Actively promoting off-label use is illegal and AstraZeneca has been caught. This has been all over the place in my news feeds, on numerous blogs and several of my email lists and the case goes back a while too, so I don't even remember where I saw it first so no one is getting a... Continue Reading →
U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated
The soldier profiled at the beginning of this piece is on the same med I'm currently withdrawing from in agony. It's taken over 6 months to get where I am and now I'm in a detox center to finish the process it became so agonizing. This guy cold-turkeyed in a war zone with a gun... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life. Through a difficult period you can learn; you can develop inner strength, determination, and courage to face the problems. --The Dalai Lama
Keener’s story
For the whole collected story go here. Keener is now a long-time blogging "friend." We actually "met" way back when I first started blogging over two years ago now. Her and her friend's blog was/is predominantly about gardening but Keener had this side story that she worked on over time with multiple posts. I've been... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day
When those we’re closest to see through our illusions and point out our self-centered mistakes, we quickly get defensive, and if they don’t stop we may become quite angry or enraged. If we look at those arguments in which tempers flare and voices are raised, we’ll find that most are sparked by our feeling that... Continue Reading →
Soothe your pain
A hot street musician my husband just discovered. He is pretty damn awesome and the title of the song is apropos and it also happens to be beautiful.
Just for fun
The story behind these photos I received in an email is that the deer followed the doggy through the doggy door. Things are okay. I asked to repeat yesterday's taper schedule so I won't be making a cut today AND I slept for three hours. I appear to be right on track. It's just a... Continue Reading →
39 psych drugs I’ve taken
You think maybe something wasn’t quite right? This journey started the summer of 1985 and is about to end this summer of 2009. I have been withdrawing the past 5 years. Nothing ever did work and in retrospect much made me worse, hence the withdrawal process that began five years ago of which I am at the tail end. Many times on the “trials” of these drug
Quote of the day
It’s only when we examine the mind correctly that we discover how many false assumptions we have—false assumptions that, for the moment, are completely unnoticed. We cling to things as though they were permanent and will last forever. This is the measure of our delusion, tightly fettered as we are by this so-called “I” of... Continue Reading →
Atypical Antipsychotics are the New SSRIs
By Jessica Firger: bio and website here November, 2008 A submission made by the author which she wrote while in grad school. Atypical Antipsychotics are the New SSRIs A women walks along a beach, the sky is grey, the waves hit the shore with a tumultuous splash. She tugs her jacket just a bit closer... Continue Reading →
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