Yearly Archives: 2024
Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet
Pharmaceuticals seem to overtake every facet of life, but it’s important to start thinking critically about what we are putting in our bodies.
Why We Are Sceptical About This Study of Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms
From The Guardian Letters: Prof. John Read and Dr. James Davies argue that a recent review’s findings are not relevant to the majority of real-world antidepressant users, while readers offer their own experiences of using the drugs.
My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery
After my VA mental health team prescribed Prozac, I began experiencing rapidly escalating behavioral changes. The drug was never considered as a potential cause.
“War Cry For Change”: Veterans Launch Campaign for Informed Consent and Safe Deprescribing at...
Derek Blumke and Timothy Jensen: The Grunt Style Foundation leads a new phase in the movement to combat psychiatric drug harm.
What It’s Really Like Inside a Psychiatric Ward
In a way, the hospital had made me feel better. It had shown me a vision of hell that was going to become my future if I didn't take drastic action.
Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
From Undark: In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly hailed as heroes.
Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically
University students are expected to to ask questions, but medical students are expected to give "correct" answers.
How an Opioid Giant Deployed a Playbook for Moulding Doctors’ Minds
From The BMJ: A document trove released by opioid giant Mallinckrodt shows an extensive marketing playbook designed to influence medical science and opinion, or "ghost manage" medicine.
Bartonella Infection, Psychosis and Tardive Dyskinesia | Beyond Meds
From Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry: In Western medicine, dyskinesia is associated with infection when it’s not associated with a psych drug history, psychosis and neuroleptic drugs.
Reframing Mental and Emotional Pain from a Buddhist Psychology Perspective
The Five Hindrances perspective encourages exploring the underlying causes of suffering and developing strategies for coping and resilience.
Virginal Autonomy by Nidhi Agrawal
After Sylvia Plath ~
“I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses
And my history to the anaesthetist and my body...
“Confidential” 988 Conversation Records Shared with Corporations
Recordings of 988 callers’ voice, text, and chat conversations are being shared with researchers, AI developers, and corporations without consent.
Did Something Happen?! The Power of Poetry in Telling My Son’s Story
It's hard, if not impossible, to impose on my son’s story any kind of literary “sense.” As a writer and a mother both, this has been my challenge.Â
FDA Panel Rejects MDMA-Aided Therapy for PTSD
From The New York Times: An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality
Leading psychiatrists appear unfazed that their theories and treatments are repeatedly proven to be scientifically invalid and discarded.
Researchers Plan to Retract Landmark Alzheimer’s Paper Containing Doctored Images
From Science: The study has been cited nearly 2500 times, and would be the most cited paper ever to be retracted, according to Retraction Watch data.
Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst...
Sterilized under Nazi law, Dorothea Buck fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform.
‘Illuminating Journeys’: Using Creativity for Change in Mental Health Treatment
From Health Justice: The Illuminating Journeys project supported people with lived experience of involuntary mental health treatment in British Columbia to inform mental health public policy by sharing their lived experience expertise in creative ways.
Grief Is Horrible – But It’s Supposed to Be. We Have to Feel a...
From The Guardian: An undead, colourless half-life lies ahead if we cannot find the courage to give ourselves the cacophonous gift of grief.
Antiseizure Drug Exposure in Pregnancy Linked to Large Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual...
Harms are “largely overlooked by psychiatry despite widespread usage,” according to the researchers.
Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers
New data reveals that four times as many callers to 988 as previously publicly claimed are getting visited by police or emergency medical services.
Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship
My beloved mother was mistreated, cheated, abused mentally, and alienated from her family by her conservator and the courts.
In the House of Psychiatry, a Jarring Tale of Violence
From The New York Times: At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later.
Don’t Call Me a Therapist
Psychology is closer to philosophy than medicine, laying a foundation for personal development that can lead to better adaptation.
How Anecdotes Sell Drugs: On the 30th Anniversary Edition of “Listening to Prozac”
From L.A. Review of Books: Listening to Prozac’s 30th anniversary edition is a tribute of sorts to the power of celebrity and to the persistence of the myth that depression is a brain disorder that can be abolished by ingesting one of Big Pharma’s magic bullets.
