A small discussion is happening between the two authors of the pieces on the GABA/glutamate cycle. The first article is here. The second one here. Below is a response to the second one. It is responding to the use of a phrase in this paragraph. I want to remind everyone that all these ideas are... Continue Reading →
Cult of positivity, AA not always best solution? and tart cherry juice for insomnia: Friday news and blogs
Tony Robbins and the Cult of Aggressive Positivity: a series on Beyond Growth. --"Personal development saved my life, but not without some side effects." Part one is linked to above. Here is part two. Part three is on its way, you can sign up for the feed or email on Beyond Growth. This is a... Continue Reading →
The Urgent Necessity for More Non-Drug Alternatives in Mental Health Care
From MindFreedom comes this news release: Key national mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor leaders at a national USA federal meeting on mental health consumer and psychiatric survivor inclusion issued a statement of "alarm" about the "undue influence of the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry," and the “urgent necessity for more non-drug alternatives in mental health care.” Speaking for... Continue Reading →
The mindful brain, revision and reform of the DSM, and food coloring really is bad for you: Thursday news and blogs
Rick Heller - The Mindful Brain -- Daniel Siegel is a psychiatrist and author. His 2007 book, The Mindful Brain, is a scientific take on the practice of mindfulness, which is often defined as "non-judgmental attention to the present moment." Siegel's newest book is The Mindful Therapist, a text aimed at clinicians. Siegel is himself... Continue Reading →
Catch Doug Bremner MD on video talking about his battle with pharma
Doug Bremner being interviewed on videotape by Neil Shurman MD. All five parts are on Before You Take That Pill -- Doug Bremner's blog.
GABA/Glutamate cycle in withdrawal from psychotropics– SSRIs, benzos, and Lamictal
This is a response to a post a while back written by Rhi Griffith on the GABA/Glutamate cycle as it applies to Lamictal withdrawal and benzodiazepine withdrawal. This article continues with comments in regards to how SSRI withdrawal might be involved. It is written and submitted Alto Strata who can be found at Surviving Antidepressants.org update: There is... Continue Reading →
Pharma can hurt you, anytime during the life of a drug: Wednesday news and blogs
Inside the Risky World of Drug-Trial 'Guinea Pigs' - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Human volunteers in university research may not realize the dangers they face, an anthropologist has found Medications found to cause long term cognitive impairment of aging brain -- PhysOrg.com -- Anticholinergics, from Benedryl to Paxil and more. --... Continue Reading →
How to survive practically anything and the problems with accepting a psychiatric diagnosis: Tuesday news and blogs
How to survive (practically) anything -- Psychology Today -- An interview with psychiatrists Steven Wolin and Sybil Wolin on the belief that adults aren't prisoners of troubled childhoods. This is pretty darn interesting. Don't get caught up in the language used. Everyone has a different understanding of what the "recovery" movement is and it's a... Continue Reading →
Understanding Mindfulness
By Fred Krazeise “Mindfulness” is the term that describes the notion of being conscious in the present moment, not allowing your mind to wander into the past or into the future. For many of my clients, it’s difficult for them to be completely present during their bodywork session with me. They may be thinking about... Continue Reading →
Relax into mystery…
Once again, I accept that life is uncertain-that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next.- Elizabeth Lesser
What is recovery? Taking responsibility is a start…
I'm having fun with the "Random Post" widget over there on the top of the right side bar. I click on it a few times now and then and find all sorts of stuff I'd forgotten about. It takes from the almost 2000 posts I've made now in the last 3 plus years. Here is... Continue Reading →