this one technique has been found in research studies to be as effective as antidepressive medication, and there are no side effects to it. so the whole online program, it's like spending a year with me coming to see me twice a week. you get all the things that i teach my own patients, including six individual hypnosis audios just like you were sitting in my office. it's a great value and it's our way of saying thank you when you call in to support this station. >> one of the things you were talking about is being an agent for change, right? let us use our own behavior to influence those around us positively. and you have a really amazing story about being a change at. could you tell us stories? >> at the end of the show i actually talk about going to my own church and being truly horrified by the food that they were serving, so i spent half the church service praying that god would help me to help change churches, and then rick warren from saddleback church called me up and said dr. amen, we want you to help us change saddle book church. i work with dr. oz and others to get healthy.

joblessness leads to higher use of stress medications and antidepressants and in these tough economic's in northern california are offering free coffee. we know that anxiety, unhappiness, so on and so forth, rise and fall with the unemployment rate. does a free cup of coffee make you more depressed, more anxious, or does it alleviate those things? >> it might make you more anxious, it's coughy. >> call me when star bucks is handing out free coffee. mcdonald's, i don't think i want it. >> alan greenspan was monitoring for underwear sales. that was sort of a disturbing image all around. >> say nothing ill of alan greenspan before we go to -- let's move on to the next topic which is the most admired people in this country according to a "usa today"/gallupç list. hillary clinton is the most admired woman. oprah is number two. michelle obama is number three. and for the men, obama is at the very top, george bush is second, bill clinton third, and the reverend billy graham and warren buffett died. >> donald trump, that is appalling. >> the fact that dron nald trtr of the pope is scary. >>

severely over medicated possibly just because adults and doctors don't want to have anything to do with them. abc news uncovered the tens of thousands that foster care children are given antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs. 11-year-old chianti, prescribed dwelve medications over the -- 12 medications over the course of four years for conditions he didn't have. >> if i didn't take them like i was told to, i couldn't watch tv, play video games or play with my toys. >> he has since been adopted and now he's in honor classes at school. the government accountability office did an investigation and found out of a 10,000 foster kids, 26,000 were on some sort of drugs. >>> eating fish may be good for your brain. in a study of, researchers found those regularly eating baked or broiled, not fried, lowered their risk of developing alzheimer's disease compared with nonfish eaters. those eating fish at least once a week showed less brain cell loss in the frontal cortex regions of the brain, responsibility for the memory. they also showed stronger short term memory. other studies have suggested that the omega three fatty acids found in some fish can help lower the risk of course alzheimer's an

antidepressant drug. the number of children taking psychiatric medication is enormous. are we experiencing that epidemic of depression today? what's different? some of this i think is manufactured by the medical pharmaceutical complex which has been very successful at convincing people that ordinary states of sadness or imbalances in brain chemistry need to be treated. let's take that out. i don't know what it is? maybe 20%, 25%. maybe more. it still leaves us with a lot of depression to explain. what's different today? one clue i found writing this book depression is virtually unknown in hunter-gatherer societies. that's interesting. everything's different there. another is that depression correlates with affluence. the more people have, the less satisfied they seem to be. i think big factors are increasing social isolation in the past century and i think a lot of things about modern life foster that. our diets are different. we're disconnected from nature. i also think that information overload is a big factor and all the effects of the media and how they are affectin

. >> and some experts attribute the increase in use of antidepressants and antianxiety medications towith using those drugs. ann, back to you. >> dr. julie holland is a psychiatrist and also the author of "weekends at bellevue." dr. holland, good morning. >> good morning. >> let's review the numbers. one in four women are now taking a mental health drug and also women are being prescribed these medications at a higher rate than men now. why the increase? >> well, a couple of things have happened. in the mid-'90s the pharmaceutical industry was allowed to start advertising on television and magazines and a lot of ads do target women. the other thing that happened was 9/11 happened. everyone was very anxious and fearful, couldn't sort of turn off the alarms. people started giving themselves permission to take anti-anxiety medicines and sleeping pills and that sort of got the ball rolling. >> we just heard savannah talk about the stigma. the stigma did decrease, do you agree with that? >> at least in new york city it feels like the stigma is very much gone. when i started my practice peo

along with self-medicating, with drinking, and taking my antidepressant on and off, that is what led up to my suicide attempt, by going out of my nine-story bedroom window. well, we are glad you are here. thank you, glad to be here. and we are glad you got the appropriate help. so, jane, given all these sets of circumstances, what do parents, really, in terms of beginning to assess a young lady or a young man in their home, what do they need to know? how do they... what signs do they need to look for? that is a really good question, and i think all of the parents who are out there viewing this program are wondering, "what can i do to increase the likelihood that my kids don't end up with problems that lead to suicide, depression, or substance use?" i think the most important thing, first of all, is to just be a really good parent and listen. and then, secondly, educate yourself and learn about these things, learn about community resources and work together with other parents, particularly in your schools and your communities, to make sure that all of your kids together are getting wh

