Can anyone say, "It's generic now." The Last Psychiatrist makes explicit once again what has also been brought up by CLPsych before. Lamictal is a useless and, well, we here on this blog we know it's a dangerous drug in withdrawal too. An excerpt from Last Psychiatrist: In fact, there were already three negative studies... Continue Reading →
Mislabeling “Bipolar Disorder”
Uhhh...let's rethink this. Let's do a bit of "reframing." It's well documented that SSRI antidepressants can trigger mania. Perhaps 25% of people who are diagnosed with feeling critically unwell for some very good reason. They need support in their life to successfully deal with their trauma, grief, or difficult life situation. Alternately they actually have something physical wrong with them that can be treated with diet or nutrition but they are instead given ANTIDEPRESSANTS which in turn result in an ADVERSE DRUG REACTION that makes them a bit or a whole lot "manic" and THEN they get labeled bipolar.
The Wind Never Lies — recovery from bipolar
Steven Morgan has now contributed to this website a number of times. His writing is all inspired and I'm always grateful when he allows me to publish a piece of his. This piece I solicited recently. It is my favorite piece of work he's granted me the right to publish. It's something he's worked on... Continue Reading →
My “Manic Episodes” and the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in General
This is a very old post. See date of March 25, 2007. Google just indexed it for the first time apparently so some of you are getting it in feeds and subscriptions etc. I don't think quite the same about some of what I'm talking about in this post anymore. Mostly I just don't think... Continue Reading →
A Few Helpful and Inspiring Links
As I am indeed, not up to writing--as I predicted in a post a couple of days ago I will present to you some interesting stories of recovery. They should give you plenty to read and be in keeping with what I'm sharing with you on this blog. I discovered Safe Harbor a website dedicated... Continue Reading →
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