"And think of how cozy, inviting and truly healing that 'nutshell' would be if the mental health system would stop trying to categorize and contain those who are experiencing the pains brought on by the deep wounds to their psyches."
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Marnie Wedlake, PhD(c) commented on Marnie Wedlake, PhD(c)'s blog post Bio-medical constructs vs. normal, natural responses to adversityMarnie Wedlake, PhD(c) commented on Marnie Wedlake, PhD(c)'s blog post Evidence-based best practices? Please!!"Thanks for weighing in on my blog post, Phil. :-}
Unfortunately I am more familiar with EBM than I'd like to be. Ignorance really is bliss!
I suppose my questions were mostly quite rhetorical in nature - intended to suggest that I have…"
Phil Strong commented on Marnie Wedlake, PhD(c)'s blog post Bio-medical constructs vs. normal, natural responses to adversity"Yes Marnie - in a nutshell..........................normal, natural responses to adversity.
Phil"
Phil Strong commented on Marnie Wedlake, PhD(c)'s blog post Evidence-based best practices? Please!!"l
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the process of
systematically reviewing, appraising and using clinical research
findings to aid the delivery of optimum clinical care to patients.
hi Marnie
Yes, a trendy term, like bipolar. Sounds like a…"
Phil Strong commented on Phil Strong's blog post Surge in demand for sleeping pills"Another "quick fix" that masks the causes - and then they are even less inclined to exercise!"
Doug Bower commented on Phil Strong's blog post Surge in demand for sleeping pills"I found myself wondering if these users of sleeping pills were people who don't exercise regularly."
Phil Strong posted a blog postSurge in demand for sleeping pills
By Press Association, May 11, 2012Filed under: NewsA sharp rise in the use of sleeping pills saw NHS spending on the drugs reach nearly £50 million last year, new figures reveal.Some 15.3 million prescriptions were handed out in 2010/11, compared with 14.5 million in 2007/08, according to NHS figures obtained by the Co-operative Pharmacy.A Freedom of Information…See More
Ginger Breggin replied to Ginger Breggin's discussion "Waiting for Oblivion: Women's Experiences with Electroshock""Hi Marnie, Glad this article is of good use for you! Please see this link for several hundred links to articles exposing or critical of ECT on Dr. Breggin's professional website: …"
Marnie Wedlake, PhD(c) replied to Ginger Breggin's discussion "Waiting for Oblivion: Women's Experiences with Electroshock""Thank you so much for posting this, Ginger!
I'm just in the process of working to finish an autobiographical narrative article that will become part of my dissertation. The article is about my own experience with shock treatments about 20 yrs…"
Marnie Wedlake, PhD(c) posted a blog postA few initial thoughts.......
25 yrs in the field of mental health (MH), the privilege of education, personal experience, and interaction with a lot of amazing people, have shown me that biomedically-based 'explanations' for the dis-ability & dis-order of an individual's emotional well being are disturbing at best. I believe that the 'developed' world's MH system creates & perpetuates mental illness & disability through a damaging distillation of wounds to the psyche & the soul down to a limited set of…See More
Sharon Beverly commented on Tricia DiMaio's blog post Who will help those diagnosed with "mental illness"?"I am with you, Tricia. We are not just physical beings. We are physical, soul, and spirit. We don't just inherit physical DNA. We inherit a spiriutal legacy as well, which indeed affects how we see the world around us. I cannot separate my…"
Sharon Beverly commented on Sandra Ellen Dodd's blog post Where is the Love?"Hi Sandra:
My heart goes out to you and Caitlin. My 21 year old daughter has been in and out of the hospital on an average of every four weeks for the last year. My mother was on medication her whole life for schizophrenia and bipolar. I feel…"
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Epidemiology Mis-counts: Systematic Bias Leads To Misleading Rates
Allen Frances, MD has again delivered a very candid and emphatic criticism of psychiatry through his most recent blog for Psychiatric Times on the web. This latest blog slams psychiatric epidemiology that results in media and other claims of skyrocketing rates of psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Frances begins: "The entire field of psychiatric epidemiology has a systematic bias that leads it to misleadingly report what are highly inflated rates of psychiatric disorder.…
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What if No One Made Antidepressants? Dr. Peter Breggin's latest blog!
