This post links intimately with The Standardization of Psychiatry – you might even call it A Necessary Shadow.  Standardization was a lecture on psychiatry given in the Royal Society of Medicine on October 5.  To find out what’s going on you need to read the Back Story to Standardization.  Back in 2013, I was asked […]

Britney Spears has eloquently put an issue on the plate for all of us – listen Here – an issue that can affect all of us. Jim Gottstein has devoted a lifetime to grappling with this issue and recently wrote The Zyprexa Papers a book that features Bill Bigley, who was in a very similar […]

  I have personal experience of seeking help with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). I also have personal experience of considering taking my own life by suicide. These instances have been as a result of feeling physically and mentally distraught, and with a fear that there may be no realistic potential for improvement in my […]

Although last weeks post on RxISK portrayed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a Socialist when the times call for something more than this, she does seem to offer a lot more than any other politician, almost anywhere else. Targeted by the Capitol Hill mob, she has since drawn a compelling analogy between what happened and what happens […]

WHO’s Ten Threats to Global Health in 2019 have been much in the news lately – a kind of collective New Year’s Resolution list.  The 10 resolutions can be seen below.  They have prompted an alternate RxISK list of threats.  These are not listed in order of importance. RxISK’s Threat List Sequestration of Clinical Trial Data. […]

On Becoming an Articulate Hand-Grenade Psychiatric strategy and tactics are based on faith-healing, replete with speaking in tongues (language), fortune telling (promises of happiness), and snake oil (drugs).  Their model is the ABC’s of selling; “Always Be Closing”…quiet compliance and enlistment, the goal.  They know what’s best for you. Beware infantilization; it is endemic in […]

In the midst of chaos there is opportunity”   Sun Tzu By June 2013, during the usual fail-replace-repeat treatment ‘plan’ of the state behavioral health providers, I found myself in the perfect storm of bad drugs and deadly ‘care’. Within a 2-week period, it involved Risperdal, tardive dyskinesia-both eyes, Lamictal, NMS, the ER, more Lamictal, anaphylaxis, […]

Editorial Note:  This is the second in Krista Hartmann’s 4 parter on changing her medical records.  See part 1, Unicorn. “What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears”.  Alice Walker When I encountered the psychiatric industry in 2004, I was a 53- year-old, sun-surf-beach chasing artist with a solid education and middle-class origins. I […]

Editorial: This is the first of four posts by Krista Hartmann I am a real Unicorn, something whose existence is suspect, rarely sighted, and discussed even less…by the psychiatric industry, who are, ironically, my creators.  My existence throws a wrench into their meta-narrative; truths inscribed on everlasting stone tablets…. until the next edition of tablets […]

If your doctor wrote in your medical record in the 1940s that you were mentally ill or had a neuropsychiatric disorder, this could have led to sterilization across most of the Western world, or in Germany to elimination. Long before a single Jew was gassed, tens of thousands of lives not worth living were eliminated […]