Sharing this article since it's clear the benefit of mindfulness practice is starting to strike people of all sorts. It's something that can be done regardless of religious belief. Now we have a US Congressman talking about its potential benefits for everyone. From the Guardian by Ed Halliwell: Mindfulness: the altered state of America "A... Continue Reading →
I've written at length about the iatrogenic PTSD a lot of the people I network with exhibit once withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. In my experience in the withdrawal boards online the drugs that we see causing these issues most often are antidepressants and benzodiazepines, but people withdrawing from antipsychotics are simply much less represented in... Continue Reading →
From Medical News Today, for anyone reading this blog who has yet to be convinced that psychiatric drugs are neurotoxic and cause harm especially when used long-term. There is a video with the study's author at the bottom of this post. I wonder if the fact that some significant minority of people become completely disabled for various lengths of time when withdrawing from these drugs will ever hit the media? They really only cover some of the vast array of possible problems while on them as well in this article....
Gluten sensitivity can manifest with or without gastrointestinal symptoms! This is true for many people, not just those labeled with schizophrenia. I talk about diet and mental health a lot and gluten can be a mental health drag for many people whether or not they have a psychiatric diagnosis.
These pages I link to below have lots of additional links and are also represented in the drop-down menus at the top of the page and will be there permanently. Readers share their experience with Beyond Meds: Who is this site for?.... Chemical imbalance myth and biopsychiatry links.... Open Dialogue: Alternative Care for Psychosis.... Meditation, not all bliss and roses... I am continually growing the navigation system to access the archives at the top of the page. Check back often.
Off Label uses the personal stories of human guinea pigs – those who test and take pharmaceutical drugs – as a launching pad for a deeper exploration into the ways these drugs are marketed, sold, consumed, and ultimately treated with the same reverence as a religious belief in the United States.
This piece of news is being splashed about the mental health media today. Of course it's not new information for readers of Beyond Meds since we know that avoiding anti-psychotics is almost ALWAYS an option at some point and very often far preferable regardless of age, but it's information that can now be supported by... Continue Reading →
Demand that we label GMO foods...more than 1 million people have requested this of congress. It's time they listened.
"The US National Institute of Mental Health proclaimed the 1990s “the decade of the brain.” A simplistic biological reductionism increasingly ruled the psychiatric roost. Patients and their families learned to attribute mental illness to faulty brain biochemistry, defects of dopamine, or a shortage of seratonin. It was biobabble as deeply misleading and unscientific as the psychobabble it replaced, but as marketing copy it was priceless. "
ertainty and similar states of “knowing what we know” arise out of primary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of rationality or reason. Feeling correct or certain isn’t a deliberate conclusion or conscious choice. It is a mental sensation that happens to us. The importance of being aware that certainty has involuntary neurological roots cannot be overstated. If science can shame us into questioning the nature of conviction, we might develop some degree of tolerance and an increased willingness to consider alternative ideas — from opposing religious or scientific views to contrary opinions at the dinner table.
Lots of buzz today in my little internet world about what happened to Suzy Chapman's site DSM5 Watch which was forced to change it's URL by the APA!! Yup! they took legal action! Read Suzy's words here: APA forces domain name change for "DSM-5 and ICD-11 Watch" site + Commentary from Allen Frances, MD, who had chaired... Continue Reading →
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