Tapping with EFT

EFT, do you take it serious, and if not, why not ?

Several years ago, I suffered from mild bouts of depression. Nothing earthshaking, no thoughts of committing suicide but it was frightening. In the beginning, they occurred only once a year, lasted for 4 or 5 days and went away without any medication. But as time went by, they got worse, lasted longer and I started to fear them. There was no reason for it medically or mentally, work and home life was great, no financial worries. I avoided medication on purpose although the temptation to acquire get well pills was sometimes overwhelming. After reading up on depression and different methods of dealing with it, stumbled on EFT by chance and tried it. And hallelujah, it did the trick and in record time as well.Which brings me to the news I got a few days ago from Mark Hyman MD, a doctor from the US who is heavily involved with eating disorders.Have reproduced it down below, including his video link. Have checked it out from different sources on the net and a lot of networks have mentioned this problem. Seems that treating depression with drugs or with a placebo has similar results. I am not qualified to point fingers at the pharmaceuticals and besides, these companies spend a fortune on research and that has to be paid. No argument with that. But it suddenly does not seem so silly to try out alternative ways of overcoming depression. However, read the blog from Dr.Hyman below, or watch the video on his site and check it out for yourselves. Why Antidepressants Don’t Work for Treating Depression

Some depressing recent medical news: Antidepressants don’t work
What’s even more depressing? The pharmaceutical industry and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have deliberately deceived us into believing that they DO work. As a physician, this is frightening to me. Depression is among the most common problems seen in primary-care medicine and soon will be the second leading cause of disability in this country. The study I’m talking about was published in a recent issue of “The New England Journal of Medicine.” It found that drug companies selectively publish studies on antidepressants. They have published nearly all the studies that show benefit — but almost none of the studies that show these drugs are ineffective.(1)That warps our view of antidepressants, leading us to think that they do work. And it has fueled the tremendous growth in the use of psychiatric medications, which are now the second leading class of drugs sold, after cholesterol-lowering drugs. And it’s even worse than it sounds, because the positive studies hardly showed benefit in the first place. For example, 40 percent of people taking a placebo (sugar pill) got better, while only 60 percent taking the actual drug had improvement in their symptoms. Looking at it another way, 80 percent of people get better with just a placebo. That leaves us with a big problem — millions of depressed people with no effective treatments. Let’s take a closer look at depression.”Depression” is simply a label we give to people who have a depressed mood most of the time, have lost interest or pleasure in most activities, are fatigued, can’t sleep, have no interest in sex, feel hopeless and helpless, can’t think clearly, or can’t make decisions. But that label tells us NOTHING about the cause of those symptoms. In fact, there are dozens of causes of depression — each one needing a different approach to treatment. Depression is not one-size-fits-all. But it’s very common. Women have a 10 to 25 percent risk and men a 5 to 12 percent risk of developing severe major depression in their lifetime.(2) One in ten Americans takes an antidepressant. The use of these drugs has tripled in the last decade, according to a report by the federal government. In 2006, spending on antidepressants soared by 130 percent. But just because antidepressants are popular doesn’t mean they’re helpful. Unfortunately, as we now see from this report in “The New England Journal of Medicine,” they don’t work and have significant side effects. Most patients taking antidepressants either don’t respond or have only partial response. In fact, success is considered just a 50 percent improvement in half of depressive symptoms. And this minimal result is achieved in less than half the patients taking antidepressants. That’s a pretty dismal record. It’s only made worse by the fact that 86 percent of people taking antidepressants have one or more side effects, including sexual dysfunction, fatigue, insomnia, loss of mental abilities, nausea, and weight gain. No wonder half the people who try antidepressants quit after 4 months. Now I want to talk to you about the reasons why doctors and patients have been deceived by the “antidepressant hoax.”Despite what we have been brainwashed to believe, depression is not a Prozac deficiency! Drug companies are not forced to publish all the results of their studies. They only publish those they want to. The team of researchers that reported their findings in “The New England Journal of Medicine” took a critical look at all the studies done on antidepressants, both published and unpublished. They dug up some serious dirt. The unpublished studies were not easy to find. The researchers had to search the FDA databases, call researchers, and hunt down hidden data under the Freedom of Information Act. What they found was stunning. After looking at 74 studies involving 12 drugs and over 12,000 people, they discovered that 37 of 38 trials with positive results were published, while only 14 of 36 negative studies were published. And those that showed negative results were in the words of the researchers, “published in a way that conveyed a positive outcome.” That means the results were twisted to imply the drugs worked when they didn’t. This isn’t just a problem with antidepressants. It’s a problem with scientific research. Some drug companies even pay or threaten scientists to not publish negative results on their drugs. So much for “evidence-based” medicine! Most of the time, we only have the evidence that the drug companies want us to have. Both doctors and patients are deceived into putting billions of dollars into drug companies’ pockets, while leaving millions with the same health problems but less money. The scientific trust is broken. What can we do? Unfortunately, there is no easy answer. But I do think Functional Medicine, on which my approach of UltraWellness is based, provides a more intelligent way of understanding the research. Rather than using drugs to suppress symptoms, Functional Medicine helps us find the true causes of problems, including depression. I see this in so many of the patients I have treated over the years. Just as the same things that make us sick also make us fat, the same things that make us sick also make us depressed.