Drug companies stop making antidepressants? The possibility is not so farfetched.
A headline in Britain's Guardian puts it this way: "Research into brain disorders under threat as drug firms pull out." The subhead explains, "Scientists warn of big financial and social impact while fear of litigation and expenses is linked to move." Apparently, two British-based…
ContinueCreated by Ginger Breggin Aug 22, 2011 at 5:57pm. Last updated by Ginger Breggin Aug 22, 2011.
Drug Companies Stop Researching ‘Mental Diseases’
Some drug firms, such as Janssen, are continuing to grow more hard core about promoting the most dangerous and damaging of the psychiatric drug spectrum—injectable, long-acting antipsychotics. Here is the creepy still graphic that is the highlight of this new ad campaign. The antipsychotics, known…
Created by Ginger Breggin Jul 11, 2011 at 2:31pm. Last updated by Ginger Breggin Jul 11, 2011.
We Need to Depend Upon More Than Science
The Wall Street Journal reported June 29, 2011 that "Surgeons who conducted clinical trials to test a Medtronic Inc. bone-growth protein widely used in spine surgery didn't report serious complications that arose in those trials in their research papers, a new study says. Over the past decade, 15 of those surgeons have collectively received at least $62 million from the medical-device giant for unrelated work, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Medtronic documents and of recent…
ContinueCreated by Ginger Breggin Jul 1, 2011 at 3:13pm. Last updated by Ginger Breggin Jul 1, 2011.
HHS Documents Antipsychotic Use for Elderly with Dementia
The FDA requires a black box warning in the drug label for antipsychotics indicating the danger of using these drugs with patients who have dementia. There is an increased risk of death in elderly patients with dementia or Alzheimer's disease exposed to this class of drugs.
Quote from the…
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"Waiting for Oblivion: Women's Experiences with Electroshock"
Started by Ginger Breggin in Critique of Psychiatry. Last reply by Ginger Breggin May 6. 4 Replies 1 Like
"Waiting for Oblivion: Women's Experiences with Electroshock" is a report of a research studypublished in 2011 in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, and written by Cheryl Leslie van Daalen-Smith, RN, PhD. Supportive letters to the journal would be…Continue
Tags: nursing, women, ECT, electroshock
How to set up a group to inform people of the alternatives to psychiatric medication in the UK
Started by Janet Godfrey in Creating RETREATS ~ Helping Those in "Extreme Emotional States"--Soteria House and Other Models. Last reply by Janet Godfrey Mar 19. 3 Replies 2 Likes
Lovely to be here amongst people who already realise that the medical model ain't all it's cracked up to be!I worked for four years with a Community Mental Health Team in the UK which believes in medication and ECT and my job was to help people (who…Continue
The Conference - A room to share
Started by Evelyn Talmadge in General Mar 17. 0 Replies 0 Likes
I am not sure if this is the right place to have such a "discussion" so please forgive if it is not.I am going to be going to the conference and would like to share a room if possible with someone. Preferably Friday night through Sunday.If any of…Continue
Tags: Rooms, Conference
The Scientific Method -- How It May Be Failing Us
Started by Ginger Breggin in Critique of Psychiatry. Last reply by Betty LaLuna Mar 2. 41 Replies 3 Likes
One of our Empathic Therapy Advisory Council members, Charles Whitfield, MD suggested we post the following article which appeared in The New Yorker and was authored by Jonah Lehrer. The article examines issues surrounding the scientific method and…Continue
Tags: Scientists, Statistics, Theories, Replicability, Effect
Dr. Mercola - anyone have some experience?
