The Independent: How an antidepressant prescription spun a young mother’s life out of control
Rebekah Beddoe was a young mum who went to her GP for help. A routine prescription for anti-depressants later and her life was spiraling out of control
Globe & Mail: “Is Psychiatry A Failure?” (for the record, we vote yes…)
Two new books attack big pharma and lazy doctors for not doing enough to help patients. Sometimes talk, not drugs, is all a person needs.
It will certainly be interesting to see what impact, if any, their kind of critique will have on the DSM-V , slated for 2012. In the meantime, here’s a script from a philosopher: Read Paris and Bentall and feel wiser, or certainly more sober, in the morning. I recommend both books to specialists and lay readers alike.
The Mothers Act: Disease Mongering at Its Best
“Disease mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources, and causes iatrogenic harm,” Ray Moyniahan and David Henry warn in the April 11, 2006 paper in PLoS Med, titled, “The Fight against Disease Mongering,” in words that certainly apply to the Mothers Act campaign.
Chinese Health Ministry: Internet addicts should stop receiving electroshock therapy because it doesn’t work.
According to the ministry, there is no clinical evidence to show ECT, normally used to treat severe depression, has an effect on internet addiction.
New book Doctoring the Mind says psychiatric diagnoses inaccurate, drugs over prescribed; psychiatry has failed
Clinical psychologist Richard Bentall takes issue with the mainstream psychiatric view that mental problems are genetically determined brain diseases that must be treated with drugs. The diagnoses are inaccurate, the genetics and neurobiology overstated, and the drugs oversold and overprescribed. Bentall pulls no punches: “Psychiatry has failed.”
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