- Researchers Examine Premature Mortality Among People With Serious Mental Illness — Science Daily — Generally neglected when talking about premature death in those labeled mentally ill is the neurotoxins they ingest for years on end. It’s always mentioned but hardly ever largely concentrated on which I frankly think is criminal neglect. People lose up to 25 years of life on average if they have a diagnosis of what is called “severe mental illness” — it’s undeniably and inextricably linked to the use of psychiatric drugs — People with serious mental illness lose significantly more years of potential life than the general population, according to research presented in the July issue of Psychiatric Services, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Years of potential life lost, or YPLL, which is based on U.S. life expectancy in the year of death, is a widely used measure of premature mortality.
- The Healthy Skeptic · Three reasons why your thyroid medication isn’t working — Chris Kresser is working on a series on the thyroid. Thyroid is very important for many people who are psychiatrically labeled. Thyroid problems can cause all sorts of mental distress. This is the second article in his series. Treatment of thyroid issues are tricky and mainstream medicine tends to not do so well. In this post I’m going to show you why taking replacement thyroid hormones without addressing the underlying immune imbalance is doomed to fail. — The ultimate effect of hypothyroidism, whether it’s caused by iodine deficiency or autoimmunity, is to decrease the amount of thyroid hormone available to the body. The conventional approach is to simply replace these hormones with either synthetic or bio-identical forms. — On the surface it seems like a reasonable approach. Patient doesn’t have enough hormones? Give more hormones. Simple, right? — Not so much.
- Alcoholism : The Frontal Cortex — This is interesting for anyone interested in addiction in general. — Brendan Koerner has a really fantastic article in the latest Wired on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It’s a fascinating exploration of the organization, from its hallucinogen inspired birth (Bill Wilson was tripping on belladonna when he found God in a hospital room) to the difficulty of accurately measuring the effectiveness of AA…
- The Carlat Psychiatry Blog: Former Emory Psychiatrist Criticizes Nemeroff — Dr. John Nardo, a former director of the psychiatry residency at Emory University, recently wrote the following letter to Adriane Fugh-Berman (founder of the website PharmedOut.org) concerning Dr. Charles Nemeroff. With Dr. Nardo’s permission, I am publishing the letter in order to contribute to the ongoing debate about Nemeroff and particularly about his controversial recent appointment as the chair of the University of Miami’s Department of Psychiatry.
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