Biederman is one of the slime-bag psychiatrists who Senator Grassley has busted for conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies while doing research at a university. In this case Harvard. Biederman is also almost single-handedly responsible for the massive drugging of so-called bipolar children. He has been the leading KEY NOTE LEADER (a pharma creation and... Continue Reading →
Testify to the FDA about your Seroquel experience
This is very important. If you have a compelling story or even just an adverse reaction of any kind at least send a letter. We want to stop AstraZeneca from drugging what could amount to hundreds of thousands of more people. Here are directions on what to do.
I don’t want to put on a brave face
Sometimes I don't want to put on a brave face: (2025 update: this is an early piece that I've not read in years. It's still resonant! What can I say. Some things never change. One of those things is BEING HUMAN. In general I have a deep and abiding faith that I will get better. Sometimes, however, I'm so damn sick I just want to die. NOW. This is not about being suicidal. I'm simply not suicidal. It's about wanting the suffering to end. I probably have to repeat for the sake of clarity again, that this is not a psychiatric issue. I am profoundly physically disabled and the withdrawals make me profoundly ill at times. It goes up and down so I'm not always equally ill.
Suicidal tendencies
I've got so much chaotic agonizing pain in my body today I don't know how I can or will articulate it, but I'm going to try. Besides the usual physical discomforts I've become accustomed to living with I was harpooned yesterday with an emotional whammy. Being that I'm so physically delicate the enormity of this... Continue Reading →
An Interview with Joanna Moncrieff: The Myth of the Chemical Cure
This is a relatively old interview that I never posted because when it first popped up on my radar I had recently done another post featuring Joanna Moncrieff and her book. I also try to keep my news items relatively fresh. She's actually been mentioned many times on this blog. Most recently in another book... Continue Reading →
homecare: the perfect physical therapist
When she showed up she interviewed me carefully about all my daily activities and asked detailed questions about how my body felt. She then laid me down on my bed and started moving me about. She told me symptoms and the way my body felt was very much like someone with severe MS. Yes, multiple sclerosis. She said she didn't care what caused my problem. I had to be treated like a baby who needed to learn how to use all their muscles again. She propped me up on pillows in a systematic fashion on my bed and had me do "exercises" that most people would scoff at. I cried with relief because she understood how sick I was. She understood I can hardly do anything at all and I really desperately need help so that I don't become a vegetable. She GOT IT. frankly, I get really, really scared sometime that if I atrophy away I won't be able to come back.
Correnspondence that sheds some light on where I’m at
Dear Dr. So and So , I was given your email address by your receptionist so that I can make a preliminary inquiry before arranging a possible consultation. At this point I am homebound and want some confidence that you would be able to help me before I ask my husband to help me come... Continue Reading →
Children and psych drugs—a critique
Nothing new here in this piece from the Patriot Ledger by Jacob Azerrad, but it's a nice song to the choir against the medicalization of normal child behavior. In a 2007 “60 Minutes” episode, Katie Couric focused on the short life of 4-year-old Rebecca Riley of Hull. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 3, she... Continue Reading →
Truth Injection
Ron Unger at Recovery from schizophrenia and other "psychotic" disorders, presents a PDF file that presents a document that expresses what a mental health organization might tell someone if they were actually telling the truth when someone seeks medication. Ron calls it Truth Injection. I might add if one does decide to stop the medications... Continue Reading →
Checking in—been out of commission
I've been out of commission the last 48 hours or so. I may be coming around again since I'm actually writing this, but the blog has had to be neglected. I may or may not be back at it in the next couple of days. I do have a wonderful article written by a friend... Continue Reading →
I got progressively more physically debilitated all of last year…
Is it okay if I don't feel optimistic about the coming year? There is no reason to expect I'll feel better any time soon. And certainly not within the year. What I have is iatrogenic illness: ABSTRACT We found that 36% of 815 consecutive patients on a general medical service of a university hospital had... Continue Reading →