Review of Efficacy of Antidepressant-withdrawal Interventions
Peter GĆøtzsche and Maryanne Demasi review efficacy of "interventions to help people withdraw from depression drugs."
Activist Judy Heumann Led a Reimagining of What It Means to be Disabled
From NPR: Heumann was a major American civil rights hero who was working to spread knowledge of disability civil rights to the moment she died earlier this month at age 75.
Diode | A Narrative About a Mental Journey by Karen Hudes
From Thomas Pynchon: Atmospheric forces channel suddenly through the individual, the release point of a larger, pressured system. At the moment of crisis, all attention goes to the diode.
Regarding the Quote āIt Is No Measure of Health…’
From Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: and Charles Eisenstein: Itās not because there is something wrong with you that you canāt make yourself get with the program. Itās that there is something wrong with the program.
Internal Review Found āFalsified Dataā in Stanford Presidentās Alzheimerās Research
From The Stanford Daily: Colleagues say Marc Tessier-Lavigne tried to keep hidden the findings of an inquiry into his 2009 Nature paper that had made a splash in the Alzheimer's research world.
How the Interpersonal Model Explains, and Heals, Mental Pain | James Barnes
From Aeon: In order to understand and heal mental distress, we must see our minds as existing in relationships, not inside our heads.
BJGP Publishes Advice for GPs on Withdrawing From SSRI Antidepressants
From IIPDW: This is an important moment as the journalĀ is widely read by GPs, who are the main prescribers of SSRI antidepressants in the UK.
Why Are Ketamine Ads Following Me Around the Internet?
From The New York Times: A pandemic-related loosening of telehealth laws in 2020 allowed for the prescribing of controlled substances remotely, and this led to an increase in the availability and marketing of ketamine and other drugs.
How Mindstrongās Rush to Roll Out a āSmoke Alarmā for Mental Illness Led to...
From STAT: The start-up, cofounded by Tom Insel, claimed to have developed a "biomarker" that could analyze users' typing speeds, typos, and tapping and scrolling patterns for early signs of cognition and mood changes.
Head of FDA’s Neuroscience Unit to Depart
From Fierce Biotech: The embattled regulator, Billy Dunn, has been accused of having had a too-cozy relationship with the pharma company Biogen prior to the approval of their Alzheimerās drug Aduhelm.
The 9-Question Survey Doctors Use to ‘Diagnose’ Depression Was Created by an Antidepressant Manufacturer
From Insider: The PHQ-9 ā the quick tool that made many primary care doctors more comfortable prescribing antidepressants ā was designed by a "marketing man" working for Pfizer.
‘More Like Spin-the-Bottle Than Scienceā: My Mission to Find Proper Treatment for My Sonās...
From The Guardian: After years journeying through the traditional healthcare system, could radical alternatives save my son from an endless cycle of hospital stays and drugs?
Waking From Sleep: Natural Spirituality | Steve Taylor, PhD
From Spirituality and Psychology: "Higher states of consciousness" or "spiritual experiences" represent a way of seeing and relating to the world which was once normal to human beings, but which we have lost.
The Importance of Recovering Our Feeling Nature | Pete Walker, MFT
From The Tao of Fully Feeling: Individuals who choose or are coerced into only identifying with "positive" feelings often wind up in an emotionally lifeless middle ground ā bland, deadened, and dissociated in an unemotional "no-man's-land."
Defining What It Means to Care | Leah Harris
From The Progressive Magazine: We want to think of mental health facilities as safe, compassionate places to get help in a crisis. But unless youāve been a patient in one of these places, it can be difficult to grasp just how carceral and punitive they often are.
Medication Overload: More Older Adults Than Ever Are Taking Multiple Drugs
From Next Avenue: More than 40% of older Americans take five or more prescription drugs, a phenomenon known as polypharmacy, entailing a 200% increase over the past 20 years.
Investigation Spotlights Rise of For-Profit Ethics Boards in Research
From The Washington Post: An emphasis on speed and profit may be leading some institutional research boards to be less focused on potential harms to human subjects, a watchdog report has found.
Some Moms Are Microdosing Mushrooms for Anxiety and Depression
From The Washington Post: āThere is no magic pill or plant that allows you to bypass the healing of childhood trauma," says therapist Brooke Novick. But "this sacred medicine, when used with intention, respect and care, can powerfully support us on our paths of healing and evolution.ā
āDescartesā Errorā: Why Facts and Feelings Are Inseparable
From Medium/Farid Alsabeh: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues that the link between intellect and affect is much more substantial than we normally think.
Medical Personnel Often Ignore Mental Health Patientsā Advance Directives
From NC Health News: "The advance directive clearly had medicine that he was allergic to listed on there, and they just disregarded it," said one mother. "So once they did that, he spiraled downward quick."
Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Mental Health Status
From The Washington Post: For years, data brokers have operated in a controversial corner of the internet economy, but the pandemic-era rise of telehealth and therapy apps has fueled a more contentious product line than usual: Americansā mental health data.
Obituary of Fred Baughman, Pediatric Neurologist and Prominent Critic of ADHD
Dr. Baughman was the author of the 2006 book The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes Patients Out of Normal Children.
From Nazi Blitzkriegs to ADHD Treatment: What Stimulant Drugs Can and Cannot Do
From CounterPunch: When humans are forced to be cogs in a machineābe it a war machine, a workplace machine, or a school machineāwe need to become more machinelike, which can be expedited by some psychostimulant drugs.
The Childhood Origins of Narcissism
From Vital Mind Coaching: The core childhood origin/genesis of the ānarcissistic personality' occurs when a child is used by the parent(s) to meet the parent(s)' own needs.
Is It Delusional Paranoia or Heightened Awareness?
From Medium/Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW: If we are to glean anything from our persecutory fears, let it be that we glean the benefits of distrusting that which should not be trusted.
