Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 28, 2009, 1:34 pm
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 28, 2009, 10:52 am
Sneaky marketing of dangerous neuroleptic drugs for issues that are less and less serious. The use of these drugs for such matters is nothing new, but the approval of them by the FDA and now the mass ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 28, 2009, 12:28 am
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” – Mark Twain It’s all really very simple. You don’...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 27, 2009, 11:53 am
I got Vera Sharav’s email today on this topic and asked if I could reprint it. It appears below. ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION A Catalyst for Public Debate: Promoting Openness, Full Dis...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 27, 2009, 3:27 am
Now in its 18th year, Buy Nothing Day is celebrated every November by environmentalists, social activists and concerned citizens in over 65 countries around the world. Over the years, Buy Nothing Day ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 26, 2009, 10:36 pm
From the last week around the web: ‘Mental illness gene’ discovered by Scots scientists I hate this sort of research, not because it’s 100% baseless, while there may be a very loose...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 26, 2009, 12:57 pm
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 26, 2009, 9:05 am
Those who don’t feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper, those who don’t want to change, let the...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 25, 2009, 11:52 am
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 24, 2009, 10:15 pm
Some of you may be familiar with Jim S, a frequent commenter on this blog in the past. He has an awesome story of recovery and has generously shared it with us here. Check out his extensive website fo...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 24, 2009, 11:36 am
This was at the end of a long post from the other day. I wanted to post it alone as I think it’s beautiful and perhaps those of you who are not big readers missed it. ‘Let me emerge with my gi...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 23, 2009, 10:06 pm
Will Hall will be a contributing editor now here on Beyond Meds. He has written other articles for the blog in the past as well. Here Will describes the concept of harm reduction. I was drawn to harm...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 23, 2009, 11:01 am
Weekend fun. From one of those emails that tend to be obnoxious: In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregn...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 22, 2009, 10:14 pm
From Z Magazine by Bruce E. Levine. (Permission to reprint from the author) Liberation Psychology for the U.S. Are we too demoralized to protest? The term “liberation psychology” was popul...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 22, 2009, 11:03 am
HOW RICH ARE YOU? Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? He...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 21, 2009, 10:09 pm
Printed with permission from John Breeding. See his website here. My purpose in this short essay is twofold. The first is to describe my understanding of the nature of psychological distress and emoti...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 21, 2009, 11:14 am
I found this outrageously soothing. Give it a chance if you’ve never heard anything like it before. Posted in spirituality, youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 20, 2009, 10:15 pm
It seems some people think that pain is special to them. Their pain is worse than anyone else’s. We all fall victim to that kind of thinking sometime, don’t we? But the truth is that pain ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 20, 2009, 11:10 am
You can’t be free in any way if you are holding the hand of fear.– Ram Dass Have compassion for everyone you meet,even if they don’t want it.What appears bad manners, an ill temper ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 20, 2009, 1:33 am
Metabolic Effects Significantly Lower With INVEGA(R) Compared To Olanzapine — This is NON NEWS we already know that Risperdal has less weight gain/metabolic problems than Zyprexa. This does not ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 19, 2009, 3:07 pm
Bonkers Institute gets under the skin of the NHS and pharma. Go Dr. Bonkers! Here is the picture of the brochure on the Bonker’s website. For OpEdNews: Martha Rosenberg “Your medicine is...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 12, 2009, 10:13 pm
Links of note from this week: Pfizer Broke the Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses – Bloomberg.com Contaminated Fish Found in Almost Half of U.S. Lakes (Update1) – Bloomberg.com ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 12, 2009, 11:08 am
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 11, 2009, 10:21 pm
Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who has looked at how antidepressants effect romantic love, falling in love and most importantly ongoing attachment. The conclusion being that the love response and t...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 11, 2009, 11:55 am
Here we learn a bit about transforming anger, this powerful energy. Towards the end the video gets into some heavy Buddhist concepts. Just let that go if it doesn’t make any sense. One would hav...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 11, 2009, 11:00 am
