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Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychotopic Drugs

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Drug withdrawal is an important topic today. This new book is an international collaboration that includes users, psychiatrists, researchers, and academics committed to helping people understand the potential harm that prescribed psychotropic drugs can cause and how to safely reduce or stop taking them. Doctors, including psychiatrists, prescribe antidepressants, neuroleptics (“antipsychotics”), mood stabilizers, tranquilizers and

Posted in Drugs, Mental Illness drugs, mental disorders, mental illness, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, psychology, psychotropic, withdrawal

Withdrawal Info & Invitation to a Film Screening

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

See the blog to get your invitation to view “Medicating Normal” and to read about components of successful withdrawal from psychiatric medications written by Kelly Brogan, MD, psychiatrist. Case Report: Successful Discontinuation of Psychotropic Drugs By Kelly Brogan, MD Originally published at https://kellybroganmd.com/case-report-successful-discontinuation-of-psychotropic-drugs/ SUMMARY A 38-year old woman with a history of generalized anxiety disorder, major

Posted in Drugs, Integrative Mental Health Kelly Brogan, medicating normal, withdrawal

Is Ayahuasca a Shortcut to Spiritual Awakening?

Posted on December 17, 2019 by admin

Ayahuasca: Is It a Viable Shortcut? Ayahuasca is a brew made from plants that grow in the rain forest. It has been used in ceremony by indigenous peoples in Central and South America to expand consciousness and connect strongly to the wisdom of the natural world. In the last few decades more North Americans and

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Drugs, Ibogaine, Integrative Mental Health, Plant Medicine, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spirituality alternative mental health, Ayahuasca, ibogaine, integrative mental health, Psychonaut, shamanism, Shamans, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology

Film: Big Bucks, Big Pharma

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

In this scathing documentary Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! is the narrator. Big Bucks, Big Pharma focuses on the industry’s marketing practices. Media

Posted in Drugs, Health, Mental Health big pharma, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatric medication

Resources for Tapering and Withdrawal

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

Withdrawal from Psychiatric Medication … New resources for those looking for information about tapering and how to deal with withdrawal from psychiatric medications. Laura Delano (in photo above) has created a wonderful resource in the Inner Compass Initiative (https://www.theinnercompass.org/), a website for anyone interested in learning important facts about taking psychiatric medications or choosing to

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health mental health, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric medication, tapering, withdrawal

Managing Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Warning for those on antidepressants

Posted on September 26, 2017 by admin

Antidepressants raise the risk of an early death by 33%, controversial study finds The drugs do more harm than good, researchers say, and their use should be cut Psychiatrists disputed this and argued that they have been safely used for years McMaster University in Canada analysed the impact on nearly 380,000 people By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressants, depression, life span, mental illness, suicide

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a large serving of unfathomable suffering. Suffering that brings you to the brink of something you can’t imagine tolerating one more

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Nutrition, Psychiatry, Spirituality, Suicide Kelly Brogan, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker, spirituality

Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Emma Bragdon

‘The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic‘ (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) Pharmaceutical Use in the UK Over 15% of the UK and 20% of the US adult population take a psychiatric medication, aka pharmaceutical, on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. When these figures are set

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Research drugs, holistic health, mental health, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, psychiatric, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, sedated

What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?

Posted on December 1, 2016 by admin

By Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM Side Effects are explained clearly in this article. We know that all drugs have side effects. That’s just part of the deal right? But is it really possible that an antidepressant can cause a sane person to act like a cold-blooded criminal? I imagined my audience would be wondering as much

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Health, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressant, depression, mental health

Trace Amounts

Posted on May 7, 2015 by admin

Co-Director: Eric Gladen This new film sheds light on the causes of autism and the ongoing debate do vaccines cause autism. Although it is not anti-vaccine; it does suggest we quickly replace the preservative thimerosal with a non-toxic substance as a preservative. The film is a fast paced tour meeting leading scientists, parents of autistic

Posted in Autism, Children, Drugs, Health, Mental Health, Mercury, Vaccines autism, children, wellness