A reader told me that for the last month or so that when she subscribes for emails notifying her of comments after she’s made one on a post that all she is getting are my comments and not anyone elses. Since this is not happening to me on other wordpress blogs I comment on I’m [...]
Add increased risk of breast cancer to the possible “adverse effects” of psych meds
June 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Metabolic syndromes are now being associated with doubling the risk of breast cancer. Neuroleptics (the atypicals) often cause metabolic syndromes. SSRIs have more recently been implicated as well. TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) — Women with high blood pressure, elevated glucose and other components of metabolic syndrome might be at increased risk for postmenopausal breast [...]
Warnings of the dangers of benzodiazepines hit the media
June 30, 2009 By 21 Comments
About 2 decades too late and a good decade after the alarm bell was sounded in the UK but it’s better late than never. From the Washington Post: Benzodiazepines, often prescribed to manage anxiety, panic and sleep disorders, include Xanax, Ativan, Valium and Klonopin. Originally pushed as an alternative to barbiturates, their use has grown [...]
Return to yesterday…
June 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The comments on the “Suicidal ideation gone”….post are well worth reading if you didn’t get around to it. I’ll try to post more in the morning.
Quote of the day
June 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The neuronal gossip that keeps you from seeing your mind in its fullness doesn’t really change the fundamental nature of your mind. Thoughts like “I’m ugly,” “I’m stupid,” or “I’m boring” are nothing more than a kind of biological mud, temporarily obscuring the brilliant qualities of Buddha nature, or natural mind. –Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, from [...]
Round two–waiting for my tribunal–again
June 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Keener’s continued story: Links to the first several chapters are here if you’ve missed them pick them up here: Part 1 and 2 here and part 3 here, and part 4 here, and part 5 here and part 6 here and part 7 here and part 8 here and 9 here and part 10 here. [...]
Suicidal ideation gone…for a long time now
June 29, 2009 By 32 Comments
Something that comes up quite often in discussions with my friends and readers who have been on meds and have come off of them is how many of the “psychiatric” symptoms they were being “treated” for disappear upon discontinuation of the medications. This is widely known and experienced among those of us who have decided [...]
Quote of the day
June 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you. — Maori proverb
It’s time to learn from frogs
June 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
This story in the New York Times speaks issues we’ve talked about on this blog before: Some of the first eerie signs of a potential health catastrophe came as bizarre deformities in water animals, often in their sexual organs. Frogs, salamanders and other amphibians began to sprout extra legs. In heavily polluted Lake Apopka, one [...]
The good doctor
June 28, 2009 By 19 Comments
The doctor who led me to this point a year ago by cold-turkeying me off meds prematurely, wrote me a letter during that time. This must have been written a day or two into the cold-turkey before I started getting psychotic. This is just a small excerpt explaining to me why she took me off [...]
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