Tag Archives: crimethink

The myth of the bipolar child

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

Everything about the current politics of child and pediatric bipolar disorder. The bipolar child. Bipolar child psych docs at war. Bipolar child researcher says BP doesn’t exist in children. The doping of America’s foster kids. Eli Lilly Co behind the … Continue reading →

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Meditation as a cure for mental illness

Posted on August 15, 2010 by

In 1989, when I went inpatient for the first time, I thought there was going to be a line-up of hippy psychologists with beards and geeky glasses and long hair who talked about Jung as easily as Freud. I believed in the notion of counseling and as yet, did not know what psychiatry was or that their idea of ‘treatment’ was not at all the same as humanistic psychology. I soon discovered that being inpatient and receiving psychiatric treatment wasn’t anything like I had fantasized. Continue reading →

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Anatomy of an Epidemic, a review

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

In ‘Anatomy of an Epidemic’ Robert Whitaker takes us on a journey and demonstrates how industrial compounds and various chemical ‘magic bullets’ evolved into the psychiatric drugs and ‘blockbusters’ as we know them today. He reveals the faulty logic, media … Continue reading →

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