Updated May, 2011 Posting is slowing down. Thought I’d share the intro post again so that it will be near the top of the page for a while and people might access the archives of this blog this way. Since posting will be erratic it may make sense to sign up for an email subscription [...]
An intro to navigating this site: BEYOND MEDS — ALTERNATIVES TO PSYCHIATRY — A RESOURCE
September 7, 2010 By
End of an era (for me) this is Beyond Meds last post
September 4, 2010 By
Thank you to all my readers for being part of this transformative journey with me. It’s time for me to move on and do other things. This blog, depending on which ranking system you look at, is between number 1 and number 5 or so of mental health blogs. I feel good about leaving and [...]
Life is a monastery — regardless of marital status
September 3, 2010 By
This is an article that was first published in Buddhadharma. I got this from Utne Reader, who reprinted it. I saw the author’s experience in the monastery as life. Life is just like his monastery. See if you see what I mean. This is the opening several paragraphs below: The Angry Monk A lot of [...]
In memory of my brother…
September 3, 2010 By
I wrote this letter and mailed it to my brother about 6 months before he died. Today is the three year anniversary of his death. I am sharing this in his memory. I actually had told him all of this at one time or another while he was alive but before he died it got [...]
Personal update by way of an email I sent out to the “Lamictal crew” — musings on persistent withdrawal symptoms
September 2, 2010 By
This is an email I wrote to people who had commented on this blog a couple of years ago on posts I wrote about my Lamictal withdrawal. I was seeking information. I’m sharing it here just as an update of sorts to the part of this blog which is my withdrawal journal. I still have [...]
Over-medicating kids in the New York Times
September 1, 2010 By
There is a feature article and a video today in the New York Times. Hope the kid who is featured gets off the amphetamines too. He’s had a rough time of it, his short little life. David Bransford MD, has a critical post on his blog about the phenomena too, inspired by the above pieces, [...]
Activism necessary if we want the truth about psychiatric medications be heard
September 1, 2010 By
Got an email from Bruce E. Levine alerting me to his new article/book review in ZMagazine. It ends with a few paragraphs on how the mainstream media is mostly ignoring Robert Whitaker’s critical and important work on psychiatry and psychopharmaceuticals. Activism with each and everyone one of us participating is crucial to alert the public [...]
A mother’s perspective on psychosis in her son
September 1, 2010 By
Rossa Forbes again writes amazing brilliant observations in the post in response to the CNN piece on childhood bipolar. Simple, profound and simply missed by almost everyone. This is why I love her work. As a mother of a child who was labeled with a psychiatric illness she is able to say with plenty of [...]
Tart cherry for pain (in my case the pain of psychiatric drug withdrawal)
September 1, 2010 By
I discovered for the second time that Tart Cherry extract really helps the pain associated with withdrawal syndrome. This is pain that often gets mistook to be fibromyalgia when in fact it’s caused by the psychiatric drugs and the withdrawal from them. It’s possible though that this may help those with fibro too as it’s [...]
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