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  • Journeying Back to Self


  • (NO MORE FAKE NEWS) – A federal bill, HR 3717, is being refined in the hope of gaining big support from both sides of the political aisle. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) is the key point man for the American Psychiatric Association. This bill is playing off of Aurora, Sandy Hook, Boston, and other recent “mass events.” (more…)


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    Mama’s Gonna Buy You An SSRI


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  • (NATURAL NEWS) – Yet another scientific study has debunked the myth that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pose no threat whatsoever to animals or humans. (more…)


  • Twenty-six years have passed since Prozac, the antidepressant drug, was introduced to the US market and quickly achieved the label of a “wonder drug.” (more…)


  • (USA TODAY) It’s not known how many people take sleeping pills by accident, as Kerry Kennedy says she did, resulting in a drugged-driving acquittal last week for the daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (more…)


  • (THE ATLANTIC) –  Cultural ideals are becoming an equal opportunity anxiety-inducer, and eating disorders are increasingly common in men. But the symptoms in men and women don’t look the same. (more…)


  • Depression. It sounds depressing just saying the word. But, the word has come to mean many things in American society. For some, there’s the image of a woman sitting in a chair crying all day, the man stretched out on the sofa drinking beer while saying he’s “looking for work,” or the beggar on the (more…)


  • (NATURAL NEWS) – New research suggests that one of the more popular antidepressants, Paxil, may actually contribute to the growth of cancerous tumors in women. (more…)


  • (VACCINE LIBERATION ARMY) – Insomnia drugs like Ambien are notorious for their side effects. Has Merck created a blockbuster replacement? (more…)


  • (NATURAL NEWS) – Many of the world’s most unhappy and depressed people live in developed countries where rates of antidepressant use have skyrocketed over the past decade, says a new report issued by the U.S.-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (more…)


  • GAIA HEALTH –Brintellix is being marketed with implications that it’s the best antidepressent yet and that it’s exceptionally safe. What is this based on? (more…)


  • 24 Sep (TORONTO) – On July 31 2004, Eleven-year-old Ian Carmichael was found dead in a London, Ontario hotel room.  At the time, it was believed that he was asphyx (more…)


  • 21 Sep (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) – Once again, antidepressants have been linked to an episode of horrific violence. The New York Times reports that Aaron Alexis, who allegedly shot 12 people to death at a Navy facility in Washington, D.C., earlier this week, received a prescription for the antidepressant Trazodone in August.  (more…)


  • 13 Aug (INDEPENDENT SCIENCE NEWS) – Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences. That is the finding of a new study reported (more…)


  • (Shimi Cohen) – We, as human beings, think that through social networks, we’ve somehow become more social creatures.   The problem with this theory is, the more we “connect” online, the less actual human interactions we have, making us actually fairly unsocial.  (more…)


  • 4 Jun (NATURAL NEWS) –  Drug giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J), whose pharmaceutical and medical device products have been implicated in dozens of major recalls throughout the past several years, has announced it will seek approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 11 new drugs by the year 2017. (more…)


  • 8 May (AHRP)The myth of  the DSM “Bible” is debunked: “at best, [the DSM is] a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The weakness is its lack of validity.” Dr. Thomas Insel, Director, NIMH. After more than a dozen years during which we have been  (more…)


  • 12 Mar (WALES) – In the England and Wales there are roughly 5000 suicides in roughly 60 million people per year.  This would until recently have led to around 2000 hangings per year, 34 hangings per million people per year, 3.5 per 100,000 people per year.  Bridgend in South Wales has a population of 40,000.  The greater Bridgend area has a population of 130,000. There should be 18 hangings per 100,000 people over a 5 year period, 24 per 130,000 per year.  (more…)


  • 14 Dec (NATURAL NEWS) – In mass shootings involving guns and mind-altering medications, politicians immediately seek to blame guns but never the medication. Nearly every mass shooting that has taken place in America over the last two decades has a link to psychiatric medication, and it appears today’s tragic event is headed in the same direction. (more…)


  • 3 May – Sigh of relief. The DSM 5 website announced this morning that two of its most controversial proposals have finally been dropped. We have dodged bullets on Psychosis Risk and Mixed Anxiety Depression. Both are now definitively rejected as official DSM 5 diagnoses and instead are being exiled to the appendix. And one other piece of good news-the criteria set for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder has been tightened (not enough, but every little bit helps). (more…)


  • AHRP – For two decades, medical professionals, the public, and public health policy officials who determine the allocation of public funds for healthcare, have been misled about the safety (more…)


  • (NATURAL NEWS) – Yet another scientific study has debunked the myth that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pose no threat whatsoever to animals or humans. (more…)


  • Twenty-six years have passed since Prozac, the antidepressant drug, was introduced to the US market and quickly achieved the label of a “wonder drug.” (more…)


  • (USA TODAY) It’s not known how many people take sleeping pills by accident, as Kerry Kennedy says she did, resulting in a drugged-driving acquittal last week for the daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (more…)


