ROBUST Placebo Effect
Medicating depressed TBI-patients is both medically and morally negligent--commentary on a medical publication Well, we've all certainly...
"TOO MUCH TRAUMA"
How trauma-based therapy modalities undermine our emotional and physical health I remember the celebratory feelings in the air when...
Doctors Doo-Little
Healing and harming from the inside-out I'm currently reading J.G. Ballard's novel, published in 1973, Crash, a scathing and disturbing...
It's Alive
My brother used to say that when we'd hear my dad pull into the garage. "It's alive." It was a little mean, but so was my dad. And it was...
Akathisia = Restlessness
I was asked to define "akathisia" for someone today. We were being interviewed for the Black Box Warning Initiative and I began to talk...
Solving for 'Why' and WTF
Psychotropic medications are still the first-line treatment for mental illnesses...WHY? Good question.
WikiFicktion: IF THE WORLD MADE SENSE PART I
I wonder what it would be like… if patients who have been harmed by medical treatments or professionals (iatrogenesis) had the same...
Panic Room
This is probably the most vulnerable, personal blog I’ve ever written but it needs to be written. So, here it is. We need to talk about...
The Devil We Know
The young woman stood at the cash register ringing me up. Her short-sleeved shirt revealed multiple tattoos all up and down her arm,...
