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Battling with bears while smothered by lithium
Michaelann Land | December 30th 2009 by michaelann bewsee
Poor children four times more likely to be given anti-psychiatric drugs. Yesterday when I went to visit my friend in the hospital, he had a new roommate-- a young, nice looking Puerto Rican man-- a boy, really. His illness was not apparent bu read more
FDA Says No to Pfizer’s Pain Medication Lyrica for Generalized…
The Medical Quack | December 25th 2009 by Barbara Duck
Treatments for anxiety and depression certainly seem to be headliners quite frequently in the news today. In just writing this blog it seems to be that I tend to see more about those 2 types of drugs than most others. The FDA said no on read more
Foundation for a Drug-Free World: Publications - Presciption Drug…
justAna | December 22nd 2009 by Ana
Foundation for a Drug-Free World: Publications - Presciption Drug AbuseI Just came across with these booklets and one of them is about psych-drugs:"We are a nonprofit public benefit organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California that makes ava read more
Clonazepam - Klonopin and Imipramine are teratogen
justAna | December 11th 2009 by Ana
After reading that "There are about 600 Paxil/Seroxat/Aropax birth defects lawsuits are already outstanding against GlaxoSmithKline," I am checking some of the other psych-drugs that causes birth-defects and found that the benzodiazepine clonazepam read more
Today is Humans Right Day - WHO does nothing and others keep sile…
justAna | December 10th 2009 by Ana
And this is what WHO has written about health:Health and human rights WHO Constitution: "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being..." Every country in t read more
Interview with John Nash from Beautiful Mind
Beyond Meds | December 9th 2009 by Gianna Kali
Where he says explicitly he never used drugs again after a period of crisis and the movie was purposely misleading because the screenwriter’s mother was a psychologist enamored with psych meds and feared people would go off their meds if they k read more
SSRI-stories reports a violent behavior due to psych-drugs almost…
justAna | December 6th 2009 by Ana
These are from SSRI-stories from 11/30 to 12/05. Almost daily a death caused by psych-drugs, maily antidepressants SSRI/SSNIs. It this is not enough evidence I wonder what else is necessary. These are the cases that SSRI-stories could find. How many read more
Is it ethical for an attorney to violate federal law/patient righ…
Attorneys Don't Advocate | November 21st 2009 by Cheryl
I want to encourage any patient at Carle Clinic Association or Hospital to bring someone with you to appointments. I also strongly recommend that you obtain a second opinion if your doctor is Carle orthopedic surgeon Chris J. Dangles, MD. Dr. Dangle read more
The Waiting Game
Reality Hide and Seek | November 20th 2009 by Sheri
Wellbutrin was thrown into my med cocktail a couple weeks ago, and Paxil was drained out. With Paxil I was sleeping all day with no problem sleeping at night. Wellbutrin keeps me awake all day and most of the night, making it impossible to hide from read more
Call for action - Promoting Furious Seasons, what can we do?
justAna | November 15th 2009 by Ana
I believe that many of us agree that Furious Seasons is one of the most important mental health blogs and should be top 1 in all blog directors and accessible to most people as possible not only for us who already know the problems Phillip raises.I j read more
Psych drugs mess up human bonding capabilities
Beyond Meds | November 11th 2009 by Gianna Kali
Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who has looked at how antidepressants effect romantic love, falling in love and most importantly ongoing attachment. The conclusion being that the love response and the human instinct for attachment are profoundly me read more
New Doctor, New Antidepressant. Yay.
