I am overwhelmed by the positive reaction the second part of my story has received. I was very nervous when I posted it but as the days went by I gradually calmed down.
The deCODE Genetics story is one of the biggest scandals in Icelandic history. The company has blood samples from about half the Icelandic population. It is now owned by Amgen 🙁
Hi Mary, thank you for your kind words. It also took me a long time to find out the truth about the psychiatric treatments I have been through. I wish I had known it sooner. Ever since I saw through the deception I have devoted most of my energy to inform people in my native country.
Thank you Bradford for your thoughtful comments. I have been through everything you describe in your latter paragraph. This will be the topic of a later post.
These shootings you occasionally have in the US are horrific! I know from my activism in Iceland that it can be very difficult to get the truth to the surface. As I will discuss in my next post I have even received threats.
I might try Yoga, but today I use Mindfulness and physical exercise.
Yes, Peter Bregin is a saint! As I have never discussed this aspect of my story, people around are shocked to hear that SSRIs have this potential side-effect. This is of vital importance in my native Iceland as, in per capita terms, we are the greatest consumers of SSRIs.
Publishing this story was very stressful, but easier than I expected. I am now waiting for a journalist I know to come from his vacation. I plan to ask him to help me break this story to the Icelandic public. I hope I have the courage when he arrives in a two weeks time. If that happens I will worry about my future employers when that time comes.
Thanks for alerting me to Weekes’ book. Yes I am lucky to have a wife that has stood by me for 20 years!
My panic attacks started several years prior to the visit to my psychiatrist, when he decided to put me on an SSRI for the first time. I share your frustration with psychiatry, but the important thing is that we are both alive and able to share our experience.
Your explanation seems quite reasonable. The issue of direct to consumer pharma ads is only a problem in the US and New Zealand. As far as I know such ads are banned in the rest of the world.
In Iceland, where I am form, Big Pharma wields its power in the tradition way, by manipulation physician and distributing disease information booklets, which often are barely hide drug promotions. Through my effort one such booklet on depression was take on the market in 2009. It was a 8 months struggle.
You are quite right. It was very difficult to publish this article, but with the help of my family and friends I was able to post it. Ever since I read Breggin and Healy’s books in 2009 I have been considering taking about this terrible experience but it took me four years to get the courage.
If you reveal thoughts like these to your psychiatrist the possibility of punishment is very real. A friend of mine experienced that few years ago. Within days of telling his psychiatrist about these terrible thoughts child protective services knocked on his door. It took him almost a year to get out of this quagmire.
Hi Bradford. Thank you for your comment. Yes we share the experience of having been harmed by psychotropic drugs. Later I will describe the difficult process of withdrawing for the drugs.
You raise interesting points. What I plan to write does at the moment not affect my job status, but it might in the future. My wife has given me a green light. I am just fighting an internal battle. The information will certainly help others. That is why I have talked openly about my story in Iceland for years. But I have never spoken publicly about this issue that is currently plaguing me.
Thank you! In my next post I plan to discuss a very delicate subject that I have never talked about in public before. I will have to muster some courage before I will post it.
Thank you for this interesting article. A new study seems to answer the question why preregistration is frowned upon:
“The study found that in a sample of 55 large trials testing heart-disease treatments, 57% of those published before 2000 reported positive effects from the treatments. But that figure plunged to just 8% in studies that were conducted after 2000.”
http://www.nature.com/news/registered-clinical-trials-make-positive-findings-vanish-1.18181?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
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This is Steindór again (I had lost my MIA login). I repeat, contact me on [email protected]
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Hi Johanna
I am overwhelmed by the positive reaction the second part of my story has received. I was very nervous when I posted it but as the days went by I gradually calmed down.
The deCODE Genetics story is one of the biggest scandals in Icelandic history. The company has blood samples from about half the Icelandic population. It is now owned by Amgen 🙁
Regards,
Steindór
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Hi Stephen
Thank you for reading my blog and for your positive comments.
Regards,
Steindór
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Hi Gussie28
I sympathize with your plight. I hope my story will ease some of your pain.
Regards,
Steindór
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Hi Mary, thank you for your kind words. It also took me a long time to find out the truth about the psychiatric treatments I have been through. I wish I had known it sooner. Ever since I saw through the deception I have devoted most of my energy to inform people in my native country.
Regards,
Steindór
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Thank you Bradford for your thoughtful comments. I have been through everything you describe in your latter paragraph. This will be the topic of a later post.
Regards,
Steindór
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Hi Bradford
These shootings you occasionally have in the US are horrific! I know from my activism in Iceland that it can be very difficult to get the truth to the surface. As I will discuss in my next post I have even received threats.
I might try Yoga, but today I use Mindfulness and physical exercise.
Regards,
Steindór
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Hi Donna
Yes, Peter Bregin is a saint! As I have never discussed this aspect of my story, people around are shocked to hear that SSRIs have this potential side-effect. This is of vital importance in my native Iceland as, in per capita terms, we are the greatest consumers of SSRIs.
Publishing this story was very stressful, but easier than I expected. I am now waiting for a journalist I know to come from his vacation. I plan to ask him to help me break this story to the Icelandic public. I hope I have the courage when he arrives in a two weeks time. If that happens I will worry about my future employers when that time comes.
Thanks for alerting me to Weekes’ book. Yes I am lucky to have a wife that has stood by me for 20 years!
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Hi Bradford
My panic attacks started several years prior to the visit to my psychiatrist, when he decided to put me on an SSRI for the first time. I share your frustration with psychiatry, but the important thing is that we are both alive and able to share our experience.
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Hi cannotsay2013
Your explanation seems quite reasonable. The issue of direct to consumer pharma ads is only a problem in the US and New Zealand. As far as I know such ads are banned in the rest of the world.
In Iceland, where I am form, Big Pharma wields its power in the tradition way, by manipulation physician and distributing disease information booklets, which often are barely hide drug promotions. Through my effort one such booklet on depression was take on the market in 2009. It was a 8 months struggle.
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Hi up-rising.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments!
You are quite right. It was very difficult to publish this article, but with the help of my family and friends I was able to post it. Ever since I read Breggin and Healy’s books in 2009 I have been considering taking about this terrible experience but it took me four years to get the courage.
If you reveal thoughts like these to your psychiatrist the possibility of punishment is very real. A friend of mine experienced that few years ago. Within days of telling his psychiatrist about these terrible thoughts child protective services knocked on his door. It took him almost a year to get out of this quagmire.
I hope you keep on rising up.
Best wishes
Steindór
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Hi Bradford. Thank you for your comment. Yes we share the experience of having been harmed by psychotropic drugs. Later I will describe the difficult process of withdrawing for the drugs.
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Hi Donna
You raise interesting points. What I plan to write does at the moment not affect my job status, but it might in the future. My wife has given me a green light. I am just fighting an internal battle. The information will certainly help others. That is why I have talked openly about my story in Iceland for years. But I have never spoken publicly about this issue that is currently plaguing me.
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Hi Donna
Thank you! In my next post I plan to discuss a very delicate subject that I have never talked about in public before. I will have to muster some courage before I will post it.
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