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Tag Archives: Psychiatric medication
Mental illness: Medication alone isn’t the answer
A sometimes hard to read article in Toronto Star telling the story of Kit Skelly and the impact on him and the whole family of what all too often happens when people look to the healthcare system for help. A life … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, mania & depression, my story, psychosis, what's going on?, youth
Tagged hearing voices, Psychiatric medication, schizophrenia, SSRI
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Waiting list for mental-health services is a major problem facing patients
Toronto Star Article Chantaie Allick Staff Reporter Waiting list for mental-health services is a major problem facing patients Austin Williamson, 15, has attended 20 schools and been on waiting lists for counselling services most of his life. It is … Continue reading
Posted in family, my story, what's going on?, youth
Tagged mental health, my story, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry
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Mental Health: The road to diagnosis is filled with twists and turns
If you hear voices you are not alone. I do too. Research shows as many as 10 to 15% of us do: that’s about a billion people – it’s more common than left-handedness and more common than living in North … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, my story, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged Healing, hearing voices, mental health, mindfulness, Psychiatric medication, psychosis, 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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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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The Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Elderly
Jim Gottstein, campaigning lawyer talking about the alarming increasing use of psychiatric drugs in those who are least able to say no – … often used to control behaviour that carers find difficult. ….and for which there is no real scientific evidence … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, anatomy of an epidemic, medication madness, what's going on?
Tagged iatrogenic, Jim Gottstein, mental health, Psychiatric medication
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Joanna Moncrieff – Changing the balance of psychosis treatment
Joanna Moncrieff and the Critical Psychiatry Network offer us a different way of thinking about how psychiatric medications work; and ways to use them that assist healing but reduce the adverse effects – and especially the devastating effects that result from long … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Ideas, recovery perspectives
Tagged Critical PSychiatry Network, Joanna Moncrief, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry, Robert Whitaker
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