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deprescribing-guidelines

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
antidepressants

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
withdrawal

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

Update: What’s Most Effective vs. Depression?

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Emma Bragdon
Early in the pandemic depression tripled, from 8.5% just before to 27.8%, then skyrocketed to 32.8% in 2021.  For Perspective…   Depression Rates Soar In the U.S. in 2017, an estimated 17.3 million American adults, or 7.1% of the adult population, experienced at least one major depressive episode. The highest rates were reported among those
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Posted in Depression, Integrative Mental Health anti-depressants, depression, evidence-based medicine, exercise, integrative mental health, major depression, 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
risks

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
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Posted in Drugs, Health, Mental Health big pharma, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatric medication
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
psychiatric-drugs-for-treatment

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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