Tucson, Arizona May 13, 2019 (Issuewire.com) - Depression is the single largest public health issue, affecting 17.3 million Americans. Bipolar disorder is the 6th leading cause of disability in the world, affecting 5.7 million Americans. The new book Beating Depression and Bipolar Disorder Without Drugs by nationally-known psychologist Julia A. Sherman demonstrates how these disorders can be managed without crippling psychiatric drugs.
Sherman has 62 years of clinical, teaching, and research experience. Her powerful story recounts her own struggle with bipolar disorder and depression and the severe adverse drug reactions that made her stop psychiatric medications.
Hundreds of studies and Sherman’s own experience support the effectiveness of bright light therapy for depression and dark therapy for mania. In addition, triple chronotherapy (wake therapy + sleep phase advance+ bright light therapy) provides a quick, effective non-drug treatment for even severe suicidal depressions. And it works in a few days to a couple of weeks.
These treatments are consistent with her hypothesis that correctly traces the genetic origin of bipolar disorder to pre-historic Neanderthals, who were hypomanic (to manic) during short summers and in a depressed state during long, severe winters.
Noting that depression affects more women than men, Sherman says, “My life story is a harrowing one of surviving sexual abuse, #MeToo experiences, dosage with psychiatric drugs until I was a hulk of my former self, and the malignant vengeance of men who sought to punish me because I dared to be a witness against one of their own who had sexually abused a patient.”
The memoir recounts Sherman’s pioneering efforts to replace prejudice with science in the area of the psychology of women and her seminal research debunking the idea that women are incapable of mastering mathematics and the pursuit of careers in law, medicine, engineering, and the sciences.
Continuing her interest in the psychology of women, she devotes a scholarly chapter to the female orgasm showing that there are two kinds of orgasm depending on different pathways to the brain: the very good feeling (VGF) and the full body ecstasy (FBE) orgasm, with the former being more common.
The book discusses how different parts of the brain record memories and that repressed traumatic memories are recalled in more detail by women.
Sherman calls out the pharmaceutical industry for its fraud, greed, and propaganda and the way it has dominated the treatment of depression, even when scientific studies reveal that antidepressants are not effective and often harmful.
Moreover, lithium and “anti-psychotics” aren’t specific treatments for psychosis; instead, they operate to shut down the brain. In her career, she observed such “treatments” as electroshock and prefrontal lobotomy.
Sherman recalls consulting work at a maximum-security facility for those then called the “criminally insane,” most of whom were sex offenders. She met the notorious serial killer Ed Gein, and the menacing rage of another inmate in a therapy session.
Part memoir, part history, part science, and part a call to action, Beating Depression and Bipolar Disorder Without Drugs: A Memoir of Survival in a Male-Dominated World provides intellectual and emotional focus on specific feminist issues with an emphasis on the fraudulent hype of psychiatric drugs, the problems of depression and bipolar disorder, a new genetic theory, and a drugless treatment born in the crucible of scientific knowledge and desperation.
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