Nicole Lamberson who will be familiar to many from Medicating Normal asked Barbara Connolly from Benzo Warrior to write a piece on Benzo Support Groups especially linked to Facebook. This was to fill a benzodiazepine shapeed hole in the DD and AA group post. Nicole Lamberson asked me to write something about what a good benzo FB group can offer from the vantage of the … [Read more...] about Benzodiazepine Facebook and Other Groups
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DD and AA Groups Similarities and Differences
Illustration: Is There Life After Meds?, © 2014 created by Billiam James DD in this case stands for Drug Damaged. AA for Alcoholics Anonymous. Some of the material in this post is likely to disturb some readers. Reading it in conjunction with Here We Stand We Can Do No Other and Dos Centavos - Veinte Euros may help make sense of material that may not sit well with some … [Read more...] about DD and AA Groups Similarities and Differences
PSSD and Small Fibre Neuropathy Investigation Runs Into Problems
In October 2022, we ran a blog post called “PSSD Patients Needed for Small Fibre Neuropathy Investigation”. It’s worth reading to get some background on the situation before continuing with this post. We had connected with a neurology department in Sheffield, UK, with the aim of recruiting several patients with post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) who could be tested for … [Read more...] about PSSD and Small Fibre Neuropathy Investigation Runs Into Problems
Queen’s University PSSD Research Project
Caroline F. Pukall, PhD, CPsych Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sexual Health (CIHR) Professor, Department of Psychology, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston ON K7L 3N6, Canada Email: caroline.pukall@queensu.ca Lab website: https://www.sexlab.ca Twitter: @QSexLab; Instagram: qsexlab; Facebook: /sexlab.ca Editor of Human Sexuality: A … [Read more...] about Queen’s University PSSD Research Project
Did My Doctor Make Me Alcoholic or Substance Abusing
AnneMarie Kelly is among the most impressive researchers I have met and I've met Nobel Prize winners like Arvid Carlsson and Julie Axelrod. I have told the story in many venues how she, with no background in healthcare or university research, taught me things about the serotonin system that I, who have a PhD in this system, never knew. She is one of the heroes of Shipwreck … [Read more...] about Did My Doctor Make Me Alcoholic or Substance Abusing
What Twitter doesn’t Want you to Know about Sex
This brief post links to a development since the last - Everything you Want to Know about Sex - post. Twitter like Woody Allen seems to believe you shouldn't be allowed to ask certain questions. A few weeks ago I did a podcast with Liz Tucker on her What Your GP Doesn't Tell You podcast series - which has a lot of stellar interviews. It took a while to edit, finally … [Read more...] about What Twitter doesn’t Want you to Know about Sex
Everything You Want to Know about Sex *
Lost in Medication. Ask your doctor about the sexual side-effects of your meds. Based on Adam and Eve painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1526. © Billiam James 2014 The title for the post comes from the W Allen movie Everything you Wanted to Know about Sex * But were Afraid to Ask. Not a title that has worn well with time. We have things we don't know about sex. You … [Read more...] about Everything You Want to Know about Sex *
Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related
In some of the comments after the last post, POGO mentioned that Josef Witt-Doerring has done two interviews with me so far and posted them on his site. The Risks of Antidepressants and Antidepressants and Mass Shootings/Murder Suicide: An interview has also appeared on Demystifying Science podcast with Anastasia & Michael Shilo The Podcast called … [Read more...] about Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related
We Will Get Fooled Again
See We Won't Get Fooled Again. A regular contributor got in touch two days ago, asking a question. I have described all my symptoms to the AI without mentioning PSSD, and chat.openai.com is of the opinion that it's a rebound effect that I'm experiencing. Do you agree? I was too busy to respond A follow up email said: And it says the sentences quoted below. I have not … [Read more...] about We Will Get Fooled Again
Harry and Meghan and Narinder
Some weeks ago, in Antidepressants and Premature Death RxISK featured an article by Narinder Balsal and colleagues from Bristol in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which caused quite a fuss. See below. Today we are posting about another article by her in PLoS Medicine. This comes with an Animated Trailer - the first RxISK post to feature one. The article - … [Read more...] about Harry and Meghan and Narinder