Is Scientology against treating anxiety and depression with herbs like St. Johns Wort?
I know Scientologists often recommend vitamins and exercise to treat anxiety and depression, but what about herbs like Kava, St. John’s Wort and Valerian? They are certainly not psychiatric drugs, which I know the Church opposes, but I haven’t been able to specifically find a Scientology position on herbal supplements.
No, I think you will find that we only have issues with drugs that further damage the mind - that are mind altering.
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July 8th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Yes Just ask Tom Cruise & His assult against Booke Shields. He doesn’t believe in medication for Depression. He is CLUELESS on this matter.
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July 8th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
I would presume "maybe" … it most likely depends on the actual remedy. While we often view natural as being good, there are a lot of harmful substances (to humans) in many naturally occuring materials.
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July 8th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
I have a Scientologist pal who takes anti-depressants as does his son. The Church may frown on it but no one can physically stop you from taking what you need.
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July 8th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
i again say to contact someone at the l. Ron Hubbard institute in riverside co. they have a whole library and people who can help you out with that. the golden e r a productions. they sell all his books, and have help on any issue regarding Scientology. i personally couldn’t help
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July 8th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
It’s hard to find their official position on anything, even their basic cosmology, because they are very secretive about their beliefs. But I would assume that they oppose herbal remedies as much as prescription drugs, because they believe that the only way to solve mental problems is to spend money on "auditing" to get rid of the alien spirits or whatnot inside of you.
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July 9th, 2009 at 12:02 am
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I have a Scientologist pal who takes anti-depressants as does his son. The Church may frown on it but no one can physically stop you from taking what you need.
What does this statement tell you? Says a lot about this religion doesn’t it? Guess scientology really screwed this guy up and his son.
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July 9th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Why are you worried about it?
If you are anxious or depressed and it’s not a medical issue (talk with your doc) then…it could be a spiritual issue. Which means you need to pray about it.
God has given you a smart mind to use…so use it.
Grace to you and God Bless
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July 9th, 2009 at 12:22 am
No, I think you will find that we only have issues with drugs that further damage the mind - that are mind altering.
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July 9th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Probably they would be against that, but not as much.
It would still be the same logic. Problem is in you, fix the problem, dont take something to dull the symptom. They dont consider altering with chemicals (even natural ones) just to mask a symptom as being a treatment.
This was not an "official answer" though.
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July 9th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Scientology recommends thorough medical examinations for
anyone with acute symptoms like this, since undiscovered physical and nutritional deficiencies as well other physical problems, infections etc can often be found as a cause.
Once a competant medical doctor has fully investigated the symptoms using proper medical procedure, like blood tests, urine tests, etc then the correct treatment can be prescribed
or recommended. If a deficiency or imbalace has been found to exist then natural supplements would be taken to correct it.
We tend to use medical doctors who will do this, and not just
hand out a "drug" to suppress the most obvious symptom.
Undetected Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are very prevalent in todays society due to many causes, stress, diet, pollution,
and recreational drug use, alcohol abuse , to name a few.
Use of Psychiatric drugs also create these deficiencies.
Antidepressants are now proven to be addictive causing the same intense mental and physical withdrawal symtoms as hard core illegal drugs like heroin.
Hope this helps. We don’t actually have any "rules" or "laws’
about things like this, since we do not treat physical or mental illness. It is not our province or purpose to do so.
We will make recommendations if consulted in order to help, but it is up to the individual to decide for themselves how they want to procede with any treatment.
We are against psychiatry because it is spiritually destructive, cures nothing and causes harm . Not to mention the billions of $’s it gets appropriated from Governments (tax payers) and Drug companies for inventing and labelling mental illnesses to "treat" which don’t actually exist.
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