By Vince Bloem Many non-medical personnel are making decisions related to the use of psychiatric drugs for children and adults. These may be poorly informed about these substances and may be alarmed by the negative outcomes they see daily in their client base. Straight answers to simple questions on this subject are incredibly hard to [...]
Saturday news and blogs
May 22, 2010 By
Have a nice weekend: The Fake Patient (fPatient) & Patient Engagement on Drug Companies’ Sites | Reality check | Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior — Wouldn’t it be a dream-come-true for a company to have its own website and speak directly to patients on their own turf – I mean terms? In the last few months, there [...]
Oz Thomas video on The Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness
May 21, 2010 By
A visit to Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America Hat tip to Jayme at Rayne’s world ***For another video out at Harvard Book Store where one can view Robert Whitaker presenting a lecture on his new book click here.
Friday news and blogs
May 21, 2010 By
Reading for today: Creativity linked to mental health — By studying receptors in the brain, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have managed to show that the dopamine system in healthy, highly creative people is similar in some respects to that seen in people with schizophrenia. Seems to me this is indicative of the likely fact that [...]
Inspired
May 20, 2010 By
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in [...]
Thursday news and blogs – (updated)
May 20, 2010 By
Today’s psych related news: Update on the STAR*D Report Robert Whitaker, Psychology Today — A few days ago, Allan Leventhal sent me a 2009 article he coauthored with David Antonuccio, and in it, they successfully identified this number (finding it in a confusing graphic I hadn’t been able to decipher.) In their computations, they relied [...]
A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved? by Robert Whitaker
May 19, 2010 By
One of the enduring mysteries in schizophrenia research circles has been the disparity in outcomes between schizophrenia patients in “developing countries” and those in “developed” countries. The mystery arose in 1979 when World Health Organization investigators announced that, in a five-year study, patients in developing countries had fared better than those in the United States [...]
News and blogs on Wednesday
May 19, 2010 By
Reading for today: The Depression Epidemic: Old News, Mysteries, and Bold Claims | Psychology Today Changing Our Minds – depression & dysthymia: current knowledge, truth about drugs, healthy minds – Living Life Films presents “Changing Our Minds.” A documentary film containing cutting edge information concerning depression & dysthymia, antidepressant medication, cognitive behavioral talk therapy, and [...]
News and blogs
May 18, 2010 By
Reading for today: Psychiatrist Calls Many Docs ‘Pill Pushers‘ – Health News Story – WCVB Boston – In a new book, a local psychiatrist calls doctors in his own field “pill pushers” and says not enough is being done to treat patients with more than a prescription. “The meds don’t go far enough and people need more [...]
Benzodiazepine Speech Withdrawal Symptoms (Dysarthria) – brief personal progress update too
May 18, 2010 By
The below was written by one of the members on the benzo board I frequent. I found it useful and thought I would share it here too as these are symptoms not often talked about. The fact is this thread got lots of attention. These are relatively common withdrawal problems but you won’t find mention [...]
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