  • (THE ATLANTIC) –  Cultural ideals are becoming an equal opportunity anxiety-inducer, and eating disorders are increasingly common in men. But the symptoms in men and women don’t look the same. (more…)


  • Depression. It sounds depressing just saying the word. But, the word has come to mean many things in American society. For some, there’s the image of a woman sitting in a chair crying all day, the man stretched out on the sofa drinking beer while saying he’s “looking for work,” or the beggar on the (more…)


  • (NATURAL NEWS) – New research suggests that one of the more popular antidepressants, Paxil, may actually contribute to the growth of cancerous tumors in women. (more…)


  • (VACCINE LIBERATION ARMY) – Insomnia drugs like Ambien are notorious for their side effects. Has Merck created a blockbuster replacement? (more…)


  • (NATURAL NEWS) – Many of the world’s most unhappy and depressed people live in developed countries where rates of antidepressant use have skyrocketed over the past decade, says a new report issued by the U.S.-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (more…)


  • GAIA HEALTH –Brintellix is being marketed with implications that it’s the best antidepressent yet and that it’s exceptionally safe. What is this based on? (more…)


  • 24 Sep (TORONTO) – On July 31 2004, Eleven-year-old Ian Carmichael was found dead in a London, Ontario hotel room.  At the time, it was believed that he was asphyx (more…)


  • 21 Sep (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) – Once again, antidepressants have been linked to an episode of horrific violence. The New York Times reports that Aaron Alexis, who allegedly shot 12 people to death at a Navy facility in Washington, D.C., earlier this week, received a prescription for the antidepressant Trazodone in August.  (more…)


  • 13 Aug (INDEPENDENT SCIENCE NEWS) – Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences. That is the finding of a new study reported (more…)


  • (Shimi Cohen) – We, as human beings, think that through social networks, we’ve somehow become more social creatures.   The problem with this theory is, the more we “connect” online, the less actual human interactions we have, making us actually fairly unsocial.  (more…)


  • 4 Jun (NATURAL NEWS) –  Drug giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J), whose pharmaceutical and medical device products have been implicated in dozens of major recalls throughout the past several years, has announced it will seek approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 11 new drugs by the year 2017. (more…)


  • 8 May (AHRP)The myth of  the DSM “Bible” is debunked: “at best, [the DSM is] a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The weakness is its lack of validity.” Dr. Thomas Insel, Director, NIMH. After more than a dozen years during which we have been  (more…)


  • 12 Mar (WALES) – In the England and Wales there are roughly 5000 suicides in roughly 60 million people per year.  This would until recently have led to around 2000 hangings per year, 34 hangings per million people per year, 3.5 per 100,000 people per year.  Bridgend in South Wales has a population of 40,000.  The greater Bridgend area has a population of 130,000. There should be 18 hangings per 100,000 people over a 5 year period, 24 per 130,000 per year.  (more…)


  • 14 Dec (NATURAL NEWS) – In mass shootings involving guns and mind-altering medications, politicians immediately seek to blame guns but never the medication. Nearly every mass shooting that has taken place in America over the last two decades has a link to psychiatric medication, and it appears today’s tragic event is headed in the same direction. (more…)


  • 3 May – Sigh of relief. The DSM 5 website announced this morning that two of its most controversial proposals have finally been dropped. We have dodged bullets on Psychosis Risk and Mixed Anxiety Depression. Both are now definitively rejected as official DSM 5 diagnoses and instead are being exiled to the appendix. And one other piece of good news-the criteria set for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder has been tightened (not enough, but every little bit helps). (more…)


  • AHRP – For two decades, medical professionals, the public, and public health policy officials who determine the allocation of public funds for healthcare, have been misled about the safety (more…)


  • Newer antidepressants may increase the risk of serious health problems in older people compared to older pills, researchers say.  Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are more likely to cause death and issues such as heart attack, stroke, falls and seizures (more…)


  • AHRP – “From the start, the [Tri-University Schizophrenia Practice Guidelines] project subverted scientific integrity, appearing to be a purely scientific venture when it was at its core, a marketing venture for Risperdal.” (more…)


  • 13 Jan | ProPublica – We’ve reported extensively on the ties between pharmaceutical companies and the physicians they fund to speak, consult and do research. But doctors aren’t the only ones taking money from drug companies—and they’re not the only stakeholders in the (more…)


  • Although reported on websites like SSRI Stories and AHRP, violent thoughts and acts towards others are widely reported occurrences that are rarely studied as adverse drug events.   Increased risk of suicidal behaviors—but not violence— associated with antidepressants has been examined through meta-analysis of clinical trials for approval by the U.S. Food (more…)


  • 6 Dec | A group of University of Minnesota professors want the board of regents to investigate the suicide of a patient enrolled in a university-run drug study.  Led by Dr. Carl Elliott, the professors demand the regents appoint an independent outside panel of experts to examine the death of Dan Markingson, a mentally ill patient who killed himself after taking an experimental psychiatric drug developed by AstraZeneca.  The professors accuse the school of (more…)


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