Oh my god! I saw this a long time ago but had forgotten about it. I don’t laugh often enough. I really couldn’t stop!!
Friday links to articles that struck me this week
February 19, 2010 By
This collection got too big so I will do another post like this tomorrow with additional good reads. From witch doctors to Open Dialog: lots of stuff is better than relying on drugs — Recovery from “schizophrenia” and other “psychotic disorders” — “The author contends that “Traditional treatment in a premodern society usually consists of [...]
Psychiatrist acknowledges that medicine plays no part in psychiatric diagnosis
February 18, 2010 By
From Psychiatry Today Daniel Carlat has an article on how one need not be a psychiatrist, nor a medical doctor to diagnose because psychiatric diagnosis is not medicine. Nice to have a reputable psychiatrist spell it out so nicely. This is an excerpt from the article: Each DSM diagnosis is primarily a list of behaviors [...]
Equanimity is the radical non-interference with the natural flow of sensory experience
February 18, 2010 By
Prolactin, bone loss, prolactinomas, and common medications
February 18, 2010 By
This is a post from Urocyon’s wonderful blog. She posted it there yesterday and I asked if I could mirror it here. It’s an amazing collection of links on prolactin side-effects of many drugs. Urocyon’s Meanderings is a blog well worth visiting any time as well. I took a keen interest in this as my [...]
Freedom
February 17, 2010 By
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Childhood trauma and psychosis
February 17, 2010 By
Great academic article from 2008 that very credibly disputes the biomedical model of psychiatry. This is just a small excerpt: From Journal of Post Graduate Medicine: A recent review of the North American psychiatric literature over the past 40 years concluded that potential social causes of psychosis, including schizophrenia, have been neglected in favor of [...]
Hanging with the good and the bad…
February 16, 2010 By
From wildmind Buddhist meditation website: The American Buddhist nun Pema Chodron suggests what this might be like in her book, The Wisdom of No Escape. There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and [...]
This week in links
February 16, 2010 By
From over the weekend and Monday, some important articles: ***Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood and Well-Being: Scientific American — A deeper understanding of this mass of neural tissue, filled with important neurotransmitters, is revealing that it does much more than merely handle digestion or inflict the occasional nervous pang. The little [...]
Caring for oneself
February 15, 2010 By
When we build a house, we start by creating a stable foundation. Just so, when we wish to benefit others, we start by developing warmth or friendship for ourselves. It’s common, however, for people to have a distorted view of this friendliness and warmth. We’ll say, for instance, that we need to take care of [...]
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