Category Archives: Big Muddy River Newsletter

High Anxiety

Posted on November 19, 2018 by cchrstl

We recently watched the classic Mel Brooks movie “High Anxiety.” Besides the fact that it is absolutely hilarious, and relentlessly parodies psychiatry and psychiatrists, it also leads into a discussion of anxiety as popularized by psychiatry and psychology. The American … Continue reading →

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More About Dopamine

Posted on November 11, 2018 by cchrstl

Since we discussed Serotonin in a previous newsletter, we should also discuss Dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays several important roles in the brain and body. A neurotransmitter is a chemical released by neurons (nerve cells) to send signals … Continue reading →

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Neurodiversity – The Latest Psychiatric Disability Trend

Posted on October 31, 2018 by cchrstl

With so many different “mental disorders” and no real clues about curing them, psychiatrists needed a new all-encompassing word to describe them. They co-opted “neurodiversity” — diversity based on some neurological condition. Continue reading →

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Over-Drugging Foster Care Children

Posted on October 29, 2018 by cchrstl

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released their September, 2018 report “Treatment Planning and Medication Monitoring Were Lacking for Children in Foster Care Receiving Psychotropic Medication.” A previous 2015 OIG report found … Continue reading →

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Medical Kidnapping

Posted on October 22, 2018 by cchrstl

Whether under the care of Child Protective Services, Departments of Family and Child Services, or Youth Welfare Offices, foster children — often removed from family homes because of alleged abuse — are further abused when they are prescribed psychotropic (mind-altering) … Continue reading →

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More About Serotonin

Posted on October 13, 2018 by cchrstl

We often remark on serotonin when discussing psychiatric drugs, so we thought we’d describe it in more depth. The word comes from the combination of sero- (serum) + tonic (from Greek tonos string or stretching) + -in (from Latin -ina … Continue reading →

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Tikkun Olam – Repair the World

Posted on October 8, 2018 by cchrstl

Dating from rabbinic teachings circa 200 CE, the Hebrew phrase Tikkun Olam means “repair the world,” where it expressed a concern with public policy and societal change. In a wider sense it means to do something with the world that will … Continue reading →

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Order versus Disorder

Posted on September 29, 2018 by cchrstl

Shades of Your High School Physics Class You may have encountered this word before — entropy. Stick with us, we’re going to make it simple. Basically, without getting all scientific about it, the word means “the degree of disorder or … Continue reading →

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Guilty of Bad Taste

Posted on September 20, 2018 by cchrstl

And we don’t mean the “Bad Taste” 1987 science-fiction comedy horror splatter film about aliens harvesting humans for their intergalactic fast food franchise. We mean that something is in bad or poor taste when it exhibits poor judgment by being … Continue reading →

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Now They Are Arguing About Exercise

Posted on September 13, 2018 by cchrstl

Psychiatric researchers from Yale University and other brain research institutions have analyzed 1.2 million people to see how exercise affects a person’s mental health. The results and subsequent discussions have been blasted across all news media, and are proliferating rapidly. … Continue reading →

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