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"Institutional inertia" is a great term, thanks. > I've tried 19 antidepressants over about 15 years. Stuck with mirtazapene [...] Have you tried any anti-serotonin interventions? …

The SSRI's have always been terrible drugs. Apparently the trials before their approval found increased suicidality. Another response to this thread shared how his/her mother was g…

Thanks for sharing your mom's experience with big pharma's then-new wonder-drug. > Somehow, I doubt there is much motivation to look for economically inconvenient and unnerving sid…

> > SSRIs never help because of boosting serotonin. > That's a hell of a claim, which could use some evidence. My experience with the chatbots is that they start with the conventio…

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In 2022 psychiatrist Chris Palmer MD [0] published Brain Energy [1], which shares his discovery of the 70+ years of science establishing that the behavioral/mental symptoms traditi…

The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847 to lobby for making competition to the Medical Doctors (M.D.) illegal. At the time, upstart approaches to medicine [0] di…

The most important line in this interview was at about 33:00: “The hardest thing is not having something meaningful to do in here”. https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1897709140535…

I have a friend whose son was prescribed Adderall when he was 12-13 years old. She noticed the adverse effects right away, so she discontinued the drug, and took her son out of sch…

This submission is about using a sharpie to 'fix' the government's final booklets for its filing in the Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS]. The career lawyers thought the …

When people's brains run low on energy (ATP) they start to exhibit 'mental health' symptoms - depression, psychosis, etc. Sometimes a person just needs a better diet and they'll sn…

> As soon as a remotely stressful situation, and they began pouring themselves drinks, often maintaining a certain level until their day ended. Emotional and physical stress increa…

When my friend overdosed on heroin she was revived with two doses of naloxone. Her drinking was under control for about 2 weeks. Naltrexone is very similar to Naloxone, and is FDA-…

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Modern psychiatry is a well-intentioned cargo cult. I borrowed from Feynman for my essay at Mad In America: Cargo Cult Psychiatry. https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-p…

This essay is inspired by the 1978 Saturday Night Live skit, Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber. Something I’d appreciate your comments on: allopathic psychiatry is a cargo cult [0…

Just saw this on Reddit. Self-medicating with cocaine and meth seems to have played a roll in his early departure. The tragedy of addiction is that there are interventions that wor…

I used to think the United States took the idea of inalienable rights seriously. I've since learned that "missionaries get eaten by cannibals." The quote above was kindly used by t…

Dr. Palmer's book was inspired by his discovery of the 80+ years of research establishing that "mental health" diagnoses are caused by metabolic problems. > Metabolic abnormalities…

Scotusblog coverage: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/harrow-v-departm... Filings can be read on the docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/…

The friend I've written about here before has been occasionally labeled as 'schizophrenic' by the psychiatrists forced on her. The psychiatrists try to treat her psychosis with ant…

My friend eventually figured out for herself that she has the genetic condition of not being able to methylate the provitamin folic acid into Vitamin B9 (important for dna synthesi…

I do appreciate the info about haloperidol and alcohol withdrawal. As you note, delirium tremens is a serious problem. The essential feature of alcoholism is that the sufferers hav…

Haloperidol is sort-of useful for it's anti-serotonin properties [0]. The Soviets used this drug to induce agony in political dissidents. The physiology of psychosis is now fully d…