Psychotropic medications can cause birth defects -- ScienceDaily --Ah, sweet memories of my psychiatrist insisting I should have babies while I emphatically told him I thought I was a stupid idea. I was on at least five meds. Two of them the classes spoken about here. The two researchers found that 42 percent of adverse... Continue Reading →
We are WEIRDos and shouldn’t forget it!
A WEIRD View of Human Nature Skews Psychologists' Studies Although undergraduates from wealthy nations are numerous and willing research subjects, psychologists are beginning to realize that they have a drawback: They are WEIRDos. That is, they are people from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic cultures. In a provocative review paper published last week, a... Continue Reading →
Wellness care instead of disease management, Soldiers dying in their sleep, omega 3 for depression, Pfizer ends pediatric drug trial: Friday news and blogs
Healthcare vs. disease management -- Healthy Skeptic -- Wellness care is what we need. Disease management is what we have. --Wellness care would save insurance companies billions of dollars each year. But it would devastate the bottom lines of the pharmaceutical industry.-- Wellness care is what I will offer my patients. And it’s the vision I... Continue Reading →
Post psychiatric drug withdrawal. One woman’s report of symptoms
Update 2016: It's become clear to me that whenever it's possible that it's helpful for folks who've not begun withdrawal and have the time to consider a carefully thought out plan to attempt to bring greater well-being to your body before starting the withdrawal. That means learning how to profoundly nourish your body/mind and spirit prior... Continue Reading →
NAMI and Judith Warner, docs still like pharma gifts, computers diagnosing depression, Paxil lawsuits, and being fat on drugs: Thursday news and blogs
2010 NAMI Convention to Address Youth Mental Health; Pediatricians Call for Routine Screening -- WebWire -- NAMI and Judith Warner, NYT journalist, pushing drugs on kids everywhere. What a nightmare. "The 2010 NAMI Convention also will honor journalist Judith Warner with an award for the book, We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age... Continue Reading →
Madness Radio: Wounded States of Consciousness Bogna Szymkiewicz
Warsaw Poland psychologist Bogna Szymkiewicz discusses "wounded states of consciousness," what the mind and body do when trauma is activated, as well as how trauma affects our relationships and what we can do to recover. Listen above or to download program visit Madness Radio.
Most clinical trials are being done overseas with little oversight, the NIH scandal, and the placebo effect: Wednesday news and blogs
Concern Over Foreign Trials for Drugs Sold in U.S. -- NYT -- The report “highlights a very frightening and appalling situation,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut. “By pursuing clinical trials in foreign countries with lower standards and where F.D.A. lacks oversight, the industry is seeking the path of least resistance toward lower costs... Continue Reading →
The peace of wild things
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron... Continue Reading →
Life in psychology-Dorothy Rowe, natural birthing, evidence based medicine is a myth and some amazing photography of the asylum: Tuesday news and blogs
Naturally born babies have more bacterial protection than those born by caesarean - Telegraph A life in psychology: Dorothy Rowe | Books | The Guardian -- 'People don't suddenly become psychotic or depressed out of the blue, there's always a disaster that they suffer'...Rowe believes talk of illness and cures is unsuitable. She prefers to... Continue Reading →
Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness – Part IV, by Evelyn Pringle
Submitted and written by Evelyn Pringle. The first pieces of this series were published here. Formatting is a wee bit funky. Every now and then wordpress refuses to cooperate with copied material. Non-Profit Advocacy Groups As a main component of the Psychopharmaceutical Industrial Complex, the so-called "patient advocacy" organizations have become the leading force behind... Continue Reading →
Schizophrenia and Childhood Adversity
From the American Journal of Psychiatry we have another study supporting childhood trauma, and not just sexual trauma as reported the other day as being causative in schizophrenia. Here is an excerpt: Recently, researchers have found a range of adverse events in childhood to be significant risk factors for developing psychotic symptoms and/or being diagnosed... Continue Reading →