Mail Fraud Hoax

This is a picture of a piece of mail fraudulently sent to my address (address has been removed).

The fraud is repeated in the letter as is illustrated in the picture below.



This letter sets forth a deliberate lie that is intended to prey upon people who are hurting emotionally. This is fraud of a most frightful kind. It seeks to prey upon people who are hurting and confused.

I never contacted this company expressing any interest in learning more about depression. I have, however, spoken outrightly and have written about the fraudulent promotion of this and other emotional and mental conditions.

This promotion packet demonstrates some very important factors in this fraud.

Notice especially the warning about Suicidality and Antidepressant Drugs. The language in this warning is very clever, but nevertheless, it still is very revealing of the nature of this promotion.

First, they invented a non-word. Rather than using the proper language of “suicidal tendencies” or “suicidal instabilities”, they invented a non-word that gives the false impression of concreteness and legitimacy to the notion that this should be of concern to the reader. Fabricating a noun from the adjective changes the perception of the reader. In other words, these drug use promoters are playing mind games with their audience.

Read the warning carefully. Although it is very carefully crafted to leave the opposite impression, it says that use of their drug is likely to cause you to develop suicidal thoughts and tendencies. The likelihood of this drug causing a person to feel suicidal is so severe that it has not been approved for children under 18.

This is devilishly crafty. This is crafted in such a way as to leave a person who has wondered about depression and very likely also has at some time or other experienced some fear of suicidal instability, to feel afraid so as to be more anxious and to begin imagining even more emotional fracturing.

Their booklet continues the fostering of doubt and anxiety. See the cover picture below.



This is devilish indeed.

What about this scene contains anything that would suggest depression.

Answer: Absolutely nothing!

Observing these two ladies no one would even begin to think of depression. Normalcy is what this picture presents. Friendship and caring and happiness are what this scene should illustrate.

And that is the devilish nature of the use of this scene, when it has the title:

Depression
can affect
many areas
of your life.

Like a gloomy cloud the purple box looms over the ladies in an otherwise bright and enjoyable setting. Purple, a color associated with gloom and depression is set above the otherwise normal setting, pervading the life of these ladies without their awareness.

This truly is fiendishly clever use of color and life settings.

Open the booklet and this is what is displayed on the first pages:



Again, a fiendishly deceptive presentation of a lady going about her normal routine, in a bright and happy setting, accomplishing good things for herself and her family, selecting good and healthy produce for her family, but looming in the background is the need for medication to make this possible. The lady is smiling and appearing content. The implication? This is made possible only by using this prescription medication.

Throughout the booklet, women are especially featured. Can you guess why? Women normally have a very broad range of emotions. Did you catch the key word? Normally.

Yes, it is NORMAL to experience a broad range of emotions and emotional fluctuation. This is especially true for women. But men, too, normally experience a broad range of emotional experiences.

And if you have not yet jumped this far, yes, this includes normal experiences of Depression!

Depression is a coping mechanism. It is normal for people to experience depression.

But the promoters of drug use understand that their readers need help in realizing that such normal things should not be counted as normal. See page 7 below.



This is clever. This devilish manipulation of words is common today. Read carefully the first two sentences.

Use the phrase “Science has shown” and credibility is immediately assumed.

Nevertheless, this is an outright lie. And these marketers know that this is a lie.

The proper term is clinical depression, but even this is a slippery term. By saying that depression is serious medical illness these frauds place every single human being in the state of needing treatment for depression, for every single human being experiences depression, even deep depression at some point.

Just read carefully and observe the rest of the slippery language that is used: “many patients may benefit,” “While no one knows for sure what causes depression, many experts believe it may occur when chemicals become out of balance.”

Lies on top of lies mixed with elements of truth.

The Holy Scriptures teach what causes depression. St. Paul directly declares the cure. Yet “science” declares that no one knows for sure. Yet many experts BELIEVE that chemical imbalances in the brain cause it.

True science declares the exact opposite. Depression and other emotional fluctuations, especially dramatic fluctuations and ongoing strong emotions cause chemical imbalances, not only in the brain but throughout the body. Hormonal fluctuations also cause imbalances not only of chemicals but also of emotions. This is normal.

It also is normal for stress (more properly called anxiety or worry) to cause chemical changes and imbalances. This includes changes in blood pressure and cholesterol levels (after all cholesterol is the base from which hormones are made in the body). Anger, which when internalized and allowed to smolder, often accompanied by fears and anxieties, is the root of depression. When this is permitted to go on for too long, in is natural for the body to attempt to compensate and to attempt to correct the chemicals. This is why artificially tampering with the levels always requires continual monitoring and adjustments to the prescriptions.

But the marketers of drug use don’t want people to realize this. Rather, they provide this sample voucher.



Notice the order of information presented on this voucher card.

First, take this voucher and the information provided to your health care professional and ask about treatment options, including this drug.

This already presumes the necessity of treatment. Any person responding to this will already be thinking that treatment will likely be needed. No diagnosis has even been given, except by these marketers! Yet the patient will be already conditioned to think that some form of treatment is necessary.

Plus, it is presented as being free. This makes it easy. This makes it enticing.

These marketers know that health care providers are terrified of law suites. Telling a person that this drug is not necessary is legally dangerous when the person is already talking about being in need of help. Moreover, the patient has been contemplating all of the various “signs” of depression. This helpful little booklet outlines them on page 13.



What adult could not fit into this list, especially after thinking about it long enough?

Then, since family and friends may help one to get a grip on reality, it may be better to talk to professionals who earn their living convincing people that they need psychiatric and psychological help. So included is a list of people who make a lot of money in promoting use of drugs.

Oh, and the fact that you don’t remember expressing interest in this should not discourage you. After all, difficulty concentrating is one of the symptoms.