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New Book: The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Emma Bragdon
  The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs. 1st Edition by Mark Horowitz, and David M. Taylor … “with the express purpose of limiting the damage that we have seen far too many people experiencing – whilst the medical profession has been slow to recognize what has been happening to real life patients.”—from a
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Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Medication antidepressants, benzodiazepam, benzos, deprescribing, getting off meds, harm reduction, psychiatric medication, taper, tapering

Gross Misconduct — The Final Nail in the Coffin for Antidepressants

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment
Antidepressants-Updated Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola, First published: January 30, 2024 STORY AT-A-GLANCE The Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) study published in 2006 was the largest and longest-running antidepressant effectiveness trial ever conducted and, importantly, it used real-world patients. The authors claimed an overall cumulative remission rate of 67%, and this study has
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Posted in Anti-Depressants, Integrative Mental Health anti-depressants, depression, inflammation, medication, mental health, probiotics
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Antidepressants & Mass Murder

Posted on October 29, 2023 by Emma Bragdon
Antidepressants & Mass Murder   2.5 min video by Peter Goetzche, a brilliant MD/researcher, on risks of psychiatric medications for adults and youth Antidepressants and Other Psychiatric Drugs Psychiatric drugs are mind altering chemicals designed to alter emotions, behavior and thinking processes.  At their best they can be helpful so patients do not feel as
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Posted in Anti-Depressants, Integrative Mental Health antidepressants, depression, mass murder, mental illness, psychiatric medication, suicide
mass shooting

A Cause of Mass Shooting?

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Emma Bragdon
Dr Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist, was interviewed by Thom Hartmann, on September 23, 2013, about his book Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime.   Psychiatric Drugs and Mass Shooting Dr Breggin recognizes how psychiatric medications, meant to take away symptoms of distress, can actually lead a person to
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Posted in Medication mass shooting, medication madness, Peter Breggin, psychiatric medication, shooters
slow psychiatry

Slow Psychiatry: A New Form of Integrative Practice

Posted on January 27, 2020 by admin
  Before Slow Psychiatry: Drug-centered and Needs-adapted Approaches A “drug-centered approach” acknowledges that we do not fully understand the causes of peoples’ troubles. We understand more about drug action although our knowledge is certainly incomplete on that subject as well. A “needs-adapted approach” provides a framework in which we can talk about these drugs, acknowledge
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Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatry alternative mental health, complementary mental health, concept of mental illness, integrative mental health, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, SAMSHA, Sandra Steingard, slow psychiatry
anti-depressants

Epic Numbers on Anti-Depressants Today: Withdrawal Advice

Posted on March 7, 2019 by admin
Long-term prescription rates for antidepressants in the United States and Britain have doubled over the past decade, with similar trends in other Western countries. More than 15 million Americans have taken the medications for at least five years, a rate that has almost more than tripled since 2000, according to a New York Times analysis
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Posted in Anti-Depressants, Mental Health anti-depressants, help with withdrawal, medication withdrawal, mental health, psychiatry, withdrawal
how to deal with withdrawal

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
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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
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Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressants, depression, life span, mental illness, suicide
Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

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

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