Tag Archives: Depression

Are You Depressed?

The sudden realization that someone might actually enjoy one’s company is a better antidepressant than anything one could get on a prescription. [With thanks to Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive.] Psychiatry is heavily pushing false data about depression. You should … Continue reading

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Knock Yourself Out

The drug Ketamine is now being advertised as a “treatment” for “depression.” Don’t be fooled; this drug is serious business. Ketamine, categorized as a “dissociative anesthetic,” is used in powdered or liquid form as an anesthetic, on animals as well … Continue reading

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The Skinny on the Skin Drug

We saw a TV commercial recently for the drug Otezla® (generic apremilast), from Celgene Corporation, which was approved by the FDA in 2014 for the treatment of symptoms of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis (skin lesions) and psoriatic arthritis. Our … Continue reading

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Terrorized by Climate Change

The psycho-pharmaceutical industry has jumped full-time onto the climate change bandwagon. You don’t even need to believe in climate change, since there is also the satirical “Climate Change Denial Disorder”. Scholarly articles are being published claiming that climate change affects … Continue reading

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This is Your Brain on TMS

TMS is now available in St. Louis, according to local TV commercials promoting this crippling form of brain stimulation. Techniques such as “transcranial magnetic stimulation” (TMS) are psychiatry’s latest experiment in treatment of the “mentally ill.” In TMS, a magnetic … Continue reading

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The Screeners are Screaming Again

The Screeners are Screaming Again Just when you thought that calls for ubiquitous mental health screening was winding down, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is calling for widespread depression screening for children. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is made up … Continue reading

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Risky Business of Sleep Drugs

Risky Business of Sleep Drugs After reading about the dangers of sleeping pills in the February 2016 edition of Consumer Reports magazine, we thought you might like to know something about that. Some psychotropic drugs are prescribed as sleeping pills. Trazodone, … Continue reading

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Another Day Another Anti-depressant (Again)

Another Day Another Anti-depressant (Again) On July 10, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Rexulti (brexpiprazole, an atypical antipsychotic) tablets to treat adults with so-called schizophrenia and as an add-on treatment to an antidepressant medication to treat adults with … Continue reading

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The Name Game, Latuda

The Name Game, Latuda Latuda, Latuda, bo-buda Banana-fana-fo-fuda Fee-fi-mo-muda Latuda One might as well be talking gibberish, since Latuda does not make any sense. Unless you consider that it makes a lot of cents. We recently saw a commercial on … Continue reading

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Germanwings Co-pilot Who Purposefully Crashed Plane Had Spent 18 Months In Psychiatric Treatment

Germanwings Co-pilot Who Purposefully Crashed Plane Had Spent 18 Months In Psychiatric Treatment Numerous reports are now surfacing that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz who purposefully crashed Flight 9525 into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board, had in … Continue reading

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