I tend to obsess about my patients.
Especially the ones who have chosen prescription psychiatric drugs over natural alternative substances. I always give a choice when it is possible — and it often is.
Of course, I must often rely on research that has been done in other countries. I have gotten used to doing this. I can’t say it bothers me terribly much.
I believe in science. Read more on Patients Should Not Die — Especially Psych Patients…
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All over the internet, many people have come up with diagrams know as “histomaps.” These are long longitudinal diagrams that show the relative strength and power of different countries of the globe.
I am not linking to any of them because the print is too small and everyone wants to sell hard copies.
But I do have a vivid memory of the one on the wall of my sixth grade classroom. Read more on Coronavirus Testing Urgently Needed…
Filed under Autism, Healthcare reform, life, medicine, politics, Research, Uncategorized by on Apr 9th, 2020. Comment.
We are like horses with blinders on.
We see that a compound does one thing, and rarely think of it as capable of doing another. Read more on “Like Horses With Blinders”…
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This looks to me like a pretty well-designed research study. It is what they call a “meta-analysis,” which means the authors put together studies other people have done and analyzed the lot of them, in that process which poetess Anne Sexton touched me a long time ago by calling “that awful rowing toward truth.”
Truth is hard to find and I basically believe in the scientific process that tries to get to it. Read more on This Bit About Girls And STEM…
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I am eating a low-carbohydrate, “ketogenic” diet. I have lost a considerable amount of weight, increased my energy, and have done a pretty good (almost-perfect) job of reversing diabetes along with the gazillion supplements I take.
There are an awfully lot of folks publishing research on an awful lot of things, with the overwhelming amount of those publishing in “traditional” medical journals (like Lancet) being professional “academics,” or university professors. Read more on You Gotta Handle It When The Truth Changes…
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My preceptor — the professor who was responsible for teaching me about psychopharmacology — continuously complained about “polypharmacy.”
I would roll my eyes heavenward and give him one of my usual “clever” retorts like,”Who the heck is she? Your cleaning lady, maybe??” Read more on What We Do With Antidepressants…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Education, News, prescription drugs, Psychotherapy, Research by on Jul 20th, 2018. Comment.
I am surprised how many patients who have just turned 18 come and tell me at our first meeting: “School isn’t for me.” I try to ask why they have made the devastating decision to limit schooling. When they are willing to explore with me, the answer almost always comes down to the same thing.
“I can’t remember what I read.” Read more on How To Remember What You Read…
Recently I convinced a patient to buy and use one of these:
She had to pay about 700 dollars cash for it.
I had her on a variety of antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, and she had survived untold numbers of similar drugs from the three or so psychiatrists she saw before me. She assured me none of them had been much help. Read more on The Fisher-Wallace Stimulator…
Filed under prescription drugs, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapy, Research by on Jun 21st, 2018. Comment.
My husband and I occasionally pick up hard copies of publications, as we did of this one.
My hard copy is marked on the front page as No. 15 Mid March, 2018.
Pages 12 and 13 of this newspaper are marked as “HEALTH” in the upper right-hand corner. Read more on Why It Is Important To Look Who’s Talking…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, News, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Research by on Jun 20th, 2018. Comment.
“GABA” stands for “Gamma Amino Butyric Acid,” a neurotransmitter long known for its relaxing, anticonvulsant (meaning “anti-seizure”) activity. We have certainly found ways to increase its presence with drugs that operate on, well, “lateral pathways” to increase its presence quantitatively. Unfortunately, these usually involve addictive substances, like benzodiazepines, which are pretty heavily addictive for most folks.
I am really glad those loveable Brits at U. Cambridge are saying they help “repress” unwanted thoughts. This is to me, a direct validation of Freudian Thought. We “repress” thoughts, and this seems to be linked to the way we do so. Read more on The Function Of GABA…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, medicine, Mental Illness, News, Research by on Jun 13th, 2018. Comment.