Beyond Meds

The following was first published on Dear Thyroid™ a patients advocacy website for people with thyroid issues. Doug Bremner gave me permission to re-publish. _______________________________________________ It seems like the healthcare system in America has gone completely bananas. It looks like the effort to “fix” the system through healthcare reform is making things worse. I’m...

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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when...

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More links from the week: Saving Normal? Spit, Bristle and Fury – “It’s interesting to see someone in psychiatry addressing the notion of false epidemics of mental disorder when a committee decision and ever changing public opinion are all that separate a “real” epidemic from a false one. That said, committee...

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On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither...

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Links for the week, I will again do a post with news tomorrow with overflow: Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia for Dummies —  ”To begin with, the cover invites the reader to “learn to help their loved one live a happier, more productive life.” How patronizing. Note that there is no...

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Beautiful to listen to. Words beneath the video. On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When...

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It’s the anniversary of this blog today. I wrote my first post 3 years ago today. I republished that post yesterday if you didn’t see it. This year I get to announce I’ve accomplished what I set out to do and that is I’m med-free as of February 8th at...

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Filed under: just for fun, youtube ...

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Tomorrow is my 3 year blogiversary. Today I’m publishing the very first post I did on this blog. I would most likely tell the story in the post differently now. I don’t tend to use clinical terms to describe mental states anymore, but this was written as I thought three...

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Here are links to Evelyn Pringle’s most recent articles. She has been doing a series which in the end will include six pieces. Here are the first three lifted from Unite. That site will later be updated with the remaining three articles. Evelyn Pringle: Paxil Birth Defect Litigation – First Trial...

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View 15 minutes of video here. Transcript  of the interview is below the video. Gary Greenburg talks great sense. Well worth a listen/watch. This link goes straight to the right spot on the video. From Democracy Now website: Is depression manufactured? Two decades after the introduction of antidepressants, it’s become commonplace to assume that...

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Articles to keep you busy from the last few days: WebMDs Big Lie — In order to provide quality web-based health content, you need money. The question is how you choose to make that money. WebMD, like many web sites, makes money from advertising, but it consistently goes several steps further,...

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I have an account on Facebook that I generally keep deactivated these days as I’m unable to tolerate the stimulation it invites into my life in the way of correspondence with others. I don’t have comments on this blog for the same reason. I have a very limited amount of...

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Beatrice Golomb is a Professor of Medicine at UCSD. Here she gives a talk on the many problems with clinical trials in medicine. Most specifically the problem of pharma funding it all. Filed under: youtube ...

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Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly. ~ Padre Pio _______ We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~ Carl Jung _______ Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When...

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This was being saved for Tuesday but there is some great stuff coming out and people like to read on Sunday: Depression’s Upside — New York Times — Jonah Lehrer Book Review: ‘Eat Your Way to Happiness’ by Elizabeth Somer LA Times — Put down that Prozac prescription and head for the...

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The US incarcerates more people than any country in the world – and 70% are people of color. Do we need better mental health care inside prisons — or do prisons themselves cause trauma and madness? Psychiatrist and civil lawsuit expert witness Dr.Terry Kupers, author of Prison Madness: The Mental...

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We’ve never seen such a mass amount of media coverage about the weakness of bio-psychiatry before. It’s quite amazing and one wonders where it will lead. Today the Wall Street Journal continues the dialogue: To flip through the latest draft of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, in the...

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The neuronal gossip that keeps you from seeing your mind in its fullness doesn’t really change the fundamental nature of your mind. Thoughts like “I’m ugly,” “I’m stupid,” or “I’m boring” are nothing more than a kind of biological mud, temporarily obscuring the brilliant qualities of Buddha nature, or natural...

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You gotta stick through the first couple of minutes though: Filed under: spirituality, youtube ...

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