Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good flammable stuff, it will catch fire. -Antole France, 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "The future enters into us, in order to... Continue Reading →
A few links from around and about: AstraZeneca's New Seroquel Ad Has 5 Pages of Legal Disclaimers | BNET Pharma Blog Lawsuits filed over drug side effects | Philadelphia Inquirer | CME, Continuing Medical Education, at Stanford funded by Pfizer - Health Blog - WSJ -- and by the way you can be assured this... Continue Reading →
by Aubrey Ellen Shomo - Manifesto of a noncompliant patient I see it everywhere: People with mental illness need medication. It sounds reasonable. Today, there are even political organizations that seek to make it easy to force a person to take it. It's easy to look at another and assume things like that. It's human. After all, it's compassionate to help someone who isn't able to ask for help, right? They'll thank you in the long run, won't they?
When someone’s giving his view of things, I’ve caught myself taking a position before he’s even finished laying out his point. It’s a contagious sort of reaction that’s greatly magnified when an opinion concerns the moral right or wrong of something. Judgments on right and wrong are a nearly irresistible enticement to pick sides. And... Continue Reading →
Simple rules to live by. I've featured Jon Kabat-Zinn on this site before. There is a great google video with him giving a brilliant lecture here. (video is at bottom of that post) From US News and World Report: 1. Consider what's right with you. "Until you stop breathing, there's more right with you than... Continue Reading →
Problem is David Oaks, President and Founder of MindFreedom has recovered from schizophrenia. David Oaks from MindFreedom sent an email to the group list I'm on today sharing his experience when he called NPR today to try to be a guest caller on the show I mentioned in an earlier post today. What happended is... Continue Reading →
On "Talk of the Nation" (NPR) today: Author Ethan Watters thinks that America is "homogenizing the way the world goes mad." In Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, he describes how American definitions and treatments of mental illness have spread to other cultures around the world. "[McDonald's] golden arches do not represent... Continue Reading →
Interesting articles and things to watch from the last few days: CME, Continuing Medical Education, at Stanford funded by Pfizer - Health Blog - WSJ -- Is a $3 million grant from Pfizer the answer to creating continuing medical education courses that are free of industry influence? Yes, according to Stanford’s med school. In a... Continue Reading →
The video is really not to look at...eyes should be closed or nearly so, staring at the ground if open. [viddler id=59c440c8&w=437&h=370]
I had written a post on psychotropic drug use last year. At that time I got a brilliant, developed and well thought out response from Will Hall in the comment section which I'd like to share here again. I am in graduate school studying psychology and a while back we had a class on the... Continue Reading →
Recap: 6 drugs 6 years of withdrawal…before that 39 drugs total: A Portrait of Poly Psychopharmacology. ~~ You think maybe something wasn’t quite right? This journey started the summer of 1985 and is about to end in the next couple of months. I have been withdrawing the past 6 years. Nothing ever did “work” and in... Continue Reading →
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