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Category Archives: depression
Schizophrenia: A Recovery – Jonathan Benjamin
Jonathan Benjamin describes his experience falling into mental illness, with depression, hearing voices, thinking he was being visited by an angel then possessed by a devil, of self-harming, diagnosis, diagnoses, feeling numbed by medications; hopelessness; suicide – arrest, being sectioned and psychiatric discharge. He … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, books, depression, hearing voices, my story, psychosis, recovery perspectives
Tagged hearing voices, psychosis, recovery, schizophrenia
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Anti-depressants doing more harm than good: Study
Article in NY Daily News about a report (another one) from a study at a Canadian University – McMasters – that says that not only do SSRIs – or as the marketers like us to call them “atypical antidepressants” [lest we confuse … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, depression, medication madness, what's going on?
Tagged Antidepressant, mental health, Psychiatric medication, Serotonin, SSRI
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Clara Hughes on Strombo
Clara Hughes talks with George Stroumboulopoulos . “It’s ok to be human.” Related articles Clara Hughes on Q (recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com)
Posted in depression, human potential, recovery perspectives, resilience
Tagged Clara Hughes, depression, George Stroumboulopoulos, mental health
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Paxil Withdrawal: A Mother Speaks
Laurie York kicks butt Here Laurie she talks to an ISEPP conference of the experience , regretably all too common, that followed after her son fell ill and they sought medical advice: 10 minute exam, prescription for drugs , seeming improvement followed … Continue reading
Dr David Healy – bad medicine
TVO The Agenda Steve Paikin Interview with Dr David Healy 12: 45min in the final minute … “Anti- depressants are an enormously useful class of drugs ….. “ “the problem is these medicines come with risks – when you have a … Continue reading
Posted in depression, medication madness, what's going on?
Tagged Agenda, David Healy, Health, mental health, Psychiatric medication, Steve Paikin
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depressed over anti-depressants
TVO The Agenda Aired: Mar 12 2012 Steve Paiken with… Dr David Healy University of Cardiff Dr Kwame McKenzie Senior Scientist and Psychiatrist, CAMH Roger McIntyre -Head of Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology at UHN Edward Shorter Prof. Histry of Medicine at … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, depression, medication madness, recovery perspectives, what's going on?
Tagged David Healy, expert in my own wellness, iatrogenic, mental health, poison, Psychiatric medication
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paxilprogess.org
We recently linked with paxilprogress.org a peer to peer message board community for people to share their personal experiences with taking antidepressants, and allows others to ask questions, and to learn from each other, and make their own, more informed decisions. And just … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, coming off meds, depression, medication madness, my story
Tagged Black box warning, Peer support, SSRI
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Clara Hughes on Q
An excellent interview with Gian Gromeshi on CBC’s Q The single best wat to improve the way we think about mental health is simply for more of us to talk about mental health …and if we can all learn to talk about it … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, depression, Emancipate yourself..., mental skillness, my story
Tagged Clara Hughes, Health, mental health
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Richard Bentall – Diagnoses are psychiatry’s star signs. Let’s listen more and drug people less
UK Guardian Monday 31 August 2009 Diagnoses are psychiatry’s star signs. Let’s listen more and drug people less The biological approach to treating mental illness has been a lamentable failure. We must focus on a patient as a person Surveying … Continue reading
Posted in depression, Healing, making sense of "mental illlness", mania & depression, medication madness, psychosis
Tagged Health, mental health
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