loyola university medical center researchers are reporting what they say could become the first reliable method to tell if an antidepressant will work on patient. >>> it is 4:52. before we head to break, let's take a look at the question of the morning. >> it is -- >> i do love you andrea, you are wearing makeup, we can't drink on tv. log on to wusa9's facebook fan page, we'll have the answer in the 6:00 hour. >>> good morning at 4:55. i'm olga breese, you might need the coffee to wake you up this morning but not to warm you up. alexandria, virginia, our day planner does feature clouds moving on in. a cold front is on the way that's going to drop temperatures into the middle 40s by the 9:00 hour. we'll rebound a little bit under mostly cloudy skies by about 1:00 we should hit a high near 50 degrees. but then later on this afternoon complete cloud cover holds us steady into the afternoon and evening hours, there's some cold air on the way for the weekend. those details are in the seven day forecast. monika? average live look olga at the college park area. >>> no problems to report in the area. there's an accident in cheverl

antidepressants. >> no one would keep he me or love me. >> like this 11-year-old prescribed 12 medications over four years for conditions doctors say he didn't have. >> and i am not bipolar. >> this is footage of him trying to come off medications. and this is kiante now. honor classes at school and been adopted. >> like he didn't know how to be a real kid. >> and today he testified before congress. >> all i knew if i didn't take them i couldn't watch tv, play video games or play with toys. >> and concurrent with an abc news investigation there was research that found nif states out of 100,000 foster kids, 26,000 were on a form of drugs. >> there are foster kids medicated up to 13 times more, is uz because they're a troubled population? >> they are troubled. yeah. they can be troubled, very troubled given what they've gone through. the answer isn't always to try to change their brain chemistry. >> aespecially alarming they found that foster children less than one year old were nearly twice as likely to be prescribed the drugs than nonfoster children. >> and diane sawyer spent the past year investiga

medications, they made me feel like i had 1,000 bricks on my head. >> reporter: they are tiny witnesses that came out of the shadows to show us the mountain of potent drugs, antidepressants, anti-psychotic drugs, they were given in america's foster care system. >> i was just a zombie. >> reporter: keep in mind, these are children who have already been dealt a hand from hell, in homes of neglect and abuse, bounced from foster home to foster home. >> i was in 28 homes. i felt sad because no one would keep me or love me. >> reporter: consider the case of 7-year-old brooke, taken from a drug-addicted mother, just 43 pounds. but given five mind-altering drugs at the same time, a combination that is deemed too risky even for adults. >> brooke, you need to get down. >> no. >> come here, brooke. >> reporter: and foster parents who want to help soon learn, if they don't give medications, the child would be taken away. >> we were told to put our faith in the system, and we did. no one said the medications could be causing the problem. they were saying she needed more medication. >> reporter: in brooke's case, one doctor, a psychiatrist, recognized the problem. and brooke went from

babies under the age of 1 are being prescribed antidepressants, antipsychotics, antianxiety drugs and doctors that we talked to said there's no medical not supposed to prescribe these drugs to babies. >> why are they taking these drugs? why are they giving these kids these drugs? is. >> we talked to a doctor who used to work in the foster care system. he says, look, this is the dirty little secret of the foster care system. it is just easier to deal with a sedated child than a non-sedated child. now sometimes the drugs are given for good reason. a foster child has gone through a lot of terrible things and may need and antidepressant or antianxiety drug. when you when you see these numbe numbers, you have to think this is just way more than they should be getting. >> thank you, elizabeth. >>> "cnn newsroom" continues with t.j. holmes right after this break.va ed aspirin. it's not the bayer aspirin you know. it's different. first, it's been re-engineered with micro-particles. second, it enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. the best part? it's proven to relieve pain twice as fast as before. baye

antidepressants and antipsychotics and many are taking more than five drugs at one time. if you could imagine a small child, even a baby getting so many drugs at one time. i mean, there's really no medicalr that. doctors don't recommend giving five psychotaupic drugs to a child. >> and, like you mentioned, these are being administered to babies. i mean, just how young are these kids, elizabeth? >> there were kids under the age of 1 who were being prescribed antidepressants, antihistamines, an antianxiety drugs and really boggled the minds of the doctors that we talked to. they can't believe these drugs are being prescribed to babies. they are not approved for babies and in many cases, the label says don't give to babies, yet, they're being prescribed for them. >> these are foster children. so, apparently, i guess this means taxpayers are funding this behavior. why, why are doctors prescribing so many drugs to these kids so young? why is this allowed to happen? why is it happening? >> christine, one doctor that we are talking to that has worked in the foster care system that says overdrugging kids is foster care's dirty little secret. these kids have been through a lot and sometimes they