Started by Silvana M. Pellegrini Adam in General. Last reply by Silvana M. Pellegrini Adam Feb 13. 6 Replies 1 Like
Dr. Mercola: Visionary or Quack? (article from Chicaco mag.com or his site:…Continue
Recording Data Re Adverse Effects of "Treatment"
Started by Martin Irving in General. Last reply by Heidi Henkel Jan 25. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Uhmm, I'm new here and not sure where this post will appear and in what context? I have a concern regarding the recording of data with respect to treatment of bipolar. Specifically, in the mainstream medical community (or whatever you like to call…Continue
Abolish electroconvulsive therapy e-petition
Started by Cheryl Prax in General. Last reply by Phil Strong Jan 15. 2 Replies 0 Likes
The UK government has recently introduced e-petitions online. If you get 100,000 signatures then they may discuss the petition in parliament. Signatures can come from all over the world. Please pass on this link.Also please sign it - it only…Continue
Tags: government, UK, petition, abolish, ECT
Another ECT victim
Started by Cheryl Prax in Critique of Psychiatry. Last reply by Kat Dockendorf Jan 8. 4 Replies 0 Likes
I have set up a Google alert for every new web post about ECT. Most of the alerts are positive ones from the industry. Some are from celebrities who sadly promote ECT which unfortunately increases the likelihood of ECT being forced onto those who do…Continue
Empathic Therapy with Rescued Dogs!
Started by Scott Passin in Empathic Therapy. Last reply by Kat Dockendorf Jan 8. 3 Replies 1 Like
Wanted to share this great organization with everyone. It's Great, Brilliant, Compassionate and Empathic!! Please take a minute to look at this link. Healing Species is the first student intervention program in the nation addressing issues of the…Continue
U.S. Government to Further Assist Selling Drugs to Normal Children
Started by James Pricer in General. Last reply by Kat Dockendorf Jan 8. 9 Replies 2 Likes
I have researched thousands of articles about the collusion of the U.S. government and the psychiatric pharmaceutical manufacturers to push more drugs to more people, but this article is the most frightening one of all. The U.S. government is…Continue
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What Causes Schizophrenia?
Posted by Ginger Breggin on March 19, 2011 at 4:09pm 1 Comment 2 Likes
my husband's colleague and one of our dearest friends, Dr. Bertram Karon, was interviewed in 2007. I'm including a 
link below. Dr. Karon was asked what causes schizophrenia and he replied:
Dr. Bertram Karon said: if you look at all the data we have and all the case studies... schizophrenics are very…
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One year ago....
Posted by Tricia DiMaio on March 20, 2011 at 3:04pm 5 Comments 1 Like
This is my one year anniversary of being hauled away by the men in white coats. I had escaped reality because of extreme anxiety from a crisis of a stalking boyfriend, which made me smoke more and sleep less. I became paranoid and delusional, but not a eminent threat to myself or others.
So this thing with crisis and the way the mental system dictates that crisis is actually a symptom of a brain disease really bothers me..... A fellow psych survivor told me that one crisis is…
Continue The Assange case and the following rape-debate in Sweden
Posted by Daniel Kraft on March 17, 2011 at 8:05am 4 Comments 0 Likes
Some of you might have read Judith Hermans book Trauma and Recovery. I feel it is a beautiful work because she brings together so many different aspects of trauma. One of the things I remember from that book is that she describes how the awareness of trauma has varied throughout the last century.
Herman stresses how a greater awareness of trauma in society helps trauma victims to be able to look for help and…
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Posted by Carolyn Chiew on February 27, 2011 at 3:15am 5 Comments 3 Likes
I want to share an experience I had yesterday at a BBQ where everyone present had a diagnosed mental health condition. It was a consumer organised event so there were no mental health professionals present. Someone got very upset over an issue that was raised. To calm the situation down, people asked him to shut up, tried to change the topic or just ignored him. The more this was done, I noticed the more agitated and aggressive he became as he tried to bring people back to the issue. The…
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