems for all of society. Even more frightening for the future of our society is the rapidly rising widespread accepted practice of prescribing these drugs to small children and adolescents. This crucial medical research must be addressed openly, without delay, rather than remain buried in seldom read medical research documents as has been the case in the past with other mind-altering medications, once thought to be safe, which were subsequently prohibited by law.
Some information included in the book (424 pgs):
...serious long-term adverse physical and psychiatric side effects produced by elevated levels of serotonin ...reported after effects: withdrawal, memory loss, sleep disorders, panic and anxiety attacks (adrenalin rushes), impaired concentration, bi-polar, diabetes, MS symptoms, mania, chronic fatigue, severe rebound depression, symptoms of Cushings Syndrome - moon face, looking or feeling pregnant, inability to handle stress, mood swings, etc.
...learn the cause of depression, manic-depression, panic, anxiety, OCD, psychosis, schizophrenia, etc.- understand mental illness as never before. ...why False Memory Syndrome is so often being induced by these drugs and breaking up relationships ...reports of compulsions for alcohol, sweets, NutraSweet sweetened drinks, spending and sex
If you remember the part in the show where the mother named the medications she was on you will notice that Prozac was one of them. For the evaluation to be done most insurance companies will not pay for it. So it is all out of pocket expenses. If you have that much money to have the tests done.... more power to you. But some people do not.
As for the girls.... they are in a safe place. I hope this helps to understand the post I made earlier.