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Today Show's sleep expert Elizabeth Shannon controversially explores the lies you are told by your doctor, psychiatrist and do-gooders. With 1 in 6 Australians taking antidepressants, over 35 million psychotropic drug prescriptions written annually and 95.2 percent of insomnia patients being prescribed medications, the days of ""asking your doctor"" are over. The drugs are not evidence-based, doubling the suicide rate in children, injuring babies and more. In April 2017 GlaxoSmithKline was ordered to pay $ 3 million after the suicide death of Stewart Dolin who was taking antidepressants. No longer the lucky country, we're the nutty country. BUY THIS BOOK. WAKE UP. SAVE A LIFE.

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Regularly featured on the Today Show, Elizabeth Shannon is at the forefront of sleep education in Australia, reaching hundreds of thousands of people through her regular national television appearances, e-learning products ""Five Star Sleep Education"" and ""Sleep with the Experts"", Sleepless No More blog, keynotes and live seminars. ""Alarming Sleep Secrets: Your Doctor is Making an ASS Out of You"" exposes the systemic and dangerous misinformation and practices being touted as 'evidence based medicine' by general practitioners and mental health professionals, medical associations, government organizations, academics, even charities and foundations. As international cases such as Dolin vs. GSK expose the increased suicide risks associated with medications, countries are starting to calculate the significant and escalating costs of mismanaging insomnia and emotional and mental health by treating the symptoms, not the underlying cause. The ""chemical imbalance in the brain"" theory/biomedical model was finally refuted before the turn of the century. The greatest successes are being demonstrated through Finland's ""Open Dialogue"" methodology, psychotherapy, exercise, talk therapies and lifestyle changes: just as Australia is eliminating non-pharmaceutical approaches. The true cost of mismanagement includes the risk of violence, suicide, homicide, long term unemployment, brain damage, drug dependence, adverse drug side effects, ineffective mental health institutions and policy, increased problems for the treated groups, and social security payouts for permanent disability. Shannon advocates for change through the Parliamentary Inquiry into Sleep Health Awareness, the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health, the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health and through direct communications with Health and Mental Health Ministers, Education Ministers and medical professionals. Funny, pragmatic, even caustic, she's guaranteed to wake you up about sleep and mental health.

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