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What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe: Ben Goldacre
You saw an extract from his book the other day, here he is at TED, Ben Goldacre on how the system that is the very basis of “evidence medicine” is a load of bollocks [my paraphrasing] concealling a systemmatic flaw … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, medication madness, what's going on?
Tagged badscience, Ben Goldacre, Psychiatric medication, TED
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Schizophrenia – is one hundred years enough? Robin Murray
Sir Robin Murray is a Psychiatrist and one of the world’s leading researchers into what Psychiatry has, for the last 100 years, called “schizophrenia”. He spoke last week at the World Hearing Voices Congress, held in Cardiff [that’s the capital city … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged mental health, Paul Baker, Psychiatry, Robin Murray
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Beyond The Brain – Tania Lurhman
Article by Tania Marie Luhrman from The Wilson Quartery Summer 2012 Lurhmann surveys the shapeshifting landscape that is our understanding of “schizophrenia”: from the rise to hegemony and the current Icarus-like fall from the sun of the bio-bio-bio science-fraud/ shadenfreude; through people-based movements like … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, Ideas, medication madness, what's going on?
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The Drugs Don’t Work – Ben Goldacre
From the guardian, a lengthy extract from a new book by Ben Goldacre, published today in the UK. Goldacre is one of the growing number of Doctors who have woken from the pharma/doubleblind/”evidence” -induced hypnosis that has taken hold of … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, medication madness
Tagged Ben Goldacre, mental health, Pharmageddon, Placebo, Psychiatric medication, The Drugs Don't Work
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chemical warfare on children
An homage to Private Eye magazine The fastest growing “market” for so-called”antipsychotic” drugs is children. That the condition even exists is unproven. That the medications are any more effective than placebo [sugar] is unproven. That the medications are safe even in adults, … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, family
Tagged mental health
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ParaNorman
Norman is a normal kid – he sees and talks with people others don’t, including his grandmother who, long passed away, sits on the sofa knitting and bounces on his bed. The Townsfolk, the kids at school call him names “weird” … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Healing, hearing voices, Ideas, spirituality, what's going on?
Tagged compassion, discrimination, hearing voices, ParaNorman
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The Medicated Child
If you found yesterdays’ post difficult to watch then gird yourself for this one. From 2008, PBS Frontline documentary The Medicated Child.
America’s Medicated Kids – Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux spends time with America’s diagnosed and medicated kids. You may be left wondering just who’s disorder is being treated by the kids taking the medications. Phamily mental health In one family mom proudly displays the phamily pharmacy – even … Continue reading
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Tagged Louis Theroux, mental health, Psychiatric medication
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Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia – Rossa Forbes
Here’s an excellent article by Rossa Forbes on MadInAmerica telling of her experience after her son began to struggle and was diagnosed. Rossa tells of her frustrations with the institutionalised limitations of support provided by healthcare system, the kind of well-meaning care that, at best, typically turns people … Continue reading
Peel schools Stand Up for student mental health
School’s in today! here’s a fine short info film produced by Peel District Schoolboard… A simple reminder how easy it is to be left feeling alone, bewildered and strange, that we ar ethe only one who stuggles and that whatever is … Continue reading
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