A note from Robert Whitaker author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America Thank you for offering to post a notice about my upcoming book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, on your blog. Here’s how the book is set up. During the past 20 years,... Continue Reading →
Everyone is born a genius, but it is drummed out of us almost from the minute we open our eyes. Everyone possesses this genius. It's our unmentionable secret. When childhood is over we are afraid to salvage it from without ourselves, because it would be too risky to do so, it would rupture our drone's... Continue Reading →
My husband sent this email in response to doing a bit of research regarding my general state of being lately. Gianna, I can't give a particularly technical description, but it's clear that many (and maybe most) of the symptoms you are experiencing - feelings relating to balance and general weirdness - are the result of... Continue Reading →
Your daily reading material awaits: Top psychiatrist calls for ethics cleanup around 'Big Pharma' -- USA Today -- American psychiatrists need to break away from a "culture of influence" created by their financial dealings with the drug industry, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health said in a leading medical journal. -- Dr.... Continue Reading →
From the Mail Online: Keith is one of an estimated 1.5million people in the UK addicted to benzodiazepines, a group of drugs prescribed by GPs for anxiety. Many of today's addicts are the elderly, a lost generation who were prescribed the drugs decades ago. Some continue to suffer debilitating-side effects as a result of taking... Continue Reading →
More articles and such from around the net: PTSD Nation -- Truthout -- Can a nation have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)? Can a diagnosis created to understand the dysregulated behavior of individuals be applied to an entire nation? I argue yes on both counts. If a diagnosis can help us understand and treat aberrant behavior,... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/FGT4xJXgmoE?si=37nQP-fsncWJq1lH This five-minute film was created to honor the life and work of Judi Chamberlin, one of the founders of the international consumer/survivor movement, who passed away in January 2010. The National Coalition seeks to build support for a longer documentary project to showcase the history of our movement for civil rights and community life... Continue Reading →
True wisdom comes to us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. — Socrates
DSM5 'Psychosis Risk Syndrome'--Far Too Risky -- Psychology Today -- Among all the problematic suggestions for DSM5, the proposal for a " Psychosis Risk Syndrome" stands out as the most ill conceived and potentially harmful. It aims to solve a pressing problem in psychiatry--the need for early identification and preventive treatment. Psychotic episodes create tremendous... Continue Reading →
This is an email I wrote to a friend who asked what it was like to experience the post benzo withdrawal. I don't write much anymore, even emails to friends and family, so I figured I'd be economical and use this on the blog. I began the description: Have you tripped before? I often feel... Continue Reading →
Robert Whitaker continues the argument he started the other day on his new blog on Psychology Today. In it he asks the question posed in the title of this post. Fact Checking the New Yorker, Part Two In his March 1 article in the New Yorker, Louis Menand wrote that the NIMH's STAR*D trial showed... Continue Reading →
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