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Posted in quote of the day
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 11, 2009, 1:38 am
This is a very famous study that many may be familiar with. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s well worth reading it. I put it here just as a piece of interesting sociology really. It&#...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 9, 2009, 11:39 pm
This is a wonderful article that Chris Kresser first published on his blog, The Healthy Skeptic, a little over a year ago. I linked to it at the time, but knowing that many people don’t follow l...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 9, 2009, 12:50 pm
I posted a link to  the prayer of radical forgiveness by Rachel a while ago. I got permission to post a whole poem for today. I also just read yet another awesome piece called Enough! Do go read that...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 8, 2009, 11:13 pm
Grainne Humphrys is first and foremost a Mother of two new light beings called Hazel (age 7) and Joshua (age 3). She is a survivor of distress as a transformational crisis and process of renewal, livi...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 8, 2009, 6:22 am
Steven has now let me publish several pieces of his work. If you like this piece of his do a search with his name in the right hand corner of this blog to see more of his pieces. He’s one of us ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 6, 2009, 10:37 am
An email sent out by the venerable Dr. Bonkers: The Institute for Nearly Genuine Research announces two exciting new additions to our Marvelous Mental Medicine Show online gallery of psychiatric drug ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 6, 2009, 4:54 am
Continuing with what is becoming a series on brain neuroplasticity and what it means for those of us who have been told we can never recover. I suggest that proclamation is hogwash! Taken from the Dal...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 5, 2009, 2:54 pm
Controversial psychiatrist to head UM medical school department - Breaking News – MiamiHerald.com Drug makers find whistle-blowing a bitter pill to swallow | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 5, 2009, 6:52 am
Jon Kabat-Zinn, the wonderful scientist, who has made meditation and mindfulness household terms gives a lecture here on this youtube video that takes place at Google. In it he covers lots of scientif...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 4, 2009, 11:06 am
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 4, 2009, 6:01 am
Today I have the pleasure of posting something that was submitted to me for publication. It’s written by an interesting man, whom I really don’t know but with whom I seem to share some qui...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 3, 2009, 12:47 pm
I had this poem taped on the wall of my bedroom above my bed from about the age of 12 until I moved out of the house to go to college. It was a rebel voice for me—it spoke to me of the freedom I...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 3, 2009, 7:52 am
Pat Deegan who I’ve mentioned on this site before speaks in this video of her experience of being diagnosed with schizophrenia and recovering. She also talks about what all of us who have been l...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 2, 2009, 11:58 am
From a couple of years ago here where I live. Posted in 1
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 2, 2009, 6:23 am
By Karen Bartz — copyright 2009 I was asked by Gianna to write this account. There are many out there battling “mental illness” and they often find their way to the pages of somewhe...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 1, 2009, 8:53 am
A sunrise in the Blue Ridge Mountains…amazing!! (via Ashvegas) Posted in youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 1, 2009, 7:31 am
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 31, 2009, 7:44 am
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 30, 2009, 12:47 pm
If you like this lots more of Watts on youtube if you click through. Posted in youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 29, 2009, 11:24 am
Joy and Sorrow Then a woman said, ‘Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.’ And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes fi...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 29, 2009, 10:37 am
I’ve excerpted the first few paragraphs from an opinion piece today–continue there if you like. Some interesting thoughts to peruse: All progress paves over some bit of knowledge or washes...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 29, 2009, 5:30 am
Today’s piece is by Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in American a very compelling history of psychiatry. I post an interesting excerpt from this book here. Apparently a lot of “mad” f...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 28, 2009, 11:02 am
Trauma is often the cause of mental illness. John Breeding again offers wonderful commentary on this phenomena. Hundreds of thousands of people are misdiagnosed with mental illness when their issue is...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 28, 2009, 9:36 am
Ordinarily we do not discover the wisdom of our feelings because we do not let them complete their work. - Alan Watts Posted in quote of the day, spirituality
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