Okay, I’ve revamped the site and will probably continue tweaking it for a while. I also want to call attention to the somewhat updated “Comment Policy,” and the new page called “Damning Evidence,” which is a work in progress. It’s a page of pieces from my archives that are basically research based and not anecdotal [...]
Lexapro squeaks by FDA approval for teens
March 24, 2009 By 4 Comments
Read Philip’s inside scoop…he concludes his research with this paragraph. So we have two failed studies and a positive study of Celexa with a very small effect size plus a poster presentation of Lexapro and that’s what the FDA based its approval of Lexapro for teens upon. My guess is that this drug just barely [...]
Coffee definitely messed me up in conjunction with the psychiatric drugs
March 24, 2009 By 6 Comments
Mind altering drugs are drugs are drugs are drugs. Yup, legal, illicit or otherwise. And as this man in the video points out this is not about being hard-core anti-drug or anti-coffee. It’s about taking care of ourselves and not becoming DEPENDENT on artificial substances to keep us going. It took me two years to [...]
Ray Sandford petition—can I ask why with hundreds of you visiting only 10 of you have signed this petition?
March 23, 2009 By 15 Comments
Honestly folks. Click this link and sign the damn thing. It takes about one minute. Please let me watch my stats jump on clicks out to this link. I can’t imagine what’s stopping you. From the petition site: Ray is a 55-year-old Minnesota resident who is regularly receiving “Involuntary Outpatient Maintenance Electroshock.” Involuntary outpatient electroshock [...]
Symbax—the Zyprexa/Prozac Eli Lilly combo drug approved for depression
March 23, 2009 By 8 Comments
This drug was approved quite a long time ago for “bipolar-depression,” and has now been approved for plain old garden variety depression, uh, make that “treatment resistant” garden-variety depression which seems to be about 70% of depression because, well, the treatment psychiatry routinely uses DON’T work. Nope antidepressants routinely don’t work, so now they want [...]
Just for fun: working in a horizontal position with a laptop in my lap
March 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This is usually the way I look while I work, except since it’s still cold most of the time I have a blanket and I’m often quite disheveled as I don’t have the energy or physical strength to shower daily. This would be a sweet set-up given my situation, no? This is, indeed, how I [...]
Pondering the past, revisiting hospital records and general musings
March 22, 2009 By 4 Comments
I looked at an old post today after reading Seaneen’s post that included her mentioning reading some of her records by accident while her CPN was visiting. It’s a strange thing indeed reading what the “professionals” say about us. I think they get a special kick out of the “attractive” and “intelligent” ones and the [...]
NOTHING ABOUT US Without Us—Judi Chamberlin
March 22, 2009 By 6 Comments
Judi Chamberlin is one of the leaders of the survivor movement and the search for alternatives for psychiatry and her life is being celebrated today in the Boston Globe. Thanks Marian. Judi’s blog post on her interview is here. And there is an excerpt to her the Boston Globe below: NOTHING ABOUT US Without Us [...]
Stop shocking Ray Sandford petition—PLEASE SIGN
March 22, 2009 By 1 Comment
Please sign here. So that you might recall Ray’s story see the youtube video here. And read all the MindFreedom updates on the whole history here.
Brief benzodiazepine withdrawal update
March 22, 2009 By 28 Comments
As most of you know I’ve withdrawn from 50 mg Seroquel, 400 mg Lamictal, 84 mg Concerta, 11 mg Risperdal and 200 mg of Zoloft in the last 5 years. I’m down to getting rid of the Klonopin that I was on up to 6 mg a day, but only addicted to 3 mg. (only, [...]
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