Alison Rising | November 9th 2009 by Alison Shipley
So I went to see my new doc today. I don’t know why I thought I would get any different treatment than I always get. Same system, same treatment. “You say you don’t want an antidepressant? Here, let me prescribe you an antidepressant instead.†read more
Naked screaming woman slams infant to the ground
Bad Breeders | November 7th 2009 by Trench Reynolds
Mother charged in Mount Vernon sidewalk assault on infant: 23-year-old Joanie Brown was arrested in Mount Vernon, NY after sge was found naked and screaming slamming her 5-month-old son against the sidewalk. Bystanders were able to rescue the boy fr read more
dazework: Downloading psych articles from Sage like a druggie in…
All in a Daze Work | October 31st 2009 by Dazework
dazework: Downloading psych articles from Sage like a druggie in a "free drugs" store.... read more
Purging the stigma of mental illness
Psychiatric Medications | October 31st 2009 by Cicolini
Joseph Rochford, associate professor of psychiatry at McGill and a director at the Douglas Hospital, hopes the hospital's Mini-Psych School will help debunk myths surrounding people suffering from mental disorders. "Molecular biologists and geneticis read more
kids
Just Your Average Everyday Splurges | October 28th 2009 by Brittany Ward
Children on psych drugs vulnerable to significant weight gain, study ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer CHICAGO %26mdash; Children on widely used psychiatric drugs can quickly gain an alarming amount of weight; many pack on nearly 20 pounds and become o read more
Fecal Debilification
The War Within | October 24th 2009 by Poly Morphic
My regular appointment today with the psych was very discouraging. Though not much of a liar, I probably should have at least withheld the truth. He's not a bad doctor by any means but the science of drugs is in their belief system and this is what read more
Roman Polanski
Burnettiquette | September 28th 2009 by James Burnett
In case you live in a cave, thirty-two years ago at the age of 44, movie director Roman Polanski, "hosted" a 13-year-old female date at then friend Jack Nicholson's house. Polanski gave the girl champagne and drugs, and when she was goo read more
Peter Breggin on Madness Radio
Beyond Meds | September 27th 2009 by Gianna Kali
What do modern psychiatric drug treatments have in common with lobotomy? Is informed consent possible when patients’ judgment is impaired by medication? Should psych drugs be banned? For more than 50 years Dr. Peter Breggin has been a leading c read more
Allen Jones Addresses Mental Health Screening: Video
Psychiatry, it's a Killing. | September 27th 2009
Allen Jones Full Whistleblower Report is available free at the top of our sidebar.Please take the time to read it if you haven't yet done so.Psych Drugs are peddled under the Ruse of Suicide Prevention. In Investigative Reporter Ms. Evelyn Pringle's read more
This is what children need, not psych-drugs
justAna | September 27th 2009 by Ana
The eency weency spider went up the water spout,Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun that dried up all the rain,And the eency weency spider climbed up the spout again read more
Happy Birthday to Furious Seasons
justAna | September 26th 2009 by Ana
I did copy it from Mark at Psych Survivor 2.0 . This is the least I can do to celebrate four years of Furious Seasons, Philip Dawdy's blog, that has inspired me to start this blog as many others. Philip Dawdy is dedicating his life and journalisti read more
Tort Reform is not the answer
Advocate Yourself | September 10th 2009 by Cheryl
I was injured by an orthopedic surgeon's decision to perform absolutely unnecessary surgery. I trusted that physician. While I was wobbling around on crutches and the three surgeries failed, I became sad. The orthopedic surgeon's colleague put me read more
FRPAA Seeks To Protect Public Access To Govt Funded Research
Psychiatry, it's a Killing. | August 18th 2009
And it matters, Why?Because:HR 801 Would END FREE ACCESS To GOVT FUNDED RESEARCHConsidering the ghost writing and skewed writing underwriting the purported safety and efficacy of Psych Drugs the Public Must retain the Right to Read and Critique what read more
Where did my brain go?
Reality Hide and Seek | August 8th 2009 by Sheri
I brought family papers to my daughter so that she could work on her genealogy, and among those papers was an IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test that was given to me when I was six. On one page, my score was 127, which at that time was in the 95th-97th read more
Mischa Barton Released From Psych Ward
Celebrity Gossip Blog: The Daily Blabber from iVillage Enter… | July 28th 2009
-Photo by Getty Images- Mischa Barton is back on the streets after being released from the psych ward at Cedars-Sinai in LA. The actress was under involuntary psychiatric hold after cops were called to her house last week. Sources say that read more
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