Announcing a new film by Daniel Mackler. I asked Daniel to do a little introduction for this blog. This is what he said: I made this film as a reminder not just that people labeled with that thing called psychosis can recover without medications, but to show that there are programs in the world that... Continue Reading →
Psychiatrists and Policy Makers Meet on Concerns about Overuse of Medications
Author: Virgil Stucker, Gina Nikkel: Press release from the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care: Psychiatrists and Policy Makers Meet on Concerns about Overuse of Medications On February 11th and 12th, 54 mental health experts from 13 states, including 22 psychiatrists met in Portland Oregon to begin developing ‘medication optimization’ protocols and national and state... Continue Reading →
Gloriousness and wretchedness
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves... Continue Reading →
Valentines day dog here to greet you again
Happy Valentines day... The I love you dog...a bit of fun anthropomorphizing.
Veterans and the cocktails of psychotropics endemic to all of psychiatry sometime cause death
Another disturbing story about veterans who are overdrugged when they come home traumatized from war. May I point out that it is not only veterans who are heavily drugged like this. Anyone in the mental health system today is subject to this sort of care if they fall into the hands of a doctor who... Continue Reading →
Meditation funny…
Hat tip Elephant Journal
Medication Optimization, Choice, and Alternatives: A Statement from Peers in the Consumer/Survivor Recovery Movement
This statement was coordinated by Laura Van Tosh, Will Hall of Portland Hearing Voices, Amy Zulich, and Ann Kasper. Initial endorsers include Lauren Spiro and Oryx Cohen. We are people with lived experience of mental health hospitalization, including diagnosis and labeling, voluntary and forced treatment, as well as traumatization, poverty, and homelessness. We are concerned... Continue Reading →
Antipsychotics increase risk of heart disease
This fact is of course obvious if one stops and thinks about the fact that antipsychotics, more appropriately called, neuroleptics (since they're used for all sorts of things and often do not stop psychosis), cause metabolic syndrome in a very large number of users. The fact that the drugs cause diabetes and obesity is widely... Continue Reading →
Grieving
Anyone who has experienced grief can testify that it is more complex than mere despondency. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear,” C. S. Lewis wrote in “A Grief Observed,” his slim account of the months after the death of his wife, from cancer. Scientists have found that grief, like fear, is a stress reaction, attended by deep physiological changes.
Saturday mellow
This is quite beautiful and I'd wager even non-cat lovers would like it. The music is great too.
Newest additions to the Marvelous Mental Medicine Show at Bonkers Institute
From the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research Some new vintage pharma ads: Her family was bewildered and She needs an agent to brighten her mood and improve her performance and They hide frustration behind conformity and Adorable then... deplorable now Enjoy!