Monthly Archives: June 2012
Seroxat (Paxil) & SSRI User Group
The Seroxat & SSRI User Group was founded to support and advise patients experiencing problems with Seroxat (Paxil). This English-based group offers information, forums,...
Recovery Road
Recovery Road Wellness Project's focus is on providing self-help and coping strategies to individuals currently experiencing benzo and antidepressant withdrawal and dependency, and on...
EFT for Medication Withdrawal
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) involves tapping on stress-relieving points of the body while reciting affirmations to help manage withdrawal symptoms. This approach has been...
Benzodiazepines Co-operation Not Confrontation (BCNC)
BCNC is a website aimed at helping people reduce from benzodiazepines. It includes links, book reviews, support groups, and other information.
Withdrawal studies up to 9/23/2005
M.W. Agelink, A Zitselsberger, E. Kleiser, Withdrawal symptoms after discontinuation of Venlafaxine (letter), Am. J. Psychiatry, 154, 10, October 1997, 1473-1474.
G.W. Amsden, F. Georgian,...
Paxil Progress
Paxil Progress is a forum for people engaged in withdrawal from Paxil. It also offers adverse drug reaction reporting, FDA Warnings, published withdrawal studies,...
Med Free Or Working On It
A website for "survivors of medical abuse, through psychiatric drugs and other medications, and are looking for healthy ways to support our minds and...
Benzo Buddies
Benzo Buddies provides information and support to plan and execute a benzodiazepine withdrawal schedule.
The website's Benzo Info section includes answers to frequently asked questions...
Surviving Antidepressants
Surviving Antidepressants provides volunteer peer support for antidepressant withdrawal, while tapering off and after you quit.
Little Evidence on Effectiveness or Risks of Antipsychotics in Young People
Evidence-Based Mental Health reviews studies (from 1987 to 2011) of antipsychotics in people under 24 years old, finding weak evidence on comparative effectiveness of antipsychotics or...
Dutch College of GPs Recommends Against Antidepressants
The Dutch College of General Practitioners has issued guidelines recommending non-pharmacological treatment of depressive symptoms as a "first step." The chairman of the Dutch...
After Seroquel
The topic of this article is Seroquel withdrawal: the process of withdrawal and the consequences of having taken this particular chemical for over ten...
Anatomy of a Coverup
The New York Times analyzes the process whereby Celebrex, an arthritis drug, was promoted by Prizer despite knowing that it was no more effective...
Killed by the Huffington Post, Article Now on the Newsstands in Skeptic
Now in the current issue of Skeptic, I have an article called “Depression Treatment: What Works and How We Know” (article rights owned by...
Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns
“What do you think caused your problems?,” I asked.
“I have a chemical imbalance, a chemical imbalance, an imbalance in the brain that makes me ill.”
Familial Factors Affect Depression, BD, OCD, PD, and Phobias
A study of 566 families with 1416 bipolar-disordered members, and 675 families with 1726 depressed members by researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University...
Update on the Association Between ADHD and Bipolar
Researchers from the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre of King's College's Institute of Psychiatry in London, publishing in the Journal of Affective...
Members of Parliament Disclose Struggles w/ Depression & Anxiety
"Like a hundred little blackmails a day" is how British Member of Parliament Charles Walker described his struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder. He, along...
Global Mental Health Research Needs Cultural Perspective
This paper in Transcultural Psychiatry states that global mental health (GMH) research "appears to be using a monocultural model that is individualistic, illness-oriented, and...
A Post-Racial Public Mental Health System: If Not Now, When?
In answer to the question posed in the title to this article, probably not for a long, long time. Or perhaps more accurately, when...
Transcultural Limitations of Medical Model Treatment in Ghana
An anthropological study of mental health service use in Ghana, published online June 21 in Transcultural Psychiatry, finds that counter to expectations almost all those...
Atypicals Associated with Diabetes in Adults Without Schizophrenia or Bipolar Diagnoses
Writing in Evidence Based Mental Health, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital found that use of medication for diabetes was significantly...
Cannabis and Psychosis
The June issue of Current Pharmaceutical Design is devoted to a review of the interaction between cannabis and psychosis.
Journal Contents →
Response to Placebo is On the Rise
Study subjects' responses to placebo have increased from an average two-point decline in symptom ratings in studies done from 1991 to 1998, to an...
Prayer and Hope, Part II.
Since I accepted the Project Management gig where I work most of the time in the DFW Metroplex in Texas, I've gone through rough...
